GCC Process

A Staffing Comm. is established by the deans of Inst and St Serv & senate pres.; faculty can request, but, lately, we try to rotate folks on and off.  To help comm. members make tough decisions, the DI sends a message such as:

During our meeting today, we will be discuss the criteria that was used
last year is listed below:

1: What are expected departmental/discipline enrollment trends for
existing offerings?

2: What are expected departmental/discipline enrollment trends for
anticipated new offerings?

3: What are the most pertinent staffing issues facing your discipline/
department?

      For example:

       Availability of part-time faculty
       Residential faculty release time
       Day overloads for residential faculty
       Evening schedules for residential faculty
       FTSE / FTE departmental anomalies
       Early retirees

4: Have residential faculty vacancies occurred in your department
this year or do you expect to have residential faculty vacancies
next year?

5: What other circumstances warrant special consideration?

6: If your department includes more than one discipline , how does
your staffing request fit into your overall residential faculty
staffing needs within your department.

7: Summarize how you have utilized the residential faculty positions you
have allocated within the last three (3) academic years  00/01, 01/02, 02/03).

Chairs come to the committee with their "pitch" and then committee members  rank (usually one volunteers to create a spread sheet), discuss, and decide.  The committee recommends to the pres., who, unless there is compelling reason not to do so,  usually accepts