Faculty Assembly
I. Report from Interim Dean – Ann Taylor
Dean Taylor reported the following on enrollment/graduation:
- COE undergraduate is down and graduate is up
- COE overall enrollment is down 7%
- BES enrollment: 123 students and graduated 11 students
- Teach in 12 enrollments: 130+ students
- TAC enrollment: 82 students
- School Leadership 12+ students
- Heritage Leadership cohort enrollment 24 students
- Creativity and Generative Design enrollment: 24 students
- STEM cohort: 11 students graduate in May 2017
On Winter Webbing Wednesday, there were 112 lines of changes for the website.
Phase I was getting a clear message of what we wanted on the website.
Phase II will redesign areas that need to be done every three years.
Dean Taylor reported that UMSL is on the Board of Curators Meeting agenda to get in-state tuition for Illinois residence.
Dean Taylor stated that the College needs to add courses to the Winter Intersession in January 2018. Also, the College needs to think about online courses, because students are looking for universities and colleges that offer online courses.
Dean Taylor announced that Jane Williams is our new ITS Director. Also, our new Provost, Kristin Sobolik, will start in March 2017.
For Budget FY17, we will be on target at 3.6 million, but the State cut 4.3 million from the budget which will come out of our reserve.
Dean Taylor announced that the Annual Performance Report (APR), where the College will go public, will rank our educator preparation by Tiers. The College has 16 programs in Tier I (recognition) and Tier II (good standing). The data is measured by state, schools, and survey evaluations.
II. Report of the Faculty Affairs Council – Rocco Cottone
Dr. Rocco Cottone reported the College has new COE Bylaws.
New COE Bylaws were sent out electronically.
Dr. Cottone is asking the FAC to draft a resolution to the Faculty Senate asking for equality in summer pay across the UM-System.
III. Report of the Graduate Education Council – Donald Gouwens
Motion was made to approve the following changes:
- ED REM 7771:
- ELE ED 5989:
Motion approved.
Motion was made to approve the following courses:
- ELE ED 6342A:
- ELE ED 6342B:
Motion approved.
Motion was made to approved the following program change:
- Graduate Certification Early Childhood Teaching - minor change in required courses
- Graduate Certification Elementary Teaching – minor change in required courses
- Graduate Certification Secondary Teaching – minor change in required courses
Motion approved.
Motion was made to approve the following courses:
- TCH ED 5310B:
- TCH ED 5310C:
- TCH ED 6010A:
- TCH ED 6010B:
- TCH ED 6010C:
- TCH ED 6224:
Motion approved.
IV. Report of the Teacher Education, EPIR – April Regester
Motion was made to approve the following:
- TCH ED 3224:
- ECETS-EM3:
- ECETS-EM4:
Motion approved.
V. Faculty Senators (Bredemeier, Husbye, Cochran, and Kashubeck-West)
Dr. Susan Kashuback-West stated that with the reduction of the College departments, we will decrease faculty senators from 5 to 3: 1 representative per department and 1 at-large representative.
Dr. Kashubeck-West added that there will be two documents emailed to faculty from UM-System: Faculty Standard Conduct and Changes to the Rules and Regulations. There has not been very much feedback from this campus. She is asking that faculty look at both documents and give their comments to UM-System.
Dr. Kashubeck-West included the following announcements:
- The Faculty Handbook will be forward to you soon to be updated for the FLC visit.
- The Union Information Sessions that the Faculty Senate sponsored are available on video on the Faculty Senate website.
- The Dean will be asking for names to serve on the committee for the coach survey
- The class schedule will have a 40% increase for courses scheduled on Fridays.
VI. Doctoral Program – Bill Kyle
Dr. Bill Kyle reported that there will be support for the doctoral program in the OASIS Office. The advisors will answer doctoral questions via emails and forward questions to the appropriate faculty to assistance the student or prospective student.
Dr. Kyle announced that there will be an Ed.D. Taskforce to review the old Ed.D. model and make a new Ed.D. model. The taskforce does not plan to move forward with more learning community cohorts in the future.
VII. Report from the Dean’s Committee for Social Justice (DCSJ) – Ralph Cordova
Ralph Cordova reported that the DCSJ has organized its priority around three different sub-committees. 1) Engaging the faculty to look at the document that has be distilled from the audit, 2) Forming Town Hall meetings, 3) Think about the problematic work that they do as faculty and how that dovetail from the audit.
VIII. Report from the Chairs – Donald Gouwens and Nancy Singer
Dr. Nancy Singer reported that the master’s enrollment is flat and the undergraduate enrollment is down. Eighty-three percent of our courses are taught by adjunct professor and we need to get that percentage down and hire more NTT professors.
IX. School Leadership Program – James Shuls
Dr. James Shul reported that sixteen students enrolled in our program his year. They are trying to find funding for the program. Now, they are thinking about how do they redesign their Ed.S. program after the students complete the M.Ed. program to keep the students interested in the program.
X. Enrollment-Advising – Shawn Woodhouse
OASIS:
Dr. Shawn Woodhouse announced that they have two new advisors:
Susan Johnson – M.Ed. advisor
Princess Davis – Teach in 12 advisor
Receptionist will be hired to replace Princess Davis
Enrollment:
Dr. Woodhouse announced that they are thinking about how they can engage faculty to become involved in getting students enrolled in our graduate programs. In addition, once a month they will reach out to students by sending out information on our programs via emails and giving out little gifts like post-it notes.
Dr. Woodhouse reported that there are seventy-one students who have outstanding balances from $200 to $5000, and that Rick Baniak, CFO, allowed OASIS to lift the financial holds for 52 students to enroll in class for the spring 2017. Also, there are several students on academic probation, and they are working with them to develop a plan to get their GPA back to standard averages.
XI. Finance-HR – Tina Hyken
Tina Hyken announced the budget process for gifts including endowed distribution will start in mid-February, and the budget process for the college at large will start in mid-March.
Tina announced the Chairs spent 49% of the budget which is good. Also, the College is in good shape as well.
College Forum
XII. Reports from Faculty on campus-wide and University-wide committees
MEETING ADJOURNED.
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