Faculty Development Committee- St. Olaf College
Minutes for meeting of 17 April 2007
Present:
Jeanine Grenberg, chair |
Patricia Martin, ex-officio |
Doug Beussman |
Arnie Ostebee, ex-officio |
Tony Lott |
David Schodt, ex-officio |
Tim Mahr |
|
Irina Walter |
The meeting was convened at 8:15am in Buntrock 221
Jeanine introduced the four agenda items for the meeting:
1) Summer and Release-time Grant Criteria:
The committee recognizes that it will need to re-visit summer grant and release-time criteria in order to avoid concerns about eligibility. Arnie asked that FDC focus on the purpose of these grants in order to assess the viability. It was decided that FDC could defer changes to these programs until the program review but further discussion was needed.
2) Consideration of Mellby Lecturers (initial discussion):
The committee was satisfied with the strength of the applicant pool for the 2007-08 Melby lectures. It was decided that the committee would wait until the 24 April meeting to discuss and decide on Melby choices.
3) Plans for program review:
The remainder of the time was spent considering the following questions and concerns about the campus-wide faculty development review:
- The need to undertake this review as a normal part of college life
- The need for clarity of purpose regarding this review including the necessary institutional outcomes
- The composition of the review committee
- The need to formulate a proposal or ‘plan of action’
- The breadth of the review- who will be involved (sabbatical programs, CILA, FDC, etc.)
- The necessity of a timeline- where do we start?
- The concern that the faculty as a whole needs to be the analysis of a review
