Faculty Senate Minutes, 28 Jan 2000

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Faculty Senate

West Virginia Northern Community College

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Minutes: 28 January 2000

Present:

S. Beck, R. Berry, T. Boyers, P. Canary, T. Craig, C. Dale, T. Danford, M. Davis, W. Deibert, M. Goldstein (presiding), D. Gonot, M. Grubor, D. Hans, K. Herrington, S. Hooff, L. Ingram, J. Keyser, N. Krupinski, A. Kuca, V. Larson, R. Lucki, R. Malek, K. Morelli, G. Pickett, S. Purpura, C. Rogerson, D. Roth, S. Rychlicki, R. Sambuco, A. Secreto, P. Sharma, H. Starr, C. Stokes, K. Swisher, C. Teaff, J. Van Fossan, M. Watson, G. Winland, and R. Yeager.

Excused:

E. Gast, R. Jennette, D. Poffenberger, E. Rogers, D. Smittle, and A. Vavra.

Absent:

F. Binkley, D. Bradney, J. Cisney, K. Hart, R. Honeman, B. Hudak, C. Huston, D. Jones, S. Mankowski-Myers, G. Norton, R. Pusz, M. Riley, L. Shelek, M. Sidon, V. Slider, E. Snow, and R. Vance.

Minutes: The minutes from the October 1999 meeting are now available on the webpage, http://www.northern.wvnet.edu/~tdanford/senate . Approval of these minutes was postponed until next meeting.

Presidential Search Update: M. Goldstein reported on the timeline for the upcoming Presidential search. He indicated that the Institutional Board of Advisors can appoint up to three additional faculty to serve on the search committee. The faculty senate recommends the following faculty: K. Herrington, R. Lucki, and R. Sambuco.

"New Compact" Report to Legislature: M. Goldstein reported that this report is now available. It makes recommendations concerning the strengthening of community college education in the state. Copies are available in the LRC.

Committee Reports

Committee	Report Highlights
Advisory Council of Faculty	D. Poffenberger has resigned as our representative; see below.
Student Life	no meeting
College Technology	10 - 15 new faculty computers will be purchased and distributed on basis of faculty need.
Finance/Facilities	debt collection policy was approved; cars are still parked in the parking lot
Academic Affairs	routine business
Assessment	209 students will be tested (graduating students); this is a state wide requirement
Professional Development	Met; working on excellence awards; part time faculty award is ready but will not be given this year.
Governance	Met in Nov and Dec; rest/break period policy passed; strategic plan updated and approved
Academic Administration Task Force	Task force is examining coordinators and directors position descriptions and compensation

Professor Emeritus: Policy on Professor Emeritus has been approved. The following faculty were recommended for this status: Don Adams, Pat Burns, Bess Simpson, and Clayton David.

Election of Faculty Senate Executive Member: due to resignation of T. Craig and P. Canary, two new Senate Executive members are needed. D. Roth was the next person on the election list and he accepted one of these seats. D. Gonot was nominated and elected to fill the second seat.

ACF Representative: due to D. Poffenberger's resignation as Northern's ACF representative, an election was held for his replacement. Dr. Pat Canary was elected to serve in this position.

New Business: FERC was given two charges - 1) promotion and evaluation of non tenure track faculty (temporary faculty) and 2) revision of guidelines for institutional and community service. T. Danford indicated that the committee would be meeting and would bring a recommendation to the Senate in February.

Adjournment: with no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:45 pm. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Faculty Senate will be Friday, 25 February 2000 in the Culinary Arts room, HA, Wheeling Regional Campus.

Respectfully submitted,

Thomas R. Danford, Secretary

last modified: 23 February 2000