FAEC MINUTES 9\/23\/2020\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Present:<\/b> Ed Shannon <\/b>\u00a0(HGS), Naseem Choudhury (<\/b>President), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn<\/b> (Councilor-at-Large under 11), Scott Frees<\/b> (TAS), Kim Lorber<\/b> (Secretary), Lisa Lutter, (CA),<\/b> Thierry Rakotbe-Joel<\/b>\u00a0(ASB), Mihaela Serban<\/b> (SSHS),\u00a0 Ashwani Vasishth<\/b> (Councilor-at-Large over 11)<\/p>\n
Guests: Virginia Galdieri (<\/b>Assistant Vice President of Human Resources; HR), Janet Faber<\/b> (Assistant Director, Employee Relations & Faculty Services (AFT; HR)<\/p>\n
Vote to begin meeting to order at 10:04am.<\/p>\n
Minutes Approval:<\/b> The 9\/9\/20 minutes were approved. One abstention. The 9\/16\/20 minutes were approved.<\/p>\n
Councilor-at-Large Over 11:<\/b> We have two candidates. The vote will go out on Monday. A quorum will require a minimum of 50 votes. The candidates are: Bonnie Blake and Alexandre Olbrecht.<\/p>\n
As a future discussion:\u00a0 The roles of the Councilors at large needs to be defined. Should these be tenured\/untenured, other time breakdowns (less than 15 years and over), etc.<\/p>\n
President\u2019s Council: <\/b>The President’s Committee On Campus Sustainability (PCCS)- Dr. Ashwani Vasishth has been the chair. Dr. Vasishth was notified by President Mercer he would no longer be chair. Faculty have a unique opportunity to push for more sustainability practices than Facilities or another campus group due to job security. Faculty on PCCS believe it is essential to have a faculty chair.\u00a0 Dr. Vasishth asked that FA support having a faculty member as the chair of this and be in charge of the committee? FAEC feedback was invited. Some examples are below:<\/p>\n Good News:<\/b><\/p>\n SGA: <\/b>Would like information on how to access help for mental health issues included in all syllabi. ARC is in discussion with SGA regarding this.<\/p>\n Spring Schedule: <\/b>\u00a0The Provost is finalizing the spring schedule. There are 200 live classes and a variety of formats will be used for the others.<\/p>\n Spring Break:<\/b> It is possible spring break may be cancelled this year to allow faculty to have more time to prep for the spring during a longer winter break while also minimizing the risk of students leaving campus for spring break and bringing COVID-19 back upon return.<\/p>\n ITS Issues: <\/b>Assistant Dean Kathy Burke has been advocating with ITS for assistance in the Respondus exam process. For the moment, Jefferson Sampson will be available by phone for the indefinite future. A shortage of student assistants (due to student job budget cuts) has resulted in great delays and the needs for more immediate response opportunities. There is a proposal to divide help desk requests into urgent and non-urgent. Is there a hotline number we can call if something is happening in class and must be addressed immediately? Contact your dean for the immediate future regarding urgent ITS needs (such as in-class tech issues).<\/p>\n HR Report by Virginia Galdieri and Janet Faber:<\/b><\/p>\n Promotion Process: <\/b>All of the binders have been scanned to make the process electronic. Candidates\u2019 can give their final approval of their binders by the end of day tomorrow; at least 7 of 9 have approved.<\/p>\n Spring 2020 Promotion Schedule:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Virginia will send an email to see if this schedule is viable. It is hard to fit another committee into the fall schedule: Sabbatical, Tenure, FDF are already taking up most Wednesday meeting slots. Since we are working remotely, it may be possible to have meetings on other days at other times.<\/p>\n Once the committee begins, candidates cannot add further information to their application packets.<\/p>\n 10\/14 or 10\/15 might be the deadline for adding anything to the tenure packages.<\/p>\n Virginia will ask if the tenure committee can have an extension. The HR calendar is coordinated with others on campus. Perhaps working backwards from the final deadline will provide more time than the 9\/29 deadline for the Promotions Committee from the last academic year. The committee will be solicited.<\/p>\n Faculty Handbook: <\/b>Can this be revised this academic year? In our digital world, much is not addressed in the handbook. Units function differently.<\/p>\n Faculty Handbook Concerns:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Meeting adjourned at 11:57am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FAEC MINUTES 9\/23\/2020\u00a0 Present: Ed Shannon \u00a0(HGS), Naseem Choudhury (President), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn (Councilor-at-Large under 11), Scott Frees (TAS), Kim Lorber (Secretary), Lisa Lutter, (CA), Thierry Rakotbe-Joel\u00a0(ASB), Mihaela Serban (SSHS),\u00a0 Ashwani Vasishth (Councilor-at-Large over 11) Guests: Virginia Galdieri (Assistant Vice President of Human Resources; HR), Janet Faber (Assistant Director, Employee Relations & Faculty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093,876,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faec-meeting-minutes-2020","category-ramapo-faec","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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