FC Minutes March 16, 2018

Introduction

Meeting Date: March 16, 2018.

Meeting Location: CoBE Conference Room 101.

In Attendance: Rodney Jubidado, Celia Bardwell-Jones, Brian Wissman, Shawon Rahman, Steven Colbert, Steven Herman, Doug Mikkelson, Jan Ray, Vladimir Skorikov, Kimberly Shmina, Thomas DeWitt, Leng Chee Chang, Louis Lteif, Lari-Anne Au, Philippe Binder, Emily Low, Armando Garcia-Ortega, Kekoa Harman, Daniela Guendisch, Supakit Wongwiwatthananukit, Amy Saxton, Linda Connelly, Shelby Wong.

Recorded By: Linda Connelly

Call to Order: 3:00 PM

Adjournment: 3:44 PM

Topic: FC Chair Report

Report: No Update.

Action: None.

Topic: Standing Committee Reports

Report:
APC Committee
- Misaki Takabayashi asked faculty congress to review updates to UH Hilo Academic Grievance Policy, already reviewed by UHPA

Commet: It was unclear why UHPA review was performed before referral to faculty congress, faculty congress review should occur first.

Action: Motion to refer to APC for review (20 in favor, no opposed or abstain) - presented results of faculty survey on course repeat policy.

Action: Data from survey has been sent to Misaki Takabayashi.

GE Committee
- on agenda for system wide Foundations board meeting to see whether UHH will be accepted into Foundations GE.

Grad Council
- all of the Grad Progs working on written communications assessment.
- also working on creating rubric for quantitative reasoning.

Curriculum Liason
- request for changes to catalogue sent to Chairs.

CAS Senate
- discussed changes with regards to Humanities and Social Sciences.

Search Committee for Proj Manager for Strategic Plan
- update email sent to FC Chair - committee has been formed, Randy Hirokawa (Chair).

Ad Hoc Committee for the development of notification procedures related to student athletes.
Members - Ron Gordon, Celia Bardwell-Jones, Zheng An
Motion to approve membership of committee - 20 in favor, 0 abstain/opposed.
- sent out survey related to student athletes, good response rate so far, will then review data and make recommendation.

(all other reports were either in the consent agenda or had no update)

Action: None.

Topic: Motion Tracking Table

Report: Motion 17-18-004 – updates in APC report.

Motion 17-18-007 – on hold.

Motion 17-18-009 – still in process.

Motion 17-18-010 – no update.

Motion 17-18-013 – need chair.

Motion 17-18-014- reported above.

Action: Need chair for Ad hoc tracking committee – contact Jan Ray to serve

Topic: New Business

Presentation on Kognito

Report: - Emily Low presented on Kognito, online training available to faculty to talk with At Risk students, provided through funding from Chancellor’s Professional Development Fund.

Action: None.

Topic: Vox populi

Report: Suggestions made to Chair: suggestion from faculty member for ranks within Professor rank to maintain motivation and engagement and stop faculty leaving after this point - course eval – change to online could be opportunity to review questions.

Action: None.

Topic: Adjournment

Report: None.

Action: Motion to adjourn; motion seconded; all in favor; adjourned.