Faculty Senate Minutes
Date: March 27, 2012
Location: Fulp 400
Time: 12:30PM
Members Present: Marshall Franks, John Price, Elizabeth Bryan, Cherlyn Brown, Donna Shannon, Tonique Dennis, Marla Roberson, Mandy Orzechowski, Alberta Reid, Penny Edwards
Members Absent: Amonea Norcross, Robert Newton, Rhonda Harris, Shannon Farr
Guests:
Presided: Donna Shannon
Approval of Minutes: Marla Roberson motioned for minutes to be accepted as written. Cherlyn Brown second the motion of approval.
1. Issue discussed and major points of discussion:
Marla Roberson presented information concerning the library operations, availability of sources, and requests for comments or recommendations for library resources for faculty. Information given was a follows:
· Availability on all campuses
· Purchases by email or link on site
· Reserved book requests
· Reading list by instructors requests
· Videos that can be streamed via blackboard
· 75,000 electronic books – can communicate with Nook and Kindle with appropriate adobe platform
Michelle Gregg is a new librarian that has been hired by the college which helps at the Easley Campus.
Action to be taken as a result of discussion, person(s) responsible, and timeline:
Faculty Senate will communicate information as needed within their division.
2. Issue discussed and major points of discussion:
Donna Shannon met with Lou Ann Martin concerning the faculty choice award and solicited input from the faculty senate by email. The choices for the Senate were:
· Students will request and submit 2 letters of support from faculty. (that is how it is presently)
· Use the rubric for the support documentation
· Require only the application with the student’s written narrative for support for applying for the scholarship.
Additionally, there were 10 scholarships submitted for consideration for the award with appropriate documentation.
Action to be taken as a result of discussion, person(s) responsible, and timeline:
The Senate made the decision to maintain the Faculty Choice Award Criteria as originally written, but did state that the rubric could be used as faculty documentation.
A sub-committee was formed to review the scholarships for the award. The committee is Elizabeth Bryan, Cherlyn Brown, Alberta Reid and Donna Shannon. The committee will report to the foundation office by April 20th. The recipient will be announced April 27, 2012.
3. Issue discussed and major points of discussion:
Faculty Senate nominations and voting procedures:
Donna met with Chris Marino and discussed the use of survey monkey for electronic voting. She will solicit nominations from each division. Deadline is April 13th. Once nominations are received then she will meet with Chris for the link to be distributed to the faculty within each division for voting. This will be an anonymous voting procedure and will ensure all faculty have the ability to vote from multi-campus sites.
Action to be taken as a result of discussion, person(s) responsible, and timeline:
Nominees will be selected from each division and voting will be implemented once the links are available.
Announcements/Concerns:
Next meeting date, time, and location: April 12, 2012. 1:00PM Fulp 400
Name of recorder: Donna Shannon
