MUC Board Room
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:30 by Marjorie Baier, chr.
Present: Marjorie Baier, Isaac Blankson, Venessa Brown, Hiroshi Fujinoki, Steve Kerber, Geert Pallemans, Julie Pietroburgo, Jennifer Vandever, George Watson, and Sue Wiediger
Not present: Belinda Carstens-Wickham, Therese Poirier, Kevin Rowland, Matt Schmitz, Adam Weyhaupt, Laura Wolff, and Trong Wu
Approval of Minutes
Minutes of November 15, 2007, meeting were corrected and approved as corrected.
Old Business
I. Faculty Symposium.
Watson addressed the faculty symposium program agenda, item by item. Blankson volunteered to develop evaluations to be distributed at the symposium. Evaluations will also ask for information about faculty develop needs. Pietroburgo is developing the paper publicity, including a flyer and campus mailing. Kerber is working on email and Greg Conroy publicity. Wiediger is writing the budget. Vandever is arranging for the projector, taping, and microphone. Watson is confirming the program, speakers, room set up, and distributing more information about Zemsky’s anticipated speech.
II. The Council again discussed the role of FDC in faculty development and the faculty development agenda for the campus.
Brown has prepared a summary of scheduled faculty development activities across campus and will distribute to the Deans. Vandever volunteered to investigate creating a wiki to publicize the Brown’s assessment. In addition, it will be posted on the Provost’s website. Themes for needed faculty development were suggested and include
1. Technology and teaching online, framed as “sharing good practices” to reduce the threat to faculty who need this development programming
2. Digital publishing
3. Advising
4. Active learning strategies, assessment, outcome-based teaching and other programming originally initiated under ELTI. Council members reinforced the importance of the ELTI programming. Perceived low attendance did not accurately reflect the level of interest or the value of the programming.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be January 17, 2008, from 2:30 to 4 pm in the MUC Board Room.
Marjorie Baier