1. COLLEGE OF DESIGN FACULTY ASSEMBLY
December 6, 2016

2. AGENDA
Call to order
Welcome new staff
Brief reports from Senators/Committees/Workgroups (attached to agenda)
Old business
New business
Report from the Dean

3. 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

4. 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

5. OLD BUSINESS

6. 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. 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.

8. NEW BUSINESS

9. COLLEGIATE ACADEMIC PERSONNEL PLAN
Provost’s Office requires that all colleges submit a personnel plan.
CDes drafted and submitted a plan to Provost in 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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. CANVAS

17. AMERICAN HISTORY COURSE ON CANVAS

18. CANVAS (cont.)

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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?

22. REPORT FROM THE DEAN

23. Academic program review Center reviews
REPORT FROM THE DEAN
Academic program review
Landscape Architecture
Center reviews
MDC
GMD

24. REPORT FROM THE DEAN SLG work
SLG notes distribution
Class scheduling to optimize enrollment
Curriculum efficiencies
Search procedures revisions
Intercultural Development Inventory
Compensation for overload teaching
Budget decision-making tree

25. BUDGET

26. DISCUSSION/QUESTIONS

27. 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)

28. 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

29. ADJOURN