Unapproved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

May 9, 2001

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The twelfth 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, Nwachuku, Fullmer, Thorson, Corbett, Cairns, Petrie, Hood, Johnson, Mee, Kemler, Verplaetse, Sakalowsky, Judd, Petto, Dunklee, Bielefield, Schofield-Bodt, Mick, Bennett, Grant, Moss, Bochain, Wallace, Young, Prince, Volkman, Paulson, Sherman, Kahlbaugh, Bulmer, Hagemen, Dripchak, Haymes, Ryan, Brucker, Major, Watts.

Visitors:

Tait

Members Absent:

Maloney (Athletics), Palma (Foreign Language), Nodoushani (Management), Laird (Marketing), Berman (Part-time faculty), McCormack (Part-time faculty), Bidarian (Physics), MacGregor (Recreation/Leisure).

The first order of business was the election of senate president and treasurer for 2001-2002.

ART PAULSON was elected to serve as SENATE PRESIDENT (Paulson – 28 votes and Fullmer – 15 votes).

The secretary cast one vote to elect PAM BRUCKER as TREASURER.

Minutes of April 18, 2001 and April 25, 2001 were approved as presented.

Announcements:

Vicki Mick, Jim Fullmer and Hing Wu are planning the Senate Retreat. It is scheduled for August 23, 2001 at the Mercy Center, Madison CT. Patti DeBarberi will be the facilitator.
Two senators will be elected in the first meeting in Fall 2001 to serve on the University Library Committee.
The first senate meeting in the Fall semester will be on September 12, 2001.

Senator Paulson made a motion to propose a vote of great appreciation to SENATOR KERRY GRANT for his service to the university and the senate in particular. The motion passed unanimously.

Senator Paulson made a motion to propose a vote of great appreciation to SENATOR RITA LANDINO for her service to the university and the senate in particular. The motion passed unanimously.

Standing Committee Reports:

Elections:

The results of the University-wide elections will be distributed next week.

Finance:

The finance committee made a motion to allocate travel funds for the year 2001-2002 as follows: $1,000 for full-time faculty and $600 for part-time faculty. The motion was passed unanimously.

Rules:

No report

Personnel Policy:

Some concerns have been voiced about the Sabbatical Leave calendar. These concerns will be addressed in Fall 2001.

Student Policy:

No report.

Technology:

The committee will meet with President Adanti, Academic Vice-President Smith, CITO Chai, and Senate President Jirsa. Topics to be discussed are:

High tech classrooms
AV/TV policy
Computer upgrades
ADA issues in computer labs.

Academic Policy:

Late withdrawal policy will be discussed.

UCF – No report

Senator Landino made a motion to change the order of business: First address items 1, 2, 8, and 3 listed under New Business, next address Old Business, and finally the remaining items under New Business. The motion passed unanimously.

New Business:

Personnel Policy Committee: Sabbatical Leave Document calendar

In a recent AAUP contract, the wording was changed so that the President awards sabbatic leaves and then reports to the BOT at its February meeting. The BOT does not award them. It is not necessary for the President to wait until after the February meeting to notify the candidates that they have been awarded sabbaticals.

Therefore the PPC proposes the following changes to the Sabbatic Leave Document Calendar:

Jan. 14 President notifies the candidates whether or not sabbatical leaves have been granted

Feb. (first Friday): The President notifies the Board of Trustees of the action he/she has taken concerning sabbaticals.

The resolution was passed unanimously.

Senator Jim Fullmer: Library Budget Resolution

Whereas Buley Library has sustained severe cutbacks in funding from which the collection is still recovering and

Whereas library resources are of core importance to all the university and especially to the faculty’s teaching and research, and

Whereas the current budget request is an 8% increase over last year (1.9 vs. 1.8 million),

Therefore be it resolved

That the faculty senate urges the University President to fund the FY 2002 Buley Library budget request in full.

The resolution was passed unanimously.

Personnel Policy Committee – Addition to the Hardship DEC section of the P&T document:

Recognizing the distinctive nature of the work that coaches, counselors and librarians provide, DECs for these departments should include at least one, and possibly, two, coaches, counselors or librarians, respectively. In an instance where a department does not have enough tenured members eligible to meet this requirement, Personnel Administration in consultation with the members of the department shall attempt to utilize tenured coaches, counselors or librarians, respectively, from the other universities in the CSU system to meet this requirement. Additional members of the DEC shall be selected as specified in article III. C. 2. g.

Resolution passed by the required 2/3^rd vote (39-0-1).

Rules Committee – Approval of revised Graduate Council Rules of Order.

See attachment.

The resolution was passed unanimously.

Old Business:

1. Curricula Approval Resolution # 2

Whereas the department shall have responsibility for the content and development of courses, curriculum, and programs of study within its discipline (CSU AAUP - CSU BOT Collective Bargaining Agreement section 5.17, 5.17.1), and

whereas new technologies and new modes of delivering instruction have raised questions about the traditional authority of departments to approve specific courses,

therefore be it resolved that the following be confirmed:

A department has the authority to decide whether a specific course is accepted as a requirement or elective within its major or minor program(s); a department has the authority to approve the number of credits and courses of any given type (lecture, lab, studio, on-site, on-line …) to be included in the total number of credits or courses in its major or minor program(s); and a department may take into consideration the content and development and the method and means of instruction when approving courses and programs.

The resolution was passed by a majority vote (23-10-0)

Meeting was adjourned at 2:00 PM

Respectfully submitted,

Arundhati S. Rao

Secretary of the Senate