AGENDA, FACULTY MEETING, AUGUST 21, 2018

GOOD NEWS ITEMS: Faculty line, two grants, fellowship Emma, jobs for graduates, other?

STUDENT ISSUES (Sean)

ACTION ITEMS/UPDATES

- Dates for fall faculty meetings: Sep 18, October 16, November 6 (!), November 27 (!) or in finals week?

- F&C (i.e. P&T) Document update (Chris), needs to be done by mid Sep. See info from College and Provost (July retreat)

- Faculty goals document (“Allocation of Effort”) due this week. Send to Rene, copy to Jon.

- Faculty APRs, will distribute instructions soon, due date: Dean’s office Nov 16, so our internal date will be October 29, since I will not be here Nov 12-16. Documents will be uploaded to dropbox to Dean’s office.

- Staff hires and new staff

- Faculty hire, establish Search Committee

- Possible future faculty hires: develop strategy and priority list

- Teaching schedule for Spring 2019, due very soon:

Agree on course assignments, then create schedule.

Block schedules for MWF classes, who wants/wants not to teach 75 min MW blocks?

(university intent is likely for MWF courses to go to MW blocks)

Effect on lab scheduling?

- Reminder: mid-term grades are required for 100 and 200-level courses. Dean takes this seriously

- Reminder of open house schedule, see mail Tom, June 7, 2018

- Friday party, cards, ideas for gifts?

TEACHING and MENTORING ITEMS

- General Education revisions: 9-credits that NMSU allocates still not formally decided upon.

Our opportunity: a 3-credit intro course, and the 1^st year seminar.

- General Education course recertification, to be coordinated with the Branches (subcommittee?)

Three skills all science gen ed courses must address: Critical Thinking, Personal and Social Responsibility, and Quantitative Reasoning.

TA allocation under new GenEd possibly a concern, is on Dean’s radar.

Do we want to be part of the PILOT certification effort?

- Reminder: new student code for academic conduct, VERY EXHAUSTIVE PROCESS

- Curriculum review from our retreat, next steps. Will we introduce 505 again in the Fall 2019?

- Undergraduate issues: better integration of minor degree students

- Update on Campus Observatory (are we set for athletics lights, schedule, etc)

- Enrollment update

RESEARCH ITEMS

- Update on NSO (James/Jason)

- Update on ARC 3.5-m and APO (Nancy)

- Update on SDSS-IV and V (per Jon, Rene), needs representatives for SDSS-V Advisory Council and CoCo

- Other?

OTHER ITEMS, INCLUDING STUDENT ISSUES