Unapproved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

September 25, 2002

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The second meeting of the 2002-2003 year was called to order at 12:12 PM.

The minutes of September 11, 2002 were approved.

Members Present:

Rogers (Anthropology), Brownell (Art), Lavin (Art), Puerschner (Chemistry), Ullian (Communication), Jirsa (ComDisorder/MFT), DaPonte (Computer Science), Lawler (Counseling), De Barbieri (Counseling/School Psychology), Fullmer (Earth Science), Thorson (Econ/Finance), Corbett (Education), Diamantis (Education), Diffley (Ed Leadership), Pritchard (English), Hood (English), Johnson (English), Mee (Exercise Science), Rinehardt (Exercise Science), Hernandez (Foreign Language), Verplaetse (Foreign Language), Sakalowsky (Geography), Amerman (History), Petto (History), Dunklee (Jounalism), Bielefield (Library Science), Klassen (Library Services), Wu (Library Services), Oppedisano (Management), Prince (Marketing), Bennett (Math), Brin (Math), O’Brien (Media Studies), Kuss (Music), Wagner (Nursing), Dobbins (Part-time faculty), Young (Part-time faculty), Pettigrew (Philosophy), Broadbridge (Physics), Paulson (Political Science), Sherman (Psychology), Kahlbaugh (Psychology), Bulmer (Public Health), Cusato (Science Ed/Env Stud), Dripchak (Social Work), Keenan (Social Work), Bloch (Sociology), Brucker (Special Ed/Reading), Major (Special Ed/Reading), Watts (Theatre)

Members Absent:

(Accounting), Maloney (Athletics), Martinelli (Biology), Prince (Part-time Faculty), Jexey Jack (Part-time faculty), Grants (Recreation/Leisure)

Visitors

James Tait, UCF

President Michael Adanti, Executive Vice President James Blake, and Academic Vice President Philip Smith:

President Adanti, along with Executive Vice President Blake and Academic Vice President Smith made a budget presentation to the Faculty Senate. Vice President Blake presented the budget for FY 2002 and the budget for FY 2003 (Attached). A question and answer session followed the presentation.

President’s Report (Attached):

President Paulson reported his meetings with President Adanti and members of his administration.

Specific meetings discussed were:

• The meeting with the new Faculty Committee for the Academic Strategic Plan on September 20, 2002,
• A meeting with President Adanti that occurred on September 20^th where President Paulson was accompanied by Senator Jirsa and Senator Bielefield to discuss academic priorities and university policy,
• The breakfast meeting with members of the Senate Executive Committee and President Adanti and his cabinet.

President Paulson also reminded the senate that the first Presidential Dialogue would be held on September 30^th at 1 pm in the Faculty Dining Room of the Student Center.

Minutes

The minutes of the September 11, 2002 were approved.

UCF Update

Jim Tait reported that the UCF will vote on referendum language for the UCF Constitution at its next meeting and indicated that it will be consistent with Senate policy.

In addition, the UCF has some specific concerns and questions regarding the following components of the Academic Strategic Plan:

• The concept of Total Quality Management – does this obstruct academic programs?
• The concept of “Benchmarking” SCSU with other schools – what criteria are selected for comparisons?
• How do you define “pre-eminence?” There is a need to address pre-eminence in the academic strategic plan.

The UCF is also working on the Southern Writing Program and is seeking detailed input from departments through their UCF representative.

Jim Tait also announced that the General Education Task force membership has been approved by the UCF taskforce.

Standing Committee Reports:

1. Academic Policy: The committee has a resolution to be presented under New Business

2. Elections: The committee will meet next week to finalize the ballot for the faculty referendum on the changes in the Senate constitution

3. Finance: Currently there is an unencumbered balance of $117,000 in the full-time travel fund and $18,000 in the part-time travel fund.

4. Personal Policy: The committee is working on developing the Faculty Satisfaction Survey

5. Rules: The committee will present a resolution under New Business.

6. Student Policy: The committee has two resolutions under New Business

7. Technology:

· The committee met with the Registration Committee and was informed that Banner will be upgraded on October 25, 2002. The upgrade will be significant and include everything except prerequisite rechecking ability.

· To fully implement the upgrade, however, Banner must be shut down for 5 days from November 27^th to December 1^st, 2002.

· It was noted that this is during pre-registration; however, apparently registration will be moved up. The exact details are not yet known.

The committee reports were completed at 2:40 pm and, because no Senate business can be concluded after 2:45 pm, the Senate meeting was adjourned at 2:42 pm.

Respectively submitted,

Robert E. Jirsa

Secretary of the Senate