FA Minutes 02_01_23

Faculty Assembly Meeting

February 1, 2023

1:00 pm

Trustees Pavilion

Faculty Assembly is open to a general college audience, including administrators, but only
FA members may vote. Faculty, including library faculty and all full-time employees contractually obligated to teach are FA members as defined by our bylaws.

Agenda

Approval of Minutes (12/7/2022)

Reports:

Faculty Assembly President’s Report:

• The Bite-Size Research Talks have been going well, please consider attending future events. 
• Diversity Convocation has moved to March 23. 
• In-Service for professional staff, March 9th between 9am – 1pm, coming out of the pandemic. Looking for faculty volunteers to also participate. 
• FA Social Events: Wednesday March 8th and an end of the year celebration as well.
• Moral Survey: progress is being made on analyzing the data and approaching various constituencies to work on identified areas for potential improvement. FAEC is creating mini-reports to share with different relevant administrative offices. 
• Renewed bylaw revisions are underway.
• Acknowledged tensions surrounding ARC recently and asked everyone to strive for collegiality in resolving these tensions. 

College President’s Report:

• The Board of Trustees approved the strategic vision statement on Monday night. The new task is developing KPIs for the strategic vision statement. The process is ongoing with the strategic plan. 
• The Academic Master Plan is ongoing and moving forward. 
• Discussion of budget and financial matters. 
• Provost transition with Michael Middleton on May 1. Discussion of the transition plan. 
• Strategic Communications: new hire. 
• Discussion of recent tragedies across the country in recent weeks. Important to support our students and each other through these difficult times. Please attend upcoming events and programming related to these matters.

Provost’s Report:

• Congratulations faculty who were granted tenure by the Board of Trustees                       on Monday night. 
• Discussion of relationships with community colleges and high schools. 
• Adam Fried: new assistant dean of teacher education 
• Region 6 Poetry Out Loud event at Ramapo College
• TLC Calendar – google calendar that people can add to their own google calendar
• Provost Council: policies are up for review, please consult the Provost Council website for details.
• Jeneen Kelly – new registrar

Introductions:

Leiah Heckathorn, Director of the Roukema Center

Michael Yankovich, Interim VP for Operational and Administrative Integration

Announcements:

Two Factor Authentication (with Q & A) – Rob Doster, CIO:

•   Cyber Insurance: college is in the process of obtaining
•   Two Factor Authentication is necessary for obtaining the Cyber Insurance
•   Email was sent by Rob Doster last week on Two Factor Authentication,
  please consult the email and follow instructions.
•  Can get a fixed code if traveling abroad (for example).
•  Can get a code texted to your phone instead of installing the app on your
  phone if you prefer.

Instructional Design Center (IDC) – Michael Bitz, Director:

•     Please come visit the lab! We are here to help you with a wide variety of matters.
•     IDC has virtual office hours in addition to being physically open at the lab.
•     IDC:

o   Ray: Canvas Administration, Respondus, Turnitin, Linkedin Learning
o   Deb: Canvas Development, YuJa, Qualtrics, WebEx, Google Workspace
o   Lauren: Instructional Design

•  TechFest: 1983 next Wednesday – announcement by Sharon Leathers
•  ChatGPT: announcement by Tammy Redd (FRC) – February 15 round table discussion  

Enrollment Update – VP Chris Romano, update presented by Ken McMurdy:

•     Enrollment numbers exceed revised goals

Discussion Items:

Budget Overview – Colleen O’Keefe, Interim CFO/VP for Fiscal Health:

•     Overview of current budget status for the college.

Academic Master Plan Task Force – Stephanie Sarabia and Ken Goldstein, co-chairs:

• Thank you to everyone for engaging so meaningfully with the data collection of the Academic Master Plan!!!
• The Task Force is currently processing all the gathered materials to prepare an initial draft of proposals. Once an initial draft is prepared the faculty will once again be engaged for feedback.

Counselor-At Large: part time faculty – voting issue

•     Monika Giacoppe 

Meeting Ended 2:30pm 

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