College of Education and Human Services
Faculty Assembly Minutes
Friday, December 6, 2013
12:15 pm 1100A
Present: Carolyne Ali-Khan, Jon Antal, Stacy Boote, Jin-Suk Byun, Candice Carter, Terry Cavanaugh,
Richard Chant, Kim Cheek, Jeff Cornett, Vicki Cornett, Larry Daniel, Gigi David, Nick Eastham, Liz Gregg,
Caroline Guardino, Wanda Hedrick, Jan Humphrey, Laura Jackson, Chris Janson, Jennifer Kane, Wanda
Lastrapes, Jason Lee, Marsha Lupi, Sophie Maxis, Catherine McMurria, Don Moores, Cathy O’Farrell,
Karen Patterson, Lisa Ross, Otilia Salmon, Elinor Scheirer, Rebecca Schumacher, Janice Seabrooks-
Blackmore, Sherry Shaw, Nile Stanley, Michael Stultz, Kristi Sweeney, Susan Syverud, Madaline Tanase,
Claire Torres, John Venn, Kristine Webb, Christine Weber, Dawn Wessling, Bess Wilson, Kathy Witsell and Brian Zoellner.
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 12:20 pm.
Approval of Minutes: The minutes of the November 1, 2013 meeting were approved as submitted.
Announcements: Marsha Lupi announced that faculty have received notification of three $750 COEHS faculty grants for which they may apply by January 8.
Jennifer Kane said that Dr. Francis Godwyll received his US citizenship and we wish him congratulations.
Karen Patterson announced that it was Dr. Donald Moores’ last day with us due his retirement and thanked him for his service.
Larry Daniel said a request recently went out for John Delaney’s Presidential Professorship and the applications are due in early February. Larry encouraged any faculty holding the rank of full professor to look at the criteria as it would be great to have one or more applicants from the College of Education and Human Services.
Marsha Lupi gave a reminder that the COEHS holiday celebration will begin at 2 pm after Faculty
Assembly. She thanked Patti Robbins and Janet Withers for decorating the 3 rd floor landing so beautifully. She encouraged everyone to come up and enjoy some refreshments.
Dean Search: Candice Carter said the search committee for the dean met with the Dr. Samant in the
Academic Affairs conference room yesterday and the developed a rubric for screening applications. The criteria are based on the job description. They are planning to have the paper screening the 2 nd or 3 rd week in January, then the phone interviews during the last week in January. Dr. Samant will join the holiday celebration and you can address your questions about the dean search to him then or to any members on the search committee.
New Business of Standing Committees: Candice Carter connected with each committee asking them when they were meeting and who their chairs are. There are a couple of committees that still need to

elect their chairs. After you have your meetings, Candice asked that the committee chairs send to her in e mail (ccarter@unfedu) their meeting minutes, no later than the first Monday of the every month so she can take that with her to the monthly meeting of the COEHS Executive Committee. They need those minutes to prepare the business of the next Faculty Assembly. The COEHS Executive Committee plans the agenda for the monthly Faculty Assembly.
Technology Committee: Caroline Guardino stated that the technology committee will meet after this meeting. They held their first brown bag on Wednesday, December 4 and only one faculty member showed up, who wasn’t on the committee. Therefore, we are going to send out a survey to learn what you would like us to do for you so we can be a proactive committee. You will probably see the survey in
December and have the results in January. We would like to serve you, so please participate in the survey and let us know your technology needs.
Long Range Planning Committee: The committee met on Wednesday, December 4. Throughout the remainder of the academic year, we will be looking at updating and revising the college’s mission and vision, values and philosophy statements. Beginning in January, you will be invited to provide input for smaller discussions at the department meetings. Members of the committee will be leading those discussion and we hope to have something by the end of the academic year that could be interactive.
Personnel Committee: Otilia Salmon asked the personnel committee members to meet after this Faculty
Assembly meeting. Otilia Salmon is listed as chair but she is only interim chair and they haven’t decided who the year-long chair is yet.
Planning for Conversations in Faculty Assembly: We will be having conversations in this College after
Faculty Assembly meetings from January to April. These conversations will take place right after the next Faculty Assembly meeting and may last until 2:30 pm. If you have a standing committee that meets right after this meeting, you might want to move your venue. Over the holidays, think of ideas that you would like to share and communicate for these discussions.
Dean’s Report:
General Items of Interest
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ISQ process is now fully online. No paper forms will be used from here on out.
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Commencement—Friday 12/13 at 2:00 PM
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Florida Legislative Session
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Regular Session convenes on Tuesday, March 4, 2014
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Senate President Don Gaetz (R-Niceville)
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House Speaker Will Weatherford (R-Wesley Chapel)
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Betty Porter (R-Lake City) is Vice Chair of House Education Committee; Janet Adkins (R-
Fernandina Beach) is a member.
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Bill Montford (D-Apalachicola) is Vice Chair of Senate Education Committee.

Exceptional Student Education—Autism Track M.Ed.
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This existing program will be part of the University’s initiative in conjunction with Academic
Partnerships. The program is already offered online, so that part of the program will not be new.
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Faculty in Exceptional Student Education have been fully involved in the decisions about offering
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 the programs via Academic Partnerships.
Faculty who are qualified and wish to teach in the program have opportunity to do so.
The process has been deliberative, iterative, and based on faculty commitment.
Academic Partnerships will provide support in marketing, course design, and communication.
UNF faculty will have full responsibility for the curriculum.
Program will operate on a self-sustaining model. Enrollment will not go through usual FTE channels, and no match from the state will be sought.
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BOG has approved “market rate tuition” for the program.
DCPS Teacher Fellowship Program
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COEHS learned on November 13th that we had been selected as the university partner to develop an urban teaching fellows program for Duval County.
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Thanks to Jeff Cornett, Jerry Johnson, and Mary Rose for assisting me with the oral presentation to DCPS administration that resulted in the award.
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We will be learning more next week during initial meetings with all involved parties: COEHS,
DCPS, Jacksonville Public Education Fund (representing Community Foundation and the donor group), and consulting group Urban Teacher Residency United (UTRU).
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Dr. Christine White is the DCPS coordinator for the program.
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Funding for this initiative is part of the Quality Education for All funding.
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We have previously had informal conversations with DCPS about this program.
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We do not have an exact amount of the award, but we have requested a figure in excess of $2 million.
Targeted Educational Attainment (TEAm) Grant Program 2014
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Board of Governors is offering funding for single or multiple university projects on “Middle
School Teacher Retention” focusing on:
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STEM-related middle school teacher preparation programs
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Technology Teacher Education/Industrial Arts Teacher Education
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Mathematics Teacher Education
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Science Teacher Education
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Biology Teacher Education
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Chemistry Teacher Education
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Applications are due February 3, 2014.
We are currently checking to see if other universities in the SUS are interested in working with us to submit a response to the RFP.
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Due to other commitments, we are opening to being a secondary partner to a “lead partner.”
FDOE Review—November 17-19
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Review was highly successful. Many thanks to:
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Faculty
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Staff

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Program Candidates
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School partners
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Claire Torres
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Many lessons learned and information gathered that will inform the state on the process.
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Dr. Torres and I have been invited to a pilot review debriefing session later this month. The debriefing session will be focused on the future of the state’s program review process, and how
UNF’s review has informed the process.
CACREP Review—October 20-23
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CACREP home office has delivered the official team report to us. There were no changes in the team’s recommendation from the oral report we received at the end of the visit.
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All CACREP standards were met!
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Many thanks to the School Counseling faculty, SOAR students, and school partners for assuring this success.
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CACREP board will meet in January to consider our accreditation status and will issue a final decision.
COSMA Accreditation Review
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Sport Management programs will be participating in their initial review by the Council on Sport
Management Accreditation during Spring 2014.
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Faculty are busily preparing documentation which will be submitted on January 15, 2014.
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Exact date of the visit is TBA.
Dr. Donald Moores, Professor, Deaf Education is retiring. Don was a great addition and extremely missed by this faculty. It was an honor having him as our faculty member.
Other:
Candice Carter asked faculty if the standing committee minutes should be kept online or on a private webpage just for faculty. A discussion took place and the O drive had the biggest support.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 1:06 pm.