ࡱ> 463 bjbjߍ .(ppppp$hPRRRRRR,A~p~ppppPP01%dbj<0p\~~ 6:   Faculty Assembly Executive Council Minutes November 14, 2012 ASB 230, 9:15-10:45am Present: Jill Weiss, Donna Crawley, Ken McMurdy, Tae Kwak, Irene Kuchta, Murray Sabrin, Jonathan Lipkin, Bob Becklen Absent: Jennefer Mazza Secretary: Rebecca Root 1. Motion to approve previous minutes. FA Pres. Weiss proposed several revisions, approved by consent. 5 votes to approve, 2 abstentions. Minutes approved. 2. Discussion of Todays Faculty Assembly Agenda a. Provost Barnett has indicated that the Assistant Dean application for tenure could be submitted to the All-College Tenure Committee for recommendation. Discussed this possibility. Many agreed this was a helpful suggestion. It was noted, however, that this persons packet would be submitted in the Fall of their second year, so this only adds one years worth of Ramapo experience to judge. Discussed the importance of having input from the convening group to which the administrator belong if returned to the faculty. b. Discussion of whether to table the motion about the need for procedures for closure of graduate programs. Pres. Weiss noted that many schools (like TCNJ) have clear policies for this, but we do not. Voted on whether to table the motion. All 7 votes were not to table. Voted on whether to change the motion from a decision item to a discussion item. Five voted in favor, 3 voted against. The motion will be changed to a discussion item. c. Pres. Weiss revised the FA agenda item regarding ARC recommendations on course caps to accurately reflect ARCs action. (They did not recommend course caps on FYS, so that was eliminated.) Provost Barnett and Pres. Weiss disagreed as to which caps have in fact been raised in the past year, and Pres. Weiss has forwarded images from the Course Offerings webpages to indicate which caps have changed. It is unclear whether all relevant caps were consistently changed. We may want to follow up with the Registrar about what changes have been implemented. d. Follow-up on art therapy track motion. There has been a request from the Psychology convening group to table the motion to approve this program while the group discusses it. At the FA, ARC Chair Prof. Emma Rainforth will indicate whether it is being tabled. e. Pres. Weiss will make a motion to approve the last FA minutes and mention again need for interim FA secretary. (Secretary Root is willing to stand for Secretary again if no-one else is available, but an interim Secretary is needed for next semester). She will also remind faculty about the Provosts email about make-up assignments for the storm. 3.Discussion of Class Schedule Change Proposal Rep. Sabrin asked unit reps to solicit feedback from units about schedule change, and to ask unit secretaries about how frequently 8am courses are offered. He tentatively suggested three changes: pushing back 8am courses to a later start time (to boost enrollment), eliminating common lunch hour (to create an additional time slot for course offerings), and offering new combinations of teaching days (such as MWF, TR, etc). Unit reps expressed mixed opinions from their respective units about eliminating common lunch hour. TAS expressed concern about time between course time slots because 15 minutes is not enough time to set up labs. In SSHS, most faculty did not have strong feelings on this, but those who do are quite polarized. Rep. Sabrin has also requested this info from the Registrar. This will be a discussion item at next FA. 4. Surveys of Faculty a. On the faculty survey on deans, we have received approx. 115 responses. At todays FA, Pres. Weiss will remind faculty to complete this. b. On the survey on tenure/promotion criteria, slight revisions were discussed (like cutting the words Do you feel from each question.) The final question will be rewritten by Pres. Weiss to suggest that criteria for promotion should be independent of how many slots for promotion are available. c. It was noted that we need to follow-up on the issue of the BoT policy on caps on the percentage of faculty that can be promoted (an issue raised last academic year, but not yet brought to the BoT for a vote). Pres. Weiss will follow up on this. 5.Other Business a. Pres. Weiss will ask Provost Barnett to raise the issue of syllabus photocopying for Spring semester at the Deans Council. It appears this policy is not being applied in all units, and in those units where it is in effect, faculty have expressed dissatisfaction with it. b. It was agreed that we will schedule the meeting of the Executive Council and the Presidents Cabinet for Monday, December 3 at 2pm. c. VP Crawley noted there was recently a meeting at which an outside consultant met with Enrollment Management, the Provost, and others to report on the issue of bringing more adult students to campus. The findings were somewhat surprising and will likely impact recruitment strategies in future, so she would like to report to the Executive Council on this at our next meeting. Pres. Weiss will put this on the next agenda. "*+u  " $ % d e m o u  ! 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