Thursday, January 27, 2000
NKU controls faculty work
New review policy also OK'd
BY ANDREA TORTORA
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Northern Kentucky University regents Wednesday approved tight rules on the ownership of intellectual property and a new review policy for tenured faculty.
Both policies were backed by the Faculty Senate.
NKU attorney Sara Sidebottom said the intellectual property policy aims to define guidelines in the early stages of research or creation.
“The university wants to encourage the faculty to create things and ensure that the university has a right to royalties,” Ms. Sidebottom said. “The creative idea of an individual may have monetary value. We will not be deprived of our interest in that product if a faculty member moves on.”
At the heart of the intellectual property policy is the creation of material in which the university shares the production costs or owns equipment used.
If the university assigns the effort, the university will retain the copyright to the material.
If school computers are used to create a software program that is then sold to other schools, the creator and the university would share ownership.
Individual faculty efforts such as journal articles, textbooks and lab manuals remain the property of the faculty member.
A new post-tenure review policy will help faculty members who receive two negative annual reviews in a row.
“This calls attention to a person who is not performing,” said Rogers Redding, vice president for academic affairs. “It allows the university a way to get the attention of the faculty member.”
The policy provides for a committee evaluation of the faculty member. The committee will create a professional development plan for the faculty member to follow.
The plan will include specific goals, activities and a time line for completing those recommendations.
Regular meetings with the faculty member and the committee will occur. If the committee is satisfied with the faculty member's improvements, he or she will have finished the development plan.
If the committee thinks the suggested action was not followed or was not successful, the university can begin a dismissal process.
NKU President Dr. James Votruba said the issue calls for professors to police themselves.
“There was a time when the public did not pay much attention to the monitoring of higher education,” Dr. Votruba said.
“Now there is more scrutiny. You either do it, or the public will do it for you.”
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