Attendance: Ron Hammond, Grant Richards, Dr. Stoddard, Luis Arzola, John Balden, Paul Bean, Brian Birch, David Brandt, Denza Bruss, Karin Davidson, Kathie Debenham, Bryan Eldredge, Phil Gordon, Eldon Greenhalgh, George Hickman, Cameron John, David Manning, Gary Noll, Tom Perkins, Mike Shively, Joe Strange, Stacy Waddoups, Forrest Williams, Laurie Wood, Steven McKay

Absent: Damon Bahr, Eddy Cadet, Max Christofferson, Malcolm Crawford, Lowell Glenn, Masoud Kazemzadeh, Doug Miller, Lori Richards, Renee Van Buren, Mandy Richards, Terry Hill

Excused: Dr. Stoddard, Eldon Greenhalgh, Larry Holt, Gary Noll, Tom Perkins, Forrest Williams

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

Presentation of Minutes from 3/13/01:
Joe Strange requested changes be made to reflect the close of the nomination of Larry Marsing for the Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award. The minutes will be changed.

Report from President Romesburg:
President Romesburg reminded senators that April 27th is commencement for UVSC. President Gordon B. Hinckley and his wife, Marjorie Hinckley will both receive honorary Doctorates from the college. President Hinckley will be the commencement speaker. Also, on May 12th the Dalai Lama will be speaking at the McKay Events Center at 2:30 p.m. President Romesburg told the senators that if they would like to attend the event, they will need to contact either their department chair or Val Peterson for tickets. The event is sold out and security will be very tight.

Information Items:

Election results of senate leaders--
Laurie Wood announced that Karen Dodwell will be the new Senate Secretary-Elect, and Mike Shively will be the President-Elect.

Reminder about timetable for replacement of committee chairs & senators for Fall 2001--
Laurie also announced that some Schools still need to elect senators. She asked senators to look at a list she passed around to let her know if they are leaving this year and to let her know who their replacement will be. April 10th will be the deadline for committee chair nominations and new senators. April 24th will be the date for electing committee chairs.

Classified Staff Policy--
Jill Jasperson reported that her committee looked at this policy and found no problems with it. She is going to get the web address from Nancy Bartlett and give it Sandy so that senators can look at the policy.

Apportionment verification--
Ron said that there were some differences between the list he had and the one Linda Makin had. He gave the names that were different to Linda. There are 300 faculty. Of course, this will change over the summer when new faculty are hired.

Benefits report--
John Balden reported that the Benefits committee decided to go with EMIA again this year. They are looking into the possibility of lowering the co-pay for secondary providers from $25 to $15. They are also discussing the possibility of an ER adjustment. Faculty will be receiving a 4% pay increase. Doug Miller discussed merit. President Romesburg clarified that merit is not a cost of living increase, but rather merit pay for all who meet the expectations as stated by their School merit committee. Merit bonus should be on the mid April paycheck.

PAC "Thanks to Legislators"--
Ron reported in Larry Holt's absence. Larry is personally delivering thank you notes to the legislators and inviting them to the April 10th Faculty Senate Meeting where they will acknowledged.

Action Items:
Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award--
Ron reported that Larry Marsing has officially been elected to receive the award.

ASUVSC Report:
Mandy Richards introduced James Toone, the VP of Academics, as the new representative from ASUVSC for the Faculty Senate. She also announced the following activities:
3/28/01 Wolverine Achievement Awards, Ragan Theater, 7:00 p.m.
4/6/01 "Enemy of the State" movie in the Quad at 9:00 p.m.
4/9/01 Family Night, quad, 6-7:30pm
4/11/01 Mr. UVSC, Ragan Theater, 7pm
4/12/01 Lex de Azevedo's "Hosanna", McKay Events Center, 7:30pm
4/20/01 Quad Activities

Committee Chair Reports:

Curriculum Committee--
Joe Strange reported that he and Dennis Fairclough have been working hard on a new electronic curriculum program. This will be a standardized format and should be ready to use Spring 2002.

Tenure Committee--
K.D. let the senate know that Kirk Rasmussen is re-working the Post Tenure Review Policy to reflect all the changes and suggestions he has received to date. He will be talking to the Senate on April 10th.

Personnel & Elections--
Laurie once again made a pitch to give names of new senators to her soon and to see if new senators could be encouraged to be chairs for committees with vacancies. Also, senators should invite new senators to our final meeting/social on April 24th.

Merit Bonus--
Doug let the senators know that merit increases should appear on the mid-April paycheck. He asked if the Merit and Teacher of the Year committees could be combined. It was requested that Deb Marrott be invited to the next Faculty Senate meeting to discuss this.

Academic Standards--
Paul Bean reminded the senators that they will receive a final printout of students within a couple of weeks and to make sure that it is correct so that students have time to register if they haven't already.

Call to adjourn:
There was a call to adjourn the meeting at 3:50 p.m. Voting was unanimous and the meeting was adjourned.