Faculty Association Minutes
August 15, 2018
- Career Fair and Job Fair
- Sarah Jarrett informed the audience of the schedules and asked everyone to encourage students to come and participate
- EAB Navigate Information
Ashley Pearson, Hunter Overstreet, and Kim French informed the audience on how Navigate is similar and how it differs from SAILS.
- Early alerts in Navigate is similar to SAILS but Navigate will not list instructor’s name in email
- Verbiage of message need to be worked on, need to create a faculty committee
- Navigate will go live in January
- Compensation for President of Classified Staff Association
Faculty Association President gets 2 hours release time. CSA currently does not get any compensation, will make recommendation at the President’s Council meeting
- Direct Placement and Developmental Education
Lana Velez described how other schools address the issue
- Nine colleges in the pilot program to eliminate Dev. Ed Courses
- CVCC could be recruited but it is the faculty’s consensus to say “No”
- Cynthia will take CVCC’s position to CFAC
- Adjuncts staying current on issues
- For adjunct, evaluation will include evidence of staying current in their field
- Adjuncts required attending convocation and other meetings.
- Faculty Association is not in favor of this VCCS requirements
- Compensation for faculty traveling to offsite centers
- Not settled, lots of questions