Final Agenda, January 13 Faculty Meeting

FINAL AGENDA

Faculty Meeting

DA Media

Friday, January 13, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

1. Call to Order

2. Approval of Minutes from December 16, 2011

3. Committee Reports are suspended for this meeting

3. Old Business

·      Discussion of committee structure at Memphis College of Art, including, but not limited to, examination of:

Standing Committees

Ad Hoc Committees

Committee elections, terms, and term limits

Committee charges

Committee documentation requirements (minutes, reports)

Committee reporting duties and requirements

·      Discussion of faculty meetings, including, but not limited to, examination of:

Definitions of the faculty body, quorum, faculty representative, and faculty recorder

Rules of procedure

Voting procedure

Necessity of committee reports and other reports/alternative methods of reporting to the faculty

Note from the Faculty Representative:

I intend that these discussions will have tangible outcomes.  The goals for this semester are:

1) to redefine faculty shared governance through a redesigned committee system,

2) to define a list of standing faculty committees, including membership, operating procedures, charge, and duties,

3) to rewrite the handbook prose on standing faculty committees (and possibly also ad hoc committees and other college committees),

4) to begin the process of shepherding these changes through the Policy on Policies procedures.

4.  New Business

·                          Motion to accept QEP plan

·                          Motion to remove Studio Foundations from General Education

5. Motion to Adjourn