Minutes
Faculty Association Board Meeting
October 16, 2003
West Campus 9-123
2:30 to 5:00 PM
Members Present: Michael Shugg, Chris Borglum, Tom Byrnes, Stephanie Freuler, Maryke Lee, Donna French, MarleneTemes, Noelle Geiger, Ed Szymanski, Stan Melnick, Keith Malmos, Maiken Murphy, Sharon Wyly, Lisa Armour, Ray Enger.
Guest: Louise Pitts
Call to Order
Called to order at 2:38 p.m.
Approval of September
Minutes
Minutes approved with corrections. Ray will e-mail link to corrected minutes to all faculty.
Actions Taken
Meeting with Dr. Shugart.
It has been suggested that we hold a meeting with Dr Shugart in order to keep our communication lines open. The Board suggested the November 18th (Tues) at 2pm. Michael Shugg will set up meeting and pick either East or West for the meeting place.
Appointments
Curriculum Committee
Business
Alternate 12/04
Fine
Arts Representative and Alternate 12/04
Barbara
Peterson (East)
Foreign Languages Representative
and Alternate 12/04
Samira Chater (East)
Health
Related Alternate 12/04
Natural
Science Alternate 12/03
Susan
Mathews (West)
Public
Service Representative and Alternate 12/03
Dan
Gutierrez (East)
Counselor
Representative and Alternate 12/03
The committee is still lacking in the number of representatives. West
Campus seems underrepresented. It was
recommended that West Campus Senate try to recruit for the open positions.
The Board approved the nominees and we will send out a further notice to
recruit members for the still vacant spots. We will continue to pay attention
to balance among campuses on the committee.
Student Academic Grievance Committee
Diane Orsini was appointed as Chair.
We need to solicit volunteers for vice-chair. Volunteers can come from the committee or from people outside of the committee who have the necessary experience. In order to continue to honor our principle that no one is asked to chair a major committee without having served on that committee, we prefer a vice-chair with Academic Grievance Committee experience.
The discussion of the appointments to the Committee of Faculty Review and the Student Appeals Committee was tabled in order to give current members an opportunity to extend their term and to solicit more members.
Placements on the Grievance
committee have been tabled until some in-process grievances are concluded.
LRC Committee
Susan Dauer and Robert Rigney were
appointed. It was noted that we have 2
nominees and a request for four members.
2 additional members will be solicited from the other campuses, West and
6-6-0
Contracts
A work team is in place to
identify and collect phantom procedures and practices. These are procedures that have not been
documented officially by
The 6-6-0-0 contract is one of these phantom procedures. It appears to have been created in a memo dated May 13, 1985. This Memo is the only documentation of the procedure. The Board agreed to draft a position statement advocating the broadest possible interpretation of the 6-6-0-0 memo. Michael will work on a first draft that emphasizes the memo’s intent to encourage faculty to recharge and rejuvenate.
LSS Plan
Since there was broad collaboration with faculty and others throughout the development of the plan, the Board agreed to endorse the plan as presented, but expressed concern that it focused too much on technology.
Parking Fines
The Board recommends raising the parking fine from $5.00 to $25.00. The Senates on West, East, Osceola, and Winter Park endorse this concept as well.
Discussion Items
Summer Schedule
The Calendar and Scheduling Committee has emphasized that the summer schedule is set and cannot be changed for 2 years. Dr. Hooks will send out a statement explaining the reasons for this commitment.
The Board asked for clarification about the apparent inconsistency of messages faculty are receiving. We are being told that maximum flexibility will be accorded faculty for creative solutions to the learning challenges of the new summer schedule, but we are also told that courses must meet a defined number of minutes (225 per week for a 3-credit class). Faculty would like Dr. Edwards to clarify this issue. Is 225 minutes in class or a combination of minutes in all class-related activities? The State does not have a set number of minutes mandated for any class.
Dean’s Job Description
Osceola has reservations: The description seems to be more of a mission statement than a job description and it needs clarification.
East questioned the deans selecting faculty and being a leader in education, and the language suggested “expected” collaboration but should read “required”. There is no mention of involvement of faculty in the budget.
A task force was formed to propose edits to the document for our November meeting. Keith, Tom, and Lisa volunteered for the committee. Keith will be in charge of the group.
Constitution Design Principles
Design principles were distributed with the changes made at the meeting of the full Association. The need to draft a constitution that makes us effective representatives but still fosters faculty support of the board was discussed. It is important to remember that our constitution must be recognized as valid by outside committees and councils as well as the full Association.
There is need for continued communication with our constituency and updates on the constitution. The contentious issues need to be dealt with appropriately. Chris and Michael are open to campus visitations to discuss importance of constitution and update everyone on the process.
Compensation
The McConnell plan is from compensation committee consultant. The committee is comprised mainly of faculty. Nothing has been decided. Feedback should be channeled through the compensation committee. The Board agreed that whatever plan goes forward must have the full support of faculty as determined by a full faculty vote.
Information Items
None
Reports
Compensation Committee
The Faculty Association Board recommends that Maryke receive 3-hour release during session II for her work as chair of the committee.
Forums are being held. Committee is meeting every other week. A survey is being created. West wants input into the survey before it is circulated. We will have opportunity to look at the questions before survey is given.
Evaluation Committee
Workshop was held on visible knowledge mapping.
Workload Issues Committee
It has been decided to present the committee’s recommendations as a package. Feedback will be gathered on discipline-specific workload issues.
Campus Reports
Osceola
Groundbreaking on building 3 – Oct 28 9am
East
The senate will send any sabbatical feedback to Michael. There was some concern about the workload committee. The feeling on East was that by working on the total workload package, we will never get anything done. The workload committee said that it was better to give big plan to insure credibility of the final plan.
West
West recommends that Valencia collect evidence for summer schedules to see if learning was positively or negatively affected. The Board agreed to take this back to other campuses and discuss. East discussed and agreed already.
Osceola
Osceola had nothing to add.
IIX. Adjournment – 5:12pm
Next Meeting
November 20, 2003
2:30 to 5:00 PM
Winter Park 123