Faculty Development Committee- St. Olaf College
Minutes for meeting of 10 September 2007
Present:
Steve Hahn, Chair
Brian Borovsky
Tony Lott
Tim Mahr
Irina Walter
Patricia Martin, ex-officio
Arnie Ostebee, ex-officio
David Schodt, ex-officio
The meeting was convened at 3:10pm in the Buntrock Faculty Lounge Meeting Room
- The committee’s first order of business was a discussion of Mellby Lecture preparations. Irina has been in contact with Bob Entenmann and preparations are on-going for his November 13 talk at 7:30 in Viking Theater.
- The committee’s second order of business was a review of the FDC brochure. Steve has agreed to send the brochure to the committee for one last editing opportunity before publication. Arnie has suggested to the committee that if FDC is interested in moving to an electronic version, we find a graphics design student to re-do the tri-fold design.
- The committee’s third order of business was a discussion of the released-time grant workshop. Patricia has agreed to have GFR included in the workshop and Steve has agreed to act as the FDC representative for the workshop.
- A motion was put forward by Brian Borovsky to remove the requirement of an outside letter of recommendation for released-time grant applications. The motion passed. Steve has agreed to inform Phyllis Stuckmayer of this change.
- The committee’s fourth order of business was a discussion of a proposal before RPC to limit FDC representation to tenured members of the faculty only. It was the decision of the voting members that FDC is opposed to this proposal. Steve has agreed to represent the FDC position before RPC.
- David Schodt has suggested that FDC consider bringing to RPC a motion to change the faculty manual to reflect the need to have a tenured member of the faculty be appointed chair of FDC in the future. It was decided that this topic should be placed on the agenda for a future FDC meeting so that a motion could be brought before RPC.