Faculty Council Annual Report AY 2012-2013

April 23, 2013

This report summarizes the activities of the Faculty Council and the Standing Faculty Committees of The Citadel for the 2012-2013 academic year.  This report is the written version of an oral report that the Chair of Faculty Council delivered  to the Faculty at the April 2013 General Faculty Meeting held in Buyer Auditorium on April 30, 2013.  The Faculty Council met each 4^th Tuesday of each month from August 2012 to April 2013, except when the calendar required an alternate Tuesday; also, there was no meeting in December.

Below the Faculty Council report is a list of the 19 Standing Faculty Committees. The entries below represent highlights form the respective Annual Reports.  Those with no activities listed had not reported at the time this report was compiled.  More details on any particular item are available in each committee’s respective meeting minutes.

Membership

Faculty Council

· Title IX presentation by Janet Shealy and Emma Bennet-Williams

· Deactivated Undergraduate Admissions Committee by committee request

· Heard reports from various IPAC Committees

· Approved various charter changes (see below) and a number of proposals from Faculty Committees (see below)

· 4 subcommittees working on various issues to report on

1. Service Requirements for Tenure and Promotion – ongoing work

2. Academic Integrity Policy

§ The policy statement is fine as written

§ Policy was originally written so that when SCCC is in session, cadets are subject to Honor System; during Summer, when the SCCC is not in session, cadets are not subject to honor system, but follow same rules as everyone else under CGC

3. Adjunct Policies and Adjunct Manual – in-progress, we know that other committees are looking at same policies

4. Faculty House

§ Steve Cotter found interesting historical information

· acquired by The Citadel in 1967, used for various purposes

· Not clear when it became The Citadel’s address after that

· In the National Register of Historic Buildings

§ $1M to renovate  that building

§ The Council feels that any money spent on a Faculty House would be better spent on other priorities, and that the disposition of that building is a Facilities matter

Athletic Advisory

3 things:

1. Improved communication between faculty and coaches regarding away games

2. Modifying committee charter: in-progress

3. Academic Advising portion of NCAA academic compliance athletes going online: in-progress, plan to be live by the end of Fall 2013

Campus Affairs

· Parking/traffic during home games

· Parking preference for faculty

· Broken security cameras

· Non-working restrooms in Jenkins Hall

· Planning a survey to send to Faculty for input

Committee on Committees

Computer Services

Core Curriculum Oversight

· Did not elect a chair this year

· Col. Tara McNealy will gather assessment data from departments for evaluation

of general education under the Continuous Improvement Plan

· Several committee members attended the 1^st Annual Faculty Assessment Gathering hosted by the Faculty Assessment and Analysis Team

Curriculum & Instruction

· Approved additions or changes to 24 courses in Biology, Business, HESS and MACS

Evaluation of Instruction

· Recommended Online Course Evaluation Software, proposal passed Faculty Council and Academic Board, expected to go live for Fall 2013

Faculty Development

· Implemented online form for submission of applications.

· Considered 78 applications totaling approximately $105K, recommended 75 totaling $101K.

· Proposing a new schedule for calls for submissions in order to help resolve funding process issues

· Working with Provost Office to resolve funding process issues

Faculty Employment

· Discussed the mission of the committee, and revised their Charter

Faculty Research

Financial Affairs

· Met once in Fall, did not meet in Spring

· No actions or decisions were taken

· Note that

o administrative senior staff met twice with Faculty Council to discuss financial matters

o an ad hoc committee to support SACS accreditation met to discuss financial issues, faculty were involved

· The Financial Affairs Committee wonders if it has a reason to exist

Global Initiatives Committee

Library Services

· Advised the new Director of the Library

· Working on a survey to assess Library usage, satisfaction and needs

Sabbaticals

· Recommended 8 very strong requests for Sabbaticals for next year

Scholarship

Awards

Tenure and Promotion

· 12 candidates reviewed this year

· Memo 3-7 approved and revised

· Electronic submission of faculty portfolios using NetApp began

· Wrote and approved Bylaws

· Amended Charter

· Recommended 9 departments to review and update Department Tenure and Promotion Standards

Tenure and Promotion Appeals

· Evolved to a chartered committee this year, separate from the FTPC

· Handled one appeal in Summer 2012

Respectfully Submitted,

George Rudolph, Chair

Wes Dudgeon, Vice-Chair

Steve Cotter, Secretary