Bryon Clark, Chair; Stan Alluisi; Margaret Avard; Gleny Beach; Muhammad Betz; Mike Desiderio; Diane Dixon; Brett Elliott; Ed Hobbs; Bruce Johnson; Jamie Knapp; Chris Moretti; Buddy Pierce; Lucretia Scoufos; Kyle Thomas; Sandra Thomas; Stacy Weger. 15 Senators; Chair, Chair-Elect, in attendance.
The meeting was called to order at 3:03 p.m.
Diane Dixon moved to accept with Margaret Avard second. Minutes approved by acclamation.
Randy Prus addressed the Faculty Senate related to the division of IRAC into: a) Organized Research and Program Review Committee (ORPRC) and the Institutional Assessment Committee (IAC). (See IAC and ORPRC.) Gleny Beach moved to approve, with Muhammad Betz second.
Gleny Beach amended the Motion to approve both committees in one vote.
Diane Dixon questioned the allocated percentages of funding for research grant and noted that the current wording encourages over budgeting on grant proposals. The motion was called to question by Gleny Beach. The vote: Yes: 1; No: 13; Abstain: 1.
Margaret Avard moved to accept the function and membership statements as written for both committees and not to include Procedures of ORPRC as stipulated with second by Mike Desiderio. Diane Dixon called the motion to question. The vote: Yes: 15; N: ,0; Abstain: 0.
Bryon Clark will send a memo to John Allen Hendricks, Chair of ORPRC, and Doug McMillan, Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs and explain the Faculty Senate action. Further, Doug McMillan will be invited to attend the next meeting of the Faculty Senate, to address consensus Procedures for the operation of the ORPRC.
Memos from President Johnson that approved Academic Appeals time limit resolution(PDF) passed by the Faculty Senate and the status of an ad hoc committee(PDF) under the direction of the Director of Assessment were addressed by the Faculty Senate. A memorandum will be sent to Chip Weiner, Director of Assessment and Doug McMillan, Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, requesting that they attend the next meeting of the Faculty Senate to explain the distinction between the ad hoc committee for assessment and Institutional Assessment Committee (IAC).
Brett Elliott reported that two subcommittees have been formed to work on charges to this committee.
Brett Elliott reported that the COC has recommended that Sara Burks replace Vivian Collins on Student Personnel Policies. Chris Moretti moved to accept with Kyle Thomas second. The vote: Yes: 15; No: 0; Abstain: 0. The COC forwarded a request by Dottie Davis to include a librarian on the General Education Committee to the Faculty Senate. A memorandum will be sent to Dottie Davis asking her to attend the next meeting of the Faculty Senate to explain the rationale for this inclusion.
Chris Moretti reported on several issues. (see report)
Charge 1: Discuss and consider the status of the MFA as a terminal degree for purposes of tenure and promotion.
Brett Elliott moves to accept the committee proposal for this charge and Margaret Avard seconds. The vote: Yes: 15; no other votes.
Charge 2: Make it clear in the Policy Manual that tenure and promotion can be applied for at the same time, and that one may apply for tenure and promotion in the 4th year.
Charge 3: Establish a committee for the promotion process at each level (i.e. to Associate and Full Professor).
Diane Dixon moved to amend the text in the proposal to Charge 3 to read, “appointed by the Dean of the School and the Chair of the Department…” adding the Chair of the Department for selection of members of a promotion committee outside of the Department. Muhammad Betz gave second. Gleny Beach moved to accept the proposal addressing Charges two and three as amended, with Margaret Avard second. The vote: Yes: 13; no other votes.
Related issue: the use of one portfolio for both tenure and promotion: Lucretia Scoufous moved to approve with Muhammad Betz second. Yes:13 ; and no other votes.
Related issue: changes to text related to allowing tenure application during the fourth year: Gleny moved to accept the changing in text with Bruce Johnson second. The vote: Yes: 13; and no other votes.
Charge 4: Establish a pre-application (in the 3rd and 4th years) review committee to evaluate and inform candidates of what needs to be done in regard to their prospective application for tenure and promotion.
Muhammad Betz moved to table the proposal to address Charge 4, related to the establishment of a pre-application to tenure committee with Gleny Beach second. The vote: Yes: 13; no other votes.
Margaret Avard reported that the Planning Committee met to work on the Faculty Senate Recognition Awards. Computer Services has been asked to redesign the web based voting procedures for the awards. The committee established a timeline for the entire process and how to publicize the event. Muhammad Betz moved to eliminate ties with the runoff procedures left to the discretion of the Planning Committee and Diane Dixon second. The vote: Yes: 13; and no other votes.
Diane Dixon reported that the committee tried to meet with Student Senate but no students attended the scheduled meeting. The committee has devised a survey to distribute to students next semester.
Bryon Clark distributed copies of surveys for Faculty Senate review for comment before the next meeting. He noted that the affected administrators wanted the survey to reflect the level of interaction between them and individual respondents and that the Faculty Senate wanted a summary report of the results of the survey.
The Faculty Grievance Policy that was approved on 1-4-02, was put forth for approval to the Faculty Senate by Bryon Clark. Brett Elliott moved to approve the policy with Muhammad Betz second. The vote: Yes: 12; No: 1; Abstain: 0. The Faculty Senate Chair voted to achieve quorum.
Margaret Avard moved to send a memorandum of inquiry to the President inquiring about the process of Vice-President for Business, Ross Walkup’s inquiry about the status and possible relocation of the Physics Place, with Stan Alluishi second. The vote: Yes: 13; No: 0; Abstain: 0.
The meeting adjourned at 5:05 p.m.
Muhammad Betz, Faculty Senate Recorder