Not
in Attendance: Ashley Alvarez, Gregg Corely, Penny Edwards,
Bruce Kalley, Laura McClain, Mary Orem, Deborah Vance, and Sandra Williams
Welcome
and Agenda:
Stacey
called the meeting to order at 12:01 pm.
Minutes
of the September 29, 2017 meeting were distributed and approved electronically
prior to this meeting and have been posted to eTC.
Old
Business:
By-Laws
and Constitution Revisions: Stacey sent out copies from other institutions for
compare and contrast.
A
letter was sent to Dr. Booth expressing Faculty Senate support for a food
pantry to be established on campus on behalf of Emma Robinson.
New
Business:
Andrea
Barnett -
Suggested that the project to create a clothes closet work with Emma in the
creation of a food pantry in order to not duplicate efforts and create a
holistic project.
Mia
Tensley
– Gave a demonstration of Office 365 for use with sharing documents. There was
a motion from Justin Herndon to use this for sharing Faculty Senate
documents. It was seconded by Matt Simon
and passed unanimously.
Matt
Simon –
A Student Incident (conduct) Report goes to Student Affairs, but it has
academic concerns as well. Therefore, academic infractions need to be separated
from non-academic matters. Recommended two incident report links: one for
academic and one for Student Affairs. Stacey will discuss this with Galen.
Stacy
Frank—A
problem has been identified regarding an increase in students requesting
refunds from the business office when they withdraw from a course. Refunds are given for withdrawals by the
given withdrawal date and drops before the drop date. But there is a problem
with the language used when discussing this with students. Drop and Withdraw
should not be used interchangeably because they are two different situations.
An email will be sent to all faculty explaining the difference in the two and
cautioning against using them interchangeably before the start of the Spring
semester in conjunction with a letter from the business office/ registrar.
Committee
Reports:
Matt
Simon (Calendar)
– Calendar committee has slowed
down while waiting on a Faculty Senate decision on the professional development
question. Only faculty will be affected by the change in date, if it is
approved.
Andrea Barnett (Placement Committee) – This committee is looking into a multiple
measures approach for admission, changing from a course ready environment to a
program ready one. Changes in the system
would go from just using Accuplacer scores to looking at different aspects of
the student (unweighted GPA, HS transcripts, interviews, etc.), to determine if
they would be successful in their chosen field of study. There will be an
additional meeting Monday, November 6, to discuss this more thoroughly with
Galen Dehay.
Stacey
Frank (Academic Leadership Team)
– Temporary certification for occupancy is in place for November for the new
building. There may be an employee night
in December. January is the projected completion date for opening.
Our
meeting dates for the next month will be November 17th, from noon to
2 pm.
The
motion to end the meeting was made at 2:05 by Andrea Barnett and seconded by Steve Gibson
