Faculty Senate

 

West Virginia Northern Community College

 

Minutes:  10 October 2005

 

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Present: S. Beck, D. Board, C. Cornforth, C. Dale, J. Daley, T. Danford, M. Davis, K. Freeman, D. Goeddel, M. Goldstein, C. Harbert, S. Hooff, L. Ingram, N. Krupinski, R. Lucki, R. Malek, M. Marlin, M. O'Brien, R. Pusz (presiding), T. Ramsey, J. Remias, S. Rychlicki, C. Rogerson, P. Sharma, A. Vavra, M. Watson, G. Winland

 

Excused:  D. Roth

 

Absent:  K. Atkins, D. Bartley, R. Berry, F. Binkley, T. Craig, C. Eastham, D. Roth, L. Shelek, F. DeCaria, C. Eastham, D. Folger, M. Grubor, D. Hans, K. Herrington, S. Huggins, D. Jones, C. Kefauver, J. Keyser, A. Kuca, J. Lewis, L. Miller, D. Poffenberger, C. Riter, D. Roth, L. Shelek, W. Slider, C. Stokes, C. Teaff, J. Tully, J. Van Fossen,

 

Guests:  Dr. Martin Olshinsky

 

The meeting was called to order by President Rick Pusz at 2:00 pm in the B&O auditorium.

 

I.                   President’s Report (Dr. Olshinsky)

 

For the fall schedule, we need to think of “the needs of the students”.

R. Pusz asked for policies in effect right now for committee assignments.

Steve Woodburn is the acting dean in Rita’s absence.  Feedback etc. will go to Barry Good.

Merit Pay:  There is a WebCT discussion course on merit.  One is for faculty senate and 1 is for the merit discussion.

WVNCC is going to attempt to have student ID’s for fall.  The students may also have a unique user id for computer usage.

 

II.                Assessment Report:  L. Shelek. 

·         Recent changes to the document were discussed. 

·         A suggestion was made to cite references for the material in the document.

·         Question:  Where do non-program course assessments end up?  Perhaps this can be addressed when the restructuring occurs and we know what is happening with AA and AS.

·         MCG’s are to help faculty decide learning outcomes but do not determine what assessment mechanisms are used.  Assessment method(s) ought to be in the syllabus.

·         Program review times will be left out until it has been determined where those have been previously defined.

·         We still need to mesh assessment with institutional goals but this is not the mission of this particular committee.

·         Motioned and seconded:  Submit the revised document to Dr. Olshinsky.  Note:  Appendix B was done 5-6 years ago.

·         Reminder:  assessment report of last year needs to be submitted asap.  They were due 9/1/05.  Submit to Debbie Summerville.

·         Administratively, Dr. Good is responsible for assessment.

·         The approved assessment document will be posted on the WebCT site.  To add the course to your WebCT account, use first_initial+lastname, pwd = lastname.  All letters are lower case.  For example, for John Smith:  jsmith using pwd smith.

·         Concern:  Assessment used to be a full time position and maybe there needs to be consideration for extra pay or course release time because the required number of hours is high to accomplish the goals.  The committee will discuss the time required to facilitate assessment coordination and report back to faculty senate.

 

III.             Committee Selection:

·         There appears to be unclear definition of committee appointments and selections.

·         M. Davis says the faculty senate constitution defines it.

·         The constitution is out of date, but absent any other document, it remains in effect.

·         R. Pusz will investigate.

·         Institutional Technology has a vacancy.  P. Sharma volunteered.

·         FERC may need someone.  C. Harbert volunteered.

 

IV.             Salary and Legislature:

·         Budget committee:  It was reported that L. Bandi said not to use the 67,000 for salaries and was looking at using it to fund the new academic structure.  It was reported that a memo to the classified staff said the money would not be used for salaries.

·         Question:  Why can’t the soon-to-retire associate dean’s salary fund the new structure?

·         M. Davis reported that he wasn’t sure, but that he thought the legislature voted to raise all higher ed by $600 this year and $900 next year.

·         It was suggested that this topic be discussed at the president’s academic structure meeting on the 21st.

 

 

·         Faculty voted unanimously in favor of a motion that the recently approved state legislature salary funding be distributed as WVNCC raises in addition to any/all raises awarded previously.   In other words, regardless of any raises awarded prior to the legislature's action, the legislature's salary funding would be used for new WVNCC raises. It is faculty senate's understanding that these funds will become available November 1, 2005.

 

V.                Policies

·         New/revised policies appeared on the Board of Governor’s agenda but faculty had not seen or discussed them.  They were sent to R. Pusz but he thought everyone got them and did not distribute them.

·         They are now posted on the Board of Governor’s web site for public comment.

·         Faculty voted unanimously that the policy review by the Board of Governors be postponed until after the November faculty senate meeting when the faculty will have an opportunity to discuss the policies.  Evidently, the policies were not distributed to all faculty prior to the October faculty senate meeting so there has not been an opportunity to review and discuss the policies

VI. Committee Reports:

 

·         Secretary Carol Cornforth requested that committee reports be emailed to her for inclusion in the minutes.

 

·         Board of Governors: Tom Danford:
The Board of Governors met on Thursday, 22 September.  Besides routine matters, several policies were up for first reading.  Because faculty had not had a chance to review them, the reading was delayed.  Please check out these policies on the www.wvnorthern.edu page, under BOG or just click here: http://www.wvnorthern.edu/bog/policiesunderreview/ .  Send any comments (ASAP) to T. Danford, tdanford@northern.wvnet.edu .

 

·         Other committee reports????

 

 

The meeting adjourned at 3:30pm.