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Minutes Faculty Council
Meeting April 21 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. Winter
Park Campus Room 221 Present: Chris Borglum,
Ray Enger, Tom Byrnes, George M. Dow, Bill Snider,
Sue Matthews, Terry Long, Amy Bosley, Michael Shugg, Keith Malmos (proxy for
Kathleen Perri), Dan Gutierrez, Deidre Holmes DuBois, Marie McClendon, Geoff Fortunato,
Debbie Garrison, Rose Watson I. Action Items (25
minutes) A. Approval
of March minutes Minutes approved B.
College Learning Council Faculty Appointment Keith Malmos (East—Science) Jane Wiese
(East—Accounting) Marlene Temes (Osc—Humanities) Karen Styles
(East—Humanities) Lana Powell
(West—Business) George Rausch (West—Architecture/Engineering) Elizabeth Ingram
(East—Science) Motion:
Place Marlene Temes on CLC. Motion carried. C.
College Planning Council (WPC and East only) WPC—Julie Phelps East—Jovan Trpovski; Linda Neal Motion:
Place Jovan Trpovski. Motion carried. Motion:
Place Julie Phelps. Motion carried. D.
Institutional Effectiveness Task Force Diane Ashe
(West—Social Science) Gloria Hines
(West—Counseling) Michael Shugg (West—Theatre) Motion:
Place all 3 people. Motion carried. E.
Lab and Support Centers Review Committee (volunteers listed
separately) Motion: Recommend that all 16 candidates be sent
forward. Motion carried. F.
Student Activities Budget Committee WPC: Chris Borglum East: A.J. Quackenbush;
Jocelyn Morales West: Terry Long Osc: Osceola will look still. Motion: Appoint Chris, A.J.
and Terry, and Osceola person to be named soon. Motion carried. G. President’s Proposal to Change Withdrawal Procedures Osceola: No. Change should be done
through task force with more thought and time. West: Students need to be able to
withdraw anonymously. Atlas has been advertised, and this would change the
way it works. Faculty issues also exist. Faculty are not counselors, there is
no protection of confidentiality, we only know course related issues, faculty
workload will be affected, and more.
Can faculty drop person if they don’t show up at meeting? Upside,
yes faculty can be another source of input, but putting it on faculty would
be unreasonable. Also, this workload would be placed on adjunct faculty which
raises more issues such as liability. Quality
of counseling that we, as faculty, could offer would become an issue as well. Idea
may be okay, but this is a significant change that should not be rushed. We
share the President’s concern, but the movement is too quick. East: We support the idea, but we
want the process slowed down. There is no need to rush. We should take time to implement this. They
felt that faculty would not counsel but rather could recommend them to
counseling. Again, support the idea, but not the timing. Some notes from
Chris: The
president wants the withdrawal process to be more human, not to take away any
of faculty powers or add work to our already-busy
schedules. Nearly all faculty are already helping
their students with withdrawal decisions when the students come to us, but
the plan is to give more students a nudge to seek our counsel before making
such a big decision. Motion:
Chris insists we vote on this proposal as is (accept it now as is or say no). Vote:
Unanimously No. Chris will draft a response that
he will let us edit. He will then share it with the president. H. GPA Calculation Are we recommending to not including prep grades in transfer GPA as a
unit? West recommended this because other colleges do not do this. Students
have been deprived of entering programs due to this. Is it possible that it
helps any students? Do we need to study this more? Keep in mind that our
recommendation would only make CLC look further into this, including
contacting other constituents. Motion: Refer this to the CLC for
research and further discussion. Motion
Carried. II. Discussion Items (50
minutes) A. President-Elect Voting Procedures Campi each have their own methods; but votes won’t be tallied until the 5th and then reported to Chris. B. Intellectual Property (Mullowney
Meeting) The Faculty Council at its April meeting set up an informal sub-group
that hasn’t met. Bill Mullowney met with Chris and
Amy and asked for an all call regarding what faculty are
working on in order to help formulate a policy that addresses what’s actually
happening. Chris is going to work on that and send to us more data. If you can’t come to the special meeting with Mullowney,
appoint proxies as needed. C. Paperless
Class Schedule A recommendation has been made to get rid of the paper copies mostly.
It would not go away completely. The information in the first nine pages
would likely still be printed to give students guidance regarding
registration and payment processes, among others. In focus groups, Joyce said students were divided. The same was true
of many staff in the student services area. Some love the idea, some don’t. Comments: Going paperless would save the college tens of thousands of
dollars. Also, it would eliminate the need for the rush to get schedules done
to meet a newspaper printing schedule. It also would get rid of the many
errors that usually riddle the paper schedule, as updates/corrections can be
quickly and easily made. Further, most of the universities and other CCs in
the state no longer have a printed schedule. Can a printable format version be available online for those who want
a printed version? Since students were divided, would this affect our idea of 6% growth?
Can this affect our marketing? Is doing this in the fall too rushed? Chris will bring these issues to Joyce. III. Information
Items (30 minutes) A. Academic Assembly on August 24 This is a Wednesday. Do we have any feedback? It would most likely be
on East campus. Are there any adverse feelings? No, okay, Chris will report
this to Fiona Baxter. B. College Planning Council co-chair We will be looking for a co-chair in training. An all call will be
sent. Remember that Maryke Lee will be next
co-chair. This will be person to serve after her. C. Interim CLO Louse Pitts will be the interim CLO. Congratulations to her. Dave
Rogers will be moving into her old position. IV. Reports (25 minutes) A. Campus
Reports East They
are in process of amending by-laws. They are transitioning to a new provost.
Next month they will elect a new campus senate VP to replace Dan Gutierrez,
who will be taking over the presidency early to replace Amy Bosley. Osceola Biggest
issue: faculty felt they were not involved in decisions regarding cap sizes
and such. Idea: get Provost to get us more involved. Remember that there is a
memo from West Their
biggest issue was the withdrawal policy. They also had conversation about
when retirees leave and files are taken off the machine. They are looking to
get some rules changed about when files are deleted, etc. Some faculty
members are still with us, but in different roles. They are looking into
this. The
faculty are in support of withdrawal policy, but
that may be because of smaller campus size. The campus is still in a transition
period, considering how to help Michele McArdle in
her new role. They are anxious for everyone to be included in the discussion. B. Other
Reports Recognition Awards Task Force: only 2 faculty members showed. If we
want a voice, then we better get people to the meetings. Perhaps have people use their Groupwise
calendar. How about Atlas to Groupwise transfer is
available. Board meeting was on Tuesday. We reported the passing of the PD/IE
votes. Those will be worked on and will come to Board for vote in May or
June. Also, CLO search committee is going to have six faculty members, one
from each campus and the sitting president (Amy Bosley)
and past president (Chris Borglum). V. Adjournment Meeting
adjourned at 4:30 pm. Special Meeting: May 17, 1
p.m., East 3-113 Next Meeting: May 19, Osceola 2-223 |