Faculty Association Standing Committee Minutes

Call To Order:	The meeting was called to order at 12:15 p.m

Members Present:	Boules, Adel; Johnson, Christopher; Hall, Katrina; Ancheta, Irma; Noonan, Ann

Members Absent:	El Safty, Adel; Tuck, Barbara; McMahan, Carolynn

Ex-officio member:	Richard, Dan (OFE Director)

Guest:	Patrick Plumlee (FA President)



I.	Approval of minutes
	Minutes of the January 20, 2011 were approved.

II.	Introductory Remarks
	Dr. Plumlee, FA president addressed the committee. He welcomed the members and expressed appreciation for faculty participation in FA committees.

III.	OFE Director Update, Dr. Dan Richard

	a.	Update on Course Redesign for STEM: OFE partnered with the Center for Community Based Learning (CCBL) to apply for a grant from Florida Campus Compact (FLCC) to conduct a course redesign institute modeled off of the successful Course Redesign for Effective Learning (CREL) Summer Workshop hosted annually by OFE. The grant proposal was accepted, and OFE and CCBL have been awarded a $20,000 grant from FLCC to conduct a two-day course redesign workshop for STEM faculty who want to redesign their syllabi to include community-based learning (see attached description). OFE will sponsor 10 faculty members from UNF to attend the conference. In addition, FLCC will sponsor up to 40 additional faculty from higher education to attend this course redesign workshop.

	b.	Update on Faculty Fellows: Academic Affairs has provided funding to continue the Faculty Fellows for the Fall 2011-Spring 2012 semesters. Faculty Fellows will lead faculty learning communities on Grant Writing and Quantitative Analysis(see attached description). Once funding is secure for the Fall 2012-Spring 2013 semesters, a call for proposals will be distributed to faculty.

	c.	Update on E-Books Workshops: The Faculty Enhancement Committee last year suggested faculty sessions on E-Books and digital publishing. OFE has been working with Michael Kucsak and Terry Cavanaugh to plan a series of faculty sessions on this topic for the Fall 2011 semester.

	d.	Update on Promotion & Tenure Seminars: Each year, OFE sponsors a Promotion and Tenure Panel in the Spring (after the University P&T Committee has completed their review) to update faculty on the results of this review and to provide guidance for faculty who will be submitting dossiers in the coming Fall semester. The Associate Provost for Faculty Development has requested that a Promotion and Tenure Panel be held in the Fall semester to provide guidance for faculty in their work throughout the year. OFE will work with various stakeholders, including the United Faculty of Florida at UNF, to plan this session.

IV.	Old Business:
	None.

V.	New Business:

	i.	Summer teaching grant evaluation - There was consensus among the members that the evaluation form should use the same evaluation criteria (and the same language) distributed by Academic Affairs to the faculty. It was also agreed that numerical means will continue to be used for the ranking of the applications. Dan Richard shared that the Diversity and CBL categories are mostly for data collection and are not part of the evaluation categories used for ranking applications. This is consistent will the committee’s determination in the January, 2011 meeting.

	ii.	Summer teaching grant review process – Adel Boules reported that this year members of the FEC are not eligible to apply for summer teaching grants, that last year there were 17 applications and 20 reviewers, and that the review process does not seem to have been updated since 2009. Adel Boules will find out from Academic Affairs whether the applications this year will be reviewed by the members of the FEC, members (exclusively, or with the help of non-member reviewers.)

	iii.	Adel Boules asked for volunteers to serve on a subcommittee - to help him with the implementation of the review process.

	iv.	The Logistics of distributing applications to reviewers, collecting of completed reviews and tabulation and ranking of applications were discussed. BB was used last year. There was general agreement that BB would be used again. Other methods of handling the logistics were also discussed. Adel Boules pointed out the possibility of using other methods for handling the logistics, depending on how well the system implemented last year can be used this year.

VI.	Adjournment & Future Meetings
	The meeting was adjourned at 1:20 p.m.
	Future meetings:
	Oct. 20, Nov. 17, Dec. 15 @ 12:15, OFE Library, 10/1106


Submitted by:
Adel Boules, Chair of Faculty Enhancement Committee