Faculty Council Minutes
Attending: Joel Berman, Philip Bishop, Mark Bollenback, Amy Bosley, Tom
Byrnes, Debbie Garrison, Deidre Holmes DuBois, James Leonard, Brian Macon,
Marie McClendon, Kathleen Perry, Julie Phelps, Lana Powell, David Rogers
(ex-officio), Bill Snider, Kaye Walter, and Rose Watson
Minutes:
The May minutes were
approved as read with two clarifications requested: one for the increase in faculty pay and the
other for the request made by the Valencia Foundation.
Appointments:
Faculty Foundation
Request
The Valencia
Foundation requested that the Faculty Council recommend three faculty members
to be considered for one seat as an ex-officio member of the Foundation’s Board. The following
three faculty members were recommended by the Faculty Council:
Amy Bosley,
Communications, East, appointed
Ilyse Kusnetz,
Communications,
Linda Speranza,
Nursing, West, appointed
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Documentation Group
The Council forwarded
the names of these faculty members to serve as volunteers:
Jane Maguire,
Communications, East
George Rausch,
Architecture, Engineering, & Technology, West
Bill Snider,
Communications, West
Faculty Council
Recommendations for New Evaluation of Instruction Form:
The Council made the
following recommendations regarding the use of the new Evaluation of
Instruction form:
Asked
for input and feedback to amend form.
Identified
the Scantron process as expensive and time consuming.
Underscored
the lack of timely turnaround time from deans to faculty.
Emphasized
the need to create a system to receive feedback.
Expressed desire to see
revised form before agreeing to implement new evaluation form.
Viewed
many of the questions on the form as much improved.
Discussed
work on flashlight survey with separate URL for each class and faculty member.
Stressed
the need for password protection.
Referred
to online evaluations.
Indicated
need to discuss new information concerning the form at the July meeting.
Discussion Items:
Achieve the Dream and
Linked Classes: Julie Phelps and Philip
Bishop
Julie Phelps and
Philip Bishop led a discussion of the review of the Compensation for Teaching
Lines handout, as well as a discussion of ways to pay instructors for teaching
LINC courses, reviewing three options.
One Council member
moved to give one reassigned class to faculty members who are involved in fully
integrating two linked classes, meaning that the faculty member would receive a
total credit of two classes for teaching one course that was fully integrated
with another course. This motion passed
with only one dissenting vote.
Another Council member
moved to award $1000 to faculty members who are teaching linked classes that
are not fully integrated. This motion
passed.
Sexual Harassment
Presentation: Questions Answered in
Writing
The Council debated
the issue of Human Resources providing answers to questions and the issue of
the types of questions that Human Resources should ask. The Council discussed the possibility of
Human Resources posting a list of frequently asked questions and their answers,
as well as a summary of points discussed during sexual harassment sessions, on
the Human Resources web site. After this
debate, a Council member recommended that the Council place its trust in the
Council President to edit the current list of questions sent to Human Resources
and written responses from Human Resources.
This motion passed.
Report to the Board of
Trustees on Next Steps for Faculty Compensation Plan
Amy Bosley identified the
date and time of the next meeting of the Board of Trustees:
Information Items:
Domestic Partners
Insurance
Keith
Houck will ask the Florida Community Colleges Risk Management Consortium if it
is legal to extend insurance to domestic partners.
Visit by Dr. Shugart
at the Next Meeting
Tom Byrnes announced that
Dr. Shugart will attend the next Faculty Council meeting to discuss faculty and
his ideas and concerns.
Meetings in
Audio-Visual Rooms
Tom White requested
that Council meetings be held in audio-visual rooms.
Report on Alternative
Delivery Standards
Amy Bosley reported
that the group overseeing alternative delivery standards will meet to determine
a strategy for delivering information about alternative delivery standards,
indicating that an e-mail with highlights of these standards will be sent after
the Board of Trustees approve the Strategic Budget Initiative. In addition, Amy Bosley indicated that lack
of availability of faculty would delay the alternative delivery standards until
the spring.
Ideas About Improving
Retention/Student Success
Tom Byrnes indicated
that he has thus far received 30 suggestions for improving retention of at-risk
students and student success and that he is still collecting suggestions,
though he has not yet written a formal document based upon these suggestions. He is attempting to locate funds to assist
faculty in their efforts to generate techniques to improve retention of at-risk
students and student success.
Common Course Outline
Planning Team Recommendations
Amy Bosley reported
that first drafts of recommendations for common course outlines have been
distributed, adding that work on the common course outline will begin with
Learning Day in October 2006, cover a period of two years, and rely on the
recruitment of at least ten wranglers.
Reports:
Campus Reports
No reports were given.
Other Reports
Tom Byrnes announced
that, at least once a term, Kaye Walter will meet with campus presidents for
thirty to forty-five minutes prior to the regular Faculty Council meeting but
that the meeting will occur in a room other than the one scheduled for the
Faculty Council meeting.
Adjournment:
The meeting was
adjourned at
The next Faculty
Council meeting is scheduled for