Minutes - DRAFT

Executive Committee (EC) Meeting

July 30, 2015

10:00 am – 11:30a.m.

Members Present:Cobb,Davis, Dawkins, Eltantawy, Frankel, Gallo, Goel, Fadil, Italia, Jaeger, Johnson, Loh, Mason, and Watts

Meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m. by Mark Dawkins.

  1. EC Minutes from 07-09-15were approved.

Old Business:

  1. Development Office Update – The committee will conduct Skype interviews with two applicants for the Director of Development position this afternoon. The search is ongoing.
  2. Staffing Update –Mark asked the ECto get approval for anything dealing with marketing of CCB from Shannon Italia due to her role as Director of Marketing for CCB. Shannon and Mark met with Cathy Cole of Admissions, and CCB is hoping to integrate our marketing efforts with the university’s efforts. He asked Cathy to work directly with Shannon onall future CCB marketing plans. He has reallocated 1 open staff position from the Dean’s Office to CMC to assist with CCB marketing plans, and also will provide GA support. Shannon has drafted a job description for the 30 hour/week position as webmaster/graphic design to work with the marketing plans. Development of the CCB marketing plans and process is ongoing.
  3. Endowed Chair Committee (Ad Hoc) –Paul Mason discussed that the committee met once and took the document developed by theContinuous Improvement Committee through Paul’s recommendation for changes. The committee is looking for a longer range process. They will meet again in the beginning of the fall term. The final product should be done in December.
  4. Sabbatical Priority Committee (Ad Hoc) – This committee will draft procedures to determine the priority for sabbaticals when two or more eligible faculty request sabbaticals at same time and not all canbe granted. Mark asked the department heads to nominate representatives from each department by 8/21/15. The committee members are (need to appoint Chair):

Lian An– Economicsand Geography

Rob Frankel – Marketing and Logistics

Dag Naslund – Management

Pieter deJong – Accounting and Finance

  1. Programs to consider in 2015-16 for 2016-17 – The programs are:

-Specialty master’s programs (T&L, Economics, Finance)

-Master of Management program – enhances employability of non-CCB undergraduates, and creates a pipeline for MBA students.

-Online General Business BBA for Working Professionals – target audience is working professionals who cannot get to a physical campus due to work/family obligations (includes military families).

-½ term MBA classes (UNF has modules designed for 8 week classes already)

-Weekend MBA

-MIS degree (Provost and Dean Tumeo)

Mark sent a memo to the faculty requesting feedback on new program ideas for 2016-17. Rob provided Mark his RTP (request to plan) for the Masters in Logisticsand Supply Chain Management this Fall. Mark met with David Jaeger and representatives of the Finance Department earlier this week and they intend to submit a RTPon 9/1/16 for a Masters in Finance. Chris is looking at getting a framework for a graduate certificate program for GIS in the future. Mark will schedule two or three open faculty sessions to get more feedback before finalizing a RTP. If the college plans to proposenew programs for 2016-17, it has to be done by the 9/1 deadline.

  1. Develop Points of Pride for Each Department (department heads) – Mark asked that each department develop/revise Points of Pride by Thursday, 9/10/15 to aid him when he meets with employers/ companies/prospective students. He needs one from each flagship program as well. No other updates.
  2. Faculty travel support update –Mark is allocating $500 from Dean’s Office this year, and he handed the proposed allocation to the EC. The money will be transferred this Fall term.

-$1,500/faculty from AA

-$500/faculty from Dean’s Office

-$500 is allocation to support departments, rather than an allocation to each faculty member

  1. Standardizing faculty overload, adjunct, & staff pay for teaching classes – Standard pay will start 1/1/16 (i.e., spring 2016 semester). The outstanding issue is the pay for adjuncts and staff who teach classes.

-$6,000/class for faculty overloads

-$4,500/class for retired faculty

-$2,500/$2,750/$3,000/class for adjuncts

-$2,500/$2,750/$3,000/class for staff (preference is non-staff)

  1. Faculty need to update bios via BlackBoard by 8/24/15. Instructions are posted at: . – Mark has extended the deadline for faculty bio to 8/28/15 because Shannon is working to identify a photographer to take faculty photos. The photographer will be available on August 21 from 1-6 p.m.

New Business:

  1. The Provost has asked each college to review itsbylaws & make sure they are approved – Mark will send out the bylaws and will ask faculty for any concerns or issues and then will have a discussion in the Fall college faculty meeting.
  2. “Meet Your Major, Meet Your Mentor Day” on Monday, August 31. – A request came from Enrollment Services to host new studentson campus on August 31. Shannon discussed the Welcome Back Cookout scheduled for September 2 from 11:30 am-1:30 pm at the Sheffield Pavilion downstairs in the college. She asked the committee to encourage more faculty engagement and to have representatives from each department in order to be able to talk about the academic side and interact with the student clubs. Mark will send the invite to the faculty. Department Heads to follow-up with their faculty to get involved.
  3. Coffee Hour with Department Heads and Deans on Wednesday, 7/15 from 8:30-9:30 a.m. – Mark apologized for not being able to accommodate the faculty that teach during evening for the morning coffee hour. He intends to schedule a coffee hour in the Fall to be held in the afternoon for everyone to be able to participate. Positive feedback was received from faculty and staff on this event.
  4. For planning purposes, do we have any knowledge of potential or planned faculty retirements this year? Mark asked the ECto inform Ron Davis if they know of possible retirements this year for budget and planning purposes.
  5. CCB Center Feedback – Mark asked the committee to review the role of the centers and to be ready to discuss centers at the next EC meeting. The following are the CCB Centers:

-Bank of America Institute

-Center for International Business Studies

-Local Economic Indicator Project

-The Paper Institute

-Center for Economic and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Research

-Center for Sustainable Business Practices

-Small Business Development Center

  1. Course Release ScheduleFor Each Department– Mark asked Reham to develop a historical course release schedule that were granted before her term as a Chair for Marketing and Logistics Department, and he will then follow-up with other departments.Other CCB departments were not aware of course releases being granted in CCB.
  2. Graduate Student Allocations for 2015-16 (Chris Johnson)–Chris distributed the graduate assistant budget allocations to the EC and discussed the process further.
  3. Faculty Hiring Template–Chris will send the faculty hiring templates for external reviewers for the promotion and tenure process. He asked that the college use the templates per Academic Affairs request.
  4. Other Items – The department’s deadline to input their course schedule is September 4 while the University deadline is September 25th. The committees were reminded to give their Office Managers their schedule prior to the deadline date.
  5. Adjournment: Meeting concluded at 11:36 am.