Florida Community College at Jacksonville

Faculty Senate Minutes

December 2, 2004

Open Discussion

There were no visitors for open discussion.  Refreshments were served and everyone visited and enjoyed great conversation.

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Meeting was called to order at 3:00 p.m. by President Wayne Bailey.

CONSENT AGENDA

MOTION (Bond/Ohayon): Accept Minutes of November 4, 2004 Faculty Senate Meeting.

Discussion:   None

Action:   Motion Passed (Attachment A)

By-laws Amendment Results – Secretary Roberts reported the results of the By-laws voting as provided by Supervisor of Elections, Marsha Davison:

MOTION (Bond/Reynolds):  We ratify the By-Laws as Amended and Voted by Faculty

Discussion:  None

Action:  Motion Passed

Syllabus Committee Report (from Sirius Project discussion) – Senators Casas and Bond reported as follows:

• Spring 2003 was the first meeting where the concept of unified syllabi was brought to the senate.
• Ideas approved by the senate at that time had separate syllabi content than those for the on-campus classes.
• There are no records of the senate for this period of time
• The concepts agreed to by the senate (the two checklists; one for on-line and one for on-campus) are not part of the APM’s.
• No one knows which is being used by the dean’s to approve current syllabi.
• Idea is to review each checklist and bring ideas back to the next senate meeting after constituency has had time to review it.  Then we can develop a list of what the senate agrees with, what we disagree with, and then take it back to faculty again to come up with a final document.
• Senate agreed to the following being in the General Syllabus:
  • Course Title
  • Course Number
  • Instructor
  • Contact Information for instructor
    • Office and office hours
    • Phone number
    • E-mail address
  • Description of Course (extracted from Official Course Outline)
  • College prerequisites for the course
  • Instructional Materials – Texts and other resources (may include information for ordering on-line)
  • Instructor Expectations – may include classroom management items
  • Policy on electronic devices (If applicable)
  • Attendance policy to include information on NA, FN (IW and W for Adult Studies)
  • Withdrawal date for the class
  • Assessment measures to include Tests and assignments and make-up policy
  • Grading criteria to include grading scale, incomplete policy (if used by instructor), and homework policy (if applicable)
  • College Honor Code – may reference page in College Catalog or weblink
  • Topical Course Outline – should include topics to be covered or specific competencies and may include tentative test dates and assignment due dates

President Bailey motioned to table this discussion till later.

DISCUSSION ITEMS

FN Policy – President Bailey asked for input on the FN grade ideas because this issue is being discussed at the FEOV meeting next week.  Discussion:

• Who defines what constitutes “non-attendance”?   Should it be up to the college to define this or is it up to each faculty member?
• The FN is about financial aid, yet we have students that are not on financial aid so what does it mean?  What is the FN really?   Is it only for those on financial aid?
• Want to keep the FN so can distinguish between the student who academically failed and those who just did not put forth the effort.
• Is it financially feasible for FCCJ to limit the number of FN’s?  Are we trying to limit the number of FN’s?
• FN was sold to faculty to replace the IW and now is all of this being changed?  What about the idea of the IW?  Why can’t the FN be tied only to financial aid students and let faculty use the IW for others?
• Is it appropriate for this description for the FN to mean that the FN is no longer appropriate for the student who has attended so much that they failed, even though they did show up for the last few classes?
• These ideas are to go to FEOV for the next meeting.

ADJOURNMENT

Meeting adjourned at 4:35 p.m.