Service+Minutes+2_20

**Friday, February 20, 2009** Members (* indicates present) Lynnell Thomas* Felicia Wilczenski* Rajini Srikanth Sheila Cannon Aimee Blaquiere* Kristine Alster* After some brief introductions, the discussion quickly focused on clarifying what is meant by this category of activity, and with observations that “service” is not as highly valued (for the tenure review process, at least) as are other activities (peer reviewed publications). Please add your comments! Minutes prepared by Kathryn Kogan
 * Faculty Development Service Subcommittee Minutes **
 * 1) Should “service” be a category separate from teaching and scholarship? This was challenged at the larger meeting by.
 * 2) What is meant by “service”? This question was raised at the larger meeting, and left up to our subcommittee to define. It was clarified that service comes in different forms, including committee work; urban mission activities (?); and service to one’s department.
 * 3) service is not as valued as “scholarship”: Too much service is a negative comment on one’s 4th year review. Departments attempt to “protect” junior faculty from extensive service requirements.
 * 4) Publications more closely related to the urban mission (not of interest to the editorial boards of peer reviewed journals) may not be as highly valued as those accepted by peer reviewed journals.
 * 5) Carnegie Classification: UMB is classified as a __ institution. Let’s look into this and see what the language is.
 * 6) It was observed that while NTT faculty are productive in all 3 categories, it may be that “service” is an area where NTT faculty are given more opportunities and where they have more time to invest since they are not eligible for the tenure stream.
 * 7) For faculty in Nursing, “service” has traditionally included the on-site and community based aspect of the training, including the running of clinics in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
 * 8) There may be more of an emphasis on “service” in degree programs that provide specific training in a profession (Nursing, Counseling, Teacher Training, CAGS), and in academic departments that prepare students for graduate work in applied areas (Psychology, Sociology, Criminal Justice). Is the University placing these programs/departments in a less-than category?
 * 9) It was speculated that there is a split within the University in regards to the Urban Mission – that more recent trends towards making UMB a “Tier 1 Research Institution” may be at odds with fully valuing the urban mission.