Faculty Assembly Meeting
Minutes
Friday, September 6, 2013
Present – Carolyne Ali-Khan, Betty Bennett, Stacy Boote, Jin-Suk Byun, Terry Cavanaugh, Richard Chant,
Kim Cheek, Luke Cornelius, Jeff Cornett, Vicki Cornett, Larry Daniel, Gigi David, Daniel Dinsmore, Nick
Eastham, Francis Godwyll, Liz Gregg, Caroline Guardino, Katrina Hall, Wanda Hedrick, Warren Hodge,
Jan Humphrey, Newton Jackson, Jerry Johnson, Jennifer Kane, John Kemppainen, Wanda Lastrapes
Jason Lee, KoSze Lee, Marsha Lupi, Catherine McMurria, Sandie Miller, Katie Monnin, Cathy O’Farrell,
Melissa Omeechevarria, Karen Patterson, Debbie Reed, Lisa Ross, Otilia Salmon, Elinor Scheirer, Rebecca
Schumacher, Janice Seabrooks-Blackmore, Lena Shaqareq, Nile Stanley, Kristi Sweeney, Madalina
Tanase, Claire Torres, John Venn, Kristine Webb, Chris Weber, Dawn Wessling, John White, Bess Wilson,
Kathy Witsell, Brian Zoellner, Pat Hanford, Kelly Turner, Lois Dellar, Jaime Harsell-Chavez, Amanda
Laukitis and invited guest Earle Traynham.
Call to Order - The meeting was called to order at 12:21 pm.
Minutes – The minutes of April 5, 2013 meeting were approved as submitted.
Announcements – Larry Daniel asked the chairs to introduce their new employees. Jennifer Kane
introduced Francis Godwyll, director of the doctoral program and he will be teaching Ed leadership, Jeff
Cornett introduced Kosze Lee, assistant professor with an expertise in mathematics, Cathy O’Farrell
introduced Carol Malicki, as a clinical instructor but Carol was in the field today. John Venn received a
thank you for coming out of retirement to fill a void in the CELT department. Karen Patterson introduced
Laura Jackson, ASL visiting instructor and Melinda Andrew, program assistant on the EIP grant for Dr.
Len Roberson. John Kemppainen introduced Jaime Harsell-Chavez, administrative secretary and
Amanda Laukitis, part-time advisor.
Marsha Lupi - It is a pleasure and an honor to welcome Kris Webb back to her department after stepping
down as the Disability Resource Director. If you have events for students, please send a flyer to Deirdre
Meehan and she will upload them to the TV monitor in the lobby. Joe lynch is doing well and is
expected back to work in 3 or 4 weeks. Marsha thanked IT and Dr. Nick Eastham for their assistance
during his absence.
Nick Eastham - We are looking to add textbooks or materials within the past 5 years to the Student
Resource Center and thanks to faculty members for sending students. If you need the room, contact
Nick Eastham, he will take reservations. The Faculty Resource Center has a new poster printer that can
print 24 inches wide. Joe’s replacement is Barry Wynns and can give COEHS assistance in the
afternoons. Call the help desk first. On a final note, faculty can apply for administrative rights to their
office computers.
Caroline Ali Khan – recommended faculty attend the United Faculty of Florida (UFF) bargaining session.
It is happening in Building 1, Room 1306. It is very important for faculty to attend as they are reviewing
salaries and annual reviews. Wanda Hedrick reiterated supporting the UFF bargaining team because
faculty contracts are being ratified. Otilia Salmon emphasized the need for everyone to become
members of the UFF union.
Wanda Lastrapes - Caroline Ali Kahn, Wanda Lastrapes, Chris Janson and Dr. Jeffrianne Wilder will host a
forum for students to explore the socio-cultural implications of the Trayvon Martin tragedy with a panel
discussion format as well as roundtable conversations on Thursday, October 3 in this building at 6 pm.
You are welcome to attend and please encourage your students to attend as well.
Dean Search Process: Invited guest, Interim Provost Earle Traynham thanked faculty for inviting him and
he also welcomed new faculty. Provost Traynham took a look at our Bylaws and he asked faculty to
start as quickly as possible the search process by electing their members for the search committee. The
following will be that process: Ed leadership elects 2 members, Childhood Education elects 2 members,
Secondary Ed elects 2 members, Exceptional Deaf and Interpreter: elects 1 member because Karen
Patterson has already agreed to serve on the committee. Essentially 2 members from each department
will serve on the committee. Therefore eight members constitute more than 51% of the committee.
Earle has asked Kelly Turner to represent graduate students, Deirdre Meehan to represent USPS
employees, and Claire Torres to represent A&P employees. Dr. Traynham will invite Nikolai Vitti as an
outside member. If Nikolai Vitti can’t join, then he will get someone else from superintendent’s office
and someone from the Dean’s Education Advisory Council. Dean Ajay Samant will chair the committee
and he will provide administrative support. We might need to add more members, if necessary, for a
balanced representation of diversity. Committee members should arrange to take the EOD workshops
which they have each month. As long as 51% of the committee had that training, then the committee
can proceed and outside members will not have to go through the EOD training. It is not our expectation
that the outside people come to every meeting but when it comes time to invite candidates to campus,
that is when their role is really crucial and we have them sell the candidates on Jacksonville.
Dr. Traynham asked if there were any questions. It was asked what the time frame is? Since Larry Daniel
is resigning effective June 30 we would like to have someone in place by July 1. The faster we move, the
more we will attract. We would like faculty to elect members within 2 weeks, agree on an ad, arrange
for the ad, recruit at meetings and encourage colleagues to apply. We’d like this committee organized
within a couple weeks.
Nominations and Electoral Process for COEHS Standing Committee and Executive Committee At-Large
Vacancies – John White solicited standing committee member names from the chairs, at-large positions
need to be filled on the standing committees. We will elect at-large positions and will be taking
nominations. It was clarified that chairs can serve on the committees. Each committee will elect their
chair at their first meeting. It was agreed that the first person on each committee list will convene the
first meeting. It was suggested to meet on Fridays.
Undergraduate Standards and Curriculum Committee: Katrina Hall will convene the 1st meeting. John
Kemppainen nominated Sandy Loach Miller.
Graduate Standards and Curriculum Committee: Dawn Wessling was nominated and will serve at-large,
Sherry Shaw will convene the first meeting.
Personnel Committee: John White, Karen Patterson and Katie Monnin will serve at-large.
Long Range Planning Committee: Chris Weber and Bess Wilson will serve at-large.
Student Issues Committee: No one added.
Technology Committee: Terry Cavanaugh and Nick Eastham will serve at-large.
We will have an electronic vote Friday of next week to elect the at-large nominees for the standing
committees. John White assigned the following members to convene the first meetings of the
committees: Rick Chant for Long Range, Kristi Sweeny for Student Issues, Jin-Suk Byun for Technology.
Executive Committee - Terry Cavanaugh and Brian Zoellner will stay on and we will be adding 2 members
next week. John White nominated Kris Webb for at-large and Brian Zoellner nominates Dan Dinsmore.
These will be voted on as well.
COEHS Policy Review - In the spring, 80% of the policies were revised except we brought back a few to
revisit, discuss and vote on today. It was clarified that yellow is added and scratched out is proposing to
delete.
Internship and Course Load policy: this policy was moved for discussion, voted on and accepted with the
changes already marked on the document.
Academic and Professional Integrity policy: this policy was moved for discussion, voted on and accepted.
Due Process and Student Appeals policy: this policy was moved for discussion, voted on and accepted
with the changes already marked on the document.
Student Professionalism policy: this policy was moved for discussion, voted on and accepted with the
changes already marked on the document.
Student Records policy: this policy was moved for discussion and John Kemppainen suggested changing
Buckley Amendment to Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Wanda Hedrick suggested
removing the word staff and replacing it with confidential employee. The policy was accepted with
these two language changes.
Undergraduate Academic Suspension Appeals Process policy: this policy was moved for discussion,
voted on and accepted with the changes already marked on the document.
Permanent Student Records in the College of Education and Human Services policy: this policy was
moved for discussion. It was suggested to spell out FTCE. CLAST is valid until June 30, 2002. Terry
Cavanaugh suggested the need to add undergraduate since there are no internship reports for graduate
students so it was agreed to send back to Executive Committee for revisions. It needs to be accurate for
teacher education and non-teacher education.
Accreditation Update – Claire Torres was not available to give the report so Larry Daniel gave an
abbreviated report. The FDOE site visit will be November 17 – 19 and Monday the 18th is the big day
where groups will be meeting with the team. Ed leadership and EPI are not ready for them to review so
all the other approved programs will be reviewed at this time. Thank you for getting the reports done
with short timelines.
Dean’s Report – Larry Daniel will send a written report due to time constraints but briefly touched on
the following:
The CUEP will have two upcoming strategic planning sessions and seek your input on the role of the
CUEP in COEHS to address urban education needs in Duval County. Please attend either session:
 Wednesday, Sept. 18th @ 2:30pm in the LSCSM faculty meeting room, 57/3430
 Thursday, Sept. 19th @ 1:00pm in the CUEP conference room, 57/3102
Searches update – Two searches were approved. CELT Chair position is posted so please encourage
people to apply and the Physical Education search is posted. The College Leadership Team will be taking
an inventory of all current positions that are filled temporarily with the use of visiting faculty then
probably during the next hiring cycle, we will end visitors and add more permanent positions, yet we
have budgetary limitations.
Thank you for assisting your units with recruitment and enrollment. Last year we gave incentive money
to the units for recruitment and some of the efforts were very productive and some are still in the
developmental stage. We are being driven by enrollment numbers. We need to own enrollment and
recruitment; any ideas you have are encouraged through your program areas, departments and college
leadership discussions. The College Leadership Team will meet with FSCJ to resolve the issues of transfer
students being admissible to UNF but not necessarily to COEHS. We want to make sure transfer students
are ready to get into our college. The dean will send an email on Monday.
Betty Bennett suggested that master’s programs come in and talk to the EPI folks on Saturdays to
encourage them to continue with their education and get their master’s degrees. John White added;
please encourage recruiting students to our programs.
Adjournment – The meeting adjourned at 1:38 pm.