Analysis of Contents of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Thaksin University Meetings during B.E. 2554-2559

Abstract

This research aims at 1) examining operational content of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science of Thaksin University Committee meeting, which consists of pre-meeting,   in-meeting, and post-meeting, 2) analyzing the content of five agenda, investigating consistency of content and power, and duties of the Faculty Committee, and 3) studying tendency of content change during B.E. 2554 – 2559. The researcher used ninety-three minutes, 3,915 content for the analysis. The instruments used for collecting data were recording form to analyze the minute content in two parts: operational content and core content. Content validity of the instruments based on power and duties of the committee was evaluated by five experts in Faculty Committee meeting from Thaksin University, to find its correlation. Descriptive statistics, Frequency, Percentage, and Slope, were used for data analysis. The research findings showed that: Operational content Pre-meeting: the committees were mostly invited/informed to propose the agenda and arranged the agenda/meeting documents before the meeting for three weeks. Agendas were proposed by two weeks of the month of meeting. Meeting arrangement allowance/meeting expense approval and meeting agenda/documents were sent to the committee a week before the meeting. Moreover, meeting room and facility checking was proceeded an hour earlier before the meeting. In-Meeting: The Dean was mostly the meeting leader with four agendas. The meeting was started at 1 p.m. and ended at 3 p.m., for two hours. There were 13 attendees. The secretary were assigned to take notes and record the meeting content every time. The meeting was proceeded based on notified agendas, and there was a conclusion for each agenda. Post-Meeting: The meeting agreements were circulated to the committees a day after the meeting (without approval). Financial documents for meeting arrangement, minute writing, and brief minute were arranged by two days after the meeting. However, circulation of minute for approval was uncertain, including following-up process based on meeting agreement three weeks after the meeting.

            Core Content Agenda 1, notification, was related to working of academic section following University Council or assigned by the President. Agenda 2, was an approval of minutes of the previous meeting, including correction of minute of the last meeting. Mostly, it was certified towards consultation and proposal to Head of Academic Section towards teaching and learning and corrected meeting minute towards consideration of curriculum to propose the Academic Council, curriculum amendment. Agenda 3, matters arising, was mostly consideration toward regulation and enactment of some rules for administration of Academic Section or for proposing to the University Council towards research. Agenda 4, matters of consideration, and Agenda 5, any other business, mostly related to consultation and idea proposal for the Head of Academic Section towards teaching and learning. Consistency of core content and power, and duties of the committee were mostly consistent to tasks of academic section following University Council or assigned by the President. The change of core content was likely increased, especially towards teaching and learning. However, number of content for approval seemed decreased.