Minutes
Faculty Association Board Meeting
July 17, 2003, 2:30 p.m.
East Campus 3-113
Actions Taken
Mark Guillette was appointed as Co Chair in Training for the College Planning Council.
Pending her Acceptance the board appointed Penny Villegas to serve the remainder of Dan Dutkofski’s term as Planning Council Co-chair.
Linda Speranza, Robert Righney, and Susan Dauer were appointed to the
LifeMap Faculty Guide committee.
Actions Pending
Michael will discuss campus hours and 6-6-0 issues with Tracy Edwards
Senates will discuss Summer Schedule
Senates will discuss Payroll Dates.
Chris will forward notes from CPC Planning Day.
Officers will attend SACS Response Meeting.
Members present
Chris Borglum, Sharon Wyly, Ed Szymanski Jr., Raymond Enger, Keith Malmos, Marlene Temes, Maryke Lee, Donna French, Michael Shugg, Stephanie Freuler, Jean Marie Fuhrman.
Approval of May
Minutes
Minutes Approved.
Meeting Called to
Order
Called to Order 2:35pm
Dialogue with Bill
Mullowney
Dr Mullowney discussed the impact of City of Orlando’s ordinance that added sexual orientation to its lists of protected categories. Since West Campus is within the City this rule applies to West.
Dr Mullowney mentioned that it would be unworkable for one campus to be governed by a different set of laws than the others. The solution for this would be for the board to adopt a policy that requires uniform rules on all campuses. He will would look into the practicality this and report back to the Faculty Association Board.
Dr Mullowney reported that he is leading a team that is working on revising intellectual property policies in order to clearly define who retains ownership of materials developed by faculty. A workgroup will be formed in fall to look at academic policies. One goal as these teams work is to separate policy from procedure, so not all future actions will require going to the District Board of Trustees for approval.
Information Items
2003 – 2004
Payroll Dates
Because of discrepancies created by
the 365-day calendar, every 14 years, there would be an extra payroll
date. Our contracted salaries, however,
are fixed at an annual amount. This
creates a problem for the college. One
solution would be to insert a one-week delay between payroll dates at some
point during the year. The initial
proposal from payroll was to do this with the first check for 2004. The executive council proposed an alternative
of inserting the delay in the summer at a time when folks may be less cash
strapped than over the holidays. This
would also give everyone more time to budget his or her personal finances.
There may be other creative solutions to the problem. We were asked to discuss
solutions both now and for the future.
Compressed
Summer Schedule
Notes forwarded by Sonya Joseph. Nothing is submitted as a proposal, but feedback is requested. Calendar is not in question. Committee needs to gather info on all the problems we foresee about the shortened summer term. What solutions can we propose? Are there alternatives to face-to-face instruction? Email Sharon Wyly so she can communicate our feedback to the committee.
The Calendar and Scheduling Committee has made a 2 year commitment to this calendar.
Sabbatical
Policy
Dr Shugart is eager to begin awarding sabbaticals. He wants to be ready to make awards for next fall. The plan is to award 2 years ahead so that faculty have time to apply for grants and make other arrangements. The issue has been fast-tracked. A small committee has been formed to edit the policy, and a larger team will be charged with communicating between that team and stakeholders. All concerns should be passed to Lisa Armour or Michael Shugg.
CPC Planning
Meeting
The meeting was to look at Strategic Plan and determine which items need our focus. Chris Borglum will forward us the summary.
College
Assembly
Instead of planning day, it is now college assembly. There will be meeting blocks, but less likely to contain voluntary workshops. This year is more like the welcome back instead of learning days.
SACS Response
Meeting, July 23 1:00 PM, West 6-202
All presidents, board officers, and vice-presidents have been invited to a meeting to look at assessment. Not big picture, but how do we meet our SACS requirement. We have to have a response by September 3. This will not be the final process; it is a way to get us to meet our SACS requirement and hopefully point to the future of assessment at Valencia. The product of this meeting will not be carved in stone, but we want work to be meaningful.
The final product must be flexible enough to incorporate future work. It is both TVCA and discipline oriented. RSVP to Louise Pitts
Discussion Items
6-6-0 Contracts
There is confusion over the inconsistent implementation of 6-6-0 contracts. The board would like to address this with the campus provosts until a procedure manual can be created.
Recommendation
from Workload Issues Committee
Board advises that the Committee look at Workload issues as a whole and develop or submit a proposal.
The committee wants to work on issues they can solve, and work on those first. One of the first issues is on campus hours.
Committee wants to redefine those hours and state them as an average of 10 hours per week. Committee wants to bring consistency. Michael will take it up with Tracy and then see if we need to take it to the campuses.
Reports
Compensation Committee
August 5th is next meeting. Consultant must have things ready by then. Barbara Sheperd can give you location. Meeting is from 2-4. We will have forums and then a final recommendation by December.
Atlas Committee
Atlas may start quarantining emails like GroupWise. So we are being asked what we think. Discuss in senate and give feedback.
Evaluation Committee
The committee has a list of questions, and a rough form. They will be distributed in fall and feedback will be requested.
Faculty will not be evaluated based upon this. At the AAHE conference, the committee held the first meeting of end-evaluation process. In the end it may require the hiring of a consultant.
Workload Issues Committee
No report
Campus
Reports
No reports
Meeting Adjourned
Meeting was adjourned at 4:58 pm.
Next Meeting
September 18, 2003
Osceola 1- 258