Hey everyone,
It's the week before Spring Break and all through the halls, the faculty were stir crazy and the students missing in action. Hopefully you aren't nuts yet. We've got a faculty meeting this week. Here are a few highlights and things to prepare for:
1. Faculty Senate Elections: We need to nominate people at Instructor and Associate Professor rank to run for ranked senator positions. Each dept forwards one name for each rank and those are placed on a ballot for faculty (at that rank only) to elect a faculty senator to represent that rank.
2. Health Communication major revisions discussion. Attached Health Communication Major Proposal.doc are a few items for you to review before the meeting. Heather Carmack has headed up an ad hoc committee to discuss how the major can be revised to attract new students. Members of the committee are Heather, John, Lynn, Isabelle, Stephanie, and myself. Heather and I will review the proposal & discussion thus far by the committee. There is no vote planned at the meeting, only for you to provide initial input into the proposal so that the committee can continue to fine tune the proposal.
3. The main item is to provide a forum to discuss our strategies for responding to "low productivity" as described in the president's email. I will share a few comments about what those numbers mean. Also, I have met with the administrative team to brainstorm possible responses and I will share those as a starting point. I've attached a working RecruitmentPlanDraft09.doc document of those items here. I'd like you to review the list of action steps before Wednesday's meeting and provide your input at that time.
4. There will likely be a few miscellaneous items added by Wed. For example, we still have to discuss the writing test plan previously submitted, soI'll put that as old business. If time, we'll follow up on Wednesday, or push it to April. If you have something you'd like to add, please let me know.