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FAEC mtg w/President Mercer and Provost Barnett
November 1, 2006
Board Rm
Members Present: Eric, Susan, Jason, Steve, Anita, Sue, Maria, Amruth, Irene, Marcia, Erin, President Mercer, Provost Barnett
Agenda
Funding for faculty scholarship (clarification)
0.4 credit and experiential course component dimension
Start date for spring semesters
Sabbatical Leave-time of announcement
Progress on high school pilot
Strategic planning vote-Stephen Klein and Emma Rainforth elected as faculty reps
1. Funding for faculty scholarship (clarification)
Clarification of internal/external funding for scholarship especially for ASB and faculty research; Anisfield gift split into parts for capital construction of building and operating funds coordinated by Dean Chakrin; President Mercer sees several issues to look at: differential remuneration (statewide problem), adding to ASB’s regular share of budget vs. offsetting budget with fund raising for accreditation, “extraordinary” funds for regular faculty work, promotion/tenure criteria. R; remuneration is issue in all schools, not just ASB; “extraordinary” funds should be available for all faculty, not just ASB but funds just are not available at this time; ASB perspective-bring business faculty up to same level as other faculty, especially in area of research; preferential treatment viewpoint; emphasis on scholarship has increased within last 10/15 years; once ASB completes accreditation process, the plan is to “spread wealth around”; budget concerns are still bottom line; long term goals vs. short term needs; criteria for tenure/promotion needs to be reviewed; incentive plan for ASB scholarship on 1 year trial- monetary reward for paper publication. President/Provost will clarify external/internal funding in terms of ASB especially with accreditation.
content production; junior faculty perceive communication problems;
Mmeeting for under 10 year faculty on Wednesday, November 8, at 4:30pm; for Unit Council discussion-equality of teaching & scholarship; need special funds for untenured faculty; still need discussion on faculty life cycle; deans are looking at faculty development within their units; President/Provost will clarify external/internal funding in terms of ASB especially with accreditation.
2. 0.4 credit and experiential course component – Much confusion remains regarding this. Provost will ask deans to dimension
What is experiential component? How to define it? Need some data for review; Students are gathering data on experiential component also; reminder of Experiential learning task force & charge to task force; compile the list of what each unit is doing-Provost will ask deans to compile list; Union perspective is to leave it alone; state regulations are moving away from qualitative seat time towards equivalent learning experience; need some feedback before spring semester begins; compilation will not be evaluated just gathered. .
Result of Ethics Commission hearing-maintain status quo for now; should have more information regarding faculty impact by March 2007.
3. Sabbatical leave-timing of announcements
President is agreeable to changing announcement date and moving it forward; Provost will check with Denise if there are any state regulations regarding timing of sabbatical announcements.
4. Start date of spring semester
Who sets the dates? Agreement was that the start date of spring would not be affected by the decision to cancel Winter termbe one week later in January; agreement & discussion was with previous Provost; calendars need to be set up at least 4 years in advance; Provost will look into possible changes for start of 2008 and report back to FAEC.
5. Progress on High School pilot
Provost sent updated proposal to FAEC; confusion over plan A and B; 2 plans deal with credit hours variability; continue to work with individual units on variables; Provost will report back on progress in various units; email the plans to faculty will be sent out to faculty by Provost; when does ARC come in on process? Angela Cristini will review course submissions along with ARC; ARC will suggest changes or reject proposals as needed; list of guaranteed courses for regular summer session also needed ASAP; evaluation of pilot is still priority.
Additional discussion items:
Writing Intensive concerns-for spring, what is currently in ARC manual will stand for upcoming spring semester; what is perspective for long term implementation? Spring offerings will maintain 25 student caps; Provost will send FAEC a copy of report submitted by Ed Shannon on WI proposal; should there be a remedial writing course at higher level? Will be a question for ARC; writing convening group is looking into several possibilities; possible invitation to Ed Shannon, Al Romano, & Don Fucci for update discussion on WI.
Grants and reassigned time-work isn’t always done over summer; release time is needed to work on grants; current policy discourages faculty from applying for grants because time is not available; can we afford to pay grantee for their release time? Current pPolicy of one course reassigned time will stand for this year; Provost is reviewing budget for release time; strategic issue of grants-President wants to look at criteria on how grants are applied for (operationally); resolution needs to be sooner rather than later; Provost will ask deans to report at Unit Councils on faculty reassigned time activities, email also possibility; suggestion of one release time each semester for consideration.
Submitted by M. Sexton, November 1, 2006