FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
COMMITTEE
Year-End Report Spring 2001
Members: Bea Jacobson, Paul
Jacobson (Ex-Officio), Dave O’Connell, Carla
Stevens, and Brenda Peters,
Chair.
The committee began working early last summer in preparation
for the New
Faculty Orientation Program
scheduled for the end of August. The
New
Faculty Orientation Program
included an orientation packet, a bit of the
history of St. Ambrose
University, a tour of the library including a
presentation by the
librarians, and a formal dinner. A follow-up
workshop
on general education was
also offered to new faculty during the Fall
semester. In addition, the committee organized a
conflict resolution
workshop for the afternoon
session of the Presidential Assembly.
This
workshop gave faculty an
opportunity to explore several faculty/faculty and
faculty/staff conflictual
situations through the use of vignettes.
This
workshop was facilitated by
several mediators from the Community Mediation
Center.
During the Fall semester, the committee collaborated with the
Center for
Teaching Excellence to
establish a faculty development workshop calendar.
The committee also reviewed
12 grant applications from faculty for full
grants worth up to
$1500. In consultation with Sandy
Cassady and Paul
Jacobson, a joint plan for
the Center for Teaching Excellence and FDC was
prepared and submitted to
Planning.
In January, the committee sponsored an entertaining yet
informative
workshop that explored
faculty/student conflicts. The
facilitators for this
workshop were Judy
Correa-Kaiser and Michael O’Melia. The
faculty
participants included Keith
Haan, Carla Stevens, Mike Orfitelli, Veronica
Riepe, and Paul Jacobson.
During the Spring semester, the committee co-sponsored several workshops
with the Center for Teaching
Excellence. These workshops explored
such
topics as advising and first
year student issues. In addition, the
committee reviewed 22
mini-grant applications from faculty for grants up to
$500. Currently, the committee is organizing a
recognition reception for
faculty. The date and time will be announced soon.
Finally, the Faculty Development Committee plans to launch a
new
initiative, a Faculty
Mentoring Program, this Spring. This
mentoring
program is intended to
ensure a successful transition for new faculty
members by introducing them
to the culture of St. Ambrose University, and
encouraging them to make
connections with colleagues. This
mentoring
program should help
supplement the guidance and assistance provided to the
new faculty member by the
Department Chair. The SAU Faculty
Mentoring
Program is entirely
voluntary for both the mentor and the new faculty
member. The committee will be sending out additional
information on this
initiative in the next few
weeks.
The Faculty Development Committee meets every Monday at 3:30
p.m throughout
the semester. I would like to thank all of the committee
members for their
hard work and dedication
this year as well as all of the presenters and
participants who helped make
our faculty development workshops successful.
If anyone has any
suggestions for future faculty development events, please
contact me.
Respectfully Submitted,
Brenda J. Peters
Membership:
College of Arts and Sciences
Pat Budelier (3)
College of Human Services
Sue Hartung (1)
College of Business
Vidyapati Singh (2)
Dean of Division of Adult
Education and Professional Development
(Hope Gardina)
The BES committee met
monthly (or as needed more often) to review requests
for program approval for the
BES major. Implementation of a review
process
for graduating majors is
still underway. Progress toward
establishing
additional writing standards
is being discussed. A meeting with Mike
Hustedde to discuss a number
of writing across the curriculum techniques and
standards were
discussed. Further work during the next
year will solidify
new 5 year review proposed
changes and implementations for the degree.
Twenty-three BES plans were
approved during the 2000-2001 academic year (to
date). An additional meeting will be held this week
to review 6 additional
BES degree requests for
proposal. On-campus responsibility for
advising BES
majors is being
debated. Additional discussion within
the committee and at
the deans level will be required
before this issue is satisfactorily
resolved.
Respectfully submitted,
Hope A. Gardina, Chair – BES
Committee
Year End Report for
Educational Policies
Committee Members:
College of Business: R.
Chohan, Greg Bereskin
College of Human
Services: Marcia Less, Terry Schlabach,
College of Arts and Sciences:
Marty Shockey, Carl Herzig Marge Legg
Kris Eitrheim (spring),) David Haubrich (student)
Exofficio: Don Moeller, Provost, Rich Legg representing General Education,
Dan Zeimet, registrar, Chris Westensee, catalog
Courses approved or changed:
New courses:
Nursing 350: Beginning Family
Nursing 351: Developing Family
Nursing 352: Nursing
Interventions
Nursing 355: Mental Health
Nursing 460: Clinical
Practice II
Pharm 320: Pharmocology
Nursing 430 WI: Nursing for
the Older Adult
BIO 123: Special Topics
WI: HED 240 Child, Health,
Safety, Nutrition 3 credit hours
designed to
serve early childhood majors
ECON 399 (Special Topics),
ECON 323: Public Finance, and ECON 327:
Industrial Organization
PED 492: Clinical Training
III, PED 338: Therapeutic Modalities,
PED 292:
Clinical Athletic Training
I, PED 213: Ballet
MPT 520: Human Pathology and Medical Management, MPT 590 Pharmocology in
Rehabilitation, MPT 635
Health Promotion and Prevention, MPT 640
Cardiopulmonary
Therapeutics, MPT 650 Issues in Research I, MPT 700: Issues
in Research II
IL 101: Information Literacy
MUS 099: Concert Attendance
for 1 credit
Renumbering of History 240
to 140: History of Sports and
Recreation, HIST
342: the Irish Question in Historical Perspective
Renaming of Sociology
courses to SOC 310: Marriage and the
Family, SOC 325
Collective Behavior and
Social Movements, and SOC 341: Stratification and
Social Inequality and
elimination of concentrations
Addition of approved courses
to Women's Studies Minor of ENGL 360:
Advanced
Topic: Early Women Travel
Writers, PHIL 390: Special Topics: Philosophy of
Feminism, SOC 310: The Family, HIST 115/315: US Women's History
Name change for SSCI 213
to STAT 213: Applied Statistical
Reasoning for the
Sciences
Number change for MUS 113 to
MUS 313: Stamvoja
Offer MUS 103: Applied music
for variable credit 1 or 2
Changes: Addition of MAcc 620: Seminar in Graduate
Accounting Topics, MAcc
625: Graduate Accounting
Internship, MAcc 605: Advance Tax
Topics, MAcc
610: Advanced Financial
Accounting Topics. Cross list MBA 725:
Management
Consulting Profession with MAcc 614.
Offer one course of Service
Learning as part of a Learning Community in the
Fall
Adding 1 credit to ECE 350,
306.
The creation of a MIS
concentration in MAcc.
Approval of general
education "SKILLS" requirements taking effect 2003
Approval of program and
curriculum changes to MOT program.
Creation of a General Science
Teaching Major with a concentration in Physics
and addition of WI PHYS 317
Modified Maters of
Organizational Leadership to include an on-campus program
Add COMM 110: Basic Human
Communication
DBA 930: Special Topics: Human Resources, and DBA 990: Dissertation
Program Reviews and New
Programs Accepted:
Approval of new program in
Masters of Education: Educational
Leasdership, a
cooperative venture with the
Diocese.
Approval of MS in
Information Technology Management
ACCEL: Bachelor of Business
Administration
Service Learning
HPESS Program Review
(approved three majors: Athletic Training, Fitness and
Human Performance, and
Physical Education Teaching) and Health Education
minor
Theatre Department
Languages and International
Studies (with some changes needed)
Upcoming Program Reviews
General Physical Education
and Sports Management
History
MOT
New program in Orthotics
Program Reviews delayed until 2001-2002
Political Science
Other:
Reviewed current numbering
system
Admission requirements for
MCJ
Graduate Commencement
Policies
Role of ed. Policies: do not need to address numbering and course
name
changes
Changes in placement testing
for a two-year period
Respectfully submitted,
Theresa Schlabach
Student Life Committee
End of Year Report
April 12, 2001
Members: Paul Foley (student – Human Services), Dan
Griffin (student – Arts
& Letters), Merredyth Beno (staff – Director of
Retention), Stan Kabat
(staff – Dean of Students),
Robin Anderson (faculty – Arts & Sciences), Bob
Ristow (faculty – Human
Services), Katy Stavreva (faculty – Arts &
Sciences), John Byrne,
Chairperson (faculty – Business)
The committee met 5 times
during the 2000-2001 academic year.
Listed below
are the issues discussed and
corresponding actions taken:
· Addition of a graduate student to the committee – prompted
Faculty
Assembly to conduct a 2nd
reading of the November 1999 motion.
The 2nd
reading passed and this
committee will have a member from the graduate
student population next
year.
· Reviewed proposal for Coeducational Housing and issued a letter
of
recommendation to the
President that it be implemented. The
Board of
Directors also approved the
recommendation – it will be implemented during
the 2001-2002 academic year.
· The issue was raised as to whether benches would be placed in
various
outdoor areas around
campus. A number of benches constructed
by the SAU
Maintenance Department were
placed around campus during the month of March
(2001).
· The feasibility of a Lactation Room for breastfeeding mothers on
campus
was discussed. Research illustrating the positive effects
of breastfeeding
was presented by Katy
Stavreva and Robin Anderson. The
committee solicited
input from students, staff,
and faculty on this issue. The
committee
believed that the success of
this project would be dependent upon external
funding (e.g. Riverboat
Development Authority Grant). Several
faculty and
staff members may pursue
this opportunity with the President.
· The Alcohol Policy was discussed. Modifications were made to the Student
Handbook – specifically the
deletion of “academic” probation being tied to
violations of the Alcohol
Policy. Further discussion centered on
the
philosophy, elements, and
enforcement of the Alcohol Policy. The committee
has not come to consensus on
issues related to the Alcohol Policy and it may
be a topic for future
discussion.
Committee: Center for Teaching Excellence Board
Annual Report of the Center
for Teaching Excellence
During the 2000-2001 school
year the CTE co-sponsored several events with
the Faculty Development
Committee, including the fall orientation for new
faculty, the fall program on
conflict resolution after the Presidential
assembly in August, and the
faculty to student conflict resolution program
offered before the beginning
of the spring semester in January. The
director of the Center
serves, ex officio, on the Faculty Development
Committee and participates
fully in FDC sponsored activities.
During this past year the
Center added about 30 books to its library in the
Ambrose Room on the 3rd
floor of O'Keefe Library. The Center's
computer is
also kept there as are back
issues of the Center's periodical
subscriptions. The Center subscribes to three publications:
_The Teaching
Professor_, _The Professor
in the Classroom_, and _The National Teaching
and Learning Forum_. We also include in the library back copies
of some of
the publications members of
the advisory board subscribe to, such as
_College Teaching_,
_Teaching Philosophy_, and _Change_.
The Center maintains three
wall pockets in three places where faculty tend
to congregate--the dining
room, the snack bar, and the coffee shop.
The
current issues of the
Center's three subscription publications are
available there as well as
other short publications, especially copies of
short articles on specific
teaching topics.
The Center sponsored three
teaching circles--one discussing uses
of
technology in the classroom,
another which discusses alternatives to
lecturing, and the third which
explores critical thinking. We plan to
continue the teaching circle
idea in the coming semesters but hope to add
new circles/topics. The circles each meet about once a month
during the
school year and one circle
held one of its monthly meetings at the ACCEL
center on 54th St.
In November, CTE sponsored a
presentation and discussion on the topic of
"Teaching Using Case
Studies." Faculty from the College
of Business and
from the nursing program
offered examples of what they do in their classes
with case studies and what
the characteristics of good case studies are in
the different fields.
CTE sponsored two nationally
known speakers during the spring semester.
Dr. Bill Cashin, former
director of the IDEA Center at Kansas State
University made three separate
presentations over two days on grading,
student rating forms
(including the St. Ambrose form), and effective
formative teaching
evaluation. Dr. Jim Eison of the
University of South
Florida made two
presentations to intersted faculty over two days on the
subjects of active learning
in the college classroom and how to turn
passive listeners into
creative thinkers.
The Center is planning to
offer all SAU faculty the subsidized use of the
IDEA long form for formative
teaching evaluation in any one section of a
course beginning in the fall
semester of 2001. Prior to this offer,
ten
faculty are piloting the use
of this form during the current semester.
The
advisory board of the Center
believes that such "formative evaluation" can
be an extremely powerful tool
in helping faculty develop and improve their
teaching, which is one of
the primary objectives of the CTE.
The director writes a weekly
e-mail column "News from the Center for
Teaching Excellence"
which will go out to all faculty about 25 times during
this school year.
In mid-March the Center
sponsored its first of what we hope will become
monthly
"collations"--informal Friday afternoon get-togethers in the
private dining room during
which faculty might exchange ideas about
teaching and learning. Our second collation is scheduled for April
20,
2001 at 3:00 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Paul K. Jacobson, Director
Center for Teaching
Excellence