Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

January 23, 2001

SC 117

Attending: Ron Hammond, Grant Richards, Sandy Vogel, Dr. Stoddard, Luis Arzola, Damon Bahr, John Balden, Paul Bean, Brian Birch, David Brandt, Dezna Bruss, Eddy Cadet, Max Christofferson, Karin Davidson, Kathie Debenham, Bryan Eldredge, Lowell Glenn, Eldon Greenhalgh, Phil Gordon, George Hickman, Larry Holt, Jill Jasperson, Cameron John, Masoud Kazemzadeh, Dennis Lisonbee, David Manning, Doug Miller, Tom Perkins, Lori Richards, Mike Shively, Joe Strange, K.D. Taylor, Lynn Turnquist, Renee Van Buren, Stacy Waddoups, Forrest Williams, Laurie Wood

Absent: Malcolm Crawford, Gary Noll

Excused: President Romesburg

Call to Order: Ron Hammond called the meeting to order at 3:05 p.m.

Presentation of minutes from January 9, 2001: Minutes were presented and no changes made.

Information Items:

Strategic Planning--

Mark Spencer addressed the senate's concerns about the word "values" in the mission statement. The majority of the senate felt the word should not be included, but that ethics should be kept. Mike Shively wanted a value statement added about academic excellence and David Brandt agreed that there needs to be high standards in the curriculum and in student assessment. The committee working on the mission statement provided a handout with a more concise list of values. There will be a meeting Friday at noon in AD 205A for the Strategic Planning Committee.

Faculty Review Policy--

KD Taylor reported that Policy C-5.5 has a contradiction regarding the probationary period for faculty. This will be an action item at the next Senate meeting.

Classified Employees Policy, Staff Development Fund Policy, New Scholarship Policy--

Jill Jasperson asked for these policies to be deferred until next Senate meeting.

Senate President-Elect & Secretary-Elect Nominations & Deadlines--

Laurie Wood set the deadline for petitions for these two open positions as February 20. She would like to get a bio and a statement of the President-Elect candidate's philosophy of & vision for the senate. She plans to have ballots at the March general faculty meeting. Grant made a motion to accept the procedure and deadline set forth by Laurie. The motion passed.

Action Items:

Workplace Violence--

Jill presented the policy with the recommended changes that her committee made. Grant suggested Jill's committee consider including "Community-Oriented Policing" as part of this policy, and other minor changes were suggested by the senate. Joe Strange made a motion to empower Jill to represent the Faculty Senate and make the suggested changes in her committee and then present the re-worked policy to the President's Council. The motion was seconded by Phil Gordon and the motion passed.

Issue Ballots for vote on Representation Issue--

Laurie, Sandy, and LeeAnn passed out ballots to senators to take back to their departments for voting on the representation issue. A motion was made by Doug Miller that full-time lecturers be allowed to vote on the representation issue. The move was seconded by John Balden. Voting was unanimous in favor of the motion. Ballots were distributed and notes made on how many ballots went to each senator with instructions that no extra ballots will be accepted by Laurie when they are returned. Laurie set a deadline of Jan. 31 for submission of completed ballots.

Committee Chair Reports:

Budget--John Balden reported that the Benefits committee will be meeting on Monday.

Academic Standards--

Paul Bean distributed a handout from the Student Rights & Responsibilities Code (E-6.2) that outlined responsibilities and sanctions. The bottom line is that faculty can ask students to leave or call campus police if they have a disruptive student, depending on the nature and degree of disruption. Ron instructed the senators to let their departments know of this policy.

Faculty Merit--

Doug Miller let the senate know that the deadline for merit bonus applications is February 8^th

Deb Marrott reported that they are on schedule for the 1^st week in February for nominations for Teacher of the Year.

Ad Hoc Committee: Political Action Committee--

Larry Holt turned some time over to Jared Finch from ASUVSC to read a Resolution for Student Participation in ASUVSC-Sponsored Legislative Rally. The Resolution read as follows: "Whereas the participation of students in the political process, particularly in legislation concerning their educational institution, has a significant educational component, be it resolved that the Utah Valley State College Faculty Senate encourages faculty not to penalize students for participation in the Utah Student Association rally at the Utah State capitol at noon on February 14, 2001, and, whenever reasonable, not to schedule mandatory activities at that time." Grant made a motion to accept the Resolution and Larry Holt seconded it. The Resolution passed unanimously. Sandy Vogel suggested that an information meeting should be held before going up to the capitol. Jared said he will email that information to Sandy. Larry then addressed the issues of space and growth on campus and said that they can't be separated; there needs to be equity. He encouraged senators to contact their representatives and let them know of their concerns with these issues. He gave a website address to contact representatives: www.le.state.ut.us . There will be a two tier tuition request. The question is who will get to keep the proceeds of the 2^nd tier. Val Peterson will come to the next Faculty Senate meeting and report on what's happening on the Hill.

Motion to adjourn: Laurie Wood made a motion to adjourn after Mandy Richards from ASUVSC made her report to the Senate. The motion passed.

Mandy discussed upcoming events: a motivational speaker on January 24^th at noon, a family night on January 29^th at 6:00 p.m., and an edited version of "The Patriot" at the McKay Events Center at 8:00 p.m. on January 31^st.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:40 p.m.