Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting
January 31, 2007
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The ninth meeting of the 2006-2007 year was called to order at 12:10 PM.
Members Present: Arthur Guagliumi (Art), Slomba (Art), Maloney (Athletics), Lerud (Biology), Pang (Chemistry), Petroski (Communication), Paul (Com Disorders/MFT), DaPonte (Computer Science), Smith (Couns/Sch Psych), Fullmer (Earth Science), Mills (Econ/Finance), Diamantis (Education), Madonia (Ed Leadership), Larocco (English), Blackmer (English), Swartz (Exercise Science), Pelayo (Foreign Language), Piemontese (Foreign Language), Sakalowsky (Geography), Amerman (History), Dunklee (Journalism), McGinn (Library Science), Clerc (Library Services), Stepanovich (Management), Prince (Marketing), Dennis (Mathematics), Bennett (Mathematics), O’Brien (Media Studies), Wagner (Nursing), Aronson (Nursing), Roman (Part-time Faculty), Young (Part-time Faculty), Gilliland (Philosophy), Buterbaugh (Political Science), Faraclas (Public Health), Cusato (Science Ed/Env Stud), Cameron (Social Work), Keenan (Social Work), Bloch (Sociology), Brucker (Special Education/Reading), Major (Special Education/Reading), Fields (UCF), Nicaise (FASP).
Members Absent:
Emenyonu (Accounting), Manzella (Anthropology), Lawler (Counseling), Johnson (English), Rinehardt (Exercise Science), Madison (History), Reynaga (Library Services), Kuss (Music), Anderson (Part-time faculty), Capone (Part-time faculty), Enjalran (Physics), Brancazio (Psychology), Sherman (Psychology), Panza (Recreation/Leisure), Nye (Theatre).
The minutes of December 13th, 2006 were approved as ammended.
Announcements:
Ø Senator Reynaga will be unavailable this semester, thus the Personnel Committee will be meeting briefly after the Senate meeting to elect a temporary chair for the standing committee. Senator Cusato will coordinate today’s meeting.
Ø President DaPonte welcomed the new FASP representative and new Senators:
o FASP representative: Olivier Nicaise to replace Senator Vu who is on sabbatical this semester
o Senator Arthur Guagliumi to replace Senator Vu for this semester, who is on sabbatical.
o Senator Rhea Paul to replace Senator Jirsa who is on medical leave this semester.
o Senator Terri Bennett to replace Senator Diamantis who replaced Senator Jirsa as secretary of the Senate. Senator Bennett assumed responsibility as Chairperson of the Senate Technology Standing Committee.
o Senator Madonia updated the Senate on the New Haven Register’s article on the Educational Leadership issues. The Ed.D. program is not in question but rather the K-12 certification for administrators. There were some questions on the state regulations not being addressed but there has been a resolution between the state and Southern’s certification program and there is a meeting tonight with affected students.
o Senator Aronson announced the new ACE program for nursing, which is a 12 months accelerated nursing program for students with a BS degree. The program has been approved.
o Senator Clerc updated the Senate on the library’s flooding. Many bound and children’s books have been relocated to the old Student center. The library also has introduced a new web page design.
o Senator Young announced that our colleague Senator Enjalran is the proud father of a baby boy! Congratulations Senator Enjalran!
o Dr. Fields reminded all that the AAUP ballots are due this Friday, please vote.
President’s Report:
The President’s Report was distributed. President DaPonte highlighted the following:
¨ Senate meetings for the spring semester: 2/14, 2/28, 3/14, 4/4, 4/18, 5/2, and 5/9.
¨ Executive Breakfast meeting with President Norton scheduled for: Tuesday 2/6, Monday 4/12, Thursday 4/19 and Friday 5/4, at 8 am at the President’s Dining Room in Conn Hall.
¨ Spring Dialogues with President Norton scheduled for: Thursday 2/15 at 12:30 pm, Friday 3/9 at 1 pm, Monday 4/16 at 1 pm, and Tuesday 5/8 at 12:30 pm. The Dialogues will be held in the Ballroom of the Adanti Student Center.
¨ The Honors Convocation will be held on Sunday, May 6th at 3 pm. All faculty is invited to attend.
¨ President DaPonte met with the Provost and discussed issues such as the undergraduate program review, the first year experience program, the six new classrooms at the old bookstore, and the opening of the “one-stop-shopping” office in the Wintergreen building to provide advisement/financial aid/enrollment information to all students.
¨ President DaPonte expressed his concerns that the FYE committee should follow the model of the FASP committee for member’s elections.
¨ President DaPonte met with President Norton and discussed concerns on the classroom technology resolution, the mutual agreement is to proceed with technology resources to all new and refurbished classrooms as the budget allows providing as many of the listed requirements as possible. In addition, concerns were discussed about smaller classrooms and what equipment should be installed. President DaPonte informed the Senate that classrooms that hold less than 20 students will not get all the technology equipment but Senators expressed great concerns and thus, President DaPonte will go back to President Norton and re-negotiate the number.
¨ Senator Dunklee asked what is the protocol for departments to request additional office space as well as additional classroom space other than the assigned classrooms. Lengthy discussion followed and concerns were raised on space being taken away from departments and allocated for administrative use. Such allocations should be examined more carefully and prioritized.
¨ All presented resolutions presented to President Norton during fall 2006 have been approved.
· During the last meeting of UCF for fall 2006, it was decided to create an ad hoc committee to develop the FYE program. The committee was created by UCF and UIC. The committee will be part elected and part appointed but will be under UIC charter. Faculty representation should be greater than the administration. Recommendation was to have the faculty members be the voting members (since it will impact curriculum directly) and other members to be advisory members only (non voting members) which will not be in violation of the contract.
· The program review committee that was created by Provost Williams needs to be addressed since there is belief that it duplicated UCF’s efforts.
Grad Council ~ ~ Senator Bloch
v The rules of order were presented and discussed but there was no action taken.
v Other items discussed included the graduate faculty status and how can international credits be transferred to SCSU appropriately.
FASP ~ ~ Dr. Nicaise
· The FASP committee met on 1/26 to discuss revisions that the USP Steering committee discussed during their retreat on 1/19. FASP will play a strong role in the implementation and assessment of University Strategic Plan. The next FASP meeting will be at noon, right after the USP scheduled meeting (9am-12pm) on 2/9/07. The chair of FASP committee, Chris Petto, will discuss with Provost Williams the implementation of the plan and she will request that FASP has strong representation on that committee.
· There was discussion about the need for a “buy-in” of the plan by all university members or the need to have a referendum.
· Senator LaRocco requested the sense of the senate on the following:
“The Senate runs a referendum on the approval of the University Strategic Plan and the Faculty Senate has one month to review the Plan and make a recommendation to the faculty prior to the referendum.”
The sense of the senate carried by majority.
· The Faculty Senate should receive the University Strategic Plan as soon as it is finalized for review.
Standing Committee Reports
o Senator O’Brien ~ ~ No report
o Senator Madonia ~ ~ No report
Old Business:
Ø The UCF Resolution --- will be tabled for the next Senate meeting
Ø The sense of the Senate is that the “Preamble to the Principles of Shared Governance” ad hoc committee of Senators Madonia, Major, Raynaga, Bloch, Gililand, and Mills continue to discuss and further examine this topic and report to the Senate at a later meeting.
New Business:
¨ Senator LaRocco requested that the ad hoc committee’s resolution on Workload be placed as an item on the Old Business at the next meeting for discussion.
The senate adjourned at 1:50 pm.
Dr. Maria Diamantis
Secretary of the Senate