Minutes for August 17, 2004 FECC Meeting

Present:  Shirley Lumpkin, James Sottile, Michael Castellani, Mike McGuffey, Janet Dooley, Venkat Aadivado, Mike Cornfeld, Don Van Horn

The meeting was called to order at 1:10 p.m.

1.  A discussion of the student rating forms ensured. Items discussed were:

                        How to evaluate e-courses

                        The necessity for institutional research to scan and report out

                                    only the 22 core items

                        The need for a transition semester where rating forms don’t count

                        How to figure in low numbers of students (or one, for example)

                                    in the student rating forms data

2.  Discussion of how to amend wording of SR-03-04-49 FECAHC.  It was  decided to revise the term “equity” to “market equity.”  It was suggested that the Senate President needs to make the decision on how to amend the term.

3.  Discussion of the unit’s role in determining source of evaluation input and faculty member’s role in determining % of each role in evaluation.

4.  The extremely humorous (in a dry and witty way) Michael Castellani moved to accept the previous meeting’s minutes, August 11, 2004, seconded by Mike Cornfeld (also, of course, a humorous man).  The minutes were passed.

5.  Extensive discussion of annual report form and agreement that in the middle of this process we will keep the form the same except for using the 4 ranking levels and the new annual planning page.

6.  Discussion of revisions to timeline.

7.  Reviewed draft of packet of materials and decided to revise section of who determines weight and activities.

8.  The fall meeting schedule was discussed.  It was agreed that the Friday 1:00p.m. time would be kept.  It was agreed that the next meeting would be Friday, August 27, 2004 in SH 330.

Minutes prepared by and respectfully submitted by:

Shirley Lumpkin