Policies & Administrative Issues Minutes & Reports
Policies & Administrative Issues Committee meeting minutes (pdfs):
September 23, 2011
July 12, 2011
May 10, 2011
December 9, 2010
Policies & Administrative Issues Committee 2010-2011 Objectives & Reports:
- Service-Governance Component: develop and submit a Service-Governance Proposal for all professionals and professional faculty to have a component in their job descriptions and evaluations, akin to that of instructional faculty. Service-Governance Proposal: proposal drafted and approved by the PPFA , Fall 2010; submitted to the Provost, March 28, 2011.
- Constitution and Bylaws review: FY2010 and FY2011 PPFA Policies & Administrative Issues Committee reviewed, identified several amendments; PPFA reviewed and approved; Provost reviewed and approved, March 28, 2011. Amendments posted for all PPFs to review, mid-April 2011; are on the May 2011 election ballot.
- Employee survey: draft a response to the 2010 W&M Employee Survey (which contained significant data errors for professionals and professional faculty). PPFA’s Policies and Administrative Issues Committee drafted a response in the form of a proposal with a recommendation to conduct that survey again or devise our own. The PPFA approved the proposal, and the PPFA Executive Committee submitted it to the Provost, March 28, 2011.
- Participation: from December 2010 minutes: “ the PPFA’s Policies & Administrative Issues Committee will draft a separate policy/procedures document that will propose guidelines for meeting attendance and other participation and submit it to the Executive Committee for discussion; the Executive Committee will send it to the Assembly for discussion and approval.” Draft document approved 5/10/2011 by the Policies & Administrative Issues Committee; was submitted to the full PPFA for its consideration at its 5/11/2011 meeting and approved. Posted on the PPFA website under Governance.
- Number of Staff: per December 2010 PPFA minutes, gather data to compare staffing levels at W&M peer institutions. 5/17/2011: Ridley-McCoy and Molineux will meet to plan this project.
- Policies and Issues Expertise (PIE) Project: this project, begun in 2009-2010, was designed to help PPFA members develop basic knowledge about policies affecting professionals and professional faculty. 5/10/2011:
- Mongold and Gatling will review the status of this 2009-10 project (especially the writing of the policy "white papers") and report back to the Policies & Administrative Issues Committee.
