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Faculty Association Board Meeting November 18 2:30 – 5:00 PM West Campus 9-113 |
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Present Ray Enger, Marlene Temes, Keith Malmos, Ed Szymanski Jr, Chris Borglum, Sue Matthew, Debbie Garrison (for Patty Smith), Maryke Lee, Louise Pitts, Donna French, George Dow, Amy Bosley, Michael Shugg, Ilyse Kusnetz, Paul Chapman, Selena Menchen Call to
Order Meeting called to order at 2:35 p.m. Action
Items Approval of
October Minutes Approved NISOD Selection Committee They are looking for 4 or 5 people from the campuses. Should we use our
normal process, and use electronic voting? Or, bypass this process and see if
we can get 1 person from each campus from the board due to time constraint? Decision is to do it the normal way. We are looking for decision by
Monday after Thanksgiving. Motion: Chris can call for nominations and handle details. Motion
approved. Guests: Joyce Romano and Cheryl Robinson LifeMap
Survey Results In 2001, student survey was done, and then a faculty survey. Now a
second set of surveys were done. Now they are looking into having discussions
about the results, to get different perspectives on the results. Question: why do you feel faculty referral to students has decreased? Is it due to less awareness? Is it a level of disenfranchisement of
adjuncts not being aware of resources? Perhaps we need to make sure all faculty members know of the resources
they can use. In future, maybe two surveys would be helpful. New version of
flashlight may let us sort out responses. Maybe it is due to everyone already knowing it, so faculty only have to
make referrals to it as needed. There was an increase in students who knew what LifeMap was and how to
use it. Any particular suggestions for how Joyce and her team can continue to
engage faculty in the process of using LifeMap activities? It was suggested
that yes, a new refresh of advertising could work. Also, share the statistics with people. They might see it and renew
efforts. Chris will work with Joyce on sharing the results. 2005-06 Draft Calendar Draft has been given out. Please provide feedback to Chris or Joyce. It
is key for all faculty members to know that there have to be 194 workdays for
faculty in the schedule. So five days will have to be added to the drafted
calendar. Remember that this needs to be done by Nov. 30th. Or else
there will be a financial aid backup problem for next year. Question was
raised as to allowing us to have more time to take it to the senate? Answer,
sure, no problem. Question: is there specific feedback wanted by the committee? Remember
that the committee reports to Executive Council and not the FAB. They are
just getting our feedback. This is our chance to make recommendations versus reacting to a decided
schedule. Also this is just a year schedule (not a 2 year commitment). Campus presidents will give info out to their campuses and then gather
the feedback and forward to Chris or Joyce. This will be discussed again in
December meeting. 2004-05 Summer Schedule Some people have plans during five days of summer that have now been changed from in-service to instructional days. These plans were made based on the claim that the summer schedule would be used for two years. Response: Dr. Shugart said at the convocation that if there were serious concerns/problems with the summer schedule, we should look at it again; he didn’t want to stick with it if many thought it didn’t work best for learning. A proposed class time blocks document has been disseminated for campuses to look at and perhaps use. Insist on being involved with deans to decide what should be done in your department. The document given is just a proposal not a mandate. For short term evening classes, they would be held two nights a week using the same blocks as evening classes of full term. Discussion
Items CWFA Constitution and Voting
Process Motion: modify constitution so that we go to a full vote of faculty for faculty council president. Motion carried. Chris will make change to constitution. Payroll Alignment The possibility of having to return pay to the college upon leaving employment here only affects career and professional staff. However, whatever change is made to the payroll distribution dates would affect all college employees. The earliest this would go into effect would be July 1, 2005. Dr. Stone has promised to have a meeting early in 2005 that would include the four campus presidents and Chris to discuss what to do. CWFA Board Budget Ideas: 1) Hire a facilitator for the Jan 6 day. Cost: 1500. 2) On Jan 6th, providing food or snacks? Or something that brings people together. 3) Perhaps getting administrative help for the board. 4) Maybe 5) Some kind of retreat in January when board changes. Faculty Help in Bookstore Let bookstore pay instructional assistants or faculty to help out in bookstore to make sure students get the right books. Chris will get with them to get this moving along. Information Items Workload
Form/Handling of Leave Hours Document has been shared. Changes reflect a move forward for us. Student engagement hours (i.e. office hours) still must be consistent from week to week. This allows students to have regular times to find their instructors. Reports Professional Development/Institutional
Effectiveness Task Forces IE – Draft report has been sent out. Committee is open for suggestions and ideas and is welcoming feedback. Big challenge is that we are first in country to do this, so we will be working on something new. Take a look at the material provided and provide feedback. First award would not be awarded until 2007 (after faculty compensation has been fully implemented). PD--The PD Task Force is sending out a survey to faculty on what they think should constitute professional development activities. The general perception from the committee is that if a person can take the skills with them, it is considered professional development. If not, it would be considered Institutional Effectiveness. The committee will discuss the survey results in January. Questions being considered are whether it should be an all or nothing system or scaled according to benefit. Campus Reports: East: There are continued discussions about SPD budget allotments. Osceola: Nothing to Report West: The campus continues to discuss the definition of Primus. The nature of the concern is the perceived “veto power” and why faculty should participate in the work if someone will be able to veto. Dr. Shugart will be invited to speak to the senate on this topic. Meeting was
adjourned at 5:13 p.m. Next Meeting: December 7 on |