APSCUF AGENDA

I.              First Year Common Hour             -clarification of faculty roles 

II.             Tutoring                                      -academic department responsibility 

III.            Promotions                                 -follow-up on decision process 

IV.           RN to BSN program                    -availability of on-line courses 

V.            Permission Override form             -purpose and procedures 

VI.           Elem Educ Degree completion     -cooperative program with Butler
                                                   County CommunityCollege

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1. Early Alert
    

2. Highlands Phase 2/Ghering Health and Wellness Center
    

3. Admissions Standards
    

4. Faculty Search Process – Training Update
    

5. Budget Update

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I.        Discussion
What is Meet and Discuss?  What are the goals, objectives, and purposes of it?

II.       Status of the new rule of 30 regarding graduates; plans for implementation

III.      High School articulation agreements

Please provide: 
·         a precise count of current articulation agreements
·         a template of a standard agreement
·         the number of students receiving college credit annually under these agreements
·         the number of college credits granted annually under these agreements

IV.     Budget for FY 2010-2011 and potential impact on personnel 

V.      Act 3 of 2008 ("Right to Know")

Please provide: 
·         a written summary list of all requests at EUP since the law went into effect on Jan. 1, 2009
·         an explain of what happens when a request is made that involves a faculty member

VI.     Student evaluation of faculty

When will evaluations from Spring 2009 be available to faculty?

VII.    Summer School 2010
Please provide financial data for Summer 2009
 

VIII.   Biology labs
What are the plans to relocate them during Phase I of the Cooper Hall renovation?

 IX.      Fire drills
 How are drills scheduled in academic buildings when classes are in session?

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1. PASSHE Doctoral Mission Review Committee – Update
    

2.  PASSHE Curriculum Review

      a.   Accreditation
b.      New Curriculum Committee
c.       Distance Education

3. International Partnerships
    

4. Late Fees

I.        Students’ evaluation of faculty

(1) The problems, needs, lines of authority, and confusion surrounding the current system;

(2) The issues that are arising as we seek to apply an outdated system to our 2010 campus (i.e. evaluating on-line courses, issues due to the increasing number of temps., etc.); and

(3) The longer term issue of reorganizing, overhauling, and updating our current system of evaluation. 

(4) When were evaluations from Spring 2009 made available to faculty?

 II.       Cooper Hall renovation

What are the plans to relocate laboratories during Phase I of the Cooper Hall renovation?

What restroom accommodations will exist?

 III.      Faculty hiring

Chairperson’s need departmental enrollment figures upon which to base recommendations.

IV.     Fire drills

 How are drills scheduled in academic buildings when classes are in session?

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1. Requesting update from APSCUF committee to look at online evaluation of faculty
    

2. Requesting update on APSCUF’s committee on the promotion process
    

3. Mid-term grades:  1386 were missing a day after they were to be  posted
    

4. Need names of APSCUF members for 2010 summer school committee
    

5. Reorganization, possibility of moving from 4 schools to three – Discussion
    

6. Community College – Update
    

7. Search for Dean, School of Education

I.        Reorganization of Schools – Discussion item

·         What are the details of the planned organizational structure? 

·         What is the larger agenda or direction of the university at this time? 

·         What are the long-term plans for administrative leadership?  How do these plans promote the overall mission and direction of the university? 

·         What will be the role of APSCUF faculty in the mission going forward?  What opportunities for shared governance, promoting positive change, etc. will there be for APSCUF faculty?"   

 II.      Students’ evaluation of faculty – information request

·         Procedures and timelines for Spring, 2010 are requested for effective coordination of this activity.

III.     Payment for Thesis Supervision – information request

·         Past practice has been for thesis supervision (e.g. Art Dept.) to be paid during the fall or spring semester immediately following the graduation of the supervised student (M&D: Oct ’04, Jun ’05). Has this practice changed? If so, how?

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1. Students’ evaluation of faculty: continuation of discussion from November Meet and Discuss
    

2. Number of grades reported after the December 22 deadline
    

3. Spring enrollment report
    

4. Summer School:  Setting up discussions to prepare for 2011.

I.        Notification of policy revisions

Since being discussed in May, 2008, policy change notification to employees has not occurred systematically.

 II.      Overload payment

Payment for coverage when a faculty member is on sick leave.

 III.     Support for online teaching

Instructional and support services for faculty are inadequate.

IV.     Low enrolled programs

PASSHE ‘rule of 30’: what are the criteria and plans for addressing these programs?
 

V.      Learning Management Systems

Update on PASSHE plans is requested.

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1.  Low-enrolled programs – Request for additional data, Discussion
    

2. Discussion about Desire2Learn migration and training
    

3. APSCUF committee on the promotion process – Request for an update
    

4. Clarification of departmental voting procedures – What it means to abstain in a departmental vote.

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