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Faculty Meeting and Workshop Minutes

Meeting Date and Time: July 23, 2016--10 am to 1:00 pm

Present: Faculty and Staff

First	Last	First	Last
Galyna	Andryushchenko	Dante	Ferraro
Jenny	Arbai	Oana	German
Andrey	Armyakov	Ilya	Gogin
Evdokia	Azoidou	Angie	Gomez
Olesya	Brazhnikova	Mary Helen	Gomez
F. Ann	Bush	Lyudmila	Klavtsen
		Diana	Kyrychuk
Caryn	Davis	Maria A.	Machado
Gladys	Diaz	Semen	Mere-Mere
Iliyana	Dimitrova	Paul	Schiffman
Khadim	Doumouya	Tom	Schwenke
Dilyara	Engulatova	Sukhrob	Ulmasov
Yasmeen	Fathima	Irina	Zatulovski

Minutes – Topics Discussed

General Housekeeping:

On-going Student Orientation: Saturday or Sunday bike trips are an excellent way to assist students to learn about a variety of neighborhoods and boroughs. Faculty and staff are encouraged to lead trips together during the spring and summer.

Facilities and Equipment: Notify the administration if a tape recorder, computer or other equipment malfunctions so that repairs can occur in a timely fashion.

Student ESL Level Placement: Faculty and staff were notified that a link to placement tests can be emailed to prospective students to take the test in the comfort of their own home. Feedback to this new procedure was encouraged.

Professional Development: Teaching faculty were encouraged to check the expiration date of their teaching licenses so they enroll in required Methods courses.

Academic Governance—Mr. Ferraro and Dean Davis reviewed the long-standing Spanish American Institute Academic Governance policy.

• Linguistics for Everyone, was a two and ½ hour interactive introductory workshop to linguistics, facilitated by Dean Davis that provided faculty and staff with an overview of the topic. Post workshop faculty and staff surveys demonstrate high interest in the topic, which potentially merits a second workshop in 2017. The workshop was also rated as “excellent.”

At 1:00 pm the meeting was adjourned to a luncheon gathering at Toledowhere informal discussions of the day’s topics continued until dusk.