Members Present A. Rao, D. Prasad, C. Fontana, A. Guagliumi, W. Carr, G. Puerschner, B. Wein, R. Jirsa, T. Seyed, J. Fullmer, R. Eldridge, J. Ensign, S. Larocco, M. Shea, D. Holt, S. JudLi, C. Schofield-Bodt, P. Holmer, K. Grant, J. Kavanagh, E. Beatty, S. Bochain, D. Pettigrew, C. Rinehardt, J. Hurlbut, B. Worden, M. Selvaggio, P. Major, F. Hatcher, D. Boehnert, L. Prince

Acting Vice President of Academic Affairs Smith

Freshman Orientation is being chaired by Ross Gingrich and Vera Nevarow. In the past it was done over two weeks from mid to late June. This missed the late admission students. This coming summer it will be done the week before classes begin. All transfer and new students will be invited. This may push the new faculty orientation to the Monday of that week. And the Faculty Forum would be that Tuesday. There may be the need for 50 to 60 faculty volunteers to be available on the Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday of that week. Signing up for classes will be done prior to the orientation.

The System Office has hired Herman Lujan as the Chief Academic Officer. He is a Professor Emeritus from Northern Colorado College and will be starting full time at the CSU office in mid May.

The Quality Council has dealt with several issues which will be discussed at length in the future. Among these are accounts receivable from students, security projects like false alarms and Financial aide. In an attempt to identify areas on campus that need the Council's attention a motivational questionnaire was circulated among the faculty. It will evolve as warranted.

It appears feasible to expand the academic community hour. A motion to that effect would be seriously entertained.

The Installation of the new computers raises several issues. DOS programs may not work in the new NT environment. If the program was provided by SCSU then it will be updated by the University. If it was not provided by SCSU the upgrade is left to the Faculty. Programs originally on 5 1/4 inch diskettes need to be downloaded to the more standard 3 1/2 inch size. This can be done on several of the machines in the student computer labs.

The Psychology Department has approximately 400 majors and 14 faculty members. The Faculty do not feel qualified to perform Senior Audits. Interim Vice President Smith informed the Department that more people are being trained in the records office to accommodate the need.

The minutes of the March 11th meeting were accepted as amended. It was also asked and agreed to that in the future Committee Chair's names be included with the standing committee reports.

Executive Committee Report

The Executive Committee discussed interdisciplinary program coordinators and directors. It was decided that the Personnel Policy Committee needs to develop language to include procedures regarding these positions in appropriate documents, such as the Chairperson document and grade appeals process.

A department at SCSU wanted to use a none SCSU server for their homepage. It was at another State agency but not SCSU. It was decided that this was a Union Issue.

Senate President Report

Chancellor Cibes acknowledged the Senate President's letter regarding the EdD. The Chancellor's letter stated that the EdD was under a Feasibility study only. But ultimately the decision is up to the Board of Trustees.

The Long Range Planning Committee at CCSU did not like our letter and praised the study initiated by Chancellor Cibes.

The Board of Trustees assessment of the University President is underway and the Executive Committee has responded with input.

Standing Committee Reports

Rules: (Kerry Grant, Chair) A motion was made seconded and passed to waive the two day rule. Two recommendations were presented and discussed. 1) The committee's assignment of terms of office for the newly reformed Faculty Senate passed unanimously by voice vote. 2) The Executive Committee meet and plan a retreat for the Faculty Senate for May or June, the purpose of which will be to develop goals and plan for the implementation of those goals. This motion also passed unanimously by voice vote.
 

Student Policy (Cindy Schofield-Bodt, Chair) The Academic Community Hour motion was referred back to committee at the February 25 meeting. The committee presented new information regarding that proposal. The Police suggest parking is not an impediment to the implementation of an expanded community hour. The scheduling office said that the utilization of the classrooms would increase from 80% to 86% as opposed to 60% nationally. That office suggests 1: 10 to 2:00 would be a better time. A motion was made

Be it resolved that the SCSU Faculty Senate support the Adoption of a 1:00 to 2:00 University Community Hour on Monday Wednesday and Friday. Discussion: The present situation doesn't allow enough meeting time and discussion time amongst faculty and students, or faculty and faculty. Can Departments opt out of this schedule if it causes undue hardship? This should be included in the actual proposal. We need to know the number of impacted courses. It is possible that the time to graduate could also be affected. Studio Art and laboratory courses could be more difficult to schedule. It would allow more meeting between departments. Student feedback would be helpful. Student athletes' schedules are tight enough already this proposal could worsen that. Graduate courses must also be considered vis a vis clinical practice and longer classes. The Academic Community Hour is a very important part of the undergraduate experience.

The Agenda was moved and the Chair of the Committee was requested to consider the discussion in its future deliberations.

Academic Policy Committee: (Jim Fullmer, Chair) no report.

Elections: (Flo Hatcher, Chair) The self-nomination period was extended to April 10th. Promotion and Tenure, Faculty Retraining, Sabbatical Leave, Faculty Scholar and CSU Professorship committees still have openings.

Finance: (Robert Eldridge, Chair) As of 4/03 the travel fund has $7,636 and $10,182 in uncommitted funds for full and part time travel respectively.

Personnel Policy Committee: (Robert Jirsa. Chair) no report.

Announcements

The Vice President for Institutional Advancement had 35 or 36 applicants. Out of the 6 finalists 4 dropped out due to the time of the search. The last candidate should be on campus today.

The revised travel authorization procedures are due to be completed by the end of April.

The Vice President for Finance was positive in his initial reaction to the Budget and Planning committee's attempt to become proactive in the budgetary process. The Vice President's later reactions seem to be a bit more unsure.

April is Arts Month.

 Old Business

Senator Holmer presented the Library's policy regarding the Faculty's withdrawal and holding of overdue books. Faculty are not fined but are only asked to pay when a book is deemed lost. The record is then frozen until the bill is paid.
 

The Meeting was adjourned at 2:02.

Respectfully Submitted,

G. Robert Wein, Secretary