• oEquity by gender and race.
• oMerit pay criteria should be decided at the department level.
• oRespect for the non-teaching faculty/professionals in research and Extension.
• oUnit operating budgets.
• oSenate needs to pass an action item stating that if any non-teaching faculty serve in positions that are compensated by release time (president/secretary), those non-teaching faculty should get a commensurate stipend during their service. As it is, non-teaching faculty who serve in such positions, as Dr. Hampton last year, are treated unfairly. This is also a disincentive to non-teaching faculty to run for such positions.
• oDon't have the energy to do so.
• oUnqualified individual promoted to administrative positions.
• oPoor communication between administration and faculty- specifically the short notice that we often receive for mandatory meetings and short notice about changes to schedules or providing information about mandatory events like graduation.
• oConsistent pursuit of reliable competence from the executive staff side of the house.
• oFaculty evaluation criteria and forms.
• oYes. Something is better than nothing, we will never satisfy everyone so this needs to be in the minds when decisions are made.
• oWe need to change the course evaluations. Most students don't complete them and yet they are used for promotion, tenure, and perhaps now, for merit increases. How can we evaluate our courses with more reliability and validity? We also need more assistance with the tasks that need to be accomplished for SACSCOC. Some faculty are familiar with creating SLOs, valid assessments and rubrics, innovative instructional strategies, and curricular matrices, while others are not. Hit-and-miss workshops and trainings are not enough. We need an ACE lab for faculty, staffed by experts in teaching, learning, and assessment.
• oThere should be an optional stipend for non-teaching faculty who serve in Senate positions offering release time.
• oRace. Why are we the only HBCU without Black professors? Why am I working in a slavocracy?
• oIncrease the percentage of the budget going towards instruction and direct student support.
• oNeed to address issues with faculty handbook and find a way to get university to follow the policy better. It is improving but still needs improvement.
• oThe ever-growing mountain of institutional research work (assessment data, etc.) being piled on to faculty and the related demand that we "quantify" every aspect of the educational process.
• oI think Senate is doing a good job on our behalf, and have been for the past several years.
• oRank when someone comes in as a full professor from previous institutions.