Minutes
Faculty Association Board Meeting
March 9, 2004
WPC 123
2:30 – 5:00 PM
Members Present: George Dow, Michael Shugg,
Stan Melnick, Chris Borglum, Ilyse Kusnetz, Amy Bosley, Donna French, Susan
Matthews, Suzette Dohany, Selena Menchan, Lisa Armour, Marlene Temes
Guest: Louise Pitts
Meeting
started at 2:35 p.m.
Action Items
Approval of
February Minutes
Minutes approved with minor corrections.
Pending
Appointments
Calendar and Scheduling
Committee
West Campus Board representatives will try to bring an
Engineering and Technology representative’s name to the
April meeting.
Curriculum Committee
Foreign Languages Alternate 12/04
Health
Related Alternate 12/04
Public
Service Representative and Alternate 12/03
Counselor Representative and Alternate 12/03
Member to fill the above slots will be recruited and names
brought forward to the April meeting.
Student Academic Grievance Committee
The current roster has been formed. The board will send out request for volunteers for April meeting
Food
Services Committee
The
following faculty members were all approved to join the committee; Osceola Campus will bring a name forward to the April Meeting.
Terry
Long (West)
Susan
Stone (West)
Dawn
Sedik (West)
Beverly
Taylor (East)
Keith
Malmos (East)
Mary
Beck (Shared—WPC/West)
Discussion Items
Workload
Issues
Marlene Temes discussed a draft of the Workload Issues Committee Recommendations. A number of Board members
questioned how campus hours were administered by various
deans. Corrections were suggested regarding certain types
of faculty loads (e.g. nursing or theater arts), which need to
reflect differences in load expectations.
Concerns about specifically having the Board make a plan or select
a lead person to shepherd these recommendations were also
voiced.
A clarification to the section on class size was suggested to make
it understood that what is sought is consistency between the same
classes taught on different campuses.
A further question was raised regarding whether the section
discussing club advisors needing reassigned time should
include more about faculty serving on committees and other
college service activities, though one member suggested that
such service is part of one’s campus hours.
Finally, a distinction was drawn between having individual faculty
make suggestions about their personal workload problems and
having disciplines have discussions and make recommendations.
It was suggested that a mechanism be created to ensure that such
groups’ work will actually go somewhere and be considered
seriously.
Nondiscrimination
Draft
This discussion was tabled until the April meeting.
Compensation
Election Procedures Update
It was suggested to make it clear to all that four-month
faculty salaries will not necessarily be changed by the outcome of the tenured- and tenure-track faculty vote.
Procedures for Faculty Appointment
Michael Shugg
created a draft of a form that could be used to request faculty to join various groups or committees. The form clarifies
details often left vague or unclear regarding duties, frequency of meetings, and terms of service. An online version will be created to allow current rosters of groups/committees
to be seen, along with campus
represented and ending date of one’s term of
office. The Board approved the draft
with edits.
Information Items
SLP
Precedence Diagram
Michael
Shugg and Lisa Armour explained the precedence diagram created by the Council Officers to
show the relationships between action items
needing attention at the college.
Discussion centered on ideas regarding
the professional development “big rock” (area of importance that is perhaps
impeding the work on other action items).
Full campus discussions will be held in the near
future at campus brown bag meetings.
Full Cost of Instruction after Third Attempt
A plan is being developed to have students pay full cost of a course on the fourth attempt at that course, with the money being put into a special fund to help with interventions with students having such difficulties. Faculty will be asked to help within their disciplines to determine what type of help/intervention should be offered.
A suggestion was made to make interventions after the second attempt rather than the third. Also, the definition of “attempt” was clarified to mean remaining in class after the add/drop period has concluded.
Reports
Compensation Committee
Reported earlier in meeting (see Discussion Items).
Evaluation Committee
Faculty are being contacted
to take part in Visible Knowledge Mapping.
These meetings will be held in April.
Workload Issues Committee
Campus
Reports
East
Nothing to report.
Osceola
Nothing to report.
West
A suggestion was made for Security to “gate” faculty/staff parking spots to try to free officers from having to keep up with constant ticketing of improperly parked vehicles.
Winter Park
Trudy McNair has withdrawn from Faculty Association Board membership. WPC representatives will try to find a replacement.
Adjournment
Meeting adjourned at 4:33 p.m.
Next Meeting
Please note
Location Change
April 15
2:30 – 5:00 PM
8034 Landgrove Court
Orlando, FL 32819