Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

October 24, 2000

SC 117

3:00 - 4:45 p.m.

Attendance: Ron Hammond, Grant Richards, Sandy Vogel, Luis Arzola, John Balden,

Paul Bean, Brian Birch, David Brandt, Denza Bruss, Eddy Cadet, Max Christofferson, Malcolm Crawford, Kathie Debenham, Bryan Eldredge, Lowell Glenn, Eldon Greenhalgh, Phil Gordon, George Hickman, Larry Holt, Jill Jasperson, Cameron John, Masoud Kazemzadeh, David Manning, Mike Shively, Joe Strange, K.D. Taylor, Lynn Turnquist, Stacy Waddoups, Forrest Williams, Laurie Wood, Jim Blankenship

Guests: Lisa Lambert, J. Karl Worthington, Mark Spencer

Absent: Dennis Lisonbee, Gary Noll, Lori Richards, Renee Van Buren, Karin Davidson

Excused: President Romesburg, Dr. Stoddard, Doug Miller

Call to Order: Ron Hammond called the meeting to order at 3:06 p.m.

Presentation of Minutes from 10/10/00: Minutes were presented and no changes were made.

Information Items:

Faculty Representation needed on Strategic Planning/Conversation Groups - Mark Spencer provided senators with an information packet regarding UVSC's strategic planning efforts and gave a brief overview of what has happened to date and how faculty can participate with strategic planning. He indicated that faculty input has been pretty minimal so far, and he would really like to see faculty better represented on these important issues. There are nine major issues that surfaced during the early stages and nine committees were formed and have been meeting to discuss each of those issues. Interim reports from meetings this summer and fall are included in the information packet. Meeting information is on the website. Dr. Spencer told the Senate that he would be glad to come back to have more in-depth discussions about key issues. Strategic Planning is supposed to be completed in April. He's optimistic that the Regents will be supportive of our ideas.

Student Government -Jim Blankenship reported that the gubernatorial debate was a huge success. USA Today highlighted the debate. He also reported that UVSCSA has chartered several buses on Friday, October 27, to go up to Weber State for a rally at 8:00 a.m. in support of reasonable tuition increases. They will be meeting in Lot L. They will also be having a "Rock the Vote" registration from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. in the quad at UVSC on Friday as well. That evening candidates from Utah County have been invited to campus for dinner and the play, "Pirates of Penzance."

Faculty Dinner Theater Evening - James Arrington talked about the dinner theater that Dr. Stoddard sponsors this Thursday evening. He would like Senators to make sure the faculty in their department know about the event since there has been a problem with email notification going to all the full-time faculty. He will set aside tickets for those that have RSVP'd.

Faculty Basketball Night - Grant Richards announced that the date for the faculty basketball game will be February 9^th. UVSC will be playing Ricks for the last time. There will be more information as it comes nearer.

New Policy - PACE C7.1 - This policy was introduced as a priority 3. It has to do with the appraisal system with PACE employees. This is being expedited by Human Resources.

Christmas Social - Cameron John will be on the committee again. The social is scheduled for December 14^th from 11am-2 pm.

UVSC Consortium - Corey Callahan reported that UVSC will probably be a part of this consortium, which consists of UVSC and all colleges south of us. This consortium will benefit smaller colleges more than it will UVSC. Corey said that our benefits will cost more, but that will be happening whether we are in the consortium or not. Ron mentioned to Corey that the faculty would like a membership book from EMIA so that mistakes aren't made again about who providers are. Faculty went 3 � months without knowing exactly what their benefits were or who their providers were. Corey said that EMIA held up the process, but EMIA claims UVSC held it up. Either way employees are being held responsible.

Action Items:

Leave of Absence Policy (C3-6)

Denza Bruss moved that the policy be passed. Luis Arzola seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

Professional/Administrative Employee Compensation Procedures (C4.3):

Stacy Waddoups moved to accept and pass the policy. John Balden seconded motion. Policy C4.3 passed unanimously.

Constitution Revision, Section IX:

Laurie Wood made mention of an inconsistency in the bylaws and suggested that they need to be evaluated so there is more consistency. Ernie Carey will reconvene his committee as an Ad Hoc committee to examine the old constitution side-by-side with the revised version to make sure nothing was left out or missed. This is not a re-write, just a chance to look for inconsistencies and errors, and formatting issues. Senators should look at it too and give feedback. Joe Strange said that we need an end game strategy for constitution bylaws so our work is productive and the senate can take a final, binding vote.

Ron asked that the senators take time to listen to what is being suggested as it relates to section ix. He reminded the senators that what is decided doesn't go into effect until March when new Senators are elected. He also asked that senators wait to speak until they are acknowledged so that the discussion can run smoothly.

Phil Gordon reported that David Keller was concerned about adjunct faculty and how they should be figured in. Ron said that it is an important issue, but we need to table it for the time being because full-time representation needs to be talked about at this juncture.

It was stated that in this country's constitution the founding fathers recognized that there was no fair way to resolve the representation issue. Thus, we will need to compromise on the representation issue. Ron asked if we even need to change the section. Paul Bean said his concern is that if we leave it the way it is, there is no clear definition or direction. One of the things he liked about David Keller's memo was that there would be some combination of departments. Paul represents three departments. Lowell Glenn said that we need to decide how large we're going to allow the Senate to become because eventually there will be more faculty. Ron asked the senators to look at the handout he created showing the constitution of senates throughout the state. The University of Utah has over 80 senators and 19 non-faculty on their senate. Their president said that their senate works well. K.D. mentioned that the original constitution has something in it that says departments can't have more than 25% representation, which helps to avoid controlling votes in the senate. David Manning wanted to know why there can't be some mix. Why can't there be a variable for population or adjust numbers to make it fairer? KD suggested that we have representation from each department, but that the vote for a voting member be weighted in terms of the number of faculty they represent. Bryan Eldredge thought that a compromise can be worked out. We need to protect the diversity of ideas. Sandy Vogel commented that if senators represent multiple departments, they need to recognize that they will have a larger time commitment since they will be responsible for going to several different meetings to communicate what was discussed in Senate and to elicit what the departments would like to have communicated in the senate. Joe Strange asked if there could be a combination house and senate formula in which every department gets one representative and everything over that has to do with some sort of proportion. The numbers will grow as departments grow. At least that way, everyone gets represented.

Paul Bean made a motion that the meeting be adjourned at 4:45 p.m. Eldon Greenhalgh seconded the motion. A vote was taken and the motion passed. The motion was opposed by Brian Birch, Masoud Kazemzadeh and Forrest Williams.

It was decided that a compromise will need to be made. An Ad Hoc Committee of senator volunteers from each school will be formed to assess the various proposals an suggestions made to date and then report back to the senate. The volunteers included Dave Manning, Eddy Cadet, Brian Birch, Phil Gordon, K.D. Taylor, Luis Arzola, Paul Bean and Joe Strange. This committee will be formalized and given direction from the Executive Committee in order to come up with a plan that will help to move section ix forward in a reasonable manner.

Adjournment of Meeting:

As previously voted upon, the meeting was adjourned at 4:45 p.m.