Clerk’s Committee Agenda for Friday October 28, 2018

Clerk’s Committee Meeting Agenda Friday October 28, 2016 11:30 am Gathering and Moment of Silence 3 minutes Approval of Minutes from 9/16 meeting 2 minutes For approval: Minor in Marketing 15 minutes For review: Proposed committee changes from Nominating 5 minutes For approval: Agenda for Faculty Meeting November 2 30 minutes Topics needing attention: General …

LAGER Committee Minutes 10/6/16

Final LAGER Committee Minutes 10/6/16   Present:  Kyle (chair), Darla, Caleb, Melanie, Lavon, Damon, Drew (rec.)   Minutes from 9/29/16 were approved Questions moving forward How many majors/programs already require a specific QL? Which documents should be edited moving forward, which are locked? Shared docs from 9/29 faculty meeting should be locked – no longer …

Clerk’s Committee Agenda for October 21, 2016

Clerk’s Committee Meeting Agenda Friday October 21, 2016 11:30 am   Gathering and Moment of Silence – 3 minutes Approval of Minutes from 9/16 meeting – 2 minutes Faculty Meeting review for 9/28 – 5 minutes Faculty forum review for 10/5 – 5 minutes Faculty for Ara’s task force to improve gift and endowed fund reporting – 5 minutes For review: Study leave requests – 20 minutes …

Faculty salaries at the Board of Trustees

Ione Taylor, chair of the Academic Affairs committee of the Board of Trustees, just noted to the full board in their public meeting the need for improving faculty salaries to match our peers and competitors. She referred to this as ‘deferred people maintenance,’ naming it as a need equivalent to the deferred maintenance of our …

LAGER Committee Minutes 9-22-16

Final LAGER Committee Minutes 9/22/16   Present: Kyle (chair), Caleb, Suzanne, Melanie, Stephanie, Lavon, Drew (recording)   Minutes from 9/15/16 were approved New Business Chair had meetings with Stephanie Chang, Steve Mencarini Good productive meetings Support from both for what LAGER is developing We have a new rep from CCE, Darla Lee Final draft of …

Compensation Committee Updates

Compensation Committee has asked me to share with the community the following items. These are located on the Committees@Guilford Google Drive folder in the Faculty Meetings section under the September 28 2016 Meeting. The items are: The Faculty Salary subcommittee’s report from last May 2016 The updated recommendations from the subcommittee from September 2016 A set of slides …

How to write your professors

[Link from Tom Guthrie] Everything here is good advice, except at Guilford our Quaker tradition makes some (note, only some, not all) faculty comfortable with first names and no honorific. How to email your professor without being annoying by Laura Portwood-Stacer, at Medium.com, April 2016

Early release of general education proposal documents by LAGER

Friends, The Liberal Arts General Education Revision (LAGER) Committee is honored to share our first full draft proposal for Guilford College’s next curriculum. This curriculum will support thousands of future Guilfordians. As Jane has mentioned, Guilford is a “small college of excellence doing a few things splendidly.” We believe our next curriculum supports that vision …

LAGER Committee Minutes 9-15-16

LAGER Committee Minutes 9/15/16   Present: Kyle (chair), Caleb, Lavon, Melanie, Stephanie, Barb (FYS), Drew (recording), Damon   Minutes from 9/8/16 were approved Old business Feedback from Dept. Chairs meeting Meeting did not happen Barb Boyette Chair posed question as to what aspects are important to a first year experience? Do not eliminate some sort …