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Announcements from April 19, 2012 Faculty Meeting

Announcements for the April 19, 2012 Faculty Meeting

1)  End of the Semester Deadlines and Important Dates from the Registrar

Course Evaluations should be returned to the Dean/Registrar by May 7, 2012.

Grade sheets will be in your faculty mailboxes by April 30, 2012. 

Grades are due by noon on May 8, 2012 for Tuesday-Friday classes.

Grades are due by noon on May 9, 2012 for Monday classes.

Review Committees will be held on May 10 and May 11, 2012.

2)  SACS Timeline and Deadlines

May 9:  All rubrics (except for review committee rubrics) due to Haley by 5:00 pm

May 14: SACS Workshop for full-time faculty, details TBA

June 4: All Area Heads analyze data, complete assessment report, and meet with the Dean on or before this date

June 9:  Dean’s Council meets to discuss the assessment results

June 11: President’s Cabinet meets to discuss the assessment results

June 13:  Narrative comments on the assessment results delivered by the President’s Cabinet to the IE Committee

June 27: IE Committee delivers Strategic Plan assessment report to the Strategic Planning Committee of the Board

August 15: Strategic Planning Committee of the Board delivers assessment results to the entire Board before this date AND Board delivers the revised assessment report for the Strategic Plan to the IE Committee

3)  FASE Deadline

The extended deadline (2012 only) for full-time faculty FASE (Faculty Annual Self Evaluation) reports is June 15, 2012.

4)  Invitation from Cara Sievers

Cara Sievers, the new Director of College Communications, would like to invite any and all faculty to stop be her office for an introductory chat. She writes: “I really want to become an ally to faculty in every way possible, so I want everyone to know that my door is always open.”

5)  MCA Virtual Bookstore and NEW Deadline for Ordering

MCA Virtual Bookstore will be using a virtual online bookstore.  Students can purchase or rent new and used books.  Students will eventually be able to use future refund money to buy textbooks in advance (no more waiting on refund checks!!). All MCA textbooks will be required to be purchased through the bookstore. Only books that for some reason cannot be offered by Follett can be obtained another way by our teachers.  (This doesn't mean students cannot use other sources for buying books, but we'd like to drive the traffic through this source.)  

Everyone must log in and request books or click on “no materials required” for each class/section that you teach.

May 15, 2012 is the deadline for faculty to go online and order their texts.  This early deadline ensures our students better pricing.  

If you were unable to attend the April 18 training session and need assistance using the virtual bookstore, please contact Ashley Walker for more information.

6) Number:Inc

Number: the regional journal of the visual arts needs supporter/sponsors through tax deductible donations.

Number: has been published for 25 years and currently provides quarterly coverage of the visual arts in TN, AR, and MS through its free publication. It is run completely by volunteers. Donations support the costs associated with printing and to pay writers. One way to think about donations is that $50 covers a regional update, $100 pays for a review, and $200 pays for a feature or interview.

All donations are tax deductible and sponsors of $25 or more are listed in each issue of Number. To make a donation, send a check to Number: Inc. PO Box 11008, Memphis, TN 38111-1008 or give to Jennifer Gonzales.

Announcements from March 21, 2012 Faculty Meeting

1)  Advising Day

*  Advising Day is March 23, 12:30-3:30 in the Main Gallery

*  Advising packets ready to pick up from Registrar's Office starting Tuesday morning (March 20). If faculty would like packets sent to their mailboxes, please contact Registrar.

*  Advising Meeting on Friday, March 23rd from 12-12:30 in the Liberal Studies Room. All Advisors are invited to attend. Information will be provided regarding Registration/advising, questions will be answered, and packets will be available for pick-up.

2)  Exhibitions

Hyde Gallery, Nesin Graduate Center

*  MA/MAARTED Thesis Exhibition 

March 28 - April 7

Opening reception Friday, March 30, 6 - 9 pm

* MFA Thesis Exhibition

April 18 - May 12

Opening reception Friday, April 27, 6- 9 pm

Rust Hall

* BFA Exhibition I                                                    

April 6 – April 22                                                            Main and Lower             

Opening reception Friday April 13, 5 – 7 pm

* BFA Exhibition II                                                   

April 27 – May 12                                                            Main and Lower                                     

Opening reception Friday April 27, 5 – 7 pm 

3)  Visiting Artists / Lectures

All lectures will be held in Callicott, 7 pm

Thursday, March 29

Rehema Barber

Art historian, curator

Thursday, April 5

Kim Dorland

Painter

Thursday, April 12

Mitra Abbaspour

Associate Curator of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York

4)  Student Surveys

Carla Ruffer and Susan Miller will be conducting a campus-wide student satisfaction survey over the next week.  We would like to ask faculty to encourage students to take this survey in order to help us improve the college and its services.

The survey only takes 10 minutes.  The survey covers many topics related to staff, courses, services, etc.  Students will all be sent a link for the survey.  Dates of administering this will be March 26 through 30.  

Announcements for the January 23 Faculty Meeting

1)  Writing Center

If you have students who need help with writing, encourage them to see Betty Spence in the Writing Center. Her office is on the 2nd floor above the library, adjacent to the computer labs. Hours are MW 10-5, TR 10:30-1:00, 2:30-5:30. It is important for students to seek help early in the writing process, not at the last minute before a paper is due.

2)  Academic Counseling

If any faculty have recommendations for students to attend Academic Counseling sessions in which students are given assistance with time management, study skills, and self-advocacy, please have them send me an email.  We are doing the scheduling and oversight of attendance through student affairs.  I welcome faculty input on this effort! --Susie Miller

For more information, or to recommend a student, please contact Susan Miller: smiller@mac.edu

3) VISITING ARTISTS  

7.00 pm in Callicott Auditorium 

* Downing Pryor Lecture

Tuesday, February 7

Mel Chin 

Conceptual artist

  

* Tuesday, February 14

Jeanine Jablonski 

Gallerist / curator, Owner, Fourteen 30 Contemporary Gallery, Portland OR

* Thursday, February 23

Chris Irick

Jeweler

Tributaries artist at the Metal Museum

4) WEDNESDAY LUNCHTIME LECTURE 

12.10 to 12.50 pm in Myers Auditorium

February 29

Bill Price

North American Goldsmith’s Conference, San Francisco, CA

5) EXHIBITIONS  

RUST HALL: MAIN AND ALUMNI GALLERIES

Cross Currents                                                      

Main

Curated by Jennifer Sargent

Feb 17 – March 25

Erin Morrison                                                               

Alumni

February 17 – April 1

Reception Friday, February 17, 5 – 7 pm

SACS work is easier with your thinking cap on!

Links for Faculty Committees at Other Institutions

EXAMPLES OF COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES

Baylor University || Faculty Handbook || University Committees
MIT Faculty Resources | 1.70 Committees
Morehead State University - Faculty Handbook: Ch 5
Standing Committees | University of Missouri
University Standing Committees
Standing Committees - College of The Arts - University of South Florida

MONTSERRAT FACULTY HANDBOOK

http://www.montserrat.edu/images/Faculty_Handbook_2011-12.pdf

EXAMPLES OF COMMITTEE CHARGES

Charge to the Committee on Research (RPH 1.2)
Committee Charges : Rice University
Standing Committee Charges
Charge to Committee on Academic Affairs, Faculty Senate, U.Va.

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