Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

March 28, 2001

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

Members Present:

Jirsa, Rao, Brownell, Lavin, Martinelli, Puerschner, Sherman, Coburn-Enquist, DaPonte, Landino, Fullmer, Corbett, Petrie, Hood, Johnson, Mee, Kemler, Palma, Verplaetse, Sakalowsky, Judd, Petto, Dunklee, Bielefield, Schofield-Bodt, Mick, Nodoushani, Laird, Bennett, Grant, Moss, Bochain, Young, Prince, Volkman, Bidarian, Paulson, Sherman, Kahlbaugh, Bulmer, MacGregor, Hagemen, Dripchak, Haymes, Ryan, Brucker, Major, Watts.

Visitors:

Tait

Members Absent:

Maloney (Athletics), Nwachuku (Couns/Sch Psych), Thorson (Eco/Finance), Carins (Ed Leadership), Wallace (Nursing), Berman (Part-time faculty), McCormack (Part-time faculty).

Minutes of Faculty Senate meetings - February 21, 2001 and March 7, 2001 were approved as presented.

Announcements:

Construction updates:

Engleman Hall will begin the first phase of the construction this semester. The contract will be signed in April 2001 and a fence will be erected around Engleman Hall in May 2001. Any questions about room re-assignments should be directed to Bob Sheeley.
The design for the new Student Center is being redone.
Construction updates will be posted on SCSU’s homepage: http://www.southernct.edu/departments/construction/index.php3

Presidential Dialogue – Tuesday, April 24, 2001 at noon in the Student Center Faculty Dining Room.
Senate President and Treasurer elections will take place in the first meeting in May 2001.
Vice-President Phil Smith will address the following issues at the next meeting:

Status of the School of Extended Learning
Online courses
ECollege.com

Senator Schofield-Bodt – Buley Library will host an Open House on April 9^th, 12:00 – 2:00 PM.
Senator Prince – Encouraged us to apply for the CSU-AAUP research grant.
Commencement will be held in the Yale Tennis Center this year.

Standing Committee Reports:

Student Policy: No report

Technology:

Computer inventory information has been submitted by departments.
The dial-up procedure was changed over the Spring break with very little notice.

Academic Policy:

The late withdrawal policy will address the Graduate Catalog as well.

Elections:

Self-nomination forms for the University-wide elections were mailed out on 3/9/01.
The self-nomination forms must be submitted to the Elections Committee by 4/4/01.

Finance:

Lise Brule (Vice President Blake’s secretary) is gathering information relating to the encumbered funds that are still unused by full and part-time faculty.

Personnel Policy:

The Hardship DEC resolution was discussed with AAUP President John Kavanagh. Linda Cunningham will find out how the other CSUs are handling this issue. Geroge Appleby, P& T Committee chair, was asked to investigate how this resolution would impact the committee membership.

Rules:

The committee has requested all the senators to provide the following information:

i. Number of full-time faculty in each department (exclude active searches)

ii. Terms of senators

The Graduate Rules of Order is being addressed.

UCF:

Information about the online courses is being gathered.
Course revision will be discussed at the next UCF meeting on April 5, 2001 at 9:00 AM in EN Hall BOT room.

Old Business:

Senator Steve Judd proposed a resolution to change the Faculty Senate Constitution regarding faculty initiative and referendum. After a lengthy debate and discussion, the resolution was put to vote. It did not pass by a 2/3^rd majority vote that is required to change the Senate Constitution.

New Business: None.

Meeting was adjourned at 2:00 PM

Respectfully submitted,

Arundhati S. Rao

Secretary of the Senate