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Academic Task Force - Faculty Culture

Mission

To study and define the requirements for a faculty culture that will support the strategic goal of transforming the University of Minnesota into a top three public research university

Deliverables

• Recommendations regarding faculty recruitment, hiring, review, mentoring, promotion, reward, and retention, in light of the University's goal of becoming one of the top three public research universities in the world. 
• Recommendations regarding whether present hiring, tenure, promotion, and post-tenure review standards are written, communicated, and implemented across departments and colleges in a way that promotes the University's goal of becoming one of the top three public research universities in the world. 
• Recommendations regarding how we create a faculty culture that provides incentives, appropriate recognition, and rewards for intra- and inter-disciplinary collaboration.
• Identification of intellectual, information, or physical infrastructure issues that would better promote a culture of academic excellence and achievement.

• Recommendations regarding how we create a faculty culture that promotes active public engagement.
• Recommendations regarding enhancement of a culture of intellectual engagement, ambition, achievement, collegiality, improved curriculum integration, and excellence in teaching.
• Recommendations regarding enhancing the external perception of the University faculty, including international and national awards for faculty.
• Recommendations regarding the high number of associate professors who do not achieve full professor status.

Report due: May 1, 2006

Task force charge letter from E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Task Force Cochairs Jeffrey P. Kahn, Director and Professor, Center for Bioethics, AHC Kirt Wilson, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, CLA Phyllis Moen, Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair, Sociology, CLA Task Force Members Name Position, Department, College Mac (Macaran) Baird Professor, Family Medicine & Comm Health, Medical Wei-Shou Hu Professor, ChemE/Mat Sci, IT Fred Morrison Professor, Law Anne Pusey Professor, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, CBS Fritz (John F.) Schwaller Vice Chancellor, Academic Administration, UMM Connie Wanberg Professor, Industrial Relations Center, CSOM Renee Cheng Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Architecture, CALA Adriane DeMarco Graduate student, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CLA

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