General Faculty Meeting

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General Faculty Meeting

• September 16, 2009
• Laurie Kennedy-Malone, Chair

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Academic Year 2009-2010

• Notes from the Chair
• Gauging Faculty Opinion Engaging Faculty
• Promoting and Sustaining Scholarly Engagement
• Benefiting from UNCG

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Notes from the Senate Chair

• Professor in the School of Nursing
• Director of the federally funded
  Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Program
• Nurse Practitioner and Gerontologist

• Former Secretary of the Senate and General
  Faculty
• National Level Professional Service in Nursing
  and Gerontology
• Private School Board Chair
• Board Member at Large of Greensboro City Arts
  Drama Center Boosters

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Faculty Senate Chair

• Chair, University Promotions and Tenure Committee
• Ex Officio, University Promotions and Tenure
  Guideline Committee
• Senate Ex Officio member on the University
  Benefits Committee
• University Budget Sounding Board
• Campus Safety Oversight Committee

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Faculty Senate Chair

• Alternate to UNCG Faculty Assembly Delegation
• UNCG Parking Committee
• New UNCG Integrative Marketing Committee
• UNCG Textbook Committee
• Attend the Board of Trustees Meetings

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Planning the Journey
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Leadership
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Envisioning Change

• The 8-Step Process of Successful Change
• Create a Sense of Urgency.
• Pull Together the Guiding Team.
• Develop the Change Vision and Strategy.
• Communicate for Understanding and Buy-in.
• Empower Others to Act.
• Produce Short-Term Wins.
• Dont Let Up
• Create a New Culture.
• Our Iceberg is Melting by John Kotter and Holger
  Rathgeber (2006) p. 123

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Changing University Culture
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Senate Leadership

• Laurie Kennedy-Malone, Chair School of Nursing
• John Gamble, Chair Elect School of Health and
  Human Performance
• C.P. Gause, Secretary School of Education
• Diane Welsh, Parliamentarian, Bryan School of
  Business and Economics
• Rebecca Adams, Past Chair, College

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Senate Assistant

• Brenda J. Bey, AssistantFaculty Senate Office
• Faculty Senate Office
• Mossman 122, 334-5345
• Hours have increased from 20-30 hours a week

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Senators and Committee Chairs

• Senators serve as liaisons to Senate Committees
  and/or serve on special Senate Committees
• Committee Chairs attend the Committee Chairs
  breakfast (9/21/09) and will report each month in
  writing as to the progress/concerns of the
  committee
• Unfinished business

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Gauging Faculty Opinion

• Electronic voting
• Electronic polling at Meetings (SRS)
• Newsletter for Senators
• Discussion Boards on Blackboard
• Narrated Power Points to be placed on Blackboard
• Increased time for Senate discussion
• Written motions presented at meetings
• Concise presentations at Senate Meetings
• Mondays with Laurie
• Highlights of Upcoming Meetings

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Engaging Faculty

• Know your Senate representatives
• Review and discuss with colleagues forwarded
  materials
• Participate at the Faculty Senate Forums
• Attend General Faculty meeting
• Contact Senate Leadership

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Faculty Senate Web Page
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General Faculty Meetings

• Nov 18 225 Curry Building
• April 28 Virginia Dare Room

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Voting Items for Senate

• By-laws and Constitution
• Increasing Membership of Committees
• Changes to the Academic Integrity Policy
• Changes to the Regulations pertaining to
  Promotion and Tenure
• Community Engagement in the Promotion and Tenure
  Guidelines
• Additional concerns of General Education
• Curriculum Review Process

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General Faculty Election

• Elections (Chairs needed for each committee)
• Due Process One Candidate
• Grievance Committee
• One Candidate from HHP
• One Candidate from HES
• Friday, September 18, 2009, 200 p.m.

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General Education Council

• Recertification of GMT and GNS courses is a
  priority of the General Education Council
• Ad hoc recertification committees are working at
  reviewing and revising the student learning
  objectives for both GEC categories.
• Open Forums are schedules on Oct 14 in EUC Sharpe
  Room
• GNS at 200pm GMT at 300pm
• All interested are encouraged to attend

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Theme for Senate Year

• Promoting and Sustaining Scholarly Engagement
• Forums
• Co-Sponsored Events
• Recommended Events

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Sustaining Scholarly Engagement

• Build upon the momentum started last year with
  our guests to UNCG
• Kerry Ann O'Meara
• George Mehaffy
• John Saltmarsh
• We need to build in ways to not only promote but
  sustain scholarly engagement.

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Engaged Scholarship
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Senate Sponsored Research

• Community engagement, scholarship, and promotion
  tenure Faculty experiences and
  perspectivesSherrill W. Hayes, Assistant
  Professor in the Conflict Studies Program is the
  Service-Learning Faculty Fellow for the 2009-2010
  year.

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Senate Forums

• October 21 UNCT Review of Faculty Promotion,
  Tenure, and Reward Systems
• Colleen Fairbanks, Chair University PT
  Guidelines and Exemplars from UNCG Community
  Engaged Scholars
• February 17 Promoting and Sustaining Scholarly
  Engagement
• Amy Driscoll, Consultant, Carnegie Foundation
  for the Advancement of Teaching, Co-Director,
  National Review Board for the Scholarship of
  Engagement and Sherrill W. Hayes with the
  results of the UNCG Engaged Scholar Study
• March 17 TBA

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Benefitting from UNCG
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2010 Lilly Conference
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Can you Identify?
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Writing Seminar

• Paul Silvia PhD, September 25, 200 pm in 140
  McIver
• Sponsored by the New Faculty Mentoring Program
• Recommended by Faculty Senate for all interested
  faculty

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University Events
Patti LuPone, The Gypsy in My Soul Saturday,
September 26, 2009, at 800 p.m.
Call John Comer 334-3250
Book Discussion
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Family Friendly Events
International Festival held each April
Flag Boy
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Images

• Photographs on this slide came from personal
  photos taken in Alaska and images taken from the
  UNCG web page
• Additional images taken from the UNCG web pages.
• Free downloads from the web site of Our Iceberg
  is Melting http//www.ouricebergismelting.com/html
  /wallpapers.html
• Cartoons I have purchased the rights to from
  Cartoon Stock.com in the past and are reserved
  for use in this presentation.