Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

April 11, 2001

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The fourteenth meeting of the 2000-2001 year was called to order at 12:10 PM.

Members Present:

Jirsa, Rao, Brownell, Lavin, Martinelli, Puerschner, , DaPonte, Nwachuku, Fullmer, Thorson, Corbett, Petrie, Hood, Johnson, Mee, Kemler, Verplaetse, Sakalowsky, Judd, Petto, Dunklee, Schofield-Bodt, Mick, Laird, Bennett, Grant, Bochain, Wallace, Prince, Volkman, Bidarian, Paulson, Bulmer, Hagemen, Dripchak, Haymes, Ryan, Brucker, Major, Watts.

Visitors:

JP Smith, Pat Whelan, Ed Harris, Dick Gerber, Jim Tait.

Members Absent:

Maloney (Athletics), Sherman (Communication), Coburn-Enquist (Communication), Landino (Counseling), (Eco/Finance), Carins (Ed Leadership), Palma (Foreign Language), Bielefield (Library Services), Nodoushani (Management), Moss (music), Berman (Part-time faculty), McCormack (Part-time faculty), Young (Part-time faculty), Sherman (Psychology), Kahlbaugh (Psychology), MacGregor (Recreation/Leisure).

Pat Whelan, Director of the School of Extended Learning (SEL), gave a brief history of the SEL. Vice-President Smith has approved the set of goals, outcomes and objectives developed to guide the SEL for the next three years.

The areas covered by the SEL are:

1. Matriculated and non-matriculated part-time students – a major focus of the SEL.
2. High School students taking courses at SCSU – there are 55 students this semester.
3. Senior citizens taking courses at SCSU – there are 150 students this semester. Most senior citizens take courses for personal enrichment. Last year seven seniors graduated with a degree.
4. Liberal studies program
5. Professional studies program – RN program
6. Institutes and courses offered during the Winter Intersession, Spring Break, and Summer.
7. Outreach programs
8. CLEP
9. Advanced Program workshops
10. Non-credit programs
11. Online course registration - serves as an intermediary.
12. Charter oak students -serves as a liaison.

• A major goal is to improve advisement for part-time students. There are 2,000 part-time undergraduate students this semester.
• The undergraduate catalog lists five programs that are offer courses in the evening.
• The SEL is trying to co-ordinate its efforts with the West Rock Neighborhood Corporation.
• The SEL wants to hire an Outreach coordinator. The Outreach Coordinator will work with departments, chairs, and/or faculty to capitalize on their expertise.
• The SEL is trying to develop administrative guidelines for the Institute.
• The SEL would like to offer Advanced Placement workshops in priority school districts.
• Currently there is a great need for faculty to teach Psychology, Geography, World History and Spanish in the Advanced Placement program.

If anyone has any questions, comments and/or suggestions about the SEL please email Pat Whelan. Email address: WHELAN. The SEL is located in Wintergreen 131.

Ed Harris, Dean of School of Communication, Information, and Library Science: Online Learning

• We are in the third year of a 3-year contract with e.College.com, an online service provider.
• We have experienced several administrative problems. It is logistically very difficult to coordinate.
• The CSU system office is preparing a bid for a service provider; the bid should be out in a couple months.
• We will continue to use e.College.com through the Fall 2001 semester.
• We prefer housing the online courses at SCSU instead of the system office.
• Despite all the problems, the Master of Library Services (MLS) program has a very positive experience with the online program. Our MLS program is listed on the ALA web page.
• 800 students online in the CSU system
• 600 students online in SCSU
• 500 students online in SCSU’s MLS program.
• SCSU has bought WebCT a service provider for online courses. This is managed by John Young. Currently there are 40 sections of various courses using WebCT with over 1,000 students enrolled in these sections.
• Online course are important. It has access value and expands our catchment area.

Minutes of Faculty Senate meeting - March 28, 2001 were approved as presented.

Announcements:

• The Senate will meet on April 18, 2001 at noon in the BOT room; Senator George Puerschner, Past President, will serve as the Chair of the meeting.
• Presidential Dialogue – Tuesday, April 24, 2001 at noon in the Student Center Faculty Dining Room.
• Honors convocation – Tuesday, May 1, 2001.
• Senator Jerry Dunklee requested faculty to support a “Student Media Fee” of $10 per semester per student, separate from the Student Activity Fee.

Standing Committee Reports:

1. Personnel Policy:

· John Kavanagh, AAUP President, reviewed the Hardship DEC resolution. He commented that there is a precedent of requesting faculty from another CSU campus to serve on a DEC in case of hardship.

· George Appleby, Chair of P&T committee, commented that “Creative Activity” is becoming increasingly important in P&T decisions.

2. Student Policy:

· “Student Misconduct Proposal” was distributed to all the senators present for their review. Please email any comments and suggestions about the proposal to Shelly Bochain (email address: BOCHAIN).

3. Technology:
• The Help Desk is taking longer to respond to problems.
• The problems with the new dial-in procedures persist.
• The committee is discussing color printing on campus.
• A “High Tech Classroom” resolution will be proposed under new business.
• A draft of the AV policy has not yet been received.
• Banner – lack of access to student information poses a serious problem to faculty helping students with registration for the summer and fall semester. Poor communication is still a MAJOR issue!

4. Academic Policy:
• The committee is working on three late withdrawal resolutions.
• The 3 curricula resolutions will be discussed under new business.

5. Elections:

· Ballots for the University-wide elections will be sent out next week.

6. Finance:
• No report

7. Rules:
• No report

UCF:

• Topic of discussion – online courses.

Old Business: None.

New Business:

1. The necessary 2/3^rd quorum was not present to vote on the first and second items listed on the agenda; therefore these items were postponed to the next senate meeting.

2. The Technology Committee proposed the following resolution: High Technology Classrooms

Whereas money has been allocated for conversion to high-tech classrooms every year,

Whereas the demand for these classrooms has been increasing every year,

Whereas the current amount of $139,500 is insufficient to fund the upcoming conversions,

The Faculty Senate resolves that the following be converted to high-tech classrooms (on the model of Morrill 016) by 5 September 2001: EN 3 (or 4), EN 6, MF 255, and Davis 222.

The Faculty Senate further resolves that funds be added to the current amount in order to facilitate the cycle of converting four classrooms per year to high-tech as defined by ETAC (and to establish Southern as a preeminent public academic institution).

The Faculty Senate further resolves that an adequate service contract for all the equipment in all high tech classrooms be established by 5 September 2001 and enough staff to maintain and support all high tech classrooms be hired by 5 September 2001.

The resolution was passed by a unanimous voice vote.

3. Academic Policy Committee – Curricula Approval Resolution 1 was discussed. The discussion was postponed to the next meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 2:00 PM

Respectfully submitted,

Arundhati S. Rao

Secretary of the Senate