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Minutes
Faculty Council Meeting
April 4, 2008
Faculty Council Members Present: Greg Bassham (Chair), Joan Coffin (A&P Chair-elect), Kristi Concannon (C&T Chair-elect), Dan Ghezzi (A&P Chair), Brian Pavlac (C&T Chair), Regan Lance Reitsma (Div. C Rep.), Jeremy Simington (Div. A Rep), Sheileen Corbett (At-large Rep)
Guests Present: Nick Holodick
1. The meeting was called to order at 2:02 PM in the Lipo Room of the Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center.
The Minutes of the March 14, 2008 Faculty Council meeting were approved.
2. Chair's Report (Greg Bassham)
The faculty vote on the teacher’s union resolution was 26 in favor of the resolution; 30 opposed. The resolution did not pass.
Council members asked whether we had established a precedent in allowing this vote. There was concern that faculty could bring a wide variety of issues before the faculty meeting. It was agreed that this would not occur because faculty cannot simply place items on the faculty meeting’s agenda. Faculty Council chair would only place official items of business, having relevance, on the agenda.
Fr. Grasso would speak to Faculty Council at its next meeting (April 11) to discuss the memo concerning extended absences. Margarita Rose (Faculty Benefits Chair), Ron Supkowski (Faculty Benefits Chair-elect), and Marc Marchese (because of his experience in this area) would also attend to help in answering councils’ questions.
The sign up sheet at the Faculty Meeting is for the purpose of determining whether a quorum exists. The sign up sheet is a quick and easy way to determine whether 50 faculty members are in attendance. The sign up sheet is destroyed immediately after the Faculty Meeting.
3. C & T Committee Report (Brian Pavlac)
Brian reported that the only major discussions remaining for C&T involve FYE/Orientation and Service Learning Coalition. C&T continues to work with CARTs to polish up CORE for the catalogue.
Nick commented that Faculty and Administration need to do a better job at creating a paper-trail to document that both Faculty Council and the Administration have signed off on issues falling under the heading of Collegial Relations. Any item for which the VPAA is held accountable should be sent from Faculty Council to Administration. Administration would then need to sign off on the item. Greg agreed that we all need to do a better job in this regard.
4. A & P Committee Report (Dan Ghezzi, Chair)
A&P will be meeting next week to discuss the draft of the Academic Integrity revision. A&P is working to provide a final draft to Faculty Council, Faculty, and Student Government prior to Council’s final meeting of the semester.
A&P has sent a brief survey to all faculty soliciting their views on the usefulness of the data provided by this year’s ETS evaluations. Responses are due to A&P by April 10th. A&P has received feedback from 300 randomly selected students. The student responses are in hardcopy only and will take some time to compile. Dan will have some compiled information available for Faculty Council’s next meeting. However, complete results may take a week or two longer. A&P will also have a brief discussion with the secretaries (Lucyann, Dorothy, Molly) to determine the amount of work they did in implementing the ETS forms.
18 of 22 departments sent their discipline specific standards to A&P. The subcommittee {Joan Coffin, Brian Williams, Dan Ghezzi} met with Greg, Derrick, Nick, and Tony G. to discuss. We decided to go back to 9 departments asking for some revision. Revisions are due to A&P by April 17th.
A&P is working on the classroom observation component of the Senior Faculty Review. A&P will combine this classroom observation component with the Senior Faculty Review passed by Faculty Council last year, forming one document.
5. Social Activities Report (Sheileen Corbett)
The next Roving Social is scheduled for Wednesday April 9th. This social is being hosted by the Chemistry/Physics Department. It will be held in MU-305 from 3:30- 5:00.
The Faculty Celebration is scheduled for May 14th from 11:00 - 4:00 at the Kings’ College Athletic Fields. This event is funded by Academic Affairs. This year’s budget is 3.1% over the cost of last year’s event.
Sheileen commented that her Social Activities Committee accepted the responsibility of planning and organizing the Faculty Celebration but this task is not ordinarily a responsibility of the Social Activities Committee. Faculty Council thanked Sheileen and her committee for their work.
6. New Business
None
The meeting adjourned at 2:38 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Dan Ghezzi