College of Health Sciences & Human Ecology
Chairs Meeting Notes
January 11, 2016
1:30-2:10 p.m., Sattgast 314
Members Present: M. Driscoll, T. Gilbertson, T. Goodwin, E. Hagensen, D. Palivec, and S. Rickers
Good News Items:
--Social Work faculty position on-campus interviews are scheduled for January 21 st and 25 th .
--Psychology interviews are scheduled for this month. Self-study is finished. On-line courses are full and
Marsha is doing all the academic advising for them, but is trying to split up that duty.
--Professional Education SP Ed position is in the NeoGov approval process.
--Human Performance, Sport & Health is making progress in their self-study. Outstanding majors have been determined for 2016. Faculty position is in the NeoGov approval process.
--Criminal Justice Department has agreed upon a 48 credit major and is working on getting that submitted.
POST accreditation is approved for another five years. CJ fixed-term position is being posted. A growth model has been adopted. Looking at a 2+2 with Riverland CC, specifically for corrections. Working on identifying CJ scholarship winners. Received a $20,000 grant for a Cass County pre-trial program.
Personal cell phone policy being engaged by MnSCU. If employees use personal cell phones for MnSCU issues, there will be an encryption policy. Troy encourages you to read the policy that will be forthcoming.
There are some college bottom dollars remaining for any last minute needs.
Troy has contacted Winona regarding the Child Advocacy Studies Certificate.
Beth from CJ and Mary Fairbanks from Nursing are the faculty involved so far. Would like to include Social
Work, Psychology, and Community Health areas. Troy will contact the Nursing Department to see if someone wants to pick this up and get it going yet this spring.
Tenure and Promotion documents are due to the Dean January 31 (since that is Sunday, January 29 is the recommended date to turn them in).
PDP Progress Reports and documents are due to Dean:
March 4 for FT, and 2-5 th year probationary
April 15 for tenured faculty below full professor
April 22 for first year probationary, and full professors in their 2 nd or 4 th year of cycle
Major/Minor report handed out. Troy requested that you consider this in your own department discussions.
Discussion on advisory boards. If advisory boards are of value to your department, Troy suggested that you meet with them. The College of HSHE advisory board was started by Jim Barta in 2013, but has not met since then. List of members were handed out and Troy asked you to let him know if you have suggestions for new contacts.
Civility training was discussed. It was suggested that along with giving information on what civility is, that there be a discussion on what to do with this information (i.e., how and when to intervene, etc.) The faculty would like to see some consistency and follow through with these discussions. Courageous Conversations met twice and just dropped. Also, these trainings can affect people so there should be some advice to attendees if this happens to them.
Respectfully Submitted by:
Tammy Mayer
Next Chairs Meeting: January 25, 1:30, Sattgast 314