Welcome message

By cavenyd | Published: October 27, 2009

Welcome to the Academic Affairs blog, designed with chairs and deans in mind.  Our goal is to make our announcements to you more efficiently and effectively, while also creating a searchable record that you can easily access to refresh your memory on a particular announcement.  We welcome your feedback.

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Addressing Privacy/Security Breaches

By cavenyd | Published: October 13, 2009

Please be sure your faculty and staff understand that, if they see a potential privacy or security breach, they need to report it right away.  According to the Privacy Policy, “Every member of the College community who reasonably believes that a Security Breach has occurred is under an affirmative obligation to report that Breach as soon as practicable to the Office of the CIO and the Office of Legal Affairs.”  Please see the policy or consult with Provost Diamond if you have any questions about this requirement.

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Proposed Course-Instructor Evaluation form under review

By cavenyd | Published: October 13, 2009

The proposed new Course-Instructor Evaluation form has been approved by the Faculty Senate.  After Senate consideration, the expanded subcommittee will address validity and reliability testing and will make recommendations regarding how data from administration of the form are reported to faculty members, department chairs, and deans.

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PeopleAdmin employee recruitment tool

By cavenyd | Published: October 13, 2009

Some of you have already experienced the College’s new personnel recruitment software, implemented by Human Resources in August for classified searches.  Ultimately, PeopleAdmin will communicate with our new enterprise system to facilitate tracking of personnel lines.  Academic Affairs is considering how PeopleAdmin should be incorporated into our faculty and unclassified academic recruitment processes, simply as a tool for submission and review of recruitment requests or as a full-service option for departments who want to collect and review faculty applications online.  Two nice features are an electronic review and approval process, allowing  users to see where their request stands in the approval process, and a nice facility for viewing aggregate confidential applicant data for diversity purposes.  In some other respects, however, PeopleAdmin is much more suited to local or regional classified searches, and perhaps adjunct faculty searches, than to collecting applications in national faculty searches, a perspective that Academic Affairs will keep in mind as we move forward.  If you would like to participate in testing or offer feedback on our PeopleAdmin test implementation for faculty searches, please contact Deanna Caveny at 3-2648 or cavenyd@cofc.edu.

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Faculty and Unclassified Staff Recruitment

By cavenyd | Published: October 13, 2009

We are making some changes to our forms for recruitment of faculty and unclassified academic staff.  One outcome will be streamlining, including a single form for the recruitment request and plan.  New forms will be posted shortly on our website.  Departments that are currently recruiting may simply slip into use of the new forms when they are available, based on where you are in the recruitment process.

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Reminder to Close Doors

By cavenyd | Published: October 13, 2009

Please remind your faculty, including adjuncts, to close classroom doors at the end of class, when leaving the room, unless there is clearly another class entering the room.   Public Safety continues to find smart classrooms unlocked or propped open.

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Providing textbook information to College Bookstore

By cavenyd | Published: October 13, 2009

Please ensure that faculty members (or your administrative staff) are providing textbook information for all courses to the College of Charleston bookstore, even if faculty members anticipate students buying their textbooks elsewhere.  Students who buy their books via CougarCards, with funds loaded by their parents, for example, are restricted to using the College of Charleston Bookstore.

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Online Course-Instructor Evaluations

By cavenyd | Published: October 13, 2009

Last year, we completed a 3-semester pilot online administration of our existing Course-Instructor Evaluation instrument.  Several faculty committees are now considering the results of that pilot and will be reporting to the Faculty Senate.  Academic Affairs has asked them to keep two things in mind:  The Provost is firmly committed to a single system of administration, primarily for consistency in faculty evaluation processes.  Also, we can reasonably expect that response rates for any full implementation of an online administration would be higher than in the pilot.  Provost Diamond will be investigating various implementation options, consulting with IT on technical aspects, considering any Faculty Senate recommendation, and making a decision regarding replacement of our curretn system of Course-Instructor Evaluation administration.  At this time, we intend to implement any new Course-Instructor Evaluation form at the same time as any new system of administration, possibly as early as Fall 2010.

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