West Virginia Northern Community College 

Minutes:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2 March 2007

 

Present: S. Beck, R. Berry, D. Cresap, C. Dale, T. Danford, M. Davis, F. DeCaria, C. Eastham, D. Farrell, D. Folger, D. Goeddel, M. Goldstein, D. Hans, C. Harbert, K. Herrington (Presiding), J. Keyser, A. Kuca, R. Lucki, R. Malek, L. Miller, N. Krupinski, R. Pusz, T. Ramsey, C. Riter, C. Rogerson, D. Roth, P. Sharma, L. Shelek, C. Stokes, S. Rychlicki, C. Teaff, J. Tully, J. Van Fossen, A. Vavra, M. Watson, G. Winland

 Excused:  M. Grubor, S. Hooff, L. Ingram, C. Kefauver, J. Remias, D. Ryan, V. Slider,

 Absent:  K. Atkins, D. Bartley, F. Binkley, C. Cornforth, T. Craig, K. Freeman, S. Gress, S. Huggins, M. O’Brien, D. Poffenberger, B. Sisarcik,  D.Yadrick

The meeting was called to order by President Kathy Herrington at 2:00 pm in the Telecom Rooms on three campuses.

Minutes of the February meeting were approved as posted on the Senate web page.(T. Danford/D. Cresap)

Committee Reports

Committee

Report

ACF

M. Davis reported the legislature is in session.  They are considering increasing the employee annual increment from $50 to $75 per year of service.  Many bills have been introduced.  He will keep in contact via e-mail.  Follow-up:  this did not pass.

BOG

T. Danford reported that they met on 2/22/07.  This was a routine meeting.  Darryl Cummings replaced Keith Jones on the Board.

Assessment

L. Shelek reported that the committee met in January.  All courses are on a spread sheet.  All should submit course assessments and MCG’s.  (Not sure what this means???)

Curriculum

K. Herrington reported that 2+2 agreements have been completed with WJU in Computers, Psychology, and Respiratory Therapy.  New programs begin next year.

General Education

No report

Enrollments Management

No report.

Budget

Will meet on March 21st.  The faculty salary sub-committee met with the President concerning salary equity.  He will discuss the proposal with L. Bandi.  It would cost $65,000 to fund the proposed scale. 

Professional Development

No meeting—please send requests to M. Koon.

LRC

Pat Stroud would like to circulate a 30 question survey at the next meeting for information gathering.  There has been a theft problem in the Educational Center with the LCD projectors.

Institutional Technology

Dr. Jones has bid for an IT consult.  There are Ipods in the library for students.  Problems for students:  send comments to P. Sharma.  Student readiness for on-line courses.  Study habits/downloads, etc.  On line courses—need to offer more, suggest looking at other colleges.

Writing Across the Curriculum

Looking at a program to remediate plagiarism.

Merit

Merit documents are due today.  Merit committee:  Lisa Ingram, C. Kefauver, R. Berry, Carolyn Eastham.  M. Koon will appoint if there are no volunteers.  Follow-up:  Darcey Ferrell and Debbie Folger are now on; C. Eastham is released and Steve Woodburn will serve as the 2nd administrator on the committee.

FERC

C. Harbert presented a change in the policy and procedure.

A motion to accept the change of dates to a January to January evaluation cycle.  (T. Danford/R. Lucki).  Discussion:  review list of criteria in rank or criteria for holding that rank.  Motion passed.

 

Add to FERC committee:  M. Watson and T. Danford.  C. Harbert will chair.  Send comments regarding Fac eval to anyone on the committee.

 

New Business

  • Withdraw Dates
    • Janet Fike reported that the withdraw date will be changed to the beginning of the eleventh week or 60% for short-term courses.  The AW option will still be available after the eleventh week.  T. Danford questioned whether this would become a problem for faculty – K. Herrington clarified w/ J. Fike later.  The policy will state that faculty AW’s based on student unable to meet course requirements or due to non-attendance will follow the same schedule (11th week), but AW’s for disciplinary reasons (disruptive, etc.) can be done at any time.
  • Executive Committee Election
    • The election will be held in March.  F. DeCaria is the incoming President. 
    • Please let L. Ingram know if you are not eligible for election.
    • T. Danford’s BOG term will last until June 2008, he is ineligible to serve another consecutive term.
    • This is an election year for ACF, M. Davis has completed his two terms. We will need to elect a new ACF rep at the April meeting.
  • Wheeling Campus Issues
    • Furniture is still on hold because the vendor wants more money.
    • Although the administration is still working with building contractors regarding the noise, they still aren’t sure how to fix the noise level in the Educational Center and whether we have the finances to do this.
  • Enrollment Issues
    • J. Fike reported that we are down 118 students since last twelve semesters.
    • Student breakdown:  50% full-time, 50% part-time, 48% under the age of 24.
    • March 23rd:  Schedule of classes out, Fall schedule will be out after spring break.
    • Early registration for Health Science students on April 10th, All others register on April 17th.

 

A motion for adjournment was made by M. Watson, seconded by T. Danford.

Meeting adjourned at 3:00 pm.  The next regular meeting will be held on Friday, April 6, 2007.

Respectfully submitted,

 

Lisa Ingram

Faculty Assembly Secretary