Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting
January 30, 2008
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The eighth meeting of the 2007-2008 year was called to order at 12:10 PM.
Members Present: Emenyonu (Accounting), Vu (Art), Lavin (Art), Feng (Biology), Pang (Chemistry), Petroski (Communication), Jirsa (Com Disorders/MFT), DaPonte (Computer Science), Smith (Couns/Sch Psych), 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); Sakalowsky (Geography), Paddock (History), Metaxas (History), Dunklee (Journalism), McGinn (Library Science); Clerc (Library Services), Toce (Library Services), Page (Management), Prince (Marketing), Dennis (Mathematics), O’Brien (Media Studies), Bochain (Nursing), Goldblatt (Part-Time Faculty), Gilliland (Philosophy), Horch (Physics), Buterbaugh (Political Science), Sherman (Psychology), Colwell (Psychology), Faraclas (Public Health); Smith D. (Recreation/Leisure); Cusato (Science Ed/Env Stud); Cameron (Social Work), Bloch (Sociology), Brucker (Special Ed/Reading); Tamura (Special Ed/Reading), Weiss (UCF).
Members Absent: Selvaggio (Anthropology), Maloney (Athletics), Lawler (Counseling), Olson (Foreign Language), Brin (Mathematics), Kuss (Music), Rebeschi (Nursing), Carrano (Part-Time Faculty), Roman (Part-Time Faculty), Capone (Part-Time Faculty), Keenan (Social Work).
The minutes of December 12, 2007, were approved.
Announcements: NA
President’s Report: President Johnson announced the following events:
Spring 2008 Full Senate Meetings:
· February 13
· February 27
· March 12
· April 2
· April 16
· April 30
· May 7
Presidential Dialogues (ASC Ballroom)
o Monday, February 11 @ 1 pm
o Thursday, March 13 @ 12:30 pm
o Friday, April 25 @ 1 pm
Senate Colloquium on Workload (EN A 120)
§ Friday, April 11, 1:00-3:00 pm
Senate Executive Committee Breakfast with President Norton (President’s dining room @ 8:00 am)
ü Tuesday, February 5
ü Wednesday, March 12
ü Monday, April 14
ü Tuesday, May 8
President Johnson also announced that the Senate will be receiving the Administrative Committee Chart from President Norton within the next month or so. In addition, as an update on the Sabbatical money not used in a specific year allotted by the CBA, should be set aside for faculty research and not be used in the general operating fund, which was past practice.
Provost Williams accepted an invitation to speak at the Senate Workload Colloquium.
Provost Williams will also be open to collaborations with faculty and allow faculty to shape policies as recognized by the letter of shared governance.
Four panelists will speak at the Senate Colloquium on Workload: Steve Larocco, President of SCSU-AAUP; Troy Paddock, Chair of the Senate’s Ad-hoc workload committee; Provost Williams; and a fourth panelist TBD.
Update on Faculty Senate Resolutions:
F-07-01 P & T document addendum Approved
F-07-02 PINs in Student Advisement Approved
F-07-03 New Grades Superseding Old Approved
F-07-04 University Library Committee Constitution Disapproved
Graduate Council Update: No Report
UCF Update: No Report
Standing Committee Reports:
Technology ~ ~ Senator DaPonte reported that IT personnel changes have taken place and changes in the IT operations would be visible soon. The committee will work closely with the ETAC committee and John Young is invited to update the committee on the EXCHANGE conversion. Dr. Chai has requested that he visits and discusses issues with the committee at their next meeting.
Academic Policy ~ ~ Senator Bloch reported that the committee will be working on the Grade Appeal process.
Elections ~ ~ No Report
Finance ~ ~ Senator Brucker reported that there are no Part Time Faculty waiting for travel authorization and seven PT faculty have already been approved.
Personnel ~ ~ No Report
Rules ~ ~ No Report
Student Policy ~ ~ No Report
Old Business: discussion on the ULC Constitution ~ the resolution presented to President Norton was disapproved. After lengthy discussion presented great dissatisfaction on the disapproval and information was offered that AAUP has received a letter that the department’s By Laws were “rendered moot” by the administration.
Motion on the floor: Faculty Senate will return the previous approved senate resolution to President Norton and Provost Williams and the Faculty Senate strongly recommends on retaining the current committee. If administration wished to create a new committee, then it should be in collaboration with the Senate.
The motion was seconded and voted. It passed unanimously. No abstentions.
Next motion on the floor: the Faculty Senate is dismayed by and stand in opposition to the announcement that the Library Services department By Laws will be longer be recognized by the administration and we insist that the administration opens dialogues with the Library Services faculty on this matter as soon as possible.
At this time, there was a unanimous voice vote to remove the 1:45 rule.
The above motion was seconded and approved unanimously. No abstentions.
Senator Bloch requested a quick survey on senators feeling on how should the Academic Policy committee should pursue the Grade Appeals process. There was a strong feeling that there should be an appeal process for all students, with multiple/higher levels of appeal. With that direction, the APC committee will draft the grade appeal process and present it to the full senate at the next meeting.
The Senate meeting was adjourned at 2:10 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Maria Diamantis
Secretary of the Senate