Faculty Senate Minutes
Friday, February 26, 2016CD 142, 1:30 PM
In attendance:
Tom Hiebel, Meg Allan, Andrea Barrett, Stacey Frank, Janet Fuller, Timeko
McFadden
Not in attendance: Fran Broome, Gregg Corley, Justin Herndon,
Laura McClain, Amy Roberts, Terri Smith, and Lacey Torge
Welcome and Agenda
Tom Hiebel called the meeting to order at 1:36 PM and
introduced the agenda for the meeting
Minutes of the January 29, 2016 Meeting
Minutes from the prior meeting were distributed and
approved via electronic vote prior to this meeting.
Guests: Scott Harvey, Registrar
Old Business
Add/Drop
Period. After the 1/29/2016
meeting, faculty senate distributed its recommendations. Scott Harvey reported to
Tom Hiebel that the suggested approach could not be automated given certain
system constraints. Tom then asked Scott
to obtain data related to student add/drop activity under the current pilot environment
(3days add/5 days drop) to report at this meeting. Scott reported that significant activity
occurs after the deadline, for example in the fall 2015: 966 drops were
processed (532 of which were administrative drops non-attendance) and 730 add
forms were processed. Scott provided
numbers by registration, drop, and withdrawal types (automated vs manual
input).
There was additional
discussion that the current process may set students up for failure, as in some
cases students may have already a full week of class time and then struggle to
catch up. Most felt that it is
important to get the students engaged in a class immediately and that deferring
activity because of add/drop sends the wrong message. Scott will do additional research related to
student success rates and get the information to Tom as soon as practicable.
It was agreed that once
all requested data was available, faculty senate would invite academic deans to
a meeting to review and discuss implications.
The group could then explore alternatives in greater detail with a goal
to inform faculty and obtain their feedback.
New Business
Tom reported that it is
important that we establish firm dates for the next two meetings that will
engage as many of the faculty senators as possible. Galen Dehay, Senior Vice President and Chief
Academic Officer would like to report on the Faculty Loading process and
possible changes to the contract process.
Next Meeting
Tom Hiebel agreed to talk
to Galen about his availability and then reach out to the faculty senate to
obtain attendance commitments.
The
meeting adjourned at 2:28 PM.
Recorded by: Meg Allan, 2/26/2016
