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Faculty Meeting 10/28/09 In attendance: Zhang, Buss, Chase, J. Williams, M. Williams, LeFebvre, Dugan, Bonilla, Gale, Ludwig, G. Smith, Burnett, Stitt, Humphrey, Kidd, Xie, Stark, Irwin, Stoner, Koegel, Ah Yun Announcements: Academic affairs: no report Budget: no report Hiring: no report FEC: Up to date PTFEC: making part time visitations Graduate: no report Human subjects: will talk next meeting Assessment: no report Curriculum: Would like to email students saying don’t panic. -Summer awaiting approval -After winter CCE prices are going up for students” - no furloughs during either intersession -winter up for students starting Nov. 2nd. - If you are teaching a winter intersession course, it is on you’re my sacstate. Individual announcements: Kimo, would like to opt out of the COMS honors program. Looking for someone interested in taking over. Edith is interested. Responsibilities: Recruitment, welcoming ceremony, networking Film program recent grad good news. Jessica Vazquez won the Overall Excellence and the Audience award at the A Place Called Sacramento film festival, highest accolades festival for “Nightmare on K Street” Faculty Development Committee: -end of semester Party is going to be Friday December 18th following graduation. -Good news bulletin is coming out soon need info for it. -Diego is offering online skills development, contact Diego if interested. Chairs announcements: -Donating for Faculty development fund: used to be in the past that each faculty member would donate to the fund (separate from the coffee fund) based on their level. Assistant-$10, Associate-$20, Full-$30. Please turn this money into Carly G. - Thanks to our United way Rep, Jing Zhang. - Extra Kudos to Journalism students who worked on reporting the incident on campus Wed 21st. - Thanks to Curriculum working group for working with the chair on schedule cutting exercise. They’ve helped determine what spring will look like, but more importantly they will be helping the chair figure out what 2010-2011 will look like. Business Items: -Prerequisites for internships: -- COMS 195- require COMS 100A --JOUR 195- require JOUR 130A&130B -- New media students- require COMS 106 -- Film & Digital Media- require COMS 20A&B, 27A&B, and COMS 128 -- Public Relations- COMS/JOUR 123 & 100A Motion to bring forward a list for the next meeting to vote on the prerequisites. There is already a discussion on the wiki, please add your thoughts. []. Nick Burnett will create a chairs duties list, being as though that page in the Policy manual is blank.   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Next Faculty Meeting will be on an off week NOV 18th.

Faculty Meeting Agenda Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Announcements by Committee: Academic Affairs Faculty Development Budget Hiring Faculty Evaluation (FEC) Part Time FEC Graduate Human Subject Assessment Curriculum Announcements by Individual Faculty Members Announcements from the Chair: Donating to the Faculty Development Fund Thanks to our United Way representative Film Program graduate’s recent good news Kudos to Elaine Gale Extra kudos to our journalism students for their excellent coverage in extraordinarily difficult times Thanks to members of the Curriculum Working Group Business Items Discussion of prerequisites for internships Discussion of the present budget situation Discussion of the schedule for Spring 2010