Faculty Forum minutesNovember 2, 2016
Faculty Forum minutesNovember 2, 2016
President– Todd Lutes- Started the meeting from Tech Park at10:02
PRESENT: Acosta, Curtis; Arnold, Stephen; Citera, Barbara;Czerkawski, Betul; Denno, Linda; DiRoberto, Kyle; Erickson, Kathy; Johnson, Chris; Kralovec, Etta; Lutes, Todd; Mapp, Eric; Moore, Sandra; Orozco, Rick; Parra, Ada; Rault, Patrick; Sanderson, Chris; Seder, Laurie; Straight, Ryan; Tesch, Aaron; Torres, David; Trevino, Sandee; Wittman, Romi; Xu, Li; Buckner, Melody; Phillips, Javare.
ABSENT:Brown, Brandy; Steklis, Dieter.
GUESTS:
Agenda Item / Discussion Notes / Action / Person/sResponsible
Approval of Minutes / Minutes to approve for October / Approved electronically / Chris Johnson
Welcome & Faculty accomplishments /
- Chris Johnson:Was nominated for election for the board of the International Society for Technology. Elections start Nov. 9th
- Patrick: Presented a plenary talk at the Mathematical Association of America’s Seaway Section meeting on October 22nd.
- Aaron: Finished his term as the chairman of the Assessment of Higher Education with the American Evaluation Association.
- Romi: Was selected for participation to the Silver Sage Institute for the next year.
- Sandra: Reached out to UITS and has begun the process of establishing a way for students to work with a member of UITS staff to gain insight and experience within the IT department.
Interim Dean’s Report: Melody Buckner / Melody was not present at FF she was at a conference. The following items were left with Todd to deliver to faculty.
- The Diversity Officer will be coming to the next faculty forum in Sierra Vista.
- Mark Trommer and Dave Mgoon from the Human Resource department will be working with UA South staff. To attain a greater awareness of the daily functions staff performs. To give feedback on daily functions so staff can be more efficient and effective. On November 3 at 1:00pm there will be a kick off meeting for all staff to start the process.
- Melody is currently working with a consultant for branding, mission and vision for UA South. Kyle, Etta Todd, Patrick and Barbara are on the committee to work with the consultant.
- The D2L site for postings from the EILT is live and all faculty have beenadded to view.
Associate Dean’s Report: Barbara Citera / Report was sent out electronically.
Barbara highlighted the following.
- This is November and our students are starting to feel the pressure. If you have a student who is in need, there is an online care form from the Dean of Students’ office. The Dean of Students office will reach out to the student.
- The honor society will be having inductions onSaturday Nov. 5th.
- Clara’s team is preparing for the November 10th 3rd annual Veteran’s celebration. Please RSVP to Clara.
Standing Committee Reports & Action Items:
Curriculum:
Personnel:
Technology: / Curriculum committee:
Two items forConsent Motion for approval. Discussion followed about the Bi- annual course releases. If a class has not been used in your program you will have to remove it. This is being asked of all programs per main campus.
Personnel committee:
Dieter was not present a report was left with Todd to deliver to faculty.
- Last year’s Faculty evaluation letters have been loaded in the UA Vitae system. Melody Dugie will mail a copy of the letter to faculty.
- What is the status of approval for the promotion and tenure guidelines for tenured track faculty? It is unclear as to where the document ended up. Todd would like for a representative from the committee to come with him to an EILT meeting to provide details. Or provide a document for him to present to Melody for approval.
- There will be a demonstration on UA Vitae at the end of theJanuary FFmeeting.
- There continues to be some confusion about the Faculty Forum bylaws. Chris Johnsonhas agreed toreview and clarify.
- Aaron’s interpretation of what the committee should provide are monthly professional development workshops. Aaron will work on providing this. Sandee will be sending out a survey of what kinds of professional development workshops you would like to see being presented.
- Aaron would like to recommend to administration to have a more comprehensive orientation when hired on. To be based on3 components.
1. The HR component at the beginning of the hiring process. We also need to have an exit process when leaving.
2. The other component is Instructional Technology.
3. Information on resources and contacts that are available across the campus. Todd recommended for the committee to bring forth a formal recommendation in writing.
Dieter Steklis
Aaron Tesch
Undergraduate & Graduate Reports / Undergraduate:
One issue came up for discussion at the meeting. How to get rid of the class list? There will be an email coming from Gail Byrd on how to process.
Graduate:
The graduate council meeting was cancelled this month. No agenda items. / Todd Lutes
Rick Orozco
President Elect updates: Chris Johnson /
- Funding from the Foundation. Todd, Li and Barbara will serve on the committee to approve the pending requests. Chris and Kyle are still working on a proposal for the process to request funding for faculty.
- The C building in Sierra Vista is being renovated right now. There is a conference room for the Cyber program and 2 rooms that will be for classrooms. That can be a divided classroom or one big room. The table and chairs will be like what we have now in the testing center. Looking at two different models to set up in the classroom for a proposal to submit to Melody Buckner.
Cultural Competence and HIS task force report: Curtis Acosta / We were discussing assessment. There are 3 things they want to asses. Critical thinking, communicating effectively and cultural competency. This discussion was tabled until the next meeting to be on the agenda first. / Curtis Acosta
Vice President Vincent Del Casino: / UA online discussion. New policy going into effect to offer 71/2 week courses for Fall 2017. This is only for UA online BAS courses. There is expected to be a total of 1400-1500 that will be in the online program next Fall. This is more than double what it has been before. With hopes that this will triple for the future. It allows students to enroll 5 times a year. In August, October, January, March and May. Questions and discussions followed. Questions were asked such as. What is the long-range objective to future courses of going online? This is a UA South question and Vin doesn’t have insight or is not in the discussions. These are internal question within UA South.
Adjournment: / 12:02
University of Arizona @ Sierra Vista Prepared by Deb Hoeft, Reviewed by Dieter Steklis