FACULTY SENATE CONCERNS, 2008-09

1. OU ADVANCE program: Faculty Equity/Diversity Taskforce

2. Status of plus/minus grading?

3. UOSA's joint efforts with Faculty Senate:

· OU/OSU weekend blood drive

· Recycling

· Bike to school day

4. Parking:

· Charged for a permit for both car and scooter

· Problem with students parking in Dale Hall lot

· Designated parking spaces for faculty

5. Tuition for employee children:

· Endowment for scholarships and fellowships

· Free or reduced

· Reciprocal agreements with other Big 12 institutions

6. Health benefits/Wellness:

· Retiree health benefits.

· Potential taxation of medical care programs

· Cost of dependent medical coverage

· Free admission to Huston-Huffman

· Enhanced health insurance benefits for those at lower-risk 1.

· Become a non-smoking campus.

7. Green issues:

· OU Bike Plan

· Improve pedestrian safety thru brighter crosswalk markings, better alerting / signaling, and better enforcement (e.g., running of red lights, speeding) on streets that cross or abut the campus (primarily Boyd, Elm, Jenkins and Lindsey).

· Add dedicated marked bike lanes, with particular attention given to the streets that transect campus and that approach campus.

· Bike to school day—perks for biking—bike campaign?

· Recycling—work with OUr Earth/Greening Norman

8. Salary:

· Compression

· Continued increase in salaries including higher bonuses and compensation to those who perform excellently.

9. Perks for faculty:

· See the Chronicle Issue “Great Colleges to Work For”:

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i45/great_colleges_tables.htm

10. OTRS:

· Why is our teacher retirement fund not funded? 

11. Development of an Institutional Repository

12. Tulsa Issues:

· Faculty not included in decisions:

o The decision to make the Tulsa campus smoke free

· More leadership come to Tulsa:

o Once/week transport

· Promote research:

o Assistance in navigating processes including IRB

o Emphasize collaboration