FAEC MINUTES 3/22/2023

FAEC MINUTES 3/22/2023

Present: Ken McMurdy (President, TAS), Elizabeth Siecke (Library), Amruth Kumar (TAS), Marc Gidal (CA), Malavika Sundararajan (ASB), John McTighe (SSHS), Dean Chen (Vice President, HGS), Monika Giacoppe (Councilor-at-Large)

Excused absence: Jeffrey Ellsworth (Secretary)

*Meeting minutes taken by Dean Chen

*One Councilor-at-Large position is currently open.

Vote to bring the meeting to order at 10:05am.

FA President Ken McMurdy’s Report:

– Bischoff/Mackin parking lot: FA president spoke with Sharon McLaurin (Director, Public Safety) about email regarding the review of faculty and staff parking in these lots.   Sharon had initiated the review as the parking lot was listed as student parking and was not aware of the history in terms of the agreement. She has assured the FA president that all faculty and staff may continue to park there and if such a review should be considered, it will begin with a conversation with all staff and faculty first in Fall semester.

– FA president will request the college to formally change the Bischoff/Mackin parking lot listing from students parking lot to faculty/staff/students’ lot).

– Inviting Mellissa Van Der Wall to FAEC next Wed (3/29) to talk about student wellness.

– Meeting with the Provost on 3/20: FA President and VP sought greater clarification regarding the Career Development Funding (CDF) decisions; Ken also consulted with Maxim Goldberg-Rugalev.  It was concluded that POER should review the CDF applications over the past few years and if there was any faculty that was denied CD funding because they were on sabbatical, it would need to be retrofixed, as the faculty handbook does not explicitly state that those on sabbaticals cannot receive CD funding.  It was suggested that the new Faculty Handbook should clearly delineate the standards and rules pertaining to what qualifies for CDF, FDF, Foundation, TAR, Platinum Funding, and Shomburg.

– Shared-Governance Meeting on 3/20: President Jebb will charge a new Task Force this semester to begin looking at the Yearly Calendar (this task force is not about changing the daily class schedule) to build in Wellness Days and, possibly, more common hours.

– FA President McMurdy received feedback and suggestions from FAEC members and will communicate them with the president.

– ARC’s annual report will be shared with faculty prior to the FA on April 5.

– The ARC chair will also be available at the FA for Q&A.

– ARC is also proposing some changes to the by-laws, which will be presented at the FA.

– Meeting with Anser Consulting Team, and Eric Wiener and Lisa Lutter on Campus Facilities Master Plan.

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