MUC Board Room
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:30 by Marjorie Baier, chr.
Present: Marjorie Baier, Hiroshi Fujinoki, Steve Kerber, Geert Pallemans, Kevin Rowland, George Watson, Adam Weyhaupt, and Sue Wiediger
Not present: Isaac Blankson, Venessa Brown, Belinda Carstens-Wickham, Julie Pietroburgo, Therese Poirier, Matt Schmitz, Laura Wolff, Trong Wu and Jennifer Vandever
Approval of Minutes
Minutes of November 1, 2007, meeting were approved.
Old Business
I. EUE Impact Award.
Recommendations of the Impact Award committee (Pallemans, Pietroburgo, Poirier, and Brown) were accepted. These were Lavallee/Zhou for “International Interdisciplinary Culture, Language, and Geography in Field School in Beijing” and Glassman/Lindell for “Development of an Interactive Light and Color Curriculum.”
Discussion items for future Impact Awards include the Co-PD issue and whether the project or the project director is being recognized.
Pallemans will be offering 4 workshops for the EUE 2009 competition. The proposal submission deadline is February 1, 2008.
II. Faculty Symposium.
Watson presented the faculty symposium program agenda for discussion. The program will suggest faculty discussion for the technology panel and the teacher-scholar panel. Baier will confirm with the panelist that they want discussion or Q & A time. We will need a projector for powerpoint presentations and Baier will ask Vandever about this. Weidiger discussed the budget and room layout for the Hickory/Hackberry room. Baier will ask Belobrajdic to discuss how students are changing and how that affects faculty roles. Watson will finalize the program and send information to Pietroburgo for making flyers and to Kerber for publicizing on the faculty listserv. Watson will work with Pietroburgo to have a flyer in time for the November 28 Teacher-Scholar discussion sponsored by Steve Hanson.
We will reschedule the December 20 FDC meeting to December 10 in order to finalize plans for the symposium.
III. Service Learning Award. More information is needed from Venessa about her suggestions for changes in the award.
IV. Teacher Scholar model. Steve Hanson is conducting an informational meeting on November 28 and will be on the program for the Faculty Symposium.
VI. Faculty Development Council’s role in faculty development.
Kerber’s proposal to initiate a faculty development mentors/ coordinators role was discussed. Two persons would be selected by FDC from among faculty and would report to FDC. Each of the two would receive a three-year appointment (one-third course release) to staff and coordinate faculty development. This arrangement would assure enhanced faculty responsibility for and ownership of faculty development, while at the same time involving more faculty in the actual process of mentoring faculty development through staggered, revolving appointments of the mentors. This position would be somewhat analogous to the EUE coordinator position in their selection and reporting channels. This will be discussed at the next Faculty Senate Executive Council meeting and the next FDC meeting.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 4:10 p.m.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be December 10 from 2:30 to 4 pm in the MUC Board Room.
Marjorie Baier