FA Minutes 04/26/23

Faculty Assembly Meeting
April 26, 2023
1:00 pm
Friends Hall

Faculty Assembly is open to a general college audience, including administrators, but only FA members may vote. Faculty, including library faculty and all full-time employees contractually obligated to teach are FA members as defined by our bylaws.

Agenda

FA President’s Update (Ken McMurdy):

• Leadership survey: within a couple days
• Bite-Sized Research Talks
• FA Socials were positive

President’s Update (Cindy Jebb):

• Provided an overview of the many positive and encouraging matters that have recently transpired at the college.
• Last year’s legislative add-ons have been included in the general state budget, therefore will not be done to be as add-ons in future years.
• Discussion of the upcoming Arching and graduation ceremonies.

Provost’s Update (Michael Middleton):

• Welcome and inspirational vision of where we can all go together to raise the college as we move forward together. Emphasizes the importance of building trust and continuing to lean into the values of the liberal arts.

Awards Ceremony:

Jack Richardson’s Award: Roark will announce the winner – Dr. Dean Chen! Congratulations!

Provost’s Service Award: Ken Goldstein and Michael Middleton will announce the winner – Dr. Stephanie Sarabia! Congratulations!

FA Faculty Service Award: Ken McMurdy will announce the winner – Dr. Stephanie Sarabia! Congratulations!

Parking Update: Sharon McLaurin and Nicole Morgan-Agard – the parking situation in Mackin and Bishoff is still being reviewed. Student population is increasing.

WAC Presentation: Mike Unger and Paula Straile-Costa – our students are reporting writing more than our sister institutions and our students are writing more than they have in the past.

Academic Master Plan: Stephanie Sarabia presenting – AMPTF will be distributing a qualtrics survey. Survey will be open until May 30th. Please provide feedback, thank you!

GECCo (Sarah Carberry): Presentation of voting matters. Overview of GECCO matters.

FAEC: under 11 all-college representative election – Jeff Ellsworth

Call for FAEC Secretary: Please volunteer – no need to be tenured

Motion Raised:

• Malavika raises a motion to void the vote regarding the Graduate Certificate for Business Foundations due to technical irregularities where the qualtrics showed a ballot being disseminated accurately in the distribution history and yet the individual did not receive the ballot. In some situations, multiple attempts were made to send a ballot to an individual and it would still not appear in the person’s email. Everyone who raised an issue with FAEC regarding the lack of a ballot had their vote included. However, not everyone who was missing a ballot realized they were missing the vote.
• Motion was raised and seconded. It was determined a vote was not necessary and that the previous electronic vote regarding the graduate certificate was invalid because it violated FA Bylaws because it was distributed to the entire FA voting membership and had not been properly presented to FA to begin with.
• Upon reflection and discussion, determination was made that the recent vote on the program proposal for a graduate certificate for business foundations was invalid due to violations of the FA bylaws.

Meeting adjourned at 2:40pm

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