Cc: linda irwin-devitis <linda.irwin-devitis@gcsu.edu>,
        Craig Turner <craig.turner@gcsu.edu>
From: Lee Digiovanni <lee.digiovanni@gcsu.edu>
To: fapc@list.gcsu.edu
Subject: January FAPC meeting information
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:45:14 -0500
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Dear FAPC,

 
Happy beginning of spring semester!
 
As a reminder, there is a FAPC meeting this Friday at 12:30 in the library conference room on the 3rd floor.  I will be unable to attend, so Mike Rose will be facilitating the meeting.

We are welcoming Dean Linda Irwin-Devitis from SOE as the VPAA appointment to our committee.
 
I am forwarding you several emails having to do with faculty research and/or awards.  The first is below my signature. Please review the many attachments with this email as well.
 
Items on our ongoing list appear to be as follows [If I've missed something, please let me know]:
 
1.  Progress with Faculty Bylaws
2.  Faculty Awards/Faculty Research
3.  Workload Policy
 
The notes I took from the previous meeting are as follows [I'm not seeing minutes in my inbox, and memory is faulty as to who took them - if you did, would you please forward to Mike Rose and me as soon as possible? Thanks]:

Workload policy – transparency in how workload is determined – faculty input and actuality – what is ACTUALLY occurring.  Awareness of policies school wide.

 There shall be a workload policy for each academic division/unit to be approved by the appropriate Dean and VPAA/Provost. The resulting protocols are to be articulated in governance documents at department and school levels.

 Faculty Bylaws – workgroup getting clarification from the president regarding concerns voiced about Bylaws.

With faculty awards, in addition to whatever discussion emerges in the meeting, I suggest that we revisit membership on the workgroup and get a plan moving for that workgroup to meet.

Hope the meeting is productive!

Lee

Lee Woodham Digiovanni, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education
John H. Lounsbury School of Education
Georgia College & State University
228A Kilpatrick
CBX 71
Milledgeville GA 31061
478-445-6205 (Office)
478-445-6695 (Fax)

 

 
Begin forwarded message:

 
From: Deborah Vess <deborah.vess@gcsu.edu>
Date: January 2, 2009 4:41:30 PM EST
To: Lee Digiovanni <lee.digiovanni@gcsu.edu>
Subject: <no subject>

 
Hi, Lee:   I hope you had a wonderful holiday and let me wish you a happy
new year.

Attached please find a proposal related to the faculty research grants
committee that ECUS is steering to FAPC for review.  This is a bit complex,
but basically the various records about this committee's work are
contradictory.  We want to clarify the policy and process for the coming
year.  One of my assignments for fall was to supervise and provide support
for the faculty research committee.  I worked on this for Dr. Haney in fall,
so I can meet with you prior to your January committee meeting to review
and/or come to the next FAPC meeting to present the issues for you.  They
are a bit complex.

President Leland has recommended that the policy matter and any specific
motion for approval be focused on the funding of all four areas of
scholarship as outlined by Boyer, but that the other matters be "endorsed,"
since they represent a change in the guidelines previously approved by the
senate in 2004.  She also thought the 2004 motion, which deals largely with
procedure, ought just to be removed from the record, but we will await your
committee's deliberation.  The only document I did not include is the
2005-2006 task fore report, which is available online and quite lengthy. I
chose to include excerpts from the text in the narrative rather than the
entire document, which dealt with many other matters.

Start with the FRProposaltoFAPC doc.

I am sure your committee will have quite a time discussing this issue. You
may very well want to finesse the actual text of the proposal we are making,
given that it involves both policy and process and an amendment to an
earlier motion.

By the way, Dr. Linda Irwin-Devitis will replace Dr. Haney as the VPAA
appointment to your committee starting in January.

Many blessings,

Deborah
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Dr. Deborah Vess
Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies
Georgia College & State University
CBX 047
Milledgeville, GA 31061
Phone: 478-445-3517
Fax: 478-445-4009
World Civ Virtual Library
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess
Medieval Monasticism
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/medieval/4950.shtml
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"vincit qui se vincit"

 

 

 Attachments

AGCapprovedguidelines1.doc

AGCResearchCommitteeReport-51.doc
FRProposal to FAPC1.doc
HaneyforECUSmemocommitteestructure1.doc
revisedGuidelines for Faculty Research Awards1.doc