FAEC Meeting Minutes 11/10/2021

FAEC MINUTES 11/10/21

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

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

 Minutes Approval: The 11/3/21 minutes were approved with one abstention. 

 FA PRESIDENT’S REPORT

 Task Force on Course Delivery Modes (TFCDM): The task force has been charged by the Provost, and the official charge has been made available. The timeline was expanded to allow a more careful, deliberate process. The goal is now to implement recommendations on a pilot basis in Winter 2023 and more broadly in Spring 2023. The Provost and task force members will need to keep in mind we do not have baseline data of how alternate course delivery modes worked during pre-pandemic times; thus the feedback sought about how different modes worked must be understood as unusual and difficult to separate from the life experiences of learning during a pandemic. All participants must be identified by next Wednesday (11/17). FAEC unit representatives should reach out to their deans to ensure that time is set aside at Unit Council and to ask for the TFCDM charge to be sent out to all unit faculty, in order to finalize the selection of each unit’s representative. The committee will meet in a hyflex mode. Tenure and tenure-track faculty are eligible to serve. Stephen Rice (HGS/ARC  chair) and Michael Bitz (SSHS/ IDC) have agreed to serve as the two FA designees.

 Meeting with President Jebb: Faculty involvement on campus was discussed.

 FAEC DISCUSSION

 Interim-Secretary Spring 2022: Jeffrey Ellsworth (SSHS) offered to serve as the FA Interim-Secretary in Spring 2022. He will step down as WAC Chair.

 Candidates for FA President and Secretary:  Candidates must be identified by next Wednesday (10/17). The bylaws do not address what happens if a sitting president does not seek reelection after one term and no other candidate has been identified. Elections of other FAEC members will happen in the spring.

 Qualtrics Minutes Vote: More faculty participation is necessary. Our recent vote on Faculty Assembly minutes resulted as follows: 61: 57 voted yes, 4 abstained. More faculty participation is needed.

 Job Description of FA President: This needs to be updated. The job has become increasingly more digital, which is very time consuming. Further, the current service requires working during extraordinary times resulting in many new responsibilities. Increased course release time and/or staff support would be beneficial to address this expanded role.

 Future Series: The first event, focusing on The Future of Thought: Strategy and Uncertainty, will take place on Monday, Nov. 15th, from 1:00-2:15 in the Pavilion. Naseem, Ken, and Ed will be there. Information for this and the remaining three events can be found on the Strategic Plan website:

https://www.ramapo.edu/president/stratplan/

 Unit Council: There should be at least 15 minutes allocated for FAEC unit representatives to report out and lead discussions as needed. The meeting time for Unit Council was expanded from 60 to 90 minutes in part to allow for this discussion time.

 Meeting adjourned at 11:27am.

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