FA Minutes 12/10/25

Faculty Assembly Meeting Minutes
December 10, 2025
1:00 pm
Alumni Lounges

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.

Meeting minutes taken by FA Secretary Matthew Jobrack.

Agenda:

Approval of Minutes (11/5/2025)

Reports:

Faculty Assembly President’s Report (slides)

College President’s Report:

• Expression of gratitude to the faculty for their work
• Best wishes to Aaron Lorenz as he leaves the college
• Updates on administrative restructuring outlined in the President’s recent email
• Presidential AI task force will be charged next Monday
• Thank you to faculty working on the HSI report, which was presented to the president last week
• Looking forward to the continued advancement of the CAP

Provost’s Report:

• Thank you for faculty’s support and well-wishes during his recovery
• Discussion of the progress of the CAP
  • Faculty should continue having conversations as we move forward with the CAP, and the Provost is open to such conversations
  • Expressed intent for the CAP process to be transparent, and to follow the process outlined by the Provost several years ago.
  • Goal for each school to develop bylaws to determine how conveners and lead conveners are chosen
  • Extended Q & A session between the Provost and faculty

Announcements:

• HSI Exploratory Task Force Update
  Dolly Sacristan, Faculty Rep
  • Conducted literature review on the needs of Latino students
  • Plan is for work in the HSI task force to act as a framework to help all students
• ITS Updates (slides)
  Rob Doster, CIO
  • WebEx is going away on Jan. 31 – moving to Microsoft Teams, although Google Meetings will still be available
  • GoTo is replacing Cisco as our phone system in February – for most users this process will be invisible
  • Microsoft Entra implementation
  • Ellucian Experience will replace Web Self-Service, to be completed by February 2026

Presentations/Discussion Items:

• GE Revision (draft proposal) (slides)
  Chris Reali, GECCo Chair
• Student Preparedness
  Ken McMurdy, FA President
  Agenda item tabled until next meeting

Formal meeting adjourned at 2:45, followed by a brief Faculty Forum to check in with faculty regarding CAP implementation.

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