20 February, 2006 FPC Meeting Minutes
Faculty Policy Council Minutes
February 20, 2006
Members present: Ellen Amatea, Buffy Bondy, Mary Ann Clark, Ester de Jong, Jim Doud, Cyndy Griffin, Hazel Jones, Holly Lane (for Mary Brownell), Tracy Linderholm
Members absent: Dave Honeyman, Rod Webb
Others present: Jeri Benson (Dean’s report)
Meeting called to order at 2:01 PM
Agenda and Minutes
1. Approval of the agenda for 2/20/06: moved by Ester and seconded by Ellen.
2. Approval of the minutes from the 2/06/06 meeting moved by Ellen and seconded by Cyndy.
Announcements
FPC Agenda Committee Meetings for spring: March 20 and April 17, 2006
Dean’s Report
COE Budget: Jeri distributed a one-page state budget. The FPC found the budget very informative and requested that numbers from the previous year be included in the future.
Director of Distance Education: Tom Dana ran the search (and launched the distance ed effort in the COE). The new person will be supervised by Jeri. There are currently 2 staff working on distance education; the new person will supervise them. At the next FPC meeting, the Dean will report on the history, present, and future of distance education in the COE (which she will also present to the Provost).
Committee Reports
College Curriculum Committee (Bondy): Will meet on 2/27 to discuss new course proposals, a new program proposal, and a couple of discussion items.
Faculty and Budgetary Affairs Committee (de Jong): Non-tenure track faculty promotion report sent to all members of the committee and will come to FPC after their feedback. Will next be working on changing the T and P committee guidelines using feedback from this year’s T and P committee. Probably won’t be completed by May.
Lectures, Seminars & Awards Committee (Amatea): No report.
Long Range Planning Committee (Griffin): See action item below. Next meeting is March 8, and Cyndy will invite Fran Vandiver to talk with the committee about how to facilitate a collaborative research effort between COE and PKY. Also, this committee will reconsider its mission statement.
Research Advisory Committee (Clark): No report.
Student Recruitment, Admissions, & Petitions Committee (Linderholm): Do we need to change the mission statement of this committee? The committee could focus on the student scholarships, since it’s no longer responsible for duties assumed by Michael Bowie’s and Thomasenia Adams’ committees. The committee will reconsider its mission statement.
Technology Committee (Webb): No report.
Action Items
Dean’s evaluation from Long Range Planning Committee (Cyndy): Unanimously approved with amendments to item #2 in order to collect more data on the roles of those who respond to the survey. Note: The committee will identify themes in the data, and Hazel and Buffy will present results to the Dean and a brief analysis to the faculty.
Report from the Faculty Senate
The 7 senators are responsible for sending news of senate meetings to COE faculty. Hazel will remind them of this task.
Discussion Items
Spring Faculty Meeting: Monday, April 17; Cyndy and the Long Range Planning Committee will develop a framework for the strategic planning committee chairs to prepare their presentations for the spring faculty meeting.
Adjourned at 3:50 PM.
