Attendance: Ron Hammond, Grant Richards, Sandy Vogel, President Romesburg, Damon Bahr, John Balden, Paul Bean, Brian Birch, David Brandt, Denza Bruss, Eddy Cadet, Max Christofferson, Kathie Debenham, Bryan Eldredge, Phil Gordon, Eldon Greenhalgh, George Hickman, Larry Holt, Jill Jasperson, Cameron John, Masoud Kazemzadeh, Dennis Lisonbee, David Manning, Tom Perkins, Lori Richards, Mike Shively, Joe Strange, K.D. Taylor, Lynn Turnquist, Renee Van Buren, Laurie Wood, Mandy Richards, Terry Hill

Absent: Stacy Waddoups, Gary Noll, Malcolm Crawford

Excused: Dr. Stoddard, Luis Arzola, Lowell, Glenn, Forrest Williams

Guests: Mark Spencer, Karl Worthington

Call to order: Ron Hammond called the meeting to order at 3:03 p.m.

Presentation of Minutes from 2/13/01:
Minutes were presented and accepted without changes.

Report from President Romesburg:
President Romesburg let the senators know that Val Peterson wouldn't be at the meeting to present an update of proceedings on the Hill since he was still in a session there. The President reported that almost every college would get a new building. In addition to a new building, UVSC is also getting a new entrance and road. There will be a 6% compensation package, from which benefits must come, but it is still a better increase than in years past. Overall, President Romesburg felt this was a great year for higher education with the exception of not receiving enough funding for enrollment growth. He said we will have to wait to see what happens with tuition increases.

Information Items:

Final Strategic Planning Committee Reports–
Mark Spencer gave the senators a new vision statement to look over and revised drafts of the mission stateemt and value statements as well. He remarked that a lot of time was spent on these statements to implement suggested changes.

ASUVSC Report–
Mandy Richards indicated that J.D. Hoye will be a speaker for the students on February 28th at noon in the Ragan Theater. March 5-6 will be the Health Fair held in the Hall of Flags, and on March 7th at noon author Gerald Lund will speak in the Ragan Theater. Also, on March 7th at 7:00pm, an edited version of The Green Mile will be shown at the McKay Events Center. Mandy mentioned that nominations are being accepted for the Wolverine Achievement Awards. Nominations are due March 13th and the awards will be given on March 28th.

Final Nominations for President-Elect & Secretary-Elect–
Laurie Wood noted that the dates she gave in the last senate meeting were incorrect. Ballots will be passed out on March 13th in the Faculty Senate meeting. Ballots need to be returned to Laurie by March 20th after which she and her committee will count them. Laurie passed out bios on all candidates for senators to distribute, with the exception of Mike Shively, who has mailed his bio materials out to all faculty. This information will also be posted to the senate web site.

Reminder of timetable for replacement of committee chairs & senators–
Laurie reminded senators that nominations need be emailed to her by April 10th.

Parking Issues Committeee–
Ron asked for volunteers to serve on this committee at the request of Steve Jackson. George Hickman and Dennis Lisonbee volunteered.

Faculty Lifetime Service Award guidelines and time line–
Ron said that we will need nominations by our next Faculty Senate meeting on March 13th.

Police Advisory Committee–
Grant reported that a committee has been formed to look at having more of a police presence on campus. The committee approached the Orem police department about helping UVSC police the area, but they are more expensive than what we are currently paying our campus police. One possibility may be to have Orem police patrol campus roads between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.

Follow up discussion of adjunct representation issue, survey committee, and possible ad hoc committee –
Ron mentioned that Harriet Wallis has everyone on the adjunct survey committee assisting to create and conduct am effective survey of all adjunct before the end of this semester.

Scholarship Policy update–
Jill Jasperson reported that there were no major changes that needed to be made to the policy and moved that it be an action item at the next Faculty Senate meeting. Sandy will ask Nancy Bartlett to email a copy of the policy to her so that she can forward it to senators.

Faculty Post-Tenure Review Draft–
K.D. Taylor went over a draft of the post-tenure review document she and her committee have been working on. She indicated that their committee has chosen a triggering method for review of tenured faculty. Some senators felt that the draft needed to be more specific about what "cause" is. Other questions were raised about the purpose of the review that would result from a faculty member being "triggered, whether it would be remediation or firing or something else, and what the guidelines would be for deans in this situation. "A clearer time frame for appealing an unsatisfactory review was also recommended. KD commented that these were helpful comments that she would take back to her committee, and that their intentions were positive towards faculty in creating this document. President Romesburg commented that the document KD's committee has come up with is an excellent start for a Faculty Post-Tenure Review guideline.

Guidelines & timetable for forming School committees to redistribute senators–
Grant suggested that each School's committee could consist of the faculty senators already in place from that school since not much time is lefty this semester. An email will be sent to the Dean's of each school to let them know that the Executive Committee recommends the committees be set up this way. The following senators will chair their School committees: HASS: Brian Birch; CSIS: George Hickman; BUS: Doug Miller; SCI: Lynn Turnquist.

Laurie Wood made a motion that the senate be apportioned with 50 senators. Brian Birch seconded the motion. Joe Strange made an amendment to that motion by suggesting that we double check on the actual number of faculty and vote by March 1st. This amendment to the motion was seconded by Eldon Greenhalgh. There was a call for the question on the amendment made by Joe Strange. His amendment to the motion was passed unanimously. There was a call for the question on the motion made by Laurie Wood. Her motion passed unanimously. It was agreed by the senators that there would be 50 senators and that it would be a good idea to look at apportionment again in August or September to address the issue of promised contracts. It was also suggested that it would be good to put names with numbers when faculty are counted. An email will be sent to all faculty directing them how and when to vote, along with a copy of the Constitution, so it can be ratified quickly so that reapportionment and School committees can begin. Faculty are to respond via email by typing "ratify" or "not ratify" in the subject line of the email. Senators were reminded that only 2/3 of the responding faculty are needed to ratify the constitution. Laurie Wood also stated that faculty could respond by sending her a voice mail at ext 8501.

Action Items:

Policy C-4.2–
Jill Jasperson presented the policy and suggested it could be passed. Laurie Wood moved that it be passed and Joe Strange seconded the motion. The voting was unanimous in favor of the policy passing.

Policy C-5-6–
K.D. Taylor presented the policy without the changes that Jill's committee suggested (putting exceptions could be made to the entire policy at the top of the document) because her committee felt uncomfortable with them. Instead they included this information only with the last item on the policy. Voting was unanimous in favor of the policy as presented and it passed.

Call to adjourn:
A motion was made to adjourn the meeting. The voting was unanimous and the meeting adjourned at 4:35 p.m.