Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting
28 April 1999

The fourteenth meeting of the 98-99 year was called to order at 12:10 pm

Members Present: R. Jirsa (Presiding), T. W. Carr, C. Rinehardt, A. Rao, C. Wieder, G. Puerschner, T. Sherman, M. Orner, T. Seyed, R. Landino, U. Nwachuku, J. Fullmer, J. Ensign, C. Dickinson, D. Cairns, D. Burow, B. Gustafson, S. Misasi, D. Kemler, P. Palma, P. Sakalowsky, S. Judd, C. Petto, A. Bielefield, C. Schofield-Bodt, V. Mick, D. Prasad, K. Laird, T. Bennett, K. Grant, M. Moss, B. Madara, A. Vicenzi, C. Fontana, F. Hatcher, L. Prince, D. Pettigrew, A. Bidarian, A. Paulson, R. Luquis, B. Worden. M. Ryan, P. Brucker, P. Major, A. M. Watts

Visitors: Camille Serchuk (UCF)

Not Present: Athletics, Biology, Econ/Finance, Journalism, , Part-time faculty (Mack), Psychology (Hurlbut, Kahlbaugh), Rec/Leisure, Science Ed/Env Studies, Social Work (Colon)

  Interim Chief Information Technology Officer Ed Harris:

Many of the problems facing the position of Technology Officer have centered around issues of organization, as well as having different personnel working at odds with one another.

President Adanti is committed to ensuring that academic interests are served effectively by the CITO.

There are plans to institute a single phone help desk, to eliminate the situation which now exists where people call whomever they know best to deal with individual problems.

All four CSU campuses recognize the need to maintain high end research computing. There is no disagreement on this issue.

Negotiations and cost inquiries are in progress with MicroSoft® regarding a potential license. The license would allow every faculty and staff member to run a copy on their university computer as well as one copy on a personal computer, for professional use. This would eliminate the KeyServer.

Many of the classroom technology problems have been related to AV/TV problems, not high technology problems.

Though the current structure of ETAC is good, improved communication is essential.
 

Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting of March 31,1999 were approved with corrections

Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting of April 14,1999 were approved with corrections
 

Announcements:

As mentioned at the last Senate meeting, the Executive committee acted on two resolutions. Please understand that these were time sensitive resolutions, and that it was never the intent of the Executive Committee to exclude the full Senate from considering any resolution. This situation should be considered extraordinary, not typical.
 

Executive Committee Report:

Discussed the issue of looking at programs outside of the department.

Academic Policy and UCF may be the best places to consider such a review.
 

Senate President’s Report:

Potential discussion items for the upcoming retreat should be forwarded to Secretary Carr.

President Adanti has received all recent Senate Resolutions and will be taking actions accordingly
 

Standing Committee Reports

Personnel Policy: (Barbara Worden): Presentation was made regarding the Hardship DEC as outlined in the Faculty Senate Document. Resolution regarding the hardship DEC was referred back to Personnel Policy to be revised.

Presentation was made regarding the Sabbatical Leave Document, with four separate motions to change the language under four separate parts of the document:

Motion # 1was defeated

Motion # 2 was referred back to committee

Motion #3 was defeated

Motion # 4 was defeated
 

Meeting was adjourned at 2:02PMK

Respectfully submitted,
 
 

T. Wiley Carr
Secretary of the Senate-