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Faculty Council Minutes - Oct. 29, 2024

2024-2025 Faculty Council Meeting Minutes

CAL Faculty Council

Meeting Location: CPA Recital Hall

Time: October 29, 2024 4 p.m. 鈥� 5:20 p.m.

Voting members = 41
Quorum = 22

Attendance

Present (25): Alam, Allred, Baltus, Al Hariri, BeattyMedina, Damschroder, Edgington, Grazzini, McBane, Mezo, Miner, Moteleone, Mossblad, Nelson, Nemeth, Rouillard, Sakowski, Semaan, Smirnov, Stauch, Taylor, Ward, Zeigler, Zych, Mattison for Fitzgerald

Absent (16): Alam, Abiye, Amialchuk, Bland, Christman, Crookston, Dudley, Feldmeier, Kim, Layng, Kistner, Smith, Kinsey, Yamazaki, Foss, Mungo Guests: Gregory, Keith, Lawrence, Lingan, Van Hoy, Heritage, Pryor

Call to Order

Motion to call to order; Second; Motion Approved (25 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstain)

Approval of Agenda/Minutes

Motion to approve Agenda; Second; Motion Approved (25 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstain) Motion to approve past meeting minutes; Second; Motion Approved (25 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstain)

Dean鈥檚 Report (Dean Mel Gregory)

The Dean鈥檚 Report is available in the materials folder.

  • Two outstanding alumni congratulated at homecoming
  • Enrollment across the board at all universities is down which is why it feels like we are competing for fewer students
  • Only want to invite faculty into the process when their time is well spent/has the greatest impact
  • 1:15 appointments and other yield activities are where faculty interaction is most useful
  • Career prep is very important for students
  • Program prioritization has come back around
  • State wide project, not uToledo exclusive
  • Likely not going away
  • Think about low enrolled programs are sustainable and are they achieving the goals? What impact do we make on students?
  • What do we want to do? How can I help?
  • Harder to know what we do want to do rather than what we don鈥檛 want to do
  • Small programs support initiative program lead by Patrick Lawrence to help small programs find their power at the institution
  • New college merger name: Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education (feedback requested by Dean)聽
    • Name is long and doesn鈥檛 reflect totality of programs included
  • An associate dean will join the office focusing on Education

Executive Committee Report (Jami Taylor)

  • Exec committee met on Friday
  • Discussed updates from core curriculum committee聽
    • Ongoing data collection and assessment
  • Heard from constitution committee in reference to the merger
  • Discussed the agenda

Faculty Senate Report (Gaby Semaan)

  • October 22nd meeting
  • BOT launched national search for President, want this person hired before new provost is hired
  • Requests for comments on scheduling
  • Central advising will require advisors to be hired
  • Student rep from student gov came and opposed scheduling changes

Graduate Council Report (Ed Lingan)

  • Exec committee met with president to talk about prioritization
  • Research mixers are happening, check email for announcements
  • Raising the tuition waiver threshold for R15 grants to 125,000 because it is eating into ability to support tuition waivers
  • When asked about not replacing faculty lines, President said his plan between 2026-2028, when we enter a period of stabilization, that a plan to increase tenure and tenure track faculty will be addressed
  • Baseline expectation plan about program prioritization and how it is discussed
  • University is dedicated to maintaining R1 status

Elections Committee Report (Sam Nelson)

  • N/A

Curriculum Committee Report (Anthony Edgington)

  • All curriculum committee items passed (one course proposal, two modifications in detailed in the materials folder for this week.
    • Motion to approve moving the course to Senate; Seconded; Motion approved (25 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstain)
  • All program changes passed (three proposals, all materials are in the folder for this week)
    • Motion to approve moving the course to Senate; Seconded; Motion approved (25 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstain)

New Business

  • Scheduling changes
    • Arguably under Faculty Senate
    • Provost/President鈥檚 position is that they can change this unilaterally
    • Student gov opposed
    • No straight answer given about data collected to justify the changes
  • Motion to extend meeting by five minutes; Seconded; Motion approved (25 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstain)
  • Are there any action items to be done about scheduling?
    • Primarily making sure that everyone with feedback submits it during the 30 day proposal.
  • Motion to table other two items as they were unactionable; Seconded; Motion approved (25 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstain)

Old Business

  • N/A

Announcements

  • Next CAL council meeting November 12th at 4 p.m. via Webex

Adjournment

  • Motion to adjourn; Seconded; Motion approved (25 Yes, 0 No, 0 Abstain)