Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

September 21st, 2005

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

Members Present:

Emenyonu (Accounting), Vu (Art), Slomba (Art), Maloney (Athletics), Lerud (Biology), Pang (Chemistry), Petroski (Communication), Jirsa (Com Disorders/MFT), DaPonte (Computer Science), Lawler (Counseling), De Barbieri (Couns/Sch Psych), Fullmer (Earth Science), Mills (Econ/Finance), Corbett (Education), Diamantis (Education), Madonia (Ed Leadership), Johnson (English), Rinehardt (Exercise Science), Pennisi (Foreign Language), Piemontese (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), Gilliand (Philosophy), Enjalran (Physics), Paulson (Political Science), Sherman (Psychology), Brancazio (Psychology), Bulmer (Public Health), Smith (Recreation/Leisure), Cusato (Science Ed/Env Stud), Dripchak (Social Work), Keenan (Social Work), Bloch (Sociology), Brucker (Special Ed/Reading), Major (Special Ed/Reading), Nye (Theatre)

Members Absent:

LaDousa (Anthropology), Vacant (English), Blackmer (English), Yang (Exercise Science),  Kuss (Music), Aronson (Nursing), Anderson (Part-time), Young (Part-time), Vacant (Part-time)

The minutes of September 7, 2005 were approved as amended.

Introduction of New and Returning Senators:

• President DaPonte asked all senators to introduce themselves and to extend a welcome to all new members.

Announcements:

• Senator Dunklee and Senator Paulson urged faculty to attend the movie All the President’s Men on Friday.
• Senator Vu announced that he has an exhibit opening at the Kehler Liddell Gallery October 8th.
• Senator Lawler announced that Depression Screening Day is October 6th
• Senator Bloch reminded senators about Hurricane Katrina relief activities
• The memorial service for President Emeritus Michael Adanti will be held on 9/22 in Lyman Center at 3:00 PM.

Guest Speaker:

• President Cheryl Norton was the guest speaker.  She provided the senate an update on various topics including:
• The status of the Michael J. Adanti Student Center.  Hopefully it will be fully ready by the end of the semester.  There will be a formal opening and dedication on April 6^th, 2006.
• The Buley Library Groundbreaking will be held on October 18^th
• The latest CSU budgetary and funding results were reviewed.
• In addition, President Norton discussed many related issues and answered questions from the senators.

President’s Report:

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

• The upcoming NEASC five year review is coming up and the administration would like a faculty member appointed from the senate
• President DaPonte met with Dave Walsh and President Norton on 9/14 to produce a schedule for the electronic election of the at large SCSU representative to the Chancellor’s Search Committee.
• President DaPonte met with Provost Williams and discussed the full-time hires resolution as well as other issues pertaining to the faculty and to the senate.
• President DaPonte plans to meet with all of the standing committees during the semester.  Last week he met with the Personnel Policy Committee.

UCF Update – Joe Fields

• UCF has a new office, EN C216
• The UG catalog was late because corrections were needed that delayed the printing
• At the first meeting of the semester was devoted to organizational issues.
• The UCF would like the senate to consider constitutional changes to include Women’s Studies and Liberal Arts in the UCF

Graduate Council Update – No Report

Standing Committee Reports

• Elections Committee
• Senator Corbett reported on the upcoming elections for the vacancy on the P&T committee as well the election of a part-time senator.
• Senator Corbett asked for a straw vote on the ballot protocol to use for the election.  The committee wanted to keep the same protocol that has been used previously as opposed to the protocol used by the AAUP.  The results of the straw poll supported the desires of the Election Committee.

• Finance Committee
• Senator Lawler reported that there is a balance of $91, 199.93 in the full-time travel account representing a decrease from 9/7 to 10/21 of $46,000.
• The balance in the part-time account is $13,435.40.

• Personnel Policy
• Senator Johnson said, “Hello.”
• Senator Johnson discussed the date discrepancy in the P&T document compared to the dates in the calendar.  He indicated that there will be footnotes in the document indicating that the dates in the text of the document are the contractual date limits, but that the dates for any particular year are the dates in the calendar.
• The committee will be continuing the process of revising the P&T document.

• Rules Committee
• Senator O’Brien that the committee discussed the implementation of an assessment tool for the strategic plan with FASP.
• The committee discussed whether the General Education Taskforce should be an elected body.  They will continue to study this issue.

• Student Policy
• Senator Madonia indicated that the committee was looking at four issues:
• Academic Honesty Protocols
• Academic Advising
• Parking and Emergency egress from campus
• Transportation

• Technology
• Senator Diamantis indicated that the committee spent the previous on organizational issues and discussed the resolutions that were not approved by the President.
• They also will be looking at web-design and password security issues.
• The committee would like senate feedback on the various proposed web designs.
• The Password security issues have caused many problems for faculty and, especially, students.  The committee will be looking at these issues.

• Academic Policy Committee
•  Senator Bloch indicated that the committee met to prioritize issues

Old Business

• There was no old business

New Business

• Senators discussed a variety of issues under new business:
• There was concern that part-time faculty were not included in the search process for Chancellor.  Dave Walsh and President DaPonte were told that BOT policy does not include part-time faculty in this process. 

• Senator Dunklee wanted to thank Senator DeBarbieri for her work as Chair of the Search Committee for the Vice President of Student and University Affairs.
• Senator Bulmer also offered her very strong praise for Senator DeBarbieri work as committee chair.

The senate adjourned at 1:55 PM.

Respectively Submitted,

Robert E. Jirsa, Ph.D.

Secretary of the Senate