Faculty Council Meeting Minutes

June 16, 2005

Present: Joan Alexander, Linda Anthon, Chris Borglum, Tom Byrnes, George Dow, Deidre Holmes DuBois, Ray Enger, Geoffrey Fortunato, Debbie Garrison, Dan Gutierrez, Sue Matthews, Kathleen Perri, Dave Rogers, Bill Snider, Rose Watson, Tim Williams, Suzette Dohany

I. Wrap up discussion of CLO candidate conversations took place.

II. Action Items

A. Approval of May Minutes

Minutes approved with one correction on the spelling of Deidre Holmes-DuBois’ name.

B. Missing Grades Task Force

We had six volunteers and recommended three faculty from 3 campuses. The 3 names suggested were: Donna French (Osceola Campus), Colin Archibald (West Campus), and Sylvana Vester (East Campus). The motion was approved.

C. Atlas Improvement Team (1 faculty member requested)

Two faculty members volunteered for the Atlas Improvement Team. Motion was approved for Teresa Johnsen, West Campus Professor of Science, to be placed in the Atlas Implementation Team.

III. Discussion Items

A. Intellectual Property Rights Policy – 1^st draft.

1. Discussion of the Draft Policy will still be in the process to plan how this is going to be disseminated to full-time faculty before taken to Dr. Shugart and B.O.T. The discussion will be limited to 10-15 minutes. The following were areas that need clarification:

· Item 8A on IP Rights Policy is an issue to take to Bill Mullowney for further discussion. Revisit the Duke Policy.

· Computer program created to perform utilitarian tasks (ex: Cyber Advisor?).

· Ownership Principles and Standards – videotaping and copyright protection.

· Particular Provisions Applicable to Internet Distance Learning Education Projects

· IP Rights on item 9d – when an individual proposes to participate in teaching a non-Valencia internet course in circumstances likely to impair the continuing performance on his or her primary responsibilities at Valencia.

2. Plan for dissemination and timeline – The main thing that we need to communicate is that the IP is a draft. It is still in the working process and another draft will be sent before the next meeting. After revisions are made and approved by the Council, a draft will be sent to all faculty for feedback. We will present the draft to the President and will seek to have it on the agenda for the October Board Meeting. During the meeting, Bill Mollowney joined the group in the discussion and mentioned that he will re-read the IP Policy and will discuss the concepts. The Faculty Council had the opportunity to ask Mr. Mullowney questions on faculty teaching at another college.

B. Compensation

1. Summer Supplements – There was an issue on summer supplement that came out of the East Campus about how those were being calculated, on which based salary, on 10 month base salary plus education. Chris Borglum and Amy Bosley are meeting with the group on Monday at 4 p.m. and they will state that the educational component should be calculated in the summer supplement contract.

2. PD/IE Plan- Could be voted on by the Board of Trustees in the fall. This plan will be presented to the Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday, June 21.

3. Compensation Plan Phase-in – Will not have three years implementation of the Compensation Plan, it will be longer. This year, full time faculty will receive an average of 5% raise.

IV. Information Item

A. “Super Sized” Classes – There was a concern about pay for incremental increases in class size. In some instances, faculty were being paid an additional credit hour for x number of additional students. This concern was taken to Learning Leadership Team where Provosts and the Academic Vice President indicated that this practice is not supported.

Dan Gutierrez, President of East Senate, circulated a statement from their Senate regarding the need to come out with standards for on-line classes. Capsize issues need to be address on learning distance courses. *Class size summit in the Spring is something that the Faculty Senate is interested in pursuing.

B. Newspaper Schedule- The newspaper schedule will no longer be printed. The dollars that were used are going back into marketing.

C. Upcoming Calls for Faculty

i. Evaluation Task Force – The group has been meeting for two years now. This group is ready to close its work and open up a new group to get this into a usable form. There is a call to the task force to see if they would like to continue into the next phase. The group was encouraged to have a pilot instrument in the spring.

ii. Learning Evidence Team – Has requested 5 new faculty members to serve. The call will go out.