FS 102009 2.a.1

 

 

 
Final Approved by FS 10-20-09

FACULTY SENATE MEETING MINUTES

October 6, 2009

 

OFFICERS:  Mark Jaede, John Palmer, David Warne, Michael Tripp

IFO BOARD:  Thomas Hergert, Debra Leigh, Susan Motin

NEGOTIATOR: Michael Connaughton

BUSINESS:  (Unit Representative) vacant; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, vacant; (FIRE) Li Zhang; (MGMT) Larry Roth, Orn Bodvarsson; (MKGB) Jim Johnson, Rajesh Gulati

EDUCATION:  (Unit Representative) Frances Kayona; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Trae Downing, Bob Murphy; (HPERSS) Hector Antunez, vacant; (HURL) vacant; (ELCP) Tina Livingston, Chaturi Edrishinha; (IM) Fred Hill; (SPED) Michael Pickle, Janet Salk (TDEV) vacant, Steve Hornstein, vacant

FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES:  (Unit Representative) Judy Kilborn; (ART) Julie Baugnet, Kathryn Gainey; (CDSI) Cindy Lofton; (CMST) Matt Vorrell, Eddah Mutuo-Kombo, Marla Kanengieter; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, Jamie Heiman, Jim Robinson, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Maria Melgarejo, Austin Boyer; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Matt Ferrell, vacant; (PHIL) Paul Neiman; (THFD) Jeffrey Bleam

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING:  (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) Kristin Gulrud, vacant, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Rebecca Krystyniak, Mohammad Mahroof-Tahir; (CSCI) Andrew Anda, vacant; (EAS) Bob Weisman; (EE) vacant, Mahbub Hossain; (ETS) Tony Akubue; (ME) Steve Covey; (MATH) Ravi Kalia, Janis Cimperman, Stephanie Houdek; (NURS) Darlene Copley; (PHYS) Steven Ratliff; (STAT) Ezzat Kirmani

SOCIAL SCIENCES:  (Unit Representative) Tracy Ore; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJS) Mario Hesse, Mary Clifford; (ECON) Arta Ratha, David Switzer; (ES) Kyoko Kishimoto; (GEOG) Hung Chin Yu; (HIST) Jeff Mullins, Maureen O’Brien; (POL) Morgan Nyendu, Shoua Yang;  (PSYC) Chris Jazwinski, Jody Illies; (SW) Sandra Chesborough; Cathy Stilwill (SAN) Matthew Tornow, Robert Lavenda, Sandrine Zerbib; (WS) Elizabeth Berila

SPECIAL SERVICES:  (Unit Representative) JoAnn Gasparino; (Academic Support) Geoffrey Tabakin; (COUN) Steve Jenkins; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Sandra Q. Williams, Tom Steman; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) vacant

1.   Call to order at 3:18 p.m.—Jaede announced that this is the first paperless Faculty Senate meeting.

 

2.   Approval/Filing of Minutes

a.   Senate Minutes September 22, 2009 (FS 100609 2.a.)

Motion to approve Faculty Senate minutes of September 22, 2009—(Salk/Houdek). Passed

 

b.   UCC Minutes September 17, 2009 (FS 100609 2.b.)—Kilborn inquired about appropriate sign off for College of Business and Anda asked about an English course that his department did not sign off on.

Motion to approve UCC Minutes from September 17, 2009, and all actions included contingent there was appropriate sign off on the College of Business items—(Hill/Warne). Passed

 

c.   General Education Minutes September 18, 2009 (FS 100609 2.c.)—filed; September 25, 2009—filed; October 2, 2009 (FS 100609 2.c.1-2.c.2)—Hoff arrived at the meeting at 3:45 and spoke to the item in question. There was a brief discussion, and Hoff answered faculty questions. There was discussion about the process and how it came to be at this point.   

Motion to approve GE minutes from October 2, 2009(Palmer/Hill). Separated and amended

 

Motion to separate motion item from minutes—(Bleam). Passed

 

Motion to amend by adding: “Courses in Group B will follow the same process as courses in Group C”—(Palmer/Kilborn). Passed

Motion to amend by substituting “moderate” to “substantial”—(Connaughton/Kilborn). Passed

 

Motion to approve GE minutes from October 2, 2009, and all actions included, with the amendments above. Passed

 

d.   International Studies Minutes September 10, 2009 (FS 100609 2.d.)

Motion to approve International Studies Minutes from September 10, 2009, and all actions included—(Palmer/Motin). Passed

 

e.   Assessment Steering Minutes September 9, 2009—filed; September 25, 2009—filed; and September 30, 2009 (FS 100609 2.e.1-2.e.3)

Motion to approve Assessment Steering Minutes from September 30, 2009, and all actions included—(Motin/Inkster). Passed

3.   Treasurer’s Report – quarterly report at next Senate

4.   Consent Agenda—Jaede announced that John Palmer will be withdrawn from the Faculty Co-chair of the SCSU Budget Advisory Group. Another call will go out.

College of Business
         Strategic Planning Committee               - Konghee Kim (MGMT)

College of Education          
        
Service-Learning Advisory Committee     - Kathryn Johnson (SPED)
College of Social Sciences
        
Honors Advisory Committee                  - Brenda Buswell (PSYC)
SCSU Committees
         
Academic Policy Working Group             - David Wall (GEOG)
        Director of Outreach Search Committee   - William Ruhr (MHSC)
        H1N1                                                 - Kristin Gulrud (BIOL)

-      Rich Josephson (LR&TS

        Veterans Advisory Board                      - Jayne Lokken (COUNS)

Faculty Co-chair of the SCSU Budget Advisory Group—withdrawn.

-      John Palmer, Chair of FA Oversight Budget Committee

IFO/SCSU
        
MnSCU Intellectual Property and Copyright Policy and Procedure Committee:
                                                                            
- Thomas Hergert (LR&TS)
        GLBTA Issues Committee                      - Rachel Wexelbaum (LR&TS)

Motion to approve the Consent Agenda—(Palmer/Karasik). Passed

 

5.  Special Elections
     Director of International Admissions Search Committee – 1 opening
                - Belkis Kambach (GEOG)
                - Yinsog Rhee (MGMT)
                - Lakshmaiah Sreerama (CHEM)
                - Ray Tsai (BCIS)
    

6.  Call for New Agenda Items—none.
  

7. Announcements

a. Article 22 status—Jaede said there is not much to report. He has delayed sending out his clarification until he gets better clarification from Administration. He hopes to send out something later this week.

b. Strategic Program Appraisal—there was another open forum that wasn’t as well attended. Jaede gave an update.

   

8. Unfinished Business

a. Pictures on Class Lists (FS 040108 9.g.) - sent to Student Government—nothing to report.

b. Electronic Voting (FS112508 9.d.1) (Dorn) - motion referred to IFO—Dorn gave a presentation to the IFO and they asked for a mock election for a demonstration.

c.  Committee approval of minutes via email (Williams)—Williams spoke to the item. Kilborn asked Jaede to send out notice to faculty committees regarding the approved motion.

Motion to approve FA Committees to be able to approve their minutes via email—(Williams/Tabakin). Amended

 

Motion to amended that if there is any objection that the committee vote face to face—(Palmer/Motin). Passed

 

Amended motion to approve FA Committees to be able to approve their minutes via email as long as there is no dissent, if so the committee will vote face to face. Passed

 

d. General Education Proposal for Senate (Hoff) TIME DEFINITE 4:15 p.m.—Hoff opened the discussion at 4:15 p.m. There was discussion, along with a question and answer session. Jaede asked Senate to open the session up to non-Senators and Senate agreed.

 

The General Education Curriculum is in the process of being approved. It is scheduled to be examined in open forum during the FA Senate meeting on October 6 (3:15 Atwood) and voted on during the October 20 meeting. If you follow the link below and click on the above you will find the Special Curriculum Form with the Proposed GE Program. The "Program Guidelines" and "Table of Mission ... SLOs)" are the attachments to the curriculum form.

Also on this page you will find DRAFT versions of possible curriculum forms to be used when courses are aligned to the Goal Areas. These are included so faculty and departments can start to prepare to submit the finalized forms for the alignment process. The General Education Committee hopes these will be helpful in expediting the process of alignment since we are operating under a deadline and must have the new program in place for next Fall Semester.  

          http://www.stcloudstate.edu/generaleducation/GeneralEducationProposalandCourseForms.asp

          http://www.stcloudstate.edu/generaleducation/

 

9. New Business

a. MRC Advisory Board FA membership:

Six faculty will be elected by the Faculty Senate to represent the Faculty Association. These faculty can represent any college and multiple people can be elected from a single college. The terms will be for three years. The terms will be staggered with elections for two representatives each fall. Board members can be re-elected. The entire Faculty Senate will vote and the six people receiving the highest number of votes will be elected this fall (2009). Beginning next fall (2010), the top two vote recipients will be elected.

Motion to submit the above motion regarding the MRC Advisory Board selection for Faculty Senate—(Motin/seconded). Passed

 

 b. Proposal to correct approved Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes of April 14, 2009 -approved April 28, 2009 (FS 100609 9.b)—to be addressed at the next Senate meeting.

 

Proposal to correct approved Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes of April 14, 2009 (approved April 28, 2009)

Submitted by Chris Inkster, LR&TS Faculty Senator, note taker for Professional Development Committee 2008-09; text below taken from published minutes; corrections submitted Oct. 1, 2009

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g.   Professional Development Committee Minutes of April 1, 2009 and April 9, 2009 (FS041409 2.g.1-2.g.2)

Minutes of April 9: #2. Approval of recommendations for short-term grant procedures and guidelines.

Motion to accept motion #1 to reduce rounds to be reduced two and the deadlines charged to October 15 and March 15. — (Inkster/Williams). Passed

Motion to approve motion #2 regarding to set cap of $200 on “Other” category of expense summary—(Inkster/Williams). Passed

Motion to approve motion #3 of to set cap of $3,000 per applicant—(Kalia/Herath). Passed 

Motion to amend: move to see set cap at 10% of available money at start of year—(Tabakin/seconded). Failed 

Motion to approve motion #4 regarding to limit applications for international travel to non-credit workshops or courses, but not student study abroad trips —(Inskster Inkster/seconded). Passed  Failed.

Motion to approve motion #5 to allow application to cover a workshop attended after the last available round – (Inkster/seconded). Passed.

Motion to approve motion #6 to retain sliding scale of “bonus points” awarded to faculty who have not received grants in previous five years – (???/seconded).  Passed.

          Motion to amend motion #6—(Connaughton/Jaede). Failed

Motion to approve motion #7 to approve Office of Sponsored Programs use of email communication to grant recipients(???/seconded).  Failed.  Referred to Constitutional Review Committee.

Minutes of April 9 #3.  3rd Round of Short Term Grants

Motion to approve motion #3 on short term grants for six recipients, totaling $6,450.20—(Kalia/seconded). Passed

 

10. Adjournment at 5:17 p.m.

 

Submitted by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant