Minutes Faculty Assembly 4/25/18

Faculty Assembly Minutes

April 25 Pavilion 1 pm

Faculty Assembly President: Tae Kwak

Secretary: Hugh Sheehy

1. Minutes approved

2. President’s Remarks: The College is over halfway to $15 million goal for new library. Incoming Provost Becker will attend BoT Meeting 4/30 and will be available to have dinner with faculty members. Mercer shared numbers of locks changed on campus for enhanced security. The rest of the locks will be installed by the Fall. Other security factors being considered are the entrances and exits on campus. FAEC President Kwak expressed his appreciation for the 4/20 event on campus safety the Administration helped to plan and make happen. A faculty member asked about unblinded classrooms with glass walls. Mercer expressed his interest in looking into further security features for these spaces.

3. Provost’s Remarks: Syllabi for Fall 2018 are due to deans by June 30, 2018. Barnett went over the items that must be included on these syllabi and will send a memo outlining these required elements. There was some discussion of the number of grids or rubrics required by each syllabus and whether including program outcomes on syllabi would be rendered redundant by end-of-year reports. The Provost’s Service Award this year goes to Rachel Budin.

4. In the future, College-wide policies for all courses will be available as a link to be placed on syllabi.

5. 4/18 Voting Results: Faculty cast 165 ballots in the paper vote (about 77% return rate). in the future, paper ballots will be replaced with anonymous Qualtrix surveys. The passage of Ballot Item 2 will allow FAEC to amend and update old matter in the Bylaws. Hugh Sheehy will step down as FA Secretary in the Fall and take the place of the current FAEC HGS representative; Nakia Matthias will replace him. FA President Kwak will continue in his current role. Kwak stated that he will continue to work toward making the College’s vision of shared governance a reality; he also discussed a couple of changes respecting exam periods and grade due dates that have taken place under his watch. He plans also to make future FA meeting times and durations consistent. Kwak is reachable by email.

Voting Results:

Item 1 (Electronic Voting of Officers) Y 137, N 12, A 16

Item 2 (Amendment of Bylaws) Y 128, N 13, A 23

FA President: Kwak Y 143, N 1, A 20

FAEC Councilor at Large (11+Years): Mustafa Y 137, A 27

FAEC Councilor at Large (11-Years): Flynn Y 134, A 30

6. Stephen Anderson delivered the ARC report, stating that the Committee has approved 9- courses for inclusion in the Gen Ed. ARC is now open for submissions of new courses to be considered for the GE. Faculty considering new programs for the Fall can expect a new checklist on the ARC website. ARC is still determining who will be the next chair.

7. Sarah Carberry delivered the GECCo Report. Deans have agreed to include the Senior Presentation as a graduation requirement. Schools will decide requirements for each presentation and how to align their criteria with program outcomes. Faculty in Readings in the Humanities and CRWT have been contacted with requests for GE data. Carberry then talked about how to find scheduled courses that are in both the old GE and the new GE in Banner; the easiest way is to select all options under “Subject” and to then choose the relevant GE areas in “Attribute Type” and then “Section Search.” Students who wish to declare the new GE must get permission through the relevant deans, who will be responsible for contacting the Registrar. Newly declared majors will be responsible for completing new GE major requirements. A faculty member asked whether courses outside of the GE could be used as equivalents; Carberry replied that in general they may not.

8. Meeting adjourned 2:05

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