Frances Collichio's Answers to Faculty Council Questions

1.  Mainly I believe that our goals as faculty members are the same as
the goals of those in administration.  First, we wish to have
outstanding, safe quality patient care and an excellent reputation
around the state and the country.  Second, we wish to preserve the goal
of maintaining an outstanding teaching environment while facing
increasing time pressures and confronting the issues of shrinking
resources. Third, we both wish to preserve quality in the faculty and
doing this means maintaining time for them to pursue their research.
Sometimes administrative personnel need to be reminded that the teaching
and research missions are central to our identity.

 

2. We can maintain academic integrity in the face of increasing
financial pressures by 1)improving the efficiency by which we do our
work. Examples of how to do this include continuing to pursue a
paperless medical records and continued exploitation of work saving
platforms through computerized recruiting, grading, planning lectures,
etc. 2). Working with our political representatives to lobby
representatives in Washington and Raleigh on the importance of
maintaining research dollars 3)  Turning more toward industry for the
support of our projects.  A balanced relationship with industry can
maintain integrity. 

 

3). It is not clear that there are increasing inequalities that are
pervasive throughout the organization although some may exist based on
divisional management policies. It seems that salary parity both inside
and outside the institution are major issues that are being attended to
by Dean Roper in the School of Medicine. If disparities exist in other
schools that is an issue that I need to be educated about.   

 

4).  I do not think administrators should circumvent faculty on any
project.  Faculty need to be included on all major issues. After all the
administrators don't do the teaching.

 

5).  I definitely think there needs to be a balance between academic
freedom, education, faculty salary and faculty benefits.  We will
maintain outstanding faculty by pursuing all of these goals.