Faculty Association Standing Committee Minutes

The meeting was called to start at 12:00 Noon.

Members Present:	Rusty Smith (Chair), Michael Kucsak, Ann Noonan, Adel El-Safty, Carolyn McMahan, Adel Boules

Members Absent:	Elizabeth Fullerton, Christopher Johnson

Ex-Officio Staff:	Dan Richard (OFE Director, non-voting member-absent), Paul Gambon (OFE Executive Secretary)

Guest:	None



I.	Approval of minutes
	Minutes from previous meeting were unanimously approved.

II.	OFE Director Update
	a.		Faculty fellows
			i.	3 total applications have been completed, of 6 begun by applicants. The deadline for applications is January 28.
			ii.	None of the applications indicate a desire to lead group talks on grant writing or statistics, two of the topics discussed as most desirable for a Fellow to engage.
			iii.	There will only be two Fellows, as CBTL has opted not to finance a third.
			iv.	FEC discussed Donna Mohr in Math/Stats as a potential Fellow for Statistics and Peter Ludyka as a potential Fellow in Grant Writing.
			v.	Richard re-iterated that perhaps a more formal review process is necessary for Fellows applications. As it stands, Richard will seek input/advice from FEC regarding applicants before making a decision.
			vi.	Fellows will be selected and notified of selection on February 4.

	b.		Course Redesign for Effective Learning
			i.	Richard reminded FEC that a call for proposals will go out in early February.
			ii.	FEC suggested a more detailed calendar will be necessary for scheduling/selecting CREL participants.

III.	Old Business
	a.	FEC Vice Chair
		i.		El-Safty nominated Boules for the position, seconded by McMahon
		ii.		Discussion then flowed into the grant review process, below.
		iii.		After discussion, Boules accepted nomination, and was selected unanimously by the committee.

	b.	AA Faculty Development Teaching Grant Process
		i.		Many things were accomplished by the FEC in making the grant review process a digital and enduring one.
		ii.		Kucsak summarized his work to get rid of the bug inherent in the process.
		iii.		There were several problems solved, including:
				1.	Problems with the logic of the survey questions
				2.	Names of applicants and anonymity issues
				3.	Changing the grant type from a fill-in to a drop down menu
				4.	Clicking “finished” locked the reviewer out of the process permanently
		iv.		The review form is now re-usable in the future.
		v.		Many thanks extended to CIRT for help with Blackboard.
		vi.		Estimated that 75% of the kinks have been worked out of the system.
		vii.		FEC agreed to grant OFE Director “ownership” of the blackboard materials, so that future committees may begin using it without having to restart from scratch.
		viii.		18 reviews were ranked, and Academic affairs will use the rankings to select 10-11 awards.
		ix.		There was some discussion over the statistical problems inherent in using a mean value as the ranking, and after the discussion, the FEC agreed that this was an adequate method for selecting awardees.

IV.	New Business
	a.	Meeting time
		i.		It was agreed that in order to maintain quorum, the meeting time should be kept the same as it has been to date: third Thursday at 12 noon.
	b.	CREL
		i.		In past, a .pdf of applicants for prioritization
		ii.		FEC agreed to use VOVICI to organize and comment upon future CREL applications.

	c.	Resignation—Smith announced that he will be resigning, effective July 1, 2011.


V.	Adjournment
	The meeting is adjourned at 1:15 pm.