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Faculty Meeting 11/5/08, 3:00, Craig 336

Kelly McNeilis — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:58:00 GMT

Announcements and Upcoming Events

1) Faculty Senate agenda to include our new minor and major option in Ethical Leadership
Plan to attend this session to support the new programs! Thursday, November 13 at 3:30 in PSU 313.

2) Compensation and the Evaluation of Teaching
On Friday, November 14, at 1:30 p.m. in Meyer Library 101, there will be a meeting targeting Personnel Committee Chairs, administrators and interested faculty on features of the Compensation System which have been developed in response to assessment information collected by the Senate and other discussions that occurred last spring. Members of the Compensation committee will be available to explain aspects of the Best Practices document which is now on the Provost’s website.

The second half of the meeting will focus on emerging practices in the evaluation of teaching. Initially, the focus will be on formative approaches used to improve teaching. Implications for how merit and Tenure & Promotion plans might include various approaches for the evaluation of teaching in the future will be explored.

3) Craig Hall sisal to be removed summer 2009! Yes indeed, the reports are due. All of the 3rd floor classrooms, which still have sisal, will have it removed. Good news/bad news. Good news that we’ll have clean walls beginning fall 2009 semester. Bad news this will take the whole summer, so we will not be offering classes in Craig hall next summer. So, if you plan to teach next summer, plan on your class being somewhere in the vicinity.

4) NFA tournament in April confirmed! Again the dates are April 16-20, 2009. Thursday-Sunday sessions will occur on MSU campus and Monday’s final rounds will occur on Drury’s campus. I’ll invite Curt Gilstrap to a future faculty meeting to discuss the tournament and how students and faculty may participate.

5) New color printer for the COM lab has arrived! Thanks to the Provost's major equipment budget, we were approved for this and it was delivered on Monday. The printer is HUGE and so we need to purchase an appropriate desk/cabinet and reconfigure the lab to accommodate it. I will be working with Brooks and Karen (and the PR faculty) to get something ordered soon. I anticipate we could have the printer up and running for classroom use (initially) by Thanksgiving.

6) Craig Hall space utilization discussions beginning to take shape. When MCL moves to Siceluff Hall next August, faculty offices and lab space they occupy now will be available for redistribution to COM, Theatre and Dance, and MJF. I am in preliminary discussions with those heads right now. Next I will be talking with our directors of administrative programs affected by this. I don't want to give any details until we get this finalized and approved by the dean. I can say this though, with the number of faculty spaces in MCL being freed up, all three departments should have space for one faculty member per office--no more sharing for full time faculty! This should begin in fall 2009.

Faculty Meeting Draft Agenda
Discussion Topics

Report from Faculty Concerns Committee by Liz. She wants to ask you a few questions that are being tossed about in the FCC including developing a policy for assigning credit/pay for faculty who work on independent studies, theses, and possibly service learning.
The Compensation Committee is currently discussing a number of topics. One of them I wanted your feedback on: How would you feel about moving the evaluation period for merit to an academic year? In that scenario your application would be due in September (and involve work done the past spring and fall semesters).
Administrative Areas reports: Basic Course, CDR, Debate, Grad Program, Dean's Fellow
Public Affairs in the Major continued: I’ll share with you some of the ideas that are being floated about in the college for various ways to incorporate public affairs through college wide activity.
Classroom upgrade money for to upgrade Craig hall classrooms for use in the basic course. Where are we now?
Advising Tips and Reminders
Other Items? If you have something you’d like to discuss, please let me know and we will include it.

Kelly

October 15 Faculty Meeting Follow-Up

Kelly McNeilis — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:51:00 GMT

I’ve attached the meeting minutes to the email with this blog post. Please review it for items discussed and those needing attention for future meetings (i.e. your inventory of the 3 public affairs themes in your classes). I want to follow up with a couple of items that I didn’t get a chance to share with you and are important to note.

1. COM budget: I wanted to share with you during the faculty meeting that the Dean has yet to approve our carry forward proposals for this year’s budget. This means that we don’t have access to the over $30000 left in our budget from last year just yet. You’ll recall that at the August faculty meeting I provided a proposal for initiatives and priorities this year using our regular budget, incentive money from MSAS courses, and carry forward money. Some of the items include a new Level I classroom for use by COM 115 sections, support for graduate assistant for Randy, support for the debate program with a part-time coach, and faculty development money. I’ve transferred money to cover the part time assistants for this year, but I’ve put the classroom upgrade on hold for now. Dean Adams assures me we can go forward with our plans, but since we can work with ETC to install the classroom anytime this year, there isn’t as huge a rush to push this forward. As soon as I get word back from the dean on our carry forward proposal, I will let you know.

Relatedly, the Provost approved our major equipment request for a color laser printer for our computer lab. I will work with Karen to get this ordered as soon as we can. The classroom upgrade Level I request was denied. If you’ll recall we asked for another upgrade to go along with the one we are to purchase ourselves (as noted above). The provost argued that there are funds for that in other areas and didn’t want major equipment funds to go towards infrastructure.

2. Our new copier. The copier we purchased last January has a yearly service contract with a specified number of copies we can use without additional charge. When we renewed our agreement in August, it was noted that we had gone over our allotment by 20,000 copies. We had to pay a penalty on our service contract to cover the overage. There are number of reasons why we incurred so many additional copies from February to July, but I did want to make a couple of comments. I am not a copy nazi, but there are a few simple steps that you can take to reduce the wear and tear on the copier and make it so that we don’t have to pay stiff cash penalties when we go over our allotment.

• We have a policy that if you need to make more than 100 copies (total pages copied) that we submit your job to COPYTHIS. It’s far less expensive to use their service than to pay a penalty for additional copies on our service contract. This requires advance preparation on your part though and with a 24-hour turn around.

• Let me make an additional EASY suggestion, we have student workers who need to be utilized more efficiently and one way to do that is to submit your job (articles in particular) to our student worker and have them scan it and make a PDF. In most all cases, they can do the scan while you wait! They will email the PDF to you or put on your clipdrive. Then YOU send the PDF to your students or post it on blackboard.
Please take these simple suggestions for what they are, easy ways for us to save money on penalties for copy overage and make our copier last longer.

FOLLOW UP
Congratulations to Liz Dudash and her COM 597 students for putting on a professional program of Debate Watch Wednesday night at the Gilloiz. There was great turnout of both students and community members. This was a lot of work and coordination and so Liz is to be commended for providing a great learning experience for her students, but also an event that the community could participate in.

Make plans to visit with Dr. Scott Titsworth during his visit next week. At a minimum, come to the reception for him at Stephanie’s house on Tuesday night at 5:30. Don’t forgot to put Don’s reception on your calendar for Friday, October 24, at 3:00 in the Alumni Center’s Hospitality Room (1st floor). At the October 25 MSU football game, the Holt V. Spicer Debate Forum (our debate team) will be recognized between the first and second quarters. Maybe we can have a tailgate party before and all go to the football game to support the great work Eric and Heather have done with our debate team!

Next Faculty Meeting, Wednesday November 6 at 3:00 in Craig 337.

Kelly

Catching up after faculty meeting, planning for next faculty meeting

Kelly McNeilis — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:40:00 GMT

Minutes from Sept 24 faculty meeting were attached to the email you received announcing the blog.

Reminder: Faculty meeting October 15, 3:00, Craig 337

Items for discussion to include: Banner policies and admission to the major, report of writing in the majors committee, Public Affairs in your courses list, NFL tournament participation, and others to be added.

UPCOMING EVENTS for your calendars:

• Debate Watch, Wednesday, Oct 15 at 7:00 at the Gilloiz Theatre. Liz’s 597 class is organizing the event. Consider extra credit to your students for attending! Panel discussion before debate and Q&A afterwards.

• Come to the COAL tailgate party, Saturday from 11:00 a.m. -- 1:00 p.m. FREE FOOD and games for the kids, visit with former students, and enjoy the great weather.

• Celebrating our retired faculty members!

• Russ Keeling to be inducted into the Wall of Fame on Friday, October 10 at 3:30 on the 3rd floor of the PSU near the elevators. PLEASE plan to attend so that we can support Russ’ accomplishments and contributions to the university for over 30 years.
• Don Stanton will receive the Homecoming Award of Recognition Friday, October 10 at the Homecoming Dinner.
• On Friday, October 24, we’ll have a reception for Don to congratulate him on this award. It will likely be at 3:00, location TBA. Please put this item on your calendar!

Let me know if there are other events you'd like to post on the blog.

Kelly

Faculty Meeting Wednesday at 3:00 in Craig 337

Kelly McNeilis — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:26:00 GMT

Major's Fair, teaching classes, meeting with department heads, President's address, COM Week--so much going on these days! September was never so busy before...or was it and I just blocked it out?

Below is a list of items that we'll be reviewing and discussing at the faculty meeting tomorrow at 3:00. In particular, I want to call your attention to a few items that need your review before the meeting. NOTE: Since this is coming to you the day before, if you have to choose an item to focus on, pay attention to #1 regarding the minor and what our strategy for a minor should be.

1) Attached are two versions of the minor in Ethical Leadership proposal (original plan alternative plan). Please review each and come prepared to discuss their merits tomorrow. This item will be couched in a discussion about how the department may position itself relative to infusing the 3 themes of the public affairs mission into major/minor programs (see #3 below).

2) Also, I'll provide a couple of items for curricular "clean up" for discussion and possible vote. I'm not attaching the forms here, but I'll have draft copies of the forms tomorrow. There will be two items:

A proposal to revise the pre-requisites for COM 436 to include COM 115 and 60 hours completed.
A proposal to include a number of courses in the various COM Studies program options electives that were recommended at our August meeting (e.g. adding COM 360 to the org com major, and other classes to health com, etc.).

And 3), see the attached worksheet that the dean has asked that we draft regarding what we do now (and can) to infuse the 3 public affairs themes into our undergraduate experience more intentionally. This is related to the priority of the President and Provost to shore up the how public affairs is infused into student academic experiences now that GEP 397 has been put on a two year hiatus. The worksheet is not an assignment for you to complete, but as orientation to what we may consider in infusing the three themes into the experience that every one of our majors should have.

Finally 4), I had asked you to provide me with travel and equipment request by this September faculty meeting. So, please bring those requests with you to the meeting tomorrow. Please put in travel requests for conferences during this academic year. Karen has copies in the office of these forms.

Essentially these are our main agenda items tomorrow, with additional items noted below too.

Items for discussion and notices about upcoming events

1. Advising Workshop for COM Advisors: Wednesday October 1, 12-1 in Craig 337. If you need a refresher or are new to advising, please plan to attend this interactive workshop. In addition to a number of topics, we will briefly discuss how the new Banner system will require a change in how we process major requests.

Don't forget about a few upcoming Academic Advisor Forums: Connecting with Diverse Students, Thursday, 12-1, PSU 313 and Identifying Students in Distress, Monday, Sept 29, noon-1, PSU 313

2. Major equipment requests ($5000 or more) from all departments in COAL were recently forwarded to the college/provost. Attached: Equipment Prioritized FY09 Requests.xlsx is a list of those items sent to the provost in priority listing. Notice the two COM items (SMART Classroom upgrade and Color Laser printer) were listed in the top ten--this rating bodes well for us getting these items. Word of caution though, the provost will say grace over these items next.

3. I'll share with you efforts to co-host an NFA tournament with Drury next April. National Forensics Association is a collegiate tournament for debate and individual events. Curt Gilstrap from Drury approached me about this and I will brief you on what would be involved in co-hosting the tournament on campus next April. No final decision has been made yet, but we are investigating the opportunity. If we agree to it, there could be a significant financial gain for the department.

4. At the faculty meeting we will revisit the discussion about writing in the majors that was developed at the August faculty meeting. I will likely request that those folks constitute an ad hoc committee to develop the writing project ideas further.

5. Finally, I'll also share efforts by Randy Dillon and I to host Dr.Scott Titsworth in October as our invited scholar. You'll recall we had Dr. Lynn Harter here last spring for a visit with graduate students and faculty. We've invited Scott to do the same thing this fall. Please put these dates on your calendar, Oct 19-22. We will host various events that everyone is invited to.

See you Wednesday at 3:00.

Kelly

Faculty Meeting Wrap Up

Kelly McNeilis — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:19:00 GMT

Good Monday to you. I hope you have a great first week of the semester. Please check your classrooms for necessary equipment (instructor table, overhead, lectern, etc.) and let us know if something is missing or if the room is in disarray.

Faculty Meeting Overview

Thank you for a very productive meeting last Friday. I think we made some good headway in getting a number of issues developed for this year. Thanks to John we have a rough draft of a leadership minor. I am meeting with Dean Adams tomorrow and will have him review this proposal and we'll move forward from there. We also have some great ideas ruminating about a writing test for admission to the major (among other writing ideas). The catalog copy was reviewed and we have a number of clean up items to attend to this fall. And finally, the discussion of speech and theatre led to some movement on course rotations and staffing of new courses. Thanks to each of your groups for the effort and enthusiasm put forward. We will continue to work on each of these topics, among others, as the semester goes on. I'll be in touch with a couple of members from each group to follow up on the ideas fowarded.

We also completed a number of elections for various committees this year.

Merit Committee: Randy Dillon (1 more year), Janis King and Char Berquist (2 year term)

COAL Scholarship Committee: Lynn Borich

COAL Student Success Committee: Jerri Lynn Kyle

QUICK NOTES

Merit Report: I will work on the annual merit report form in the next couple of weeks. As soon as I get it done, I'll send it out for your review. We should have a brief discussion at the next faculty meeting to confirm the changes from last year and have an opportunity to make further amendments.

Next Faculty Meeting: Wednesday, September 24, 3:-4:30, Craig 337

Colloquium: Monday, September 8, 12-1pm, Craig 337: "Is There a Doctor in the House?" Stephanie Norander and Heather Carmack

THANKS to Gloria and Noah for hosting the beginning of the year party at their house Friday. Great place, good food, and good company!

Additional Agenda Items not covered Friday

A. Current class enrollments and major numbers. I will provide these at the next faculty meeting in September.

B. Departmental commitments/activities this year:
i. Your requests for travel and equipment. Please submit your anticipated travel requests for this year. I've put the travel request forms in your mailboxes this morning and attached it here as well. You may also submit a request for additional equipment and that form is provided here. Please have both those submitted to me before our next faculty meeting in September. I have to submit a budget request to the dean immediately after that.

ii. Space issues: Depending on how you look at it, our temporarily cramped quarters in Craig this year is either a good thing or bad thing. The good news is that we moved all the Siceluff occupants into Craig hall. Additionally, we have welcomed two new faculty members into Craig hall. While Siceluff is being renovated this year...we are admittedly very cramped. That a number of you are sharing offices, in some cases 3 of you, is not the optimal situation for meeting with students nor having privacy to do your work. That is the bad news part of it. I ask that you be patient with one another as you share office space. It is temporary. The plans are to have Siceluff remodeled for a fall 2009 move in for the Language and English departments. When Languages moves out, we will reconfigure their offices across three departments (COM, Media, and Theatre). Those discussions are happening this year. Suffice it to say that I anticipate everyone having their own offices sometime during the 2009-2010 academic year.

iii. Banner changes affecting registration, class enrollments, and major admissions. These issues will be at the forefront this year as we will need to develop strategies for enrolling our students for fall 2009 classes when they don't meet pre-reqs related to admission to the major. The new banner system will NOT allow students to register if they don't have pre-reqs. This is a significant change from our current web reg system. I will continue to work with Nicole Rovig on solutions to our admission pre-req and share those ideas with you at faculty meeting.

iv. If you want to have a wireless account through the university, we can get that started for you this fall. Currently we pay $5 per month, per faculty, per wired port in offices. If you want to go wireless, it is a $5 additional monthly charge as well. In order to save on these costs, if you want a wireless account, we will de-activate your wired port. We will do your wireless set up first and get it established before we de-activate your wired port. Let me know via email if you want to do this. BTW, this does not apply to those already set up on wireless, obviously.

v. Bulletin boards. Thanks to Susan's offer to provide the department with a PR intern (1 or 2 credits probably) for the year, I will work with that person revamp, upgrade and maintain two of our current departmental bulletin boards this year (one in the first floor lobby and then the board to the right of the dept office, which currently has grad school brochures on it). We will then utilize Jerri Lynn's PR class to revise the "School" bookcase to the left of the dept office. If you have ideas of one of these boards/bookcases, let me know.

vi. COM Week, Sept 15-19. The theme this year is "Get your Reality Check: Making it in the real world with your communication degree." I've attached the current draft flyer here for you to review and then share with your classes to attend. I will be putting this information in the student InCommon blog this week too. We're still fine tuning the master classes, but the general ideas apply across them. Eric and I are working with Tom Black (alum) to give a keynote address at the luncheon on Friday and as we get that finalized (hopefully) we'll include that in promotional materials. I will also follow up with folks on the other possible master class presenters (from Noble and Penmack).

vii. Debate Watch Oct 15 at the Gilloiz Theatre. I mentioned this at the faculty meeting. As more details are ironed out, we'll share them with you.

viii. Rhwanda documentary and forgiveness in Com 405. Deborah Craig is taking a focus on forgiveness in her class this fall. She is planning to screen Patrick Mureithi's documentary in her class as well as (hopefully) invite him to speak with her class about the film. This is a great opportunity for the COM 405 students. As this opportunity develops, I'll have Deborah share her experiences at a faculty meeting. You can view a trailer for the film on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IUZSBGe2G4. You also can read Patrick’s blog at http://patrickmureithi.blogspot.com/.

ix. Will continue to use Head’s Up and InCommon blogs this semester...as you can read right now.

That's it for now. As other issues come across my desk this well, I'll send out brief emails. Have a good week.

Kelly

Mid-Summer Updates

Kelly McNeilis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:06:00 GMT

Good June/July to you,

Hope your summer is going well and that June was productive. We've still got July and part of August to make progress on all our summer projects. I keep telling myself that "there is still time!" so that I don't keep "lamenting" that the summer is almost over. In keeping with that notion that there is still time, I've got a couple of items for your consideration.

1. For full-time faculty, your 2008-2009 salary statements are here and have been placed in your mailboxes!

2. GOOD NEWS: Stephanie Norander has successfully defended her dissertation as of June 24. If you get a chance, do drop her a congratulatory email: snnorander@yahoo.com or sd829494@ohio.edu
MORE GOOD NEWS: Russ Keeling again scored among the highest honors teaching evaluations for COM 115 last spring, according to Art Spisak. Congrats to Russ for posting some of the highest evaluations in all honors courses for fall 2007 and spring 2008!
**Russ will be inducted in the PSU Wall of Fame this October. The entire 2008 class of inductees will be honored during a special ceremony at 3:30 October 10 in the Plaster Student Union's West Ballroom. The event will be open to the public. We should show up en masse to support Russ in this recognition of his service to MSU. Russ joins Holt Spicer, a 2002 inductee.

3. As you work on your syllabi for fall classes, please be sure to include the required boilerplate info from the Provost. Here is the link the that information: http://www.missouristate.edu/provost/syllabi.htm

Also remember that if you are using Turnitin (the plagiarism detection system), we recommend that you inform students via the syllabus. Suggested wording is as follows, and this could be included in the section on academic dishonesty:
“Students’ papers may be submitted to Turnitin, plagiarism detection system. Students will be allowed to submit their own papers, and the instructor may also submit a student’s paper. Please visit the Turnitin website at http://turnitin.com.”

4.August 22 is the date for our beginning of the year faculty retreat.
The CDR is hosting us in their downtown space this year. Some of you may remember the old Bank of America building. It’s now called the PCOB (Park Central Office building) and the CDR is now located there and has some great space there for training and other programs. We have three dedicated classrooms for COM 115 there as well.
We will meet in PCOB, 2nd floor room 209 for a continental breakfast and tour. So, please schedule 8:30-4:00 for our retreat. As the summer progresses I’ll send you draft agenda items.

5. A couple of items for your calendars:
• The COAL all college faculty meeting is set for Thursday, August 21, 9-11 a.m., in Karls 101.
• NCA panel information has now been posted for your review. You are advised to register immediately for the conference, if you plan to attend. I would also recommend that you reserve your hotel space and start checking on flights as soon as possible. Hotel space is at a premium this year, so reserve early. You may contact Karen to reserve your hotel room centrally on our departmental budget. Please keep in mind that your travel allocation will be roughly $750 from the dean, and likely another $350 from the department for a total of $1000 for one major conference this year. I will be asking for your travel requests again at the first faculty meeting.

6. Two Upcoming Issues for consideration this year:

• Plus/minus grading approved at June Board of Governors Meeting

The plus/minus grading proposal passed by Faculty Senate (VD BOG Resolution Plus Minus Grading System.pdf) was approved by the BOG in June, specifically:

• This new grading system will be slated for implementation in Fall 2009 and should be included in syllabi statements.
• The grade C- is defined as “slightly below satisfactory work” and is assigned a point value of 1.7.
Two very practical implications of this:
• Students with a cumulative “C-“ average fall below the 2.0 threshold of academic
eligibility.
• A course grade of C- will not satisfy course and program requirements to earn “a C or
better.” This means we will have to discuss how this affects our core and overall gpa requirements for admission.

Also important to note: Faculty have the choice of whether to use pluses and minuses or not, but your choices must be explicitly noted in course syllabi.

• There will be an appeals process created for students whose eligibility for scholarship
renewal is adversely affected by plus/minus grades.
• There will be a study of the impact of plus/minus grades after two years to determine any
effects on GPAs and scholastic honors at graduation (cum laude, etc.), the results to be
shared with both Faculty Senate and SGA

• SB389
Senate Bill 389 requires that state colleges and universities publish certain “quality” information, ncluding information about their faculties and student evaluations. Based on the preference of Faculty Senate, MSU is attempting to comply with the student evaluation requirement by having students voluntarily answer online five global questions for each of their classes. However, out of over 4000 sections offered this spring, fewer than 1% of those sections had at least 10 student responses. ALC has asked Senate Chair Pauline Nugent to approach the Senate Executive Committee about endorsing the idea of administering these five standardized questions as part of the written, in-class evaluations that students already complete.

Take care and we'll be in touch soon,

Kelly

Salutations, Congratulations, Nice One!

Kelly McNeilis — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:57:00 GMT

Greetings everyone,

Hope you are enjoying the early part of your summer break. Things are rockin' and rollin' here in Craig Hall. As many of you know, Siceluff is being vacated for renovations and the big move day was today. This move included our Basic Course Staff. Thanks to those of you who boxed up all your belongings and marked them accordingly. With John B's able assistance and direction, we got all the furniture, journals, and random items marked and boxed up yesterday for the move today. John's also been working hard these last couple of days to get the GA office in Craig 394 ready for the grad students this fall. I appreciate all your patience as we make this transition. I'm sure it will take a few months to get everything where we want it (including my office...what a pit!). Thanks also go to Karen for her great work in getting all the phone transferred as well as data ports and name plates for the offices. I'll send out another update later this summer when things get more organized.

The real reason for this email is to make some exciting announcements. Please be sure to congratulate these folks on a job well done!

Isabelle has been named the COAL Dean's fellow for graduate education and research. Isabelle will be working with the dean's office next year to coordinate research efforts and graduate program initiatives, all with a one course release. We know Isabelle will represent us well.

Randy #1: has graciously agreed to be acting director of graduate studies next year while Isabelle has her new appointment. "Second time around" Randy, as we like to refer to him, has been grad director before and so he knows the ropes quite well. He'll be teaching COM 601 this fall and working with all things graduate students.

Randy #2: was recently notified that his manuscript "How alumni narratives of intercultural competence can inform the scholarship of teaching and learning of intercultural communication" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Congrats Randy!

Robyn has been appointed Assistant Director of the Basic Course! She will be assisting John with administration of the COM 115 program. A few things she'll sink her teeth into are graduate assistantship mentoring, weekly staff meetings, and other duties as assigned. I'm sure everyone will give their support to Robyn as she embarks on this administrative journey.

Dr. Russell Keeling, Emeritus faculty member has recently been approved by the Board of Governors to be accepted to the Wall of Fame in the Plaster Student Union. He will be officially inducted at a ceremony October 10, 2008 at 3:30 in the PSU ballroom. I hope you will join me in attending the ceremony to support Russ for his "too many to count" accomplishments while a member of this university for 34 years.

Char and the fine folks at the CDR have recently announced the start of Missouri's first ever adult victim offender mediation program with the Greene County Prosecutor's office. You received an email about this earlier in May, but it bears repeating that this is a cutting edge program in restorative justice and our hats go off to Char and Heather and the rest of the many volunteers with the CDR! They want me to remind you that there are trainings coming soon for this program.

FREE VOLUNTEER TRAINING May 30 - June 1, 2008

The CDR is offering a two-and-a-half day victim-offender mediation training on May 30 - June 1. This training will prepare volunteers to mediate juvenile and/or adult victim-offender cases. Click here for more information. <http://www.missouristate.edu/cdr/VictimOffenderMediationTraining.htm>

Basic Juvenile Victim-Offender Mediation Training (Friday, May 30, 5:30 - 9:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 31, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sunday, June 1, 9 a.m. - noon)

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER

Click here to read more about the training <http://www.missouristate.edu/cdr/VictimOffenderMediationTraining.htm> or to register now! http://www.missouristate.edu/cdr/VictimOffenderRegisterNow.htm. You can also read more about our Victim-Offender Mediation Program at http://www.missouristate.edu/cdr/JuvenileVictimOffenderProgram.htm

If you have other exciting news you'd like to share, please do by posting a COMMENT here on the blog for others to see and appreciate! Have a great summer!

Kelly

Last Faculty Meeting Wrap-Up

Kelly McNeilis — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:31:00 GMT

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:

Isabelle was promoted to Associate Professor (and now bearer of the gnome)
Eric was granted tenure and completed a record breaking debate season and now the "grand poobah"
Debate Team finished finished 3rd in the NDT and received two top speaker awards from NDT and CEDA
The CDR staff secured the adult victim offender program through the Springfield Prosecutor's office
Our undergrad and grad students presented an impressive number of conference papers this year (it's probably a record)
Faculty completed a successful year of conference papers and publications.
We hired two new excellent faculty members (Heather and Stephanie)
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:

Serving as a mentor to probationary faculty (5 points), or other faculty (3 points).
Points for a 4 in teaching now 20, and 30 points for a level 5
Points for a 4 in service now 15, and 25 points for level 5.
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.

April 16 meeting follow-up

Kelly McNeilis — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:20:00 GMT

Thanks everyone for a productive meeting Wednesday. I apologize for not getting this follow up sooner, Thursday filled up for me.

Below is a brief summary of the discussion we had about program review, followed by the remaining faculty meeting agenda items. PLEASE review this entire post because there are items that were not discussed at the faculty meeting that I want everyone to be aware of. One particular item of note: the next Faculty Meeting has been rescheduled to Wednesday, April 30 at 2:00.

Program Review Discussion

We asked the dean and provost to visit with us at Wednesday to respond to our program review. With respect to the dean's response, I'm attaching the written response Carey provided me right before the faculty meeting. It is his "formal" written responseDean_program_review_response_COM_2008.docx . He has committed to funding the CDR position fully next year, which means we are "relieved" of our 1/2 salary committment. However, as he indicated in the meeting, permanent funding is not yet a possibilty. He DID say that he is committed to funding it year to year until something does shake lose. It's clear from him comments, to me at least, that he and I have yet to come to an agreement about how to proceed with the CDR position beyond next year. I thought that when we offered to leverage the 3 year salary savings that he would find a permanent position. So, I'll discuss this further with him next Tuesday.

The Provost's comments were more general. She's not put herself in a position to attach any money to programs based on their reviews at this time. She has gone through a bit of a change with how she's approaching the process and outcomes of program review. She has said repeatedly that we put together a fine program review, and that we're one of the strongest departments in the college. And as we accumulate more years from this first program review and we continue to make progress towards our self-selected goals, we approach the dean for support of our initiatives. The support for program reviews and their outcomes is now college bound. She was also very direct in saying that while we have the "civic engagement" aspect of public affairs nailed down, she challenged us to look at ways to develop ethical leadership or cultural competence more fully. These are the three elements she has articulated as embodying public affairs. There are public affairs grants, curriculum grants, and other RFPs that we can tap into for resources to support any of these endeavors. In the end, she ended up agreeing to some extent with Carey that while there are more pressing needs of the college for overall staffing, and despite our priority being the CDR, we may have to live with the decision that "not this year, but maybe next year while we address more accute needs in the college."

After that Gloria asked a follow up question about the CDR position being not permanently funded and the problems associated with year to year funding. Other questions were posed relative to the link of merit to T&P, senior instructor rank, and overall impression of how merit plans and implementation went this year. Regarding merit, Carey reported being relatively happy with how the process went in COAL. Belinda is less positive about the overall compensation plan, saying that it's the most complex process she's ever seen. She believes there are other simpler models that departments can explore and she's supportive of that flexibility as long as criteria are rigorous and justifiable.

I would appreciate any comments, questions or follow up concerns you have on the basis of the facuty meeting or anything I've outlined above.

Other Agenda Items from Faculty Meeting

Heather Carmack successfully defended her dissertation on Monday! It would be great if you emailed her a quick note of congratulations. Her email is hc200403@ohio.edu
Allison Coltharp spoke about her trip to China. She indicated that any faculty member who wanted to do a teaching workshop from the MSU faculty they could be supported in their travel. Allison can get you in touch with those who plan such trips. The current instructor there, Chuck Eastman, is leaving after this year and they are looking for a replacement. If you know of a recent MA grad who would do well teaching public speaking at the Dalian campus, let Allison know. She can pass that info along as well.
Senior Instructor Criteria being developed. Thanks to our instructors, we are starting to develop criteria for the promotion to senior instructor. After the faculty meeting, we had an ad hoc college committee meeting to review criteria coming from the departments. There was an interesting issue that came up relative to whether a specific merit composite score (teaching + service) should be identified in order to apply for promotion. This was debated and it was agreed that individual depts should develop that criteria but that the college would not specify that. Based on feedback we received on COM's plan (from dean, the personnel committee, and the dean), I will work with the instructors to fine tune our criteria. We will forward that to all faculty for your review prior to our final faculty meeting. It is expected that a set of criteria are in place in each dept by the end of the semester.
I provided a call for applicants for an Assistant Basic Course Director. Applications are due by May 5. If you have any questions, check with John. We plan to have this position filled by the end of the semester.

OF NOTE: I have scheduled a meeting of the COM departmental advisory committee for next weekend, April 24 and 25. There is an informal dinner Friday night, hosted by Don and Vicki Stanton for the members and they've also invited the debate team to celebrate their spectacular season. Saturday is the working meeting. My goal is to develop membership criteria, discuss areas of the department in need of funding/support, identify ways to increase membership, and brainstorm strategies for encouraging more alums to be involved in the department. As soon as I get the agenda finalized this weekend, I will forward it to you as an FYI. I want to thank Char, Heather, and Eric in advance for agreeing to visit with the council on Saturday. I am highlighting their programs basedon recent successes. Current members of the council are John Ashford, Jim Anderson. Debbie Branson, Jackson Harrell, Lynn Harter, Melinda Arnold, Jill Pace, Matt Sellmeyer, Dayna Stock, and Scott Titsworth.

REMINDER: Next faculty meeting is Wednesday, April 30 at 2:00 in Craig hall 337. Items will include review of all banner changes agreed to so far, discussion of the merit system (tweaks we can make this year as well as envisioning other plans for 2009), a few committee elections, and summary of dept conditions survey discussion. I think there is something else, but I can't recall it now. I will email you as there are additional items.

CONGRATS

Congrats to Kelly Tenzek who finished 4th in the second round of oral presentations at last weekend's Graduate Interdisciplinary Forum.
Congrats to Katie Striley who won the Graduate Teaching Assistant award at the IDF.
And, special recognition to Kristin Kirchoff and Lindsey Harness who were nominated for the teaching award as well!

That's all for now.

Kelly

April 16 Faculty Meeting Agenda

Kelly McNeilis — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:15:00 GMT

In preparation for Wednesday's faculty meeting, below is the agenda. I want to stress a couple things about this meeting. First, we've invited the Provost and Dean to meet with us to discuss their goals and plans relative to program review. We have recently committed one position in the department to fund the CDR associate director as our main priority. This is tied to our priorities that evolved out of program review. Among other commitments we've made internally as a department (faculty research, debate, basic course), tomorrow is an opportunity to ask both the Provost and Dean to articulate their responses to our very positive program review. I will make a few introductory remarks at the beginning of our meeting in order to set the stage for them to respond. Beyond program review, this is our opportunity to ask questions of the Provost on other issues of interest to you.

Second, we've got a couple of additional items to attend to after the Provost and Dean are done. If you have other items for discussion or questions to pose to the group, let me know before the meeting and we'll add them to the agenda.

1. Welcome:
    Dr. Belinda McCarthy, Provost
    Dr. Carey Adams, Dean, COAL

2. Allison Coltharp – Visit to China report

3. Senior Instructor Criteria process

4. Updates – Congratulations

    May 7 is Showcase, need to change faculty meeting date:
        April 30 or May 14

    Kelly Tenzek – finished 4th in oral presentations at IDF
    Katie Striley – received Graduate Teaching Award at IDF

    Banner changes confirmation of changes
    Graduate faculty needs to meet and recommend all course changes

Kelly

Welcome Back Spring Breakers

Kelly McNeilis — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:16:00 GMT

Hope you had an enjoyable spring holiday break. I know a couple of you were in and out of the office, while others remained far away. We are in the home stretch now for the end of the semester. I told the students in the InCommon blog that there's still time left in the semester to get things done. Here we go:

Debate Squad SCORES BIG--and the hits just keep coming!

Our debate team is currently at the National Debate Tournament. Here are some preliminary results:

Martin Osborn won top speaker at the 2008 NDT (and last week top speaker at CEDA)! Applause lasted about 5 minutes. Congrats! Michael Mapes 17th Speaker.

Octofinals began this morning and we await the results. Eric reports that this is the first time in as long as he can recall that we had TWO teams into the octifinals. UPDATE: One team lost in octofinals and one is through to the quarter finals (like elite 8).

Faculty Meeting Wrap Up

Banner changes approved at the faculty meeting. There is still time for additional changes or modification, those need to be forwarded to Randy before May.

Faculty Senate elections were completed.

Department Conditions Survey discussion. I've attached a short summary of this discussion here Dept conditions summary.doc. Please review it and provide comments. As I mentioned at the end of the faculty meeting, I want this to be a living document. Please provide your comments and I will include them. By the end of the semester, I have to provide a summary document to the faculty senate outlining our discussion and the outcome thereof.

Program Review Followup: I have gotten some clarification from Dean Adams about how the program review response is to proceed next. He indicated that it's his responsibility to provide a written response to the department regarding the program review. I have invited Dr. Belinda McCarthy to attend our April 16 faculty meeting at 2:00 and she has accepted. As a result of our faculty meeting discussion it was decided that we should invite Dr. McCarthy in order to discuss program review. Now that we know she won't be providing the written response, it is still an opportunity to ask her to comment on her thoughts of the process and how she imagines that resources will be provided to departments who receive positive reviews.

Getting ready for pre-registration

I have posted on the InCommon blog for students to make appointments for advising WELL in advance of their registration window. Pre-registration begins April 4 for seniors and grad students.

Dr. Lynn Harter guest visit week of April 22

Details to come on this, but Lynn Harter is going to do a guest lecture while here part of that week as well as visit with a graduate class or two. Please notify your graduate students about this visit, especially for those interested in qualitative methods and health com generally. I think Lynn will arrive on Wednesday of that week and stay through the weekend.

Advisory Council Meeting planned for April 25-26.

Details on this to come later as well. I am plannng it currently for Friday dinner and then Saturday business meeting beginning in the morning.

Position Requests forwarded to the college.

Each year the department heads submit position requests to the college in order to identify what positions and how many we can search for in any given year. Based on program review and discussions with the administrative team, I forwarded the following position requests in order of priority.

1. Permanent funding for Associate Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution.

2. A three year temporary Instructor to assist the Debate Team. This would involve teaching 3 sections of public speaking per semester, with 1 course reassigned to assist the debate squad. This position will be using my faculty line (which I negotiated to keep during my three years as head).

At the department head's meeting last week, the Dean announced that he would support the 3 year Instructor position for the debate team. The Associate Director position is on hold for coming year and it will continue to be supported again with money from the department and college. I am meeting with Dean Adams to discuss his plans for this position for FY10.

Kelly

Before Spring Break--Faculty Meeting Prep and Important Announcements

Kelly McNeilis — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:40:00 GMT

I'm sure everyone is excited to get spring break going next week! What fun and exciting activities do you have planned?? Before we head off in all different directions, we've got an important faculty meeting this coming Wednesday, March 19 at 2:00. I'm attaching the minutes from the last faculty meeting Minutes-doc022008.doc for your review.

You have a memo in your box detailing these items 3_19_08 meeting memo.doc, but I've summarized them for you here: At our faculty meeting, we’ve got three tasks. First, we will discuss the curriculum issues surrounding Banner implementation. You received an email from me with an attachment that outlines a number of the undergraduate changes we might implement. Please review this list and provide feedback to Randy before the meeting. We should know by next week how these changes will be implemented, and we will vote on recommended changes. Second, we will have a number of elections for positions and committees relating to faculty senate.

Third, we will be discussing the results of the department conditions survey that was completed last December. In your box is a copy of the actual survey results for our department (N=13 responses) by item, with themes noted. What you should notice first among the results is that the majority of our collective responses are at or above the MSU and College means! That is indicative of an overall positive climate within the department. I’ve also provided a quick summary sheet Department Conditions Survey.doc of some items where we were far above the university and college means as well as items where there may be room for improvement. Please review these documents in advance of the faculty meeting.

Other Announcements

1. Please plan to attend and send your students to this year's Public Affairs Conference, April 15-18. This year's theme is Seeking Solutions: Conflict, Violence and the Courage to Change. Check out the website for specific panels, key note addresses, and attendees. Dianne Strickland, Professor of Art has organized a fabulous conference this year with with panels and topics that have wide-ranging appeal. Have you ever thought about how video games glorify violent behavior as the only viable course of action? Is violence a part of human nature? Why do we have monuments to wars? These are some of the questions posed at this year's conference.

2. Congratulations to Katie Striley who is the recipient of this year's CCSA Pamela Cooper Award! The Cooper Award is named after former CSCA President Pamela J. Cooper and is presented to one M.A. level graduate teaching assistant and one Ph.D. level graduate teaching assistant. At the annual convention, the recipients receive a $50 cash award and a certificate.

In addition to a recognition dinner at the conference for the Cooper award, Katie is also receiving the award for the top rhetoric paper at the conference:
Striley, K. M. (2008). Fear and loathing in the White House: A fantasy theme analysis of conservative web-based public relations. Paper to be presented at the Central States Communication Association annual meeting.

In addition to these achievements, Katie is participating on three other panels! CONGRATS Katie!

3. Congrats to the group of graduate and undergraduate students who presented at Oklahoma Sooner's conference last weekend. Isabelle witnessed some great presentations by our students. A couple of notables: Mallory Nolan won a top undergraduate paper and Lindsey Harness won a top graduate paper award. Congrats to everyone who presented!

4. Calendar Reminder: Monday, April 14, 3:00, Communication Honors Ceremony, PSU 400. We will award our COM scholarships, recognize the debate team results of NDT and have the LPH induction ceremony.

Have a great weekend.

Kelly

Congrats, Scholarships, and Updates

Kelly McNeilis — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:17:00 GMT

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

Russ Keeling is to be commended for his superior performance in teaching two sections of COM 115 last semester. Russ' overall mean scores on the Faculty Evaluation administered through the Honors College were 1.05 and 1.08, which are in the top quartile for the fifty-eight Honors College professors who taught for us last Fall semester. Such a score is especially remarkable since Honors College professors are as a rule a highly capable group – e.g., the composite mean for the entire group was 1.33 (with 1 as the best and 5 as the lowest score). We are honored to have Russ continue his excellent teaching career in our honors courses. Thanks Russ.

Ryan Childress has been chosen as the Student Governor of Missouri State’s Board of Governors. This is indeed an honor for Ryan and for the department of communication. Ryan is a Public Relations Major and has a double minor in Public Law and Technical Writing. If you see him or have him in class, please pass along your congratulations.

Meredith Cantrell, for those of you who remember her, she received her undergrad in 2003 and completed her MA in Health Communication at Purdue University in 2005. She recently accepted at position with the Kansas regional office of the National Cancer Institutes, Cancer Information Service. This is a huge accomplishment for her, and it speaks to her training in health com both here and at Purdue.

CALENDAR ITEMS

I just posted to the InCommon blog reminding our graduate and undergraduate students that scholarship applications are due in the office March 15. I advised them to speak with you if they have questions about a scholarship, so I wanted to give you the head’s up about that.

Relatedly, the Annual Honors Ceremony will be held this year Monday, April 14 at 2:30 in the PSU. We will announce scholarship recipients at this time as well as LPH having their induction ceremony. Please put this on your calendars!

COMING SOON

Faculty meeting, Wednesday, March 19 at 2:00.

February Faculty Meeting and other items of interest

Kelly McNeilis — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:19:00 GMT

So we had to cut short our faculty meeting today, I'm sure you were crushed. Actually, we were only about 10 minutes from being done anyhow. For those of you following along in your hymnals, we got through the Agenda (2_20_08.doc) items 1, 2, and 3. We discussed the impact of the new Banner registration system impact on our course pre-requisites and numbers. We will follow up on those in the graduate faculty and with Randy will help us manage the undergrad courses. I plan to have specific items for vote/discussion for us to address at the March faculty meeting. I asked for everyone to share with me any student awards, presentations, etc, that were made last year with me via email. Please consider both graduate and undergraduate students in this request so I can include them both in my department annual report.

So, I want to follow up on the remaining items. I will also be posting minutes from the meeting later this week.

FOR YOUR PLANNING Campus Interview, Feb 27-29.
•    Research Presentation, Thursday at 3:15.
•    There are MANY opportunities to interact beyond the presentation, so please seek those out!
•    Stephanie Norander Itinerary.docItinerary is attached and the candidate file should be in the office soon

Ms. Stephanie Norander, ABD, Ohio University
Research in two related areas: organizing for social change across cultural, national and gendered boundaries, and organizational identitites. Dissertation title: Organizing for peace: Women’s cooperative networks in post-conflict regions. Teaching interest org com, conflict, intercultural, qualitative methods, and gender and communication.
Departmental Scholarships are now available for students to apply. Applications are due March 15. Info was sent to all majors/minors in blog. Please encourage your students to apply! This applies to graduate and undergraduate students.
I strongly encourage you to attend the Friday Provost Open Forum at 3:00 in PSU 400. This is "an open forum, to discuss issues of concern and ideas (big and small) about how we can all best lead and nurture our campus community." You can ask questions about anything, including issues such as Banner or even concerns with Merit.
Then next Tuesday is Dean Adams', Arts and Letters College-wide meeting. Tuesday, Feb 26 at 4:00 in Hill 002. This is yet an opportunity to ask questions of the dean, and the Provost is making an appearance there as well. They are very interested in getting feedback on the various initiatives college and university wide. I'll be here, and hope to see you as well.

OTHER ITEMS OF NOTE:

Advisor Forums

Thursday, February 21, “Advising for Student Success: Ideas and Strategies.” Pat Juncos, Rebecca Woodard and Kathy Davis. The session will be in PSU 315 from 12 to 1 p.m.

Friday, February 29, Mike Frizell, George Connor and Jim Moyer will address “I’m having trouble in your class…How instructors can assist students who struggle.” This panel will be in PSU 313, the Traywick Parliamentary room.

Please, encourage your freshmen and senior students to complete the NSSE survey, if selected. NSSE stands for National Survey of Student Engagement. This self report survey collects levels of reported engagement by students at both the first and last years and these data are important in development student success initiatives as well as feeding back data to departments on how they are doing in engaging students academically. So, we want as many COM students as we can who have been selected to actually fill out the survey. A random sample of these students has been selected (2500 of each class) with up to 5 emails sent inviting them to complete the survey.

Interested in Service-Learning scholarship? There is a luncheon and speaker event hosted by the CASL office, Thursday, Feb 28 at 12:30 in the PSU 308. Please RSVP at 836-5774. For more information, contact their office.

Kelly

Playing Catch Up

Kelly McNeilis — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:13:00 GMT

Hey everyone,

These last couple of weeks have been busy with candidate interviews and deadlines for just about everything. This week's HeadsUp includes a number of catch up items, news you can use, and "to do" items for this week.

1. I'm going to be out of town this week. John Bourhis will be covering for me while I'm gone, but don't ask him for money--although he'll want to give it to you. Janis King will be reviewing all degree applications but not signing then. So, please instruct your students that any degree applications, waivers, substitutions, etc. will not be processed until next week. I would recommend students get their minor approved this week while waiting for my signature next week. Thanks to John and Janis for helping me out.

2. Reminder, you will need to set up an appointment with me starting the middle of next week for our annual meetings. Please complete the form I provided last week with the memo. I'll be sending you individual forms with your information via email today. You can complete it and send it to me electronically before our meeting or you can provide me with your form handwritten when we meet. Whatever method, please have that workload request form completed when we meet.

3. You should have received an email about the IDEA administrator's assessment survey last week (with reminders this week via email too). It's an electronic version administered through K-State's IDEA program. PLEASE complete the online survey by 2/15/2008. You should have received two, one for evaluating the department head and one for the dean. Please complete both!

4. I've updated the Craig Lobby Dept Bulletin Board with a tip of the month regarding career preparation opportunities. I would like you to nominate a student to highlight for this month. Please send me those nominations quickly so I can get a picture and put some information there. If you'd like to nominate a faculty member or staff, please do that as well.

5. I'm attaching the minutes from last week's faculty meeting Minutes for January 23.doc. Thanks to Deborah Craig for succinctly capturing the events and decisions of the meeting.

6. At the faculty meeting, I put out a request for any additional conferences you'd like to attend this semester. Those requests were due Jan. 31. I will entertain any additional items until Feb 8. Use the travel request form from Karen.

7. We've made an offer to Heather Carmack, and she's unofficially accepted it (the contract is in process right now)! She's excited about joining us and even turned down other interviews in order to accept our offer! You might send her a quick email congratulating her. Her email is hc200403@ohio.edu
Information about the second faculty position to come later. The search committee is reviewing feedback. Please submit any feedback you can from Andrew's interview last week.

That's it for now. See you next week.