Faculty Development Committee

Minutes – 9/9/2005

11:30pm – Online chat after Instructional Affairs meeting

Committee Members Present:

Holly Boomer

Doug Noyes

Shannon Calitri

Marty Red Bear

Agenda:

Reviewed and approved unanimously

Minutes:

Minutes of 5/31/05 were emailed. Committee will review and approve at next meeting.

Committee Membership:

· VP Giraud has asked that Faculty Development Committee continue to serve until an election can be arranged to reconstitute the committee. Shannon was asked to continue as chair.

· Shannon requested that Doug remain in his position on the committee until we hold official elections to transfer membership.

· If/when we do hold elections, the following members’ terms are up:

· Shannon

· Doug (replacing Tony Fresquez’s term)

· Holly (replacing Craig Howe’s term)

Financials:

· Shannon converted the latest round of General Ledger transactions into a financial expenditure report.

· We have about $8,000 left in our Bush Account buckets. However, Gerry is reimbursing us about $21,000 that was spent on the August workshops.

· This leaves approximately $29,000 to spend between now and March 31, 2006 (when we can expect to receive funds from Bush Foundation if/when our new proposal is approved)

· Shannon submitted a Budget Modification to Mia, but we need to discuss administration costs (see discussion below)

Admin Costs Being Charged to Current Bush Foundation Grant:

• Currently, ¼ of Shannon’s salary and fringe is being taken from Bush funds for administration. Out of the $29,000 left for the next six months, nearly $10,000 is allocated to the Bush Coordinator account leaving only $19,000 for faculty development funds. For the time being I split that in half, putting $8,500 in a “Training” account to use for tuition reimbursement and $8,500 in a “Travel” account to use for faculty attendance at conferences/professional development opportunities.
• Tom and Arlene are currently pushing to continue utilizing ¼ of my salary from Bush. Gerry is supporting using only $2,500 per semester as we originally requested in the Bush Grant Proposal.
• Not sure if there is anything we (the FDC) can do to influence the decision.

Timeline for Bush Foundation Proposal and Expected funds

· The Bush Foundation accepted our LOI and awaits our final proposal. After talking with Bert Ahern and Kelley Kleppe from the Bush Foundation, we decided to apply for the November 1 review cycle rather than the July 1. That is because we needed to have most, if not all, of our funding allocated and a final report on the expenditures. Since we had so much left at the end of last year, we decided to postpone until November 1.

· Shannon’s current schedule for completing the grant proposal is as follows:

· Sept 30, 2005 – submit final report for current grant to FDC for approval

· Oct 14, 2005 – submit draft of proposal to FDC for review

· Oct 14-21, 2005 – submit FDC reviewed proposal to admin for approval

· Oct. 21, 2005 – mail OLC proposal to Bush Foundation

· March 31, 2006 – receive funds from Bush

Support of Faculty Advanced Degrees –

In August, Dr. Giraud informed the FDC that President Shortbull declined our request to support tuition reimbursement –President Shortbull felt that it would be too costly to offer this to faculty because then OLC would have to offer this to all employees. Since the Bush Foundation will not support advanced degree tuition reimbursement at the current level (because they expect the institutions they have been supporting to start picking this up), we must now inform the approximately 20 faculty members who are working on their advanced degrees that the FDC will no longer be able to support them.

In our next meeting we need to discuss how to announce this to all faculty. This needs to be tied into our proposal to Bush because part of the reason they accepted our Letter of Inquiry (LOI) was because Shannon had written that OLC admin was supporting our faculty development with financial support based on our discussions at the end of last academic year.

Funding Requests –

1.) Michelle Bruns, Nursing Dept. ($93.00) – To complete a home study course.

Motion:

Doug Noyes – Motion to accept request

Holly Boomer – Second

Motion passed unanimous

2.) Kateri Montileaux, Financial Aid, ($600) – tuition support for IT course

Discussion:

Is this a faculty related request? It was approved by Shirley Brewer in Financial Aid. HB says Kateri is an adjunct, not sure in what courses and if this IT course is applicable.

Motion:

Doug Noyes – Motion to have Kateri re-apply through her academic department

Marty Red Bear – Second

Motion passed unanimous

3.) Diana Styles, Human Services ($1,825) – tuition: Psychopharmacology course

Discussion:

Is this related to the mission of the new Human Services Department? The committee wants to support Diana and agreed in principle to fund this request, but to be consistent in our approval process the committee felt that they did not know enough about the curriculum and emphasis of the Human Services Department after it was reorganized at the end of last year and whether this course/degree program supports this new department.

Motion:

Holly Boomer – Motion to have Shannon to request Diana get her new department chair to sign the request and to provide assurance that this does fit within the new department’s mission.

Marty Red Bear – Second

Motion passed unanimous

4.) Paul Robertson, Humanities ($528.65) – to attend a Service Learning Conference “From Here to There: Service, Learning, and the Research Connication” Vermillion, SD, 9/22 – 9/24/2005

Shannon informed committee that Paul informed her that four other faculty were also planning to apply for support to attend this conference. Committee determined it would be too late for them if they haven’t got the requests in already as we won’t be meeting for 2 weeks and trying to pre-approve potential requests is not possible.

Motion:

Doug Noyes – Motion to approve Paul Robertson’s request

Marty Red Bear – Second

Motion passed unanimous

5.) Shannon Calitri, Humanities ($1100-1300) Travel to Western History Association and Native Scholars College in Scottsdale, AZ 10/12-14/2005

Motion:

Holly Boomer – Motion to approve Shannon’s request

Marty Red Bear – Second

Motion passed unanimous

Meeting adjourned 12:40 p.m.