College of Journalism and Communications

Attached you will find the CJC State Budget Funding Diagram that Dr. Wright referred to during our December 2009  meeting.

A few points of clarification:

Last year, the College received $750,000 in non-recurring funds for the Center for Media Innovation and Research (CMIR).  This year, the College received another $750,000 ($296K for CMIR and $454K for College Infrastructure).

$581,414 of last year’s CMIR dollars were carried forward ($424,390 plus $157,024 in encumbrances).  Combining last year’s funds with this year’s non-recurring funds of $296K, CMIR’s FY2010 budget was $877,414.   Of those funds, $577,645 has either been spent or encumbered this fall, leaving $299,769 in available funds.

The remainder of this year’s non-recurring funds ($454,000) were used for building infrastructure needs (see CYFWD College Infrastructure column).  An additional $400,000 in stimulus funds from the University was added to the $454,000.  That $854,000 was used to pay for the College’s SAN.

In the second-to-last column, you’ll see a Tuition Differential Allocation for Adjuncts (up to $200,000.)  To date, $118,933 remains available and can be used for Spring 2010 and Summer A courses.  This money is not “in house” but will be allocated by Joe Glover as adjuncts are hired.

If you have any questions, please feel free to direct them to me, your senate representative or a member of the Budget Committee and we will answer or get the answer from the appropriate person.

Bridget Grogan

Budget Committee Chair

CJC State Budget Funding Diagram

Nothing earth shattering here, but faculty may want a heads up on the last item—Third-year review

• Dean Wright talked about a critical trip he is making to NYC this week to visit with alumni from all departments. Also, he will be attending a celebration of Frank Karel’s life during the trip.
• Several adjuncts have been hired for spring semester. Dean Wright said that he had about $100,000 in adjunct monies, but that most of the requirements have been met. Linda Hon asked chairs to let her know if they have needs for offices for adjuncts.
• RCM begins Summer B so very important that our SCHs be a point of focus. Dean Wright said adjunct monies could be used for Summer A, but not Summer B. There is nothing else new on RCM at this point.
• Dean Wright will be meeting with the College budget committee on December 8th. He said he thinks the College budget will be in the black for next year, but “just barely” While the budget is expected to be tighter than this year, Dean Wright said he would try to get the same funding level for travel. Linda Hon is working with staff to develop budgeting reporting formats that will be easier to understand.
• There is no final word on funding for summer from Provost yet.
• The next step with the Telecommunication media studies program was discussed. David Ostroff will be presenting the proposal to the College Senate at its earliest opening—this semester, if at all possible–so the program could make the new catalog. A faculty meeting to discuss the media studies proposal was proposed for early January.
• Third-year review workshop is planned for Dec. 10th, noon-1:30 p.m.. Chairs were urged to attend.
• The Third Year Review was discussed vis a vis the UFF contract. Conversations with administrators indicate that the departments will be required to perform the third-year reviews in order to be in compliance with the Memorandum of Understanding. It’s not clear whether there will continue to be a college-wide third-year review by the T&P Committee. More information will be forthcoming shortly, but departments need to prepare for this so that it can occur during spring semester.

Mary Ann Ferguson
For College Senate

Notes from Dean’s and Chair’s meeting of 11/30/09, 2 pm

 Dean Wright talked about RCM beginning Summer B. Looks like we’ll start that fiscal year with an extra $57,000 to our budget. Because SCHs will be so important, Dean Wright asked everyone to look closely at classes with just a few students in them to see if any combining of classes may be possible.

There was discussion about potentially having a cross-departmental course Summer A.  Dean Wright urged everyone to think outside the box.  The chairs will brainstorm on ideas.

Updates on job searches.  Journalism has had one candidate in and another coming in right after Thanksgiving.  Public Relations is moving toward phone interviews for their 2 traditional lines and review of applications for Karel line begin in January.  The Executive Director of Media Properties had 37 applications.  They’ve narrowed down to the Top 10.  The Executive Producer of the 21^st Century Newsroom search is drafting the job description and meeting after Thanksgiving.  Advertising has their description written for their search.

UF has taken back $126,000 from the College this year.  The College was able to cover the call back through vacant line money, so no additional layoffs would be necessary.

Submitted by:

Robyn Goodman

For College Senate

The topics at this week’s Senate meeting had some overlap with Deans & Chairs this week, so I’ll just cover what was new.

Distance education – John spoke about the drive for SCH productivity and distance education, based on our upcoming transition to RCM.  The big point is that under RCM, we’ll be rewarded for SCH production (which we’re already pretty good at, but we could be better, according to John) and entrepreneurial activities.  Undergraduate courses and graduate degree programs are the big focus, so expect these topics to keep coming up in College meetings and planning sessions. Read the rest of this entry »

To help with College communication, the Senate is now sending a representative to the weekly Deans & Chairs meetings.  We’ll be reporting weekly in this blog on what happened there, but remember that these are unofficial notes ONLY.  Only items deemed of interest to the faculty are included here to keep things short and sweet!

Following the agenda, the topics discussed were:

1.       Discussion (Open) – John said he believes funding for summer courses will be the same this year as last, since keeping SCH high is important to the university.  The summer schedule of courses was due today (11/16/2009) so if you were interested in teaching you should have already let your chair know.  (Note: We’ll try to stay ahead of these deadlines in the future and include information here in the blog.)  The idea of a workshop or class for grad students on SPSS was also discussed.

2.       Faculty Teaching Loads – Linda raised the issue of what counts as a “class” for the purposes of teaching loads.   Read the rest of this entry »