Faculty Senate
Minutes: 4
March 2005
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Present: K. Atkins, S. Beck, R. Berry, D. Board, C. Cornforth,
C. Dale, J. Daley, T. Danford, M. Davis,
F. DeCaria, C. Eastham, D. Folger, K. Freeman, M. Goldstein, D. Goeddel, M.
Grubor, D. Hans, C. Harbert, K. Herrington, S. Hooff, S. Huggins, L. Ingram, D.
Jones, C. Kefauver, J. Keyser, N. Krupinski, R. Lucki (presiding), R. Malek, M.
Marlin, M. O’Brien, D. Poffenberger, R. Pusz, T. Ramsey, C. Riter, C. Rogerson,
D. Roth, S. Rychlicki, P. Sharma, L. Shelek, V. Slider, C. Stokes, C. Teaff, J.
Tully, J. VanFossan, A. Vavra, M. Watson, G. Winland
Excused: B. Gast, A.
Kuca, H. Papeika, J. Remias,
Absent: D. Bartley, F.
Binkley, T. Craig, L. Miller
Guests: Dr. B. Good, M. Koon, S. Woodburn
The meeting was called to
order by President Ralph Lucki at 1:30 pm in the Telecom Room on each campus.
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Minutes: The
minutes from the February 2005 Faculty Senate meeting were approved as posted on
the web page. (Watson/Krupinski)
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R. Lucki
introduced Dr. B. Good, who presented an overview of the current state of
Assessment. The faculty was given a
packet of Assessment Report information.
The Assessment committee requests that the Subject Area Assessment
Report Form be completed by April 1, 2005 and returned to M. Koon. (You may work individually or in subject
areas). The Assessment Report Form is
due by September 1, 2005 documenting the assessment that was completed during
the Spring 2005 semester. This is to be returned to Dr. Good. These forms will be sent out electronically
by D. Sommerville, you may return them electronically
or paper copies.
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Committees
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Committee |
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Report |
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Assessment Team |
See above. |
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ACF |
M. Davis reported that the group is currently busy
with the legislative session. A
brochure containing the legislative agenda was given to faculty. SB 212 has support—Please contact your legislators to ask for their support in
passing this bill. A special session
will be held in August to look at teachers’ salaries, higher education is
working toward being included. The
American Federation of Teachers would like to speak with faculty
members. Tentative date will be the
April meeting. |
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BOG |
T. Danford reported that the Board met on February
24th. There was not a
quorum, so business was held over for the March meeting. Faculty questioned how the building was
going to be named. T. Danford reported
that this issue has not been brought to the Board’s attention. |
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Budget |
N. Krupinski reported that the faculty
representatives to the committee reiterated the faculty’s desire to utilize
excess funds to place all faculty members at their correct base according to
the policy. There is an attempt at the federal level to get rid
of Perkin’s Funding. |
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Curriculum |
K. Herrington reported that the committee is working
to divide the AA program into areas of specific concentrations, as was
suggested by the consultant. The
specialty areas would be: Psychology,
English, Social Sciences, and History. Dr. Good and The Standards of Progress Policy was given to
faculty. Please forward any further
comments to Kathy prior to their meeting next Friday. |
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Enrollments Management |
M. Watson reported the committee discussed the
Standard of Progress policy. The
current student numbers are good; the group is looking for ways to maintain
these numbers. Some suggestions were
increased college fairs (include Sophomore level students) and program open
houses for students and parents. |
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FERC |
No meeting. |
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General Education |
No meeting. |
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Institutional Technology |
D. Goeddel reported that there are
more tech-enhanced room ordered. Student ID cards will be implemented in the
Fall. Student e-mail accounts are
ready, but a date has not been released for issuing these. |
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Liberal Arts Task Force |
The committee has been discussing the AA concentrations,
as well as looking at adding a Journalism/Speech area. |
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Professional Development |
M. Goldstein reported the group is still accepting
requests for conferences, limit is still $750. The Great Teachers seminar will be held
June 27-30. A flyer will be sent out
when available. The Don Nemenich/Sarah
Bodkin award account has been sent IRS information and will need to pay
taxes. Move the
money from the Don Nemenich/Sarah Bodkin Award account to the Foundation,
with a stipulation that a gift be given yearly to the Valedictorian. (Goldstein/Danford). Motion carried unanimously. Mark will work with Bob DeFrancis to take
care of this matter. |
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Promotion |
Will meet after the second week in April. |
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Scheduling |
T. Danford is still accepting recommendations on the
“rules” to be set up in the new software program. Please send any further comments ASAP. The
software has been installed. The faculty question the
memo from Dr. Good concerning the schedule, stating the Fall semester
schedule will be run on the software for comparison purposes. Faculty
request the Spring 2005 schedule also be run using
the software. (Vavra/Daley) Motion carried unanimously. Will recommend to the scheduling committee. |
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Advising |
D. Roth reported that there will be more emphasis placed
on faculty advising for the week prior to classes beginning. It will be important to be available during
your scheduled times. The committee is
looking at program specific orientations, and forms for documenting calls and
requests for information at the |
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Old Business
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Overload
Contracts
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The contracts
have been sent to faculty.
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Program
Directors
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The program
directors without contracts met with R. Yeager to review the charter of
responsibilities. A change from
“full-time evaluations” to assists with part-time evaluations was made. Note:
the memo that was sent erroneously included an organization chart.
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Faculty
request no further reorganization until a new President is hired (This should
not be construed to mean that the program directors issue not be
resolved). (Davis/Daley)
Motion carried unanimously.
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Faculty
questioned who is completing the full-time evaluations—at this point R. Yeager
is doing evaluations. This was included
in her job responsibilities. Faculty are concerned with a major administrator
performing faculty evaluations.
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Merit Policy
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Faculty
request T. Danford be given the merit policy to
present to the BOG at the next meeting. (Vavra/Daley)
Motion carried unanimously.
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New Business
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Grievance
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The Grievance
Board has remanded the grievance back to Dr. Hunter to hold a proper Level III
hearing.
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2005-2006
Academic Calendar
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Faculty request the
opportunity to view the 2005-2006 calendar prior to the presentation to the
BOG.
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Election
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The faculty
senate executive committee and officers will be elected at the next senate
meeting.
Adjournment: With no further business, the faculty senate
meeting was adjourned at 3:05 pm.
(Krupinski/Watson)
Respectfully submitted,
Lisa
A. Ingram, Secretary