College of Education Leadership Team Meeting
February 1, 2008
Meeting called by: Dean, Dr. Cathy Gunn
Type of Meeting: LT Biweekly Planning Meeting
Facilitator: Dean, Dr. Cathy Gunn
Note taker: Rosemary Hinton
Timekeeper: Dean, Dr. Cathy Gunn
Attendees: Wayne Willis, James Knoll, Lynne Fitzgerald, Cathy Gunn, April Miller, Dale Duvall
Guest: Matt Collinsworth, Will Kayatin
Absent: Rosemarie Gold
Dr. Gunn began the meeting by introducing Matt and Will. She asks each member to share his/her
updates or good news. Announcement: invitation was extended to Lynn Spradlin to join the
Leadership Team and she accepted. Cathy discussed holding off on adding other members to the
Leadership Team until a later date.
Minutes: December 7th minutes were distributed and a request to distribute earlier to give members time
to review prior to meeting.
Agenda: Conceptual framework update:
Cathy said she would like to examine and work on the conceptual framework over the weekend.
Professional Development Schools:
Cathy suggested a group for professional development to meet and she could purchase a good book ,then
get together maybe once a month for our own profession development. Make assignments of each other
such as: go with Melinda Willis to Martin County and watch what she is doing and ask her all the
questions and how she got to this place, then have some professionals come in and work with us to
demonstrate how this would work for us and our faculty. We need a structured way to make this work.
I suggest we have mentors come in as a consultant to tell us how we can do this, or even have someone
the faculty would work well with? Is there a person we can find to come in and spend a year with us,
part-time or a retired teacher, or is this the right person, we have several questions we need to answer.
Wayne: Star Lewis, State wide director, would be a good person where she has work with the reading
literacy program
Jim: It probably needs to be someone with experience beyond the public school, because of the different
prespects with undergraduate; we need somebody with a broader context of state department or
university.
Wayne: Judy Lester, from Pike County, work getting Melinda into the Pike County system
Cathy: I like the ideal to have more than one person maybe up to 5
Lynne: Collaboration between faculties as a mentor to assist one another
Jim: a critical friend assigned for a couple of incentives for example to work with first round of Master
Redesign, and demonstrate resource
Cathy: if we assign a critical friend to each of the programs we feel the need for, we create a working
community together. That would require less time and this would help everyone in their class time.
I would like for your approval to get started.
Wayne: Sherry Powers, a literacy based person and has run a reading project
Cathy: If each of you would get me the names and contact information so I could contact
Dale: Joy Gooding, Fleming, working with gifted and is now a Asst. Supt.
April: We have discussed here, the school as a center point for education, health, community initivies,
engagement outreach, and larger field based and has a larger context. Our faculty or disciplines design
collaborative field based relations partnership in each displine, ties into the 21st century enterprise that is
conducted by Krista Barton, to go out to our local school districts. We are also exploring a field- based
conceptual framework with school as community engagement teacher develop health, nursing, social
studies etc… What does the community need? Then build on these incentives in field based. Same
process we want to do for ourselves for learning and make it field based, which is also a part of the
conceptual framework related to our discussion today.
Cathy: I think we our building a new kind of College of Education, a kind of CoE that is build around
community engagement working with the needs of the community: the whole student, whole school,
whole community way that requires us to ask for things to be done in a different way, the Curriculum
Committee, the TEC Committee, and this allows us to be able to by think about how we are doing our
business in a different way.
Lynne: Agreed
April: Higher Education has not been working and we need to be more responsive by starting here.
Dale: the Regional Stewardship has some common concerns with drugs and how we work with our
children.
Lynne: A couple of faculty in the HPS were awarded a grant in Prestonsburg and Prestonsburg would
not accept.
Jim: I know we have several problems in Prestonsburg, Kitty Hazler told me that students were being
misadvised on purpose.
Cathy: If I had known this in advance, I could have contacted Bill Duke. He is a partner with the P-16
Council in Prestonsburg and I would have went to him with the problem and ask for his help.
Jim: We got to make sure we have the faculty on board, due to the fact there is so much going on, and to
add something else can be over whelming.
Wayne: Wait until after the third week in April before you hit them hard, because the Curriculum Audit
is due.
Cathy: College of people make up of people who have their own agenda or have been here long enough
that this is a different place that we are envisioning here and they didn’t sign on for this. We have a
number of faculties who would get excited about it and who would jump on board, but they may or may
not be the people who we need for this expertise and where they fit into the whole college. I think our
biggest challenge would be how do we tackle do this? Strategy is: Which hill do we go for? Tactics is:
How do we get over the hill? Now we need to determine how to do this. How would it be best for us to
approach this? Ways to relieve faculty provide resources for faculty. So many competing prioties there
isn’t a way.
Next agenda: Tactical Planning
Time line for Curriculum Audit
May 9th – May 30th due to department chairs from departments
Provost council, how this would work best within our college
All the programs are working on their programs and here are our recommendations, and the department
chairs are helping guide,
As you work with your departments you help with recommendation, dean what we do we look at all of
them together, we look at this from a college wide perspective, each chair will be a steward to the college
and we lay it out on the table how we can make this the best for the college. After review, we as a group
make a decision. And give our suggestion. Cathy will then take the recommendations to Dean
Council. Then we ask how can we be the best university? Funding will also be part of the decision
maker for keeping programs.
Lynne: Our people need to think they are part of CoE
Cathy: Our question here is: do Health Promotions and Sport Management fit into the CoE as we are
setting out, or do we need to revise to make them fit, or where they would be the best fit?
After each program gives their recommendations to chair, and then the chair will send back a report to
the committee.
Jim: ask to compare where other programs are located within other universities.
Cathy; April 11th May 9th, is for feed back
Cathy will have her report back before May 30th. Inform faculty to check email and know that they are
invited to be involved and we want their help with the final decisions.
Deans has to do a presentation to each other and present to our college.
The dean and provost will meet somewhere off campus, after discussion with the dean and provost, then
we will come back to each of you to make any new recommendations. Provost said: I would expect if a
chair gets a report that is not appropriate, then they should send it back and ask they review again.
Cathy: make sure you document the websites/universities you review and when you talk with different
groups make documentation, ask for estimated numbers, from department chairs from other
universities.
April: Chairs may need to let faculty know that at this point of Curriculum Audit Program there are
questions the dean will need looked at, such as is this the best fit for our area, and because you have to
give information and answers to the dean, you may need them to review and get that additional
information, too.
Adjourned: 12:10 p.m.