FPC Meeting- February 17, 2025

Welcome

Chair & Chair Elect: Angela Kohnen, Tara Mathien

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

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

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

STL: Anthony Botelho, Vicki Vescio, Melissa Soto

Absent:

Glenn Good, Sondra Smith, Katie Maki, Magdi Castaneda, Sara Smith, Caitie Gallingane

Approval of Agenda

Meeting called to order at 2:01 pm. Motion to approve agenda by Anthony Botelho at 2:02 pm. Sara Jean-Phillippe seconded with consensus of the group. No abstentions or objections.

Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes (September 16, 2024)

Motion to approve January minutes by Anthony Botelho at 2:03 pm. Seconded by Nelson Brunsting and approved by consensus of the group. Minutes stand approved at 2:04 pm.

Deans’ Reports

Associate Dean Thomasenia Adams

OER – Office of Education Research

Grant activity to date for 2024-2025 fiscal year

Since June through January

  • A total of 70 awards
  • Amount funded was $16,926,877
  • 180 proposals were submitted

Active awards upcoming with due dates

Internal Awards (due to OER 3/24/25)

  • Bo Smith Term Prof
  • Fien Term Prof
  • Primack Memorial
  • Haines Teaching Excellence
  • Kubiak Endowed Term Prof
  • Rosser Educator
  • Rosser Term Prof
  • Dennison Excellence (PKY)
  • Dennison Manuscript (PKY)
  • Excellence Award (due to OER 3/4/25)
    • Only for assistant professors
  • UF Research Foundation (due to OER 3/10/24)
  • Post Tenure Review (due to OER 4/15/25)
    • Currently still active
    • School directors currently reviewing packets and submitting to portal
    • Next they will go to Dean Good
    • He has until April 15th to complete the process for the college

Upcoming event

  • All Things Pre & Post Awards
    • This will be a 1-0-1 for faculty that need to understand how pre and post awards work as well as a refresher for those who already have that knowledge
    • Hosted by Associate Dean Thomasenia Adams and Rosabel Ruiz
    • March 12, 2025 in the Rosenburg Room, NRN 2021
  • 2025 Professorship Panel
    • This is for all of our colleagues that have been recipients of professorships
    • Part of that obligation is to engage in professional development around research for the college
    • Hosted by Ana Puig
    • April 29, 2025 in the Rosenburg Room, NRN 2021
  • COE Research Symposium
    • March 27, 2025 in the Norman Hall Conference Center

Additional Information Regarding Major Things in the College

  • There is a lot we do not know about at the moment regarding the potential impact on grants related to DEI elements as well as with IDC constraints from the federal government
  • Currently want to make sure colleagues in line with state law pertaining to DEI and federal executive order pertaining to DEI
  • Post award office is meeting with PIs who may have thoughts that their grants need to be attended to
  • Doing our pre award and post award work as usual
  • When it comes to current proposals, proposing budgets that are aligned with the current agreement with the federal government, which is 52.5%

Associate Dean Elayne Colon

EduGator Central Updates

COE Research Symposium

  • March 27, 2025 from 2:00-6:00 in the Norman Conference Room
  • Students encouraged to submit proposals
  • Some funding for grad and undergrad students who receive awards

College Scholarships

  • Launched application for current/continuing students on February 10
  • Deadline March 3
  • Students who will be here next year should have received notification about the scholarship application opening
  • As a reminder, we are piloting the campus platform, Scholarship Universe
  • Process has been a bit spotty
  • We have targeted current students through the student listservs
  • Please share the announcement that went to faculty on February 10 with eligible students
  • Application for newly admitted students (entering fall 2025) will be launched later this spring.
  • Question from Nelson Brunsting regarding a tentative timeline for round 2:
    • Response from Dean Colon: We’re hoping to have it all wrapped up by the beginning of May
    • Planning for an April window for the submission process

Curriculum

  • The College Curriculum Committee has been busy!
  • 6 new Undergraduate course submissions
  • 14 new Graduate course submissions
  • 28 modifications to graduate courses (e.g., changes to prerequisites/corequisites, max repeatable credit)
  • Dates for final meetings and submissions:
    • March 10 (February 24 submission deadline)
    • April 14 (March 31 submission deadline)
    • No summer meetings
  • The Elementary Education online, undergraduate program will launch in fall 2025. Both Elementary and Early Childhood are planning targeted recruitment sessions beginning in March.

Admissions

  • Undergraduate and graduate recruitment efforts continue!
  • FL Future Educators of America State Conference – February 1
  • Santa Fe College Open House tabling event this Saturday – February 22
  • EGC held meet and greet last week for our new staff member, Jordan Hunt
  • Jordan is slowly being onboarded to assist with COE recruitment efforts
  • Feel free to reach out to him and Earl Alvarez if you’d like support for your program area

Spring 2025

  • 101 applications for our graduate programs
  • 52 students admitted
  • 49 students enrolled

Summer and fall 2025 admissions currently underway

  • Application deadlines for summer being accepted now
  • Decisions wrap up in late April.
  • Fall applications being accepted and under review through July 1st
  • Varies by program
  • Fall applications down about 11% from this time last year (Master’s, Specialist, EdD)
  • Mostly a function of EdD programs that admit every other year

Awards

  • 2024-2025 Doctoral Mentoring Award – Chris Curran and Sevan Terzian
  • 2024-2025 COE Professional Adviser of the Year – Robin Rossie
  • 2024-2025 COE Undergraduate Teacher of the Year – Tim Vetere
  • 2024-2025 COE Undergraduate Faculty Adviser/Mentor of the Year – Taryrn Brown
  • All considered for campus awards this spring

Associate Dean Erica McCray

  • Searches continuing
    • PK Yonge Executive Director search with materials requested by March 3rd for best consideration
    • David Lawrence Jr. Endowed Chair and AZCEECS Director search getting organized to launch within the next two weeks
  • New faculty small group check-ins scheduled for February 26th and March 4th

Angela Kohnen on behalf of Dean Glenn Good

  • Created survey regarding parking difficulty
  • Haven’t been having as much trouble with parking lately
  • However, if problems with parking continue we need data

Discussion and Action Items

Committee Updates

Budgetary Affairs – Vicki Vescio

  • Meeting scheduled for March 6
  • Several people are planning to attend
  • Hector and Jim coming to discuss tuition and research and development aspects of the budget

College Curriculum – Tara Mathien

  • Not much to say, Associate Dean Colon mentioned everything
  • Just want to add that we are thinking about transitions for next year, and that if you run for chair elect you would be chair of the curriculum committee
  • Consider if that is something you want to do
  • Or if you know a colleague that would be great at that

Faculty Affairs – Nelson Brunsting

  • Trying to figure out two things, that kind of go together
  • The first is regarding PTR
  • Important conversation to be had at the school level regarding the metrics of PTR
  • Schools should discuss this issue before next FAC meeting
  • Also looking at tenure and promotion and PTR

Lectures, Seminars, and Awards – Katie Maki

  • Katie Maki was absent and no other attendees had information on Lectures, Seminars, and Awards

Long Range Planning – Anthony Botelho

  • No major updates
  • Only upcoming action item is the Dean’s review

Research Advisory – Lindsay Byron

  • Working on response to make it easier on members to gather data and streamline meetings
  • Currently working on the Assistant Professor Excellence Award
  • Several in person meetings in March and April for other awards

Technology and Distance ed – Katy Chapman

  • Met on February 4th
  • Continued to discuss course mapping
  • Planned to meet again in April
  • Spoke about mapping undergraduate classes
  • Also spoke about BAE specialization coordinators
  • Mentioned turning her early childhood course that has been an in-person course into an online course and showing the course map for that

Elections Committee

Proposal to address PKY senator allocations

Discussion:

Proposal:

  • Two senate positions for PK Yonge
  • The remainder would be distributed among the other colleges and entities
  • In the past 6-8 senate positions that are distributed amongst all entities within the College of Education
  • Previously, there was no language to definitively say how that would be proportioned
  • The university level states this should be done based on distribution of faculty among all of those entities
  • No specific rules about allocating within a college
  • This year we have been given eight senate positions so it works out that we can have two in PK Yonge and two in each of the three schools within the College of Education
  • This would be different if given a situation like last year where we were given seven senate members
  • Based on the language we came up with this would mean that there would be two members for PK Yonge and the remaining five would be distributed among elected members of the other colleges.
  • The proposal put forth is aligned with historical practice, intended to just codify that practice, ensuring it continues to be done moving forward
  • Lindsay Byron made a motion at 2:36 PM to take information back to the schools and then vote at the next FPC meeting on March 24th. Alisa Hanson seconded with consensus of the group. No abstentions or objections.

Discussion Items

University Wide Committee Representations

  • Katie Vogel Anderson has offered to come and meet with our faculty and talk about getting more involved in the senate and encourage participation in committees
  • She’s a cheerleader for senate engagement

Spring Speaker Suggestions

  • Ideally it would be a speaker who is of broad interest across our schools, and is speaking on a topic that is on everyone’s minds and will typically draw in faculty to come and collaborate
  • Could ask Katie Vogel Anderson
  • Lindsay Byron said she can bring it up to her
  • Ask departments what they would like to see and hear in the Spring faculty meeting
  • What would make them want to attend
  • University and state policy discussion

Adjournment

Motion adjourned by Nelson Brunsting at 2:58 pm. Sara Jean-Phillippe seconded with no objections or abstentions. The motion passed unanimously.