Minutes
Faculty Council Steering Committee Meeting
Members Present: Brenda Ammons, Becky Blackwell, Bill Brewer, Sharon Burlingame, Kathy Byrd, Tony Crossland, Karen Cornell, Lawana Day, Ely Driver, Rasey Feezell, Jonathan Fowler, Jean Jackson, Donnell King, Carol Luther, Toni McDaniel, Rick Patton, Wanda Scarbro, Dave Vinson
I . The meeting was called to order
by Business Officer Ely Driver at
II. Faculty Council President Kathy Byrd asked all present to introduce themselves and state which areas they represent.
III. Minutes
Brenda Ammons made the following motion:
Motion 1: Approval of the minutes should be postponed until the next meeting.
There being no objections, the motion passed.
Communications Officer Cindy Alexander No report
Secretary Carol Luther No report
TBR Representative Dave Vinson
D. Vinson will be attending TBR Faculty Sub Council later this month and will
have a report for the next meeting.
President Kathy Byrd
K. Byrd reported some items from the Learning Council. Summer enrollment is
good. The tuition and fee increase has been set. LC is working on guidelines for
expectations of instructors who teach video courses.
K. Byrd also commented on the recent layoffs and reduced contracts. Division St.
and Blount were particularly hard hit. There is concern about the future of site
campuses.
K. Byrd [dak2]informed SC that with one exception all committees have chairs. Faculty
Forums and High Performance Teaching have been combined. The committees
and their chairs are as follows:
Adjunct Faculty Rasey Feezell
Promotion/ Tenure Jean Jackson
Faculty Forums/High Performance Teaching No chair
Student Scholarship (Booksale) Library Services
Rules Committee Donn King
K. Byrd will chair an in-service session on faculty evaluations. Dr. Bruns and
some department heads will attend to discuss the process.
K. Byrd suggested that filing reports prior to meetings would be helpful and may
help save time in the meeting
Donn King made the following motion:
Motion 2: The Faculty Council will adopt as
a standing rule the requirement
that main motions must be submitted in writing.
The motion passed.
K. Byrd asked for ideas on how to increase attendance at Faculty Council
meetings. Everyone should remind colleagues of the meetings and encourage
them to attend.
V. Unfinished Business
None
VI. New Business
Article 8, Section 4, E.3 of the FC Constitution contains ambiguous wording about the term of service of the Adjunct Faculty Representative. Rewording of the section is remanded to the Rules Committee for clarification.
VII. Announcements
Faculty Council President Kathy Byrd is the Faculty Regent for the Tennessee Board of Regents for 2003-04.
VIII. The meeting was adjourned at
Carol Luther
Recording Secretary
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[dak1]It’s not necessary to include a summary of reports, but it’s OK to do so. If Kathy can get people to submit their reports in writing (a good idea), this is safer, because it takes you out of the interpreter’s role. On the other hand, it’s not very dangerous since everyone gets a shot at amending the minutes when they are read.
[dak2]Minor formatting comment: check with whoever is doing the Web page (Cindy Alexander?) to see how Word formatting might or might not cause a problem for converting to the Web. Using the Tab key to line up paragraphs can cause horrible problems in the conversion, and can even cause problems for faculty members if you send out minutes via a Word attachment (different printers will render characters in slightly different widths, causing the tabs to migrate to unintended lines). It’s better to use the Format, Paragraph setting to set indents for a paragraph like this.
[dak3]Perfect form, according to RONR. J Overall, the things I’ve picked at are minor.