ࡱ> 796 rbjbj 4r ////C/0WWWWW222$Wd*22222*WW?xxx2WWx2xxxWf/"xU0x*Nxxx22x22222**x2222222222222222 : Draft Faculty Assembly Trustees Pavilion March 25, 2009 Approval of the minutes of February 18, 2009: Approved Report of President of Faculty Assembly: E. Saiff President Saiff briefly mentioned evaluation of administrators and online teaching evaluations. He then invited James Morley to give details about the lecture series. James Morley briefly spoke about the details regarding the speaker and the lecture. The talk is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Finally, President Saiff asked opinions of faculty regarding discontinuing Sign in sheets at the Faculty Assembly. Presidents Report P. Mercer (No Report) Provosts Report: B. Barnett Provost Barnett requested faculty to participate in evaluation of administrators and to encourage students to complete online teaching evaluations. Provost Barnett mentioned the three issues open for discussion reduction of minimum number of credits for graduation, academic rigor, and general education curriculum. She discussed reasons for the reduction in credits and stressed the need for further discussion on the issues in unit councils, convening groups, and faculty assembly. Provost Barnett then spoke about the integration of student and academic affairs, providing opportunities to achieve learning goals in and out of class, and the draft manual for online courses. One of the faculty members expressed that adjunct faculty be reminded the policy of not administering final exams before final exam week; there has been information that some of the adjuncts have given the final exams before the final exam week. Finally, Provost Barnett congratulated faculty on the quality of new students who will be attending Ramapo next fall and that everyone should make effort to retain them. By-law change and candidates for under10-year representative on Executive Council: President Saiff explained the new by-law for the not-in-residence faculty on the Faculty Executive Council. He informed faculty that an email ballot will be conducted and a two-thirds majority would approve the changes in the by-laws. President Saiff then closed the nominations for the at-large under 10-year representative on the Faculty Executive Council. He invited nominee James Morley to make a short presentation on his nomination. Voting will be through email ballot. ARC Report: L. DAntonio Lawrence DAntonio briefly spoke about the issue of minimum credits required for graduation and the impact of changing the credits from 128 to 120. He further said that ARC supported the policy of teaching of graduate courses in load and that all faculty members who teach graduate courses also teach at least four courses in the undergraduate program. BOT Committees: (No report) Union Report: (No report) ITS Report: S. Massimo Scotty Massimo reported on Moodle training using Moodle rooms. She informed faculty that IDC will make changes to the training based on feedback from post training survey. Starting fall 2009, the training will be more face-to-face and customized. In response to a concern about the costs of Moodle training, Scotty Massimo responded that the expenditure on training will allow the College to transition from WebCT to Moodle, and save the fees the College pays for the use for the use of WebCT software. The fees for using WebCT are very high compared to Moodle. Further, Moodle is a major step in Colleges effort to move to open source softwares. 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