Last Faculty Meeting Wrap-Up
We had a faculty meeting Wednesday, April 30. At the end of it we realized it was the last one of the year. Can you believe it...we've completed an entire academic year together. So many accomplishments to recognize, so little time. Here are a few highlights:
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Isabelle was promoted to Associate Professor (and now bearer of the gnome)
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Eric was granted tenure and completed a record breaking debate season and now the "grand poobah"
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Debate Team finished finished 3rd in the NDT and received two top speaker awards from NDT and CEDA
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The CDR staff secured the adult victim offender program through the Springfield Prosecutor's office
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Our undergrad and grad students presented an impressive number of conference papers this year (it's probably a record)
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Faculty completed a successful year of conference papers and publications.
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We hired two new excellent faculty members (Heather and Stephanie)
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The BC staff and graduate assistants return to Craig Hall and the CDR gets great space downtown
Faculty Meeting Highlights
1. Faculty recommended promotion criteria for senior instructor. Eric moved the document be accepted, and Randy seconded. Based on the attached document, the guidelines were unanimously approved. Attached COM Dept senior instructor guidelines-revised.doc are the guidelines we approved (with revisions) and these have been forwarded to the personnel committee and Dean Adams. Both he and the Provost will review these guidelines and provide feedback to the department. At that time, the personnel committee will revise and then submit approved criteria to be included in the departmental guidelines.
2. We also approved a number of changes to the merit plan. These changes will apply to the 2008 calendar year for merit. These revised guidelines are provided COM Merit 04_30_08.doc (these weremoved by Gloria, and seconded by Isabelle). The vote to approve these changes was unanimous). To summarize, here are the following changes:
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Serving as a mentor to probationary faculty (5 points), or other faculty (3 points).
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Points for a 4 in teaching now 20, and 30 points for a level 5
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Points for a 4 in service now 15, and 25 points for level 5.
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While not included in the document, faculty were open to instructors moving some items from level 3 in service to achieve a level 4 or 5 in points.
3. Elections: our numbers were dwindling when time to elect for various committees. The university committees needed nominations, so a couple of you self nominated. I will forward those to the Provost. We needed to elect two new members of the merit committee. Randy is the returning member. I will submit a ballot to you of tenured faculty. Please choose two and the top getters will be elected for 2 year term (tenured faculty cannot refuse a nomination). Members may be re-elected to consecutive terms, but not more than two without the lapse of an intervening term. I also need a volunteer to serve on the COAL technology committee next year and I will be soliciting potential candidates if no one volunteers.
4. Updates
Banner changes are provided for reference COM Undergraduate Banner changes.doc. Please review them, they will go forward as is unless you have a concern.
All Siceluff occupants should have items boxed up and ready to be moved by Monday, May 26. Please identify boxes and furniture in one of three ways. 1) to Craig Hall, room XXX, 2) warehoused to keep 3) surplus. #2 means you want to keep the item but want to have it stored. #3 means you don't want it. All items will be moved from Siceluff to Craig during that last week of May.
If you want a wireless access account through the university, please let me know so that I can set it up for you. We will be adding an additional access point on the 3rd floor of Craig on the northeast corner for better signal.
The COM advisory council met last weekend. If you would like a summary of the meeting and other notes, let me know and I'll forward you the email minutes. I'm going to be asking you next fall for new member referrals. The council would like to grow to 25 members, currently we have 12.
That's all for now. Have a great rest of the semester and summer.
Kelly
In attendance: Galanes, Bauman, King, Waters, Craig, Kyle, Ireland, Walters, Morris (E), Bourhis, Dillon, Coltharp, Dudash.