During the opening meeting of the Faculty Council for 2010-11, on September 21, president Steve Everett identified four areas of focus for the Council this year:

• Faculty involvement in teaching and research (during the year, the Council will hear reports from various officials in research administration on specific issues and policies);
• Faculty development (assisting colleagues in career development and putting some focused support in place);
• Faculty governance at large (evolving out of discussions last spring on the ways faculty governance is structured in the university); and
• Grievance policies and processes (see above post for more details).

Throughout the year, the Council will be taking a focused look at these four areas of development. “I’m hoping that we can find some progress in these areas,” Everett said.