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March 8, 2006 |
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Minutes of Meeting
FACULTY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
12:00 PM @
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Members present: |
Chip Klostermeyer, Pat Plumlee (chairperson), Steve Shapiro, Judy Solano, Kathy Cohen, Ellie Scheirer, Chris Rasche, Lucy Trice
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Members absent: |
David Courtwright, Jeannie Patterson
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New Business |
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Minutes from the meeting of March 8 were approved. |
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Chip Klostermeyer said that due to his election as the next Faculty Association president, he would be stepping down from this committee. Judy Solano responded that the upcoming election fill the slot.
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Discussion about revisiting the postponed old business about the Promotion and Tenure Committee. Under the new UFF contract, P&T is a contractual issue, but there are some things that need to be examined, such as the tenure time line. This group decided to look at all P&T issues at one time, and Pat recommended that we all acquaint ourselves with the new P&T section of the contract. This committee will revisit this topic in the fall semester.
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The committee has oversight of the Outstanding Teaching Awards. Both Pat and Judy put forwarded issues:
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Should the number of nominations be prorated by to reflect college size? |
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Should the application paperwork be standardized?
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Should the number of awards be increased because there are more faculty?
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Should the number of awards be prorated by college?
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Should there be advice on how to construct the application packet?
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Should the application timeframe be changed?
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Chip asked if the Scholarship award could be increased to 3? Judy commented that the Outstanding Teaching Awards and the other faculty awards came from two different pots of money: the OTA was from E&G through Academic Affairs, while the other award money came from the Foundation.
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Committee members discussed all these issues at length. Steve Shapiro moved that Judy request Academic Affairs to increase the number of awards. Although the motion received a second, the committee decided to defer the motion until next month, when Judy will bring the data regarding the numbers and college distribution of applications. |
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The committee decided to keep the timing of the OTA the same. |
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Chris Rasche remarked that she was concerned that there was an overemphasis in the OTA in rewarding technology driven teaching at the expense of the more traditional lecture. Judy and Pat said that they did not believe that was so, as evidenced by the awardees. |
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Next Meeting |
Next meeting will be April 12, 2006 at noon.
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Adjournment |
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Submitted by Kathleen Cohen |
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