Faculty Association Committee Minutes

Members present:

Chip Klostermeyer, Pat Plumlee (chairperson), Judy Solano, Kathy Cohen, Chris Rasche, Lucy Trice, Jeannie Patterson

Members absent:

David Courtwright, Steve Shapiro, Ellie Scheirer

1.	Minutes from the meeting of March 8 were approved.

2.	Pat Plumlee announced that President Delaney has approved both honorary degree candidates. Dr. Colville Young will receive his degree at the 3 p.m. ceremony on April 28, and will be a platform guest at the 7 p.m. ceremony. Dr. Edith Perez will receive her degree at summer commencement.

3.	Judy Solano distributed data on the 2005-06 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards by college: nominees, those eligible, applicants, finalists, and recipients; 9 month, undergraduate teaching faculty headcount by college for 1996 and 2005; and a list of all winners since 1984.
		There was an extensive discussion about increasing the total number of awards,
	and about the fact that there was no award to recognize graduate teaching. The committee agreed to an agenda item that recommends that the number of Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching awards be increased to 9, in recognition that the number of faculty had greatly increased, and to establish a separate award for outstanding graduate teaching. If approved, the Faculty Affairs committee will convene a subcommittee to draft guidelines for the new award.
		The next topic was discussion about whether or not the number of finalists
	should be prorated by college, to allow the College of Arts and Sciences faculty to put forward more finalists. Now it is restricted to the same number as the other 4 colleges, but it is much larger. This committee decided to await the decision on whether or not the total number of awards will be increased.

4.	A faculty member had inquired if the dossiers of faculty who had won awards could be made available for examination. The committee discussed how best to accomplish this. Chris Rasche recommended that the Faculty Enhancement Center offer a workshop/panel presentation by several of the award winners to discuss how to put together a winning dossier, etc. The committee agreed, and Judy will contact Jace Hargis to implement this.

5.	Pat Plumlee asked if the committee members wanted to move the meeting day back to Thursday for the summer, but since there is a conflict for other members, the day will remain the first Wednesday after the Faculty Association meeting.

Next meeting will be May 17, 2006 at noon.

Adjournment

Adjourned 1:30 p.m.

Submitted by Kathleen Cohen