FAEC Minutes October 14, 2020

FAEC MINUTES 10/14/2020

Present: Naseem Choudhury (President), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn (Councilor-at-Large under 11), Scott Frees (TAS), Kim Lorber (Secretary), Lisa Lutter, (CA), Thierry Rakotobe-Joel (ASB), Mihaela Serban (SSHS), Ed Shannon (HGS), Bonnie Blake (Councilor-at-Large over 11)

Vote to bring meeting to order at 10:05am.

Minutes Approval: The 10/7/20 minutes were approved.

FA PRESIDENT’S REPORT

FA Minutes Approval/Graduate Council Vote: Naseem will send the minutes of our last meeting to the faculty for approval. Ashwani Vasishth is running unopposed to be the Faculty Assembly Graduate Council representative. The bylaws do not indicate if it is a voting position. We encourage tenured candidates. Clarification of the role will be sought from Provost Gaulden.

Student Survey: The construction of the questions seemed directional. Could questions have been framed in a more neutral way to gather specific information?

Budget: Naseem and Scott met with President Mercer to discuss the budget.  President Mercer will address this in his next FA address.

FAEC DISCUSSION

Spring Course Catalog: Multiple issues have been found. Faculty are sending corrections to the deans. Naseem will meet with Susan to discuss issues.

Provost’s Council: Naseem would like to ask the committee working on the Student Code of Conduct be expanded to include additional faculty in order to represent more of the units on campus. Emma Rainforth is leading the subgroup in Provost’s council.

Students’ Names: Students change their names and these are applied in some areas and not in others. Need to have a more efficient name change procedure

To change Canvas name: https://ramapo.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6WfGGEGxfLEXjeJ

To change Webex name: https://help.webex.com/en-us/nmig1kcb/Edit-Your-Webex-Meetings-Profile

We recommend these links be distributed more widely to students and faculty.

Evaluations: Faculty has concerns about how these will reflect on faculty. We are concerned that course evaluations be filled out in private by students alone. We hear anecdotal evidence of family members and others who are present during webex classes. If evaluations are used for promotion and tenure, etc. then we need to have confidence they are filled out only by student in the class in question.

Canvas Page Review: Would faculty be interested in having their Canvas pages reviewed/graded? We all think differently. Perhaps some sample Canvas courses can be used as examples.

Urgent ITS questions: We have a system to contact/text our deans for urgent ITS needs. They contact the CIO. This seems not to be working as well as expected. We need a new system; this will be addressed with the Provost.

3/1 Programs: Mia will give information about who will moderate the faculty forum on November 4 about the 3+1 program.

Academic Advisement Council: Naseem and Scott discussed with the Provost the formation of a program for non-matriculated majors.

CASP.  Committee that addressed academic suspensions and probation should be re-envisioned and brought back. Will discuss with Susan.

BIT: This committee seems especially necessary now. Informing the faculty about what is appropriate to refer to this group, is needed. Dean Lorenz runs this. Maybe he can give an FA reminder.

Meeting adjourned at 12:04pm.

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