FA Minutes 11/09/22

Faculty Assembly Meeting

November 9, 2022

1:00 pm

Trustees Pavilion

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

Call Meeting to Order: 1:05pm

Approval of Minutes (9/28/2022): no objections

Reports:

Faculty Assembly President’s Report:

–    The Provost’s Bite-Sized Faculty Research Series: is underway, please attend. Build community and collaboration opportunities.

–     Public Safety: FAEC met with Nicole and Sharon and were provided with steps that are being taken to improve safety on campus for the entire community.

–     RAVE Guardian Safety APP – smartphone app for everyone’s safety, please download

–    Planning happening on campus this year:

– college strategic plan: vision statement going to BOT at end of January

– academic master plan: ongoing

– campus facilities plan: ongoing

–    Communications Meeting on November 17 at 1pm. Please, everyone should try to attend.

–     Should there be a faculty retreat in January?

–     FAEC Moral Survey: please complete if you haven’t done so already, thank you!

–     FA Social Event today from 4:30-6pm in the Padovano Commons. RSVP is preferred, but everyone is still welcome.

College President’s Report:

–    Alumni Panel upcoming.

–    Black Solidarity Week – procession to the Hopper Slave Cemetery.

–    16th of November at noon – First Gen event – First Gen Center

–    Encouraging faculty engagement with students about national and international scholarship opportunities

Provost’s Report: Importance of grant funding and shoring up transfer students.

• Gross Center is hosting many events.
• Black Lives Matter presentation tonight
• Degree Completion is back in the TLC
• TLC calendar – please add it to your google calendar. Also ask your unit secretary to add your events to the calendar so everyone can attend.
• November 23 is a Wellness Day so there will be no classes held that day.

Adjourn the Formal Portion of the Meeting:

Once the formal portion of the meeting was adjourned, all members of the Teaching and Learning Core (TLC) were invited to stay for a round table focus group exercise led by the Academic Master Plan Task Force.

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