Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

March 26, 2002

SC 206 c

3:05 -� p.m.

Attendance:��  Ron Hammond, Mike Shively, Karen Dodwell, Dr. Stoddard, Christa Albrecht-Crane, Genan Anderson, Kathryn Andrist, Christina Veit, Lynn Baadsgaard, Damon Bahr, John Balden, Brian Barthel, Paul Bean, Brian Birch, Cris Boggess, Lona Broadhead, Denza Bruss, Mike Bunds, Bryan Eldredge, Diana Fallis, Curtis Fillmore, Lowell Glenn, Phil Gordon, Eldon Greenhalgh, Gamini Gunawardena, Diane Hartman, Donald Hendon, Terry Hill, Cameron John, Masoud Kazemzadeh, Eric Linfield, Dennis Lisonbee, Deb Marrott, Rick McDonald, Steve McKay, Tom Paskett, Joe Strange, Carole Sullivan, Doris Trujillo, Stacy Waddoups,

Absent:��  Janet Bennion, Mark Bracken, Karin Davidson, Larry Holt, Kirk Love, Robert Loveridge Gary Noll, Hugh Rode, Connie Reynolds, Reza Senati, Darren Wiberg,��

Excused:��  President Romesburg Anita Musto, Renee Van Buren�

Call to order: �� Ron called the meeting to order at 3:10 p.m.

Presentation of March 12, 2002 Meeting Minutes: The minutes were presented and no changes made.

Information Items:

Dental Benefits:� John Balden stated that UVSC will be using Met Life as a carrier for dental

benefits and anticipates that customer service will improve.

Standing Committee reorganization: �Michael Shively reported on his committee�s work on evaluating standing committees, and he presented his recommendations for the reorganization of standing committees:� 1)� Standing committees should consist of faculty groups formed by one member from each school selected by the faculty of that school.� 2) Each committee should be chaired by a committee member who is also a member of the faculty senate (selected by members of that committee).� 3) Standing committees should include Executive, Curriculum, Academic Policy, Faculty Merit, Faculty Development, Academic Standards, Tenure, Budget, Course, Lab and Computer Fee (new) and Political Action (new).� 4)� Each committee should have the authority to consult with the administration and/or staff and students as necessary to execute its duties and responsibilities.� 5)� The Personnel and Election Committee should be changed to a Personnel and Election Chairman, elected by the senate from senate members as needed.� 6)� The Teacher of the Year Committee should be renamed Teacher of the Year Coordinator and be elected by the senate from the senate members as needed.�

Senators discussed the issue of representation on the committees and the election of committee chairs.� The discussion centered on whether committee chairs could simply be elected by committee members and whether committee chairs had to be members of the faculty senate.� Michael stressed that the scheme for organizing committees would open up more opportunities for faculty members to serve on committees.� He also stressed that reorganizing the standing committees would mean that departments would conduct the elections for committee membership, not the senate.�

Action Items:

Lifetime Senate Award - Ron asked for nominations for the award.� There were none presented at the meeting, nor had there been any nominations prior to the meeting.� Senators may nominate individuals at the next meeting.

Tenure Policy � Michael Shively suggested that the senate divide the draft of the tenure policy from the Tenure Committee (to be called document #1) into parts and only deal with the part that addresses tenure and then move to amend the policy to read word for word like the tenure policy created by Sam Rushford (to be called document #2).� Michael claimed document #2 is a more logical starting point for discussion and passage of the policy.�

Michael Shively moved to only deal with section VI. Tenure of policy C-5.5.� The motion was seconded.� Brian Birch moved to amend the motion and move the tenure policy out of the Human Resources policy section.� There was a second to the motion.� Ron Hammond claimed moving the tenure policy from the Human Resources section would be fine with the administration.� The suggestion was made to move the policy to section F under faculty policies.� After a brief discussion, the motion to amend the original motion passed.� Ron Hammond will bring the issue of moving the tenure section to President�s Council and that he would check with Nancy Bartlett about the renumbering.� Michael Shively�s original motion passed unanimously.

Michael Shively moved that the committee accept document #1 (received from the Tenure Committee).� The motion was seconded.� Phil Gordon moved to amend the motion by replacing the wording of document #1 in section VI with the wording of document #2.� The motion for the amendment was seconded. Joe Strange moved to amend the amendment and reserve the right to the senate to edit document #2.� Rick McDonald seconded the motion.� Michael Shively explained that amending document #2 was the original intent all along.� He assured the senate that Karin Davidson and Kirk Rasmussen have no problems with the motion to replace the wording of document #1 with the wording of document #2.� The amendment to the amendment passed.� Phil Gordon�s amendment to replace the wording of document #1 with that of document #2 also passed.� Michael Shively�s original motion to accept document #1 passed.� Joe Strange moved to accept document #2 but to go through seriatim and amend the document.� The motion was seconded and passed.�

A motion was made to call for discussion on each section and when the chair hears no discussion to consider the section approved without a motion and a call for a question.� The motion was seconded and passed.�

Section I.� Philosophy � passed without discussion

Section II.� Purpose � An amendment to change the end of paragraph one passed:� after �established procedures� the words �created by individual departments and/or schools� were added.

Section III.� Rights � passed without discussion

Section IV Tenure � A.� An amendment passed to change the wording in IV.A. to read� �considering the recommendation of the President of the College, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Deans.�� (Delete �under the direction�� and add in its place �considering the recommendation�)� Brian Eldridge moved to amend section IV.A. to add after Deans, �department chairs or program coordinators.�� The motion passed.�

Section IV.B.� � Joe Strange moved to change the phrase �continued scholarly contributions� in the third sentence to read �continued teaching, service, and scholarly contributions.� The motion passed.�

Section IV.C.1� Competency - A motion was made and seconded to amend the section by adding the words �as defined in C-5.5 Section IV Responsibilities� after the phrase �in each of three areas.�� The motion passed.�

A motion to work through Section C and then adjourn was seconded and passed.

Section IV.C.2� Eligibility � no changes

Section IV.C.3 Assignments while in Tenure Track � no changes

Section IV.C.4 Effective Date � no changes