April 19, 2002
TO: Faculty
FR: Richard Wells, Chancellor
Keith Miller, Provost & Vice Chancellor
RE: Call for the development of the Oshkosh Faculty Compact
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh will sustain, support and enhance a vigorous scholarly environment for research, intellectual activity and creative expression.
-Strategic Direction Three
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Governing Ideas
Adopted December, 2001
In our Mission statement, we pledge to foster scholarly activities related to "teaching, research, intellectual activities, creative expression, and service." In order to support this commitment, the Provost will appoint a faculty task force to create the Oshkosh Faculty Compact. The task force will be appointed on May 1, 2002. It will accept the following statements as the basis of its deliberations:
1. The Faculty Compact will preserve and enhance the University structures that fostered the significant advances in the areas of research and creative expression in the past decade.
2. The Faculty Compact will recognize that the scholarly activities of teaching and research/creative activity are interdependent acts and will be accorded comparable value and weight.
3. The Faculty Compact will support the existing structures of the Faculty Development Program and course-load modification.
4. The Faculty Compact will establish additional avenues of support and development for faculty research/creative activities and teaching. The establishment and support of such programs will complement the existing structures rather than replace or reduce the funding of programs already in place on campus.
5. The Faculty Compact will recognize that different modes of scholarship are appropriate for different departments and disciplines. The definition of what constitutes acceptable modes of scholarship will be determined by the departments and their respective academic and professional disciplines.
If you are interested in serving on the Oshkosh Faculty Compact Task Force, please make your interest known through your department chair or dean.