COLLEGE OF DESIGN FACULTY ASSEMBLY December 6, 2016
AGENDA Call to order Welcome new staff Brief reports from Senators/Committees/Workgroups (attached to agenda) Old business New business Report from the Dean
WELCOME NEW STAFF! Greg Flanagan, Fabrication Technician, W.L. Hall Workshop & DigiFabLab Molly Sanford, Art Research Studio Technician, W.L. Hall Workshop & DigiFabLab Midori Green, Graduate Program Coordinator, DHA Calee Cecconi, Principal Graphic and Multimedia Designer, External Relations Kaileigh Nicklas, External Relations Assistant, External Relations Ellen Skoro, Museum Photographer, Goldstein Museum of Design Jessica McCann, HR Generalist, Human Resources Mary Shannon Bocock, Academic Advisor, Student Services Nancy Xiong, Business Analyst/Project Manager, Design IT Read Names
REPORTS FROM SENATORS, COMMITTEES, AND WORKGROUPS (ATTACHED TO AGENDA) Senators: John Comazzi, Carol Waldron Alternates: Greg Donofrio and Mary Guzowski Academic Technology: Julie Hillman Diversity Committee: Holley Locher Honors & Awards: Lin Nelson-Mayson Faculty Leadership Committee (FLC): Vincent DeBritto Curriculum Committee: Sauman Chu Adjunct Faculty Leadership Committee: James Wheeler Graduate Education Working Group: Marilyn DeLong
OLD BUSINESS
Charge to the Ad Hoc Committee Investigate feasibility of a college-wide 7.12 document and identify areas of concern. Committee findings One collegiate 7.12 could be possible because there is similar language (or synonyms) across the units. It would be necessary to represent the different cultures. Question whether it would be politically advantageous.
7.12 AD HOC COMMITTEE (CON’T.) 7.12 Ad Hoc Committee met with Faculty Leadership Committee (FLC) in May 2016. Final 7.12 Ad Hoc and FLC recommendations: Keep individual unit 7.12 documents. Explore opportunity to utilize common language across unit 7.12’s. Ensure that collegiate P&T Committee members are knowledgeable of review criteria to be used.
NEW BUSINESS
COLLEGIATE ACADEMIC PERSONNEL PLAN Provost’s Office requires that all colleges submit a personnel plan. CDes drafted and submitted a plan to Provost in 2010 However, the plan was not reviewed and acted upon at that time. Current draft builds on 2010 draft. Consultation has occurred with the following groups: Senior Leadership Group Faculty Leadership Committee Adjunct Faculty Leadership Committee
COLLEGIATE ACADEMIC PERSONNEL PLAN (CONT.) Edits made to the draft after consultation. Included with agenda Personnel plan needs to reflect the detailed practices of each unit.
FACULTY UNIONIZATION To date University disagrees with recent Bureau of Mediation Services (BMS) decision to include Unit 11 lecturers and teaching specialists in Unit 8 faculty bargaining unit. University asked BMS to reconsider its ruling; BMS will not reverse ruling. MN Court of Appeals agreed that University does have the right to appeal BMS decision. University has 30 days to consider whether to proceed. Importance of voting -- could occur in January For more information http://www.umnexcellence.org/ http://facultyelection.umn.edu/background http://www.mnacademics.org/
UNIVERSITY LEARNING TECHNOLOGY ADVISORS (ULTA) Daniela Sandler Learning Management System (LMS) - Moodle Issues with Moodle Not sustainable in the long run Burden on OIT to manage Cost of hosting too high Outages Disruptive updates Capacity Less flexible for future features
UNIVERSITY LEARNING TECHNOLOGY ADVISORS (ULTA) (cont.) University needs to move to outside source managing and cloud-based LMS Options under consideration Move Moodle to the cloud (MoodleRooms) Switch to Canvas
UNIVERSITY LEARNING TECHNOLOGY ADVISORS (ULTA) (cont.) Canvas Cloud-based Shared infrastructure and software Smaller, more frequent, less disruptive updates Canvas part of Unizin consortium Philosophy of building around open standards More flexible for building new features
UNIVERSITY LEARNING TECHNOLOGY ADVISORS (ULTA) (cont.) Concerns Cost of switching Cost of training OIT staff Disruption Cost to individual faculty Cost to individual students Decision-making process Canvas pilot survey and focus groups ULTA’s advisory role Communication with colleges, departments, schools
CANVAS
AMERICAN HISTORY COURSE ON CANVAS
CANVAS (cont.)
FY17 SEARCH UPDATES Instructional faculty Non-instructional staff Dean Architecture (Blaine Brownell, Chair) Architecture, Cass Gilbert (Mary Guzowski, Chair) Interior Design (Stephanie Zollinger, Chair) Interior Design Lecturer (Stephanie Zollinger, Chair) Product Design (Barry Kudrowitz, Chair) Retail Merchandising (Hyunjoo Im, Chair) Non-instructional staff Executive Operations and Student Services Specialist Engagement and College to Career Coordinator Design IT Academic Technology Operations Manager Technology Coordinator Dean
DEAN SEARCH UPDATE Search Committee Members: Jean Quam (Chair), Dean, College of Education & Human Development Sarah Alfalah, Ph.D. Student, Graphic Design Abimbola Asojo, Professor, Interior Design Michael Bjornberg, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Architecture Missy Bye, Head, Design, Housing, & Apparel William Conway, Professor, Architecture Patrick English, Undergraduate student, Architecture Joseph Favour, Head, Landscape Architecture Richard Graves, Director, Center for Sustainable Building Research Hyunjoo Im, Assistant Professor, Retail Merchandising Kate Maple, Assistant Dean Lin Nelson-Mayson, Director, Goldstein Museum of Design
DEAN SEARCH - CAMPUS VISITS Listening sessions spring 2016. What kind of interactions are we having with the dean candidates? How have we been enacting radical hospitality? How are we presenting who we are in the best possible way? Have you been submitting your feedback? How are we preparing to onboard a new dean?
REPORT FROM THE DEAN
Academic program review Center reviews REPORT FROM THE DEAN Academic program review Landscape Architecture Center reviews MDC GMD
REPORT FROM THE DEAN SLG work SLG notes distribution http://design.umn.edu/about/intranet/governance/index.html Class scheduling to optimize enrollment Curriculum efficiencies Search procedures revisions Intercultural Development Inventory Compensation for overload teaching Budget decision-making tree
BUDGET
DISCUSSION/QUESTIONS
2016-2017 ASSEMBLY DATES Wednesday, Feb 15 9:00-10:30am - Faculty Assembly (Rapson 225) 10:40-11:45am - Staff Assembly (Rapson 225) Monday, May 15 9:00-10:30am - Faculty Assembly (McNeal, TBD) 10:40-11:45am - Staff Assembly (McNeal, TBD)
UPCOMING EVENTS AND DEADLINES Eat Design, December 10 Instinct, Apparel Design Fashion Show, Feb. 4 Architecture Networking/ Portfolio Event, Feb. 28 Next Generation of Parks, March 9 Deadlines P&A Leave applications due March 27 Semester and Sabbatical Leave applications due to heads, January 25
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