Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting
April 7, 2004
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The twelfth meeting of the 2003-2004 year was called to order at 12:15 PM.
The minutes of March 17th, 2004 were approved as corrected.
Members Present:
Rogers (Anthropology), Vu (Art), Lavin (Art), Lerud (Biology), Pang (Chemistry), DaPonte (Computer Science), Lawler (Counseling), Fullmer (Earth Science), Corbett (Education), Diamantis (Education), Diffley (Ed Leadership), Johnson (English), Rinehardt (Exercise Science), Sakalowsky (Geography), Amerman (History), Petto (History), Dunklee (Journalism), Bielefield (Library Science), Wu (Library Services), Hopkins (Management), Brin (Mathematics), D’Amour (Mathematics), O’Brien (Media Studies), Kuss (Music), Wagner (Nursing), Young (Part-Time), Pettigrew (Philosophy), Paulson (Political Science), Sherman (Psychology), Brancazio (Psychology), Bulmer (Public Health), Smith (Recreation/Leisure), Cusato (Sci. Ed/Env. St.), Dripchak (Social Work), Keenan (Social Work), Bloch (Sociology), Brucker (Special Ed/Reading), Alfano (Special Ed/Reading).
Members Absent:
(Accounting), (Athletics), Ullian (Communication), Jirsa (Com. Disorders/MFT), DeBarbieri (Couns/School Psych), Xie (Econ/Finance), Blackmer (English), Mee (Exercise Science), Pennisi (Foreign Languages), Hernandez (Foreign Languages), Klassen (Library Services), Prince (Marketing), (3 Part-Time Faculty), Broadbridge (Physics), Braudt (Theater), Tait (UCF).
At this point, President Paulson entertained a motion to move the agenda to Old Business. Motion approved.
Old Business: Personnel Policy Resolution: Sabbatical Leave Document
President Paulson summarized last meetings actions on the Personnel Policy Resolution: Sabbatical Leave Document. There were three parts:
Part I- Revision on Eligibility was passed by voice vote;
Part II-Revision on Rotation of Sabbaticals was defeated by voice vote; and Part III-Addition of subsection: III C. Deferral of Sabbaticals was not acted upon.
President Paulson entertained a motion to postpone action on Part III until Part I is completed. Motion approved by hand vote.
After lengthy discussion on Part I, amendments were defeated and motion was made to approve resolution as originally proposed. Motion passed by majority hand vote.
President Paulson entertained a motion to call the question on Part III. Motion passed by majority hand vote. Motion was made to accept Part III as originally proposed. Motion passed with majority hand vote. Thus, Part III will be added to the Sabbatical Leave document.
Motion was made to return to the Agenda and it was approved.
Announcements:
President’s Report:
Ø Important Senate Agenda items for the remaining of the academic year:
v 4/7: Sabbatical Leave Document (Personnel Policy)
Anti-Merger Resolution (Academic Policy)
v 4/21: UCF Constitutional Amendments (Rules)
v 5/5: Faculty Senate Elections (Elections)
Travel Fund (Finance)
v 5/12: President Cheryl Norton
Ø SCSU-AAUP will be sponsoring a faculty forum to discuss load credits on 4/14/2004 at 1 pm in EN D 125. All faculty is urged to attend as a cooperative project to resolve the problem of overloads. Vice President Ellen Beatty, Joseph Polka (Sociology), Rich Riccardi and Walt Ziemba, along with Ginny Metaxas (President of SCSU-AAUP) and Art Paulson are meeting to discuss how to resolve the problem of overloads.
Ø President Phil Smith will meet with the faculty on April 8, 2004 at 1 pm in the Faculty Dining Room, Student Center.
Ø President Paulson expressed his appreciation to Jim Fullmer who is representing the Faculty on the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees and is attending the meetings. Camile Serchuk (Art) is serving as the alternate.
Ø Board of Trustees seem to show more understanding on our numbers of PT students and their affect on our budget.
Ø CSU-AAUP is sponsoring a dinner among members of the Board of Trustees, members of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and leaders of SCSU-AAUP on April 16. Senators joining Art in attending the dinner will be Jim Fullmer, Pam Brucker, and Arlene Bielefield.
UCF – Jim Fullmer reported in the absence of Jim Tait
¨ Constitution changes are being discussed and UCF is working so that they will be voting on it next week.
¨ Discussion provided information on future plans of UCF and some concerns were raised by some senators that AAUP meetings and Graduate Council meetings should not be scheduled the same time as the Senate meetings.
Standing Committee Reports:
1. Finance: Senator Brucker reported that there
were 33 TA’s in line to be approved, as money may be unencumbered. There are
very little money left for the Part Time faculty.
President Paulson requested that the Travel Fund issues be discussed on the April 21st Senate meeting as an item of New Business.
2. Personnel Policy: Senator Bielefield reported that although there will be no meeting next week, the committee’s next task is reformatting the P and T document.
3. Rules: Senator Rinehardt reported that the committee is expecting the UCF constitutional changes and had no report at the present time.
4. Student Policy: Senator Bullmer reported that a proposed draft document on Plagiarism to be included on the Student Handbook, is being prepared. This draft document will be discussed on an open faculty forum on April 23rd at 1:45-2:45 pm in EN A 120. The proposed document will be given to the Secretary of the Senate to be distributed for the next meeting. Members of the panel that are drafting the document at the present time include Chris Piscitelli from the Student Affairs office and Holly Bray from the State’s Attorney General’s office. Senator Bullmer urged that faculty get involved as they are directly involved with plagiarism in their classes.
For the rest of this academic year the committee is getting organized for the next year’s agenda items.
5. Technology: Senator Brin reported results from the two week help desk assistance in Davis Hall. There were 8 calls registered for troubles with the equipment that the assistants were able to fix.
The good news is that there is one new UA position that will have evening and night hours of support: Monday-Wednesday 3-8 pm; Thursday 3-6 pm; and Friday 1:30-3:30pm.
Concerns were raised that SAS requires 1-year license and professors have run into problems as the license has lapsed.
6. Academic Policy: Senator Fullmer reported that the committee will present the Anti-Merger Resolution.
7. Elections: Senator Corbett reported that the committee met and new ballots are being mailed to faculty with deadline of April 28th. The results will be reported at the May 5th Senate meeting.
After some discussion and editorial amendments, a motion to call the question was accepted unanimously. A motion to accept the resolution as amended was unanimously approved.
Announcements/Updates:
Ø Senator Pettigrew updated the Senate on the FASP committee.
Ø Another announcement from Senator Pettigrew was the visit of the Nickelodeon/MTV President at Southern. Notices will be emailed, please attend the event as it is promised to be an interesting presentation.
Motion to adjourn at 1:40 pm was unanimously approved!