UAA Faculty Senate Agenda December 5, 2008

2:30 – 4:30 p.m. – LIB 307 I. Call to Order II. Roll

2008-2009 Officers:

2008-2009 Senators:

Beth Graber Gail Johnston Peter Dedych Bruno Kappes Heidi Mannion PT Chang Carol Coose Herminia Din Randy Magen Carrie King James Powell Raymond Anthony Chad Farrell Jeanne Eder Robert Boeckmann Christine Gehrett John Olofsson Robert Crosman Daniel Anteau Judith Moore Robin Wahto Dave Fitzgerald Katherine Rawlins Sally Bremner David Meyers Kenrick Mock Sam Thiru Diane Erickson Maria Ippolito Susan Mitchell Ed McLain Mark Fitch Terri Olson Eva Kopacz Mark Schreiter Tom Ravens Fred Pearce Maureen O’Malley Toni Croft Gail Holtzman N. Bhattacharyya Wayne Edwards

III. Agenda Approval (pg. 1-2)

IV. November 7, 2008 Meeting Summary Approval (pg. 3-6)

V. Reports A. USUAA President Karl Wing B. Chancellor Fran Ulmer

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/chancellor/fran-answers-questions.cfm C. Provost Michael Driscoll D. Vice Chancellor Bill Spindle E. Vice Chancellor Megan Olson F. Union Representatives

i. UAFT ii. United Academics

G. Accreditation Pilot Project- Dr. Ron Baker, the Executive Vice President of the NWCCU

VI. Officer’s Reports A. President’s Report (pg. 7) B. First Vice President’s Report C. Second Vice President’s Report

Anne Bridges, President Hilary Davies, Chair, UAB Genie Babb, 1st Vice President Patt Sandberg, Chair, GAB Larry Foster, 2nd Vice President Bogdan Hoanca, Past President Robert Crosman, Parliamentarian

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VII. Boards and Committees A. Graduate Academic Board (pg. 8)

MOTION: The GAB endorses these five Institutional Learning Outcomes. They will go forward to the Faculty Senate and then to the steering committee with the revisions suggested.

B. Undergraduate Academic Board (pg. 9-11) Motion: The UAB voted to continue the 10 working days coordination period as written in the curriculum Handbook (Pages 37 & 38).

Motion: The UAB endorses these five Institutional Learning Outcomes. They will go forward to the Faculty Senate and then to the steering committee with the revisions suggested.

C. University-wide Faculty Evaluation Committee

D. Academic Computing, Distance Learning and Instructional Technology (pg. 12)

E. Budget, Planning, and Facilities Advisory Committee- BPFA (pg. 13-14)

F. Nominations and Elections Committee

G. Diversity Committee H. Faculty Grants and Leaves Committee (pg. 15)

I. IUAC- Evaluation of Deans & Directors Update (pg. 16)

J. Library Advisory Committee (pg. 17-18)

K. Professional Development Committee (pg. 19)

L. Student Academic Success Committee

VIII. Old Business

A. Accreditation Update http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/accreditation/2010.cfm

B. Task Force on Faculty Evaluation (pg. 20)

IX. New Business

A. Community Campaign- Renee Carter Chapman B. Campus Safety Walk and Mock Disaster Exercise- Ltn. Ron Swartz

X. Informational Items & Adjournment

A. Campus Safety Walk and Mock Disaster Exercise summaries found on Information Items listed at http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/governance/

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UAA Faculty Senate Summary November 7, 2008

2:30 – 4:30 p.m. – LIB 307 I. Call to Order II. Roll

2008-2009 Officers:

2008-2009 Senators:

X Beth Graber X Gail Johnston X Peter Dedych X Bruno Kappes X Heidi Mannion X PT Chang X Carol Coose X Herminia Din X Randy Magen X Carrie King X James Powell X Raymond Anthony X Chad Farrell X Jeanne Eder X Robert Boeckmann X Christine Gehrett X John Olofsson X Robert Crosman X Daniel Anteau X Judith Moore X Robin Wahto X Dave Fitzgerald X Katherine Rawlins X Sally Bremner X David Meyers X Kenrick Mock X Sam Thiru X Diane Erickson X Maria Ippolito X Susan Mitchell Ed McLain X Mark Fitch X Terri Olson X Eva Kopacz E Mark Schreiter X Tom Ravens X Fred Pearce X Maureen O’Malley X Toni Croft Gail Holtzman X N. Bhattacharyya X Wayne Edwards

III. Welcome New Faculty Senators Chad Farrell Raymond Anthony Jeanne Eder James Powell John Olofsson

IV. Agenda Approval (pg. 1-2) Approved

V. October 3, 2008 Meeting Summary Approval (pg. 3-5) Marie Ippolito approved for position on UAB Approved w/ change

VI. Reports A. USUAA President Karl Wing

Over 2,000 ballots cast on campus on Nov. 4th

Testified against student tuition increases at Board of Regents

Karl Wing elected as Vice President of the Coalition of Students Student and Academic Affairs committee working on faculty evaluations analysis Diversity and Ombudsman positions selected

X Anne Bridges, President X Hilary Davies, Chair, UAB X Genie Babb, 1st X Vice President Patt Sandberg, Chair, GAB X Larry Foster, 2nd X Vice President Bogdan Hoanca, Past President X Robert Crosman, Parliamentarian

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B. Chancellor Fran Ulmer http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/chancellor/fran-answers-questions.cfm Unable to attend

C. Provost Michael Driscoll Don Moore will join on part time appointment to work with the groups who are working on issue of plagiarism Putting together ad hoc committee on implementation on IDEA instrument Mark Fitch and Robert Crosmen will be chairs Bob White Interim Vice Provost for Research Education Summit next week Thursday and Friday Dean Liska, Ted Kassier, and Provost will be in China for the Confucius Institute Board of Regents approved capital and operating budget

D. Vice Chancellor Bill Spindle Fire Alarms- usually done in the third week of class Bill Spindle will try to have fire alarms on the second week of class and send out a notice to let faculty know that it may be occurring that week or day Catalogs- there are less and less hard copy catalogs Sustainability and Budget were the issues 100 catalogs are now available at the library Rick Weems suggestion: Departments submit order forms with org numbers to Enrollment Services

E. Vice Chancellor Megan Olson Herbert Schroder endowment came together with more than 4 million dollars Phone-a-thon has raised 40,000 this semester Distributed a survey about how you get information on campus- Return to Kristen DeSmith

F. Union Representatives i. UAFT

Unit issues regarding teaching of upper division courses Emails went out to everyone in UAFT Call Trish Jenkins for more details Salary committee has been meeting

ii. United Academics Letter sent out about ORP issues Filed a complaint with the Director of Benefits

VII. Officer’s Reports

A. President’s Report (pg. 6) Nov. 14th

B. First Vice President’s Report

All Faculty Forum- Gary Rice New Method for Tracking UAA "Student Success Community Campaign now occurring

Faculty Alliance- met twice Once with SAC on Academic Master Plan Meet with President in Fairbanks on budget

C. Second Vice President’s Report

VIII. Boards and Committees A. Graduate Academic Board (pg. 7)

GAB curriculum approved

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GAB goals approved w/ minor grammatical change (ensuring)

B. Undergraduate Academic Board (pg. 8-9) UAB curriculum approved MOTION: Faculty Senate supports the Registrar’s Office in recommending that departments do not reuse course numbers. Approved

C. University-wide Faculty Evaluation Committee

D. Academic Computing, Distance Learning and Instructional Technology (pg. 10-11)

E. Budget, Planning, and Facilities Advisory Committee- BPFA (pg. 12-13)

F. Nominations and Elections Committee

G. Diversity Committee (pg. 14-15) H. Faculty Grants and Leaves Committee (pg. 16)

I. IUAC- Evaluation of Deans & Directors Update (pg. 17)

J. Library Advisory Committee (pg. 18-21)

K. Professional Development Committee

L. Student Academic Success Committee

Additional documents sent via email Provost will schedule meeting on Monday Tabled motion until December

IX. Old Business A. Accreditation Update

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/accreditation/2010.cfm B. Task Force on Faculty Evaluation (pg. 22-26)

X. New Business

A. Megan Carlson, Classified Council President Introduction on Classified Council

B. Julia Martinez, APT Council President

Introduction on APT Council

C. Kim Stanford, UAA Assembly President

D. DegreeWorks Introduction - John D. Allred, University Registrar

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X. Informational Items & Adjournment

A. Faculty Alliance Motion (pg. 27-28)

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President’s Report to the UAA Faculty Senate for December 5, 2008 Spring All Faculty Assembly Please mark your calendars for Friday January 30th

, 9:30-11:00 a.m. in LIB 307, when the Accreditation Leadership Team will discuss current accreditation issues. This event is sponsored by the UAA Faculty Senate (FS) and CAFE.

Presentations to UAA Governance Groups –continued. Following presentations at the November FS by the other governance groups, the FS President was invited to talk at the December APT Council meeting. This will provide a great opportunity to increase communication between these two governance groups. Accreditation Dr. Ron Baker, the NWCCU director of the accreditation pilot project will visit UAA on December 5th. In addition to the topics already discussed, UAA has been asked to establish “Core themes” that reflect the university’s effects on the students, community, and State. Examples include Workforce Development, Undergraduate Education, Graduate Practice, Graduate Research, Service, and Continuing Education. Dr. Baker will talk at the December FS meeting about the pilot and answer questions. For their website, go to: http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/accreditation/2010.cfm Faculty Evaluation Task Force The Task Force has completed the Faculty Forums for this fall's focus on "successful faculty work", and is finalizing the summary report. This summary should be available before the winter break. Lauren Bruce and Betty Predeger are co-chairing the ad hoc Committee on the Evaluation of Teaching, and will lead that work through the spring semester. They will maintain regular communication with the Provost’s IDEA committee to ensure a coordinated effort. The website is http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/academicaffairs/promotion-and-tenure-task-force/index.cfm IDEA IDEA surveys are open and available December 1 through Dec. 18. To change these dates, call IT at 786-4646 or 1-877-633-3888, or email callcenter@uaa.alaska.eduMembership of the Provost's Ad Hoc IDEA committee has been finalized and they are collecting questions and suggestions from the college peer review committees. Their first goal is to help with the transition years with two instruments in faculty files and no past experience with IDEA.

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The CAFE training group answered questions on IDEA with the political science department that included ways to obtain higher response rates. Other departments are encouraged to invite the CAFE group for similar Q&A sessions. For their website, go to: http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/facultyservices/idea-faculty-student-evaluations.cfm. Faculty Alliance Discussions continued on the Academic Master Plan, Distance Education Audit, Governance Roles and Responsibilities, and Need Based Financial Aid. For more information go to: http://gov.alaska.edu/Faculty/Minutes MANY THANKS I really appreciate your dedication and service to UAA governance through Faculty Senate and its associated committees. I wish you a wonderful Holiday Season and look forward to continuing to work together in the Spring semester.

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Graduate Academic Board December 2008 Report

Program/Course Action Request

A. CHSW Chg NS A602 Advanced Health Assessment in Primary Care (3 cr) (2+3) Chg NS A610 Pharmacology for Primary Care (3 cr) (3+0) Chg NS A621 Knowledge Development for Advanced Nursing Practice (4 cr) (4+0) Chg NS A624 Qualitative Nursing Research (3 cr) (3+0)

Additional Motions: MOTION: The GAB endorses these five Institutional Learning Outcomes. They will go forward to the Faculty Senate and then to the steering committee with the revisions suggested.

UAA Graduates will demonstrate that they

A. Communicate effectively

B. Employ critical thinking skills

C. Demonstrate skills for independent learning and inquiry, including information literacy

D. Demonstrate a knowledge base in the required general education areas

E. Demonstrate specific knowledge and skills in a major discipline or degree

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Undergraduate Academic Board December 2008 Report

Program/Course Action Request

A. CAS Chg PS A101 Introduction to American Government (3 cr) (3+0) Chg PS A102 Introduction to Political Science (3 cr) (3+0)

Chg PS A311 Comparative Politics (3 cr) (3+0) Add Bachelor of Arts in Environment & Society

Add Bachelor of Science in Environment & Society

Chg Minor, Environmental Studies

Add Minor, Geography Add ENVI A470 Environmental Planning and Problem Solving (4 cr) (2+6)

Del ENVI A202 Earth as an Ecosystem: Introduction to Environmental Science

(3 cr) (3+0)

Del ENVI A492 Proseminar in Environmental Studies (3 cr) (3+0) Del GEOG A205 Elements of Physical Geography (3 cr) (3+0)

Del GEOG A205L Elements of Physical Geography Laboratory (3 cr) (0+3)

Chg Associate of Arts (CAS)

B. CHSW Chg NURS A101 Introduction to Nursing (2 cr) (2+0) Chg NURS A125 Adult Nursing I (3 cr) (3+0) Chg NURS A125L Adult Nursing I Lab (4 cr) (0+12) Chg NURS A250 Psychiatric Nursing (3 cr) (2+2) Chg NURS A250L Psychiatric Nursing Lab (1 cr) (0+3) Chg NS A305 Health Assessment of Individuals (2 cr) (2+0) Chg NS A305L Health Assessment of Individuals Laboratory (1 cr) (0+3) Chg NS A313 Health Disruptions I (3 cr) (3+0)

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Chg NS A313L Health Disruptions I Laboratory (3 cr) (3+0) Chg NS A314 Health I for Registered Nurses (2 cr) (2+0) Chg NS A314L Health I for Registered Nurses Laboratory (2 cr) (0+6) Chg NS A315 Health I: Nursing Therapeutics (3 cr) (2+2) Chg NS A315L Health I: Nursing Therapeutics Laboratory (3 cr) (0+9) Chg NS A417 Management in Nursing (3 cr) (3+0) Chg NS A424 Issues in Women’s Health (3 cr) (3+0) Chg NS A428 Nursing Clients with Chemical Dependency (3 cr) (3+0) Chg NS A429 Perioperative Nursing (3 cr) (2+3) Chg NS A430 Rural Health Care (3 cr) (3+0) Chg NS A431 Human Sexuality in Health and Illness (3 cr) (3+0) Del NS A438 Managed Care: Issues and Practice (3 cr) (3+0) Chg SWK A106 Introduction to Social Welfare (3 cr) (3+0)

(cross listed w/ HUMS A106) Chg HUMS A106 Introduction to Social Welfare (3 cr) (3+0)

(cross listed w/ SWK A106)

C. SOE Add ME A438 Design of Mechanical Engineering Systems (3 cr) (3+0) Add EE A438 Design of Electrical Engineering Systems (3 cr) (3+0) Add CSE A438 Design of Computer Engineering Systems (3 cr) (3+0)

Add CE A423 Traffic Engineering (3 cr) (2+2) (stacked with CE A623)

Add CE A424 Pavement Design (3 cr) (2+2) (stacked with CE A624) Chg CE A425 Highway Engineering (3 cr) (2+3) (stacked with CE A625) Additional Motions: Motion: The UAB voted to continue the 10 working days coordination period as written in the curriculum Handbook (Pages 37 & 38)

Coordination should be initiated very early in the curriculum development process – before finalization of the proposal.

Coordination includes:

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a) sending proposed curriculum to affected units

b) actively seeking collaboration, comments and suggestions

c) allowing ten days from the published date of notification of affected units before moving the proposed curriculum through the established levels of review.

d) Email notification

1) description of the proposed action,

. In addition to coordination and sending proposed curriculum (or making it available on the web) to the director and department chair of affected units, initiating faculty are also required to send an email notification to faculty list-serve at: uaa-faculty@lists.uaa.alaska.edu giving a brief overview of the proposal including:

2) course prefix,

3) course number,

4) course description,

5) prerequisite(s)

6) any other relevant information.

Evidence of coordination with affected units is required using the Curriculum Coordination Form or a coordination email memo, and the initiator signature on the CAR form. Affected academic units are encouraged to submit written support or objection to UAB/GAB and/or to speak to the proposal at the appropriate Board meeting. If no written comments are received by the UAB/GAB within ten (10) working days of the Notification Date, it is assumed that there are no objections to the proposal

MOTION: The UAB endorses these five Institutional Learning Outcomes. They will go forward to the Faculty Senate and then to the steering committee with the revisions suggested.

UAA Graduates will demonstrate that they

A. Communicate effectively

B. Employ critical thinking skills

C. Demonstrate skills for independent learning and inquiry, including information literacy

D. Demonstrate a knowledge base in the required general education areas

E. Demonstrate specific knowledge and skills in a degree or major discipline

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November 14, 2008

Members Present: Nalinaksha Bhattacharyya (FS), Gail Johnston (FS), Bruno Kappes (FS), Pamela Kelly (CAS), Ed McLain (FS), Sam Thiru (FS)

Members Absent: Steven Pyle (CTC), Angela Dirks (CTC), Carrie King (FS), Jeff Miller (SOE), Dave Fitzgerald (FS) Overview of Meeting

1. Voting results presented and the primary goal of the year is to prepare for accreditation.

Other projects will be continued.

2. The discussion centered on Matrix of Responsibilities for Distance Ed Standards based on

standards extracted from NWCCU Accreditation Handbook.

3. The third column of the matrix repeatedly referenced Distance Education Faculty

Handbook which is out of date and out of circulation; therefore, the committee will draft a

new handbook.

4. ACDLIT hosted the second 9:00 am gathering for Tech Fellows on Thursday November 13th

in GHH 103. Presentation was made by Karen Parrish member on her Tech Fellow project.

Assignments:

1. Ed McLain will contact Chris Sturm to discuss the third column of the matrix.

2. Gail Johnston will provide the first draft of the Distance Education Handbook.

3. Pamela Kelly will find and review the Summer Working Groups documents

4. Bruno Kappas will seek documentation from the Faculty Senate Archives regarding distance

education.

Next ACDLIT meeting will be on Monday December 1, 2008 in 132N University Center from 2:30 – 4:30 pm.

Submitted by Gail Johnston

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Budget, Planning, and Facilities Advisory Committee

Mark Fitch, Peter Dedych, Co-Chairs Report to Faculty Senate

Committee Meeting Date – 11/21/08

Committee members present: Brian Wick, Mark Fitch, Peter Dedych, Maureen O’Malley The Committee met in room UC138 at 2:30 PM.

PBAC first meeting was November 7. Complete minutes and agenda can be found at http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/pbac/agendas_minutes.cfm 1. FY 09 budget updates

A. We were successful in obtaining partial funding for a Sports Arena and full funding for the Health Sciences building.

2. Fy10 Budget Summary A. The FY10 operating and capital requests were presented to the Board of Regents last

week. After fixed costs, the President’s first priority is K-12 outreach funding on the operating side.

B. After R&R funding needs, the FY10 capital budget includes (partial funding) the UAF Life Sciences Innovation and Learning Facilities building (BIOS), UAS Road Improvements, UAA Sports Arena, and UAF Alaska Region Research Vessel funding. Planning funds include engineering for UAF and UAA at $25M. Other requests for UAA include funding for a cogeneration plant, which is a partnership with Providence Hospital, ML&P and UAA to build a power plant to distribute waste heat to Providence and UAA.

C. UA is also requesting funding for feasibility studies for community campuses to look at needs of community campuses overall. In some instances, cost per student per square foot is high.

D. Other capital requests include funding for energy and climate projects, the Alaska Education Policy Project, and equipment refresh. In the past, legislature has not funded research, and the University is trying a new approach to get research funding by identifying projects.

E. Due to investment losses, Statewide may come to MAUs for assistance, up to 5% of FY08 carry forward.

3. Accreditation/Strategic Planning A. Will Jacobs spoke to the group regarding the relationship between accreditation and the

strategic planning process; he is proposing a coordinated structure that meets SW reporting requirements, accreditation reporting, annual guidance for planning and budgeting, and implementation of UAA 2017. Accreditors expect us to have a process like this where we align the strategic plan with what we do.

4. Strategic Opportunity Funds (SOF) A. An assessment of past SOF awards is currently being conducted to guide future award

decisions. B. This year’s process will be started earlier than in the past. The committee will have the

same members from last year, but with an additional faculty member. Total award will be $500,000 as in past years.

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C. Last year’s focus was on student success. The SOF committee is charged with proposing a recommended focus at the December meeting. A call for proposals will be ready in early January, with the award process completed by February.

Committee Action items 1. This committee will send out an inquiry through listserv to collect general concerns from

faculty and staff about building and planning issues. A. Peter will set up an email drop box for replies. B. Other members will exchange drafts and revisions to create the outgoing message.

Report by Peter Dedych and Mark Fitch

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UAA Faculty Grants and Leaves Committee Report to the Faculty Senate: December, 2008 Committee members reviewed the travel grant and faculty research grant applications that were submitted this fall. The committee met on Nov. 7 to select grantees. The committee recommended that the Provost fund 18 research travel grants totaling $6,915.74 and 12 Faculty Development Grants 12 totaling $48,038.

The committee would like to thank Senior Vice Provost Renee Carter Chapman for providing extra funds so that a 12th

faculty development grantee could be supported.

Respectfully submitted, Diane Erickson, Asst. Professor Mike Robinson, Asst. Professor Department of Education Leadership Consortium Library Co-Chair Co-chair

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Institutional & Unit Assessment Committee UAA Faculty Senate

December 1, 2008

Members: L. Foster, F. Jeffries, K. Jones, E. Kopacz, H. Mannion, F. Pearce, K. Rawlins. Synopsis of Recent Progress: The Institutional & Unit Assessment Committee (IUAC) did not meet in November given the Committee’s co-chairs were visiting with each of UAA’s deans to discuss the implementation of last year’s survey of faculty, and how this year’s effort might be improved. As of November 24th

, all deans with the exception of Dean Snyder have been interviewed (the Honors College does not hold faculty lines and hence Dean Spatz will not be interviewed). Larry Foster, Frank Jeffries, and Fred Pearce will confer shortly with the Provost on “lessons learned” from these discussions. All of the interviewed deans volunteered to send reminders to their faculty on the importance of completing this year’s survey; the IUAC credits last year’s high return rates to similar communications from the deans. Several units also surveyed their staff last year and will do so again this year.

The Committee will meet next on December 3, 2008 to review these interviews and to begin preparing the list serves needed to implement the next faculty and staff surveys. Larry Foster will review with Kim Perkins (OAA) the necessary steps in hiring IDEA to host these surveys, as they did last academic year. At this point, the IUAC expects the surveys to be available to faculty by the end of February or the beginning of March.

AY 2008 – 2009 Progress to Date: The Committee’s goals for this academic year are:

A. Develop the IUAC’s expected milestones and timelines for AY 2008 - 2009. B. Review last year’s survey instrument and modify as needed. C. Review with each Dean and the Provost the anticipated survey process. D. Inform faculty of the survey process and promote participation. E. Identify reporting processes for each unit. F. Administer the survey instrument. G. Provide summary report to the Senate.

Goal A is complete; Goals B is complete with the exception of a few minor details. Goals C and E are 80% complete. The Committee welcomes questions and suggestions from faculty as it continues its work this year. ________________________________________________________________________ Prepared by IUAC Co-chair Larry M. Foster, November 30, 2008.

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LIBRARY ADVISORY COMMITTEE (LAC) REPORT TO UAA FACULTY SENATE (FS) NOVEMBER 2008

• ATTENDANCE. Alberta Harder, Carl Hild (APU Co-chair), Carole Lund, Clare

Chesher, David Meyers, Elizabeth James, Gina Boisclair, Hiroko Harada, Robert McCoy, Sally Bremner (UAA Co-chair), Steve Godfrey, Steve Rollins (Library Dean), Susan Mitchell (UAA Co-chair alternate).

• SUBCOMMITTEES REPORT OUT. Since Steve Rollins is unable to join us till noon this year, LAC Subcommittees will convene first then report back to the whole. This model is expected to keep everyone aware of activities, and allow questions or soliciting of input from other groups.

o Library as Place Subcommittee. The exhibit scheduled for April-May in the Arc Gallery has been cancelled due to a death in the artist’s family. A photographic exhibit is under consideration to substitute. The group hopes to have their tentative 2009-2010 exhibit schedule in place by next meeting.

o Library Services Subcommittee. The group has plans to develop the Academic Honesty and Integrity (AHI) website further, adding a blog. Don Mohr, emeritus professor (History), will be contracted by Provost Driscoll to co-ordinate AHI efforts at UAA. It was suggested Don be invited to an LAC meeting; APU faculty asked if he would be available to consult with APU too. Michael Stallings of Library Systems is working to enable the APU community to request library materials via the Library catalog for delivery via APU Academic Support Center. APU must be designated a branch library, and check out made possible at an APU terminal, with appropriate loan periods. The APU Career Center could benefit too, but there are several issues such as confidentiality to resolve first.

o Library Resources Subcommittee. The group has made good progress in planning faculty focus groups to find out what would be the best process for reviewing, reporting and recommending library resources initiatives. Academic and research resources will be primary areas, with the possible addition of accreditation.

• HOUSEKEEPING ISSUES. Carl Hild referring to the unsuccessful bid to change the

name of LAC last year, told members that retaining the old name is just fine with APU, and that as each of the institutions has its own governing body and library committee members, he was happy to continue the current friendly, informal structure and procedures. However he and Sally will be alternating chairing the meetings reinforcing the joint responsibilities of the two organizations to advise the Consortium Library. LAC meetings will run for a full 1 ½ hours, to include time for subcommittees to meet and make progress on goals and objectives. Susan Mitchell, as Sally’s alternate will report to Faculty Senate as needed

• ACADEMIC HONESTY AND INTEGRITY (AHI) WEBSITE. Sally explained the background and development, then demonstrated the Library new website which went live October 2nd, and was showcased at Faculty Senate last month by Jackie Cason, former LAC member and Emily Adams, Jackie’s graduate student who will mount a second series of “You be the Judge” scenarios on the website in January, in support of her research on how students view issues of plagiarism and academic honesty in the age of the Internet. Sally reported that 19 people have taken the online survey and recorded judgments on the scenarios to date. It was suggested that answers to the scenarios should be posted at the semester’s end, along with the combined results to encourage

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participation. The group is considering adding a blog with current news items in the media, and regular postings by campus faculty. The intention is to keep the site fresh, interesting, and topical while keeping amount of content manageable. Carole pointed out that differing cultural perspectives on AHI should be discussed on the website, in terms of what are acceptable academic standards in North American culture.

• LibQUAL™ LIBRARY ASSESSMENT. Susan reported that LibQUAL opened last Monday, Nov. 3 and will run until Nov. 21. As of today, 80 APU responses have been recorded and 463 from UAA (more staff, than faculty). She encouraged members to complete the survey and have their students do so too, as important decisions will be made based on the results. More fliers were passed out to members for distribution.

• UPDATE OF APU LIBRARY ISSUES. Carl reported that plans for a 50th

anniversary plaque are almost complete, and Steve Rollins has sent the final wording to President North. A bid has been received for the repair and conservation of a work of art being donated by APU to the library, the display area still to be determined.

• UPDATE FROM LIBRARY DEAN. Highlight from Steve’s October Library Report. Rosette Stone Language Learning Software: has been licensed for campus-wide use for six months. The NANA Corporation has language development CDs which will also be added to the library. CTC has a high number of ESL students and access to the software is being warmly welcomed. Suite to be mounted on library research computers. Steve also reported that Word, Excel and PowerPoint software has been installed on 5 computers in the main reference area so far, with more to come including the 2nd

floor computers. Now that the reserve system is in place, the problem of public patrons “camping out” on computers has been resolved allowing the library to make more programs available for student use.

Strategic Opportunities Funding available again. Steve is heading up the committee what will be accepting applications for the $0.5M pot next semester. He wants LAC members to consider submitting requests for funds for library resources. Proposals should be related to instructional support and the deadline is mid-February. He reminded members that the plagiarism detection systems under consideration in Spring of 2007 were to be funded by SOF, but the proposal was unsuccessful. Members are encouraged to bring ideas for proposals to our next meeting.

NEXT MEETING: December 5th, in the Consortium Library Room 302A, 11:30 am. Submitted by: Sally Bremner, UAA Co-Chair Carl Hild, APU Co-Chair 2008-11-09

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Faculty Senate Professional Development Committee November 3, 2008

Attendance: Susan Garton, Mari Ippolito, Randy Magen Susan reported on her revisions of the letter to the Dean. Since her Dean is away on Family Medical Leave she will pursue this inquiry with the Associate Dean, Donna Gail Shaw. Susan has an appointment with Donna Gail next week. Randy reported that he revised the letter and provided it to Dean Easily. He plans to meet with her in the near future. Mari stated she will work on ideas for publicizing how to improve response rates for the IDEA form. We discussed the concept of having a seminar for the faculty in how to interpret the IDEA form. A webinar was suggested possibly with someone from Kansas State University, home of the IDEA people. Mari agreed to contact Karri Morris, Daine Erickson, and Nelta Edwards regarding their committee’s work on evaluation of teaching, other than through the IDEA form. Next meeting December 1, 2:30 LIB 304

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TO: Ann Bridges, President UAA Faculty Senate FROM: Letitia Fickel, Chair Task Force on Faculty Work for Promotion, Tenure, Post-Tenure Review, and Hiring DATE: December 1, 2008 RE: Report on Task Force Activities As of the end of November, the Task Force has completed the Faculty Forums. The faculty members at Prince William Sound Community College (PWSCC) were able to participate via videoconference. This brought the total number of faculty participants to one hundred (100). This is approximately twenty-five percent of the tenured and tenure-track faculty at UAA. As noted in the last report, one of the key tasks in our charge is the development of a ‘gap analysis’ describing what the system currently delivers and what we want to achieve as a university of distinction through our mission and strategic plan. The stories and insights collected from the faculty forums are key sources in this process. We are now in the process of crafting the summary of the findings from the forums. This report will be completed and shared with the tenured and tenure-track faculty and the Dean’s and Directors via email distribution. It will also be available to the entire UAA community via the Task Force’s website. We anticipate this summary report will be completed by the end of December. Once the summary is complete, we will begin work on the gap analysis report. Our goal is to have a review draft of the report completed and distributed in January 2009. The Task Force’s ad hoc Committee on the Evaluation of Teaching will begin their work in the spring semester. Lauren Bruce and Betty Predeger have agreed to serve as co-chairs. We are still in the process of securing commitments from faculty to serve on the committee. The committee membership has been designed to include faculty from a variety of disciplines, and with experience with a variety of teaching and learning issues pertinent to UAA (e.g. Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, distance technology, technology infusion, undergraduate research, service learning, community engagement). We have asked that the committee maintain regular communication with the Provost’s ad hoc Committee on IDEA to ensure continuity, share insights, and avoid duplication of effort. The Task Force will include updates on the committee’s work in our monthly reports to the Senate.

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