Annual Report to the Faculty The 1982-83 Faculty Personnel Committee met for the first time on November 23, 5 for the last time on June 9. It held 22 sessions, a smaller number than preceding year, owing largely to the adoption of new procedures for circulating editing drafts of committee reports on the cases under consideration.
The committee reviewed a total of 39 cases, the same number reviewed the previous ear. With the exception noted above, its procedures were identical to those followed in recent years. Although the committee was generally pleased with the way departments, schools, and colleges had prepared the cases it reviewed. By and large the files were lean nd informative. A few files did, however, contain unsigned letters and comments from students, and on several occasions the committee found it necessary to ask department heads and other administrators to submit clearer and more informative mataterial concerning course evaluations.
Although the committee was able to submit its reports on most cases within a few weeks of receiving them, reports were delayed for a month or more for the handfull of cases requiring extensive discussion or considerable amounts of additional information.
For many years the committee has been charged with making recommendations regarding indefinite tenure for outside candidates for faculty appointments. This duty has involved reading each candidate's field and asking a committee member to attend the the public lecture and make a report on it. This year, faced with requests to make recommendations on several such candidates on short notice, the committee came to the realization that the traditional procedures in such cases do not permit a review that approximates in thoroughness the review given to our own faculty. For another, it is hard for someone who is not a specialist in aa candidate's field to make informed judgments about his or her competence by listening to a lecture. The committee recommends that a sounder procedure be devised for evaluating outsiders for tenured appointments. Respectfully submitted,
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