Standard Four: Faculty

Supporting Documentation

Required Documentation

RD 4-01: Statistics available concerning faculty and administration characteristics, such as numbers of males and females, minorities, full-time and part-time faculty, years of service with the institution, degrees or levels of education, and years of other significant service.

• Faculty Counts, AY 2008-09 (hard copy exhibit)

RD 4-02: Salary data for faculty, including compensation for special or extra responsibilities.

• CUPA-HR Faculty Salaries Data

RD 4-03: Policy and procedures on the evaluation of faculty, both full-time and part-time.

• UFA Collective Bargaining Agreement, see Section 10.200 (in Exhibit Room under RE 4-01)

RD 4-04: Representative examples of the institutional and public impact of faculty scholarship.

• A collection of examples is available in the Exhibit Room under RD 4-04 and on the UM Publications Table

RD 4-05: Summary of the most significant artistic creation, scholarly activity, and research by faculty during the past five years.

• Increases in External Funding at The University of Montana, FY 1990-FY 2009
• Sponsored Research and Contract Award Volume by Academic Unit, FY 2008-FY 2010
• Select UM faculty member publications in the journals Science and Nature (hard copy exhibit)
• Examples of artistic creation from the College of Visual and Performing Arts (hard copy exhibit)
• A collection of examples is available in the Exhibit Room under RD 4-05 and on the UM Publications Table

Required Exhibits

RE 4-01: Faculty handbook, including personnel policies and procedures.

• UFA Collective Bargaining Agreement (hard copy exhibit)
• COT Faculty Collective Bargaining Agreement (hard copy exhibit)

RE 4-02: Policy on Academic Freedom.

• UFA Collective Bargaining Agreement, see Section 6.100 (in Exhibit Room under RE 4-01)
• Board of Regents Policy 302: Academic Freedom
• UM Policy Number 101.4: Rights and Responsibilities of Academic Personnel

RE 4-03: Faculty committees and membership.

• UM Committees
• Faculty Senate Committees

RE 4-04: Evaluation forms and summary reports of student evaluations of faculty and courses.

• Summaries of student evaluations of faculty and courses from 2008 and 2009 are available in the Exhibit Room under RE 2A-04

RE 4-05: Access to personnel files and current professional vitae.

• Access to files is available to members of the Evaluation Committee upon request
• UM Policy 413: Personnel Files

RE 4-06: Criteria and procedures for employing, evaluating, and compensating faculty in special programs such as off-campus, study abroad, travel/study, non-credit, or extension credit programs.

• Extended Learning Services

RE 4-07: Copies of any doctrinal statements required for employment, promotion, and tenure.

• UFA Collective Bargaining Agreement, see Sections 9.000 and 10.200 (in Exhibit Room under RE 4-01)
• Department Unit Standards

RE 4-08: Policies governing the employment, orientation, and evaluation of part-time faculty and teaching fellows, if applicable.

• UFA Collective Bargaining Agreement, see Section 10.200 (in Exhibit Room under RE 4-01)
• UM Human Resource Services Personnel Policies

RE 4-09: Summary reports of faculty involvement with public services/community services.

• Summary information by academic unit:
  • College of Education and Human Sciences
  • College of Forestry and Conservation
  • College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences
  • College of Technology
  • College of Visual and Performing Arts
  • Interdisciplinary Programs
• 2004-2005 Faculty Survey Institutional Profile
• Faculty Survey of Student Engagement 2008 Reports
  • Respondent Characteristics
  • Frequency Distribution
  • FSSE-NSSE Combined Report (Part 1)
  • FSSE-NSSE Combined Report (Part 2)
  • FSSE-NSSE Combined Report (Part 3)

RE 4-10: Institutional policies regarding scholarship and artistic creation by faculty and students.

• UM Policy 101.4: Rights and Responsibilities of Academic Personnel
• Department Unit Standards
• UFA Collective Bargaining Agreement, see Section 14.000 (in Exhibit Room under RE 4-01)
• Board of Regents Policy 401.3: Copyrights  
• Mansfield Library Guide: Copyright Issues and Resources

RE 4-11: Institutional policies regarding research activity, including sponsored research by faculty and students.

• UM Policy 101.4: Rights and Responsibilities of Academic Personnel
• Department Unit Standards
• UFA Collective Bargaining Agreement (in Exhibit Room under RE 4-01)
• UM Policies on Research and Development
• UM Policy 410: Conflict of Interest and Financial Disclosure

RE 4-12: Summary of the faculty role in developing and monitoring policies and practices scholarship, artistic creation, and research.

• UFA Collective Bargaining Agreement, Section 7.000 (in Exhibit Room under RE 4-01)
• Faculty Senate, Articles of Faculty Organization

Required Tables

• Table 1, Institutional Faculty Profile
• Table 2, Number and Source of Terminal Degrees of Faculty
• Hard copies in Exhibit Room

Suggested Materials

SM 4-01: Statistics on faculty retention and turnover.

• Faculty Turnover Summary, FY 2005-FY 2009
• Faculty Turnover Analysis, FY 2005-FY 2009 (hard copy exhibit)

Other Supporting Materials

OSM 4-01: Academic Unit Data

• Academic Unit Data, FY 2000-2009 (in Exhibit Room under SM 1-01)
• Academic Unit Data, Fall 2008 Comparison to Fall 2006 NSICP Benchmarks

OSM 4-02: Inversion, Compression, and Salary Floors 

• Report of the Special Joint Committee on Inversion, Compression, and Salary Floors (February 14, 2008) (in Exhibit Room under OSM 6-01)
• MUS Recruitment and Retention Task Force Report to the BOR, 2007

OSM 4-03: Instructional Faculty by Department

• Instructional Faculty by Department (hard copy exhibit)
• Degree Programs (hard copy exhibit)