Faculty Association Board
May 15, 2003, 2:30 p.m.
West Campus Room 1-130
Members Present
Ray Enger, Keith Malmos, Tom Byrnes, Maryke Lee, Chris D. Borglum,
Marlene Temes, Stephanie Freuler, Jean Marie Fuhrman, Michael Shugg, Stan Melnick, Lisa Armour, Donna French,
Maiken Murphy, Sharon Wyly, Trudy McNair, Noelle Geiger, and Ilyse Kusnetz
Consider appointees to the Credentials Oversight Committee.
Appoint Planning Faculty Council Co-chair
Campus Presidents will arrange rooms for future board meetings.
Ray Enger will send out GroupWise appointments for future board meetings.
The meeting was called to order at 2:35 PM
Minutes approved with correction.
Information Items
Faculty Association Board Meeting Dates:
A schedule is attached. Campus presidents will line up rooms for the meetings on their campuses.
New Faculty
Positions:
Offers have been made. A lot of thought when into the decision to offer them. Budget isn’t looking good, but the President felt strongly that it was necessary to honor the work the hiring committees have already done. So the hiring recommendations will proceed. There are, at this point, many other things under discussion as budget comes into clarity. There is still a hope for modest pay raises and other things depending on what State does.
Budget:
The outlook isn’t too good, but we will see. There was discussion about where new faculty start on the pay schedule and how credit is given for years of service.
Action Items:
Planning
Council representatives from East and West campuses:
Joann Wit was appointed to the Planning Council from West.
Debbie Garrison was appointed for East.
Appoint
members for the Enrollment Management Issues Work Team
Jeffrey Fortunata, Betsy Guimond, June Hall, George Rausch, George Witta and Stan Melnick were appointed. Stan will serve as liason to the board, and he will be added to the list of reports.
Sharon Wyly, Lisa Armour, Joanne Wit, and Robert Rigney were appointed to committee. Sonya Joseph will be chairing this (Dean of Students on East).
Appoint members for the Web Strategy Group
Beth Nettles and Edward Holmes were appointed.
Appoint members for the Evaluation Task Force
Barbara Ball, Debbie Hall and Rita Swanson were added to the task force.
History Project Membership
It was recommended that retirees be consulted throughout the process as appropriate.
Osceola said email and flashlight was okay. East campus thought security was an issue and were concerned that some people may not respond. They also wanted to stress that surveys are not the same thing as a vote. West campus wanted to emphasize that a flashlight survey is not a replacement for discussion. There seemed to be consensus that surveys could not substitute for the faculty governance process. The recommended model would include time for discussion, then the survey would be given, the results circulated and a decision rendered through governance processes.
Plan is for Learning Council to put together a work team. Lisa and Tim Grogan are meeting to draft a work plan and then get reaction from CLC. It was noted that some people might take proposal the wrong way.
Concern was also raised about possible problems with a competitive process. The group agreed to wait on the recommendations of the work team.
Expansion of Valencia's non-discrimination policy to explicitly include diversity by sexual orientation
Bill Mullowney will be invited to the June or July Board meeting to discuss the issue.
Faculty Association Constitution
A Committee made of the campus presidents with Michael and Ray counted the ballots. 137 voted against and 60 for. The new constitution failed to pass by vote, and a majority of faculty did not vote
The problem was noted that our role as Governing Council is not recognized by our present constitution. We have been invited by the Board of Trustees and President to participate in Collegewide governance in an unprecedented way. It is essential that we define our governance structure in a way that honors our democratic tradition while allowing the Faculty association Board to act quickly enough to participate equally with the other councils. It is vital that we immediately begin work on a new constitution that will have the support of a majority of faculty. A work team is being formed to develop a new constitution collaboratively with faculty on all campuses.
Linda Athon, Chris Borgum, Tom Byrnes, Mark Hollister and Michael Shugg will serve on the work team. They will consider adding other faculty as necessary.
Planning Council Membership/ Faculty Chair
Designee
The Board agreed to follow the original plan with the Outgoing Faculty Association President rotating off the Planning Council to make room for the Co-chair in training as a full voting member.
President/CLO and Special Assistant Attendance at Board Meeting
The Board agreed that we would like for Dr. Shugart or Dr. Edwards to attend meetings at any time either side felt there were items to discuss. It was agreed that at least quarterly updates would be appropriate.
Louise Pitts would be welcome to attend meetings at anytime, but she will need to remain sensitive that some faculty may not feel comfortable discussing certain issues in front of her. It was agreed that at those times, she would be asked to leave the meeting.
Membership of
Credentials Oversight Committee
The committee would like to broaden its membership to include additional faculty members. The FAB president and VP are already part of committee. It was agreed that the committee recommendation for Campus committee members to fill out these positions. The Board will need to consider these appointments at a future meeting.
Did not meet this month. Did the forums, were all videotaped and everything else. One on West went longest. Osceola 45 min. A suggestion was made that we have a learning day meeting with consultant.
Next meeting is in June. The committee is waiting on national survey results from the consultant. Next forums will report results to faculty in the fall. These forums are planned for Thursday and Friday of Labor Day week.
Will meet Friday to finalize a draft for midterm evaluation. We will be posting those in a test bank for and developing a program to pilot the form and gather feedback. The form will be a living document. It is not intended to be summative, but rather formative assessment.
Marlene reported that the committee met first time and talked about what should guide their work. They agreed that the focus should be not about “I’m overworked and underpaid.” It should focus on “How can we make our workload practices more learning centered?” The Committee is revising its principles.
Campus
Reports
East:
Some discussion on the indicators used in the Competencies of Valencia Educator. They will ask Helen Clarke to attend meeting.
Mac users are upset over the problems with entering Atlas grades. West shared this concern.
Osceola:
They wanted to be notified when Atlas is going to be down.
West:
Discussed flashlight survey. Discrimination against Mac users discussed.
Adjourned 5:10 p.m.
Next Meeting
June 19, 2003 2:30 PM
Winter Park Campus Room 123