Faculty Senate Committee on Faculty and Student Honors
Minutes
130 Hullihen Hall
Present: Rhonda Hyde, Katharine Kerrane, Mohsen Baidey
Minutes Recorder: Rhonda Hyde
1.
Meeting was called to order by Rhonda Hyde at
2. Rhonda reported on the status of the Committee membership. Rhonda notified CoCAN (via Karren Helsel-Spry) during late August that the Committee would be in need of new members. The Committee is still in need of three members – two faculty members and an undergraduate student member.
Katharine Kerrane has put forth the name of a student, Jonathon Urick, as a nominee for the undergraduate student member of the Committee. Rhonda has submitted Jonathon’s name to CoCAN via Karren for confirmation as an official Committee member. Questions arose as to whether Phil Flynn, of English, was still an official Committee member. Rhonda will try to contact Phil Flynn to verify whether or not he intends to serve on the Committee this year.
3. Rhonda reported that she will wait until January to contact Human Resources to filter out ineligible faculty for the excellence-in-advising and excellence-in-teaching nominations. This decision is based on advice from Linda Gottfredson. Linda indicated that very few nominations occur in the fall; thus, Rhonda will wait until the year-end updating of faculty appointments is done before requesting the list of eligible faculty.
4. The wording on the nomination forms needs revison. Past Committee discussion has indicated a need to clarify the term “solicited” on the nomination form. Other potential changes have arisen in past Committee discussions (e.g., change the wording that asks if the instructor is “knowledgeable”). This issue was tabled due to the low attendance at the meeting.
5. Rhonda reported that she contacted Dallas
Hoover, President of the Faculty Senate, to request that Karren attend our
meetings.
6. Old Business – Linda Gottredson contacted Rhonda to indicate that she has the minutes from the May 2006 meeting. Mohsen Baidey will provide the annual report of the Committee’s 2005-2006 activities. Rhonda Hyde will write an introduction for new Committee members. All of these items are to be posted on the Committee’s website.
7. The meeting was adjourned
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