Faculty & Staff
Self Governance » Faculty Development Committee
Minutes
11/11/04
Committee members present were Drs. Michelle Condren, David Allen, Fakhrul Ahsan, Carolyn Bouma, Mark Haase.
The details of the summer faculty retreat were discussed. The bus has been reserved for the Amarillo faculty and will rent vans to transport Dallas and Lubbock. Will plan on leaving Amarillo approximately at 11:00 on Wednesday and have Dinner and a brief meeting after that. Thursday morning have breakfast at 8:00 and begin at 9:00 and have a working lunch at 1:00 and then have free afternoon for faculty recreation activities and meet back for dinner Thursday evening at 7:00. Friday breakfast at 8:00 and meeting until noon, have lunch and head back to Amarillo.
Candy will get the details on the golf and present that at the next meeting.
Discussion regarding program content on teaching and writing learning objectives.
We will contact Julie Szillagy (sp??) at the University of Houston regarding the program, she works with Tom Lemke and possibly we could bring them both to the retreat. Discuss with the their fee and we need to determine what we can afford to pay for the speakers. We will have the speaker for just one day and possibly have faculty present what they consider to be problem areas, problem objectives and then do some hands-on implementation of what we learned from the speakers.
The purpose of the faculty retreat will be teaching and learning new teaching strategies for specific learning objectives.
Update on the education scholar program. One Amarillo faculty has completed two modules of the education scholar program and there have been no faculty in Lubbock or Dallas participate in the program yet. Dr. Condren will send a notice to faculty reminding them that the program is available. Dr. Condren will also contact the education scholar people to clarify when our site license expires.
The faculty development survey has been ready for a while and the committee decided to go ahead and send it out at this time and deal with results at a later date. The committee was advised that the ACPE site visit has been moved up to November 8-9, 2005.
Scope of responsibility of this committee is just for support and teaching enhancement and teaching skills, not practice and research, teaching is the only area that applies to all faculty. The committee feels that the survey is fine as is.
D. Allen advised that the retreat in May and the strategic planning retreat were the basis of our putting together a self study guide. As a committee we need to evaluate the aspects of the ACPE self study guide, figure out what areas we need to respond to and divide this among committee members and also provide supporting documentation Committee needs to look at the different aspects of this self study guide document and decide what areas faculty development needs to respond to and let the chair know what areas you think this committee needs to address. January 7 is the deadline for draft, February 1 is deadline to have the final form and March 1 is the deadline for overall final version. This needs to be addressed by all committee members and not just the chair. We need to also include future activities that we have planned.
This committee needs to revamp the faculty peer review of teaching process. As part of the self study process would like to the FDC to look at this and reevaluate this process and program. The peer review of teaching is not a requirement for promotion and tenure which could be why the faculty are so apathetic at participating.