January 24, 2006
OFFICERS: Judy Kilborn, Annette Schoenberger, JoAnn Gasparino, Robert Johnson
IFO BOARD: Jayantha Herath, Andrew Larkin, Annette Schoenberger; Negotiator: Bill Langen
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) P.N. SubbaNarasimha; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, Ray Tsai; (FIRE) William Hudson; (MGMT) Larry Roth, vacant; (MKGB) Rajesh Gulati, James C. Johnson
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) Stephen Hornstein; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Nona Wilson, Robert Murphy; (HRESS) Mark Moore, Caryl Martin; (HURL) Michael Tripp; (LDR) John Rapp, Frances Kayona; (IM) John Theis; (SPED) John Hoover, Dory Beutel; (TDEV) David Heine, Geoffrey Tabakin, Ramon Serrano
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) Monica Devers; (ART) Nancy Weston; (CDSI) Rebecca Crowell; (CMST) Scott Wells, Dan Wildeson, David Warne; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, Suzanne Ross, Jim Robinson, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Gloria Melgarejo, Bill Langen; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Marion Judish, Mark Springer; (PHIL) Yiwei Zheng, vacant; (THFD) Debra Leigh
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) Oladele Gazal, Heiko Schoenfuss, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Mahin Sadrai, Becky Krystyniak; (CSCI) Andrew Anda; (EAS) Tony Hansen; (EE) Ling Hou; (ETS) Tony Akubue; (ME) Steve Covey; (MATH) Dale Buske, vacant, William Branson; (NURS) Sue Herm; (PHYS) Kevin Haglin; (STAT) Leonard Onyiah, John Gammell
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit Representative) vacant; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJUS) vacant, vacant; (ECON) Ming Chien Lo; Orn Bodvarsson; (ES) Dia Cha; (GEOG) Ken Wong; (HIST) Mark Jaede; (POL) Steve Frank; (PSYC) Chris Jazwinski; (SW) Sandra Chesborough; (SAN) Tracy Ore, John Alessio; (WS) Elizabeth Berila
SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) Susan Motin; (OAA) vacant; (COUN) JoAnn Gasparino; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Sandra Q. Williams, Tom Hergert; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) Jenifer Odette
1. Call to order at 3:25 p.m.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of December 20, 2005 (FS 012406 2.a.)
Motion to approve FS minutes of December 20, 2005—(Larkin/Schoenberger). Passed
b. General Education Committee Minutes of December 5, 2005 (FS 012406 2.b.1)—filed; December 12, 2005 (FS 012406 2.b.2)
Motion to approve General Education minutes of December 12, 2005—(Schoenberger/Larkin). Passed
There was discussion about the use of “liberal.”
8. New Business
g. 3:30 Time Definite: Guest – Christopher Bineham: Proposal for Service Learning Advisory Committee (FS 012406 8.g)
The guest discussed the following goals:
1) Guide Volunteer Connection and the Service-Learning Coordinator in expanding and improving service-learning.
2) Mobilize grassroots faculty support.
3) Encourage institutional support.
4) Advocate for best practices in service-learning (how it can be best instituted at SCSU)
5) Promote recognition of the use and value of service-learning on campus.
He asked for faculty support and mobilization.
Motion to support the proposal from the Service-Learning Advisory Committee and to take it to Meet and Confer—(Jaede/Kasi). Passed
2. Approval of Minutes
c. Professional Development Committee Minutes of December 14, 2005 (FS 012406 2.c)
Motion to approve Professional Development Committee minutes of December 14, 2005, with the amendment/correction of adding Robert Johnson to the mandatory list and deleting Les Green from the list—(Schoenberger/Larkin). Passed
3. Treasurer’s Report (FS 012406 3)—the Treasurer reported that we owe the IFO $4,500.
4. Consent Agenda—the ballots were passed out, and results will be read later in the meeting
5. Call for new agenda items—none.
6. Announcements
a. Delegate Assembly – March 24-25, 2005 (FS 012406 6.a.1 and 6.a.2)—we need to get resolutions in. If anyone is interested, they need to send registration and resolution forms by February 3rd, so that we can bring the resolutions back to Senate, or at least to EC.
b. Statewide Meet and Confer—Mary Leary was hired to replace John Shabatura, and she will be starting March 1st. We did keep TIAA-CREF. SBI funds will be mapped to Vanguard on July 1st. Contact Russ Stanton with questions about this.
c. 1.B.1 Equity Officers—the people who have had 1.B.1 training and/or Grievance training will be listed on the FA website
d. Elections: FA President, IFO Board Members, standing committees—nominations will be taken on Feb. 7, so think about if you would be willing to contribute, or about which people you might want to serve in these positions.
e. Higher Education Research Institute: 2004-2005 SCSU Faculty Survey Report (FS 012406 6.d)
Motion that we ask for analysis summary that the University was given for this report—(Roth/Tabakin). Passed
f. STAMATS—on Feb. 3rd there will be presentations at 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. This analysis will be used to try to market SCSU better, and statements to give out to the public need to be agreed upon beforehand. Information about the presentations can be found at the websites below:
http://fileexchange.stamats.com/downloads/2005_SCSU_prospect_report_FINAL122205.ppt
http://fileexchange.stamats.com/downloads/2005_SCSU_parents_report_FINAL122205.ppt
http://fileexchange.stamats.com/downloads/2005_SCSU_Internal_Assessment_FINAL122205.ppt
http://fileexchange.stamats.com/downloads/2005_SCSU_brand_assess_campus_visit_reportFINAL122205.ppt
7. Unfinished Business
c. Curriculum Forms from UCC (FS 112205 2.f.2.a-2.f.2.g)—we pulled a series of forms for curriculum processes and said that we’d take them to the departments and come back to Senate with feedback and comments.
Motion to approve the Curriculum Forms from UCC—(Kasi/Roth). Passed
There were minor changes in the forms. The Gen Ed forms were not changed.
· Assessment Plan: the feeling of UCC and the people in Assessment is that they should not be evaluating plans. UCC doesn’t want to look at Assessment Plans.
· Upper Division Writing Requirement: Kilborn said that in Meet and Confer, we agreed that UCC should meet with Mitch Rubenstein about the process.
· Doctorate Degree: we will have to think about the forms when there is a need for them.
This set of forms has been tidied up. Any form should have the blurb: online, Internet, etc.
Motion to have Meet and Confer team request that these forms be available for downloading from a University sponsored website—(Schoenberger/Hornstein). Passed
Motion that FS strongly urge Academic Affairs to establish a webpage that would contain the pertinent information of academic functions—(Johnson/Branson). Passed
4. Consent Agenda
Motion to approve Consent Agenda (those elected are underlined below)—(Schoenberger/Onyiah). Passed
a. International Student Services Committee: Jennifer C. “Kate” Peterson
b. At-large member of COSS Dean Search Committee (one): Elaine Ackerman (CEEP); Tony Akubue (Environment/Technology Studies); Oladele Gazal (Biology); Mary Ann Schorn-Rhoda (Nursing Science);
c. University College Task Force
1. COB (one): Vacant
2. COE (one): Avelino Mills-Novoa (Educational Leadership and Community Psychology); Geoffrey Tabakin (Teacher Development)
3. COFAH (one): Michael Connaughton (English)
4. COSS (one): John Kulas (Psychology)
5. COSE (one): Tony Hansen (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences); Jack McKenna (Chemistry), James Wilmesmeier (Math)
6. Executive Committee (one): Robert Johnson
7. Academic Learning Center (one): Gretchen Starks-Martin
8. DGS (two): Dan Macari; Joanna Pucel
9. Math Skills Center (one): Wayne Braith
10. Write Place (one): Carol Mohrbacher
11. Honors (one): David Boyer
12. Counseling Center (one): Jan Gembol
13. CETL Advisory Board (one): Frankie Condon
14. FYE Advisory Board (one): Balsy Kasi
8. New Business
f. Conflict Avoidance Scheduling (FS 120605 8.k)
Motion to approve proposal (with amendment to include dance students), and take to Meet and Confer for consideration—(Hudson/Schoenberger). Passed
Motion to refer proposal to Academic Affairs Committee, asking them to come up with recommendations on how groups are added and removed from this list according to the criteria—(Schoenberger/Hudson). Passed
e. Doctorates—Administration has asked faculty if we have any concerns about the campus-wide effects of such programs; if we have any issues with the programs; and how the programs would change the institution. Administration is looking at the long-term perspective, and they are more interested in the possible repercussions on campus. It was noted that the University College Task Force has not met yet. We will come back to this item next Senate.
7. Unfinished Business
a. 4:30 Time Definite: Guest – Provost Spitzer: Academic Freedom Committee Report (Condon) (FS 120605 7.a.1 and 7.a.2)—the Provost was invited in at 4:40 p.m. There was discussion from faculty about what would change and why Administration and Faculty need to do this. It was discussed that Academic Freedom makes a statement of what we value, how we value it; and that it is a mechanism for dealing and responding to issues. It was noted that Academic Freedom is about faculty maintaining their professional standards among themselves, not about discipline. There was discussion about the possibility of having a panel that would review cases as they come up and determine whether they are within the realm of what is protected.
b. Rights and Responsibilities under the Grade Appeal Policy (FS 102505 6.e.1 and 6.e.2) – Academic Affairs Committee will bring this back to Senate in February—not discussed.
8. New Business
a. Summer Session (FS 092705 8.e.1; FS 092705 8.e.2)—not discussed.
b. Space Assignment Policy (FS 092705 8.f)—not discussed.
c. Division of General Studies (DGS) Advisory Committee Minutes of September 13, 2005 (FS 101105 2.d)—not discussed.
d. Meeting Rooms for Senate (Williams)—not discussed.
e. Doctorates—discussed above.
f. Conflict Avoidance Scheduling (FS 120605 8.k)—discussed above.
g. 3:30 Time Definite: Guest – Christopher Bineham: Proposal for Service Learning Advisory Committee (FS 012406 8.g.)—discussed above.
9. Adjournment at 5:15 p.m.