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Promotes quality leadership and professional service and seeks solutions on matters relating to faculty.

 

Welcome from the 2022 Faculty Commission Chair


Thank you for visiting the AFC’s Faculty Commission webpage. Check back soon for a greeting from the 2022 Faculty Commission Chair, Kara Lawson Williams. 

WHAT WE DO

The Faculty Commission strives to maintain and promote the standards and ideals of the profession. The Commission provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and as well as the discussion of academic and professional issues among faculty around the state.  Commission members provide leadership within the 28 institutions as well as working with the Association of Florida Colleges (AFC) to promote legislative awareness in areas of particular concern to faculty.

COMMISSION RESOURCES:

  1. Executive Board
  2. Bylaws
  3. Awards and Recognition
  4. Announcements
  5. Newsletter
  6. Previous Award Winners

2022 EXECUTIVE BOARD

Chair: Kara Lawson Williams, Hillsborough Community College, Email: [email protected]; Phone: 813-757-2132 
Vice President: Cynthia Moody, College of Central Florida, Email: [email protected]; Phone: 352-873-5800, X1462
Treasurer: Misty Price, [email protected]; Pasco Hernando State College; Phone: 813-527-6879
Secretary: Jessica Lipsey, [email protected]; Daytona State College; Phone: 386-506-3140
Region II Representative: Helda Montero,  [email protected]; Santa Fe College
Region III Representative: Amee U. Mehta, [email protected]; Seminole State College
Region IV Representative: Misty Price, [email protected]; Pasco Hernando State College
Region V Representative:  Jonathan Pernick, [email protected]; Palm Beach State College

  

BYLAWS

Recognizing the need to establish procedures and guidelines as they reflect the rights, responsibilities, and objectives of its membership, the Faculty Commission hereby adopts these Bylaws:  Under review by the 2017 Bylaw Committee.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Click here for additional Faculty Commission 2021 information.

 

MEET YOUR 2021 AFC PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR!

Michelle Freas, Santa Fe College

The Association of Florida Colleges (AFC) Professor of the Year (POY) is Michelle Freas, Associate Professor in American Sign Language. Michelle gave an outstanding presentation at the Annual AFC Conference and Meeting, impressing the judges and others in attendance. 


BOARD REPORTS

Faculty Board Report - April 2018 

NEWSLETTER

 

PREVIOUS AWARD WINNERS

Vivian M. Dellinger Award

1998    Vivian M. Dellinger (posthumously)
1999    Jack Motta (Santa Fe Community College)
2000    Irene Lipof (Miami Dade Community College)
2001    Rhonda Allison (Tallahassee Community College)
2002    James Lansing (Broward Community College)
2003    Not Awarded
2004    Jane Howard (Indian River Community College)
2005    Not Awarded
2006    Beverly Grundset (St. Petersburg College)
2007    Will Benedicks (Tallahassee Community College)
2008    Dr. Ana Ciereszko (Miami Dade College)
2009    Byron Todd (Tallahassee Community College)
2010    Margie Robertson (State College of Florida - Manatee~Sarasota)
2011    Not Awarded
2012    Not Awarded
2013    Xiao Wang (Broward College)
2014    Not Awarded
2015    Not Awarded
2016    Not Awarded

Professor of the Year

2020   Jeremy Norton, (Lake-Sumter State College)
2019    Amee Mehta (Seminole State)
2018    Brenda Skoczelas (Lake-Sumter State College)
2017    Amber Karlins (Lake-Sumter State College)
2016    Angel Rodriquez (Broward College)
2015    John Gardner (Chipola College)
2014    Barry Silber, (Hillsborough Community College)
2013    Thom Kieft (Lake-Sumter State College)
2012    Jerry Shawver (Florida State College at Jacksonville)
2011    Gerald Johnston (Santa Fe College)
2010    James May (Valencia College)
2009    Sybil Brown (Lake-Sumter State College)
2008    Susan Taylor (North Florida Community College)