FAEC Minutes October 28, 2020

FAEC MINUTES 10/28/2020

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

 Excused: Kim Lorber (Secretary)

Vote to bring the meeting to order at 10:03 AM

Minutes Approval: Approval of the minutes from the 10/21/2020 minutes will be deferred to next week. 

FA PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Naseem spoke with Provost Gaulden regarding Promotions, ER/HR issues.  No significant resolution. Naseem will follow up next week. 

FAEC DISCUSSION

 Promotions:  Faculty shared concerns regarding the process for upcoming promotions. Nothing further on the reconvening of the Task Force.

Spring Break:  Spring break has been cancelled. Calendars will have to be adjusted. FA was not consulted in the process. Peter informed Naseem and Scott of this decision on Monday. Furlough decisions have not been finalized.

Evaluations: The online evaluation and the paper evaluation are somewhat different.  Naseem reached out to Tae and Lysandra to clarify.  Naseem will send a copy to FAEC.

Faculty Repository:  Katie reported that the library is looking into this. If anyone has ideas, please let Katie know. 

Vice Provost vacancy:  Ed brought up why we don’t have a temporary person in the position to ease Provost Gaulden’s load, perhaps at least deal with the plagiarism cases.  We used to have an Academic Integrity Committee in the past. 

Schedules: Faculty brought up errors in scheduling. If there are errors with courses, submit a course modification form. 

Meeting with VP Chris Romano: VP Romano stated CARES ACT funding will be distributed soon.  We have approximately 160 courses being delivered on campus for spring. This will increase the number of students living on campus.  Registration will begin on November 16, 2020.  Housing requests open November 17, 2020. The college is aiming for a target of 1000 students in single bedroom units for the spring semester. As a result of the calendar change, move in dates will have to be adjusted.

Enrollment Management is holding smaller open houses.  The small tours are booked up through November 7, 2020. 

VP Romano feels students will be happy to live on campus. The college will look to creating some things to create meaningful experiences for students. Over 60% of first year students participated in arching. 

Three graduation ceremonies were held for the 2020 graduates. 

Meeting adjourned at  11:30 AM

Respectfully submitted,

Donna Flynn

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