College of Education and Human Services
Faculty Assembly Minutes
Friday, January 9, 2015
Room 2520, 12:15 pm
Present: Jin-Suk Byun, Terry Cavanaugh, Kim Cheek, Luke Cornelius, Jeff Cornett, Vicki Cornett, Brenda
Dale, Gigi David, Daniel Dinsmore, Nick Eastham, Liz Gregg, Laura Jackson, Chris Janson, Jennifer Kane,
John Kemppainen, Wanda Lastrapes, Jason Lee, KoSze Lee, Marsha Lupi, Sophie Maxis, Catherine
McMurria, Melissa Omeechevarria, Debbie Reed, Phillip Riner, Mary Rose, Otilia Salmon, Elinor Scheirer,
Megan Schramm-Possinger, Lena Shaqareq, Sherry Shaw, Carolyn Stone, Anne Swanson, Kristi Sweeney,
Susan Syverud, Madalina Tanase, John Venn, Kristine Webb, Christine Weber, Dawn Wessling, Hope
Wilson, and Brian Zoellner.
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 12:20 pm.
Approval of the Minutes: The minutes of the November 7, 2014 meeting were approved as submitted.
Announcements: Dan Dinsmore announced that Candice Carter is no longer with us and vice chair, Dan
Dinsmore will be filling in for the rest of the semester. Marsha Lupi and Jen Kane will be our interim
dean and interim associate dean for next year.
Mary Rose welcomed Katrina Hall as the first Faculty Associate for the Center for Urban Education and
Policy. The center awarded a teacher mini grant to Melissa Hall, an ESE psychology coach at Lakeshore
Middle School. Project Breakthrough has an awareness session on Thursday, January 29 from 5:30 to
8:00 p.m. and One By One Convention will be held on Saturday, January 31 at the Prime Osborn
Convention Center from 9:00 to 2:00 p.m. Mary will send out more information and she put flyers on
the table. The 7th Annual Urban Education Symposium: Reclaiming Young Black Males for Jacksonville’s
Future will be held at the Jacksonville Public Library – Main Branch from 8:30 to 1:00 p.m. and the
registration deadline is Feb 2nd on Saturday, February 8.
Jen Kane reminded faculty that the scholarship/fellowship applications are posted online and the
deadline is Friday, January 23 at 5 pm. Please encourage your students to apply. The Scholar
Convocation will be at end of Spring semester so think about which students you’d like to award. Jen
Kane will send out more information soon. There is still some money available for students to travel to
conferences. We are awarding up to $400/student to present with you at a conference.
Marsha Lupi said students can apply for the Sails Scholarship for studying abroad. She found out the
recommendation letter is worth 15 points on the rubrics. They need a professionally written
recommendation letter stating why this student should study abroad. Please inform your students how
important this letter is and please do your part, if asked, to make sure the letter is written strongly and
professionally.
Chris Weber announced that Camp Composition will be starting in two weeks. Grades 4 – 11 will be
assessed this year. Flyers are on the table so please share with your students. There are only six
Saturdays until the assessment.
COEHS Standing Committees, Chair Reports of New Business:
Undergraduate Standards and Curriculum Committee – Jen Kane said they are meeting on January 15 to
look at the deaf education packet. This is the last meeting to get things reviewed before the catalog
deadline.
Graduate Standards and Curriculum Committee – Sophie Maxis said the committee reviewed the
policies from last semester.
Technology Committee – Laura Jackson said the committee met and addressed a few of the issues. USB
extenders have been put into all the computers in the building and buttons have been painted on the
computers. They meet again next week.
Personnel Committee – Otilia Salmon said the committee met and they are reviewing relevant policies
and they meet again next week.
Long Range Planning Committee – Kim Cheek said the committee has their next meeting on Tuesday
afternoon. They are working on a draft of the revised mission and value statement and will be working
on a revised vision statement and they value your input. Marsha Lupi thanked the committee for the
mission and goals bullet points to plug into the strategic plan.
Student Issues – Bess Wilson said the committee had one student issue which was resolved through
emails.
Office of the Dean Updates: Marsha Lupi welcomed faculty back and said we had a good fall semester.
Marsha welcomed the clinical instructors that are now within your departments.
Achievements –
 Katrina Hall is the 1st Faculty Associate for the Center for Urban Education and Policy
 Rebecca Schumacher is the new professor in residence at West Jax Elementary School.
 COSMA accreditation was successful with their sport management program
 Main Street America grant provided 25 iPads to Woodland Acres, Sue Syverud, professor in
residence
 Donor funding to continue for the Tiger Academy literacy program
 Jacksonville Teacher Residency program grant approval for year two. They are currently
recruiting.
 Dean’s $1,000 faculty grant awards went to Drs. Guardino, Weber, Braga and Hall.
 Reorganization of field 1 & 2 is progressing.
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Dean’s search is going forward and thanks to the committee for their hard work and dedication.
Search Updates –
 ASL/Interpreting candidate accepted an offer from Dr. Suzanne Ehrlich.
 Educational Foundations has good candidates coming on January 21, 26 and 28.
 ESOL/TESOL search has invited four candidates.
 Early Childhood Education search just completed phone interviews.
 Educational Leadership search has 49 applicants and they’ve cut it down to 19 and they will be
planning for phone interviews.
 Clinical Sport Management search has completed phone interviews and invited two individuals
for on-campus interviews.
 Childhood Education, Literacy, and TESOL Chair search is still searching and they are meeting in
a week or two.
 Deaf Education search has four skype interviews.
 Provost search committee met and made recommendations.
Strategic Plan Progress – we met with the chairs after they turned in their plans. It has to be in the last
week of January. Thanks to the chairs for getting it in.
Spring 2015 enrollments and FTE – the 6th year graduation rate has to do with only first time in college
(FTIC). What can we do to help them? It was suggested to give faculty the names of these students and
they could help mentor them.
FTE – for every FTE we get funded 4,000 dollars. This is money we would get for faculty lines and
positions so recruiting and retaining students is part of our job now. We will start registering interns
early then if they flunk they have to withdrawal. John Kemppainen was thanked for all his help with this.
From the desks of Megan Schramm- Possinger and Jennifer Kane  ECATS, iwebfolio and Next Steps. Jen Kane was able to get IT to help us. Megan will send out a
poll to find out your preferences, compile it, and get back to you with the consensus. Let Megan
Schramm- Possinger know what you are comfortable with. ECATS reminders - enter your
student information, program leaders or department chairs please coach your adjuncts on how
to do this.
 US News and World report – report was submitted and looks good.
 Rule 6A and proposed federal regulations for teacher education/responses – Legislature is voting
on this January 14. Our score will dictate our school’s rating. There are five categories:
placement, retention, placed in critical shortage areas, student learning growth formula,
subgroup performance. They compare our group to the State. A placement rate data should not
determine our score (economy) student learning growth formula (new test hasn’t been utilized)
site visit should be peer reviewed, appr should be reported but not used as a rating. We perform
well under every standard. We are hopeful that our comments will be heard.
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Understanding the technical aspects of moving field courses -Jen Kane is working with Megan
Kuehner on these courses and gave an explanation of how they’ll work. Field courses can only
live in one place so they will continue to live in the Dean’s Office. We will distribute the courses
based on need and scheduled CRNS will live in the unit. For example, an FSE student will see the
course in your department. You will let us know how many sections and you will receive the
FTE. You can change the course number if you go through the APC process. This is the best we
can do right now. If questions, let Jen Kane know.
Marsha Lupi gave a few shout outs (graduations, births, etc.)
John Ouyang reported that the Confucius Institute is requesting five professors from China.
Dan Dinsmore reminded faculty to forward their concerns or questions to your representative on the
Executive Committee.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 1:12 pm and the next meeting is February 6 in room 2520.