Faculty Forum minutes August 19, 2016

Faculty Forum Retreat minutes August 19, 2016

President – Todd Lutes started the meeting from Sierra Vista at 11:31

PRESENT: Acosta, Curtis; Brown, Brandy; Brown, Sheena; Citera, Barbara; Denno, Linda; DiRoberto, Kyle; Erickson, Kathy; Johnson, Chris; Kralovec, Etta; Lutes, Todd; Mapp, Eric; Moore, Sandra; Orozco, Rick; Parra, Ada; Rault, Patrick; Sanderson, Chris; Seder, Laurie; Steklis, Dieter; Straight, Ryan; Tesch, Aaron; Torres, David; Trevino, Sandee; Wittman, Romi; Xu, Li

ABSENT: Arnold, Stephen; Czerkawski, Betul; Torres, David;

GUESTS: Grijalva, Jess; Herrera Marissa

Agenda Item / Discussion Notes / Action / Person/s
Responsible
Introduction of new faculty members: / Barbara Citera introduced Curtis Acosta, Sheena Brown, Sandra Moore and Patrick Rault with a brief bio of each.
Each faculty member introduced themselves to the new faculty and gave a brief description of their role with UAS and about their program.
Barbara also gave a reminder to sign up for UA alert and make sure your contact information is updated in UAccess.
There will be monthly Program Directors meetings this year.
UAS has hired a new Director of Institutional Analysis and Assesment, Kathy Godwin.
We have 12 new honor students this semester. Note there is a change in signing up and approval to be an honor student. They will be going back to paper forms.
There is a new syllabus template please use the format. / Barbara Citera
Faculty Forum meeting times: / Motion: To vote on which day of the month the faculty will meet this year. The options were the first Wednesday of the month or the second Wednesday of the month. / Motion: The first Wednesday of the month was approved to hold all Faculty Forum meetings starting in September. / Todd Lutes
Curriculum Committee: / An overview of what the committee does was given. This committee meets once a month.
/ Kyle DiRoberto
Personnel Committee: / This committee meets once a month for a couple of hours. Their main function is to align annual reviews with main campus. To be on this committee you need to be in FF for one year. / Dieter Steklis
Technology Committee: / Looks at new technology in the classroom. / Aaron Tesch
Voting for new committee members: / Will use Qualtrics to implement the voting process for new committee members. Chris will have the results out by Wednesday. / Chris Johnson
New Business: / There was a discussion of what the process is to request help with professional development funds for faculty. Concern across the board that the money be distributed clearly.
Adjournment: / 12:57

University of Arizona @ Sierra Vista Prepared by Deb Hoeft, Reviewed by Todd Lutes