Ithaca College
Faculty Council
October 2, 2012
A&E Center – VIP Room
Present:
B. Belyea, D. Birr, L. Black, J. Blumberg, K. Breuer, S. Gordon, S. Grigoriev, M.A.
Hall, J. Harrington, C. Henderson, S. Howard, A. Kissiloff, S. Lahr, D. Lifton, C.
McNamara, S. Mauk, B. Murday, T. Patrone, J. Pena-Shaff, J. Rosenthal, P. Rothbart,
W. Schlesinger, S. Stansfield, T. Swensen, D. Turkon
Absent:
J. Bonnetta, B. Bower, S. Freedman, S. Osterreich, J. Stafford
Excused: W. Dann, D. Tindall
Guests:
M. Arnold, M. Kelly, E. Gonzalez(Ithacan)
1. Open Session None.
2. Approval of Minutes: September 4, 2012 – Minutes were approved with three
abstentions.
3. Chair’s Comments
Reminder – All Campus Faculty Meeting on Tuesday, October 9 from 12:10 – 1:00 p.m. in
Textor 102. It is a closed, non-agenda meeting and members of the Executive Committee
are encouraged to attend.
College Advisory Committee on Campus Security needs seven faculty members. P.
Rothbart will put out a call.
Parking Appeals Board and Parking Policy Committee both need faculty representatives. P.
Rothbart will put out a call.
Director of Advising and Achievement Center Director Search Committee – Faculty Council
approved E. Bleicher and H. Larin.
Vice President of Finance and Administration Search Committee – President has appointed
S. Erickson and S. Lahr.
Part-time Faculty Council representative – nomination of A. Monticello was unanimously
approved.
Textbook compliance – The Bookstore will be implementing a new system of tracking orders
by the end of the fall semester. That system may allow them to capture what is being done
elsewhere but those questions will not be answered until the new system is in place. In the
spring, a policy will be in place regarding book orders and the goal is to have full compliance
by preregistration in the spring for the fall 2013 semester.
P. Rothbart met with M. Knapp, Staff Council Chair. Staff are trying to figure out ways to
support faculty as IC20/20 is implemented. The executive committees will meet soon for
further discussion.
P. Rothbart spoke with J. Hamilton, Faculty Trustee, regarding several issues and invited
him to the meetings. He has a class at this time but is very interested in conveying Faculty
Council thoughts to the Board.
4. Provost Report
IC20/20 update – initiatives and progress
The E-portfolio group (includes faculty, IT representatives, and people from the Ithaca
Seminar committee) have presented recommendations regarding vendor choice and how
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that would be rolled out across campus. Recommendations from that committee are now
being reviewed.
Student Advising Center Search Committee – M. Arnold is chairing the committee and a
director should be in place by the end of the year. That unit will be critical to supporting,
but not replacing, faculty in their role as advisors by focusing on the Integrative Core
Curriculum for first year students; helping to ensure that students are reflecting on their
Themes and Perspectives choices; and helping with the issue of students who are
transferring between schools and want to do double major across schools.
Summer Orientation – Planning has begun and will include integration with the Integrative
Core Curriculum.
September 13 Reception to launch the NYC Program – The September reception/launch for
the NYC program was attended by approximately 125 alumni and internship hosts. Emails
are still coming in from others who did not attend asking for interns. Thanks to Tanya
Saunders and her team as well as Institutional Advancement for all their hard work.
Budget – Focus of budget conversation is affordability and working to ensure future budgets
provide an accessible, quality educational experience. This will mean a much greater focus
on reallocation for new ideas as opposed to adding dollars to the bottom line.
Program Review process –When the first draft process was developed late last spring, it was
sent to the chairs of APC for review with the intention that APC would be the
institutionalized faculty governing body that would be looking at program review
recommendations as they came forward. The APC chairs presented a document titled “APC
Policies and Procedures – Revised 2002” that indicated that this would not be part of their
charge. Their thoughts were that APC review should happen as part of a normal curricular
review process just like any other curricular proposal. What was not realized was that the
2002 document, which was assumed to be the official governing document, was not official
as the changes were never approved by the Board of Trustees. It took a couple of diligent
faculty members, to whom the provost is very grateful, to catch that and to figure out that
there was, at one time before the 2002 document, an APC program review subcommittee in
the policy manual. After this was discovered, APC agreed that it was appropriate for them
to be involved and the guidelines were changed back and reposted appropriately online.
There are documents posted on the provost website that include programs that are up this
year. By February 2013, the schedule over the next seven years for every program in the
institution will be done to reflect the timeframe from Middle States.
5. Budget
Faculty salary increment
Part-time salary base pay increase
Childcare (high priority for Staff Council)
3/3 Teaching Load (Recollection from talks last year was that 18 hours would be the base
for negotiating)
Faculty Development Funds increase – including travel
Comments
HR was supposed to report back regarding ongoing discussion with the Coddington Daycare
Center. P. Rothbart will follow up with HR.
T. Swensen stated that after conversations at IBEC it is not in Council’s best interest to
spend a lot of time discussing budget items. This year it is more about how the College
community can pitch in to turn “red into black.” He thought it would be best to request a
slow-down of IC20/20 implementation to maintain some flexibility outside of the IC20/20
plan.
J. Rosenthal stated that the executive office of the College has created a plan as to what the
course for the various portions of IC 20/20 are and when they are supposed to come online
and that has not been shared with the campus or the Budget Committee.
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D. Lifton explained that in 2009, the College overenrolled and simultaneously initiated a pay
freeze. The administration stated that when the pay freeze was over, the increment would
reflect what should have been gotten had there not been a pay freeze, as well as the
regular increment. Many people on campus received less in 2010 than they did in 2009. By
2011, this body called for a real increment. After hearing the budget report presented to
Faculty Council, it still did not provide for a real increment. 4% is due given the history from
2009, 2010, 2011, and now 2012.
P. Rothbart explained that the raise that was given then was reflective of the hard work on
IC20/20 as well as the overly large class. It was also noted that in 2010, a 4% raise was
given.
P. Rothbart stated that he offered a solution to administration for 3/3 teaching load as well
as program review and was not satisfied with the answer. Note: This discussion, as well as
a discussion on flexible workload, will be placed on the agenda for a future meeting.
Straw Vote: P. Rothbart inquired as to how many on Council were in favor of putting forth
one or more priorities from Faculty Council? Faculty Council unanimously approved.
A motion was made to advocate for a 4% general merit increment (Harrington), seconded
(Lifton).
A Friendly Amendment was made to include a 4% increase in base pay for part-time faculty
(Turkon). It was accepted (Harrington).
After further discussion, the Friendly Amendment was rescinded (Turkon).
A motion was made to make a request for a 3% general merit increment with a separate
allocation for meritorious merit, and that the College make an effort to improve part-time
salaries (Schlesinger), seconded (Lahr).
A motion was made to call for a written ballot (Rosenthal), seconded (Harrington). The
motion did not pass the required 2/3 approval with 10 yeas, 7 nays, and 3 abstentions.
The motion was again restated and approved: A motion was made to make a
request for a 3% general merit increment with a separate allocation for
meritorious merit, and that the College make an effort to improve part-time
salaries (Schlesinger), seconded (Lahr). The motion was approved with 18 yeas, 1
nay, and 1 abstention.
6. Program Review Process
As the provost indicated in the provost’s report, there was confusion over who was in
charge of program review. There were some documents that were never appropriately
approved in 2002 that led the APC chairs to believe that program review was out of their
purview. Thanks to the due diligence of Professors Lifton and Rosenthal, and investigation
by N. Pringle, College Council, it was discovered that the 2002 document was never
approved, and the earlier version of the policy manual was still in place which included an
APC role in program review. The process will be as follows: programs will conduct self
studies, which will then include an external review as indicated by the Provost’s guidelines.
The self-studies will then go to an APC program review sub-committee and then to the full
APC. From there it is approved by the provost and finally the president.
7. Executive Session
A motion was made to go into Executive Session (Blumberg), seconded (Turkon).
The motion was approved with 1 abstention.
Meeting adjourned at 8:55 pm.
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