Hi all, The dean has asked that the attached documents be forwarded to all faculty and staff in the interest of transparency. These include a memo from the provost asking all units to do a planning exercise modeling potential "efficiencies", and the corresponding report generated by the Dean's office for A&S. There are important things to keep in mind: -this was put together very rapidly by the college in response to the provost's request -the numbers quoted lack any context, and were generated by upper administration running reports. Some of the numbers do not accurately reflect the situation. This holds for all A&S departments. Part of what we'll be doing over break is contextualizing many of the numbers appearing in the report. -the document assumes a staffing model that reflects an increased teaching load for many departments. This reflects the university's effort to enforce a uniform workload policy that has existed since 1994 (but apparently not enforced). Our department is at a 2/2 load for tenure/tenure track faculty, and this is the target for doctoral granting programs. Other teaching load targets have been set for programs that offer only Masters (3/2) or Bachelors (3/3) degrees. This should not affect our tenure/tenure track faculty, as we're at 2/2. I'm not sure of the implications for Instructional Faculty teaching loads yet. I also don't know what plans are for RHE faculty under One OHIO. -this is only a planning exercise, but it underscores the scope of the budget cuts A&S is being asked to bear. This is not a plan; it is an attempt to quantify the scale of the problem. I'll pass along more information as I get it. If you have questions, let me know and I'll try to get answers. My understanding is that all such reports from across the university are housed at: https://www.ohio.edu/president/ohio-strategic-framework/news-updates/university-leaders-submit-ideas-budget-efficiency Best, Todd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/mathregionals/attachments/20191205/e155d4ab/attachment-0001.html > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Planning Exercise College of Arts & Sciences.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 2028616 bytes Desc: Planning Exercise College of Arts & Sciences.pdf URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/mathregionals/attachments/20191205/e155d4ab/attachment-0002.pdf > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Academic efficiences_planning_memo 10-28-19.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 280364 bytes Desc: Academic efficiences_planning_memo 10-28-19.pdf URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/mathregionals/attachments/20191205/e155d4ab/attachment-0003.pdf >
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