Faculty Assembly Executive Council [FAEC] Meeting Minutes<\/b><\/p>\n
Date<\/b>: Wednesday, March \u00a027, 2019 | <\/span>Location<\/b>: A220 \u00a0| <\/span>Time<\/b>: 10:30 am to 12:00 pm<\/span><\/p>\n Attendees<\/b>: Kathryn Zeno, Tae Kwak, Donna Flynn, Sam Mustafa, Kathy Zeno, Renata Gangemi, Christina Connor, Hugh Sheehy, Eva Ogens, <\/span>Catalin Martin<\/span><\/p>\n Secretary<\/b>: Nakia Matthias<\/span><\/p>\n Guests<\/b>: \u00a0Martha Ecker, AFT; \u00a0Michael Unger and Sarah Carberry<\/span><\/p>\n —————————————————————————————————————————————————<\/span><\/p>\n Martha informed the FAEC of the Provost\u2019s intention to proceed with implementing online-only course evaluations (eliminating paper forms) for Spring 2019. \u00a0Martha maintained that a threshold would need to be established on an aggregate, rather than individual basis. She also expressed that faculty should not be penalized if they do not meet this threshold due to missing\/few online course evaluations.<\/span><\/p>\n It was discussed that when online evaluations were the default format and faculty needed to opt in for paper course evaluations a record of faculty that opted in for paper evaluations was established to demonstrate course evaluation format preferences.<\/span><\/p>\n Martha noted that the move to online course evaluations is proceeding without faculty negotiation toward an agreement or faculty buy-in. \u00a0She indicated that during a Communications meeting on 3\/27\/19 the Provost explained that online evaluations will save money.<\/span><\/p>\n The FAEC noted that the provost originally agreed that online course evaluations would not be implemented until there was a plan to ensure response rates. \u00a0There for the current decision to move forward with online course evaluation is occurring without a plan to understand and improve response rates.<\/span><\/p>\n The following Faculty Assembly and FAEC minutes document discussion of course evaluations:<\/span><\/p>\n The next Faculty Assembly on April 3rd. should include discussion of the move to online evaluations. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The faculty should vote on whether online evaluations should be immediately implemented \u00a0for Spring 2019, as well as whether the roll out for online evaluations should be conducted among tenured full professors until an adequate response rate is achieved. \u00a0The response rate for the previous online evaluations that were conducted for full professors were never assessed to determine the nature of the response rates.<\/span><\/p>\n President Mercer seeks to increase faculty to teach courses through the use of the instructor line. \u00a0Also, Martha from AFT is interested at capping the number of instructor lines. If faculty at the instructor line make up 5 to 15% of faculty this will create a two-tier system. \u00a0Any decision to employ more faculty should be driven by the curriculum. If RCNJ employs more faculty at the instructor line that receive benefits this would be a better than an adjunct system. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It was discussed that the Provost may be concerned that the General Education course categories will become bloated and he may be under the Impression that we GECCo and faculty have lifted restrictions. \u00a0The process for removing restrictions includes a chain of approval that must be followed before the Provost can approve changes to the Gen.Ed courses.<\/span><\/p>\n Currently, General \u00a0Education classes must run once each year per an agreement that was endorsed by FA during came former Provost, Beth Foster\u2019s tenure. \u00a0Additionally, deans and convening groups have historically handled scheduling rather than GECCo. Deans also perform syllabi audits. Michael and Sarah suggest that this should continue to be the case. \u00a0\u00a0Furthermore, narrowing or expanding sections is up to deans. There will be more effort by deans to populate courses by increasing their capacity. A percentage of courses can be determined for General Education courses that can be allowed to run under the established capacity threshold [10% etc.]. \u00a0Sarah will attend Dean\u2019s Counsel to discuss the scheduling matters that the Provost mentioned via e-mail with deans.<\/span><\/p>\n At present GECCo has no policies but will be creating a manual over the Summer 2019 term. \u00a0The document will include written procedures for assessing course content in conjunction with outcome categories, as well as other processes that GECCo undertakes.<\/span><\/p>\n By end of the semester FA and FAEC must \u00a0conduct a self-evaluation survey patterned on what has been done in the past for the provost and president. The general role of the FA and FAEC, as well as FAEC representatives can be evaluated. \u00a0The results of the evaluation are not the primary concern but rather the ability to demonstrate that the faculty had the opportunity to assess the role and functions of the FA and FAEC. FAEC discussed that evaluations instruments can be disseminated via a secured Qualtrics survey. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Faculty Assembly Executive Council [FAEC] Meeting Minutes Date: Wednesday, March \u00a027, 2019 | Location: A220 \u00a0| Time: 10:30 am to 12:00 pm Attendees: Kathryn Zeno, Tae Kwak, Donna Flynn, Sam Mustafa, Kathy Zeno, Renata Gangemi, Christina Connor, Hugh Sheehy, Eva Ogens, Catalin Martin Secretary: Nakia Matthias Guests: \u00a0Martha Ecker, AFT; \u00a0Michael Unger and Sarah Carberry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nI.\u00a0 FAEC Minutes Approved<\/b><\/h4>\n
II.\u00a0 Online Course Evaluations [Martha Ecker, AFT] \u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n
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III.\u00a0 Follow-up to Provost’s Faculty Assembly report<\/b><\/h4>\n
IV.\u00a0 Increasing the number of Faculty at RCNJ through the Implementation of Instructor Lines<\/b><\/h4>\n
V. Michael Unger and Sarah Carberry, GECCo \u00a0[General Education and FAEC Assessment]<\/b><\/h4>\n
VI.\u00a0 FAEC Assessment<\/b><\/h4>\n
Meeting Adjourned at 12:00 pm<\/b><\/h4>\n