Summary of BLFC Actions Needed as Part of the Dean’s Review Process

Prior to the beginning of the new BLFC year, several tasks related to the Dean's review process were completed by the previous Council and its Faculty Standards Committee. These included

1. writing unit specific questions for Section V of the survey,
2. sending the draft questions to John Kennedy at the Center for Survey Research,
3. considering his comments and clarifying the original questions, and
4. developing a list of nominees to forward to the BFC Nominations Committee to recommend as unit representatives for the Dean's Review Committee.

The 2000/01 BLFC and its committees will take responsibility for the following tasks. We plan to keep an updated summary here.

• Determine if we want to code any group of respondents.
  • Extra system librarian responses will be segregated by code. (BLFC decision, August 16, 2000)
• Determine if we want to include emeriti in the population surveyed.
  • Emeriti will not be included in the survey. (BLFC decision, August 16, 2000.)
  • Recommend to the Review Committee that input be solicited from emeriti. (BLFC Secretary to convey to Chair of Review Committee)
• Appoint subcommittee to remove the self-identifying remarks from the survey.
  • Subcommittee appointed, Ann Bristow and Lois Heiser (BLFC action, August 16, 2000)
• Discuss with Ted Miller (Chair of the Review Committee) and John Kennedy (Center for Survey Research) the time frame for final survey tabulation.
  • Secretary, BLFC to do.
• Review the generic cover letter and make changes appropriate to our needs. If the changes are significant, refer the letter to the BFC Nominations Committee.
  • Subcommittee appointed, Julie Bobay and Elizabeth Johnson (BLFC action, August 16, 2000)
• Decide who should sign the letter (Ted Miller, Committee Chair; Jim Sherman, President of BFC; other) The person signing may affect the return rate.
  • Recommendation from cover letter subcommittee.
• Determine language to replace generic terms in the survey and review the generic survey's final line and revise, as appropriate.
  • Seek recommendation from cover letter subcommittee.
• Decide if BLFC should prepare some sort of formal input to the Committee relative to our role as the Bloomington Faculty elected policy body.
• Decide who should receive the survey results.
• Decide who should receive the review results.