{"id":55791,"date":"2013-09-25T09:05:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=55791"},"modified":"2013-09-25T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:12:03","slug":"september-ufc-meeting-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2013\/09\/25\/september-ufc-meeting-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"September UFC Meeting Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>The UMW University Faculty Council held its first regular meeting of the 2013-14 academic year on Monday, September 16.&nbsp; Highlights of the meeting included:<\/p><ul>\n<li>Discussion of last June&rsquo;s Summer Orientation events and problematic issues with Doug Searcy, Meg Higgenbotham and Keith Mellinger. Many suggestions were offered and it was a fruitful discussion, especially with regard to planning for next summer.<\/li>\n<li>Review of the existing Faculty Handbook language and discussion of the role to be played by the UFC regarding any Discontinuance of a Program that may occur as a result of the Strategic Resource Allocation (&ldquo;Restructuring Initiative&rdquo;);<\/li>\n<li>A decision to remain constituted as the UFC through August 2013 in order to accommodate review of the SRA decisions;<\/li>\n<li>Announcement of&nbsp; the upcoming October 11 forum to discuss the recent faculty governance survey (with Jim Lollar, President of the Faculty Senate of Virginia), from 3-5pm in Lee 411;<\/li>\n<li>Discussions with the provost about final elements of the SACS report (regarding the QEP and development of a metric of faculty and student research); summer teaching salaries; course evaluation response rates; the staffing of Career and Academic Services, and Admissions.<\/li>\n<li>Discussion of the need to create a QEP Advisory Committee. The QEP director to be announced shortly.<\/li>\n<li>A motion by the Speaking Intensive Committee to recommend SI designation for HIST 471E5, PSCI 471, and RELG304 was passed.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>For more details, feel free to consult the meeting minutes, which will be posted (when approved) on the UFC website at <a href=\"http:\/\/ufc.umw.edu\/archives\/2013-2014-ufc-approved-minutes\/\">http:\/\/ufc.umw.edu\/archives\/2013-2014-ufc-approved-minutes\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UMW University Faculty Council held its first regular meeting of the 2013-14 academic year on Monday, September 16.&nbsp; Highlights of the meeting included: Discussion of last June&rsquo;s Summer Orientation events and problematic issues with Doug Searcy, Meg Higgenbotham and Keith Mellinger. Many suggestions were offered and it was a fruitful discussion, especially with regard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":55831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[2371],"class_list":["post-55791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-whats-new-umw","tag-sgreenla","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}