College of Arts and Humanities Handbook

College of Arts and Humanities Handbook

June 30, 2014

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Table of Contents

Section 1 Structure and Mission

1.1 Departments and Programs

1.2 Administrative Staff

1.3 CAH Mission, Vision and Goals

1.4 CAH Departmental Mission Statements

Section 2 Standing Committees of CAH

2.1 CAH Chairs' Council

2.2 CAH Personnel Committee (CBA 22.5.2)

2.3 CAH Scholarship Committee

2.4 CAH Observatory of Diversity

Section 3 Office Procedures and Protocol

3.1 CAH Office Hours

3.2 Obtaining Signatures

3.3 Grant Application Procedure

3.4 Appointments with the Dean

3.5 Form Submission

3.6 Registration after 10th day

3.7 Memberships in Professional Organizations

3.8 Emergency Phone Tree

Section 4 Department Chairs

4.1 Duties and Responsibilities of Department Chairs

4.2 Election of Department Chairs

4.3 Department Chair Performance Appraisal

4.4 Department Chair Compensation

4.5 Support / Development Opportunities for Department Chairs

Section 5 Appointment of Faculty

5.1 Search and Hiring Procedures

5.2 Hiring Rationale suggestions

5.3 Search Guidelines

Section 6 Mentoring Of Tenure-Track Faculty

6.1 Objectives

6.2 Guidelines

6.3 Procedure

6.4 Suggested Minimum Activities for Mentors

Section 7 Faculty Development

7.1 CAH Travel Funds

7.2 CAH Summer Scholarship/Creativity Grants

7.3 CAH Summer Teaching Grant

7.4 CAH Interdisciplinary Teaching Project Grant

7.5 Special Events Funding

7.6 CAH Symposia, Colloquia, and Speakers Series

8. Faculty Review

8.1 Reappointment, Tenure, Promotion, & Post-Tenure Review

8.2 Non-Tenure Track Faculty Annual Review

Section 9 Classified Staff

9.1 Who Are Classified Staff?

9.2 Governing Policies

9.3 Search and Hiring Procedures

9.4 Performance Management

9.5 Professional Development

9.6 Other Staff Resources

Section 10 CAH Awards and Recognition

10.1 Awards Banquet

10.2 Faculty Awards

10.3 Student Awards

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Section 1 Structure and Mission

1.1 Departments and Programs

The College of Arts and Humanities (CAH) is comprised of 13 departments and programs, which represent the disciplines of the arts and humanities. All departments and some programs in CAH offer undergraduate degrees as well as minors that supplement other degree programs. Five departments offer Master's degrees (Art, English, History, Music, and Theatre Arts).

In addition to its role in providing degree programs, CAH is responsible for many course offerings in the general education program as well as extensive service coursework for the entire university. The College also plays a major role in Central's teacher education programs, offering Bachelor's and Master's degrees for students preparing to be secondary teachers and providing coursework in educational foundations and discipline-specific methods for teacher education majors. Building on a legacy of teaching excellence, college faculty are engaged in research, creative activities and service, involving students in the scholarship and practical applications of their various academic specializations, while making important contributions to the intellectual tradition and to society at large. Departments: Art, Communication, English, History, Music, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Theatre Arts, and World Languages. Interdisciplinary Programs: Africana and Black Studies, Asia-Pacific Studies, Film and Video Studies, Latino and Latin American Studies, and Non-Profit Organization Management.

1.2 Administrative Staff

The Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities is the chief academic, budgetary, and personnel officer of the College. The Dean's primary responsibilities include personnel matters (hiring, reappointment, tenure, promotion, review, mentoring, and communication with faculty); budget; policy design; program oversight and approval; grant administration; liaison with the upper administration and the public; supervision of the Dean's office staff; fund raising; and strategic planning.

The Associate Dean's primary responsibilities include general support for and advice to the Dean; administration of summer session; curriculum oversight and review; University Center liaison; student matters; data collection and analysis; handling assessment, accreditation, and accountability; and strategic planning support.

The Administrative Assistant maintains records pertaining to budget, personnel, and all other College matters, acts in a support role to the Dean and Associate Dean, and supervises the secretary/receptionist and other office staff.

The Secretary/Receptionist handles office protocol, clerical duties, correspondence, and other responsibilities as assigned.

The Development Officer is responsible for coordinating all donor and alumni contact for the College in order to facilitate support for departments and programs through contributions of time and resources.

1.3 CAH Mission, Vision and Goals

The College of Arts and Humanities advances knowledge, promotes intellectual inquiry, and cultivates creative endeavor among students and faculty through teaching informed by scholarship, creative activity, and public and professional involvement. We are committed to helping students develop intellectual and practical skills for responsible citizenship and the challenges of contemporary life in a global society. The college offers disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs of the highest quality, acts as a steward of the foundational disciplines upon which all inquiry is based, and serves as a cultural center for arts and humanities for the university and the region.

The College of Arts and Humanities will be recognized as a distinguished learning community known regionally for scholarly and creative excellence, innovative and rigorous foundational liberal arts education, and undergraduate and graduate programs that are outstanding and unique in the state.

Strategic Goals

• Create and maintain high quality academic programs
• Enhance support for faculty research and creative activity
• Improve visibility of the college
• Increase CAH share of resources and match resources to growth
• Build a more diverse college community
• Promote interdepartmental programming and collaboration
• Develop a climate of fundraising

Student Learning Goals

• Ensure that students develop disciplinary specific competencies for success in their field
• Improve students' knowledge of human cultures and diversity for success in a global society
• Facilitate disciplinary and interdisciplinary integrative learning for creative inquiry
• Develop students' intellectual and practical skills for lifelong learning
• Enhance students' civic knowledge and engagement locally and globally for responsible citizenship

Our student learning goals are patterned after the Essential Learning Outcomes in the recommendations and findings of College Learning for the New Global Century: A Report from the National Leadership Council for Liberal Education & America's Promise (LEAP), Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2007. We support the LEAP authors' efforts to promote the cause of liberal learning throughout the university curriculum. For a copy of the report, click here.

1.4 CAH Departmental Mission Statements

Art Department

The mission of the Department of Art is the practice and the teaching of art. The Department of Art's mission embraces the College of Arts and Humanities' emphasis on the enrichment of our students' educational experiences. The Department strives to develop and sustain our students' professional aspirations in Graphic Design, Art Education and the Studio Arts. Through our programs we seek to identify the rich creative and intellectual potential of students as they awaken to the lifelong value placed on critical and analytical skills. It is the Department's belief that an art education builds the expertise necessary for students seeking to assume their respective roles as practitioners, educators, and informed patrons of the visual arts.

Communication Department

It is the mission of the Department of communication of Central Washington University to prepare students to become active participants in communication within - and shaping - modern culture. To fulfill its mission, the department emphasizes student-centered instruction in the gathering and dissemination of written, spoken and visual information, as well as a broad range of coursework in the processes, effects and theories of human communication. The department is committed to a liberal education in written, oral and visual communication, as well as to professional training in the fields of journalism, public relations, advertising, video technology and oral communication.

English Department

The English Department is committed to improving our students' writing, reading, analysis, and communication skills, with the larger goal of fostering human, social, cultural, and global understanding. Such understanding is made possible through the shared experience of language, identification, empathy, and beauty available in literary expression. In our major programs and our general education program, we seek to enhance our students’ abilities to use language effectively and creatively so that they may reach their full potential both personally and professionally. Our graduate and undergraduate programs provide professional development for students seeking careers as writers, scholars, and educators, and they prepare students for a variety of careers requiring skill with language, such as law, publishing, librarianship, and business. We are committed, as well, to disciplinary, community, and professional enhancement. As part of a regional education center, we provide classes and sponsor literary, artistic, and cultural events that feature our faculty and guest lecturers and artists. Within a friendly, supportive atmosphere, we strive for excellence in our teaching, our curriculum, our professional and artistic productivity, and our professional service work both inside and outside the university.

History Department

The broadest mission of the history department is consistent with the mission of the university: to prepare students for responsible citizenship, responsible stewardship of the earth, and enlightened and productive lives. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni serve as an intellectual resource to assist central Washington, the region, and the state in solving human and environmental problems.

The history department seeks to convey historical knowledge and historical modes of understanding to the student population and citizens of Washington State. The department does this by offering introductory history courses in the university's General Education program; providing majors and minors with specific upper-and-lower division courses emphasizing the major world regions and the connections between those regions; offering graduate training at the MA level for advanced students; participating in the university's teacher certification program; engaging in the broader historical profession through research, publication, grant writing, and scholarly presentations; and interacting with the Ellensburg and Central Washington community through educational outreach, participating in interdisciplinary programs, public lectures, fora, discussions, and publications.

Music Department

TheDepartment of Musicis a community of artists, scholars and educators dedicated to achieving the highest standards of musical knowledge, performance and teaching. The department is committed to preparing students for careers in music, providing the opportunity to become literate, skilled, knowledgeable and confident music educators, performers and practitioners, able to influence and enrich the musical lives of the communities in which they serve. The department provides opportunities for the general student to study music as an essential part of a liberal arts education and engage in artistic experiences, serves as a leader for K-12 music education and provides opportunities for the general public to experience music performances of the highest quality in a broad range of styles and genres.

Department Vision:

TheDepartment of Musicwill be recognized and respected for its challenging curriculum and supportive environment, for the excellence of its student, ensemble and faculty performances, and for the fulfillment of its motto: “Where Teaching is a Performing Art.”

Core Values:

As a community of practicing musicians and scholars, we believe that the department’s mission is best realized when we:

• Hold each student’s greatest good as our primary concern
• Provide models of the highest ethical and moral standards
• Deem outstanding teaching to be the most important attribute of the faculty
• Implement a rigorous curriculum in each degree program
• Regard each degree program as equally valid, with no program intrinsically superior to any other
• Create an intellectually and emotionally safe environment in which students can learn, develop and mature
• Respect and embrace diversity in all its forms
• Respond creatively and thoughtfully to the inevitable changes of the fluid society in which we live

Philosophy and Religious Studies Department

In support of the missions of Central Washington University and the College of Arts and Humanities, the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies prepares students for enlightened, responsible, and productive lives by providing them with the intellectual tools and scholarly background necessary for a deep, critical understanding of human experience. In recognition of the complex fabric of this experience, the mission of our department is to introduce our students to the diversity of philosophical and religious thought and practice. Knowledge of this diversity not only characterizes the well-educated individual, but also is essential for understanding, working, and living in an increasingly pluralistic society. Accordingly, after providing a foundation in the history of ideas, our curriculum has students engage with a variety of perspectives from a broad range of Western and Eastern traditions. These perspectives and traditions are approached through varied learning experiences. Not only do students take lecture-discussion classes, but they also participate in seminar-style conversations, mentored research, and service learning. Through these approaches, our students acquire skills and techniques that enable them to understand and respond thoughtfully to humanity’s deepest concerns and to recognize how such concerns impact our personal and professional lives.

Theatre Arts Department

The Department of Theatre Arts is an ensemble of artists, scholars, educators, and practitioners located in the heart of the Pacific Northwest who:

• Prepare students for advanced study and professional careers in theatre
• Promote creativity and excellence in a diverse educational environment
• Cultivate, educate, challenge and enrich audiences
• Train and prepare students from diverse backgrounds to link art and life through experiential learning;in order to nurture skilled, thoughtful, and courageous citizens who will promote a peaceful and tolerant global community.

World Languages Department

The Mission of the Department of World Languages at Central Washington University is not only to teach language but also to instill in our students an appreciation of how language serves a variety of practical social, economic and political needs. The Department provides major and minor programs in French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, as well minor programs in Chinese, German and American Sign Language.

Graduates acquire necessary professional skills and cultural experiences for:

• Productive employment in world language related areas.
• Preparation for graduate studies.
• More effective participation in other academic endeavors, such as the University's Asia-Pacific Studies program and Latino and Latin American Studies program.

The Department promotes a variety of study abroad programs that offer students authentic language immersion and cultural experience crucial for the pursuit of world-language related careers. Departmental faculty mentor students to ensure their success in academic pursuits and in their lives after they leave the university. Through their teaching and research departmental faculty seek to develop critical thinkers who possess an awareness of and sensitivity to cultural diversity in the global community of the twenty-first century.

Section 2 Standing Committees of CAH

2.1 CAH Chairs' Council

The Chair of each department is a member of the CAH Chairs' Council. The Council meets regularly to advise the Dean and Associate Dean, address administrative matters, develop policy, and discuss issues of importance to the College.

2.2 CAH Personnel Committee (CBA 22.5.2)

College personnel committees will be composed of at least three (3) full professors, plus one (1) full professor who shall serve as an alternate member, with no more than one member from each department. Members of the department personnel committees and chairs are eligible to serve on the college personnel committee, but will be replaced by the alternate member for purposes of the committee’s consideration of any issue they reviewed as a member of the department personnel committee or department chair.

a) The members of the college personnel committee will be elected by the tenured faculty within the college.

b) The college personnel committee is responsible for evaluations relating to reappointments beginning in the fourth year, tenure, promotion and post-tenure review. The committee will provide a written recommendation to the dean.

2.3 CAH Scholarship Committee

The Scholarship Committee is comprised of one tenure-track or tenured faculty member from each department, appointed by the Dean. The Committee oversees and encourages scholarly and creative activity in CAH, evaluates competitive proposals for travel, summer scholarship, and interdisciplinary teaching grants submitted by faculty, and plans special events such as symposia, speakers, exhibits, and other activities.

2.4 CAH Observatory of Diversity

This committee resulted from a recommendation of The CAH Diversity Task Force appointed in Fall 2008. It is to be composed of faculty, students and staff appointed by the Dean. the purpose of the committee is to compile data, monitor progress and make recommendations regarding diversity within the College of Arts and Humanities.

Section 3 Office Procedures and Protocol

3.1 CAH Office Hours

The business of the College of Arts and Humanities is handled during the 8am to 5pm workday, Monday through Friday. Therefore, it is the expectation that the secretarial and support staff of each department will assist the Chair or Dean to complete department business within those hours. If a department deems it necessary to have secretarial and/or support staff work outside these normal hours, then permission must be obtained through the Dean. The "Alternate Work Schedule Approval Form" will need to be filled out with the rationale for the change and be signed by the employee, the Chair and then sent to the Dean for approval. Any irregular arrangement needs to be reviewed annually.

3.2 Obtaining Signatures

Signatures for grant applications, travel approval, and all other matters requiring the Dean's signature must be submitted at least 48 hours in advance, or according to calendar deadline dates.