10/20/99 Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting

Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting 20 October 1999

The fourth meeting of the 1999-2000 year was called to order at 12:15 pm

Members Present: R. Jirsa (Presiding), T. W. Carr, A. Rao, C. Wieder, S. Martinelli, G. Puerschner, T. Sherman, M. Orner, J. DaPonte, R. Landino, M. Shapiro, J. Fullmer, R. Eldridge, C. Dickinson, P. Petrie, B. Gustafson, S. Misasi, D. Kemler, P. Palma, P. Sakalowsky, C. Petto, J. Ensign, C. Schofield-Bodt, V. Mick, D. Prasad, K. Laird, T. Bennett, K. Grant, S. Bochain, A. Vicenzi, L. Prince, R. Volkman, A. Paulson, J. Hurlbut, P. Kahlbaugh, R. Luquis, J. MacGregor, S. Hageman, E. Haymes, B. Worden. M. Ryan, P. Major, A. M. Watts

Visitors: Camille Serchuk (UCF), Mark Heideman (Writing Board), Susan Cirillo (Library Director), Clyde Weed (ULC)

Not Present: Athletics, Ed Leadership, History (Judd), Journalism, Library Science, Music, Part-time faculty (3), Physics, Special Ed/Reading(Brucker)

Vice President J. Philip Smith :

Committee for the CITO search is nearly in place. The advertisement for the position stresses an academic focus.
Everyone should have received a letter from President Adanti re: our upcoming accreditation. Several committees are involved in filing the report, which will take huge effort by the entire university.
Department of Higher Education is doing assessments and conducting surveys throughout the State re: secondary schools and what they are doing to address remedial program issues.
Administration will meet with the Library to potentially increase funding to acquire J-STOR electronic archival service. It would provide on-line access to prominent journals in many fields.
The Faculty Scholar Award has been renewed, and the process is underway.
CSU Research Day at ECSU was extremely successful. Chancellor Cibes remarked on the excellence of participants from SCSU

Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting of September 22,1999 were approved with additions, deletions and corrections.

Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting of October 6,1999 was approved with additions, deletions and corrections.

Standing Committee Reports

Ad hoc Technology: Resolution will be brought under New Business
Personnel Policy: Has divided into two sub-groups; one continues to review DEC P & T Document including the provision for a DEC Hardship, and the other will initiate Administration Evaluation
Finance: Information is still not available regarding last year’s carryover. Finance committee will recommend that contract negotiators consider changing the availability date of AAUP Travel money to coincide with the fiscal year
Academic Policy: Reworking the Distance Learning Resolution and continuing its charge to evaluate the desirability of the potential EdD
Elections: no report
Rules: Will continue to review the Standing Committees of the Senate, and will establish a procedure for the replacement of faculty missing from committees (due to sabbatical, etc.). Will initiate a suggested procedure for review of the UCF.
Student Policy: No report

UCF Update: (Camille Serchuk)

Continuing to evaluate freshman requirements especially in regard to remedial courses. Resolution was passed to place incoming students with verbal SAT scores above 500 into ENG 100 with the option to take the placement exam. This would lighten the burden, somewhat, on the English Department.
Writing Board held their first workshop with colleagues from the University of Missouri @ Columbia. New methods of teaching writing met with great enthusiasm. New L-course guidelines are being reviewed. UCF temporary web-site address is: http://www.southernct.edu/committees/ucf/forms.html
(Heideman): Writing Board may be developing and supporting a tutoring center.

Motion to suspend the rules of the Senate to bring forward Executive Committee resolution was made, seconded, and passed.

Executive Committee Resolution was presented as follows:

Whereas the Collective Bargaining Agreement (Articles 10.8 and 10.8.1) mandates that

"…the part-time percentage for a particular university as defined in Article 10.8.4 should not exceed twenty percent (20%). A university may exceed the twenty (20%) goal by two percent (2%) for …1999-2000; and by one percent (1%) for 2000-20001." and

Whereas the faculty views compliance with these Articles of the Collective Bargaining Agreement extremely important to the mission of the university, and

Whereas no plan to insure implementation of these Articles of the Collective Bargaining Agreement has been presented to the Faculty Senate, and

Whereas sufficient lead time will be necessary in wisely filling faculty positions that may become necessary to comply with the Collective Bargaining Agreement,

Therefore be it resolved that the President of the University forward to the Faculty Senate the university’s plan to reach these goals as specified by Articles 10.8 and 10.8.1 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Resolution was passed by majority vote.

Old Business: Discussion was continued regarding the Proposed Constitution of the University Library Committee. Susan Cirillo, Director library, raised several concerns; Why should the ULC become a Standing Committee of the Senate? The existing Library Committee has been working efficiently and effectively since her arrival. The current committee has representatives from Administration and the Student Body. More faculty representation would be welcome. The Library budget should not be micro-managed. The current library staff is excellent and eager to move forward. Pre-existing problems are being corrected. More bureaucracy is not needed.

(Weed): The Library Committee, in his opinion, is perhaps the best functioning committee on campus. It does not need to be changed

(Kemler) Committees beyond 12 in size traditionally do not function well. Students are currently getting the help that they need.

Substitute resolution was presented in lieu of Academic Policy resolution re: ULC as follows:

Whereas a Library Committee was appointed in 1994 by the Academic Vice-President and has successfully served as an advisory committee to the Library administration, and

Whereas the proposed Senate committee goes beyond the role of advisory and includes such functions as to monitor, oversee, review the budget and general operations and impinges on the responsibilities of the Director, and

Whereas, the current committee does not have an elected faculty representation,

Therefore be it resolved that the Senate endorse the current Library Committee and accept their invitation to elect two additional members from the faculty-at-large to the committee.

Resolution was seconded. Discussion followed.

Academic Policy Resolution and substitute resolution were referred back to Academic Policy Committee.

Meeting was adjourned at 2:00PM

Respectfully submitted,

T. Wiley Carr
Secretary of the Senate