The Citadel Faculty Council (FC) Meeting Minutes

I. Call To Order and Agenda - Chair Rudolph called the meeting of the Faculty Council to order at 1100.

II. Attendees

III. Announcements

Chair Rudolph reminded Council members that a general faculty meeting is scheduled on April 30^th which was to have been the first meeting for the AY13-14 Faculty Council.  The revised meeting schedule and the AY 13-14 schedule is shown below.

a. Updated AY 12-13 Faculty Council meeting schedule

Last meeting 4/16/13 for AY 12-13 Faculty Council

b. First meeting AY 13/14 Faculty Council 4/23/13

Please forward names of replacements to FC Secretary NLT 4/1/13.

c. Meeting Schedule for AY 13-14

April 23, 2013

August 27, 2013

September 24, 2013

October 22, 2013

Nov 19, 2013

Jan 28, 2014

February 25, 2014

18 Mar 18, 2014

Apr 22, 2014

May 6, 2014 (first meeting for AY 14-15 faculty Council)

IV. Approval of Minutes from Last Meeting – minutes for 1/22/13 were approved.

V. Business

a. Colonel Dennis Carpenter was unable to attend to make a presentations concerning the IPAC Report on faculty governance.  He will be rescheduled for our March 26th meeting.

b. Update Memorandum 3-7 – FTPC Chair Suzanne Mabrouk outlined the two major changes

(1) pages 11-12 were updated to provide a more specific timeline

(2) page 24 was updated to improve the chances of a full FTPC committee review of Department Chair and Dean final candidate packages.  The goal is to review all finalists by the full FTPC committee.  The changes were unanimously approved.

c. The revised FTPC Charter was unanimously approved.

d. The revised Library Services Committee charter was unanimously approved.

e. Subcommittee reports

(1) Service requirements for tenure and tenure-track faculty; tenure and promotion process (Wes Dudgeon, Mike Barth, Frank Morris, Jr., Al Finch) – Wes Dudgeon volunteered to be Chairperson.  FC Chair George Rudolph asked the committee to consider amending service requirements for smaller department.

(2) Adjunct policies and Adjunct Manual (Jane Bishop, Ashley Wellman) – the committee has not met yet

(3) Academic integrity policy (Kirsten Steele, Tom Thompson, Renee Jefferson) – the committee has not met yet

(4) Faculty House (Steve Cotter, Zane Segle, Tim Mays) – Steve Cotter indicated this issue of what to do with Faculty House has come before our committee twice in the last five years.  The address of Faculty House is The Citadel address, 171 Moultrie Street.  The cost of repairing Faculty House is estimated at $900K-1.2M.  A short discussion ensued about options and soliciting ideas from the faculty.  Mike Barth discussed opportunity cost (what more worthwhile project would be lost) if a $1M donor was found for a “best” Faculty House option.  The issue will be discussed in the future.  More details are needed concerning how faculty House was acquired and what restrictions might exist.

VI. Adjournment - Chair Rudolph adjourned the meeting at 11:45pm.

VII. Next Meeting – March 26, 2013, Bond Hall 295

Steve Cotter, Secretary