ࡱ> :<9 bjbj 4  -----AAA8yAg$B - --!--2~Q?VvAJ70gR,iF~-~T S  Fg : Draft Faculty Assembly SC 219 November 19, 2008 1:00-2:30 p.m. Approval of the minutes of the previous Faculty Assembly Meeting: Approved Report of the President of the Faculty Assembly: E. Saiff President Saiff made an announcement about the evaluation of administrators scheduled in Spring 2009 and briefly described the online procedure for submitting the evaluations. This was followed by an announcement about the Holiday Party (December 10) and the open forum on Middle States Accreditation (December 3). Dinner Lecture Series Jim Morley introduced the Dinner Lecture Series sponsored by the foundation grant. He urged faculty to participate and mentioned potential speakers being considered for the series. Presidents report: P. Mercer No Report Provost's report: B. Barnett Provost Barnett brought highly disturbing events that happened on campus to the attention of faculty. These events involved defacing posters displayed in the C-wing on campus; faculty members need to reflect on these incidents and urge students to shed prejudices related to sexual orientations and accept differences between individuals. Provost Barnett then spoke about the funding for faculty development, conference travel, and faculty-student research. Provost Barnett asked faculty to email nominations for 1) a faculty member to serve on the Budget and Personnel and 2) Director of Fellowships. The Director of Fellowships would be expected to help students apply for a variety of fellowships and scholarships including the Fulbright. Lastly, Provost Barnett announced the Open forum on inload versus overload graduate teaching. ARC Report:L. Antonio Lawrence Antonio presented three new programs, Bioinformatics minor, Contract major in Liberal Studies, and Sustainability Masters Program that were approved by ARC to the faculty assembly. Faculty asked questions about the procedure followed in proposing the Sustainability Major, availability of faculty resources, impact on quality of undergraduate teaching, financial viability of graduate programs, inload versus overload teaching, and overall strategy for handling the several graduate proposals in pipeline. Lisa Cassidy explained the meaning of a contract major to faculty. Faculty voted in favor of all the three programs. ITS Report: P. Williams Trish Williams presented numerous workshops made available to faculty by ITS. These included workshops on Google Docs, Mac users, and exploring wiki sites. Further she mentioned about a site called Lynda.com which consists of a vast library of tutorials from respected professionals to learn several latest technologies. Faculty may contact Scotty Massimo to obtain a license to access tutorials from Lynda.com. Union Report: I. Kuchta The AFT general membership meeting is scheduled on December 3, 12:00 p.m. Climate Commitment Task Force Report: E. Rainforth Emma Rainforth presented initiatives of the Climate Commitment task force that included online car pooling using NuRide.com, more trips to and from train station and a morning shuttle, and energy stock policy. Announcements: Diversity Convocation and Lecture Series Diversity in 21st Century: The Annual Diversity Convocation is scheduled for January 28, 6:15 p.m. Ruma Sen and Kathleen Fowler have arranged a lecture series in Spring 2009 titled Diversity in 21st Century. The series will be held in H-wing every Wednesday and is open to everyone on campus and the broader community. Old Business: none New Business: none     1?A , 1 C          ? 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