Memo from Annette Chappell to Patricia Plante, 1987

Towson State University College of Liberal Arts Date: February 16, 1987 To: Provost Plante From: Annette Chappell, Dean, College of Liberal Arts SubJect: shifting Jo-Ann Pilardi to full-time As you know, 1 would like to fird the opportunity to make Jo-Ann Pilardi full-time, with a Joint appointment half in Philosophy ("home" department> and half in Women's Studies ("host" department). Ultimately, doing so will depend on some half-time RPT somewhere in the university resigning, thus freeing a half-slot. In the meantime, however, I have a critical situation for Fall 1987 and what appears to me a feasible way to make Jo-Ann full time for that one semester. The critical situation is caused by (a) Sara Coulter's Fall 1987 sabbatical, which will necessitate transferring her release time to Elaine Hedges, thus decreasing Elaine's teaching hours at the very time that (b) we have increasing demand for Women's Studies courses (this semester, we turned away at least 35 students from Women in Perspective) and need to have more, not fewer, sections of Women in Perspective. The opportunity is presented by the fact that two RPT's have asked for unpaid leaves of absence in Fall 1987, thus freeing their halfslots (and their salaries), though for one semester only. Usually when an RPT takes leave of absence, we simply hold the slot in abeyance, and return the salary to Norm's pool of part-time money, but this time I would like to use one of the two half-slots to make Jo-Ann full time for that semester. Comparison of the loads and salaries would seem to make this a perfectly feasible move. Here are the figures (all salaries are given as half the person's annual salary, since the proposal is for one semester only -- and I've used this year's salary, not knowing exactly what next year's will be but it sounds as if it won't be much more):