Present: Martha Bartter, Marc Becker, Sally Cook, Keith Doubt, Stephanie Fore, Ken Fountain, Jan Grow, David Gruber, Kathryn Kuhlman, Tom Marshall, Joyce Ragland, and Peter Rolnick

1. Treasurer James Harmon distributed the financial report, showing Assets at end of 1999 of $256.53, disbursements in January 2000 of $63.14, and a balance of $193.39.

2. President Keith Doubt distributed copies of Vice President Garry Gordon's written response to the AAUP Faculty Attrition Report, a response that the Vice President compiled this week for the Board of Governors. The Vice President used the information that he had recently solicited from AAUP regarding the Attrition Report. The Vice-President initially had said that he wanted this information in order to do comparative studies with other universities on faculty attrition. There was a discussion on whether to reply to the Vice-President's response and on whether the Vice-President recognized faculty attrition as a serious issue. Doubt ended the discussion by stating that, at the Board of Governors Meeting the next morning (February 5, 2000), he would try to prepare a positive view of AAUP and its Attrition Report for his scheduled remarks and would not address the Vice President's unexpected reply.

3. James Harmon reported for the Ad Hoc Faculty Compensation committee. The committee is examining schools between 2,000 and l0,000 enrollment regarding faculty, compensation, benefits, cost of living, to make comparisons. It was explained that in the past there had been an attempt to establish a list of ten peer institutions with an eye to developing comparisons of Truman with outside schools. Missouri state schools were not considered comparable because of our unique mission and highly selective status. Dave Gruber noted that another reason for not considering other state schools was that each is competing for same funds. Harmon reported that the chair of the Ad Hoc committee is Dan Mandell. Four AAUP members service on the committee: James Harmon, Martha Bartter, Joyce Ragland, and Garry Jones, who holds a position on the committee as its official AAUP representative.

4. Keith Doubt distributed AAUP brochures on fair university policies for non-tenure track and part-time faculty. Sally Cook reported her circumstances since voluntarily leaving a tenure track position to teach half time because of family responsibilities. Cook is presently concerned about working with a full-time load, including service, while being paid as if on a part-time status.

Minutes prepared by Jan Grow