The proposed policy will be distributed. A new option allows faculty to retire and be reappointed to a .50 position for an agreed-upon number of years. An advantage to the department is the ability to help someone retire earlier than might be the case otherwise. A disadvantage is that in most cases there will not be enough money in the position to fund promotion costs, the .50 retirement salary, and a 1.0 replacement, and the College may not be able to provide a supplement. Dean Elich works with the individual and the department to arrange mutually beneficial arrangement.
Interested faculty can contact the Dean for information.
The Provost has indicated some interest in the possibility of changing the tuition pattern for summer to correspond to the academic year pattern. A survey of students suggested that they were concerned about the summer tuition. Last summer out of about 3,000 students, about 2,000 took 10 or fewer credits, although it is not know if this is because there was no lid on tuition or for other reasons. The deans must make recommendations on the tuition rate to the Provost soon. There is no way to know what effect a tuition change will have on enrollment.