Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

October 5th, 2005

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The third meeting of the 2005-2006 year was called to order at 12:10 PM.

Members Present:

Emenyonu (Accounting), LaDousa (Anthropology), Slomba (Art), Maloney (Athletics), Lerud (Biology), Pang (Chemistry), Petroski (Communication), Jirsa (Com Disorders/MFT), DaPonte (Computer Science), Lawler (Counseling), Fullmer (Earth Science), Mills (Econ/Finance), Corbett (Education), Diamantis (Education), Madonia (Ed Leadership), Larocco (English), Johnson (English), Blackmer (English), Rinehardt (Exercise Science), Pennisi (Foreign Language), Sakalowsky (Geography), Amerman (History), Madison (History), Dunklee (Journalism), McGinn (Library Science), Clerc (Library Services), Reynaga (Library Services), Oppedisano (Management),  Prince (Marketing), Dennis (Math), Brin (Math),  O’Brien), Wagner (Nursing), Aronson (Nursing),  Anderson (Part-time), Young (Part-time), Gilliand (Philosophy), Enjalran (Physics), Brancazio (Psychology), Bulmer (Public Health), Smith (Recreation/Leisure), Cusato (Science Ed/Env Stud), Dripchak (Social Work), Keenan (Social Work), Bloch (Sociology), Major (Special Ed/Reading), Nye (Theatre)

Members Absent:

Vu (Art), De Barbieri (Couns/Sch Psych), Yang (Exercise Science), Piemontese (Foreign Language), Kuss (Music), Vacant (Part-time), Paulson (Political Science), Sherman (Psychology), Brucker (Special Ed/Reading)

The minutes of September 21, 2005 were approved.

Guest Speaker:

• Provost Selase Williams was the guest speaker and he began by discussing his primary goals for this academic year:           
• Developing the Academic Strategic Plan and working with the SPAC
• Working on Developing an Enrollment Management Plan
• Filling Vacancies – the search for the School of Business Dean is underway and the next major search will be for the Library Director and he hopes to have that position filled by the end of the academic year. 
• Develop a system for determining and prioritizing departmental faculty needs.  Requests for additional new faculty lines will be directed to the CSU Central Office.
• In addition, Provost Williams discussed many related issues and answered questions from the senators.

Announcements:

• Senator O’Brien announced that the Media Studies Department was formally approved on 9/28/05 and can now offer the BA in Media Studies.
• Senator Nye announced that the play, Our Town, will be presented the next two weekends. 
• Senator Lawler announced that the National Depression Screening Day activities will be held on Thursday, October 6^th, 2005 from 10:00am – 2:00pm in Room 206 of the Student Center.  Faculty and students are invited to attend and to speak with any of the counselors.  The screening is also available online at www.mentalhealthscreening.org/screening/login.asp
• Senator Enjalran announced that Professor Christine Broadbridge, a former senator, was involved in a multimillion dollar grant with other researchers and that she is responsible for 1.5 million dollars.

President’s Report:

The President’s Report was distributed.  President DaPonte highlighted the following:

• The Senate Executive met with President Norton for a breakfast meeting last week.  Among the issues discussed were the specificity of senate resolutions, the role of the central office in making Information Technology policy decisions, and ways faculty can express their disappointment regarding the recent budget decisions by the CSU central office.
• President Norton has approved the resolution in support of full-time hires.

UCF Update – Joe Fields

• Joe Fields reminded senators that those departments offering special topics courses need to fill out the short application form available from UCF.  At the last meeting, there were 31 special topics courses considered and only seven were approved.  The reason was that the applications were not filled out.  These courses can be run when the application is filled out, but they may not appear in the spring bulletin because of time constraints. 
• UCF discussed its goals for the coming year
• The Gen Ed Task Force is continuing to work on plans to implement the goals approved by the faculty within three years.
  
  

Graduate Council Update – Jon Bloch

• Senator Bloch reported that the number of graduates this past year was 1083
• The number of new applicants to graduate programs was 1200 and the number accepted was 1001
• There was also discussion in the graduate council about approving programs with fewer than three full-time graduate faculty as noted in the Academic Policy Rule.  A program with only 2 full-time graduate faculty was given provisional approval.

Standing Committee Reports [It should be noted that all committee chairs said “Hello” or “Howdy” at the start of their respective report]

• Finance Committee
• Senator Lawler reported that there is a balance of $75,011.64 in the full-time travel account; however, she noted that there are still unfunded TAs waiting approval which would decrease the available amount
• The balance in the part-time account is $12,903.75.

• Personnel Policy
• Senator Johnson indicated that the use of footnotes in the P&T document to reference date changes was too confusing and that they were removed and a reference is made to refer to the calendar at the end of the document.

• Rules Committee
• Senator O’Brien indicated that the committee met with Gerry Leslie, Chair of the Graduate Council, to discuss the Graduate Council Rules of Order.  The document should be ready for senate consideration very soon.

• Student Policy
• Senator Madonia indicated that the committee addressed the following:
• Academic honesty in a meeting with Dean Holley
• Emergency evacuation, parking, and safety.  They will meet with Bob Drobish and Chief John Prokop next week.
• Academic advising.  They will be meeting with Rose Cretella  to see how the senate can help with resources
• Technology
• Senator Diamantis reported on her meeting with the Web Design Committee.  She was unable to attend one of the meetings because the location was changed 10 minutes before the meeting and she was no longer in her office to receive the email. 
• Senator Diamantis also reported on problems she experienced when she was attempting to change her password.

• Academic Policy Committee
•  Senator Bloch indicated that the committee is working on a draft resolution regarding the registration of matriculated students.

• Elections Committee
• Senator Corbett reported the call for nominations for the vacancy on the P&T committee has been sent out as well as the call for nominations for the part-time faculty senator.  The goal is to have the P&T results finalized by October 26^th and the part-time senator results finalized by November 2^nd.

Old Business

• There was no old business

New Business

• Senators discussed a variety of issues under new business:
• Student class lists on Banner: When are the names of students who have withdrawn from class removed from these class lists?
• UCF has requested full UCF representation for Women’s Studies and Liberal Studies.  These were referred to the Rules Committee
• The ongoing status of the Gen Ed Task force after implementation of the goals statement was discussed.

The senate adjourned at 1:55 PM.

Respectively Submitted,

Robert E. Jirsa, Ph.D.

Secretary of the Senate