{"id":5011,"date":"2021-09-30T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/fa\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2021-09-30T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:16:51","slug":"5011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/fa\/2021\/09\/30\/5011\/","title":{"rendered":"FAEC Meeting Minutes, Sept 22, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
FAEC MINUTES 9\/22\/21<\/b><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/span>Present:<\/b> Naseem Choudhury (<\/b>President, SSHS<\/span>), Bonnie Blake <\/b>(Councilor-at-Large over 11, CA), <\/span>Katie Cohen (<\/b>Library), <\/span>Donna Flynn<\/b> (Councilor-at-Large under 11, TAS), <\/span>Ken McMurdy<\/b> (TAS), <\/span>Kim Lorber<\/b> (Secretary), <\/span>Lisa Lutter <\/b>(CA), <\/span>Thierry Rakotobe-Joel<\/b> (ASB), <\/span>Mihaela Serban<\/b> (SSHS), <\/span>Ed Shannon<\/b> (Vice-President, HGS)<\/span><\/p>\n Guests: Virginia Galdieri<\/b> (Assistant Vice President, Human Resources and Benefits Administration); <\/span>Janet Faber<\/b> (Assistant Director, Employee Relations & Faculty Services (AFT) )<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b>Vote to bring meeting to order at 10:07am.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Minutes Approval:<\/b> The 9\/8\/21 and 9\/15\/21 meeting minutes were approved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n FA PRESIDENT\u2019S REPORT<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0Spring 2022 Course Schedule: <\/b>Provost was asked to reconsider not having the virtual option. Questions were asked about Winter and Summer courses, too. Spring 2022 will be hybrid, online, or in-person. There will be no Webex synchronous or asynchronous courses. There are specific guidelines for online courses; recorded asynchronous lectures cannot be used. Traditional online is without meetings or face-to-face.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Printer Paper: <\/b>Refuse collection has been clarified to the faculty via Provost\u2019s email. Printers remain in offices; some units have a budget for printer cartridges, others do not. Paper will be provided.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Faculty In-Service Next Week: <\/b>The hybrid meeting will be run by the bylaws and handbook committees\/taskforce. This will be for faculty only in ASB 136 and via Webex. The meeting will be at 1:15pm after the noon-1pm State of the College by Dr. Jebb.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>DEI Training 9\/15\/21: <\/b>This was discussed.<\/span><\/p>\n FAEC DISCUSSION<\/b><\/p>\n COVID-19 Contact Tracing: <\/b>Faculty have concerns about contact tracing when a student in their class tests positive for COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Does the faculty member have an obligation to disclose to the students that someone who attended the class tested positive? We need more clarification on these issues.<\/span><\/p>\n HR\/ER GUESTS (Virginia Galdieri and Janet Faber<\/b>)<\/span><\/p>\n Faculty Handbook Update: <\/b>Committee\u00a0 meetings have resumed.\u00a0 Handbook revisions will be discussed at the Faculty In-Service. Janet will reach out to Rachel Budin to organize committee updates. There is nothing new to report since the last FAEC presentation. This was not worked on during the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n Promotion\/Reappointment Software: <\/b>This would be great instead of Google docs. This was discussed in the past and would be welcome if future submissions will be electronic.<\/span><\/p>\n Contact Tracing Concerns: <\/b>Contact-tracing issues (see above) were brought to the attention of the guests. One consideration is whether students in the class are all masked; another is whether there was \u201cclose contact.\u201d This could be difficult to assess and problematic for various reasons. Pandemic Assessment Team will discuss this further and provide clarity.<\/span><\/p>\n NEW BUSINESS<\/b><\/p>\n Faculty Assembly Meetings in the Spring: <\/b>The meetings will be in-person or hybrid. We will follow Dr. Jebb\u2019s guidelines. Staff is required to be in-person.<\/span><\/p>\n Unit Council: <\/b>Will be fully face-to-face next semester.<\/span><\/p>\n Convening Groups: <\/b>The meeting mode will be determined by each group.<\/span><\/p>\n Elections: <\/b>ITS liaisons are Bonnie Blake (CA) and Thierry Rakotobe-Joel (ASB). Most FAEC representatives are finishing their terms so elections will be held.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meeting adjourned at 11:58am.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FAEC MINUTES 9\/22\/21 \u00a0Present: Naseem Choudhury (President, SSHS), Bonnie Blake (Councilor-at-Large over 11, CA), Katie Cohen (Library), Donna Flynn (Councilor-at-Large under 11, TAS), Ken McMurdy (TAS), Kim Lorber (Secretary), Lisa Lutter (CA), Thierry Rakotobe-Joel (ASB), Mihaela Serban (SSHS), Ed Shannon (Vice-President, HGS) Guests: Virginia Galdieri (Assistant Vice President, Human Resources and Benefits Administration); Janet Faber […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093,1332,876,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faec-meeting-minutes-2020","category-faec-meeting-minutes-2021","category-ramapo-faec","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n