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Faculty Association Board Meeting September 16 Osceola Campus 2-223 |
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Call to Order Called to order at 2:04 pm Present Ray Enger, Louise Pitts, Marlene Temes, Amy Bosley, Keith Malmos, Donna French, Ed Szymanski Jr, Paul R. Chapman, Michael Shugg, Maryke Lee, Suzette Dohany, Chris Borglum, George Dow, Stan Melnick, Sue Matthews, Selena Menchan Guests: Barbara Frazier, Keith Houck, Tracy Edwards Action Items Approval of
July Minutes Minutes approved. Draft Recommendation for Course
Outline Process Comments or discussions from campus work. We have questions from the
campuses which Chris will forward to the committee working on this. An
electronic copy will be shared with all of us. There will be discussion at IAC next week. So it would be great to
bring a list of all the questions to the meeting. Chris said he would do
this. We want to have our questions answered first and then approve it
afterward. There will be changes by questions from other groups, so we will need
to see it. Motion: Not to vote on this until we get answers to our questions and
see the changes others have made by Oct. New Student Orientation Redesign
Team East: Margie Szoke, Kim
Samocki, Jocelyn Morales West: Paulette Smith, Denise Coe Osc.:
WPC: Jean-Marie Führrman WPC – Jean-Marie selected. West – Paulette Smith placed. East – Margie Szoke placed. Osceola – Christie Pickeral
placed. Atlas Content Team One faculty member
needed (Board member volunteer?) Patti Smith volunteered and was approved. Learning Evidence Team One faculty member
needed from WPC: Suzette Dohany Suzette was approved to the LET. Achieving the Dream Data Team: Lisa Armour
(West), Fitzroy Farquharson (West), John Niss (East) Core Team (2 faculty needed from prep. math, prep. English, and EAP):
Anthony Easley (West),
Rhonney Grant (Osc),
Sophia Graff (West), Selena Menchan (WPC), Boris
Nguyen (West), Gladys Stromberg (Osc) These are the list of people selected to serve on the grant. We are
asked to add 3 more faculty members to the data team, and 2 more to the core
team. Lisa, Fitzroy, and John were approved for the data team. Sophia was added to core team for prep. math. Rhonney was added to core team for prep. English. Third-Attempt
Fee Waiver Committee Faculty Membership Now we have application process that involves investigation of the waivers instead of just approving them. Chris was wondering if perhaps president of FAB and the president-elect could do this. Motion: President and president-elect will serve on this committee. Motion carried. Discussion Items Service Learning (with guest Barbara Frazier) Barbara presented data about internships and how it affects job placement after graduation. Besides internships, there is another program called service learning. It is a blending of service with academic learning. They are also offering civic leadership internships. This should hopefully give They also have a 1 credit course called job search. There are also mini employer workshops. There are also dining out corporate style workshops. While moving from direct placement ourselves, we are partnering with 6 placement centers. Wanted to add that she hoped we would recommend it to students. Registration/Enrollment
Issues (discussion with Dr. Edwards) Keith Houck came with enrollment management and the summer schedule. In regards to question about what we were doing outside of raising enrollment in classes: the college is looking at several things. First we are asking for people to talk to politicians for funding. The second was the enforcement of the payment of full tuition on third attempt, barring a waiver from a group that includes the Association President and President-Elect. The third is in-state student verification. We are also looking at other ways: grants, parking fees, Valencia Institute, etc. What about controlling costs? Well biggest expense is personnel. About 80% of our budget is people. The 20% remaining is split between electricity, facilities, etc. We are looking at making us more energy efficient, etc. From Keith’s perspective, we are looking for a disciplined class size average. Question: Can we identify what led to our budget shortfall? We have converted four-months to full-time, added more sections, etc. without increasing number of students. This has caused us to need to improve our processes. This year we will spend exactly what we make, leaving us no room for error. We also have also seen a drop in international students and out-of-state. Suggestion was that our front end policies might need adjusting as well. Perhaps we need to work on that. For example, international students have to apply almost one year before they come. This may be a problem, even for general student application. Question: are we trying to be revenue centered versus learning centered? Answer is we are trying to consider the financial resources we need to fulfill our learning mission. We need a balance between making good business decisions which then allow us to do more learning centered things. We don’t want to sacrifice learning centeredness; we want to balance so that we have money to spend on making us more learning centered. Three things hit us during the summer. The UCF decision: UCF has realized that this was bad, and it won’t happen again. Secondly, seasonal employment was increased. Thirdly, our summer schedule affected us. What about parking fine increase? That is revenue! Keith will look into that right away. What about departments funding each other? That is being looked into. Summer schedule: a committee is looking into it. So, next summer may be different. Online classes: we need to evaluate it. What about SPD? It’s not special money, it’s part of our regular budget that we allocate to SPD. It can be used for many developmental needs. We never spend it all. But we are trying to improve this process, so people know where they can go to get it. This year, we used it to bring endowed chairs back. What about release time? Perhaps we should look into this. We sometimes send mixed signals. We need to improve communication. Constitution
Survey Results and Next Steps Survey results were passed around. Results show that people clearly desire proportional representation, and desire to be inclusive of faculty on release or reassigned time. The 3rd question did not have too much separation, but it seems that people prefer to have the president of the board be voted on by the whole constituency. With regards to 3, perhaps we just need to clarify the process? Committee will work on the draft and set up meetings etc. No movement will occur without all faculty members having a chance to give input. Before next meeting a rough draft will be sent. This draft will then be shared with college for feedback, etc. Interim
Progress Notification Edits Take to senates and discuss. Just remember that these still will remain only optional after edits are done. PD/IE Task
Forces They have an umbrella meeting tomorrow and then will be getting started. Plan to have a draft by February. Entire process will be open. Payroll
Alignment Meeting was postponed. Dr. Stone will be rescheduling the meeting. We are paying 9 days in advance. The situation has to be rectified. We’ll have to deal with this in October. Budget
Process Information for Faculty Chairs of CPC want to know how they can better inform faculty about this. They want to get rid of confusion and improve communication. Idea: go through senates. In person presentations might work as well. CPC also has a committee which will be reviewing and revising SBI process. Information Items Ten-Month
Temporary Faculty Compensation Dr. Shugart said that they would get the same pay raise as other pay classifications (3.02%), and, then if they are kept next year, it would be the same at least. Memo
Explaining Compensation Plan Phase-In Give any feedback next week. Reports Compensation Transition Task Force Are we having any appeals? We had one, and that was denied. Potential placement issue does exist, and committee will meet about it. It affects only new hires. Campus
Reports East – online enrollment (which we have already discussed). Also, maybe bookstore guru should be invited to our meeting to discuss book availability. Adjuncts also have not been paid yet. Osceola – nothing different to add. We discussed enrollment primarily. West – GPA is calculated
differently by Adjournment Adjourned at 5:04 pm. Next Meeting: October 21 on East Campus, Room 3-113 |