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Minutes
Faculty Council Meeting
March 14, 2008
Present: Present: Greg Bassham (Chair), Derrick Boucher (Chair-elect), Joan Coffin, Kristi Concannon, Sheileen Corbett (At-large rep.), Howard Fedrick, Dan Ghezzi (A&P Chair), Michele McGowan, Brian Pavlac (C&T Chair), Regan Reitsma, Jeremy Simington
1. Meeting called to order at 2:05 pm.
2. Minutes of the February 8, 2008 meeting were approved as presented.
3. Chair’s report
a. Division representatives were reminded that the spring Division meetings should be held on or before March 31, 2008 to elect representatives for faculty governance and committees.
4. C & T report
a. The chair reported that the issue of including a course on Globalization (based on IB 241) in the New Core has been settled. The chair noted that the New Core is ready for implementation.
b. The chair will send documentation to all faculty to aid with student advising for the Fall semester. Faculty were reminded that all current students fall under the Old Core and should use the equivalencies document sent by the Registrar and available on the C&T website to determine which new courses satisfy their remaining Core requirements.
c. The chair noted that the proposal for an Organizational Leadership and Dynamics major was removed from the C&T agenda by the administration due to concerns raised over AACSB accreditation.
i. The chair reminded faculty that any program wishing to establish a new major must first submit a proposal to C&T for initial clearance to pursue the program. After authorization has been given, the program should address any issues raised during the approval process and then submit the final proposal to C&T for endorsement. If endorsed by C&T, the proposal then must go to Faculty Council for final approval or disapproval.
d. The chair reported that the one-credit course “CARP 411: Wealth Management/ Life Skills for the New Graduate” was approved by C&T. The one-credit course “CARP 325: Graduate/Professional School Planning” was not.
e. The chair reported that the two Ad-Hoc committees associated with C&T – the FYE/Orientation Committee and the Service Learning Coalition – are still meeting. At the request of the FYE/Orientation Committee, C&T approved an FYE CART as part of the new Core administration and approved the request to eliminate the summer reading associated with Academic Orientation.
5. A & P report
a. The chair reported that a selection of faculty members and students, as well as the administrative secretaries, are being surveyed on the implementation and results of the ETS evaluations. A compilation of the survey responses will be distributed to all faculty.
b. The chair reported that the first draft of the Academic Integrity Policy will be ready approximately two weeks after the Easter break and will be reviewed by A&P before submission to Faculty Council.
c. The chair reported that the discipline specific standards for tenure and promotion have been submitted by most departments. Dan Ghezzi, Joan Coffin, Greg Bassham, Derrick Boucher, Brian Williams and Nicholas Holodick will be meeting soon to discuss the next step in the review process, which will likely continue into the Fall semester.
d. The chair noted that Nicholas Holodick has composed a draft classroom observation policy for the evaluation of teaching standards as part of the Senior Faculty Review. The policy is currently under review by an A&P subcommittee.
6. New business
a. Joan Coffin (A&P Chair-Elect) will be on sabbatical in the fall semester. A motion that “Dan Ghezzi be appointed as acting A&P chair for the Fall 2008 semester with appropriate compensation” was approved.
b. A&P has incorporated the comments and suggestions submitted by the faculty regarding the revisions to Section II of the Faculty Handbook. Council favored the added language that King’s is a “teaching institution”. Further minor changes were suggested and approved by Council.
i. In Section A.2.b describing the rank of Associate Clinical/Technical Professor, the term “three-year renewable contract” was modified to reflect the appropriate language approved by the VPAA.
ii. In Section C, ¶5, regarding the due date for applications for tenure, the phrase was changed from “no later than the second Monday of the September of the year in which the tenure decision is made” to “the academic year in which the tenure decision is made”
iii. In Section D.2 regarding the use of grant proposals as evidence for scholarship and professional development, the term “principal authorship of grant proposals” was changed to “principal or significant authorship of grant proposals”.
c. It was decided that articles in addition to and amendments of the Faculty Governance Constitution will be appended to the end of the Constitution without changing the text of the original document.
d. Fr. Sullivan asked Council to consider the endorsement of a resolution supporting the teachers’ union in the Scranton diocese similar to that approved by the faculty at the Univ. of Scranton. Council decided that it would be inappropriate to do so.
e. The agenda for the Faculty Meeting on March 28th at 2:00pm in Walsh Room of SFCC was discussed.
7. Meeting adjourned at 3:35 pm.