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Advisory Committee Meeting
Minutes, Friday, December 2, 2005
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., SLM T2-102
Members Present:
Laura Ross, John Delgado, Dick Grant, Barbara Hunnicutt, Nana Robertson, Marcia Roman, Jeff Smith, and Christine Stillings
Guest: Dr. Carol Hawkins
Recorder: Yeok Eng Wendt
Greetings:
Laura Ross started the meeting by passing around a get-well card for every one present, to sign and/or write a get-well wish to Verna Legg.
Endowed Teaching Chairs:
Two documents were distributed by Dr. Carol Hawkins: 2005-2006 Endowed Teaching Chair Committee meeting notes from a meeting held on November 28, 2005 and the Proposed Revised Endowed Teaching Chair Process. Both documents provided the general principles and guidelines from which the Endowed Teaching Chair Awards should be instituted, launched, and executed, and a detailed process with action steps and time-lines for the proposed 2005-2006 Awards.
Dr. Hawkins was soliciting recommendations from the Committee in the implementation of the 2005-2006 Awards: two Salzburg Seminar Endowed Teaching Chair Awards and two Endowed Teaching Chair Awards. Dr. Hawkins stated that the entire process, from start to finish, should be faculty-owned. The 2005-2006 Awards would be the pilot process from which the subsequent Awards will spring-board. The application process has been simplified, requiring minimal paperwork to encourage participation. The following recommendations were made by the Committee:
- There should be one at-large faculty and one librarian versus two at-large faculty in the composition of the six faculty in the Endowed Teaching Chair Screening Committee
- Faculty interested in serving on the above Committee should be volunteers, not nominated
- Self-nominations should be accepted for the Committee and the Awards
- If a Committee member's application was accepted in the nomination process, she/he would have to step down from the Committee to be considered for an award
- Provisions should be made to include non-tenured faculty members
- The two classroom visits, to be conducted by members of the Screening Committee, should include two classes of the same course (different sections) or one each of two courses, where applicable
- Provision for a clause which states that "up to four" Awards will be awarded each year
- The student data collected and analyzed should be objective and put into appropriate context. Also, it should serve as merely informational, not as absolutes
- For the 2005-2006 Awards pilot process, Dr. Hawkins should proceed with selecting the composition of the Screening Committee
- Subsequent Screening Committees should comprise of more past recipients
- A faculty meeting, possibly to be held on January 5, 2006, to announce and kick-off this 2005-2006 Awards pilot process
- Recipients should be highlighted in "MySCC"
Spring Events:
Activities planned for Spring 2006 were noted on the agenda.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:15 p.m.
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