Faculty Forum minutes February 1, 2017

Faculty Forum minutesFebruary 1, 2017

President – Todd Lutes- Started the meeting from Tech Park at 10:03 am

PRESENT: Acosta, Curtis; Arnold, Stephen; Brown, Brandy; Czerkawski, Betul; Denno, Linda; DiRoberto, Kyle; Erickson, Kathy; Johnson, Chris; Lutes, Todd; Mapp, Eric; Moore, Sandra; Orozco, Rick; Parra, Ada; Rault, Patrick; Sanderson, Chris; Seder, Laurie; Steklis, Dieter; Straight, Ryan; Tesch, Aaron; Torres, David; Wittman, Romi; Xu, Li; Buckner, Melody. ABSENT: Brown, Sheena; Citera, Barbara; Kralovec, Etta; Trevino, Sandee;

GUESTS:

Agenda Item Discussion Notes Action Person/sResponsible

Approval of Minutes Minutes to approve for December Approved with 3 abstentions. Chris JohnsonWelcome & Faculty accomplishments

See agenda Todd Lutes

Interim Dean’s Report: Melody Buckner

Update- Leslie Bromberg is continuing her review of branding and reorganization of UA South. Leslie has been talking with our community partner colleges and will be talking with Yuma. Leslie also sent out a survey to students to get their voice as well. Melody met with Melissa Vito. We will begin the process in the next couple weeks to have everything in place for Fall for the new Dean search. Please try to get the word out about HACU in Washington DC. We need applicants. We hired a new instructional designer he will be starting on March 6th. He will be based out of Tech Park. The Office of Digital Learning has hired an Adobe Creative Cloud evangelist. He is

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Melody Buckner

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located on main campus and will be helping faculty think of how to integrate Adobe Cloud into your curriculum. If you are interested contact Melody and she will make the connections. On February 6th on main campus there will be a panel on using online labs. This is a group of experts that can show us how to incorporate online labs into your teaching. It is an afternoon event in the Student Union. Drop by the student union if you can. Melody will support anything you need for the P&T process. Tom Miller is also available. Kory Floyd can support you in UA Vitae as well.

Associate Dean’s Report: Barbara Citera

No report at this time. Barbara is out of the country.

Barbara Citera

Standing Committee Reports & Action Items:Curriculum:

Technology:

Personnel:

Curriculum: Consent motion, All items to be accepted as one.

Technology: Committee met right before this meeting. Aaron demonstrated a Kubi, a robotic telepresence device. Next month Ryan will be giving a review of Slack. Aaron and Chris have put in for an Innovation grant to receive two Kubi’s for use at UAS. Contact Aaron if you are interested in learning more

Personnel: February 14th reviews are due.

Consent motion: approved Kyle Diroberto

Aaron Tesch

Dieter Steklis

Undergraduate & Graduate Reports

Undergraduate: Todd was unable to make it to the last meeting. Romi will be the new UGC representative.

Todd Lutes

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Graduate: Report submitted electronically. No questions.

Rick Orozco

Update from President Elect: Foundation Proposal discussion

The committee met and worked out some of the issues. There will be two times a year to submit proposals for funding. Once in the Spring and in the Fall. Funding can be retroactive from the time you go. If you don’t make the deadline for this distribution you may submit in the Fall.There will be no percentages now as to how the money is distributed. Waiting to see what kinds of proposals are submitted. A new form for submission will be sent out as soon as it is approved.Proposals are due February 20th. The committee will submit the proposals to the Foundation on March 1, 2017.

Chris Johnson

Unresolved Issues Identified in the December minutes:

The outstanding student committee will be Kathy, Romi and Chris S. Using the same criteria as last year. April 4th is the deadline to submit. If you are going to UA online you will be doing 7 ½ week courses. Will there be a compensation plan for faculty to convert to 7 ½ week courses? Todd advised to put something in writing to take to the next EILT meeting. It was asked if the higher enrollment cap for adjuncts can be compensated? This question will go to the PD meeting agenda. Workshop on UA Vitae. This was listed as an issue for follow-up but all concerns were addressed during the Personnel Committee Discussion.

Chris JohnsonTodd LutesBarbara Citera

Personnel Betul has agreed to fill the position for the Chair University of Arizona @ Sierra Vista Prepared by Deb Hoeft, Reviewed by Dieter Steklis

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Committee Vacancy Discussion/ Resolution

of the Personnel committee.

No report at this time. No questions.Adjournment: 11:25

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