Jean Shepherd, Vice President, Phi Theta Kappa

Dr. John O. Hunter, President

• Minutes: The minutes from the 25 August 2000 meeting are available on the webpage, http://www.northern.wvnet.edu/~tdanford/senate . They were approved as published (Goldstein/Dale).



• Phi Theta Kappa: Jean Shepherd, vice president, distributed brochures and summarized Phi Theta Kappa's objectives. She asked faculty to encourage all students to strive for academic excellence and qualified students to join Phi Theta Kappa.



• Presidential Address: Dr. John Hunter spoke to the Senate about the current state of the College, faculty concerns, and his plans for the future. Current challenges facing us include finances (no funds for any aspects of development), enrollment, and governance. Dr. Hunter explained his proposed reorganization, showing charts of responsibility for the new Provost and the various Deans. His plan includes a stronger role and responsibility for the Regional Campus Deans and an emphasis on enrollment management. This reorganization plan, which is still under development, will be presented to the Institutional Board of Advisors in October and hopefully to the Interim Governing Board/Policy Commission in November. He indicated that he would send to all faculty copies of the reorganization plan. Dr. Hunter also discussed some faculty concerns: the use of "term" instead of "temporary", the question of the faculty position description, and faculty evaluation.



• GIP Ad Hoc Committee: M. Grubor reported that this committee met once and is in the process of redesigning the GIP. The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, 13 October, at noon, in the Culinary Arts dining room. All interested faculty are encouraged to attend.



• Wish List Reminder: R. Honeman reminded faculty that the Senate Executive Committee would be working on the "wish list" before the next Senate meeting. He asked for input and suggestions and indicated that these could be sent to him or to any Senate Executive Committee member.



• "Temporary Faculty" Definition: There was a discussion concerning the use of "term"; the major question to be answered is the criteria for application of "temporary" versus "term". "Temporary" is to be used for short appointments (one semester? two semesters?), whereas "term" will be used for the current temporary designation. A motion of approval (Goldstein/Grubor) was made and unanimously endorsed.



• Professional Development Committee: Another faculty member is needed for this committee. R. Berry was duly nominated and elected to serve for the remainder of this academic year.



• Committee Reports:

• Adjournment: With no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:45 pm (Krupinski/Ingram). The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Faculty Senate will be Friday, 27 October 2000, in the Culinary Arts room, HA, Wheeling Regional Campus.

Respectfully submitted,

Thomas R. Danford, Secretary

last modified: 24 October 2000