Faculty Association Standing Committee Minutes

Present:	Ellie Scheirer (Chair), Adel Boules, Mina Baliamoune, Dominik Guess, Jeff Harrison, Stacy Keller, Barbara Kruger, Pat Plumlee

Absent:	Gordon Rakita, Kathy Robinson (sick)

Others Attendance:	Newton Jackson

The meeting was called to order by the Chair at 12:35 PM.

Minutes from the committee’s meeting of October 13, 2011, were approved as submitted.

The meeting focused on an informal discussion of topics and issues of mutual concern to the Faculty Affairs Committee and to Associate provost, Newton Jackson. Topics discussed included:
the role of the department chair and the skills and characteristics needed for success in the role the process of “chair development” collective bargaining processes mentoring of new faculty faculty development in terms of governance responsibilities faculty evaluation procedures student assessment as it might relate to faculty assessment retention of faculty the role of distance learning in the institution the intersection of the Faculty Association with the United Faculty of Florida regarding certain issues, such as contract loads and the possibility of developing different profiles for faculty loads

The discussion also offered two questions for reflection-What does UNF want to be? What is our institutional identity?


The meeting adjourned at 1:55 PM.


[Minutes submitted by Ellie Scheirer.]