UNF Faculty Association

Faculty Association	February 7, 2002

QUESTIONS FORWARDED PENDING RESPONSES

QUESTIONER:	DATE ASKED	FORWARDED TO:
Anonymous	January 10, 2002	Dr. Joann Campbell Associate Vice President For Academic Affairs

QUESTION SYNOPSIS

1. Should some engineering faculty (not in release time) be paid overload when their
teaching assignments are often less than the average UNF faculty?

2. How many engineering faculty were paid overloads in the past? What were their
teaching loads? And what were the rates at which they were paid?

WRITTEN RESPONSES

QUESTIONER:	DATE ASKED	WRITTEN RESPONSE:
Dr. Rama Murthi Rao	October 4, 2001	** Robert Fagin Vice President For Administration & Finance

QUESTION SYNOPSIS

Can pedestrian crossing stripes be painted and a warning light installed at the entrance to the parking garage near the Fine Arts Building so that the first floor parking decal does not become a ticket to get hit by a car entering the garage when you cross over to the Fine Arts Building side? A stop sign is also necessary for cars coming from the parking lane to the left of the garage so that cars entering the garage and cars exiting that parking lane do not collide.

QUESTIONER:	DATE ASKED	WRITTEN RESPONSE:
Dr. Royal Van Horn	November 1, 2001	** David Kline Provost and Vice President For Academic Affairs

QUESTION SYNOPSIS

Dr. Scott Hochwald asked some questions about students being able to get tuition refunds for any reason other than being called to active duty. One specific question addressed the possibility of a faculty member excusing a student from a class and telling him to withdraw and ask for a tuition refund. President Hopkins responded that university policies did not allow that and that the policies appeared in the undergraduate and graduate catalogs. Dr. Van Horn did not think the question was answered sufficiently. He asked for clarification.

Dr. Royal Van Horn e-mail message:

I do not believe the catalog has a policy that prohibits a faculty member from excusing a student from his or her class. Obviously there are procedures to petition and so on should this happen. And, it is certainly within a faculty member's rights to strongly suggest that a student withdraw from a class. I believe it should be possible to do this in a non-punitive fashion. Thus, can a student so removed from a class petition for refund of tuition? Can a faculty member suggest such a refund?

QUESTIONER:	DATE ASKED	WRITTEN RESPONSE:
Dr. Elinor Scheirer	December 6, 2001	** David Kline Provost and Vice President For Academic Affairs

QUESTION SYNOPSIS

Dr. Scheirer asked the questions in her capacity as a member of the Research Committee. She noted that members were informed that 28 grant proposals would be reviewed with the presumption that ten would be funded. All 28 were funded. She asked where the dollars came from and, in the spirit of the cutback, how was money found for so many more? Secondly, why were committee members who had done some pretty elegant evaluations not consulted about whether or not the expansion of funded proposals made sense. People had a presumption about how the rules would operate and how the process would work. In preparing her own materials for next time, how will she plan?