COE Leadership Council
February 16, 2017
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Hill 314
Notes
In attendance: David Hough, Russ Brock, Gilbert Brown, Denise Cunningham, Janice Duncan, Cathy Pearman, James Satterfield, James Sottile, Kim Dubree
COE must send proposed 5% budget cuts for FY18 to the Provost next week. The Budget Committee meets tomorrow to discuss suggestions make recommendations.
Dean Hough asked everyone for feedback from yesterday’s college meeting. Cathy reported that most of her faculty who teach online do not want to see the incentive changed. CEFS and CLSE reported that some of their faculty were supportive of changing the Internet Incentive Policy, noting that course development and first time online teaching should be supported. James Satterfield had faculty talk to him about teaching other classes across departments if needed. As far as the online stipend, his faculty could see it lowered/changed/eliminated. Dean Hough reiterated that only the University can change the online incentive, but the Provost would like comments on this from the colleges. In addition, it is up to the department heads to determine if online classes are needed. Some COE faculty talked to the dean yesterday regarding the online incentive and others sent emails. The scenarios were:
- Would still teach if the online incentive was eliminated.
- Took on an online class that needed a stronger curriculum so re-wrote it. They like the extra money, but thinks the development money for new courses should stay and the $55/student lowered to $20 or $30.
- Pay to develop new courses, $55/student for first class or semester then less or no incentive after that.
The Budget Committee will weigh in on this issue tomorrow. The dean asked department heads if they thought any of their faculty would supervise three student teachers to save money.
CLSE: 6-7
RFT 1-2
CEFS 3-4
This would only save $4,500+.
All Instructors and Clinical faculty will teach 15 hours. Some have talked to the dean regarding other assignments they were given instead of 15 hours but do not know what they are to be working on.
Everyone looked at a copy of the college’s budget report line by line. After discussing various lines, it was recommended to cut $40,000 from Per Course, $40,000 from Summer School, $35,000 from the computer replacement fund, $15,000 – $25,000 from various COE policy funds on the web, and $30.000 from the Dean’s Travel Fund. That totals $160,000 from COE operations. Department Heads said they could work with this. Departments would still be allotted $500 per faculty member for travel to work with and keep the number of graduate assistants allotted, but could not add any. Since there were not any other recommendations where to cut money, they will need to look at cutting staff. This would be included as low priority. The dean will meet with the associate deans and department heads to discuss this further.
The largest COE operations budget lines are Per Couse, Summer School and the Internet Incentive Fund. Money cut from these would easily cover what we need to come up with, if faculty were willing. Otherwise, COE will have to cut staff positions to make up the 5% requested, i.e., $485,491.62. Department Heads agreed to reduce the number of program coordinators to reduce the per course expenditures.
James Sottile handed out a draft document on work groups for CAEP. Everyone looked at it and made some suggestions. They need to review it again and let James know about any other changes/suggestions by the end of the day today.
The meeting adjourned at 10:35 a.m.
Submitted by Sharon Lopinot