Faculty Forum minutes September 3, 2014

President – Dieter Steklis- started the meeting from Tech Park at 10:03

PRESENT: Brown, Brandy; Citera, Barbara; Czerkawski, Betul; DeLalla, John; DiRoberto, Kyle; Johnson, Chris; Lutes, Todd; McGee, Inger; Orozco, Rick; Parra, Ada; Seder, Laurie; Steklis, Dieter; Tesch, Aaron; Torres, David; Trevino, Sandee; Woolfolk, Ana; Xu, Li

ABSENT: Arnold, Stephen; Denno, Linda; Kralovec, Etta – on sabbatical; Lunsford, Laura – on sabbatical; Kate Wells- not able to Skype into meeting.

GUESTS: Peci, Natalie and Chapman, Kimberly

Agenda Item / Discussion Notes / Action / Person/s
Responsible
Approval of Minutes / Motioned by Ana and seconded by Aaron. / Approved unanimously / Dieter Steklis
Dean’s Report: / This year we are going to be reviewed by main campus. To be ready for the review of all programs it is suggested: 1. Program Directors summarize and describe their program. 2. Think of programs that can be interdisciplinary. Another aspect of gathering this information is that it will be used for marketing. 3. Program assessment. Chris’s assessment committee will contact PD’s about this.
Enrollment is at the highest level it has ever been. Some of this is due to main campus students taking our courses.
There will be an Academic review for the Dept. of Education this fiscal year. / Jim Shockey
Associate Dean’s Report: / Introduced and welcomed Natalie Pecic as a representative from ASUAS.
Thank you went out to: Deb, Carol and Esther for preparing and setting up the faculty retreat.
Also to Melody for putting together contracts and hiring.
There will be a review of the BAS program that Linda will be working on.
There are 4 candidates for the marketing position.
We were awarded the Freeport-McMoRan Mining Company Social Investment grant with Cochise College. / Barbara Citera
Standing Committee Reports & Action Items: / Technology Committee- Open to all members to attend meetings. The committee will review past Forum minutes concerning the establishment of this committee and guidelines for its functions.
Personnel Committee- no report
Curriculum Committee- Same schedule for meetings as last year. / Will be working on refining the process before it is time to submit in Feb. / Ana Woolfolk
Betul Czerkawski
Todd Lutes
UA Vitae Implementation Team Presentation: Kimberly Chapman / Kim- presented information on the new UA Vitae. Moving the academic review paper system to online.
Asked about our academic review process and the information is made available online. What components are needed?
Getting the information ready to go live. This is determined by each college.
Training will be available.
Currently working with a group from UA South to make sure what is needed will be available.
Forum President-Elect Announcements / Committee membership nominations:
Curriculum - Inger and Stephen.
Personnel- Li, Laurie and Ada
Technology- Aaron
Undergraduate Council- Todd Lutes
Adjunct representative- Dawn Hill / Motion: to approve nominations- Chris motioned and Todd seconded. All nominees approved unanimously. / Dieter Steklis
New Business / Ad Hoc committee for constitution and bylaws- Aaron and Chris. All suggestions as to what needs to be revised should be forward to Chris or Aaron.
Chris: 12 applicants have applied for the Instructional Design Specialist position / Chris and Aaron
Meeting Adjourned / 12:08 adjourned

University of Arizona @ Sierra Vista Prepared by Deb Hoeft, Reviewed by Dieter Steklis