Sam Bigham, Jan Moore, Wayne Jones, Mark Tengsdal, Ken Elder, Kitty Campbell, Kyle Thomas, Ken Chinn, Patricia Stubblefield, Brett Elliott, Buddy Pierce, Bill Fridley, Bryon Clark, Charla Hall, Diane Dixon, Margaret Avard, Jerry Polson, Glenda Zumwalt, Faye Mangrum, John Allen Hendricks, Gleny Beach, Glenn Melancon.
Lisa Hill, Randy Prus, Stanley Alluisi, Rodger Minatra, Virginian Davis, Jamie Knapp, Wanda Donica
Meeting called to order at 3:05 pm by Sam Bigham
Sam Bigham announced that the faculty senate agenda was available on the web page.
Wayne Jones was nominated for Recording Secretary ..... Approved.
Glenda Zumwalt was nominated for Parlamentarian ..... Approved.
Kenneth Chinn was nominated for Treasurer ...... Approved.
Sam Bigham discussed problems with the Archivist position in that the senate needed to stay one year ahead on nominations for that position so release time could be scheduled.
Jerry Polson reminded the senate that the position should be held by someone with knowledge of html.
Pat Stubblefield stated that the archivist position needed to be a permanent position for stability.
Sam Bigham applauds president for allowing salaried student worker to assist in archivist position. Sam Bigham also stated that the archivist release time should include summers.
Ken Elder commented that archivist position should remain year to year.
Glenn Melancon nominated Diane Dixon to continue post. Bryon Clark seconded. Passed.
Pat Stubblefield gave the Committee on Committee report as a handout. Click here to see.
Faye Mangrum discussed the type of community member needed for the Human Subjects Research Review Committee.
Bryon Clark made motion to accept the report from Committee on Committees. Jerry Polson seconded. Passed.
Bryon Clark spoke of need for chairpersons of committees to nominate vice-chairs asap at their next meeting.
Sam Bigham spoke of need to activate the Student Personnel Policy Committee to deal with activities concerning students. Ad hoc committee had been used to this point but Senate needed to have input in the process. Glenn Melancon was nominated for chair that committee but Sam Bigham asked that he and Glenn meet to discuss options.
Diane Dixon spoke of new page access on computers (web based) for all committees. Diane stated that anyone could access the committee membership, actions, and minutes by going to the university web page first. Some committees’ minutes would be kept confidential due to their nature ex. Academic Appeals, Graduate Council. Anyone needing to see those minutes would need to go the appropriate committee chair or the archivist.
Sam Bigham asked that all senators check their email daily for important dispatches from his office (or anyone else’s) pertaining to the senate or committee business.
Buddy Pierce discussed the need to alert each senator everytime an announcement or change was made. Glenn Melancon thought once a semester might be enough. Approved.
Sam Bigham thought that any modification to the faculty handbook should be alerted to the faculty as soon as it occurred by using email.
Jerry Polson thought that the process of detailing changes to include who made the change, when it was made, and senate approval should be included.
Sam Bigham alerted the senate to the faculty forum on October 10 and stated that it would include topics of:
Each senator should receive a packet by mail by Monday.
Bryon Clark requested that each senator keep track of their time spent on any activity involving committee work or senate. This includes prep. time, conversations with other concerning committee business, paper work, etc. He wants to make a case for release time were appropriate by using end of the year reports on amount of time spent in service mode.
Sam Bigham wants to meet again on Tuesday, October 24, at 3:00.
Sam Bigham spoke briefly on new policy for endowed chair. Will provide more information to senate in October.
Margaret Avard spoke of Dr. Snowden wanting to combine tenure review/promotion. Sam Bigham and Jerry Polson stated that this would need to be addressed in October meeting. Suggestion was made to place this as a charge for the personnel policy committee by the senate president.
Sam Bigham asked senators to provide additional charges to committees.
Ken Elder moved to adjourn. Buddy Pierce seconded.
Adjourned at 4:14 pm