Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting
October 24, 2007
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The fourth meeting of the 2007-2008 year was called to order at 12:10 PM.
Members Present: Emenyonu (Accounting), Selvaggio (Anthropology), Vu (Art), Feng (Biology), Pang (Chemistry), Jirsa (Com Disorders/MFT), DaPonte (Computer Science), Smith (Couns/Sch Psych), Fullmer (Earth Science), Mills (Econ/Finance), Diamantis (Education), Madonia (Ed Leadership), Shea (English), Johnson (English), Petrie (English), Swartz (Exercise Science), Hetric (Foreign Language), Sakalowsky (Geography), Paddock (History), Metaxas (History), Dunklee (Journalism), McGinn (Library Science), Clerc (Library Services), Toce (Library Services), Prince (Marketing), Brin (Mathematics), Dennis (Mathematics), O’Brien (Media Studies), Strawn (Nursing), Rebeschi (Nursing), Goldblatt (Part-Time Faculty), Capone (Part-Time Faculty), Gilliland (Philosophy), Buterbaugh (Political Science), Sherman (Psychology), Colwell (Psychology), Faraclas (Public Health), Smith (Recreation/Leisure), Cusato (Science Ed/Env Stud), Cameron (Social Work), Keenan (Social Work), Bloch (Sociology), Brucker (Special Ed/Reading), Tamura (Special Ed/Reading), Weiss (UCF).
Members Absent: Lavin (Art), Maloney (Athletics), Petroski (Communication), Lawler (Counseling), LaRocco (English), _______ (Exercise Science), Pelayo (Foreign Language), Page (Management), Kuss (Music), Rebeschi (Nursing), Carrano (Part-Time Faculty), Horch (Physics), Nye (Theater).
The minutes of October 10, 2007, were approved.
At this point, President Johnson introduced Ken Florey, Chair of the Graduate Council, who informed and updated the senate on the Graduate Council Rules of Order. If Senate doesn’t accept the revisions, then the Graduate Council will use the 2002 document, the last one approved. Lengthy discussion occurred on the issue of the need to have graduate faculty and the mechanism for graduate faculty selection across the departments.
The Senate will have to approve either the whole revised document, parts of it, or reject it.
The Senate will have to decide on a strategy for this decision at the next meeting.
President Johnson returned to the Agenda: Minutes of October 10, 2007.
The minutes were approved as presented.
Announcements:
v Senator Brucker announced the Autism Fair event sponsored by the Special Education department, on Saturday, November 3rd, at the Adanti Student Center.
v Senator Dunklee raised the issue of the number of W course offered in spring 2008, which is a decrease from the number of sections of the L courses offered last spring.
v Senator DaPonte reminded senators of the Homecoming weekend events, specifically the Road Race on Saturday 8 am.
President’s Report
v President Johnson distributed his report and requested that all senators read the report and then discussed the following issues:
§ Meeting with the Provost to discuss the creation of the Ad Hoc Workload committee. The Provost invited the committee to present its ideas to him and the Dean’s Council in February as they prepare the next year’s budget.
§ The Assessment Forum was discussed and planned for Friday November 30th or Monday December 10th.
§ President Johnson met with President Norton and she updated him on the organizational chart for the current administration. The chart will include a comparison to the 2004 administration and the chart should be delivered to Senate within a few months. In addition there will be a list of all administrative committees on campus.
§ President Norton provided President Johnson with a 10-year History of Sabbatical Leaves at Southern:
SCSU
History of Sabbatical Leaves
|
|
Number of Applications |
Number Allotted |
Committee Recommendation |
President Recommendation |
|
1997-1998 |
22 |
23 |
17 |
17 |
|
1998-1999 |
29 |
23 |
23 |
23* |
|
1999-2000 |
23 |
22 |
16 |
16 |
|
2000-2001 |
21 |
22 |
16 |
16 |
|
2001-2002 |
19 |
22 |
17 |
17 |
|
2002-2003 |
25 |
22 |
22 |
22 |
|
2003-2004 |
15 |
22 |
14 |
14 |
|
2004-2005 |
18 |
22 |
17 |
17 |
|
2005-2006 |
39 |
21 |
29 |
21 |
|
2006-2007 |
36 |
21 |
20 |
20 |
An additional 2 sabbatical leaves were granted following a grievance for denial of
due process in consideration for sabbatical leave.
§ President Johnson serves on the CSU Committee to Respond to Bill 1318. The committee met and discussed the draft plan and the draft timeline for creating the common course numbering system. The draft will be finalized in couple weeks and the Senate Presidents will be presenting it to their respective Senate and curricular bodies for discussion and suggestions in November. The plan is due to the Dept. of Higher Education by the end of 2007.
§ The Bill 1318 will be discussed further at the next Senate meeting.
FASP Update:
No Report.
UCF Update:
Dr. Weiss updated the senate on UCF issues:
Ø The WACC committee has no back log with proposals and they are reviewing the quickly and efficiently. UCF will post WACC deadlines in the future with SCSU wide emails.
Ø There is an opportunity for new faculty to teach a W course, if they can, if they put the proposal through the committee the semester before.
President Johnson entertained a motion to move to Old Business to discuss the Strategic Plan Referendum. Hearing no objections, the motion passed.
Senator Swartz discussed the process for the referendum. By the next Senate meeting, the Elections committee will bring forth the Position Statement.
§ Senator Jirsa commended the faculty that worked on the USP since they listened to the revision recommendations and made the changes.
§ Senator DePonte supports the USP and recognized the committee’s hard work.
§ Senator Paddock encourages the support of the USP. He stated that the plan itself is fine, but the implementation phase is the questionable part of the USP.
At the next Senate meeting, Senator Swartz will have the Position Statement which will be voted upon with secret ballot.
Return to the Standing Committee Reports:
Standing Committees
Finance ~ ~ Senator Brucker reported that there are 170 Full Time Travel Authorization Requests approved (which translates to $170,000).
Personnel Policy ~ ~ Senator Cusato reported that the committee is continuing to work on the revisions of the P and T document making sure that the wording in the document is aligned with the contract.
Rules ~ ~ Senator O’Brien reported that the committee met with Hugh Davis and the University Library Services Committee. They discussed the ULC Constitution and will be bringing the Constitution and the resolution for its ratification at the next Senate meeting.
Student Policy ~ ~ Senator Madonia reported that the Chief of Police will visit the committee next week. In addition the committee will be meeting with the new Residence Halls Director.
Technology ~ ~ Senator DaPonte reported that the committee is discussing the direction of the classroom technologies.. The committee was invited to a workshop on the new email server: Microsoft Exchange. The committee also discussed their mission compared to the ETAC Committee’s mission.
Academic Policy ~ ~ Senator Bloch collected the Poll that senators received from the secretary on the Grade Appeal Process. The sense of the Senate revealed that majority of the senators do not support a University wide Grade Appeal but wish to define “palpable injustice” further. This will be discussed further at the next Senate meeting.
Elections ~ ~ Senator Swartz reported that the committee will be administering the fall nominations and elections for the FASP and the Termination and Hearing Committees.
At this time, President Johnson requested the Sense of the Senate for Friday, November 30th as the day for the Assessment Forum. There was unanimous support. In addition, the Senate also supported the idea of a panel of presenters with time for questions and answers.
President Johnson will also support a retreat of all faculty bodies from all committees at the beginning of each academic year.
The Senate meeting was adjourned at 2:00 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Maria Diamantis
Secretary of the Senate