1. MSI – Faculty Governance Working Group
Goals:
Develop governance structures that will facilitate, support, and incentivize faculty who participate in the MSI’s transformative educational models, transdisciplinary research and mentoring, engaged scholarship and coastal outreach and engagement.
Develop an organizational structure that effectively supports the MSI’s unique programs.

2. Faculty Governance WG Members
Dan Edge (Chair) CAS
Jack Barth CEOAS
Jana Bouwma-Gearhart COE
Robert Cowen CEOAS/HMSC
Sarah Henkel COS/HMSC
Yvette Spitz CEOAS
Blue indicates units represented

3. MSI Faculty Positions
Occur through statement of affiliation, college or joint college positions, endowments, or Provost initiative
Academic homes on main campus
Unique duties
Transformative (high-touch) educational programs
Transdisciplinary research
Academic home on campus is similar to Cascades or other off-campus faculty (Extension, HMSC, Experiment Stations)
These positions will be different

4. MSI Faculty Success
Unique responsibilities need to be captured in positions descriptions with clear expectations for P&T.
Faculty mentoring should include categories outlined by the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (mentoring map).
Unit P&T committees should include other MSI faculty.
High-touch teaching is more time consuming and requires greater level of expertise; transdisciplinary research may be more time consuming and lead to more co-authored papers and co-PI grants than typical—these differences need to be addressed in PDs
Concern regarding success for these new type of faculty, especially among units that do not have experience with off-campus faculty.

5. MSI Organizational Structure
VP or Director
Associate Director, Research
Associate Director, Academic Programs
Head Advisor, Marine Studies
First Year Experience Advisor
Additional Advisors 1 FTE/300 majors
Internship/ Experiential Learning Coordinator
Graduate Program Advisor/ Coordinator
Student Support Services
Associate Director, Outreach and Engagement
Hatfield Marine Science Center
Uncertain how current structure of HMSC fits within MSI from perspective of reporting structure.
Titles (VP vs Director) are hypothetical titles—the functions of the positions are more important than what they are called.
Positions/functions in italics would be added as initiative scales up

6. Recommendations
Develop MOUs between academic units for each MSI faculty member with a joint appointment.
Senior Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs offer leadership training that specifically addresses leading units composed of faculty at different locations and with very different position descriptions.
Differences in accomplishments and norms from typical academic appointments need to be embraced, supported and acknowledged in MSI faculty position descriptions, and specific outcomes for promotion and tenure should be identified.
Provost Office monitor these hires in a manner similar to the recent Provost Initiative hires.
Administrators will need to develop mentoring and career development support that will ensure faculty success.