Faculty Senate: Annual Report 2002-2003

Faculty Senate
Annual Standing Committee Report
Supplement

2002–2003 Academic Year

Prepared for the Central Washington University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Committee:  Executive Committee/Development and Appropriations Funds

Committee Chair:  Michael Braunstein (Physics) 2002–2003
       Daniel CannCasciato (Library) 2003–2004

Committee Charges/Duties:
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee disburses the faculty development funds on behalf of the Faculty Senate Development and Appropriations Committee.

Report on Expenditures

Source:  Faculty Development funds are disbursed to the faculty by way of the senate. The monies are allocated from the Summer Session excess revenues (20% of excess revenues, capped at $100,000). For academic year 2002–2003 there were $100,000 to disburse.

The disbursement plan was approved by the Faculty Senate, Jan. 22, 2003:

"Faculty Development Funds Disbursement Plan
The Faculty Senate Development and Appropriations Committee met on November 22, 2002 and passed the following recommendation to distribute the $100,000 faculty development funds as follows:

1. $24,000 distributed evenly to academic departments (excluding Military Science/ROTC and Aerospace Studies/AFROTC). A department disbursement will be made to the Faculty Senate based on the ruling last year that the senate chair represents faculty not assigned to academic departments.
2. $60,000 distributed to academic departments (excluding Military Science/ROTC and Aerospace Disbursements to academic programs not associated with an academic department will be made based on fall FTEF. Faculty on leave do not count as an FTEF for the disbursement.
3. $500 to Military Science/ROTC
4. $500 to Aerospace Studies/AFROTC
5. The above funds are to be used exclusively for individual faculty development. In order to receive these monies, each department must provide a rationale and explanation for the use of these funds.
6. $15,000 for projects intended to serve the faculty development needs of the university as a whole rather than the needs of individual faculty members or departments. Applications for these funds are submitted to the Faculty Senate Development and Appropriations Committee."

As a result of this plan, the funds were distributed to departments as shown in Attachment A. "2002/03 FTE Distribution of Faculty Development Funds". In addition, funds allocated for university projects (item 6 of the Plan) were distributed as shown in Attachment B.

Individual departments used the funds for their faculty in the following selected categories. By and large the most money was spent by faculty on the first three of these activities.

• Travel costs and/or registration fee to present papers or workshops at a conference or professional meeting (many with student co–authors and co–presenters)
• Travel costs and/or registration fee to attend a conference or professional meeting
• Expenses related to the costs of exhibiting works
• Presentation of a master class at another university
• Purchase a data sets, journals, and the like for use in research
• Purchase a equipment needed for research projects
• Departmental development workshops
• Provide some funding for departmental speaker´s series/faculty exchange colloquia