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Faculty Assembly Executive Council (FAEC) Meeting Minutes October 18 2017 ASB 008 Room 10:30am to 12:30am<\/b><\/p>\n
Attendees:\u200b Christina Connor, Cristina Perez, Roark Atkinson, Renata Gangemi, Kathryn Zeno, Eva Ogens, Tae Kwak, Gladys Torres-Baumgarten, Kim Lorber<\/b><\/p>\n
Secretary:\u200b Hugh Sheehy<\/b><\/p>\n
Guests:\u200b<\/b> Leigh Keller and Liz Siecke; Ken McMurdy<\/b><\/p>\n
Minutes of 10\/11 Approved<\/span><\/p>\n There was a discussion of the newly announced Search Committee for Provost and whether its establishment violates the spirit of shared governance; it was confirmed that the College administration is not bound to honor the recommendations of the Search Committee when making a hiring decision. It was stated that while the President commands the power to hire a Provost or assign a Search Committee for Provost without input from the faculty, the assignment of the current Search Committee for Provost is not consistent with the College\u2019s history of administrators communicating their intent to faculty members before acting in such matters. It was noted that the composition of this search committee differs from that of the last in that it contains no deans and no library representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n Reporting out to Units: Library Renovation and Exam Schedule<\/span><\/p>\n Ken McMurdy: Revisiting Presentation on Shared Governance Task Force. SGTF developed out of FAEC subcommittee that ran from 2013-2016; in Fall 2016, FAEC and Provost initiated a Joint Effort between faculty and administration. SGTF will be charged with developing principles of shared governance that are in keeping with College mission and which will allow College to develop in keeping with its vision and goals. Presentation includes a definition of \u201cshared governance\u201d which requires scrutiny and evaluation at Faculty Assembly, goals for Shared Governance, three organizing principles (Respect and Collegiality, Trust and Transparency, and Clarity and Compliance) for maintaining Shared Governance, a \u201cdynamic protocol\u201d for making decisions under SG scheme (underpinned by a \u201cShared Governance Plan\u201d), an establishment of \u201cRelative Roles in SG,\u201d with Additional Notes. New SG Plan will make a distinction between Direct Curriculum and Indirect Curriculum and establishes relative roles within College for making decisions related to Curriculum. FAEC expressed optimism about this proposal; a faculty member expressed that in the \u201cImplementation\u201d element of the plan should place a strong emphasis on establishing trust between administration and faculty; a faculty member suggested looking at the \u201cParis Model\u201d as a means of removing hierarchy from SG process and replacing it with a clarification of relative roles. McMurdy expressed that SGTF is open to input as it goes forward in trying to find an ideal language for the ideas the TF is trying to promote.<\/span><\/p>\n Provost\u2019s Visit: Having been present for SGTF, Provost clarified that some Curricular matters are governed by interests of Convening Groups and Programs; College reaffirms academic freedoms of individual instructors, but instructors are obligated to tailor their course content and teaching to parameters set by Convening Groups and Programs.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Discussions are ongoing regarding creating an ARC subcommittee on online and hybrid courses.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faculty Assembly Executive Council (FAEC) Meeting Minutes October 18 2017 ASB 008 Room 10:30am to 12:30am Attendees:\u200b Christina Connor, Cristina Perez, Roark Atkinson, Renata Gangemi, Kathryn Zeno, Eva Ogens, Tae Kwak, Gladys Torres-Baumgarten, Kim Lorber Secretary:\u200b Hugh Sheehy Guests:\u200b Leigh Keller and Liz Siecke; Ken McMurdy Minutes of 10\/11 Approved There was a discussion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3536","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n\n