In the \u201cOther Gift Designation\u201d field, manually type in \u201cStudent Relief Fund\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n3. \u00a0FAEC Morale Fund<\/b><\/p>\n
The FAEC \u201cMorale Fund\u201d budget has been reduced from $2,000 to $1,500. \u00a0The FAEC has cut spending on FA refreshments [not including coffee], faculty requests for celebratory funding, and paper ballots in effort to donate as much as possible monies to the Student Relief Fund, which needed capital, particularly in the beginning. <\/span><\/p>\nA request has been made to the <\/span>Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Cathleen Davey and President Mercer to restore the $2,000 budget.<\/span><\/p>\n4. \u00a0Starting the academic year earlier, Reading Day, and Exam scheduling <\/b><\/p>\n
Provost Becker is considering options to begin the academic year earlier within the month of August in order to adequately accommodate reading day scheduling and commencement scheduling. \u00a0This proposal must be discussed with the AFT before a decision can be made. However, the change is proposed in part to avoid issues related to the fall of Labor Day within a given calendar year and the potential time-crunch that it creates with reading-day and exam proximity to the holidays.<\/span><\/p>\nReading day schedules that fall on a Sunday are not academic days as no classes and offices are offered in Sundays. \u00a0Weekend reading day scheduling does not grant students adequate time to prepare for exams due to the absence of any real break between their classes and exam dates. \u00a0Reading Day needs to be formally defined by the college so may that it may be honored in accordance with its intended purpose of allowing students to have adequate preparation time for their exams.<\/span><\/p>\nSome hybrid courses are experiencing exam scheduling conflicts with regularly scheduled classroom-based courses. \u00a0This must be rectified going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n5. \u00a0Faculty Scholarship <\/b><\/p>\n
At a recent Librarians Unit Council meeting, the provost discussed his plan to request from each school\/unit a scholarship statement outlining how each area defines scholarly excellence in order to help guide the tenure and promotion process. Per the provost, the scholarly statements would work alongside the Faculty Handbook. However, the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ Faculty handbook specifies the terms for faculty scholarship and decisions to revise these terms must be made in consultation with the AFT. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0 6. \u00a0GECCo Report from Sarah Carberry and Michael Unger<\/b><\/p>\n
The criteria general education courses will be revised by Sarah Carberry. GECCo will also devise a revised charge and manual.<\/span><\/p>\nStudents will be required to take three experiential keystone courses to include: <\/span><\/p>\n\nFirst Year Seminar (FYS) <\/span><\/li>\nStudies in Arts and Humanities (SIAH)<\/span><\/li>\nSocial Science Inquiry (SSI)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nFor these courses the changes involve the removal of outcomes that conflict with what GECCo and FA voted on. \u00a0Additionally, an extended experiential task force will be voting on the new objective for these courses. In the past there has been no continuity in what was voted on versus what was implemented.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Deans Council will officially be dissolved by way of the authority of the FAEC, GECCo, and ARC.<\/span><\/p>\nSarah and Michael pointed out that other than a registrar-purge there is currently no mechanism for a class being removed from the course catalog if it has not been taught for 10 years. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSarah and Michael \u00a0also discussed ways to steramine assessment. \u00a0They maintained that assessment processes must consist of a routine that involves audits, syllabus checks, tracking whom has been assessed, and developing information based on a random cluster sample of how faculty programs and courses are assessed.<\/span><\/p>\nIn terms of courses such as FYS there is a misconception that these classes can be assessed the same way because they have the same course number but there may be no consistency in their content and specific focus. \u00a0Assessment for such courses must be customized and a syllabus audit must be a feature of this process.<\/span><\/p>\nThe FAEC and GECCo share the belief that work of assessment should be minimized but maximum benefit and effectiveness should be achieved through its processes.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Meeting Adjourned at 12:00 pm<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FAEC Minutes 12\/5\/2018 Faculty Assembly Executive Council [FAEC] Meeting Minutes Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 \u00a0| Location: A218 \u00a0| Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Attendees: Tae Kwak, Donna Flynn, Sam Mustafa, Cristina Perez, Hugh Sheehy, Renata Gangemi, Christina Connor, Kathy Zeno Secretary: Nakia Matthias Guest: \u00a0Provost Becker; \u00a0Stephan Lally, SGA President; \u00a0Sarah Carberry, GECCo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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