Review of Faculty Position Proposals - Doug Cherkauer asked each of the associate deans to list their position priorities and give a brief explanation of each. The lists were as follows:
| Chuck Schuster: |
Replacement Positions:
Film Studies - film historian, open recruitment
Creative Writing - fiction writer; Goulet replacement; AP or adv aP
English Education - Franczak replacement; possibly joint with Educ
Professional Writing - if current incumbent retires; aP
American Literature - Sappenfield retiring this year; Tatham next; aP
New Positions:
FLL - Arabic culture; Title 6 money available
English - Latino literature
Communication -rhetoric
FICL - Italian; essential; need adjunct asst prof if we can't hire
FLL - experimental phonetics
FLL - Classics; partner accommodation already here as acad staff
Span & Port - Latino literature and culture
FICL - French & Francophone Studies; business French
English - gender studies; LGBT
Three requests on hold:
English - screenwriting
Hebr St
Philos - cognitive science (Action Plan; funds dried up) |
Mark Harris: Mark did not distinguish between replacement and new positions.
He noted that start up is the biggest constraint on hiring; we went over out target this year; five positions will cost about $800K in startup. He distributed a table of all the NS requests that did not include the action plan positions because the money for those positions is constrained. He noted that we will hire a permanent academic staff member in Bio Sci to teach the two anatomy and physiology courses, and Math will get a permanent academic staff member to cover the shortfall in is lower level classes.
Action Plan Positions (with funds from the Provost) not yet filled - neuroscience, biotechnology, zebrafish.
Bio Sci - department proposed five action plan positions that we won't do unless we get funds from the Provost; if we get biotech position, it probably will be in chem; it isn't clear that we can fit any more people in Lapham; we have a space shortage due to renovation; if there was room, CES would be his #2 position; the evolutionary population geneticist is department's top priority; Mark feels the animal ecologist is undervalued by the department.
Chem - department's top priority is organic chemist, but this is very expensive; Mark may support a move of the chemistry educator to the second priority position, and he feels this should be a senior hire.
Geo Sci - may need a mineralogist; current faculty member will be in seventh year and will go up for tenure again; if tenure not granted, need to move fast to get a visiting prof; this area had been handled by ad hocs after the previous faculty member left, and that was disastrous.
Math - Geometry position would be Mark's third choice; carryover replacement position. He supports Atm Sci position; those folks have been very productive.
Physics - there are two positions with Engineering, but this will be done if funding comes.
The biotech folks have put out grant proposals for over $6M within the last several months; they need a tech person to service equipment.
Ellie Miller: She set her priorities according to her assessment of the position's ability to attract outside monies. The social sciences hired 12 people this past year, and we have requests for 32 more hires. Ellie narrowed this list to 18. She believes that the social sciences have not been as effective in attracting outside money as they could be. If some extramural money was assured, some people could be hired on soft money. She referred committee members to the list she circulated earlier. Her priorites are:
Health Psych and Neurobehavioral Psych - both areas successful at getting extramural funds. Would require startup of $25,000 over two years for each position; both aP.
Geography - urban environmental, water, GIS; this department also is more likely to get extramural money; with a little more strength in the faculty, geography is positioned to move into the top 20; also, geography has a connection to Freshwater; aP.
Anthro - the forensics program has boomed and has sucked dry the department's two physical anthropologists, Anapol and Turner; aP
Open department, open rank - a teaching person, who would need some general knowledge across all the social sciences; advanced aP or AP.
Political Science - comparative politics; in the past, this area was successful in getting money; aP
JMC - department is overrun with majors; requesting media ethics position; aP.
Pol Sci - American political institutions; partly funded by the Wilder Crane Professorship; AP or P.
Sociology - might be able to merge quantitative sociology with another specialty, perhaps aging; AP.
History - it is unthinkable that UWM would not have a German historian, given the history of the State; aP
Middle East and North Africa position, partly seeded by a CIE grant. Open to Pol Sci, History, Sociol, perhaps others; aP.
American Indian Studies - HU or SS; we have had failed searches for two years, first as an academic staff position and then as a faculty position. We need to go after specific individuals we know rather than relying on general advertising; AP or P.
Africol - department requested someone in technology, theory, policy, and evaluation in Education; Ellie suggests dropping the tech part; aP or AP.
History - British history is a high priority; department request colonial South Asian; perhaps one individual could do both; aP.
Sociology/Urban Studies - we have $10K per year for 3 years from the Meier endowment; the area of urban studies is growing; aP.
Economics - department faculty should be more successful at securing grants; health and aging position could create successful research group; coordinate with Health Choice and/or Age and Community; aP.
Africol - critical race theory, critical leadership - not pressing, though would help the case for the Ph.D.; aP.
Pol Sci/Women's Stds - not pressing, though she would like to do it; aP.
Doug thanked the associate deans for their input. Committee members now will meet, within a week to ten days, as three subcommittees. Each group will select at least eight priorities in its division. The entire Committee will try to meet the week of May 3 to finalize the Committee's recommendations. Doug will contact Denise Mueller to set up the meeting.
