College Leadership Team
Minutes
June 6, 2012
Present – Larry Daniel, Marsha Lupi, Claribel Torres, John Kemppainen, John Ouyang, Cathy
O’Farrell, Jeffrey Cornett, and Sue Syverud
Call to Order – The meeting was called to order at 9:33am.
Minutes – The minutes of the May 23, 2012, meeting were approved with minor corrections.
Announcements – Dean Daniel asked John Ouyang to report on his, Provost Workman, and
Mauricio Gonzalez’s recent trip to China. They visited Shaanxi Normal University and talked
about a Confucius Institute at UNF. SNU was very supportive. Drs. Ouyang, Workman, and
Gonzalez gave a good presentation in Beijing and answered all the questions they had regarding
our interest in a Confucius Institute. They also visited Nile Stanley’s class and the students were
very active and supportive. Nile is there on a faculty exchange program. He has been treated
very well there. Dr. Gonzalez and Provost Workman visited the Education Center at Shaanxi
Normal. The Center was very impressive. They can connect to 100 school sites and give
feedback to their teachers. Marsha Lupi will speak with our student organizations to welcome
and be supportive of the 4 Chinese students coming to UNF in the fall. The Dean thanked John
for the report and said that we should begin to see many positive things with this partnership.
John Kemppainen said that there are 36 folks signed up for the Jacksonville Suns game on
Saturday.
John said that he had an email from Priscilla Brown Lopez (one of our graduates) and she is now
the interim dean at the University of Belize. She asked for syllabi for 4 courses that will be part
of the dual program. They are also looking for old computers and laptops. Dr. Lupi said that the
university will not allow us to give computers to schools. She will follow up on this with
Property Control.
John Ouyang said that China has a new policy for their universities. They evaluate institutions
success by the international experiences offered to students. They are requiring that all
students have a study abroad experience. Chinese institutions are looking for places they can
send students for this experience. The government in China is financially supporting
approximately 3-5% of their students to have these world experiences. Another new trend in
China is that tenure-earning faculty should have at least 6 months faculty exchange experience
prior to being promoted.
John Kemppainen said that 13 former UNF graduates from Belize recently received their
doctorate from Oklahoma State.
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Marsha Lupi said that Betty Flinchum made a major donation for international initiatives in our
college. Dr. Lupi also made a donation to this initiative. We would like to get others to donate in
the community.
Dean Daniel and Marsha Lupi met with Dr. Imeh Ebong regarding grant writing. Marsha asked
to be the liaison in our college. She has been thinking about how to get our faculty interested in
writing bigger grants. She is meeting with Donna Gore today from ORSP about grant
possibilities and will have Lindsey Taylor, graduate research assistant in the Dean’s Office, be on
the lookout for grant opportunities. John Kemppainen said that he gets the federal registry for
available grants. Marsha suggested that we have someone from ORSP as the Ask the Expert at a
fall Faculty Assembly meeting. ORSP can do a presentation to faculty about the benefits
associated with grants and support available from ORSP. Imeh said that if there are big federal
awards faculty are interested in, he will fund their travel to the federal office to speak with that
agency. He shared that we are not a minority institution but if we partner with Edward Waters
College we can go for available grants for minority institutes.
Dean Daniel said that Kristine Webb was honored with the 2012 Eve Award in Education.
Meeting the needs of college students with disabilities is a passion, one that led to her winning
the award. Sue Syverud added that everyone at the event was giving accolades to UNF.
John Yancey will attend the next CLT meeting.
Director of Urban Initiatives Search – The search committee for the Director of Urban
Initiatives has met a couple of times. Last week they met and vetted the candidates for required
documentation. Questions were raised, mostly by the community members, about the
responsibilities of this position. It was a very interesting and spirited discussion. Right now they
are trying to get a sense of what the individual will do. The conversations were not only about
the Center but the vision for this position. The Dean said that this person will not necessarily be
the ‘director’ of the Center. The committee did not rank the applicants but tiered them and are
waiting to hear back from the Dean on how to proceed.
Dean Daniel talked about the legal reminders from the Equal Opportunity Program Office (EOP).
We may have to return to guidelines for the search committees per Cheryl Gonzalez’s recent
meeting with the UI search committee.
Special Task Force on Clinical Education – The clinical education special task force met last
week. Participation was good. Kris Webb did a great job with structuring the meeting. She spent
most of the meeting working on several categories and listed under the categories what the
issues or matters were that needed to be addressed by the committee. The group felt that
communication and linkages between faculty, community-based people, and the field office
was very important. Cathy O’Farrell added that there was a sense that every member of the
group had something important to contribute and taking the blue ribbon recommendations
forward would advance the group. Sue Syverud asked for the names of the members who were
on the task force. The Dean and Cathy O’Farrell reviewed the names of the task force members
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(see attached). The Dean said that it is a very good group. He will send something out to faculty
to summarize where we are with the process. They will meet once a month through January.
They will generate a set of recommendations to give to the Dean. This group is off to a great
start.
State Program Approval Progress – Claribel Torres said that we have had high productivity with
our work. All matrices will be posted on blackboard. We are in good shape so far. Shari Little
has been working hard on ESOL. Claire will be going to St. Augustine for a state meeting on
assessment. The meeting will focus primarily on educational leadership. The Dean said that
there was some confusion with faculty on indicators that are assessed twice. There should be a
minimum of 2 assessments of the indicators in 2 points in time (internship and another point in
time). Term indicators will be used instead of descriptors. Fall syllabi needs to include our most
recent work.
Graduate Admission and GRE - A knowledge-based test for admission is what the state expects
for a state certification program under program approval guidelines. On the new scale, the
verbal and quantitative combined score is 295. Students wanting acceptance into our 4
program areas have to have the GRE or the Florida General Knowledge test. Only 10% can be
admitted by exceptions into any of these programs.
NCATE – Claire said that we need to get faculty involved in the fall on which option we choose –
continuous improvement or transformation initiative. We need to get a group together to go to
the workshop in the fall. Claire asked the group to review the handouts. NCATE is strongly
urging an emphasis on standard 3. If we stick with continuous improvement all of our programs
need to be advancing to that point of working in the schools. We are not at an acceptable level
and target with our advanced programs and need additional evidence with our initial programs.
Claire suggested that we wait until she attends the orientation in September before we make a
decision which way to go.
Adjournment – The meeting adjourned at 11:45am.
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