April 13, 2022FAEC MINUTES 03/30/22

FAEC MINUTES 03/30/22

Present: Naseem Choudhury (President, SSHS), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn (Councilor-at-Large under 11, TAS), Ken McMurdy (TAS), Thierry Rakotobe-Joel (ASB), Mihaela Serban (SSHS), Ed Shannon (Vice President, HGS), Jeffrey Ellsworth (Secretary)

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

Minutes Approval: The 03/23/22 minutes were approved.

FA PRESIDENT’S REPORT:

Shared Governance Meeting: Discussion of the Shared Governance Meeting.

Communications Meetings are happening today.

FAEC DISCUSSION:

New Business:

Roukama Center and International Studies Major: Discussion of massive changes happening.

CRWT and Studies for Arts and Humanities: Discussion of massive changes happening.

Discussion regarding administrative procedure where a student/faculty disagreement occurs.

Discussion of the challenges presented by lack of college services in the evenings. Is there a possibility of staggering hours so that there is some coverage for services in the evenings? For example, IT assistance for events occurring in the evening? Relatedly, concerns were raised regarding the difficulty of organizing events because of the extent of the decentralization of organizational matters for planning and orchestrating events.

FAEC Guests: None

Meeting adjourned at 11:43 pm.

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April 13, 2022FAEC MINUTES 03/23/22

FAEC MINUTES 03/23/22

Present: Naseem Choudhury (President, SSHS), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn (Councilor-at-Large under 11, TAS), Ken McMurdy (TAS), Lisa Lutter, (CA), Thierry Rakotobe-Joel (ASB), Mihaela Serban (SSHS), Ed Shannon (Vice President, HGS), Jeffrey Ellsworth (Secretary)

Vote to bring meeting to order at 10:13am.

Minutes Approval: The 03/09/22 minutes were approved.

FA PRESIDENT’S REPORT:

Transportation Survey: Survey is complete and executive summary is being compiled.

Results from Forum: Forum was well attended and many suggestions were put forward regarding creating community after the pandemic.

Course Caps: Leah Warner has prepared a document regarding best practices course caps for differing course delivery methods.

April FA’s: There will be a Faculty Forum on April 6 regarding the proposed Handbook revisions.

Transition planning: Discussion of transition of FAEC presidency and other FAEC positions. Naseem has created onboarding and workflow documents for the FAEC presidency.

FA now has two representatives for SMAAC: Kelly Dolak and Scott Frees.

FAEC DISCUSSION:

New Business:

Nicole Morgan Agard and Rachel Sawyer: Bias Exploratory Committee – 2019 David Oh was selected to be the FA representative to the committee. Findings of the Exploratory Committee resulted in a policy and a new permanent Bias Incident Response Team. Seeking a representative for the Bias Incident Response Team for a two year term. Team does not respond to individual incidents, but rather reviews aggregate data and seeks to inform programs and policies. There is a difference between a bias complaint and a discrimination complaint, handled through different offices, different mechanisms. Restorative justice conference offered if there is a bias incident.

Virginia Galdieri: Update on the Handbook revision process. A first draft of the handbook revisions will be presented in April and faculty will vote on whether to endorse. Thereafter, the draft will be distributed to AFT, legal, and the administration for review and changes may result. If any substantive changes result, then the changes will be brought back to the faculty in September for a revote on endorsement.

Katie Cohen: Attended the Alice Active Shooter training and recommended it. More trainings are scheduled.

FAEC Guests: Nicole Morgan Agard (CDO) & Rachel Sawyer (Associate Dir.); Virginia Galdieri (AVP- HR)

Meeting adjourned at 12:12 pm.

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March 29, 2022FAEC MINUTES 03/09/22

FAEC MINUTES 03/09/22

Present: Naseem Choudhury (President, SSHS), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn (Councilor-at-Large under 11, TAS), Ken McMurdy (TAS), Lisa Lutter, (CA), Thierry Rakotobe-Joel (ASB), Mihaela Serban (SSHS), Ed Shannon (Vice President, HGS), Jeffrey Ellsworth (Secretary)

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

Minutes Approval: The 03/02/22 minutes were approved.

FA PRESIDENT’S REPORT:

Transportation Survey: Complete and analysis in progress.

Faculty Forum: Rebuilding Community after the Pandemic, March 9 at 1pm.

Reorganization: Discussion of reorganization of college administration announced March 4.

FA Bylaws: Discussion of FA Bylaws and the recent revisions. At the next FAEC meeting discussion needs to be had regarding revisions that need to be revisited in the Bylaws.

Standing Committees: Discussion of whether Standing Committees should report back to FAEC through attending meetings or through written reports.

FAEC DISCUSSION:

New Business:

IT Liaison Report: Presented by Thierry Rakotobe-Joel. Security rollout is still ongoing for two-factor authentication.

Donna raised concerns from Nursing that OSS does not provide testing support on holidays that classes still occur on. Discussion of different contracts between faculty and staff. Discussion of how to accommodate OSS students.

FAEC Guests: None

Meeting adjourned at 12:04 pm.

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March 11, 2022FA Minutes 03/02/2022 (Draft)

Faculty Assembly Meeting Minutes

03/02/2022

Motion and seconded to bring the meeting to order at 1:03pm.

No objections to February 2nd FA minutes.

Reports

Faculty Assembly President’s Report: Summarized and updated state of matters – policies under consideration at Provost’s Council, Transportation Survey results. April will be a busy month for FA due to coming reports and voting items.

College President’s Report: Summarized and updated state of matters. Discussed excellent faculty care for students on quarantine. Has invited many exciting speakers to come participate in the Ramapo community. The President has been actively engaging with the larger New Jersey community highlighting Ramapo College and building bridges. Emphasized the importance of mentorship and nurturing student potential for prestigious grants, fellowships, and scholarships.

Provost’s Report: Summarized and updated state of matters. Discussed Provost’s Council matters and policies under consideration for redlining. Discussed student, faculty, and staff boosters and need for submission of documentation. There is no second option besides getting boosted or having an official exemption. Discussion of taskforce on course delivery modes. Discussion of Zoom bombing that occurred at a Center event recently. Discussion of April 4 policy change regarding food and drink at large gatherings.

Open forum: Questions/Comments

Faculty raised concerns about lack of a common hour being unable to attend the State of the College Address. President Jebb agreed that the schedule and lack of a common hour are a challenge. Events such as the State of the College are being recorded for people to be able to participate asynchronously. President Jebb brought up the importance of wellness and mental health days.

New Business

ARC: Steve Rice – presented two new program proposals that ARC has approved.

• Minor Program in Data Science – 20 credits over 5 courses
• Minor Program in Statistics – 16 credits over 4 courses

GECCo: Sarah Carberry – announced positions are GECCo are becoming available, volunteers!

IDC: Michael Bitz introduced IDC member Deborah O’Connell who then covered Canvas increased functionality and designing courses with the mobile app in mind as students make significant use of the mobile app.

Announcements

1. Santamaria Laorden: Symposium on Diversity in Health Care and Human Services, April 7, 2022

Nicole Morgan Agard: matters will be brought to unit council for discussion

Naseem Choudhury: Faculty need to sign up for Commencement.

New FAEC Members for Fall 2022:

• ASB- Associate Prof. M. Sundararajan,
• SSHS- Associate Prof. J. McTighe
• TAS- Prof A. Kumar

Still FAEC openings for Fall 2022:

• Adjunct Councilor
• Councilor-at-Large under 11

Motion and seconded to adjourn at 2:08pm.

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March 11, 2022FAEC MINUTES 03/02/22

FAEC MINUTES 03/02/22

Present: Naseem Choudhury (President, SSHS), Bonnie Blake (Adjunct Councilor, CA), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn (Councilor-at-Large under 11, TAS), Ken McMurdy (TAS), Lisa Lutter, (CA), Thierry Rakotobe-Joel (ASB), Mihaela Serban (SSHS), Ed Shannon (Vice President, HGS), Jeffrey Ellsworth (Secretary)

Vote to bring meeting to order at 10:07am.

FA PRESIDENT’S REPORT:

FA Transportation Survey: Survey is closed, provides qualitative and quantitative data on campus community’s transportation needs for reaching NYC.

Faculty Forum: Postponed from March 2, tentatively rescheduled to March 9 from 1pm-2pm in ASB 136.

Discussion of WAC, as well as generally about the three standing FA committees: ARC, GECCo, and WAC.

Provost’s Council: Working on developing a Research Misconduct Assurance Policy regarding human and animal research that will be housed within the IRB. Discussion of the yield season turning admitted students into enrolled students. Admitted student days on April 3 and April 24, and open house event on May 1.

FAEC DISCUSSION:

New Business:

President Jebb: Discussion of events on the situation in Ukraine. Discussion of Future series.

Provost Gaulden: Discussion of large gatherings – expectation of a change of rules two weeks after spring break ends. Discussion of booster requirements and importance of submitting documentation to college for students, faculty, and staff. Discussion of fall course schedule. There was a digital glitch that erased all course caps – course caps are being manually put back in. If there are errors, please notify. The Provost’s Council is considering three policy revisions: revisions to removal of students from class sessions; revisions to faculty responsibilities to students on interim suspension; revisions to requirement to declare a major. Discussion of Webex.

March 16 – Ramapo College is hosting a high school college fair.

FAEC Guests: Cindy Jebb (President); Susan Gaulden (Provost)

Meeting adjourned at 12:03 pm.

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March 10, 2022Task Force for Course Delivery Modes

Charge
Course Delivery Modes Task Force Charge FINAL 11-09-2021

Task Force Composition
Stephanie Sarabia (SSHS) Co-Chair
Tae Kwak (HGS)
Matthew Jobrack (TAS)
Nikhil Varma (ASB)
Benjamin Neill (CA)
Elizabeth Siecke (Library)
Michael Bitz (SSHS, IDC & FA representative) Co-Chair
Stephen Rice (HGS, ARC & FA representative)
Jakub Zak (SGA)

Rajesh Adhikari (Roukema Center)
Missy Long (OSS)
Fernanda Papalia (Registrar)
Beth Foster (Registrar)
Ed Petkus (Dean ASB)
Peter Campbell (Dean CA)
Jessica Steinheimer (CSS)
Nicole Morgan-Agard (CDO, EDIC)

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February 23, 2022FAEC MINUTES 02/16/22

FAEC MINUTES 02/16/22

Present: Naseem Choudhury (President, SSHS), Bonnie Blake (Councilor-at-Large over 11, CA), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn (Councilor-at-Large under 11, TAS), Ken McMurdy (TAS), Lisa Lutter, (CA), Thierry Rakotobe-Joel (ASB), Mihaela Serban (SSHS), Ed Shannon (Vice President, HGS), Jeffrey Ellsworth (Secretary)

Vote to bring meeting to order at 10:06am.

Minutes Approval: The 02/02/22 minutes and 02/09/22 were approved.

FA PRESIDENT’S REPORT:

Meeting with SGA: Discussion of process for if SGA puts out surveys on FA’s behalf.

Meeting with Grad Council: Discussion of enrollment and retention, as well as booster deadlines.

FAEC DISCUSSION:

New Business:

Chris Romano: Updated FAEC on enrollment and retention. Numbers are strong. Discussion of the booster/registration policy.

FAEC Guests: Chris Romano

Meeting adjourned at 11:53 am.

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February 22, 2022Faculty Assembly Meeting Minutes 02/02/2022

Faculty Assembly Meeting Minutes 02/02/2022

Motion and seconded to bring the meeting to order at 1:07pm.

Reports

Faculty Assembly President’s Report: Summarized the various matters that FAEC has been working on, including hosting the faculty forum, transportation, and many other issues.

College President’s Report: Welcomed everyone back to another semester at the college and the need to continue addressing the ongoing pandemic. Called for everyone to adhere to the pandemic safety protocols.

Reported on meeting with the New Jersey College President’s Council.

Provost’s Report: Welcomed everyone back and discussed the ongoing challenges of the pandemic and the transition back to campus.

Raised new initiatives for teacher education.

Raised the many policies and protocols under review by Provost’s Council and encouraged faculty to review them.

Open forum: Questions/Comments

Concerns were raised regarding what to do when students are observed not wearing masks in the halls or classrooms that are not in use. Concerns were raised regarding students who want to wear scarves or other things instead of an actual mask.

Special Committee Reports

Bylaws Revision Committee: Ed Shannon and Mia Serban presented the outcomes of the vote on bylaw changes as well as the specifics of the bylaw changes that passed and what did not pass.

FA Election Results from 12/01/21

FA President – Ken McMurdy, FA Interim Secretary – Jeff Ellsworth

Future elections timeline for representatives 2022-2024: Many FAEC positions are becoming open at the end of this semester. Interested volunteers should please keep this in mind.

New Business

Announcements

1. Robert Doster, AVP/CIO: Update on recovery from the major systems outage that occurred this morning. Also addressed the status of the help desk – significant shortage of student workers. System has also been updated so that if one calls the help desk the first option is to leave a message if there is a non-emergency or the second option is if there is an emergency.
2. Nicole Morgan-Agard, CDO: Black History Month is ongoing and there are many activities and events planned. Please review the schedule and consider getting involved.
3. Nominees to serve on Campus Master Planning Process (as part of SPI): Call for volunteers!

Motion and seconded to adjourn at 2:06pm.

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February 22, 2022FAEC MINUTES 02/09/22

FAEC MINUTES 02/09/22

Present: Naseem Choudhury (President, SSHS), Bonnie Blake (Councilor-at-Large over 11, CA), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn (Councilor-at-Large under 11, TAS), Ken McMurdy (TAS), Lisa Lutter, (CA), Thierry Rakotobe-Joel (ASB), Mihaela Serban (SSHS), Ed Shannon (Vice President, HGS), Jeffrey Ellsworth (Secretary)

Vote to bring meeting to order at 10:03am.

FA PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Faculty have raised concerns regarding New Jersey Governor announcing mask policy change. However, this does not impact the college as it only applies to K-12 educational institutions.

Meeting with Provost: Discussed the positive state of vaccination for on campus constituencies. Discussion of flexibility for hybrid formats for summer courses.

FAEC DISCUSSION:

Discussion of Inclement Weather Day Policy. Discussion of concerns regarding recent Inclement Weather Day messaging that deviated from past practice. It appeared to shift policy from faculty strategically determining the best pedagogical approach to address course class hours, whether through synchronous remote learning or asynchronous methods, to a requirement of handling the matters only through synchronous remote learning. Such a shift would be pedagogically concerning, as well as not addressing internet/power outages of faculty and students.

Faculty may consider:

• • Planning ahead when unsafe travel conditions appear likely and should communicate with their students and deans regarding how they intend to adapt to Inclement Weather Days.
  • Addressing in their course syllabi their intended practice on Inclement Weather Days.

Lisa Lutter and Eric Wiener are standing for Campus Master Plan Committee. If there are no objections, they will be put forward as the nominees.

New Business: Discussion of whether faculty could be provided a list of the potential situations for which a student may be restricted from campus and when faculty would be notified in each scenario. Faculty has expressed confusion regarding email notifications that a student is excused from class because they are currently restricted from campus.

Bonnie Blake provided ITS Report: ITS is working on meeting continuing lab needs.

FAEC Guests: None

Meeting adjourned at 11:57 am.

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February 15, 2022FAEC Meeting Minutes, Feb 2, 2022

FAEC MINUTES 02/02/22

Present: Naseem Choudhury (President, SSHS), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn (Councilor-at-Large under 11, TAS), Ken McMurdy (TAS), Lisa Lutter, (CA), Thierry Rakotobe-Joel (ASB), Mihaela Serban (SSHS), Ed Shannon (Vice President, HGS), Jeffrey Ellsworth (Secretary)

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

Minutes Approval: The 1/26/22 minutes were approved.

FA President’s Report:

Report from Provost’s Council: Discussion of the many policies currently under reconsideration and revision. Faculty need to stay current on these possible policy changes. Policy matters include topics such as course caps and course delivery models. 

Meeting with College President: Discussion regarding meeting.

Board of Trustees’ Meeting (1/31/2022): Discussion regarding meeting. A number of appointments, reappointments, and emeritus statuses were approved.  

General Order

Issues from units: 

-Discussion of transportation problems that have arisen because of decreased shuttle availability for individuals commuting between NYC and campus. 

-Padavano Commons: Discussion that Padavano Commons is no longer designated for faculty, despite it having been the only faculty reserved space. President Jebb assures that the change is temporary and as the pandemic situation evolves it will return to faculty use. 

-Library, Change in Eating/Drinking policy and Communication: Discussion of the change that was made to the library policy. 

-Campus Master Plan Process nominee: There need to be two nominations. Lisa Lutter has volunteered to be one nominee. 

-Presidential Inauguration Committee (from FAEC): Katie Cohen has been put forward as the FAEC representative for the committee.  

President Jebb: Reiterated the vision of the college and our shared commitment to facilitating our students thriving, especially through the ongoing challenges of the pandemic. 

Discussion of the budget and state initiatives, such as the Garden State Guarantee. Discussion of FTE equity, covered tenure lines, and potential transportation hub. 

Ramapo applications are up 4% over last year. 

Provost Gaulden: Project Needs Proposals are under review. 

Education program initiatives to help facilitate those who wish to enter the teaching profession. 

Automation of the COVID contact tracing program on campus. 

New Business: NONE 

Announcements:

The Future of Learning: K-12 Insights:

Thursday, February 17, 2022 | 1:00PM-2:30PM Trustees Pavilion

The Future of Work: Learning & Labor

Monday, March 7, 2022 | 1:00PM-2:45PM Trustees Pavilion

Roundtable: Reflecting on the Future of Learning & the Future of Work

Thursday, March 24, 2022 |1:00PM-2:15PM  SC 157-8

The Future of Ramapo: Readiness & Resolve

TBA

Guests: President Jebb and Provost Gaulden

Meeting adjourned at 12:35 am.

 

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