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Minutes Faculty Council
Meeting May 19 Osceola
2-223 Present: Chris Borglum, Paul
Chapman (for Deirdre Holmes DuBois), Tom Byrnes,
George M. Dow, Sue Matthews, Amy Bosley, Dan
Gutierrez, Marie McClendon, Debbie Garrison, Rose Watson, Suzette Dohany, Carin Gordon (for Geoff
Fortunato) I. Action Items A. Amy Bosley
inaugurated as CWFA President Chris Borglum
called meeting to order and then transferred presidency to Amy Bosley. Chris was humbled by and appreciative of some
thoughtful gifts provided by the Council members. Debbie Garrison was awarded
dark chocolates for being willing to run for CWFA President-Elect, and Tom
Byrnes was recognized as the CWFA Vice-President and President-Elect. B. Approval
of April minutes Minutes approved C.
College Planning Council Co-Chair Because Maryke Lee has accepted interim Dean of Mathematics
position at
East Campus, a CPC Co-Chair is needed immediately. Linda Anthon (East-Humanities) was
placed based on her having been a founding member
of CPC. D.
College Planning Council Co-Chair in Training The CPC calls for a
faculty member to serve one year on the CPC before taking
over as co-chair. A motion was made to place Fitzroy Farquharson
(West-Math) as
co-chair. Motion carried, and Dr. Farquharson was appointed. . II. Discussion Items A. Commencement Feedback East:
Students leaving the commencement early looks bad. Traffic control was poor.
Participants could use a “seventh-inning stretch,” i.e. a
short break during which they could stand for
a moment. The student ushers were taking their jobs
seriously, but faculty and students were stuck in a
windowless, un-air-conditioned hallway for too long. Regalia return also took too long,
and the student speaker went over her
allotted time. West:
Other gates into control
should be directing people that way. The HP was a good venue in
terms of size. The seats were comfortable. However, West faculty
were “overwhelmingly displeased.” The ceremony was
thought too impersonal. There was no mention of students
with 4.0 g.p.a.
Also, there was no honors recognition. WPC: Agreed with much of what East and West had
said and added
that it was unprofessional to have people coming onto stage to
deliver messages to people on dais. The videographer panning
the crowd was also disrespectful as people laughed or made sounds
based on what was on big screen rather than what speaker was
saying. Osceola: There was no real reception; having one
would be nice. B. Intellectual Property (Mullowney
Meeting) Discussion
focused on the two versions of IP policy (one from a CC and one from a
university) that Bill Mullowney shared at the
special meeting on Tuesday,
May 17. A subcommittee of Amy Bosley, Tom Byrnes, Bill Snider, Sue Matthews,
and Rose Watson will meet to analyze those versions and make recommendations to the FC
in June. In a
unanimous vote, Faculty Council members “expressed concern” over the conflict of interest in the
sale of class notes for profit by professors without
any oversight of the basis for the profit calculation and without any evaluation of the content
quality. C. Summer Enrollment Numbers A
discussion of summer enrollment numbers produced surprise in some members
that the college’s enrollment was as robust as being said by Dr. Shugart at the BOT meeting. Dan Gutierrez produced a
document showing the numbers of classes canceled at all four campi. Numerous classes have been canceled seems to belie the robust
enrollment numbers. D. Letter to Dr. Shugart
Regarding Withdrawal Policy Revisions
to the letter were briefly discussed. FC members were asked to consider
changes and send them to Chris before May 25, after which he’d send the letter to Dr. Shugart,
with CC to all FC members. III. Information
Items A.
Tenure The
summit will be held on Friday, June 3, at West in 6-202. Campus Presidents
were asked to invite all campus senators. IV. Reports A. Campus
Reports Osceola: No
report WPC:
Faculty are looking into transition issues regarding the move of Dr. Prather to East and Michele McArdle’s extra duties. West:
The senate is investigating the case of a faculty member not being
paid
for Master’s plus 30 work despite having
completed those hours. This
dispute is based on complications regarding time of filing for pay and
order of classes taken. East:
An issue has arisen involving incremental pay to faculty for adding
extra students to a class. A dean decided to
pay a faculty member one extra hour for having 42
students, but that is the same as two
21-student classes, so the faculty member should be paid for six
hours. B. Other
Reports Debbie Garrison reported that
Jolene Rhodes was selected to be co-chair of the
Prep Lab Committee, as was requesed by FC in April. V. Adjournment Meeting
adjourned at Next Meeting: June 16, East 3-113 |