FPC Meeting- March 24, 2025

Welcome

Chair & Chair Elect: Angela Kohnen, Tara Mathien

Dean’s Office: Erica McCray, Elayne Colon

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

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

STL: Anthony Botelho, Vicki Vescio

Attended Via Zoom:

Magdi Castaneda

Absent:

Glenn Good, Thomasenia Adams, Sondra Smith, Nelson Brunsting

Approval of Agenda

Meeting called to order at 2:03 pm. Motion to approve agenda by Anthony Botelho at 2:04 pm. Katie Maki seconded with consensus of the group. No abstentions or objections.

Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes (February 17, 2025)

Motion to approve February minutes by Anthony Botelho at 2:04 pm. Seconded by Chris Thomas 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

  • Notified Angela Kohnen stating she would not be able to join, but would send in a report

Associate Dean Elayne Colon

EduGator Central Updates

COE Scholarships

  • A reminder that the College is piloting a new campus scholarship platform, Scholarship Universe, for 2025-2026 awards
  • In the first round of applications (current and continuing students), we received over 200 submissions
  • This is consistent with where we’ve been the last couple of years, so it is nice that the system did not scare students away
  • A faculty committee of ten is currently reviewing those applications
  • The next application window, for students matriculating into programs in fall 2025, will open April 1st
  • A message will be sent to faculty and staff next week
  • Please help share the message with recently admitted students
  • The most important thing is if they are an existing student they do not apply again, unless they are finishing a degree program and starting a new one
  • It is all very confusing, but we will do our best to communicate with students and all applications will be reviewed

COE Research Symposium

  • Thursday, March 27th from 2-6pm in the Norman Conference Center. Please come support our students!
  • There will be approximately 45 student presentations, including posters and roundtables, from over 60 undergraduate and graduate students.
  • There will be seven faculty judges
  • Students will be eligible for over $1000 in prizes with support from the UF StARS project (presidential strategic funding)

Spring Commencement

  • Doctoral Commencement will be held Thursday, May 1st at 9am in the O’Connell Center
  • University wide Commencement will be held Friday, May 2nd at 7pm in the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
  • COE Recognition Ceremony will be held Sunday, May 4th at 7pm in the O’Connell Center

Associate Dean Erica McCray

Personnel Affairs

Searches

Successfully completed:

  • Math Education
  • Educational Leadership
  • Higher Education
  • Elementary Education

Continuing:

  • Preparing for on-campus visits for Student Personnel in Higher Education, Counselor Education, Special Education, and School Psychology
  • Currently in the Zoom interview phase for the PK Yonge Executive Director search
  • Ed Psych is currently in the application review stage
  • David Lawrence, Jr. Endowed Chair and AZCEECS Director search is underway with best consideration date for applicants of April 6th
  • New faculty small group check-ins were held on February 26th and March 4th
  • Supports for mentor/mentee pairs
    • Use of the NCFDD mentor map
    • Developing a template for their conversations and providing a bit of structure for what those meetings might look like
    • Asked about clarity around written vs. unwritten rules and processes
    • We’ll do what we can to provide resources that are easily accessible or whom to ask for more information

Community Engagement

  • Alachua County Education Foundation is interested in partnering with and engaging faculty and students through their Take Stock in Children program
    • Which is a mentoring of k-12 students that allows them to be eligible for scholarships when they graduate if they participate fully
  • They also have a few events coming up:
    • Amazing Gift Event on April 24th
    • ElevatED Conference on June 5th
  • Continue to seek guidance about potential restrictions on international activities including travel
    • This applies to students and faculty

Associate Dean Erica McCray on behalf of Dean Glenn Good

  • Indications that a new UF President will be announced soon
  • Likely a major reduction or closing of the US DOE
  • UF Gov’t relations and Dean Good will be meeting with congressional staff to advocate for education funding and DOE later this week
  • Budget predictions for 2025-26 are looking tight
  • Hint about potential positive ranking news coming

Discussion and Action Items

Committee Updates

Budgetary Affairs – Vicki Vescio

  • Held a meeting on March 6 via Zoom
  • Hector was in attendance and said we are actually ok, but if you project out, we could run depths later and so we are trying to figure out ways to take care of that
  • Also invited Jim Burke to the meeting to discuss development dollars
  • Thomasenia spoke briefly about research dollars
  • Currently working on budget to find a sweet spot for raising tuition while not hurting student recruitment.
  • Right now, things are good but as you run projections farther out things start to change
  • Trying to look at the future to make sure that doesn’t happen
  • Not sure if we will be having another meeting or not

College Curriculum – Tara Mathien

  • Last meeting will be April 14th
  • If you need anything in for that last meeting in needs to be in the system and approved by march 31st

Faculty Affairs – Angela Kohnen presented on behalf of Nelson Brunsting

  • He sent a report that they are still soliciting input on TNP vs PTR
  • There is an alignment situation from schools
  • More to come for the next meeting

Lectures, Seminars, and Awards – Katie Maki

  • Nothing new since our last meeting, but there will be somethings upcoming

Long Range Planning – Anthony Botelho

  • We have the one agenda item of the Dean’s evaluation
  • Luckily it is just Dean Good’s evaluation this year
  • Don’t have consensus of who owns the Qualtrics form
  • Asking if anyone knows where that exists?
  • Angela Kohnen mentioned it is not under her name and that she no longer has access to it
  • Suggests tracking down previous committee members who may have access to it
  • Have not met since then but have communicated asynchronously

Research Advisory – Lindsay Byron

  • Met and reviewed the applications for the professor of excellence award
  • Brought up workload stating that there are a lot of awards to review and they are all due at the same time
  • This has been communicated to Thomasenia’s office, but just wanted to share the concern
  • Received excellence awards over spring break, and they have ten packets to review for that
  • In the next week also have B.O. Smith to review
  • Angela Kohnen if the majority of these awards are controlled by the college?
  • Lindsay Byron responded saying she believes they are
  • Angela Kohnen then mentioned we could explore changing that for next year
  • This could be a carry forward

Technology and Distance ed – Katy Chapman

  • Met on March 5th for a very brief meeting
  • Discussed upcoming workshop on April 8th
  • Blake Beckett and Katy Chapman presenting on course mapping work
  • Macy Geiger and Domenic Durante will talk about the use of AI in course mapping, as well as some tools that they’ve used and developed
  • Katy Chapman will discuss using AI to help with creating course rubrics
  • Also discussing how she is transitioning an in person class to an online asynchronous class and how that changes the course map

Elections Committee – Katie Maki

  • Getting ready to send out Qualtrics
  • STL really came through with the nominations
  • SESPECS and HDOSE we still need a few more in the next day or so

Action Item

Proposed PKY Senate Allocation

  • Reminder the proposal was that we would allocate two of the college of Ed senators to PK Yonge to be voted on
  • Everyone brought them back to their schools
  • STL was crickets
  • SESPECS was good
  • HDOSE was good as well
  • Katie Maki made a motion at 2:40 pm to have two senators for PK Yonge. Anthony Botelho Seconded with consensus of the group. No abstentions or objections.

Discussion Items

Elections: timeline and process

  • As per the requirements for the elections we need to have a two-week window
  • Elections must open 3/28 and close 4/11
  • We have to have the FPC part done by the meeting on April 21st
  • At which point they are inducted

Update on ballot

  • We have people running from STL
  • No one is currently running for chair
  • Angela Kohnen asks if anyone is interested in running for chair
  • Benefits include:
    • Course release for two years, total of 4 course releases
    • You get GA
    • As chair elect you are chair of the curriculum committee
    • As chair you go to chair of faculty senate and hold the monthly meeting of all the chairs
  • Need a chair elect to run by Friday
  • Angela Kohnen asks if we have representatives running from the other schools
  • Katie Maki responds by saying that the only one that does not have enough is HDOSE for FPC
  • Angela Kohnen asks if we have representatives running for senate
  • Katie Maki responds by saying that we have two as of right now
  • Chris Thomas asked about the rules regarding sequential terms
  • Angela Kohnen responds by saying you cannot have a sequential term and believes that it is one year off before you can run again
  • Anybody who is not in the room can run for FPC
  • The alternate can also run, there isn’t a problem with that
  • If not in STL please find people to run for FPC
  • Some selling points include:
    • Not that difficult
    • Only one monthly meeting
    • Get to meet a lot of people, which can be helpful for promotions
    • Also, for finding committee members for your doctoral students
  • Let Angela Kohnen know by Wednesday if need to tap directors to help find somebody

Spring Meeting Speaker

  • Dean mentioned Hector would come in and speak on the budget for about 10 minutes
  • There will not be any FPC actions next meeting
  • Will do end of year reports from all of the committees
  • Followed by the installation of the new members and the handing off of the gavel
  • This leaves us with about an hour to work with and we discussed the option of having round tables last meeting
  • People can move around and hear multiple speakers for about 15 minutes each
  • Thinking of having a teaching table, a research table, a service table, and maybe a policy table
  • For teaching we have Cathy Atria
  • For service Lindsay Byron was going to confirm if Katie Vogel Anderson would be available to speak
  • For policy Chris Thomas was going to speak
  • Angela Kohnen mentioned that they were not sure about a research option, and asked about leaving it at three speakers
  • Everyone agreed
  • About 20 minutes per speaker, per table

LRP: Dean’s evaluation (to be sent out by 4/15)

  • Whether your committee meets again or not we need a final report
  • Can be a short paragraph
  • Need something in writing that goes on the website from everyone

End of year committee work: TEAMS folder

  • There is an Excel spreadsheet that you can access
  • On the 24/25 tab there are the columns for all of the committees and the committee mission
  • Every year we are supposed to beginning of the year goal setting, outcomes, and then carry forward
  • We didn’t do that last year
  • If you want to put something in your goal setting you can
  • You can pull your outcomes from your end of year report and place them there
  • What we really need is your carry forward
  • If there is something that you discussed in your final meeting or via email about what your committee should do next year place that in the final column under carry forward
  • Doesn’t need to be huge
  • The committee chair should handle this
  • FPC reps should not have to handle this work, but you do have access to it
  • If anybody else needs access, please let Angela Kohnen know so she can share with the chair
  • Please make sure your chairs are aware that this needs to be done

Adjournment

Motion adjourned by Anthony Botelho at 2:58 pm. Chris Thomas seconded with no objections or abstentions. The motion passed unanimously.