coe-staff: Fw: Institutional Hiring Plans

[Randy Kamphaus]

Dear Faculty and Staff,


Please see my recent message below to your department heads.  I encourage you to engage fully in this process.


Regards, and have a good weekend,


Randy

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From: Randy Kamphaus
Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 6:20 AM
To: Amy Green; Edward Kameenui; Krista Chronister; Beth Stormshak; Edward Olivos; Gerald Tindal; Laura Lee McIntyre
Cc: Dianna Carrizales-Engelmann; Julie Wren; Chris Krabiel; Melynn Bates
Subject: Institutional Hiring Plans


Dear Dept Heads,


Kindly engage your faculty in the IHP process for the upcoming year at your earliest convenience (https://provost.uoregon.edu/ay2018‐19‐ institutional‐hiring‐plan).  I recommend that you follow the process we use for annual tuition setting, in that you document the meetings and other opportunities for faculty to provide input into your decision making, and your ultimate (ranked) recommendations to me.


As a reminder, we had four approved searches last year and three this year (one of which is largely donor funded).  Given this record, I anticipate putting forward a prioritized list of about a half dozen requests, or less, that are linked to the five priorities in our strategic framework.

  *   Grow research performance
  *   Improve student learning through research excellence
  *   Expand educator preparation partnerships
  *   Improve student access, success, and equity
  *   Improve fiscal performance and grow enrollments

I will also apply the evaluation criteria to be used across campus.

  *   The IHP process prioritizes proposals that best fit the institution’s long‐term goals for excellence, diversity, and sustained institutional operational health. This includes:
  *   Searches that leverage and expand on demonstrated research excellence.
  *   Searches that will help create research excellence in new areas or areas on the cusp of excellence.
  *   Growth of successful graduate programs, especially PhD programs.
  *   Searches with active recruitment plans that have the potential to contribute to thediversity of the faculty and their academic disciplines.
  *   Searches that can be demonstrated to support student success.

We may be able to garner more TTF faculty support for our programs through cross-campus collaborations.  The Mathematics Dept, for example, has contacted EDST about such a proposal.  I have a meeting on Monday with the Dean's Council to discuss potential joint or collaborative hires.  Some of the hiring areas I anticipate include; data science, behavior and brain sciences, discipline-based education research, and Indigenous studies.


All of my meetings across campus lead me to believe that we will have to ground our requests in strong qualitative and quantitative metrics (e.g., election to​ the National Academy of Education, etc.).  Chris and Melynn are available to help you obtain metrics associated with your proposed hires.  They, for example, can provide average student credit hours generated per faculty member in a unit.  These metrics will be prioritized in the decision making process as well as quality metrics such as placement rates of Ph.D. alumni in AAU or similar institutions, national rankings and reputations for programs, and research/scholarly productivity and impact of faculty work.  Your program coordinators and Julie Wren can help provide data regarding student demand for academic programs.  Many other metrics such as, degrees awarded and enrollment trends are readily available on the IR web site.  I will note here that our Ph.D. productivity per faculty member has recently been cited as leading that of the remainder of the university.  These data may be helpful for making the case to replace a retiring or otherwise departing faculty member with a strong record of graduating doctoral students.


Let's also put potential cross-departmental collaborative hires on our Dept Head meeting agenda for next Wednesday.


Everything is due March 9.  My internal deadline for departmental submissions will be COB on Monday, March 5.  I have blocked off my schedule for the following three days to finish our submissions.  Please make yourself available for consultation as well, by phone or other means.


Wishing us great success,


Randy

c Deans, Finance and Operations, HR



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