Faculty-Peer-Review Committee Minutes

September 19,2008

Members Present: Pat Lee, Susie White Thunder, Karen Lone Hill, Joan Nelson Unable to attend due to scheduling conflict- Craig Howe

 

Acting Chair Susie called the meeting to order at 1015.

Minutes of the Aug 20th meeting were distributed. Pat moved to approve the minutes, which was 2nd and received a unanimous vote.

  1. Old Business-

a.              Susie reported that she had e-mailed OLC faculty a copy of the faculty development plan, 5 categories/criteria with samples of supporting evidence- for feed back of adequacy or other suggestions from faculty. She received only one response (which was – it’s excellent).

b.              Discussion followed to bring Pat up to speed on previous meeting including the presentation from Jamie Lee who was on the original committee as to the intent of the policy for multi-year contracts.

c.              Consensus of the group was reached on the Procedure to Quality for Multi-Year Contract at OLC. The FPRCommittee adopted the 5 categories/criteria as stated in the Faculty Development Plan; each full-time faculty must provide validation of evidence within their portfolio. The portfolio must be delivered to the Faculty Peer Review Committee no later than Jan 5th, 2009. The Faculty Peer Review Committee will review the submitted portfolios in January/February and present their recommendations to the Academic Vice President by the end of February yearly.

 

  1. New Business:

a.The FPR Committee will meet with any full-time faculty on Oct. 3rd at 1400 (2:00pm) in the graduate studies conference room, Piya Wiconi, for assistance in portfolio development and any other concerns. Joan will email faculty re: Procedure and up-coming meeting.

b. Joan will contact Jamie Lee to ask her to be present at the Oct 3rd time since she had previously expressed a desire to provide assistance with portfolio development. Susie will provide her portfolio and Karen will get a copy of the portfolio Dr. Giraud presented to the Chairs.

c. Susie emailed a copy of the approved minutes to Ursula G. and will find out how to post the minutes on the OLC Webpage.

d. The recorder for each FPR Committee meeting will continue the distribution and Joan will scan and email Ursula G. the previous committee minutes.

3. No other business was brought before the committee.

4. Acting Chair Susie adjourned the meeting at 1100.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Joan G. Nelson, Acting Recorder