FECC Minutes

September 17, 2004

Members present: James Sottile, Caroline Perkins, Larry Stickler, Corley Dennison, David Hatfield for Shirley Lumpkin, Uday Tate, Michael Cornfeld, Elaine Baker, Don Van Horn, Sarah Denman, Michael Castellani, Michael McGuffey, Janet Dooley, Sandra Marra.

1. The meeting was called to order at 1:04 p.m.

2. The chair reminded us that the entire FECC document is on the Faculty Senate agenda for Thursday, and we agreed that we should go forward with the recommendation. There is one editorial change that will need to be made on p. 4, first bullet: "must" should be "may need to"

3. We discussed the student evaluation document, and decided to keep the old evaluations for fall, 2004. We voted (Castellani, Perkins) to introduce the new evaluations in spring, and to bring the evaluation to Faculty Senate. Student comments stay on evaluation to be used for mentoring, but not evaluative purposes.

4. We discussed the AEI. We endorse the idea that faculty should receive the AEI, but we do not think that it should replace raises. This is a legislative issue.

5. The meeting adjourned at 1:50 p.m.