Unapproved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

November 19, 2008

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The sixth meeting of the 2008-2009 year was called to order at 12:10 PM.

Members Present: Emenyonu (Accounting), Vu (Art); Pang (Chemistry); Jirsa (Com Disorders/MFT); DaPonte (Computer Science); Fopiano (Couns/Sch Psych); Fleming (Earth Science); Mills (Econ/Finance); Diamantis (Education); Goldberg (Education); Madonia (Ed Leadership); Larocco (English); Shea (English); Johnson (English); Petrie (English); Swartz (Exercise Science); Calahan (Exercise Science); Pelayo (Foreign Language); Olson (Foreign Language); Heidkamp (Geography); Paddock (History); Metaxas (History); Dunklee (Journalism); Bielefield (Info & Library Science); Hedreen (Library Services); Toce (Library Services); Page (Management); Prince (Marketing); Scheuermann (Mathematics); O’Brien (Media Studies); Nelson (Nursing); Rebeschi (Nursing); Goldblatt (Part Time Faculty); Horch (Physics); Buterbaugh (Political Science); Sherman (Psychology); Colwell (Psychology); Cusato (Science Ed/Env Stud); Cameron (Social Work); Rofuth (Social Work); Bloch (Sociology); Brucker (Special Ed/Reading); Tamura (Special Ed/Reading); Nye (Theatre);

Members Absent: Rogers (Anthropology), Lavin (Art); Maloney (Athletics); Feng (Biology); Madlock (Communication); Lawler (Counseling); Gubitose (Mathematics); _______ (Music); Ciarlone (Part-time Faculty); Anderson (Part-time Faculty); Pettigrew (Philosophy); ________ (Part-Time Faculty); Faraclas (Public Health); Jan Jones (Recreation/Leisure); Weiss (UCF).

The minutes of November 5, 2008, were approved.

Announcements:

ü Senator Dunklee announced that the author Kerry Buzzillo will be on campus on Monday 11/24, to autograph her book; all invited.

President’s Report ~~ President Johnson distributed the report and opened discussions on the following:

Library services faculty issues are being addressed and the Lexington group is working with them to establish working relations with the faculty and the director.
The UCF and the General Education Task Force are considering alternate proposals.
The Senate Colloquium on Departmental P and T Guidelines was held on Friday 11/7 with many faculty attending the discussions. The faculty have expressed concern about the guidelines which might result in inflexible, quantity-drive standards.

Standing Committee Updates:

ü Student Policy ~ ~ no report

Technology ~ ~ Senator DaPonte reported that Marianne Kennedy visited the committee and announced that the annual reports will be submitted using a new software which will be purchased in the next couple months. The committee is also discussing the minimum configuration requirements for the classrooms (with lap top connection and LMO). Other issues for future discussions will be the use of clickers and the types available for use. One issue brought to the floor was the lap top batteries and their replacements.

ü Academic Policy ~ ~ Senator Bloch indicated that the committee is working on a resolution for the policy on academic probation and dismissal. In addition they are investigating the number of transfer credits allowable for matriculated students and how many transfer credits can be allowed at the junior and senior years.

ü Elections ~ ~ Senator Swartz reported that elections are being completed for the University Grade Appeal committee.

ü Finance ~ ~ Senator Brucker reported that the TA’s for travels have reached the budget limit. Faculty should still apply by submitting a TA since some money may not be used and therefore become available. There are discussions with Lise Brule to unencumbered money from faculty that do not travel, thus make it available for others to use. One issue for sure that will not happen this year is that President Norton will not be able to replenish the travel funds by transferring from other accounts as done in the past.

ü Personnel Policy ~ ~ Senator Cusato reported that the committee met with the Deans’ Council to discuss and streamline the P and T guidelines document.

ü Rules ~ ~ Senator O’Brien reported that the committee is reviewing the by laws for the Faculty Development Advisory committee and the Outstanding Teaching Awards Committee. Two resolutions will be discussed and presented later on today.

Workload Ad Hoc committee report ~ ~ no report at this time.

P & T Guidelines Ad Hoc Committee report ~ ~ Senator Madonia reported that after the colloquium, they are scheduling a series of meetings to review the Deans’ draft and to move forward with a final draft soon. He invited any comments from any senators to be sent to him electronically, by the next meeting of December 3.

Old Business ~ ~

Faculty Development Advisory Committee By-Laws: Senator O’Brien opened the discussions on the proposed By-Laws of the committee. Many suggestions were made and he will present those to Bonnie Farley-Lucas for review. The By-Laws will be resubmitted (revised) for Senate approval.
Outstanding Teaching Award Committee By-Laws : will be discussed at the next Senate meeting.

UCF ~ ~ not addressed at this meeting

Graduate Council ~ ~ not addressed at this meeting

FASP/USPaRC ~ ~ not addressed at this meeting

At this time there was a long discussion on the latest budget constraints. It was announced that as of January 2009, there will be an additional $450,000 reduction and an invitation was sent out to the Southern community for suggestions on how to meet this reduction. There was a strong senate feeling that we should address the budget cuts with a statement on possible proposals for budget reductions.

The Senate adjourned at 2:05 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Maria Diamantis

Secretary of the Senate