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, Adel Boules

Members Absent:	Elizabeth Fullerton, Carolyn McMahan, 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.		Richard discussed a plan for the Faculty Fellows program and handed out a description of the plan.
			i.	Director would like to have an invitation to apply out asap.
			ii.	Committee left it up to the Director to choose Fellows and report his choices to the FEC.
			iii.	FEC accepted the proposed time frame for the program.

	b.		Richard discussed events for Spring 2011, and asked for suggestions on topics
			i.	Student Learning
			ii.	5 myths about millenials
			iii.	Promotion & Tenure Panel
			iv.	Sexual differentiation in brain development
			v.	Electronic repositories for academic works

III.	Old Business
	c.	Committee Site on blackboard—Kucsak noted several issues surrounding the review process, and detailed the actions taken to fix the problems. (Permissions for viewing required individual reviewers to be granted access to specific folders, etc.) Vice Chair—FEC agreed to call for nominations at the 1/20/11 meeting.

	d.	AA Faculty development teaching grant process— Several suggestions were made on how to streamline the review process, such as drop down menus for applicant names. FEC agreed that some of the suggestions implied confidentiality issues that would need to be considered. They decided to use application numbers instead of names or titles so that reviewers could easily browse the files without confusion or violation of confidentiality. It was confirmed that the reviewers would receive their packets on 12/2.

IV.	New Business
	a.	Suggested events for Spring: (See above, under Director report)
	b.	Next meeting: 1/20/11, 12/16 meeting is cancelled.


V.	Adjournment
	The meeting is adjourned at 1:00 pm.