Members Present A. Rao, D. Prasad, C. Fontana, A. Guagliumi, W. Carr, G. Puerschner, B. Wein, R. Jirsa, T. Sherman, T. Seyed, J. Fullmer, S. Larocco, D. Burow, R. Pelayo, S. Judd, C. Schofield-Bodt, P. Holmer, K. Grant, J. Kavanagh, D. Pettigrew, C. Rinehardt, R. Luquis, M. Selvaggio, P. Major, F.Hatcher, D. Boehnert, L. Prince, A. Vicenzi
R. Eldridge was excused

Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs Smith

• A rendering of the proposed new physical plant will be shown next time.
• The searches are still processing, There are seven candidates for the Chief Information and Technology Officer position and they will begin coming to campus after spring break. The position of Chief Academic Officer at the central office should be filled within a week or so.
• In response to a question posed at the last meeting, the office of the VP is looking into the number of allowed faculty lines at SCSU.
• Some departments are complaining that the reserve funds from previous years are no longer available even though they should have rolled over. This has been partially rectified. Next year each department will have its own line for this in FRS, and it will roll over.
• Senior audits: Every senior gets one, it is performed by someone in the records office. This takes a considerable amount of training because there is no margin of error. The process is initiated by the application for a decree. The audit is done internally and the student is notified if there are any shortcomings. The current system is outdated but seems to still work well. Students have started showing up to check on their status toward graduation, but with only one person on staff this can't be accommodated. Extra audits will not be done. Students will continue to be checked, but this will not be done routinely for advisement. People are being hired and trained to help with this. The new Banner system will allow senior audits on the professor's machine, but the current system may still be used for three years. Therefore, audits will still only be done for those students who have applied for graduation.
• There has been some reluctance to set up individual accounts in FRS system; this is being looked into.
• The Art Department expressed its concern about the aesthetics of campus construction. Also it was pointed out that all construction projects have a predetermined financial set aside for the inclusion of artwork. Artwork is now being accepted for the ongoing projects, but what happened to the artwork that should have been included in some of the recent projects?

Executive Committee Report

• Is the Academic Advisement position AAUP or AFSCME? Flo Hatcher is researching the history of the position?
• The Executive committee had charged the Senate President to send a letter to Chancellor Cibes asking him to take no further action recording the EdD until the Senate has consulted its constituency. This letter has been drafted and sent.
• The School of Professional Studies has held their election to determine if the school will have a school curriculum committee. The vote was to have such a committee. The School of Education needs to hold their election.
• The fraction of travel funds available to Part Time faculty is determined by the collective bargaining agreement. If additional funds are rolled over from the other funds, they are also divided in the same way (90% for full time/10% for part time).

• Vice President Blake is receptive to the idea of including faculty in the budgeting process prior to going to the cabinet.
• The SAS program on the mainframe will be transferred to the PC environment. The President of the Faculty Senate is looking, into the following questions. Will there be a problem with access? Will departments have to pay for their access to SAS?

Computer installation will begin the week of March 31st (including the Bond fund computers).
It should be completed by the end of April.
The art exhibit of student work at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford had three pieces that LOB people asked to be removed. To preserve the exhibit, the entire display was moved to the Real Art Ways Gallery in Hartford. The opening is set for March 13th.
 
Old Business none.

New Business

Faculty Senate Representatives

 
The Meeting was adjourned at 1:50.
 

Respectfully Submitted,
G. Robert Wein, Secretary