The Iowa State University Faculty Senate will meet Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.

The agenda for the meeting will be a continuation of unfinished business from the last meeting, mainly concerning changes to position responsibility statements and the main documents that outline the job responsibilities of faculty members on campus.

The Faculty Senate will be addressing how position responsibility statements are created and maintained, procedures for mediating position responsibility statements issues that arise and changes to the faculty handbook regarding position responsibility statements.

According to a report on the current state of position responsibility statements published in February of this year by the Task Force to Review the Faculty Position Responsibility Statement, the task force found a wide variation in formatting as well as general information covered from a survey of 100 PRSs from many different departments at Iowa State.

According to the report, when the idea of a position responsibility statement was conceived 15 years ago, the plan was to have a document that “would serve the individual, unit, college, and university by defining an individual’s role at the university.”

In the 15 years since the position responsibility statement’s inception at Iowa State, a couple of problems have become apparent.

Currently the biggest problem, according to the report, is that not all members of the faculty actually have a position responsibility statement. The report calls on the Provost as well as department heads to remedy this problem.

In addition to the problem of some faculty not having a PRS on file, the report also calls to attention the lack of standardization in the expectations for faculty set down by their position responsibility statements. According to the findings presented in the report, most position responsibility statements at Iowa State do not follow a standard format, nor do they set forth standardized, or even in some cases clear and understandable expectations.

As well as the issues concerning position responsibility statements, the Senate will also address the discontinuation of the botany major for graduate students, as well as adding a geographic information science minor.