Unapproved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting
May 2, 2007
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The fifteenth meeting of the 2006-2007 year was called to order at 12:10 PM.
Members Present: Guagliumi (Art), Maloney (Athletics), Pang (Chemistry), Petroski (Communication), Paul (Com Disorders/MFT), DaPonte (Computer Science), Smith (Cons/Sch Psych), Fullmer (Earth Science), Mills (Econ/Finance), Diamantis (Education), Madonia (Ed Leadership), Larocco (English), Johnson (English), Swartz (Exercise Science), Pelayo (Foreign Language), Piemontese (Foreign Language), Sakalowsky (Geography), Amerman (History), Madison (History), Dunkley (Journalism), Clerc (Library Services), Reynaga (Library Services), Stepanovich (Management), Prince (Finance), Bennett (Mathematics), O’Brien (Media Studies), Aronson (Nursing), Roman (Part-Time Faculty), Young (Part-Time), Capone (Part-Time Faculty), Gilliland (Philosophy), Enjalran (Physics), Buterbaugh (Political Science), Sherman (Psychology), Mackey (Psychology), Faraclas (Public Health), Cusato (Science Ed/Env Stud), Cameron (Social Work), Keenan (Social Work), Bloch (Sociology), Brucker (Special Ed/Reading), Tamura (Special Ed/Reading), Nye (Theatre).
Members Absent: Emenyonu (Accounting), Skoczen (Anthropology), Slomba (Art), Lerud (Biology), Lawler (Counseling), Blackmer (English), Rinehardt (Exercise Science), McGinn (Library Services), Dennis (Mathematics), Kuss (Music), Wagner (Nursing), Anderson (Part-Time Faculty), Panza (Recreation/Leisure), Joe Fields (UCF).
The minutes of April 18, were approved as amended.
Election of Faculty Senate President and Treasurer for the 2007-2008 Academic Year. Senator Dan Swartz, Chair of the Elections Committee, presided for these elections.
Senate President:
Senator Bill Sherman nominated Senator Brian Johnson for the position of President of the Faculty Senate and seconded by Senator Dunklee. Senator Johnson accepted nomination.
§ There being no further nominations, a motion to close the nominations was made by Senator Sakalowski, seconded by Senator Bloch, and the vote was unanimous to close nominations.
§ Senator Swartz entertained a motion for the Secretary of the Senate to cast one vote for the nominee.
§ Secretary Diamantis did cast a vote for the nominee, thus, President of the Faculty Senate for the 2007-2008 Academic Year is Brian Johnson.
Senate Treasurer:
§ Senator Diamantis nominated Senator Pamela Brucker for the position of Treasurer of the Faculty Senate and seconded by Senator Dunklee. Senator Brucker accepted the nomination.
§ There being no further nominations, a motion to close the nominations was made by Senator Sakalowski, seconded by Senator Bloch, and the vote was unanimous to close nominations.
§ Senator Swartz entertained a motion for the Secretary of the Senate to cast one vote for the nominee.
§ Secretary Diamantis did cast a vote for the nominee, thus, Treasurer of the Faculty Senate for the 2007-2008 Academic Year is Pamela Brucker.
Announcements:
Ø Senator Swartz announced that this week is the National Physical Education Week with events taking place outside Buley Library on Thursday 11 am – 2 pm. All are invited to join the physical education activities.
Ø Senator Sherman announced that this past Monday, our colleague Effie Lowe passed away.
Ø Senator Brucker announced that this coming Saturday there will be a Literacy conference in Engleman Hall and Dr. Migliaci will be the keynote speaker.
Ø Senator Diamantis announced that our colleagues Patricia Olney and Robert Jirsa will be given $50 each from the donations collected from the Senate.
President’s Report
President DaPonte distributed his report and highlighted the following:
v There will be a faculty forum with the Information Technology Consultants on Friday, May 4th from 1-2 pm in EN C 112.
v The latest resolutions will be presented to President Norton on Thursday, May 3rd.
v There has been a suggestion that representatives of the four CSU senates meet to consider the formation of a system-wide representative body that will parallel the faculty senates on the individual campuses. Since there will be 3 new senate presidents out of the 4 campuses, this proposal will be postponed till next academic year.
v The last Executive Committee meeting with President Norton will be on Friday, May 4th.
v The last University Dialog will be held Tuesday, May 8th at 12:30 in the Adanti Center’s Ballroom.
v The Honors Convocation will be held on Sunday, May 6th in the Lyman Center.
At this point, President DaPonte asked that the Senate addresses New Business, item #1: the Travel Funds Resolution. Hearing no objection to change the order of agenda items, the Senate moved to New Business, item #1. Senator Brucker informed the senate on facts about the travel fund:
¨ The amount of money in the travel account is negotiated in our contract.
¨ The full time and part time funds are separate and can’t be transferred from one to the other account.
¨ Money is allocated on a “first come, first serve” basis.
¨ Faculty senate sets the limit amount and conditions for accessing the funds.
¨ This academic year 292 full time faculty and 43 part time faculty were approved. There are no full time faculty waiting for approval, there are 5 part time faculty in the queue.
¨ The anticipated amount for next year’s travel is $ 209,827 for full time faculty and $ 23,214 for part time faculty. This amount doesn’t include any increases from President Norton.
The resolution was presented for the travel funds, setting the limit amounts to $1,000 for full time faculty and $500 for part time faculty. Lengthy discussion followed and the question was called. Hearing no objections for calling the question, there was a motion to accept the resolution. The resolution passed unanimously.
The Senate moved back to UCF Update.
UCF Update
Joe Field was absent but Nikos Chrissidis was present to answer questions on the FYE program. A lengthy questions and answers session followed addressing concerns from senators on the FYE pilot program which was approved by UCF with 29 Yes and 4 No’s.
The pilot program will be launched this fall with about 56 sections for all freshmen coming in this fall. Dean Fredeen is working with Dr. Herron, Dr. Williams and Mr. Drobish to complete the scheduling which will happen during the community hour for this first time only. Faculty will be invited to volunteer to teach a section and will receive training this summer and compensation for their volunteering. Resources are present from Dr. Williams to support this pilot program.
Graduate Council Update ~~ Jon Bloch
There was a meeting with Dean Holley, department chairs, and program coordinators to discuss a proposal on the Special Project. Discussions with continue at the Graduate Council meeting next Monday.
FASP Update ~ ~ no report.
Once more, President DaPonte requested that the Senate moves to Old Business and skip reports on Standing Committees. Hearing no objection, the senate addressed item #1 of Old Business.
Old Business:
#1: Strategic Plan discussion.
Senator Gilliland made a motion for the following resolution as an FYI to President Norton:
The University’s faculty-wide referendum on the strategic plan will be postponed until the fall semester elections. No part of the strategic plan will be implemented until the faculty has had an opportunity to vote on it. The Faculty Senate will discuss the plan and vote on it as a recommendation to the entire faculty prior to the referendum.
The motion was seconded and lengthy discussion followed.
Motion to postpone voting on this resolution until next meeting was accepted with no objections. The resolution will be voted upon in the fall semester.
#2: Faculty Senate Survey Discussion
President Norton is willing to discuss concerns on the results from the survey.
New Business
#2: P & T document revisions: Due to time limitations Senator Cusato discussed some of the document revisions. Senators Sherman and Cusato urged senators to come prepared next week, to vote on the revisions and finalize the document’s revisions before the end of this semester. It is to the interest of all faculty that the document is revised next Wednesday.
Standing Committee Reports ~ ~ ~ no reports were done due to time constraints.
Senate adjourned at 2:00 pm.
Dr. Maria Diamantis
Secretary of the Senate