FAEC Minutes, 3/28/2018

Faculty Assembly Executive Council (FAEC) Meeting Minutes

March 28, 2018

ASB 008 Room

10:30am to 12:30am

Attendees:鈥� Christina Connor, Donna Flynn (for Cristina Perez), Roark Atkinson, Kathryn Zeno, Tae Kwak, Gladys Torres-Baumgarten, Kim Lorber, Eva Ogens, Renata Gangemi

Excused: Cristina Perez

Secretary:鈥� Hugh Sheehy

  1. 聽聽聽聽Minutes of 2/28/18 approved.
  2. 聽聽聽聽The President has yet to convene the Strategic Plan Assessment/Revision Task Force. 聽Faculty members of the TF are concerned they will not have adequate time to genuinely assess the current Strategic Plan since the TF鈥檚 report is due to the President on June 1, 2018. 聽The Task Force for the new Plan was informed that their work was urgent in the light of a new incoming Provost; FAEC members fear that there will not be enough time to give the new Plan the time and care it requires. It was noted that this Updated Strategic Plan was supposed to mark the implementation of the new Shared Governance principles.
  3. 聽聽聽聽FAEC members discussed possible amendments to bylaws which will allow the bylaws to be updated and made more accurate.
  4. 聽聽聽聽Provost Search: FAEC members discussed their impressions of the candidates for the new Provost position. FAEC members discussed the terms of the positions related to the tenuring of administrators after two years, pending the approval of the Administration. FAEC members raised concerns that excluding faculty from the tenure process for administrators both raises a conflict of interest for the Administration and disenfranchises the Faculty in a way that may not serve the College鈥檚 mission or students.
  5. 聽聽聽聽聽FAEC will invite Nicole Morgan Agard and Martha Ecker to 4/4 FAEC Meeting to discuss status of administrators returning to Faculty.
  6. 聽聽聽聽An FAEC member suggested that more ARC and GECCo members be invited to future meetings to inform FAEC of their work.
  7. 聽聽聽聽FAEC members raised questions about a conversion table for the new Gen Ed and transfer credits in Fall 2018 and also the status of the software platform that will replaced Banner in Fall 2018.
  8. 聽聽聽聽Meeting adjourned 12:30.

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