FAEC MINUTES 02/15/23

Present: Ken McMurdy (President), Elizabeth Siecke (Library), Amruth Kumar (TAS), Marc Gidal (CA), Malavika Sundararajan (ASB), Dean Chen (Vice President, HGS), Monika Giacoppe (Councilor-at-Large for Part Time Faculty), Jeffrey Ellsworth (Secretary)

* Councilor-at-Large for under 11 years position is currently open. FAEC has consistently been reaching out to the faculty attempting to recruit. 

John McTighe (SSHS): unable to attend

Vote to bring the meeting to order at 10:08am.

Review of minutes for 02/01/23 and 

FA President’s Report:

• In-Service for Staff Panel: Stephanie Barlow (ResLife) – morning of March 9th (Thursday). How to work with students after COVID. Looking for a volunteer from the faculty.   
• There is no prescribed process for reappointment of lecturers. POER is currently working on developing such. This will have to be negotiated with AFT. There are currently 5 lecturers at the college currently, one is retiring and two additional are being hired for next fall. 
• College is looking into micro-credentialing programs. Podium Global Tech Experience – internship company – INTD – 290 – interdisciplinary studies, 10 week program for 6 credits focusing in one of three fields: digital marketing, coding, and data analysis.
• The Academic Advisement Council has developed a Canvas module for faculty advisement of undergraduate students and would like to share it at a future FA meeting.     

FAEC Discussion:

• Discussion of proposed bylaw provisions and areas for future improvement. 

Visitor:

Mike Cunningham, Facilities

• Discussion of Morale Survey 
• Discussion of lack of resources. 
• Some student aides have been assigned to do ongoing classroom assessment to bring classroom problems to facilities attention. 
• Extension for facilities repairs, particularly for emergencies: x7660
• Website for facilities repairs:  https://www.ramapo.edu/facilities/service-request/
  • http://repairs.ramapo.edu/ 
• The person who puts in the fix-it ticket gets updates about it being addressed.
• Faculty: please never clean a whiteboard with sanitary wipes. It makes it very difficult to clean off future marker ink.
• Rather than moving classroom furniture, please contact events. They can potentially either rearrange the furniture for you or assign a different classroom for that day. Moving furniture can scratch up the floors or result in injuries.   

Meeting adjourned at 11:57 pm.

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