West Virginia Northern Community College

Minutes: 25 August 2000

Present:

S. Beck, R. Berry, T. Boyers, P. Canary, T. Craig, C. Dale, T. Danford, W. Deibert, E. Gast, M. Goldstein , M. Grubor, K. Hart, K. Herrington, R. Honeman, S. Hooff, L. Ingram, R. Jennette, J. Keyser, N. Krupinski, A. Kuca, V. Larson, R. Malek, D. Poffenberger, R. Pusz, C. Rogerson, D. Roth, S. Rychlicki, A. Secreto, P. Sharma, D. Smittle, C. Teaff, A. Vavra, fG. Winland and R. Yeager.

C. Blatt, D. Gonot, S. Mankowski-Myers, E. Rogers, C. Stokes, J. Van Fossan, and M. Watson.

F. Binkley, D. Bradney, J. Cisney, M. Davis, D. Hans, B. Hudak, D. Jones, R. Lucki, K. Morelli, G. Norton, G. Pickett, S. Purpura, M. Riley, R. Sambuco, M. Sidon, V. Slider, E. Snow, H. Starr, and R. Vance.

• Minutes: The minutes from the 28 April 2000 meeting are available on the webpage, http://www.northern.wvnet.edu/~tdanford/senate . They were approved as published (but I failed to record motion maker and second, help!).



• Faculty Senate Officers: M. Goldstein reported on the recent developments - R. Honeman has agreed to serve as President and the Faculty Senate Executive committee has voted the following slate of officers for Academic Year 2000-2001: R. Honeman, President; M. Goldstein, Vice President; and T. Danford, Secretary.



• President's statement: R. Honeman described the recent meeting of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee with Dr. John Hunter. In light of the spirit of generated at that meeting, he is willing to serve as Faculty Senate president, hopefully with a released course. He indicated that Dr. Hunter is considering the faculty governance question and will consider faculty governance roles and responsibilities in light of faculty workload and institutional resources.



• Committee Representative: The following faculty have been duly nominated and elected to represent the Faculty Senate on these committees. Length of term in years is indicated.

The following faculty have been elected for a one year term on the Promotion and Tenure Committee: Robert Honeman, Vonnie Larson, Audrey Secreto, JeanAnn Van Fossan, Heather Starr, Arlene Kuca, Michele Watson

• Board of Advisors Representative: S. Purpura has resigned as Northern's faculty representative on the Institutional Board of Advisors. T. Danford has been elected to replace him (Goldstein/Craig).

• Faculty Senate Concerns: A number of concerns were raised, including the Vice President for Teaching and Learning position, and financial accountability for unfilled positions. A motion (Poffenberger/Deibert) was made to solicit faculty input about these and other concerns and to draft a letter to the President outlining these. The motion passed unanimously and R. Honeman asked that faculty communicate with any Faculty Senate Executive Committee member or Faculty Senate officer.



• GIPs and Goal Setting Conferences: D. Smittle brought, from the Division Chairs, a revised timeline for faculty goal setting conferences and revisions of faculty GIPs. Goal setting conferences are to be completed by 1 February with submission of revised GIPs to Division Chairpersons by 10 February. These will be forwarded to the Vice President for Teaching and Learning and are to be returned by 1 March. A motion (Smittle/Boyers) approving this revised timeline was unanimously approved.



• FERC Subcommittee: A subcommittee of the Faculty Evaluation Review Committee was formed to evaluate and revised the Goal Implementation Plan (GIP). M. Grubor agreed to chair this subcommittee. Several faculty volunteered to serve.



• Adjournment: With no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:05 pm. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Faculty Senate will be Friday, 22 September 2000, in the Culinary Arts room, HA, Wheeling Regional Campus.

Respectfully submitted,

Thomas R. Danford, Secretary

last modified: 27 August 2000