Faculty Association Board Meeting
Minutes
September 18, 2003
2:30 – 5:00 PM
Osceola Campus 1- 258
Members Present
Raymond Enger, Michael Shugg, Maiken Murphy, Keith Malmos, Ed Szymanski, Sharon Wyly, Tom Byrnes, Maryke Lee, Stan Melnick, Noelle Geiger, Stephanie Freuler, Marlene Temes, Donna French, Jean Marie Fuhrman, Chris Borglum, Trudy McNair, Ilyse Kusnetz
Call to Order
Called to order at 2:38 p.m.
Approval of May
Minutes
Minutes approved with corrections.
Actions Taken
Appoint
Members for Sabbatical Communications Team
Dr. Shugart is interested in moving quickly to provide faculty with lead time. A policy needs to
be ready to submit. Procedure he would like is a small editing committee, and then a
communication team to take info from the editing team to the campus and vice versa.
We have volunteers for team: Joan Alexander, Ilese Kusnetz, Kathleen Perri, Donna French,
Robert Rigney were appointed to the team.
Appoint Members to Reassigned Time Work
Team
This is a group under auspices of College Executive Council and is looking at reassigned time
(previously referred to as release time). They are looking for consistency, and making sure that
college is using it efficiently. We are being asked for 2 faculty representatives. A set of
principles has been developed, and now the committee wants to work on following through.
Marlene Temes and Michael Shugg were appointed.
Pending Actions
Campus
presidents will discuss 6-6-0 contracts with senates. West will draft a position for our
consideration in October.
Campus
Presidents will gather feedback from senates on the Dean’s Job description
proposal.
Discuss
N grade option in senates.
Discuss
the possibility of charging more for parking violations.
Discussion Items
6-6-0 Contracts
Discussions have begun regarding consistency with 6-6-0. Agreement on East was to accept Paul Kinser memo and interpret it broadly to encourage faculty use of 6-6-0. Memo does allow 6-6-0 and supplement to be taken. While it states that the 6-6-0 will be available on 3-year basis, it does not limit faculty to take it only once every 3-year. Dean has latitude to meet department needs first. Provosts seem to agree that this is pretty good interpretation of the memo and in general agree to it. Memo also says not more than 1/3 faculty can have this during any year. This also only applies to tenured faculty.
The west campus senate agreed that this and other phantom procedure memos need to be captured and documented. They also agreed that there should be consistency. Tom Powell is leading a work team to gather these procedures so that they can be examined and modified/approved.
This has been discussed recently on West. Some deans on West have only made the 6-6-0 contract available to faculty members every third year. Some deans felt they had ability to cancel or not to approve requests.
West made proposal that this is something the faculty should take a stand on in advance of Tom Powell’s committee. Tom Byrnes will send West’s motion to us. Idea is that it should be a consistent policy and not implemented on a whim.
Summer Schedule
Do we have a set number of minutes for summer? Others have stated that it is not state mandated (at least minute by minute). We would have to ask Dr. Hooks about it.
Question is how can this be improved long-term? There was a survey. The survey results showed that we wanted every option offered. Calendar was made. It was almost universally hated. President removed some constraints. Calendar went to BOT at the same time it was given out for input. Calendar is in place for 2 years for us to try out.
We have asked about latitude, such as 3 hours in class, 1 hour online. Dr. Edwards has approved that, but we have to have some way to track it and show that it is followed. We have to figure out how to manage it as we have the schedule. Summer Committee is looking into providing us with options.
So faculty should report issues to the committee. Sonya Joseph is chairing the committee.
LSS Plan
Plan was made and sent out as an e-mail attachment. We have been asked for endorsement of the plan. We should take this to campus, and it will be action item at our October meeting. This document was created using collaborative input, and may be used in negotiation of Collegis contract.
Dean’s Job
Description
Lisa Armour issued statement about need for broader faculty involvement with description. We need to think about it, and perhaps have a wider discussion about it.
Michael will check and see if Lisa is okay with that and send it to us for sharing with our senates.
There was
not broad faculty input as the deans developed the job description, and we want
faculty to have input into this development.
Revision of SLP
We have 3 task forces: faculty workload, faculty evaluation, faculty compensation.
We are asked if they are done or close to being done. We not that all 3 tasks forces are still current and part of the SLP, but note that the compensation task force is nearing completion.
Information Items
SACS Response Meeting
Everybody who was available got together at this meeting. Outcomes were sent as part of our response to SACS. Some of the work of that group continued at the College Assembly, and should continue in the departments. Work during College Assembly was just a start and not a final product.
Dr Shugart
and Meetings
Dr. Shugart has requested to be invited to meetings on the campuses. He asked to be invited as “fly on the wall.” He is interested in participating more fully in life on the campuses. Meetings in general are his request.
N Grades
At one time, Valencia had an N grade. It meant “in progress” for those who completed the course, but did not pass the state finals. Prep and EAP faculty group are proposing that this grade be reinstated. They desire a grade that doesn’t reflect failure, but that would require student to register for class again. It would affect financial aid though.
Revision of
SPD Guidelines
We will be receiving SPD Guidelines to review. These are collegewide guidelines.
Parking
West passed a resolution. According to current policy, if a student parks in a staff spot, he/she gets a ticket that costs $5, and then later the fine goes to $10. West asked that the fine be raised to $25 instead of $5 for the ticket, and then become $50 instead of $10.
An additional suggestion was made that maybe we should start charging for parking?
Pending Appointment
Next month we will be making several appointments to these committees: Curriculum, LRC, Student Academic Grievance and Faculty Review.
Decentralization of Telecourses
This will be a discussion item in October. The ISD wants it to be overseen by deans. The proposal is to handle telecourse in the same manner as we do other courses.
Reports
Compensation Committee
There is nothing to report other
than what was reported at meeting Tuesday. Forums are next week. Please attend.
Task force has option of disagreeing with the McConnell plan. There will be
feedback forms at each forum. Questionnaire will be distributed after forum. 3
parts: Consultant Report, Taskforce report, President’s report. District Board
of Trustees will see all 3 recommendations.
Final proposal from Faculty Association will involve the entire faculty.
This issue needs to be discussed by faculty at all levels from departments to senates. The feedback should be channeled through the Faculty Compensation Task Force.
Evaluation Committee
The committee members will be receiving training on Visible Knowledge Mapping in October. After the committee meets in October, a sample midterm evaluation will be distributed for feedback and testing.
Workload Issues Committee
There is nothing to report at this time. Meeting is next week.
Campus
Reports
Winter Park
Syllabus requirements will be next issue. In particular, it will be consistency across the board.
West
We have covered it.
Osceola
Big issue was Fire Marshall’s ruling. Some complained that planning day was for faculty to work in offices. It was questioned why schedule was set up instead of this. Some felt that it should be used for individual use.
Maybe FAB can suggest
clearer definitions of the purpose of the campus workdays?
East
There is a Plagiarism website where you can check papers for plagiarism. Turnitin.com provides a service based on number of student involved.
Market review committee has not yet met. The issue is how to get people into school. Lifemap is not the same as marketing. Most felt the semester started rather smoothly, but no official start date for online courses was a concern. A request was made for faculty to consider the financial burden of students by limiting number of textbooks for each class. It was suggested that faculty put in the syllabus that if a student didn’t have the textbook he/she would be dropped.
Adjournment
4:48 pm.
Next Meeting
October 16, 2003
West Campus 9-123