Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

April 30, 2008

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The fourteenth meeting of the 2007-2008 year was called to order at 12:10 PM.

Members Present: Emenyonu (Accounting); Vu (Art); Pang (Chemistry); Petroski (Communication); Jirsa (Com Disorders/MFT); DaPonde (Computer Science); Lawler (Counseling); Fleming (Earth Science); Mills (Ecom/Finance); Diamantis (Education); Madonia (Ed Leadership); Larocco (English); Shea (English); Johnson (English); Troy (English); Swartz (Exercise Science); Davie (Exercise Science); Pelayo (Foreign Language); Olson (Foreign Language); Sakalowsky (Geography); Paddock (History); Metaxas (History); Dunklee (Journalism); Clerc (Library Services); Page (Management); Gubitose (Mathematics); Bochain (Nursing); Rebeschi (Nursing); Goldblatt (Part-Time Faculty); Gilliland (Philosophy); Horch (Physics); Buterbaugh (Political Science); Sherman (Psychology); Colwell (Psychology); Faraclas (Public Health); Smith (Recreation/Leisure); Cusato (Science Ed/Env Stud); Bloch (Sociology); Brucker (Special Ed/Reading); Tamura (Special Ed/Reading); Nye (Theatre); Weiss (UCF).

Members Absent:  Selvaggio (Anthropology); Lavin (Art); Maloney (Athletics); Feng (Biology); Smith (Couns/Sch Psych); McGinn (Library Science); Toce (Library Services): Prince (Marketing); Dennis (Mathematics); O’Brien (Media Studies); Kuss (Music); Carrano (Part-Time Faculty); Roman (Part-Time Faculty); Capone (Part-Time Faculty); Cameron (Social Work); Keenan (Social Work).

The minutes of April 16, 2008, were approved.

Announcements: 

• Senator Dunklee reported on the ruling on the Freedom Of Information and P & T issue.   Since P & T is a public agency, all scoring sheets and ballots are public knowledge.  There are also two bills going to the General Assembly (#5055 and 5050 from the House and the Senate) both of which seek to exempt all records of meeting from FOI at all public colleges in the state of CT.  He urged that senators call their respective legislators as soon as possible.
• Next Wednesday will be the last Faculty Senate meeting for this semester.

President’s Report:   None at this time

Standing Committee Reports”

Only two standing committees’ reports:

Finance:  Senator Brucker announced that there are still money available for faculty to submit travel authorization forms for traveling.

Elections:  Senator Swartz announced that there will be elections for three seats for the General Education Task Force before the end of this semester.

At this time, President Johnson requested a motion to postpone all other Committee Reports and move to Old Business:  P & T Document.  The motion was approved unanimously and Senator Cusato commenced discussions on the P & T revisions.

The first item was the choice of two options on the P & T Committee membership:

Option I – Keeping Associate Level

Option II – New Language, Requiring all P & T Committee members to be at the level of professor.  

After lengthy discussion, the question was called and passed unanimously. 

Motion to accept Option 2 resulted in 12 yes, 25 no, 4 abstentions.  The motion was defeated. 

Discussion continued.  Item 6.  Procedures of the Committee: part g, new language added:  Committee members from the candidate’s department are allowed to vote, but must recuse themselves from the interview and deliberations..

Motion to accept new language resulted in 20 yes, 11 no, 6 abstentions.  New language was approved. 

After discussing further revision of the P & T document, the question was called.  It was passed unanimously. 

Motion to accept the P & T document revisions as presented, resulted in 33 yes, 1 no, and 1 abstention.  The P & T document revisions passed as presented.

The Senate adjourned at 1:45 pm.    

Respectfully submitted,

Dr. Maria Diamantis

Secretary of the Senate