Minutes of March 24, 2004
I. The meeting was called to order at 4:00 p.m. (38 Senators present).
II. The minutes of the February 18 meeting were corrected to add Sen. Ferguson's name as author of a motion concerning the Cafe de Lafayette. Minutes approved as corrected.
III Report of the Executive Officer – Mickey Byrd. Written Report. Attachment 1
IV. Reports of Senate Committees: Permanent Committees:
A. Committee on Committees: Steve Knouse, Chair. No Report
B. Ways and Means Committee: William Rieck, Chair. No Report
C. Academic Planning and Development Committee: George Thomas, Chair. Written report. Attachment 2.
Sen. Berkeley moved that the Faculty Senate endorse all the recommendations of the Academic Planning and Development Committee and will take steps to implement them. These recommendations will also be forwarded to the President. Seconded by Sen. Pyenson. Passed
D. Governmental Concerns Committee: Christian Okoye, Chair. No Report
E. Faculty Senate-Faculty Advisory Council. Harry Bruder, Chair
At the February meeting FAC had considerable success in making substantial changes to the so-called review of faculty ranks, clarifying the language especially. The forthcoming PPM will show whether this was successful. The system itself has retracted a proposed PPM which called for a course on multiculturalism be a requirement at every institution. This countered the intent of the system to reduce rather than add to the number of hours required for graduation. No mention was made of the problems of having nonacademic personnel decide course content at the individual institution, basing the content on social engineering .At the next meeting FAC will meet with system representative on the subject of how faculty can be maximally protected when their program is discontinued
V Reports of Special Senate Committees
A. Ad Hoc Committee on Adjunct Faculty: Nichole Stanford, Chair. No report.
B. Ad Hoc Web Site Committee: Jack Ferstel, Chair. No report.
C. Ad Hoc Committee on the Faculty Club: Joe Riehl, Chair.
D. Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Student Housing Concerns. Karl Volkmar, Chair
F. Ad Hoc Committee to Revise Dismissal for Cause Procedures John Greene, Chair. No report. .
VI. Reports of University Committees
A. Curriculum Committee: Paula Broussard, Chair. .The deadline for submission of courses of changes for the next catalog is April 15.
B. Faculty Grievance Committee: Ron Heady, Chair. No Report
C. Faculty Benefits and Welfare Committee: Melinda Oberleitner, Chair. No report
D. Library Committee: Allan Jones, Chair. No Report
E. Committee on Academic Affairs and Standards: Lewis Deaton, Chair Written report Attachment 3
F. Parking and Planning Committee: No report
G. Student Evaluation of Instruction: James Flaitz, Chair. No Report
VII Unfinished Business
A. Senator Pyenson asked why the President hasn't appointed the new committee proposed in the last few meetings. Sen. Byrd explained that the President hasn't received the committee charges yet, because a special ad hoc committee is still working on them. Will also get to work on changing deadlines for grades and will have Mr. Bowie in to talk about it. Many universities have 36 hours.
VIII New Business
A. Sen. Gentry brought up the problem of food service for the back of campus. Sen. Byrd and President responded that a food court near the ROTC building is under construction and should be finished soon
B. Sen. Carolyn Bruder attended the recent CLCU meeting It was interesting. On Friday had round-table sessions with an actual Board of Regent representative at the table.
C. Sen. Berkeley is mulling a proposal to bring to the April meeting concerning levying a fee out of faculty salaries to be put in a pot for the faculty senate to use. He will have it in written form by the next meeting and would like comments.
D. Sen. Gentry thanked Sen. Byrd's student aide for her help in putting together the white paper on the library collections
IX. Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 4:30 .
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Flynn
Secretary