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.
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.
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.
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:
- 2004-2005 Faculty Survey Institutional Profile
- Faculty Survey of Student Engagement 2008 Reports
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
- 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)