FPC Meeting- April 21, 2025

Part 1: Spring Faculty Meeting

Light Refreshments and Snacks Provided!

Welcome

Chair & Chair Elect: Angela Kohnen, Tara Mathien

Dean’s Office: Glenn Good, Thomasenia Adams, Erica McCray, Elayne Colon

HDOSE: Lindsay Byron, Chris Thomas, Jinnie Shin, Sara Jean-Phillippe, Sondra Smith

SESPECS: Katie Maki, Katy Chapman, Alisa Hanson, Alice Kay Emery, Nelson Brunsting

STL: Anthony Botelho

Attended Via Zoom:

Magdi Castaneda

Absent:

Vicki Vescio

Call to Order: Angela Kohnen FPC Chair

Start time 2:06

• We’re at the end of another interesting year
• I feel very lucky to be here and work with all of you
• I did not intend to be FPC chair this year, but I am happy to have done it, and I thank you all for getting through it with me
• Congratulations to everyone for all of the amazing work that you are doing!

Dean’s End of Year Remarks for the 2024-2025 Year

Associate Dean Thomasenia Adams

OER – Office of Education Research

• Wanted to inform you of how well everyone is doing with their summer funding
• We have been busy on the pre-award side supporting our colleagues
• Post-awards has also been busy
• We have grown a lot as a college as we have been focused on the pursuit of external funding
• We hope the trend continues to go up
• Our colleagues are very committed to submitting proposals to be considered for funding
• This is a lot of the work we do in the pre-award office
• We are all aware of the context happening now regarding external funding
• Things may be changing due to decisions made by the federal government
• OER is not afraid of that and we do not want our colleagues to be afraid of that either
• As the landscape changes, we are going to change with it and pivot to make sure everything we do is focused on helping our colleagues be successful with external funding and consequently successful at UF
• Many other activities that happen out of OER
• We do a lot of outreach across the college such as attending the department of school faculty meetings
• Host a variety of events to support faculty professional development
• Very active in supporting the award process for faculty
• My title is research and faculty development, the fun stuff, helping everyone be successful
• We exist to serve faculty
• Reach out to us with anything we can do to be supportive of you

Associate Dean Elayne Colon

EduGator Central Updates

Admissions and Recruitment

Master’s, Specialist, and EdD degrees for 2024-2025 academic year

• 10% increase in number of applicants
• 17% increase in number of admitted students

PhD Incoming 2025 class

• 9 Graduate Student Opportunity Awards
• 12 COE funded awards to recruit for incoming 2025 class

Recruitment events include

• Santa Fe College visits
• Gator Club of Jacksonville
• Florida Days
• Honors Program Reception for accepted students

Student Engagement

• Welcome Week Fall 2024
• De-stress and Sketch (guided meditative sketching, in person and virtual)
• Cocoa and Cram Fall 2024 (hot cocoa and study space)
• Spring into Slime 2025 (slime making)
• Art in Bloom Spring 2025 (arts and crafts)
• Stay Afloat for Final Exams 2025 (ice cream floats)

Student ambassadors

• Record number of student ambassadors (18) participating in 10+ events throughout academic year

Undergraduate Research: University Scholars Program

• Prestigious undergraduate research experience where students engage in a yearlong research project with a faculty member
• 9 COE faculty volunteered to serve in this role
• The COE was awarded 3 USP awards
• These were filled with COE majors
• In the past we’ve taken out students from other majors because our majors weren’t filling the slots
• Able to give 4th award through the AI Scholars Program

Undergraduate Research: Highest Honors

• In the second year of offering the COE Highest Honors designation
• 8 students achieved this recognition
• Up from 3 in the inaugural year
• 14 faculty volunteer to be in the pool serving as potential mentors

Research Symposium

• Symposium was a success!
• Special Thank you to Thomasenia Adams for opening remarks and the 7 faculty judges!
• Special Thanks to Kent Crippen, who served as COE’s undergraduate research coordinator and has agreed to continue in this role next year

COE Scholarships

• Shifted to a new process and platform for COE scholarships this year
• Called Scholarship Universe
• It is managed by the student financial aid office
• Thank you to faculty serving on scholarship committee who have graciously agreed to review hundreds of applications for scholarships
• In the first round of applications we had students currently in a program and continuing next year
  • 164 applications received
• In the second round of applications we had students entering a program in the fall
  • 28 applications received thus far
• Over $400k to be awarded for 2025-2026 academic year with approx. 170 scholarships
• Please encourage students to apply for scholarships

Assessment and Accreditation

• Received full re-accreditation from the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) in Nov. 2024
• Next site visit is scheduled for Spring 2031
• The platform used to track progress of students through UF’s educator preparation programs is changing
• We’re moving from LiveText to Student Learning and Licensure in summer 2025
• Faculty will have to sign an assurance next fall that shows that their programs are aligned with new state expectations
• For those in educator preparation programs, FEAPs may be changing as well

Clinical Experiences and Partnerships

Spring Internships

• 75 teacher preparation program students completing internship this spring
• 28 advanced program interns (School Counseling, School Psychology, Ed Leadership)
• Another 28 interns in Counselor Education programs (MFC, MHC)

Clinical EduGator of the Year

• Clinical EduGator of the Year award nominations are underway
• Submissions were due by Friday, April 18
• These are people who serve as mentors to our interns out in the field
• Over 20 nominations received from students nominating their mentors
• Nominating committee will review the nominations week of April 28
• An award recipient will be announced week of May 5th with a school visit

Spring Degree Clearance, Commencement, Recognition Ceremony

Pending degree certifications

• 111 Bachelor’s (70 BAES, 41 Elem)
• 80 Master’s
• 17 Specialist
• 33 Doctorate (19 PhD, 14 EdD)

Commencement

• Doctoral – Thursday, May 1st 9am, Stephen C. O’Connell Center
• University-wide – Friday, May 2nd 7pm, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium

College Recognition Ceremony

• Sunday, May 4th 7pm, Stephen C. O’Connell Center
• Joined by Colleges of the Arts and Design, Construction, and Planning

Faculty Marshalls

• Thank you to all of those who say yes when we call on you to serve at any of our graduation and recognition ceremonies
• It means so much to the students

Associate Dean Erica McCray

Initiated a turn and talk activity with those in attendance

• Attendees turned to a neighbor and discussed the following topics for about 4 minutes:
  • One highlight from the academic year
  • One priority for yourself or the summer
• A few attendees then shared their responses with the group
• An opportunity to spend time with your COE family is a bike ride
  • The ride goes to Hawthorne and back with a pitstop to have snacks and chat with friends
  • 8:30 am on the 12th of May

Personnel Affairs

Searches Completed:

• Educational Leadership (NTT)
• Elementary Education (NTT)
• Higher Education (TT)
• Mathematics Education (TT)
• School Psychology (TT)

Searches in Progress:

• Counselor Education (NTT)
• Educational Psychology (NTT)
• School Psychology (NTT)
• Special Education (NTT)
• Student Personnel in Higher Education (NTT)
• David Lawrence Endowed Chair/AZCEECS Director (TT)
• P.K. Yonge Executive Director

Structure for new faculty mentoring

• We have a policy through FPC
• Working with new faculty to see what is currently working and what is not
• I have heard it would be helpful to have more structure
• Shared a draft of a template with the faculty affairs committee that gives a timeline of what you might be doing for a specific month or where to start

Support and belonging for post-doctoral associates and research scientists

• How do we support other types of faculty?
• How can we make them feel a sense of belonging within the larger college community?

Community Engagement

• Enhancing support and belonging (AND FUN?) for faculty and staff
• Let us know anything you all would be willing to participate in so that we can continue to build community, particularly when things feel heavy and hard
• Encouraging opportunities for globalizing education
  • Several of our faculty have taken up the globalizing education focus
  • The University of Florida’s International Center is helpful in starting with virtual exchange, study abroad, and all sorts of programs
• Support for international faculty and students
  • Please let us know anything that you may know that is impacting faculty or students that we can be supportive of
  • We may not have all the answers but we want to be available, so please reach out with any concerns
  • Planning to host a Zoom

PK Yonge Odyssey of the Mind Program

• Teams are going to Worlds Competition
• Donations to support their expenses
• Fundraiser at PDQ
• April 25th between 5 – 9 PM

Dean Glenn Good

• I get the fun of representing you, advocating for you, and celebrating your success
• There’s a lot to celebrate!
• Some of the challenges that we’ve faced include:
  • Federal & State Initiatives & Uncertainties
  • UF Leadership Transitions & Uncertainties
  • Rapidly Changing PreK-12 & HE Environments
  • Fiscal Threats from Multiple Sources
• Our research expenditures show positive data
• In terms of philanthropic support, or what donors and companies are donating to the college we have some impressive data that helps drive our metrics

Enrollment Data

• This is probably the area we all need to focus on and be aware of
• This determines how much additional funding the university gives the college
• Each one of us can pitch it to help attract students, retain students, and add students to our courses
• We are ranked number 4 among public universities in the nation and number 6 overall
• This is a reflection of all of your hard work, so kudos to all of you

Specialty Area Rankings

• #1 Counselor Education
• #4 Special Education
• #14 Elementary Education
• #21 Curriculum and Instruction
• #23 Educational Administration
• #24 Education Policy
• #24 Secondary Education

Online Graduate Rankings

• #1 Special Education
• #2 Education Programs
• #3 Curriculum and Instruction
• #7 Educational Administration
• #7 Instructional Media and Design

Positives that I see

• Exceptional Personnel & Caring Community
• Widely Recognized Quality & Accomplishments
• Developing New Initiatives, Centers, & Opportunities
• Aware that Enrollments are Essential
• COE Steadily & Consistently Improving
• Aiming for #1 in Nation!

Fiscal State of the College: Hector Silva, Director of Finance

• We have cracked $200 million in all sources of funding
• This is with three and a half months left in the fiscal year
• Highlights our collective strength
• A subset of $200 million in funds is referred to as freshwater and defined as funding sources that can be readily leveraged to pay state line faculty, staff, administration, and other infrastructure and investments
• Discussed the reserves/carry forward that has been built-up over the last five fiscal years for freshwater funding sources
• As the Dean mentioned we are in a relatively strong financial position as a college.
• However, we are going to have to start thinking about the future, specifically the next 10 years
• Discussed some of the steps the college is taking right now in preparation for the next 10 years
• There are also some things the college is advocating for that are not entirely in our control
• Provided some examples
• Discussed suggested strategies within our control goals
• We have not received any mandate or guidance whatsoever to say, expect this kind of a cut for fiscal 2026
• However, we thought there would be value in putting down some scenarios that can help us understand how funding may be impacted and whether or not we could continue business as usual
• Discussed the fiscal state of the college under three possible future funding scenarios

Roundtable Conversations

• We thought we would end the full faculty portion of the meeting with some time for discussion
• We invited some colleagues to join us and discuss three different topics
• The plan is to discuss at each table for about 10 – 15 minutes and then rotate to the next table
• Table 1: Teaching: K-12 Teaching in Contemporary Times: Dr. Cathy Atria, Deputy Superintendent, Alachua County Public Schools
• Table 2: Service: UF Faculty Senate and other types of University-Level service: Dr. Katie Vogel Anderson Pharm.D., Ph.D., BCACP, FCCP; Associate Professor; UF College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research, 2018-2019 Faculty Senate Chair
• Table 3: Policy: Discussing federal, state, and university policies that impact education: Dr. Chris Thomas, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, & Dr. Katy Chapman, Clinical Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Studies
• Discussion occurred within the different table groups for approximately 50 minutes

Conclusion of Spring Faculty Meeting. All are invited to stay for the regular FPC meeting.

Approval of Agenda

Meeting called to order at 3:55 pm. Nelson Brunsting made a motion at 3:56 pm to amend the agenda and complete the Committee Updates, End of Year Reports, and Carryforward items via email. Hannah Mathews seconded with consensus of the group. No abstentions or objections.

Approval of Prior FPC Meeting Minutes (March 24, 2025)

Motion to approve meeting minutes by Nelson Brunsting, contingent the removal of Alisa Hansen and Sara Jean Phillippe as absent. Seconded by Anthony Botelho and approved by consensus of the group. Minutes stand approved at 3:57 pm. No abstentions or objections.

Induction and orientation of new FPC members

• Thank you to outgoing members and chair
• FPC business for 2024-2025 is concluded
• Gavel is passed from Angela Kohnen to Tara Mathien
• New members are welcomed by Tara Mathien and a short introduction takes place

Chair: Tara Mathien

Chair-Elect: Caitie Gallingane

HDOSE:

• Lindsay Byron
• Sara Jean-Phillippe
• Tiffany Aaron
• Melissa Mariani
• Alternate: Tuuli Robinson

SESPECS:

• Nelson Brunsting
• Katy Chapman
• Kyena Cornelius
• Hannah Mathews
• Alternate: Alice Kaye Emery

STL:

• Sara Smith
• Brady Nash
• Magdi Castaneda
• Avery Closser
• Alternate: Suzanne Chapman

A short orientation takes place

• Meetings are explained to typically take place on the third Monday of every month
• From 2:00 – 4:00
• The august meeting is typically shorter than most
• Tentatively set for the 25th
• Looking for FPC representatives to the standing committees
• Prior to the first fall meeting, please think about possible goals for FPC
• Thank you and welcome to FPC!

Adjournment

Motion Adjourned 4:04 pm