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, Belinda Carstens-Wickham, Steve Kerber, Therese Poirier, Kevin Rowland, George Watson, Adam Weyhaupt, and Sue Wiediger, Jennifer Vandever
Not present: Hiroshi Fujinki, Geert Pallemans, Julie Pietroburgo, Matt Schmitz, Laura Wolff, and Trong Wu
Approval of Minutes
Minutes of September 20 and October 18 were approved.
Old Business
I. EUE Impact Award.
Criteria for the award have been posted to the faculty listserv. The application deadline is November 5. Poirier and Pietroburgo agreed to serve on the award selection committee with Pallemans.
II. Faculty Symposium.
Program committee for Faculty Symposium on January 24, 2008, is Watson, Carstens-Wickham, Vandever. Title: Changing Faculty Roles: The Coming Decades
Welcome by Chancellor and Provost. (Paul has agreed, but I haven't talked with the Chancellor yet.)
Four panel discussions, each lasting 1 ½ hours:
• Changing faculty and student roles: Sill, Belobrajdic, and Ferguson (I’ve asked Paul and he suggested we ask Charles Berger and either Venessa Brown or Sue Thomas to discuss Zemsky's speech and to serve on the panel, respectively)
• Impact of technology on faculty roles: Vandever and Behm
• EUE Innovations: EUE Impact award winners
• Teacher-scholar model: Mike Shaw and Steve Hansen
Publicity committee is Pietroburgo (preparing the notice), Kerber (faculty listserv email, Univ news service), and Vandever (campus mailing)
Budget committee: Wiediger
Sign-ups, attendance, registration at the door, letter to participants: Weyhaupt, Brown
Should we also have an evaluation form to help plan for next year?
III. Reconciliation of Senate bylaws with revised FDC operating papers. Baier will address this problem with the Faculty Senate Executive Council.
IV. Service Learning Award. Baier will distribute by email the criteria approved by Senate in May 07 for discussion at the next meeting.
V. 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 Survey. Discussion of proposed survey that expanded to role of FDC in relation to the university’s faculty development plan.
Announcements
Vandever announced that the Blackboard upgrade will necessitate the shutdown of Bb from December 18 through January 2.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be November 15 from 2:30 to 4 pm in the MUC Board Room.
Marjorie Baier