Title
4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes, January 16, 2015
Subject(s)
Faculty
Governance
Description
Highlights:
-President’s Report: Michelle Moody has been appointed Director of Title IX and Equal Opportunity; Human Resources will now oversee the application process for faculty recruitment; Faculty perceive a lack of trust in departments to make hiring and staffing decisions; The
Provost, in consultation with Deans, has decided not to provide additional data regarding AR scores
-Unfinished Business: Committee on Committees presented Handbook changes that reflect their
earlier recommendations; Summary of those changes was presented; the Senate made edits to proposed changes; voted to approve
-Committee Updates:Faculty Mentoring Committee expressed concerns about the IDEA
-Town Halls on New Lecturer Proposal to be held
-Faculty Development Grant Committee Report:
no viable rubric in place for the evaluation of faculty development grants; Are lecturers and instructors able to compete with faculty with less teaching load?; recommended revision of the budget portion of application
-Faculty Senate in closed session
-IDEA: reviewed reports on IDEA; wide variety of practices among faculty members regarding incentives; discussion of the use of IDEA for formative and summative assessment; IDEA Committee is currently working on
guidelines regarding best practices for using IDEA
-Final examination policies: Listed issues about final exams that will then be discussed in February meeting
-PBK report: General requirements for students to qualify for PBK given; “values-based” requirements for PBK were given; Problem areas for CNU to work on were given; One of CNU’s strengths: our area studies minors; Things that the PBK committee can do NOW were listed; Things that the administration can do were listed; Athletics issues as related to PBK given
-President’s Report: Michelle Moody has been appointed Director of Title IX and Equal Opportunity; Human Resources will now oversee the application process for faculty recruitment; Faculty perceive a lack of trust in departments to make hiring and staffing decisions; The
Provost, in consultation with Deans, has decided not to provide additional data regarding AR scores
-Unfinished Business: Committee on Committees presented Handbook changes that reflect their
earlier recommendations; Summary of those changes was presented; the Senate made edits to proposed changes; voted to approve
-Committee Updates:Faculty Mentoring Committee expressed concerns about the IDEA
-Town Halls on New Lecturer Proposal to be held
-Faculty Development Grant Committee Report:
no viable rubric in place for the evaluation of faculty development grants; Are lecturers and instructors able to compete with faculty with less teaching load?; recommended revision of the budget portion of application
-Faculty Senate in closed session
-IDEA: reviewed reports on IDEA; wide variety of practices among faculty members regarding incentives; discussion of the use of IDEA for formative and summative assessment; IDEA Committee is currently working on
guidelines regarding best practices for using IDEA
-Final examination policies: Listed issues about final exams that will then be discussed in February meeting
-PBK report: General requirements for students to qualify for PBK given; “values-based” requirements for PBK were given; Problem areas for CNU to work on were given; One of CNU’s strengths: our area studies minors; Things that the PBK committee can do NOW were listed; Things that the administration can do were listed; Athletics issues as related to PBK given
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Date
January 16, 2015
Call Number
4.3 B
Statement of Rights
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Original Format
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