Faculty Council
Minutes
February 16, 2006,
2006
Osceola Campus
Attending: Joel Berman, Amy Bosley, Tom Byrnes, Jackie DiMartino, Deidre Holmes Dubois, Jean Marie Fuhrman, Debbie Garrison, Gloria Hines, James Leonard, Graeme Lindbeck, Terry Long, Brian Macon, Kathleen Perri, Lana Powell, Bill Snider, Rose Watson, and David Rogers (ex-officio).
Minutes
The January minutes were approved as read with one modification.
Placed Julia Ribley (Counselor, West) and Shannon Hellard (Arch. Eng. & Tech, West) for 2- year terms. Appointed Scott Krise (Mathematics, West) and Denise Ross (Business, IT, Social Science Adjunct, Osceola) for 3-year terms.
Appointed
· Terry Long (Computer Programming, West)
· Alma Telleria (Counselor, East)
· Susan Stone (Nursing, West)
Endorsed
· Oscar Cuan (Osceola)
· Jane Renfroe (East)
· Donald Goss (West)
· Andrew Alexander (West)
Endorsed
· Mark Bollenback (East)
· George Witta (Osceola)
2+2/Distinguished Graduate
Endorsed
· Osceola
o Paul Chapman
o Angela Acevedo
· West
o Gloria Hines
o Boris Nguyen
· East
o Susan Dauer
· Winter Park
o George Michaelides
Endorsed
· Osceola
o Donna French
o Diane Brown
· East
o Gisela Acosta
o James Leonard
o John Niss
· West
o Terry Long
o Bill Snider
o Susan Matthews
· Winter Park
o (no volunteers)
A copy of the task force draft report was shared with the Council. Amy Bosley and Angelique Smith chaired the group. Council thanked the group for their work. Council members were asked for comments. Initial questions were about the definition of a Hybrid/Blended Course and whether it was possible for a faculty member to control the availability of an online course to students. It was shared that, in the new version of WebCT, faculty will have greater control over course availability functions. A suggestion was also made that we include a warning about the use of AOL in the configuration section. This draft will be presented to the IAC on Feb. 27, Learning Council at their March meeting and the LLT. In addition, the plan was sent via email to all faculty and staff at the college. Council members were asked to take the plan back to their campus senates for discussion and to bring feedback to the March 28 meeting of the council. The group would like to develop a finalized draft to be presented to faculty.
Evaluation of instruction task force
The task force met last Friday and put together a pilot program for beginning to use the newly developed student questionnaire in the Spring. The pilot calls for faculty to have an option of either using the existing evaluation process or using a paper-based or online version of the new questions. Faculty have reviewed the proposed questions and will have the opportunity to review the new survey instruments before the pilot test begins. Council members requested information on the feasibility of including “comments sections” within a scanable document and about who would handle the documents once they are administered to students. Whether the comments should only be seen by the faculty member or be shared with the area dean was also discussed.
There continues to be a lot of discussion about what constitutes acceptable uses of student engagement hours and service to the institution hours among deans and supervisors. A task force was formed to develop guidelines from faculty for faculty to clarify this issue. Brian Macon, Rose Watson, Terri Long, Kathleen Perri and Chris Borglum will serve.
Learning Council faculty rotation and call
Learning Council currently has one elected faculty representative. Marlene Temes is our representative, and she has one year remaining in her term. At the last Council meeting, we agreed to increase the faculty representation by three more elected members. Council decided to make a call for one faculty member to serve a one-year term and two faculty members to serve two-year terms. Amy will make the call for those interested with a May start date.
Endowed Chairs Applications, workshops, reception
An application packet and information about the revised Endowed Chairs application and selection process will be sent to all faculty tomorrow. Amy and Becky Gallup have already hosted one information session on East Campus that was well received. Only one person signed-up for the Osceola date, so the information was shared at “Lunch with Amy & Kaye” today. Another workshop will be held on West Campus tomorrow and an afternoon reception will be hosted at the Citrus Club on February 27 from 4:30 – 6:00. All faculty interested in the endowed chair program are welcome to attend. The goals of the revised application process were to (1) meet donor intentions, (2) increase the ability to recruit more donors, and (3) to increase faculty applications for the chairs. Please encourage your colleagues to apply.
Academic Policy cluster review update
Workgroups are currently meeting, and recommendations should be available for the March Council meeting. Following the March discussion at Faculty Council, the draft policies will go to the campus senates, and, ultimately to the individual faculty members for comment.
Common course outcomes/outlines
Valencia’s CLO has requested updated course outlines for all courses by September. Faculty expressed a concern that we are being rushed into putting together anything just to meet this deadline. It was requested that Amy ask Kaye to consider the time required to produce a quality product that will be useful to faculty as well as satisfy SACS. Faculty requested more support in accomplishing this goal.
Fall registration in April
A request was received from Joyce Romano asking for input about allowing students to register for both Fall and Spring term classes in April. Council members had several questions. We wanted to know the rationale for allowing this, what is the anticipated impact on scheduling, and what is the anticipated impact on faculty. Amy will forward these inquiries to Joyce.
Tenure track candidates/classroom visits
Tom Byrnes noted that some discrepancies in the current policy on supervisor evaluation of first-year, tenure candidates. Some are being observed and provided with written feedback, and others are not being observed at all during their first year. Tom had suggestions for the rewriting of the policy to provide consistency for all tenure-track candidates. Council asked Tom to forward his comments to Jennifer Lawhon, who is heading up that policy review group.
Action Research Builder
Helen Clarke indicated that Teaching and Learning Support needs an online directory for current action research taking place at the college. She would like faculty to know that she is working on this and would like faculty input.
Sabbaticals
Amy announced that all six applications for sabbaticals for 2006-2007 were approved, and the candidates have been notified. The total cost for requested replacements was approximately $40,000. Two requests had no associated costs. In the Fall of 2006, faculty will be asked to apply for sabbaticals for the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 academic year sabbaticals. This will be the only time when two years will be considered at once, but it is necessary to fund sabbaticals far enough in advance so that recipients have adequate time to plan and secure funding.
Faculty Council President-Elect
All Council members interested in running for President-Elect need to let Amy know before March 24. This is a four-year commitment, and all candidates must be current Council members.
Routine Governance Review
The Routine Governance review is scheduled for March 3. All Council members should have received an invitation by now.
Strategic Budget Initiatives
Informational sessions have been held. Abstracts are due February 24.
Domestic Partners insurance
Amy has discussed Council’s request with Dr. Shugart. He will discuss the next steps with members of the Board of trustees.
East campus is concerned with the mandate for SLS that was taken to curriculum yesterday. They would like to make sure that we are looking at evaluating the success of this mandate. What measures will we be examining?
Osceola campus has closed their grass overflow parking lot permanently. It was deemed no longer unnecessary.
West voiced concerns about the implementation of the compensation plan. There were concerns about the tone of the letter faculty received with their progress toward the full implementation amount.
Winter Park had a question about new faculty hires. When will we know the decisions?
Meeting was adjourned at 4:50 PM
Next Meeting: TUESDAY March 28, East Campus, 8-105D (in the Social Science department office)