ATTENDANCE

Present: Damon Bahr, Deborah Baird, John Balden, David Brandt, Joe Buchman, Elaine Byrd, Eddy Cadet, Ernest Carey, Max Christofferson, Malcolm Crawford, Kathie Debenham, Jeanille Gooch, Eldon Greenhalgh, Ron Hammond, Jill Jasperson, Chris Jones, Stephanie Larsen, Dave Manning, Doug Miller, Duane Miller, Tom Perkins, LouAnn Provost, Kirk Rasmussen, Liliana Riboldi, Grant Richards, Merlin Smith, Keith Snedegar, Dr. Lucille T. Stoddard, K.D. Taylor, Jon Turner, Lynn Turnquist, Cristine Veit, Forrest Williams, Laurie Wood

Absent: Jeanette Hall, Chester Heath, Gary Noll, Don Wilson

Excused: Pres. Kerry Romesburg

Guests: Andrea Brown, Lisa Lambert, Linda Makin, Karl Worthington

CALL TO ORDER

Grant Richards, faculty senate president, call the meeting to order at 3:06 p.m.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Forrest Williams requested two changes to the minutes regarding the Budget Committee. Forrest then moved to approve the minutes for November 24^th, and John Balden seconded. The vote was unanimous.

ACTION ITEMS

See Information Item number ten.

INFORMATION ITEMS

• Evaluation Proposal

The Faculty Development committee suggests that the evaluation process should continue to be spilt. To appease the department chairs and deans, they will allow the formative evaluations to have five department or school-specific questions. The summative evaluation needs to have consistency. There are many ways to evaluate teachers. Right now the forms allow teachers to ask two questions that relate specifically to their class. Departments can also do their own evaluations completely separate from the formative evaluations. This proposal has not been to Deans Council yet. Chris Jones made a motion to table this discussion until the issue has visited Deans Council. Eldon Greenhalgh seconded the motion. The motion passed with two opposed.

• Pace/Faculty Christmas Party

This event will take place Friday, December 18, from 11:00-1:00 in the McKay Events Center, East Court. There will be a turkey dinner, singing contest, prizes, and Santa.

• Student Evaluations of Teachers

Stephanie Larsen explained that the evaluation would be two-fold: 1) The multiple choice questions would be posted directly to the Web, and 2) Personal comments will be screened then posted to the Web. It is unsure as to whether or not student names would be posted with their comments. Laurie Wood suggested that the Student Council put together a mission statement, state their intent, and have it ready for next senate meeting. Hopefully this will clear up any confusion and will give further clarification. Chris Jones suggested having a clear procedure for dealing with faculty grievances. The faculty will need to know who the accuser is if they need to file a grievance. Student Government should address response bias, such as comparing students in classes who are all forced to respond to evaluations, versus those who get on the Internet to fill out evaluations probably have a problem with the teacher. Stephanie mentioned that if senators would like to visit another school's site, the address is: http:/www.arizona.edu , under the faculty page or the student programs page. Arizona posts the summative evaluations, so it would be a little different from our proposal.

• Educators Insurance

A handout was distributed showing the losses that Educators is incurring with our school. Currently, EMIA is paying more claims than the school is paying for insurance premiums. For every $106 EMIA is receiving in claims, we are paying $100. Our insurance is up for bid this year. There is concern about our yearly salary increase going mostly to benefits, which must be funded first.

• Computer Store

The Presidents Council requested that there be a faculty representative on the Information Technology Committee. Ernest Carey will give his input as to which faculty member should sit on the committee.

• General Faculty Meeting

A general faculty meeting will be held on January 14, at 3:00, in the Ragan Theater. Grant Richards requested that each senate committee chair give a committee report to the faculty.

• Academic Standards Committee

Dave Manning reported that this committee has researched the possibility of having students pay for their add card at the registration window. It was decided that students shouldn't have the benefit of an easy registration when they are registering late. History shows that this has been tried once before and was vetoed by the Business Office. Stephanie stated that Ryan Thomas was trying to make the registration a one-stop process. The committee recommends keeping the previous proposal and still requiring the students to pay for the Add Card at the Cashiers window.

• Personnel and Elections Committee

Laurie Wood stated that there have been no recommendations for an AA/EEO representative. They are also still accepting names for the Faculty Senate Executive Secretary position.

• Tenure Committee

This committee is still working on post-tenure review. There is a training meeting scheduled for new faculty members on January 13, at 3:00 p.m.

• Academic Policy Committee

Policy F-22 (F-1.3) would allow someone without a masters or bachelors degree to move to the rank of Associate Professor, but not to any higher rank. Currently we only have tenure and non-tenure tracks or lecturer status. Some of these teachers do not have degrees available to them in their fields. Some senators felt that academic should only be given for academic degrees, and there are educational degrees available in every area. If there are not degrees available in a field, one can seek a masters degree in education. It was mentioned that many of the teachers in technical fields are required to go to school plus do an apprenticeship, plus work in the field for a number of hours. There is no difference in pay between an Instructor and an Associate Professor, but there have been proposals to give pay raises according to academic rank for Associate Professors. One senator stated that just because a person can perform a skill, doesn't mean that they can teach it.

ACTION ITEM

A ballot was distributed for a silent vote on Policy F 1.3. The proposal was defeated with 13 votes in favor and 21 votes against.

• Budget Committee

A copy of the committee's report was handed out last time. If you want a short summary, the last page of the packet is a one-page summary. Ron Hammond gave an extensive oral summary to the senate today. The committee discovered that out of 536 comments regarding the current pay scale only 14 were favorable, and 528 comments were unfavorable, and that 80 comments stated that the Merit Point system was flawed. The committee also discovered that UVSC wages are not comparable to other colleges in Utah nor to the business sector. Ron stated that page four of the written report deals with recruitment and retention issues. Ron also discussed that there is a problem with equity, both internal and external. Page five deals with salary compression. Salary compression is when the salaries don't show a difference in pay gained by rank or longevity. UVSC is compressed compared to the nation and even within the state. Joe Buchman stated that without more money from the state, we are just taking money from one and giving it to another. Linda Makin has a copy of a report done statewide of the salary differences of teachers moving from an academic position in Utah to an academic position in another state. Tuition cannot fund an increase in faculty salaries. Two proposals for a new method of distributing pay will be presented in January.

ADJOURNMENT

ACTION: Duane Miller motioned for adjournment. Cristine Veit seconded. Meeting was adjourned at 4:33 p.m.