December 11, 2007
OFFICERS: Judy Kilborn, Annette Schoenberger, Michael Connaughton, Michael Tripp
IFO BOARD: Fred Hill, David Warne, John Palmer
NEGOTIATOR: Bill Langen
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) Bill Hudson; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, Ray Tsai; (FIRE) vacant; (MGMT) Larry Roth, vacant; (MKGB) Rajesh Gulati, James C. Johnson
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) Frances Kayona; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Bill Lepkowski, Robert Murphy; (HPERSS) Hector Antunez, Caryl Martin; (HURL) vacant; (LDR) John Rapp, Michael Mills; (IM) John Theis; (SPED) Kathy Johnson, Janet Salk (TDEV) vacant, Steve Hornstein, Ramon Serrano
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) vacant; (ART) Nancy Levy, Kathryn Gainey; (CDSI) Rebecca Crowell; (CMST) Traci Anderson, Eddah Mutuo-Kombo, David Tschida; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, vacant, Jim Robinson, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Bill Langen, Shawn C. Jarvis, vacant; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Marion Judish, vacant; (PHIL) Susana Nuccetelli, Andy Platt; (THFD) Debra Leigh
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) vacant, vacant, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Nathan Winter, Becky Krystyniak; (CSCI) Andrew Anda, Donald Hamnes; (EAS) Jean Hoff; (EE) Sura Lekhakul, Tim Vogt; (ETS) Tony Akubue; (ME) Steve Covey; (MATH) Dale Buske, Janis Cimperman, Carol Theisen; (NURS) Patty Bresser; (PHYS) John Liu; (STAT) Leonard Onyiah, vacant
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit Representative) Robert Johnson; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJS) Mario Hesse, Richard Lawrence; (ECON) David Switzer; Mana Komai; (ES) Kyoko Kishimoto; (GEOG) Ken Wong; (HIST) Mark Jaede; Maureen O’Brien; (POL) Edward Greaves; (PSYC) Marlene Devoe, Jody Illies; (SW) Elizabeth Talbot; (SAN) Mark Muniz, Robert Lavenda; (WS) Elizabeth Berila
SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) JoAnn Gasparino; (Academic Support) Geoffrey Tabakin; (COUN) Steve Jenkins; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Sandra Q. Williams, Tom Hergert; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) Jenifer Odette
1. Call to order at 3:20 p.m.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of November 27, 2007 (FS 121107 2.a.)
Motion to approve FS minutes of November 27, 2007—(Gasparino/seconded). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of December 4, 2007 (FS 121107 2.b.)
Motion to approve EC minutes of December 4, 2007—(Hudson/Palmer). Passed
c. University Curriculum Minutes. Draft Process for Curriculum Approval (FS 091107 2.c.2.) – awaiting legislative version for action; Minutes of November 8, 2007 (FS 121107 2.c.1.)—Kilborn gave an update on college curriculum committees. College curriculum committees will be asked to send the FA and the University Curriculum Committee Chair a copy of their minutes.
Motion to approve UCC minutes of November 8, 2007—(Onyiah/Gasparino). Passed
d. Assessment Steering Committee Minutes of November 14, 2007 (FS 121107 2.d.)—filed.
e. Division of General Studies Minutes of November 13, 2007 (FS 121107 2.e.)
Motion to approve Division of General Studies minutes of November 13, 2007—(Schoenberger/seconded). Passed
f. TLTR Minutes of November 15, 2007 (FS 121107 2.f.); Minutes of November 7, 2007 (FS 121107 2.f.2)—filed. Palmer pointed out the Vista operating problems on campus in the minutes.
Motion to refer TLTR minutes of November 7, 2007, to Technology and Pedagogy Committee with special emphasis on paragraphs 3 and 6 concerning the problems with Vista and Leopard operating systems—(Schoenberger/Hergert). Passed
g. Task Force on Placement Testing Minutes of November 14, 2007 (FS 121107 2.g.1.)—filed; November 28, 2007 (FS 121107 2.g.2-2.g.3.)
Motion to approve Task Force on Placement Testing minutes of November 28, 2007—(Palmer/seconded). Passed
Motion to reconsider—(Schoenberger/seconded). Passed
Separated:
Motion to postpone the budget recommendation until Senate has a copy—(Schoenberger/Palmer). Passed
Motion to approve the Course Placement Testing Policy as amended by the Task Force on Placement Testing. Passed
h. Strategic Planning Committee Minutes of November 8, 2007 (FS 121107 2.h.)—filed; Minutes of November 29, 2007 (FS 121107 2.h.1)—filed; Revised Department Planning Sheets (FS 121107 2.h.2.-2.h.3)—Palmer explained the documents.
Motion to approve Strategic Planning Committee Revised Department Planning Sheets—(Schoenberger/Lavenda). amended
Motion to take the following concerns: chronic problem with planning for budgets is the temptation to prioritize “the new”; the process by which college deans “with input from faculty,” prioritize and look for opportunities is not clear; if the review of department plans is an administration priority some further time and incentives will be necessary for this part of the planning; defining units of an assemblage of faculty as academic to Meet and Confer—(Onyiah/Schoenberger). Passed
Motion to lay the first motion to approve the Revised Department Planning Sheets on the table until after the motion to take the concerns to Meet and Confer is addressed—(Jaede/Hergert). Passed
i. FYE Advisory Board Minutes of October 3, 2007 (FS 121107 2.i.1.); October 16, 2007 (FS 121107 2.i.2.); October 23, 2007 (FS 121107 2.i.3.); October 19, 2007 (FS 121107 2.i.4.)—filed.
j. Orientation 2008-2009 Task Force Minutes of November 28, 2007 (FS 121107 2.j)
Motion to approve Orientation 2008-2009 Task Force minutes of November 28, 2007—(Jaede/Schoenberger). Amended
Motion to amend by referring the Orientation 2008-2009 Task Force minutes of November 28, 2007, and the budget questions, to the Budget Committee—(Buske/Tripp). In favor: 35; Opposed: 14. Passed
k. Service Learning Advisory Minutes of November 24, 2007 (FS 121107 2.k.)—filed.
3. Treasurer’s Report—read into EC minutes next time.
4. Consent Agenda
· Enrollment Management Committee
· Mark Jaede (COSS)
· Division of General Studies (DGS) Advisory Committee
· Carol Mohrbacher (ENGL)
· Multicultural Resource Center Advisory Board—pulled
· Stephen Casanova (COSS)
Motion to pull the Multicultural Resource Center Advisory Board from the Consent Agenda—(Kishimoto/seconded). Passed
Motion to approve the Consent Agenda (those appointed are underlined above) with Multicultural Resource Center Advisory Board pulled—(Kishimoto/seconded). Passed
5. Special Elections—none.
6. Call for New Agenda Items—none.
7. Announcements
a. Location for next Senate meeting: Cascade on January 29th
b. Negotiations Report—Langen gave an update.
c. Action Report—Palmer gave an update.
d. Voting Schedule for Spring 2008 (FS 121107 7.d.)—for your information.
e. Delegate Assembly—sign up was passed around.
f. Honors and Meet and Confer—there are some space issues for Honors and other programs that were agreed to be worked on at Meet and Confer last spring, but they haven’t been, so this topic will come back to the next Meet and Confer.
g. Constitutional Review Committee: Proposed amendments concerning beginnings of terms (FS 121107 7.g)—first announcement of change. It will be announced once more before Senate acts to approve. Email as a means of doing business is being looked at by the committee.
h. Kilborn announced that Polly Chappell will be on maternity leave next semester.
8. Unfinished Business
a. Early Notification System (FS 102307 9.g.1-9.g.3.)—waiting for answers from Meet and Confer.
b. Draft Policy for E-mail as a Means of Communication for Employees (FS 111307 9.d.)—this has been sent to the IFO, and we are awaiting Pat Arsenault’s response.
c. New Student Orientation Budget and Revenue Stream (FS 111307 9.e.1. and 9.e.2.)—discussed above under minutes.
d. Academic Planning Process and Academic Plan (FS 112707 7.f.)—discussed.
e. Academic Affairs Committee Grading Policy (Schoenberger)—Kilborn will follow up on this referral to the committee.
9. New Business
a. Vote of No Confidence in the Chancellor (FS 121107 9.a.)
Motion for the Executive Committee to draft up a policy for the process of how to execute a vote of no confidence of Chancellor—(Connaughton/seconded). Amended
Motion to amend—(Hergert/Tripp). Passed
Amended motion for the Executive Committee to draft up a policy for the process of how to execute a vote of no confidence for any administrator. Ran out of time—will be discussed next time.
b. Continuing Studies offering online required courses without departmental input—not discussed.
10. Adjournment at 5:15 p.m.
Submitted by Polly Chappell, SCSU Faculty Association Administrative Assistant