Work on a new system to measure the performance of UNC system schools and its faculty members continues.
Gary Barnes, the UNC system associate vice president for planning who is leading the drafting of the document, said he was working to incorporate ideas he had received from faculty members. A new draft would be sent soon to the campuses for additional comment, he said.
Faculty Chair Jane Brown said she hoped the final version of the accountability system, as it is being called, would include provisions that allow individual campuses to choose which criteria should be applied to them, allow the system to be modified over time, measure faculty satisfaction and attempt to measure quality of learning rather than only quantity.
Brown said she also was concerned the draft system contained few measures that applied to graduate student education.
She said she was disappointed there was not more time to work on the system.
"I think we can come up with something that would work and improve quality, a system that could help us know what we're doing and improve what we're doing," she said. "But that will take a little time."
Brown said faculty members could not ignore the deliberations over the new system.
"We have to assume that something like this is going to occur and we need to make it be the very best possible," she said.
The UNC system's General Administration, partly in response to mandates from the General Assembly, is drafting the system to chart performance of universities and their faculties.
The system must be completed for the April 12 meeting of the Board of Governors so the board can meet an April 15 deadline for submission to the legislature.
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