BFC resists state measures

The Bloomington Faculty Council met for the second time this semester Tuesday after the meeting in early February was canceled due to weather.

The BFC discussed memorial resolutions, supplemental sabbatical pay and Constituent Relationship Management.

Executive Vice President and Provost Karen Hanson gave the Presiding Officers Report about IU’s streamlined state funding based on its set performance-based measures. Hanson said IU is doing great as a college but can’t possibly live up to the measures set by the state and thus will not get the money required.

“We’re not opposed to performance-based measures, but we think they need to make sense given the mission and character of the campus,” Hanson said.

Vice President for Information Technology Brad Wheeler came before the council to discuss CRM, a new program that would combine all the information of alumni into one central database. 

Separate schools in the University have their own alumni information, and this new database would combine all of those to make it possible for alumni to decide what information they want to receive.

“We just have no idea who’s communicating with who,” Wheeler said. “This would give some clarity to that.”

The council’s next meeting will be 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. March 1 in the Indiana Memorial Union Georgian room.