FAEC MINUTES 09/28/22

FAEC MINUTES 09/28/22

Present: Ken McMurdy (President, TAS), Katie Cohen (Library), Amruth Kumar (TAS), Marc Gidal (CA), Malakiva  Sundararajan (ASB), John McTighe (SSHS), Dean Chen (Vice President, HGS), Jeffrey Ellsworth (Secretary)

* Both Councilor-at-Large positions are currently open.

Vote to bring the meeting to order at 10:00am.

Minutes Approval: The 09/21/22 minutes were approved.

FA President’s Report:

• Provost Search: Ruth and Fiona (search firm individuals) – excellent themes emerged through the engagement with the search firm last week. Ruth, Fiona, Chris Romano, and Ken McMurdy are crafting the profile statement.
• Provost Council: deliberation on a lot of academic policies. Minimum and maximum course capacity policy is under review.
• Ruma is the search chair for director international studies.
• Progress on the front of transparency regarding compensated service.
• Concerns raised regarding the time restrictions on when OSS provides exam proctoring – if faculty are providing exams later in the day/evening exam proctoring is not available.

FAEC Discussion:

• Susan Gaulden:
  • promotion and sabbatical discussion.
  • Commended “The Class of Covid-19” a work of collaboration between a Ramapo instructor, Shawn Adler (editor),  and high school students.
  • Provost is reviewing the proposed faculty handbook
  • Increased level of membership of the Faculty Resource Center, membership was decreased during the height of the pandemic.
  • McAllister and Quinn: firm that assists in applying for grant funding. The firm will assist primarily with applying for funding for the PNP’s. The firm may be able to assist with faculty in applying for other research grants, but this will be an add on cost at the approval of the college.
• Cindy Jebb
  • Thoughts for those in Florida where a hurricane is imminent.
  • Updates that will be shared at the Faculty Assembly this afternoon.
  • Discussion of COVID numbers, which are rising again as we head into the fall semester.

FAEC Guests: Cindy Jebb (President), and Susan Gaulden (Interim Provost) 

Meeting adjourned at 12:00 am.

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