{"id":6599,"date":"2025-10-28T09:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/fa\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:04:00","slug":"fa-minutes-10-8-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/fa\/2025\/10\/28\/fa-minutes-10-8-25\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Minutes 10\/8\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<b>Faculty Assembly Meeting Minutes<\/b><br \/>\n<b>October 8, 2025<\/b><br \/>\n<b>1:00 pm<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Alumni Lounges<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Meeting minutes taken by FA Secretary Matthew Jobrack.<\/p>\n<p><b>Agenda:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Approval of Minutes (9\/3\/2025)<\/p>\n<p><b>Reports:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Faculty Assembly President&#8217;s Report<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/fa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/10\/FAPres-10-8-25.pdf\">(slides)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>College President&#8217;s Report:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thank you to faculty members for successful Open House, Founders\u2019 Day, and other events<\/li>\n<li>Words of appreciation for Susan Vallario and her service as BOT Chair<\/li>\n<li>Ramapo is doing very well in procuring national grants<\/li>\n<li>Excitement over the CAP moving forward<\/li>\n<li>Words of appreciation for Ramapo\u2019s campus culture and support for students\u2019 well-being<\/li>\n<li>Federal activity working group is continuing to monitor changes at the federal level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Provost&#8217;s Report:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Report on a successful open-house event<\/li>\n<li>Report on meetings with new faculty members<\/li>\n<li>Liberal Arts Curriculum Task Force has submitted their report; Provost presentation on Oct. 22 will go over action items from that report and progress on implementation of the CAP<\/li>\n<li>Call for anyone interested in the Provost\u2019s AI working group to reach out to the Provost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Announcements:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>ITS Updates, Transition from Cisco\/Webex<\/b> (Rob Doster)\n<ul>\n<li>Webex will not be available after January 31, 2026<\/li>\n<li>Recommendation is for faculty to download Webex recordings to their P: or U: drive from their office workstation for permanent storage.<\/li>\n<li>Cloud storage on Google Drive or OneDrive is an alternative.<\/li>\n<li>Trainings on Microsoft Teams are being planned.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty will still have access to Google Meet through their Ramapo Google account for the foreseeable future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Sabbatical Program Transition Period<\/b> (Jenn Hicks McGowan)\n<ul>\n<li>Challenges associated with transition, request for patience.<\/li>\n<li>Reach out to deans, who will play an essential role<\/li>\n<li>Q &amp; A with faculty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Presentations\/Discussion Items:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Gen Ed Revision<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/fa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2025\/10\/GECCo-Update-10-8-25.pdf\">(slides)<\/a><br \/>\n        Sarah Carberry, GECCo Chair pro tem<br \/>\n        Mike Unger, Provost&#8217;s Office<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Voting\/Elections:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Faculty Handbook Revision Committee (FHRC):<\/b> FA Representatives (2)<br \/>\n        Professors Mia Serban (SSHS) and Marc Gidal (CA) successfully elected\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Formal meeting adjourned at 2:15 pm. 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