FAEC MINUTES 02/22/23

FAEC MINUTES 02/22/23

Present: Ken McMurdy (President), Elizabeth Siecke (Library), Amruth Kumar (TAS), Marc Gidal (CA), Malavika Sundararajan (ASB), John McTighe (SSHS), 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.

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

Review of minutes for 02/15/23

FA President’s Report:

• Boldly Ascending: second one on facilities master plan, third one – attendees should bring proposed outcomes and tasks that are derived from Strategic Plan goals and objectives and the purpose statement – March 20.
• Deans will be facilitating this process at the unit level.

FAEC Discussion:

• Discussion of Podium Global Tech Experience.
• Discussion of faculty wellness.

Visitor:

Visitors: Virginia Galdieri, Jennifer Hicks-McGowan (POER): 10:15am

• Jenn is the new Interim Executive Director of Employee Resources & Strategic Initiatives
• Jenn is now the TLC HR point of contact person
• Reviewed Morale Survey, raised faculty feedback with POER
• FAEC raised the possibility of POER having a ticketing process similar to Facilities and ITS that creates a paper trail.
• POER is enhancing clarity to pay stubs when faculty work extra duties such as independent studies, overloads, summer work, extra administrative duties. Code lists to identify the type of payment will be posted on POER’s website
• Faculty Handbook – in process, hopefully rolled out by the end of spring semester so it will be up and running for next fall. In the future, yearly review of the faculty handbook. Will shortly go to Legal and AFT.
• POER will have a follow-up meeting to discuss processes, FAQs and conflict resolution procedures as well as update FAEC about the items discussed.

Meeting adjourned at 12:03 pm.

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