University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications

Deans and Chairs

Meeting Agenda

Monday, June 29, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Responsibility Centered Management (RCM)
3. CJC Reorganization of Media Properties
4. Policy on International Travel Risk
5. Staffing Graduate Classes
6. UF Syllabus, Grading, and Attendance Policies  

Monday, May 18, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Review of President Machen’s budget summary to the UF Faculty Senate
3. Fall Faculty Retreat
4. Fall Freshmen Orientation and Common Reading Program
5. Summer Enrollment
6. Schedule for Annual Evaluations
7. Summer Office Scheduling

Monday, April 20, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Budget Reduction Update
3. MBCAP
4. Graduation
5. Summer and Fall Course Schedules
6. Curriculum Proposals

Monday, April 6, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Graduate Student Funding
3. SERU Survey
4. Budget Cuts

Monday, March 30, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Budget Update
3. Awards Banquet
4. Graduation

Monday, March 23, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Budget Update
3. Annual Evaluations
4. Student Awards
5. SACS/Globalization
6. SERU

Monday, March 16, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Budget Update
3. Summer Teaching Schedule
4. College Student Awards and Awards Banquet
5. Graduation

Monday, March 2, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Budget Reduction Update and Planning
3. Departmental and College Annual Awards
4. Rotation of Teaching Assistants

Monday, February 16, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Faculty Annual Evaluation Procedures
3. Budget Update

Monday, February 2, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Budget Cuts Update
2. Awards and Banquet Planning
3. Distance Education Initiatives
4. Media Studies Specialization
5. Summer Courses and SCH
6. Office Assignments
7. Faculty Search Protocol and Reimbursements
8. Email Contact List
9. 2009 Spring Outstanding Leadership Award for Male and Female Graduating Seniors
10. Material and Supply Fees/Equipment Use Fees

Monday, December 15, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2095.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Nominations for Faculty Awards
3. Search Updates
4. Spring Course Enrollment
5. Distance and Self-funded Courses

Monday, November 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Faculty Enhancement Opportunity Update
3. End-of-Semester Faculty Meeting and Holiday Lunch
4. Search Updates
5. Dual Majors with the College of Business Administration
6. Records Management
7. Mentoring Workshop

Monday, October 27, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Graduate Courses
3. Effort Reporting
4. Guidelines for Hearst Visiting Professionals
5. Policies on Faculty Search Interviews
6. Update on Faculty Searches
7. Faculty Survey

Monday, September 22, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Update on Merit Increases
2. Update on Faculty Searches
3. Joint Advisory Council Meeting
4. Creation of Dean's Student Advisory Council
5. Fall Kickoff Party: Second Attempt
6. Update on Fundraising Activities
7. Building Matters: Equipment Room Expansion and Storage Problems
8. UF International Educator Award
9. UF Outstanding Leadership Award

Monday, September 15, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Coordination with Student Services (Karen Cody and Sandra Storr)
3. Update on Faculty Searches
4. Update on Merit Raises and Collective Bargaining Agreement
5. Report--Workgroup on Distance Education and Self Funded Courses
6. Centrally Funded Faculty Enhancement Opportunities
7. UF Budget Outlook
8. Faculty Assignment Reports
9. Fall Joint Advisory Council Meeting
10. Faculty Course Buyout Policy and Procedures

Monday, August 25, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Fall course enrollment
3. Salary merit increases
4. Update on Center for Innovative Media and Research
5. WRUF consultant
6. Student and faculty awards
7. Faculty search outlook
8. ACEJMC accreditation planning
9. Fall joint advisory council meeting

Monday, July 28, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. 2008-2009 Salary Increases
3. Iraqi Youth Leaders Exchange Program
4. Fall Kick-Off Faculty Meeting

Monday, June 23, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open
2. 08-09 State Budget
3. Graduate Assistant Appointment Process
4. Paper Supply and Distribution
5. Department Chair’s Letter to External Reviewers

Monday, June 16, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. FY 2008-09 State Budget Allocations
3. Export Controls
4. Fall Kick-Off Planning

Monday, June 2, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Departmental Annual Reports
3. Summer Enrollment Update
4. Fall Schedule Issues
5. Summer Travel and Vacation Planning
6. Fall Kickoff Planning
7. Departmental Convergence/Cross Platform Reports
8. Status of Collective Bargaining Agreement and Memorandum of Agreement

Monday, May 19, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Annual Evaluations
3. Planning for Fall Kick-Off Faculty Meeting

Monday, April 21, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Graduation
3. Assistantship Spreadsheet
4. Freedom Forum and Hearst Visiting Professionals
5. Constitution—Administrator Voting
6. Template for Department/Division Annual Report
7. Planning for Fall Kick-Off Meeting

Monday, April 7, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Annual Awards Banquet
3. Graduation
4. Mathews Society Nomination 2008
5. College Constitution (Julie Dodd)
6. Departmental Annual Reports
7. Other Business

Monday, March 31, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Program and Budget Review
3. Timetable for TA appointments
4. Budget Reduction Update
5. ECN Project

Monday, March 24, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Annual Program and Budget Review
3. CASE Professor of the Year Award

Monday, March 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. FARs
3. Update on Budget Reduction
4. Admissions/Registrar Request
5. Awards Banquet

Monday, March 3, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Eminent Scholar Search Update
3. Curriculum Reviews
4. Fundraising Report
5. 2008-09 Budget Cutback
6. UF Honors Program Advisory Committee

Monday, February 18, 2008, 2:30 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Program and Budget Review
3. Awards Banquet Planning
4. Graduation Planning

Monday, February 11, 2008, 2:30 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. ACEJMC Accreditation
3. College Program/Budget Review 2008
4. Update on Mentoring Program
5. UF Multicultural Awards

Monday, December 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Introduction and Discussion with Kenneth Starck and David Goodwin, Zayed University
3. Degree Options 
4. Academic Learning Compacts
5. End-of-Semester Faculty Meeting  

Monday, November 19, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Promotion for Lecturers (Mary Ann Ferguson on behalf of the Diversity and Faculty Development Committee)
3. UF Data--Student Credit Hour Production
4. Summer Schedules and New Courses
5. Faculty Assignment Reports
6. Five-Year Deletes
7. Process for Change of Majors--CHANGE Status 

Monday, October 29, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Summer Course Offerings
3. Update on UF Budget
4. Tenure and Promotion Committee Proposal (Chair Kathleen Kelly and committee members) 
5. UF Family Weekend
6. UF Career Flexibility Practices--Sloan Grant
7. Undergraduate Research and Creative Survey
8. 2007-2008 International Educator of the Year

Monday, September 17, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Use of Faculty Survey Data
3. Internships and ACEJMC 3-Hour Limit
4. Diversity Enrollment Initiatives
5. Faculty Recruiting Strategies
6. Formation of College Communications Working Group
7. Call for Convergence/Multimedia Task Force
8. Administrator Phone Tree

Monday, August 27, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
   
2. Grade Distribution Report
3. College Development
   
4. Use of Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory in Annual Evaluations
   
5. Faculty and TA Office Hours
   
6. UF Travel Guidelines
   
7. Faculty Travel
   
8. Class Records Retention Policy
   
9. "Change" Major Status

Monday, June 4, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Summer enrollments
3. Drop and withdrawal policy
4. Equipment check-out policy and procedures
5. Planning for College Kick-Off and New Faculty Orientation
6. Administrative Calendar
7. Other business

Monday, April 16, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

Special Session—Effort Reporting and FARs
Guests: Marie Zeglen, Lance Kennedy-Phillips, Armando Ramirez

Monday, April 2, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Update on Mentoring Policy—Mary Ann Ferguson
3. UCC Requirements for New Course Approval
4. Faculty Salary Data
5. Regalia for Commencement

Monday, March 26, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Faculty Mentoring
   
3. Departmental Reports on Merit Pay Criteria and Market Equity Process
4. Curriculum—UCC requirements for new course requests
5. Departmental Student Awards
6. State Budget Funding Requests

Monday, March 19, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Program and Budget Review
3. Budget Metrics Overview
4. Merit Pay Criteria
   
5. College Process for Equity Pay Increase Requests
6. Capital Campaign
7. Awards Banquet
8. Commencement
9. FARs

Monday, March 5, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. UF Academic Budget Review
3. College Student Organizations
4. Graduation Planning
5. Internship Credit

Monday, February 26, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. UF Academic Budget Review
3. UF Blackout Weekend
4. Capital Campaign
5. Awards Banquet
6. FTE calculation for GA appointments
   
7. Administrative Calendar

Monday, February 5, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Capital Campaign
3. Material and Supply Fee
4. Academic Program Review
5. Changes to Course Numbering System

Monday, January 29, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Summer Schedule
3. Visiting Scholar Policy and Process

Monday, January 8, 2007, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Summer Budget and Course Proposals
3. Changes to Statewide Course Numbering System

Monday, December 11, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (open)
2. Summer Budget

Monday, December 4, 2006, 2:30 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (open)
2. Update on Development Officer Search
3. Faculty Recruitment
4. Undergraduate Requirements in Political Science
5. College Awards Banquet
6. Faculty Achievement Reception
7. Selection Process for Visiting Scholars

Monday, November 20, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion (Open)
2. Enrollment
3. Departmental Budget Update
4. Staff Procedures—Time Cards, Flex Week
5. Recruitment of Research Subjects
6. Holiday Luncheon and Party

Monday, November 6, 2006, 2:30 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion Items (Open)
2. Undersize Report
3. Merit Pay Criteria and Process
4. Update on Sabbatical Selection and Sustained Performance Review

Monday, October 30, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion Items (Open)
2. International Educator Award
3. Task Force on Distance Education and Task Force on Multimedia, Multiplatform Presentation and Converged Newsroom
4. Budget Projection for Spring
5. Research Lab and Other IT Allocations
6. Student Services—November Staffing

Monday, October 16, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Discussion Items (Open)
2. Graduate Student Credit Hours and Fee Waivers
3. Distance Master’s Degrees
4. Converged Newsroom and Multiplatform Presentation
5. STAR and TOP Awards
6. Summer Schedule
7. Web Pages
8. Staff Work Policies
9. MMC 2936

Monday, September 25, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. State Budget Projection
2. Graduate Student Credit Hour Production
3. Undergraduate Student Transfer Policy
4. Update on Departmental Elections for the Shared Governance Committee
5. Textbook Adoption
6. Potential Collaboration with School of Media Studies, Croatia

Monday, August 21, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066. (Minutes)

1. Update on Fall Semester Appointments and Payroll
2. Update on Faculty and Staff Raises
3. UF's New Applicant Tracking System
4. Faculty Searches for 2006-07
5. Spring Course Schedule
6. Budget
7. Latest Draft of President Machen's Work Plan for UF

Monday, July 10, 2006, 10:00 a.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Growing Graduate Enrollment/SCH
2. Undergraduate Recruitment
3. Distance Learning Offerings
4. Media Convergence and Multi-Platform Presentation
5. Fund-raising
6. Emeritus Faculty Reception
7. Budget Process and Research-Related Budget
8. New Faculty Orientation
9. TOP and STAR Awards
10. Office Policies

Monday, April 17, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Summer and/or Fall Budget
2. Qualifications for Deans List
3. Issue of Adding Minus Grades at UF
4. Commencement Planning
5. Other

Monday, April 3, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Final Summer Budget and Schedule
2. Awards Banquet
3. Commencement
4. Other

Monday, March 20, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Graduate Enrollments and Admissions
2. Awards Banquet
3. Summer Budget
4. Commencement Planning
5. Faculty Search Updates
6. Other

Monday, March 6, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Annual Awards Banquet Planning
2. College Program and Budget Planning Document
3. UF Work Plan Discussion (http://www.president.ufl.edu/workPlan.pdf)
4. Faculty Travel Issues
5. Other

Monday, Feb. 20, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. Annual Awards Banquet Planning
2. Format for Faculty and Department Annual Reports
3. Advising Faculty Regarding Tenure and Promotion and Salary Pay Plan Raises
4. Fall 2005 Student Evaluations
5. Hourly Rate for Bickel Students
6. Commencement Planning Update
7. Program and Budget Planning
8. New UF Annual Staff Appraisal Policy
9. Wage and Hour Law Compliance
10. Compliance with UF Practice on Lower Division Change of Majors

Friday, Jan. 13, 2006, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

Discussion of the facilitator's visit to the College on Jan. 23-27.

Monday, Dec. 5, 2005, 2:00 p.m., Weimer 2066.

1. The National Research Council Survey of Doctoral Programs – 2:00-2:15
2. Internships and the Three-Hour Limit – 2:15-2:20
3. Enrollment in Critical Tracking Courses – 2:20-2:30
4. Purchasing Equipment: Process – 2:30-2:40
5. Roundtable Discussion – 2:40-3:00.