JOINT FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

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JOINT FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Assumptions, Issues, Guidelines - The Five
College Experience
September 19, 2007

• Lorna M. Peterson
• Executive Director
• Five Colleges, Incorporated

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Introduction and Housekeeping

• One slide at a time
• Comments and questions
• Please save questions and comments until the end
  of each slide
• Let us begin.

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A Brief History

• The 1970s - introduce new fields
• Trial basis
• Share risks
• Fill gaps
• Short - term - infuse the curriculum
• Early appointments-
• Latin American Art
• Judaic studies
• Distinguished short-term visitors
• Joseph Brodsky
• James Baldwin

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The 1980s and 90s

• Types of Appointments
• Short-term Visiting
• Distinguished
• Tenure track (or long-term)
• Cooperating Fields
• International Relations
• Coastal and Marine Sciences
• Geology The position and not the person is
  shared.
• Music
• Dance

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Early Assumptions

• One campus assumes long term appointment
• All five institutions participate
• Rotation among all five campuses (advantage to
  the home campus)

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Your old road is Rapidly agin'. Please get out of
the new one If you can't lend your hand For the
times they are a-changin. (With appreciation
and gratitude to Bob Dylan)
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The Millenium and The New Demographics

• Anticipated large number of retirements
• How to sustain and still allow for expansion of
  the curriculum
• The response
• Long-term/tenure track searches
• Ongoing shared positions, even into tenure
• Not all five required - 2, 3, 4 or all five
  participate
• Replace impending retirees
• Add new field to the curriculum

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Guidelines for Success

• Home campus
• Compensation salary and benefits
• Personnel actions reappointment and tenure
• Other campuses
• Departmental agreement
• Participation in searches
• Participation in personnel actions
• Support committees
• Funding

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Who is Responsiblefor What?

• Five Colleges, Inc.
• Home campus
• Host campus

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• Your time has come to shine.
• All your dreams are on their way.
• See how they shine.
• If you need a friend
• Im sailing right behind.
• Like a bridge over troubled water
• I will ease your mind.
• Like a bridge over troubled water
• I will ease your mind.
• (With appreciation and gratitude to Simon and
  Garfunkel)

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Responsibilities of Five Colleges, Incorporated

• Serves as liaison to Five College Deans re all
  aspects of the Joint Appointment Program
• Supports Joint Faculty search committees.
• Insures that the joint appointees obligations at
  the home and host campuses (teaching, advisement,
  supervision of independent work, service
  responsibilities, etc.) are clearly defined and
  clearly communicated to the joint appointee and
  appropriate personnel at all participating
  campuses.
• Provides updated lists of joint appointees and
  teaching rotations to deans, department chairs
  and others at all five institutions (including
  business officers, departmental support staff,
  librarians, information technology offices,
  athletic directors, etc. ).

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Responsibilities of Five Colleges, Incorporated
(2)

• Insures appointment of a Support Committee
  composed of faculty representatives from each
  institution participating in the appointment.
• Convenes Support Committees to develop and update
  two-year course rotations among participating
  campuses.
• Helps joint appointees publicize courses on all
  five campuses.
• Collects information regarding course rotations,
  enrollments, and course evaluations for reports
  to deans and for use in personnel reviews.
• Insures Support Committees appropriately conduct
  mentoring and personnel reviews for each
  appointee.
• Reviews requests from joint appointees for
  support of teaching that is not ordinarily
  supplied by the appointees home or host
  campuses.

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Responsibilities of Five Colleges, Incorporated
(3)

• Insures that appropriate persons at the home and
  host campusesand appointeesclearly understand
  their responsibilities as outlined in these
  guidelines.
• Serves as a resource to appointees and
  participating institutions working under these
  guidelines to insure all parties are well served
  by joint faculty appointments.

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Responsibilities of Home Campus

• Determine joint appointee compensation and
  benefits, and administer payroll, benefits, and
  all other services ordinarily supplied faculty at
  home institutions.
• Designate chairs of Support Committees.

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Chairs of Support Committees

• Insure orientation of joint appointees to various
  departmental and institutional resources
  generally available to faculty at the home
  campus.
• Work with the joint appointee and members of the
  Support Committee from host campuses to identify
  courses the joint appointee will offer and to
  develop and update a two-year teaching schedule
  for the appointee.
• Insure the joint appointee receives all mentoring
  support ordinarily provided faculty at the home
  institution, together with advice and support
  from other members of the Committee regarding the
  candidates work at their campuses.
• Work with other members of the Support Committee
  to insure personnel reviews that fairly and
  thoroughly reflect an appointees service both at
  the home and host campuses.

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Responsibilities of Host Campus

• Each year, the host campus will designate
  faculty members to serve on the appointees
  Support Committee.
• Representatives from host campuses will
• Introduce appointees to departmental and
  institutional colleagues at their campuses
• Insure orientation of joint appointees to
  departmental and institutional resources
  generally available to faculty at their campuses
• Confirm provision by their campuses of resources
  listed below
• Work with joint appointee and Support Committee
  to identify courses the joint appointee will
  offer on home and host campuses.

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Host Campus (2)

• Help joint appointee effectively publicize
  courses on their campuses (through campus course
  catalogues, departmental flyers, word of mouth,
  etc.)
• Work with other members of the Support Committee
  to mentor the joint appointee, particularly with
  regard to teaching and any other services
  included in the joint appointees obligations on
  host campuses. This mentoring should include
  regular, formative evaluation of performance.
• Work with other members of the Support Committee,
  particularly its chair, to insure a personnel
  review that fairly and thoroughly reflects an
  appointees service on all their campuses.

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Resources Provided by Host Campus

• When possible, an office for meeting students,
  even if shared.
• A well-marked mailbox for receiving student
  communications and institutional and Five College
  mail that is comparable to mail boxes supplied
  other faculty members
• Inclusion on appropriate departmental and
  institutional mailing lists, listservs, etc.
• Access to photocopying machinery or clerical
  services comparable to that extended other
  faculty members on host campuses and clear
  instructions re how to access photocopiers or
  these services
• Support for teaching that is normally supplied
  faculty on host campuses if that support is
  allocable on a per course basis

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Resources Provided by Host Campus (2)

• Invitation to orientations for new faculty.
  (Attendance is optional.)
• Invitations to departmental and/or college
  meetings ordinarily open to faculty at their
  rank. (Attendance should be optional unless
  related responsibilities are explicitly included
  in the terms of the Five College appointment, per
  agreement by the Deans.)

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Issues

• Extra compensation
• Teaching and service responsibilities
• Technology - different systems
• Communications among departments and
  departmental assistants

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Current and Past Five College Joint Faculty
Appointees

• Total joint appointments 1973 present 80
• Current appointments 20 6 tenured or
  long-term 2 positions renewable
• Still holds appointment at one of the
  institutions 18
• Number of fields 33 From African Studies to
  Dance to English to Film and six different
  languages

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For further information and a complete set of
Five College Joint Faculty Appointment
guidelines, contact

• Lorna M. Peterson
• Executive Director
• Five Colleges, Incorporated
• 97 Spring Street
• Amherst, MA 01002
• lmpeterson_at_fivecolleges.edu