ࡱ> LNKb jbjb ,Bhh> $> e g g g g g g ,!R.$r  E  E E E j  e E 4" e E E 9e ^ # "e 0 \$E $0e E >>d >> September 23, 2009 Faculty Assembly Executive Council Meeting Present: Eddie Saiff, Elaine Risch, Anita Stellenwerf, Iraida Lopez, Jim Morley, Rob Mentore, Marta Bautis, Academic Review Committee (ARC) Members Secretary: Kristin Kenneavy ARC Agenda Items Online Student Evaluations Senior faculty members have been asked to volunteer to pilot online evaluations; ARC is trying to recruit at least 5 faculty members from each unit (25 total). The first pilot will be done Fall 2009 and another in Spring 2010. If it works, they could be introduced for everyone in Fall 2010. Issues to be looked at include the response rate as well as the quality of the written responses, and how easy it is for faculty and other stakeholders to get access to the evaluation results. There are several options for the administration of the evaluations: take them in a lab if you teach in a lab already, bring your class to a lab, have laptops brought in to non-lab classrooms, or just ask students to fill them out on their own. Students will not be allowed to submit responses more than once. Online Course Policy Currently, already existing courses that are being converted to online courses do not go through ARC. Should it be required that all online courses go through ARC? ARC may need to provide some guidelines to address uniformity across course offerings (for format, not content). Convening groups may need to address this issue individually (e.g. should a student be able to take all courses within a major online? How closely should the content of an online course mirror that of a regular course?). Studies of the quality of education in online courses are available. Online courses are very popular among students. Should online courses require students to meet with the instructor in person a few times? This could be hard for students are physically removed from the 鶹 College campus. How do you prevent a student from having someone else take the course for them? Academic Integrity Policy This issue will likely be brought before the Faculty Assembly this semester for a vote. What is the role of faculty members in adjudicating academic dishonesty? Less egregious cases will probably still be handled by faculty members despite what policy ends up being put into effect, but there is a benefit to recording the incidents in a centralized way to track repeat offenders. Who should oversee this process? Currently it is the Provosts Office and that is likely to remain the case. Another option is Student Affairs, but that division is also within the Provosts Office. ARC may recommend that a panel of individuals be formed to look at cases, but only a subset of the panel would look at any one case (this may make adjudication take longer and seem more adversarial, but might possibly make the process appear more fair to students when compared to just one person). Could allow students to bypass the adjudication process by confessing. Approximately 50 cases per year are currently adjudicated. What will the appeal process look like? A comparison across comparable institutions revealed that there is little to no consistency in how various schools deal with this issue. Flexibility should be preserved. May schedule an open forum on this issue to gauge faculty reaction. Graduate Courses In-Load Policy needs to not harm undergrad programs. Some consideration will need to be made for certain professional programs (e.g. Nursing and MBA programs) in which accreditation requirements may demand that faculty teach graduate courses in-load. The revenue generated by such programs may allow for more faculty members to be hired within them. ARC may suggest that the general rule be one graduate course in-load per year per faculty member. Undergrads could also take grad courses if they qualify (this is currently done but the course is assigned a 400 level number and counts toward the undergraduate degree). Other Topics Academic and Curricular Proposal Process Review of flowchart drafted by Stephen Klein. Approved with no objections from ARC members. Is ARC overloaded? They think they are currently able to handle the above issues. A subcommittee was created for General Education. GECCo (General Education Curriculum Committee) could be a subcommittee of ARC, but that depends on the proposal that the AHWGGE (Ad Hoc Working Group on General Education) group puts together. Online Winter Courses and Academic Calendar Currently Winter Online Courses are scheduled to overlap with the finals week for Fall 2009 because they are required to run for 4 weeks if they are 4 credits (will start December 22nd, 2009). This could cause several problems, including poor quality work over the holidays, and students failing a pre-requisite in the Fall term and not knowing it before enrolling in the subsequent class. Probably wont be able to change this scheduling issue this year. There has been a decrease in the number of students enrolling in summer courses with the addition of the winter online session. Some feedback indicates that faculty members actually prefer that the winter break be longer in duration. Eddie Saiff will speak to Provost Barnett regarding this issue. Is this an issue that should be run through the Academic and Curricular Review Process (i.e. is this an issue for the Faculty Assembly?). The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is also supposed to sign off on the academic calendar. The online courses are revenue generating. In two weeks, the Student Government Association leadership will meet with the FAEC to talk about enhancing the academic life on campus. There is a Board of Trustees meeting on Monday. Governance Review Committee representative from the FAEC will be Jim Morley. Institutional Effectiveness Committee representative still needed please send possible nominees to Eddie Saiff (probably need someone with tenure). Representatives to the Emergency Preparedness Committee are Kim Lorber and Jeremy Teigen. 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