Council of Faculties, Chair's Report, July 2011, San Antonio, TX

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General News The Council Administrative Board and Committees were highly successful in conducting council business/ initiatives and addressing charges. In addition to the Council's standing committees, one Council task force and two joint task forces with the Council of Deans were in place and active. The activities and outcomes for each of these are described below. Other Committees and Task Forces 1. Faculty Affairs Committee Chair: Terry Schwinghammer (UWV) Vice-chair: Bernard Sorofman (Iowa) This committee thoroughly addressed its charge to work with staff to create and present programming relevant to chair development at the 2011 Interim and Annual Meetings. From a COF perspective, this was the programmatic theme of the lnterim Meeting and the committee has worked with staff in designing the content and activities for the Department Chairs' Session at the Annual Meeting. The committee was also effective in exploring existing resources related to faculty development that could be placed on the organization's website. Literature related to chair development/success has been placed on the website. 2. Standing Rules and Resolutions Committee Chair: Joseph Guglielmo The Committee has addressed all charges. Asked to prepare a resource document to share with members that addresses the organization's resolutions process, the committee prepared a concise report to that effect. Addressing another important charge, the committee has brought for recommendations for changes in the Council's bylaws which bring them into line with the organization's language (especially related to finance) and in the Council's definition of quorum for business meetings. These proposed changes have been shared with the Council's membership and will be brought to a vote at the Council's business meeting at the AACP Annual Meeting in July. 3. Nominations Committee Chair: Gary Matzke (VCU) The committee completed its task of preparing of slate of candidates for the position of Chair, Council of Faculties and shared this with the membership at our business meeting in February. The candidates are Sudip Das (Butler) and Robin Zavod (Midwestern--Chicago). 4. Council of Deans/Council of Faculties Joint Task Force on Faculty Workforce This Task Force, originally appointed in 2009, was asked to continue into the new association year in order to finish addressing its charges. No changes in membership were made. The Task Force divided its efforts to efficiently address its two charges and (enhancing quality of faculty life and evaluating the Association's mechanisms for assessing faculty work force issues and numbers). The two papers which were to emerge from this task force have been completed and submitted for publication (including to AJPE). The co-chairs presented brief reports of their findings at the COF Business Meeting in February. The two resultant papers are available for viewing on the Association's website: Charge 1. http://www.aacp.org/governance/councildeans/ Documents/WhitePaperonTaskForceIssues3. …