College Leadership Team Meeting
Minutes
October 10, 2012
Attendees: Jeff Cornett, Cathy O’Farrell, Linda Sciarratta, Karen Patterson, Larry Daniel, Marsha Lupi,
Claribel Torres, John Kemppainen, John Ouyang, Jennifer Kane, John White
Approval of Minutes: After minor corrections the minutes were approved.
Announcements
By next meeting, need agenda item and make decisions on recruitment requests.
Our director of urban initiative search is very near completion. Search to come to a conclusion
promptly.
Thank you for your scholarship reports. There will be some items removed from the report because
work in schools, making a presentation at a local school, etc… are considered service to the community.
The FATE Conference was a success and the panel was outstanding in explaining what is going on in the
districts throughout the state with teacher practitioner assessment and teacher evaluations. Kudos to
Dr. Tanase, and other members from the FSE department.
First wine and cheese party will be October 30 @ 3:00 – 4:30.
Maria Miller, teacher at Abess Park, along with seven other teachers, is providing tutoring and helping
children at their apartment complex. Maria is also helping single parents. Maria is looking for volunteers
to come out and work with the children. This is a great opportunity for students looking for volunteer
work. Please contact Dr. Kemppainen.
The ceremony for naming of the COEHS building is on November 9 in the 3rd floor lobby. The time is still
to be determined.
Dr. Torres is almost done with the matrices. Please provide feedback. Dr. Torres is trying to address
what was cited last time.
ETS-Proficiency Profile
Judy Miller, Executive Director of Assessment, joined the College Leadership Team Meeting to explain
the ETS Proficiency Profile. Judy hopes selected faculty from COEHS will participate in spring 2013. ETS
Proficiency Profile is a standardized test of general education skills that students should acquire in
college. It specifically tests reading, critical thinking, writing, and math and it asks those questions in the
context of material from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Students get sub-scores
in each of those seven areas. UNF participates because the profile is a requirement of the Voluntary
System of Accountability. The test was administered to freshman this fall semester and will be
administered to seniors in the spring. This test is for first time college freshman and native seniors.
Chairs will identify to Judy faculty who teach courses taken by seniors the semester before their student
internship and encourage faculty to consider including the test as part of their course. Please send to
Judy by Friday, October 26, the names of faculty, their course IDs, and estimated enrollment.
Suggestions developed by the team included:
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Align profile data with other data sources we already have, especially for teacher education
candidates.
Look at students who apply for fall internship during this upcoming spring semester. Use pool of
internship applicants.
Dr. O’Farrell will identify students applying for internship as part of the intern application
process. She will have discussion with Judy regarding the teacher education programs and how
to capture that group.
Dr. Kane will discuss with Maurice Graham regarding sports management.
Report proficiency scores for this college by comparing all freshman with COEHS seniors.
Programs will receive a roster of scores but also, scores can be broken out by a certain Banner
characteristic. We can receive information on non-COEHS majors as well. Judy will administer
to the college and keep track of data.
Safe Rooms – Marsha Lupi
Each office should Identify specific rooms and develop/evaluate an emergency plan.
Course Coverage – Marsha Lupi
The issue of course coverage when faculty are on approved absence (e.g., conference attendance was
discussed) If someone is in a face to face course, do you think someone should cover if the instructor
cannot be there? Dr. Lupi shared with the committee how faculty can tape their course lectures at the
FEED center. If anyone is interested in taping their lecture, contact Dr. Lupi, she will email Dr. Merkel for
arrangements.
Fall part-time faculty/overload expenses – Linda Sciarratta
Linda did a comparison of last year’s expenses and this year’s expenses and where we will be at midterm. Dr. Daniel feels COEHS is erring on the right side with more enrollments, which also means
adding additional sections. Dr. Daniel will bring this issue forward to the Provost’s office. It is likely that
we are in good company with the other colleges! Overloads are being used for emergency/special
situations only. Chairs should limit retired faculty to teaching only one course per semester. Low
enrollment can bring scrutiny – creates further exacerbation of problems. Dr. Daniel will bring this back
to the table. Summer school is never funded from the front end of the budget; it is funded by monies
saved during the year. Academic Affairs makes sure summer is covered because of the contractual
provision that faculty, wishing to teach, will be given a course.
Update on the bylaws process – John White
Feedback was gathered from brown bag sessions, faculty, emails, Dr. O’Farrell, and Dr. Kemppainen. Dr.
Daniel talked to the provost and to Mark Snow; Dr. Daniel and Dr. White are to meet with the provost to
discuss compliance issues and make sure everyone is in alignment. Dr. White and the Dean have also
talked to Cheryl Frolich, Joann Campbell, and Gordon Rakita. The feedback was incorporated into the
revised bylaws. Faculty has a chance to vote on the by-laws. Vote, approve and change at any time. Dr.
White would rather see faculty move forward with the by-laws and tweak changes in time rather than
hold up the whole process. The executive committee is comfortable putting the document forward. It
has been attempted in this latest draft to be more inclusive and to define better participation of A&P
faculty that was not addressed initially.
Meeting adjourned at 11:30