FACULTY ASSOCIATION

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Senate Minutes

April 22, 2003

 

Attendance:  (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers:   Larkin, Fisher, Kang, S. Q. Williams

IFO Board:  A. Schoenberger, J. Foster, R. C. Johnson Negotiator: Langen

BUSINESS:  (Unit Representative) P. N. SubbaNarasimha, (ACCT) vacant, (BCIS) Herath, Song, (FIRE) Hudson, (MGMT) Roth,vacant,  (MKGB) Gulati, J.C. Johnson

EDUCATION:  (Unit Representative) T. Peterson, (CFS) Gilman, (LDR) Schulze, Kayona (CEEP) Petrangelo, Murphy, (HRESS) Zezony, C. Martin, (HURL) Tripp, (SPED) Salk, vacant, (TDEV) Subrahmanyan, Tabakin, Hornstein

FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES:  (Unit Representative) Kilborn, (ART) Weston, (CDSI) Whites, (ENGL)Dorn, Condon, Robinson, Ross, (FORL) Mikoltchak, Splittgerber, (COMM) Rodriguez, vacant (MUSIC) Fuller, Springer, (PHIL) Nuccetelli, (CMST) Wildeson, Warne, Rehling, (THFD) Chisholm

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) McKenna, (AVIA) Anderson, (BIOL) Cronn, Gazal, Schoenfuss, (CHEM) Sadrai, Dvorak, (CSCI) Herath, (EAS) Hansen, (EE) Petzold, (ETS) Akubue, (ME) Covey, (MATH) Kalia, Theisen, Buske, (NURS) Bresser, (PHYS) Nook, (STAT) Lawal, Gammell

SOCIAL SCIENCES:  (Unit Representative) Ore, (CMTY) Karasik, (CJUS) Gilbertson, Prout, (ECON) Banaian, Grossman, (ES/WS) Lacourt, (GEOG) Wong, Bixby (HIST) Jaede, (POL) Wagner, (PSYC) Valdes, (SW) Chesborough, (SAN) Gold, Lavenda

SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) C. Inkster, (COUN) Ulven, (LR&TS) Hill, Motin,

Hergert, (MEN’S ATHL) Glowatzke, (WOMEN’S ATHL) Odette, (OAA) vacant

 

1.        Call to order at 3:20 p.m.

 

2.     Minutes

                a.                Motion to approve Faculty Senate, April 8, 2003 (Condon/Fisher (passed)

b.       Motion to approve Executive Committee, April 1, 2003 and April 15, 2003 (Condon/Fisher) passed

c.        Motion to approve Technology & Pedagogical Resources Committee, April 8, 2003 and April 17, 2003 except Section 5.16.2 (Kang/Fisher) passed

Motion to approve section 5.16.2 except paragraph (2) (Kang/Fisher) passed

Motion to approve paragraph (2) (Kang/Fisher) failed

d.       DGS Advisory Committee, April 1, 2003 (Informational)

e.        Motion to approve UCC minutes, April 3, 2003 (Fisher/Condon) passed

Motion to approve UCC minutes, April 10, 2003 (Tabakin/Anderson) passed

Motion to approve UCC minutes, April 17, 2003 except the last sentence of the last motion (Schoenberger/Condon) passed

Motion to approve the last sentence of the last motion on the UCC minutes of April 17, 2003 (Schoenberger/Condon) tabled

Motion to table until further information is received from the University Curriculum Committee (Nook/Fisher) passed

 

3.        Treasurer’s Report (Filed)

 

4.     Consent Agenda

a.        Appoint Lalita Subrahmanyan (COE), Rich Dillman (CFAH), and Michelle Hammes (COSS)

to the Honors Advisory Committee.

b.       Approve one sanctioned meeting: Graduate Studies Committee and Dennis Nunes.

Motion to approve the Consent Agenda (Lavenda/Karasik) passed

 

 

5.        Call for additional agenda items

8.n.                 Committee on Diversity Education

Motion to make items 8.e. and 8.n. time definite: 4:15 p.m. (Tabakin/Condon) passed

8.o.                Quorum in the Senate

 

6.        Announcements

a.        Election of an ad hoc committee on the “discuss” listserv

Committee:  John Palmer, Mark Jaede, Judy Dorn, Keith Ewing, Bob Weisman

b.                        Interim Dean Search Committee, College of Science and Engineering

Steve Covey, Ramnath Sarnath, Steve Anderson, Tony Hansen, Mahin Sadrai, Lisa Splittgerber (at-large)

c.        Election of search committee for interim dean of College of Business

Elaine Davis, Bill Hudson, Kate Mooney, Ken Schneider, Gary Yoshimoto, Keith Ewing (at-large)

d.        Phone System
Randy Evans and Rubin Stenseng are chairing this committee.  Watch email for information.  This new phone system will take effect July 1, 2003.

 

7.     Old (unfinished) business

b.       Student Advising-referred to Committee on Admissions and Retention

c.        Public Expression Policy-referred to Committee on the Institution

d.       Recommendations on SCSU-discuss—referred to new ad hoc committee (see 6.a. above)

e.        Nathan Church letter

Motion to authorize the FA President to send the letter he drafted to Nathan Church.  (Jaede/Condon) passed

 

Motion that the FA Executive Committee, the Administration and any other interested

members of the campus community engage in a discussion regarding approaches and

strategies to the mascot issue (Fisher/Schoenberger) passed

 

8.     e.                Independent Review Committee

n.                   Committee on Diversity Education

Motion to approve a sanctioned meeting between the new committee on diversity education and the Provost (Lavenda/Schoenberger) tabled

Motion to table until the committee gives the Senate further direction (Schoenberger/Kalia) passed

a.                   Drops & Adds

Motion to change the last “add day” at the beginning of the semester to one day after the last “drop day” (Kilborn/Condon)passed

Motion to table until we get more information (Johnson/Murphy) failed

Motion to discontinue the practice of waiving tuition for students who don’t show up in classes for which they are registered and then don’t drop until after the drop-add date. (Kilborn/Langen) passed

Motion to close debate (Fisher/Motin) passed

Motion to automatically drop students who miss the first class unless they are excused by the Faculty member teaching the class (Schoenberger/Inkster) passed

Motion to close debate (Motin/M. Tripp) passed

 

6.b.                Election results announced for search committee for interim dean of College of Science and Engineering.  No minority candidate was elected.

Motion to drop the lowest vote getter and put in the highest vote getter of a minority class (Nook/Gazal) passed

 

9.                Adjournment at 5:25 p.m.