:Art Center Faculty Council

These grants are up to $5000 to facilitate the professional and personal enrichment of its faculty members. In turn, faculty members bring new or refreshed knowledge and experiences back into Art Center’s learning environments and academic community that ultimately enhance the quality of teaching at Art Center. Up to $40,000 in awards are granted each year. Applications are due July 8th, 2013.

For more details on the FEGs, including downloads for FAQ and application form, please visit the ACFC page at Inside Art Center

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Faculty Enrichment Grant Application Language

Cindy and Candice Leigh requested a vote on clarified language. Discussion was brought up on specific wording to include needs of all departments. Vote taken. All For. No opposed.

Pop up Gallery for Faculty

Sam is working with Faculty Commons on “Body of Work” and exhibition space for faculty in FDR or Space in South Campus. A sub-committee was formed (Tony, Esther, Tom) to work with Sam and Faculty Commons on this project.

Big Picture Items

In effort to push bigger picture items, Emil sent out a “calendar” of what needs to get done and when. (more…)

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FC Met in Room 131 for Moodle Demo

The first hour and half of the meeting was spent in a Moodle demo by Carlos. There were many questions and discussion on updates and future improvements. Anyone with specific questions can set up appointment with Kimberly.

Rep search for Director Search for Technology

Ko Maruyama was voted in as the representative.

Faculty Enrichment Grant

Working towards getting application out by end of this term. Cindy and Candice Lee and Emil had short list of changes. There were four areas in which changes would simplify the application make the process more effective.

Opportunities for Faculty Council Visibility

Emil brought up a future open forum in which Sam is welcomed. There was quick discussion on a potential event that brings forward Faculty Council visibility.

Shared Governance Retreat

We will talk about how to improve our role in governance this Saturday, March 30. (more…)

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The retreat today was productive overall, I think.  It was structured around a general discussion in the first hour, led by Lorne (that Mark Breitenberg kicked things off was a little odd, and perhaps bears further discussion, but I digress), and then break-out sessions for another hour where each of the four governance committees, faculty council, chairs council and student government met to discuss improvements.  Afterwards, each group reported back to the entire assembly.

The discussions seemed very healthy.  I’ll concentrate on Faculty Council’s own participation, there was so much discussed by the other groups (more…)

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Lorne has organized a shared governance retreat on 3/30 (it’s more like a workshop, it will be held at hillside) from 9am to 1pm. The purpose of the retreat is to brainstorm and envision how shared governance at ACCD can be improved as we move forward.

Lorne has made it clear to me that anyone with an interest in the future of shared governance at ACCD is welcome to attend. (more…)

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Plagiarism Policy

Met with Kendra, Assistant Director of Student Support Services, to go over student handbook guidelines on AC plagiarism policy. After some discussion it was decided that educating everyone on an agreed definition, design ethics, and better understanding of citation would be a good start.  A disciplinary committee would be useful as well as a standard structure for first offence, second offence and disciplinary action.  Kendra agreed that now would be a good time to revisit these policies.  FC needs to pursue this issue, continuing the discussion with CSE, but also through the Student Academic Policy Committee

Faculty Titles Committee

Candice-Leigh was voted in as the FC representative.

Student Policy Committee-

Paul reported healthy changes on Independent Study working towards a three-tiered system.

Faculty Stipends Vote

Everyone read the applications and voted before the meeting. Votes were tallied. The top scores were discussed. A vote of 10/6 was made to give funding to the top 5 scores (more…)

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We are happy to announce the new ACCD Faculty Handbook! It can also be found on inside.   There is a lot of good info in here, please take some time to check it out.  It’s a living document, so please let us know if you have suggestions for changes or corrections!

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FACULTY COMMONS and FACULTY COUNCIL

Should we recommend to Fred that Faculty Commons be renamed? Confusion over branding was addressed. Is there overlap in community building and grants?

ACFC BUDGET ISSUES

Howard, Cindy and Emil met with Fred on 2 big budget issues. It was good to have reports from faculty in all departments showing how past stipends were used and appreciated.

Huge turnout for ACFC FACULTY STIPENDS

There are 18 applications in which FC needs to read before WEEK 9 in which we will vote. We have rubric to show accountability on how we vote for the stipend awards.

FAT Tech Subcommittee

Need a second rep for the Tech Sub Committee who can meet every two weeks Thurs 2:30-4:30.

FACILITIES AND REAL ESTATE

George Falardeau, Senior Vice President Real Estate and Operations, discussed land use issues and expansions overview. (more…)

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Here’s the priorities list we approved in the facilities committee on 2/21/13, as we look to develop the USPS building:

• Follow the Strategic Plan so that all facility decisions serve the educational mission of the college
• Designated departments have logical adjacencies to other programs (including Public Programs)
• Designated departments do not require industrial grade shop facilities
• Designated departments would prefer to move once only (temporary and then permanent occupancy of USPS building) (more…)

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Fred is now taking applications for Faculty Titles – this only happens once per year (and didn’t happen in 2012) so take the opportunity to apply!

Click for the application

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