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Faculty Development Committee Minutes
25 October 2005

Present:
Jeanine Grenberg, chair
Doug Beussman
Dan Hofrenning, ex-officio
Tony Lott
Kris MacPherson
Timothy Mahr
Arnie Ostebee

The meeting was convened at 8:30 am in Buntrock 221

Order of Scheduled Business:

The first order of business was approval of minutes for the 13 September and 11 October meetings. The minutes were approved and will be sent to the Dean’s Office by Tony.

The second order of business was discussion of Mellby lecture preparations. It was confirmed that Anne Groton will introduce the speaker and Jeanine will introduce Anne.

The third order of business was a discussion concerning preparations for FaCE and Release-Time grants.

The deadline for both grants is this Friday, 28 October. Members of FDC are reminded to collect grant folders from the Dean’s office between 3 and 5pm.
The committee will begin the 1 November meeting with a discussion of FaCE grant applications.
Dan has agreed to send via email a link and memo concerning FaCE grants.
Dan will also determine whether there is a limit to the rank-order we provide for FaCE grants.

The fourth order of business was a discussion concerning the nature and future direction of the Faculty Development Committee. The discussion began with Jeanine asking whether FDC needed to re-orient itself in order to support the campus mission.

It was decided that in order to better understand the future direction of FDC, it would be necessary to collect information concerning faculty development initiatives campus-wide. Toward this end, the committee has agreed to have Jeanine send forth tasks for committee members. The scheduled meeting of 29 November and the possible meeting on 6 December will be reserved to discuss these matters. The list of tasks (not including the task of each committee member speaking with the respective associate dean) is as follows:

FDC - Jeanine Sabbatical program - Arnie CILA - Dan International Studies (including mentoring program) - Tony Computing Center - Kris (ACM/FaCE (info they may have gathered on practices at other institutions - Dan)

The committee is reminded that FDC meetings of 1 and 8 November are reserved to review Face and Release-Time grants.

The meeting adjourned at 9:25am