12/03/97 Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting December 3, 1997

The seventh meeting of the semester was called to order at 12: 10 pm

Members Present A. Rao, D. Prasad, A. Guagliumi, W. Carr, G. Puerschner, B. Wein, R. Jirsa, B. Matthews, U. Nwachuku, R Eldridge, J. Ensign, R. Cretella, S. Larocco, D. Burow, M. Shea, D. Holt, S. Judd, J. Mullins, C. Schofield-Bodt P. Holmer, K. Grant, E. Beatty, D. Pettigrew, A. Paulson, C. Rinehardt. J. Hurlbut, R. Luquis, F. Hatcher, D. Boehnert, L. Prince, J. Fullmer, B. Worden

Guest: C. Borajkiewicz

The minutes of the November 19th meeting were accepted as amended.

Executive Committee Report

We discussed the School of Professional Studies Curriculum Committee election procedure
There will be a newly appointed CSU professor from the Southern campus
The EC feels there is a need for an archivist
We want to look into if the three new Assistants to the Vice President will be using faculty reassigned time for administrative duties.

Senate President Report

Market pay guidelines will be looked into by the newly appointed committee starting in the spring 1998 semester.
The administrative searches are proceeding apace. The committees are being formed - The Academic Vice President reiterated that there is no way the faculty searches could have begun any earlier.
Engleman 252 equipment is being moved to Morrill 20, and EN 252 is being converted into a classroom. Morrill 15 will be a second computer room.
The Dean of Continuing Education and her/his staff will be housed in Engleman Hall
Academic Advising is in need of new quarters.
The University's Institutional Overhead will stand at 50%.

New Business

Archivist.

Where are the records now? Sheila Magnotti in the Philosophy Department has some of it.
Doing searches through our records is difficult at best.
It should be a person who has a sense of the Senate's history.
Could it be done on the Web? The University as a whole does not have such a system yet. A motion was made and seconded that The President of the Faculty Senate appoint a three (3) person committee to study the issue of archivist, or other methods of maintaining Faculty Senate records and possible other University records including faculty committee minutes and documents. The motion passed by voice vote.

Faculty Senate Representatives

Grad Council: no report

Budget and Planning: no report

Undergraduate Curriculum Forum (UCF): The committee seems to be balking at the three week pocket approval time period. They may want that extended at least temporarily.

Strategic Plan Advisory Committee (SPAC): A number of faculty members are concerned that students are being treated more as customers and not learners. This concern will be forwarded to the Quality Council. The Senate supports the idea that the administration operates by a business mode, but curricular issues should not be dealt with that way. This issue is referred to the Academic Policy Committee.

Diversity

Should Diversity in the curriculum be addressed again Senator S. Larocco will have a motion to be considered at the next meeting.
Should the Senate ask the University Wide Impact Committee of the Undergraduate
Curriculum Forum to consider the possibility of a new Human Diversity requirement proposal?
A sense of the Senate was no. New Computers The Senate President was asked to contact the Director of Academic Computing to find out information regarding the timeline for and status of the new computer purchases. School Curriculum Committee

The Professional Studies ballot, used to decide if the School was to have a curriculum committee, was not clear and unbiased.

A motion was made and seconded that

The Faculty Senate President request the Dean of the School of Professional Studies to reconduct the election for the creation of a School Curriculum Committee according to Senate guidelines, and any included information be as unbiased as possible. The motion passed by a voice vote.

This needs to be done to preserve the integrity of the election process on our campus.

Standings Committee Reports

Student Policy no report

Academic Policy no report

Elections no report

Finance as of 12/03/97 the travel fund has uncommitted monies totalling $87,900 and $13,800 for full and part-time faculty travel respectively.

Personnel Policy: to date the committee has received 109 responses to the sabbatical leave questionnaire.

Rules no report

Announcements

There is a ceramic sale going on today, 12/03 and tomorrow 12/04 until 3pm in Earl Hall.

The Meeting was adjourned at 1:27!

Respectfully Submitted,
G. Robert Wein
Secretary

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