FAEC Minute, November 18, 2020

FAEC MINUTES  11/18/2020

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)  

Guests: Virginia Galdieri (Assistant Vice President of Human Resources Director of Employee Relations) and Janet Faber (Assistant Director of Employee Relations)

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

Minutes Approval: The 11/11/2020 minutes were approved with one abstention. 

FA PRESIDENT’S REPORT

Personnel Committees: Naseem and Scott met with the Provost. We need a new schedule with dates and deadlines. The calendar and process for promotion need to be clarified. The official number of promotion slots has not been announced. 

Teaching Observations:  How will teaching observations be done? Will there be time for letters to be gathered from on and off campus sources? What are the College guidelines? The BoT is supposed to address these promotions at their January meeting. This affects people’s promotion applications, reappointments, etc.

Spring Meeting Calendar: Naseem will redo this as Spring Break has been cancelled. Information is needed from various campus constituencies.

Registration/Online Courses: Caps have not been reduced to the online number per the Provost’s direction.

Meeting with Rob Doster:  Scott and Bonnie had a discussion about Help Desk response times. The Help Desk had 2/3 of their student support removed. Also, some feel Canvas and some of the other services are not appropriate for students to be able to access.  There are three times the number of help tickets with 1/3 of the support. Use helpdesk.ramapo.edu portal, which can provide more feedback versus emails. Deans are the next step for a very urgent request. Canvas should automatically have students added/dropped per their registration status. If they were dropped and come back a few days later, their prior submissions should still be available.

FAEC DISCUSSION

3/1: Following the Faculty Forum, questions arose about the 3/1 discussion. Mia reported about the follow-up meeting with The Provost. Faculty input is/will be sought. PCCC received a $3 million dollar grant of which $500,000 is for Ramapo. Still withstanding, FAEC seeks clarity on ARC’s involvement.

Advisement Challenges: Associate’s degree transcripts seem to not have been updated; it is hard to know which courses have already been completed re: substitutions, etc. U.Achieve has them as sophomores and they are actually second semester juniors, for example.

VIRGINIA GALDIERI’S REPORT

Furlough Dates: The AFT Executive Committee is working on a revised MOA that will address which dates faculty may or may not record as furlough days.

Unemployment Guidelines: FAEC expressed that it would be helpful for faculty, who will be furloughed, to know the steps to anticipate. Beyond signing up, one needs to certify unemployment to be paid, even for a week. This would be useful on the HR website.

Promotion Calendar: This has been announced today including the number of promotions available for associate, full, and librarians. The calendar has been adjusted on the website. Candidates will be required to let Janet Faber know in advance so the Google Drive can be set up accordingly. Virginia will send an announcement and/or attend Unit Councils today. Training will be available 11/20, and HR anticipates more after Thanksgiving. 

Online Process: FAEC offered suggestions in determining the most organized way of submitting electronic applications. Scott, Naseem and Katie will meet with Virginia and Janet.

Dates: Friday is the promotion training date: November 20, 2020.

Meeting adjourned at 12:41pm.

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