Minutes
Faculty Association Board Meeting
Louie and
Maria’s Italian Restaurant
1:30 – 5:00 PM
Members Present: Ray Enger, George M. Dow,
Patricia Smith, Maryke Lee, Marlene Temes, Ilyse Kusnetz, Jean-Marie Fuhrman
Maiken Murphy, Sharon Wyly, Donna French, Paul Chapman, Lisa Armour, Stan
Melnick, Susan Matthews, Chris Borglum, Amy Bosley, Michael Shugg, Ed Szymanski
Jr., Keith Malmos
Guest: Louise Pitts
Welcome and Thanks
Welcome and thanks started at 1:30.
Official meeting started at 2:45pm.
Update on Continuing Work
Old members shared insights and thoughts about
continuing work with new members.
Action Items
Approval of
December Minutes
Minutes approved with addition of Stan Melnick to the members present list.
Pending Appointments
Calendar and Scheduling Committee
Carole Nevels, Business and Information Technology; Rose Watson, Communications; Marcia Cutler, Health Related Programs; George Brooks, Humanities, Language and Arts; Lisa Armour, Mathematics and Teresa Johnson, Science were appointed. Faculty are still needed for 2 areas. Engineering and Technology will be recruited on West, and Social Sciences from Osceola. There will be email vote for those positions when we have people to vote on.
Curriculum Committee
Foreign Languages Representative and Alternate 12/04
Health
Related Alternate 12/04
Public
Service Representative and Alternate 12/03
Counselor Representative and
Alternate 12/03
Lisa Macon and Michael Shugg were appointed. We
will keep searching to fill the remaining vacancies.
Student Academic Grievance Committee
We are still awaiting communication from the committee, so this is still tabled.
Learning Evidence Team
Andrew Alexander
Linda Anthon
Jim Belcher
Philip Bishop
Kira Bishop
Maryke Lee
Jackie Di Martino
George Rauch
David Rogers
Allison Sloan
Roberta Vandermast
Melissa Pedone (from email)
This committee is being put together to help with institutional assessment and measurement of the results gathered via the assessment. LET committee members will coordinate work of deans and faculty in creating outcomes and evaluation of the outcomes. They will only be coordinating. This is a 3 year commitment with stipend or release time. The plan is to have rotating terms after the first year. Group is not policy making.
Will this initiative affect individual academic freedom? The answer is no, it will not. The outcomes to be developed are collegewide outcomes and not individual class outcomes.
Will the group use work already done? Yes, the group will consult with faculty and deans about work already done.
All Nominees were appointed. Roberta Vandermast was confirmed as faculty co-chair of the committee with Emily Hooker (Learning Evidence Associate).
Distinguished Graduate/ 2 + 2 Scholarship
Ed Szysmanski, Paul Chapman, Selena Menchan and Susan Matthews have been appointed to serve.
Board Roster
Please email Michael Shugg or Ray Enger with the updated campus board representatives so that our roster can be updated appropriately.
Discussion Items
Copier RFP
Faculty request that they be able to make copies
when, how and where they want to do so. Faculty also desire quick repairs.
There should not be a “one size fits all” policy for
the campuses however.
Non-discrimination
position statement (draft)
The statement needs to be reworked a little bit. Lisa, Marlene, and Chris will work on it and present it again at our February meeting.
Information Items
None
Reports
Compensation Committee
Jan 7 meeting gave a lot of good feedback. A report
is being drafted and will be distributed as soon as it is ready.
Evaluation
Committee
The work of the grant is underway. Jim Belcher is
leading the team for Visible Knowledge Mapping. Once script is developed fifty
faculty and fifty students will participate. The hope is that this snapshot
will help the committee select questions that will be used on the evaluations.
The call should be going out to faculty participants this semester so that the
mapping sessions can be started.
Workload
Issues Committee
There were four surveys sent out. The data is being
compiled and a report will be given out soon.
Campus Reports
East
There was expressed from administration that parking fines should be increased and that a statement from the Faculty Association Board would help support this increase.
It was noted that the board has voted for it, and the statement will be forwarded.
Osceola
Nothing to report at this time. Meeting is next week.
West
There was a forum on January 8th regarding student harassment of faculty. An expected outcome will be a white paper.
Faculty would like to make sure that orientation facts are being disseminated correctly.
A new concern regarding administrative withdrawals was expressed. If a student doesn’t pay, the administration withdraws them. After they pay, they can selectively pick which grades to reinstate. The question was raised as to if this can be used for grade manipulation.
It was decided to take this to the other campuses for discussion.
Winter Park
Nothing to report at this time.
Adjournment
Meeting adjourned at 3:54pm.
Next Meeting
February 19, 2004
West 6-202
2:30 – 5:00 PM