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Minutes Faculty Council
Meeting March 17 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. West 6-202 Present: Deidre Holmes DuBois, Sue Matthews, Chris Borglum, Amy Bosley, Rose
Watson, Kathleen Perri, Debbie Garrison, George
Dow, Tim Williams, Suzette Dohany, Louise Pitts Action Items Approval of February
Minutes Minutes approved. Endowed Chairs Selection Committee The Council placed Rachel Waite, Bonnie Oliver, Amy Bosley, Bill Snider, Terri Johnsen, Shari Koopman, and Ilyse Kusnetz. Endowed Chairs Review Task Force The Council placed Maryke Lee, Diane Brown, James Leonard, James May, Chris Borglum, and Debbie Garrison. . Discussion Items Results of Professional Development/Institutional
Effectiveness Vote The vote broke down thusly for PD: WPC 10 for/0 against; East 91 for/ 5 against; West 73 for/2 abstentions; Osceola 25 for/3 against. For IE the vote was WPC 10 for/0 against; East 91 for/5 against; West 73 For/2 abstentions; Osceola 26 for/2 against. That totals to 199 for the PD plan, with 8 against and two abstentions; for IE it was 200 for the plan, with 7 against and two abstentions. Chris said that he would bring the results to Dr. Shugart and work with him to present the plans to the Board of Trustees. The Council recommended that Amy Bosley and George Dow, as the team leaders, attend the BOT meeting in April to answer questions and/or present the plans. Nominations for CWFA VP/President-Elect Options for conducting the vote were discussed: e-mail vote to CWFA president; flashlight survey; regular ballot process we’ve used; Atlas voting (Amy Bosley will contact Sonya Joseph for information on this). Chris will create a document with options for voting process with pros and cons for FC review. When we have a document, it will be shared with the campus presidents for use at the campus senate meetings. Draft Expectations of Faculty
Representatives The draft had been updated by Chris from the last meeting, incorporating Council suggestions. Some reservations were expressed that some faculty might still find the document demeaning. Others suggested that we still have problems with people not showing up to meetings or consulting with constituents. A motion was made to adopt the document immediately, and that motion passed 8-1, so the document will be used for the first time with the volunteers for the Endowed Chairs Review Task Force. Time Blocks for 2005-06 Faculty at West and East had strong opposition to having no exam week. An informal poll of Council members found 10 supporting the extra minute per class meeting and four supporting the 30-minute assignment. Faculty don’t want final exam week to be regular class meetings b/c of difficulty to students in having multiple exams scheduled. There is no reasonable way to ensure that some students would not be so affected. If all of our plans are somewhat contrived, adding one minute is the least contrived and the least likely to cause some sort of accounting/compliance problem for the college in the unlikely event that the state would check. There seems to be least resistance among faculty to adding a minute. Chris will report these discussions to Joyce Romano and the Calendar Committee. Calendars for 2006-2010 Concerns were raised about “calendar creep,” with fall terms starting closer to September. It was pointed out that the 2006-2008 start dates move backward from August 29 to 25 before jumping back to August 31. Some members recommended at least that spring break correspond with that of OCPS if possible. Try to avoid missing too many of any specific weekday; if one is being missed often, consider moving College Night to create balance. Like that fall and spring finals start on a Monday—would like to keep that. Some faculty feel that spring is starting too late—too many business days before classes begin. Intellectual Property The
IP policy borrowed from Broward CC might only be a preamble to a full
policy for Information Items GPA Calculation The Learning Council will consider eliminating preparatory courses from the calculation of cumulative g.p.a. at its next meeting, per the recommendation of Faculty Council. College Prep Courses Definition of an
Attempt The college has been defining an “attempt” in college prep. as enrollment beyond the withdrawal deadline instead of enrollment past the drop-add deadline. The college will now adhere to the deadline of drop-add for purposes of definition of an attempt. Faculty in prep classes will likely be asked to help make students aware of this. Concerns were raised about students having access to personal information for faculty, staff and other students through Banner. Though students are trained, faculty want greater safeguards against student abuse of Banner access. Reports Osceola: The senate discussed the raising of class enrollment caps in social sciences to 35 students to be in line with the other campi. The senate found that online social science classes on other campi are capped at 22, whereas this is not the case at Osceola. West: There was discussion of Florida House Bill 0837 regarding academic freedom. There were also concerns raised about how advising is handling transient students this summer; these transient students don’t have to meet the same prerequisite standards in some cases as our own students do. East: Ruth Prather attended a recent transition meeting to continue readying East Campus for her move there. More discussion on ID policy was held, mostly focusing on work-study students’ access to Banner. They also wanted to ensure that there are more available times during which students can get Valencia IDs. Adjunct Professional Development Committee: Debbie Garrison shared the group’s plan and will circulate an update when it’s completed. Other Reports: Louise Pitts reported that only a small number of faculty showed up to any of the budget workshops hosted on the four campi. There was good general turnout at WPC, though. George Dow reported that the Food Service Committee is no longer college-wide. Instead, each campus will have its own committee. West has hired a consultant to review food services at that campus. Faculty were reminded to check to see that their campus Food Service group was up and running. Adjournment Meeting adjourned at 5:07 p.m. Next Meeting: April 21 at |