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Faculty Association Board Meeting Minutes

July 15, 2004

2:30 p.m.

Winter Park Campus, Room 115

 

Present:  Amy Bosley, Suzette Dohany, George Dow, Donna French, Maryke Lee, Louise Pitts, Keith Malmos, Selena Menchan, Ed Syzmanski Jr., Michael Shugg, Marlene Temes

 

The meeting was called to order at 2:40pm.

 

I.                   Action Items:

 

A.    Approval of June Minutes:  Minutes were approved

B.     Pending Appointments

 

Curriculum Committee

Gordana Katusik from the East campus was appointed as the Foreign Language Alternate.

 

*Professional Development Task Force:  The following faculty were appointed:

Tom Reid                                Chris Wettstein

Lana Powell                            Tom Byrnes

Graeme Lindbeck                   George Dow (appointed Chair)

Pamela Sandy                         Suzette Dohany

 

*Institutional Effectiveness Task Force:  The following faculty were appointed:

                        Linda Anthon                         Amy Bosley (appointed Chair)

                        Mark Bollenback                     Ron Colburn

                        Steven Muller                          Joan Alexander

                        Louise Pitts                            

 

*Chris Borglum will request one dean for each committee.  He’ll also send out another invitation to faculty when the fall term starts to give those who were away an opportunity to volunteer.  Any additional volunteers will be reviewed at the September 16th meeting.

 

The following motion was approved by the Board:

These task forces should plan 1) a collaborative process for seeking input from faculty, 2) a plan for developing a proposal which will further be refined based on input from faculty, 3) the plan will be brought to the Faculty Association Board, and 3) the proposal should go to a full vote of the faculty.

 

C.     Workload Issues Recommendations

 

The recommendations were approved with one change: Office Hours should be referred to as Student Engagement Hours.  Also, parenthetical comments should be removed.

 

Chris will bring the recommendations to the appropriate council for review.

 

D.    Constitution Survey

 

Question #2 on the survey should be changed as follows:

 

_____ Faculty members spending less than 60% of their teaching load (or less than 60% of their time interacting with students for counselors and librarians) should not be allowed to serve on campus senates or on the College Wide Faculty Association Board of Directors. (An exception to this is the CWFA Board President, who gets

full release and is a non-voting member of the CWFA Board).

 

_____ Reassigned time (add: for working on faculty issues) should not exempt one from service in the campus senate or on the Faculty Association Board of Directors.

 

II.                Discussion Items

 

A.    Luminis Pipeline Steering Committee

 

Ilyse Kusnetz volunteered to serve as the Winter Park representative.

 

B.     Course Outline Process Draft

 

Faculty should disseminate to their campus faculty, discuss the document and provide feedback at the September 16th meeting.

 

C.     Ten-Month Temporary Faculty Compensation

 

The Board will recommend that a three year transition period be in place rather than the proposed one year period.

 

One of the problems is that ten-month faculty have not yet received notification of their salary for fall term.

 

D.    Achieve the Dream Grant Team Recruiting

 

The following names were added as possible volunteers:

 

Anthony Easley          Dima Sanchez             Melissa Pedone

Janette Tyson              Selena Menchan

 

Michael to send out an invitation to these folks asking for them to volunteer.

 

III.             Information Items

 

A.    Change to Fee Waiver Process

 

While the faculty expressed concern about the limited time they were given to comment on this document, they did offer the following feedback:

 

·         Faculty should not be asked to provide students with letters of their status.

·         Timing of having faculty participate might be awkward since they would be on summer break.

 

Each member of the Board was asked to send feedback to Amy Bosley via email who would then forward it to Sonya Joseph and Joyce Romano.

 

B.     Memo Explaining Compensation Plan Phase-In

 

Faculty would like Human Resources to provide a memo explaining exactly how raises were calculated.  Several faculty members seem to have derived the formula.  However, it is the responsibility of HR to inform all faculty of how their salaries were calculated.  Furthermore, there needs to be more communication of how the compensation plan will or will not be implemented in future years.  Faculty by and large assume they will receive three equal raises as the plan is phased in.  This is not necessarily true.  HR needs to do a better job of communicating the process.

 

C.     Commencement Site Visits

 

The site visits were completed and it is down to two locations: the Osceola Heritage Park and the Orange County Convention Center.  The group seems to favor Osceola Heritage Park.  At least two reasons were mentioned: this facility has raised seating, and there is ample free parking available.

 

IV.             Reports

 

A.    Compensation Transition Task Force

 

A concern was raised of how salaries were calculated for faculty with Master’s +30 or Ph.D’s.  Maryke gave a quick explanation that one takes the previous salary, adds the educational supplement and subtracts that amount from the goal salary in the new plan.  That number is then multiplied by the same percentage as all faculty.

 

B.     Campus Reports

 

East:  A concern was raised from faculty on a 5-5-2 contract who was asked to teach the full summer term with 17 ½ hours per week total.  However, this faculty member was told they had to be on campus every day.  The Board agrees this is not acceptable.

 

Osceola:  The compensation question was previously answered by Maryke.  The faculty at Osceola continue to have concerns over how the new dean’s position was filled.

 

West:  Bill White visited the campus concerning the computer inventory issue.  Also, they have been told that a faculty member cannot donate their sick leave time to another faculty member.

 

Winter Park:  Nothing to report.

Next Meeting:  September 16th, Osceola Campus