Minutes
SLP Faculty Meeting
August 16, 2013
1-2 pm
Present: Rhea Paul, Alison Sprengelmeyer, Robin Danzak
Announcements:
Welcome
Faculty hires
Lesley Wolk has asked to be excused from her contract.
Dr. T. Gionnone and Dr. Jessica Preston are being offered 50% time clinical faculty positions.
Dr. Gionnone has accepted the half-time clinical faculty position; Dr. Preston will work as an adjunct in fall, and consider
going to 50% time in the spring.
New Business
Meeting Scheduling
Faculty meetings will take place on the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at 3 pm for the fall semester.
Spring Scheduling
Spring schedule is due end of Sept. Courses will be taught on Mon./Wed./Fri., leaving Tu/Th for screenings. Faculty will
submit requested course times for spring:
Danzak: Sp. Sci.
Sprengelmeyer: Neuro.
Paul: Child Language
Paul/ Sprengelmeyer: Clinical Methods
Site Visit Preparation
Tabled
Curriculum Committee Formation
This will consist of a committee of the whole.
It will meet on the 2nd and 4th Mon. of each month
Workload Discussion
Tabled
Student Involvement Planning
Plan for post-bac. orientation Aug. 23 9-11:30
 Light refreshments, Sue gets missing documents from students
 Introduction of faculty, student self-introductions
 Reading of Dep’t. Mission Statement
 Ice Breaker activities (RD)
 Program overview (RP)
 Induction ceremony:
o Students choose “7 most important words”
o Create illustrated card with words in a list or phrase (AS brings art supplies)
o Each is called forward to affix card to wall display and receive department welcome gift
Instructional Issues
Folded into Curriculum and tabled.
SLP Faculty Meeting
Minutes
August 26, 2013
2-3 pm
Present: Rhea Paul, Alison Sprengelmeyer, Robin Danzak, Toni Giannone, Susan Kostopoulos
Minutes of August 16th:
No additions or corrections to the minutes. We will create an electronic file for the meeting minutes and agendas.
Old Business:
Site Visit Preparation
Please review material that Rhea will be forwarding to all of you in preparation for the upcoming ASHA site visit. If you
have any ideas/comments, please forward them to Rhea as we will not make them until after the visit.
The Student Handbook is the basic document that contains all policies and procedures as well as our legal resource.
CAA Website – there are 6 standards that are used to judge the program as well as an appended document that we will use
to meet the standards and Rhea will highlight the sections that are relevant to each of you. Please make sure you review it
and know the standards. Alison and Toni will be sections 3, 4 and 5; Robin sections 2 and 3 and administrative sections 1
and 6.
SLP Website – please review the website and especially look at all the links on the left side.
New Business
Meeting Scheduling
It was agreed that Faculty meetings will take place on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month and the Curriculum
Committee will be held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday (5th Tuesday no meeting). Meeting invite to be sent out.
Spring Scheduling
Spring schedule is due end of Sept. Courses will be taught on Mon/Wed./Fri., leaving Tu/Th for screenings. Spring
schedule will be as follows:
Language Development – Toni Giannone, T/Th, 5-6:15pm
Neuro – Alison Sprengelmeyer, M/Th, 2-3:15pm
Speech Science, Robin Danzak, W, 5-7:30pm
Clinical Methods, Rhea Paul/Alison Sprengelmeyer, M/Th, 3:30-4:45pm
Curriculum Committee Formation
This will consist of a committee of the whole. Once we establish a set time, the Faculty Staff Meetings will meet the 1st
and 3rd week of the month and the Curriculum Committee will meet the 2nd and 4th week of the month then later just the
2nd week of the month and the 4th week of the month will be a student/faculty social hour. This committee will focus on
the relationship between courses and clinicals.
Workload Discussion
It is the University policy to develop goals and objectives for each faculty member which are then sent to the Dean and
these are what you are evaluated on at the end of the year. Rhea will forward the blank form to begin the development of
your goals and objectives following the site visit.
Security of Lab Supplies:
We need to ensure security of SLP Lab supplies. We will have 4 hours per week of work study student. Alison agreed to
hold her office hours in the Lab on Monday’s from 12-3pm and Thursday’s from 9-12pm and Rhea will hold her office
hours on Wednesday’s from 12-2pm.
PBL Info Sessions
Bev Fein offered to speak with the faculty re: using Problem Based Learning in SLP courses for graduate program.
Faculty felt this was a good idea and will see if Bev is available to attend a Faculty meeting on either 10/1 or 10.
SLP Faculty Meeting
Minutes
September 3, 2013
3-4 pm
Present: Rhea Paul, Alison Sprengelmeyer, Robin Danzak, Toni Giannone, Susan Kostopoulos
Excused: Jessica Preston
Minutes of August 26th:
No additions or corrections to the minutes.
Old Business:
Site Visit Preparation
Please review material that Rhea will be forwarding to all of you in preparation for the upcoming ASHA site visit. They
host on the CAA website questions they could ask and Rhea will send these out to the group.
Faculty Expectations
Please review the document that outlines faculty workload, academic calendar, promotion and tenure and professional
development. Any way that you can involve students in research is encouraged.
New Business
2013-2014 Budget – Equipment
We can begin ordering equipment for the 2013-2014 budget year. We did order SALT software. We need to start
thinking about tests we cannot get at field sites as well as treatment materials, which was a recommendation from our
consultatnt, Ellen Reuler, during her recent visit. Robin and Alison agreed to develop an equipment list. Suggestion
made to establish a loaner system with another organization, i.e. Speech Academy for equipment we may not have.
Alison will work on “the contract” language for the loaner agreement. Rhea suggested we apply to New Haven Reads
for books and Robin agreed to investigate this. Suggestion made that maybe NSSLHA can do a book drive and they can
be used for the sites. We need to ensure that the lab supplies are secure and, therefore, have developed a schedule of
when the lab will be open to students.
PBL Info Sessions
Rhea asked the faculty if it makes more sense to wait till Spring semester until we are closer to the graduate classes to
have Bev Fein attend a faculty meeting re: PBL. It was agreed that the faculty would like to invite Bev to attend the 10/8
meeting to give a brief overview on classes faculty can observe.
MS Admissions Issues
Rhea talked about the interview process for MS applicants and she would like to conduct them as group interviews with 5
or 6 students in a group and give them a PBL group activity (PT and OT currently does it this way). Admissions is
willing to help us and most of the interviews will have to take place on weekends and Rhea is willing to conduct these in
conjunction with Admissions for those candidates that meet minimum criteria for admittance.
Since students will be applying through CSDCAS, they will have GRE scores. However, internal students may not have
GRE scores. Further discussion on this issue is needed.
Student References – Discussion took place with regard to student requests to faculty for reference letters and setting a
rule that students cannot ask more than one SLP faculty member. SLP Policy to be added to Student Handbook – each
student may ask one faculty from SLP and if faculty has been asked by 25% of SLP students, they will be referred to
another faculty member in the department.
Recruiting for Diversity – Graduate Admissions should be focused on this.
It was agreed that the faculty should work to educate students that SLP field involves adult population as well as children.