Minutes

Faculty Senate Meeting

2 November 2004

On 2 November 2004, the SPSU Faculty Senate met in J-152 at noon, Moderator of the Faculty Becky Rutherfoord presiding.

	Senators		Ex-Officio
	Tony Rizzuto, ARCH	P	Dave Hornbeck, Interim VPAA
P	Jack Duff, BCP	P	Bill Barnes, Dean ACC
P	Matt Wilson, CET	P	Alan Gabrielli, Dean AS
P	Zuhair El-Itr, CNST	P	Mike Murphy, Dean CSE
P	John Rupf, CS		Wayne Unsell, Dean ETM
P	Lance Crimm, ECET
P	Walt Thain, ECET		Visitors
P	Betty Oliver, HTC	P	Dawn Ramsey, Dean EU
P	Lester Dollar, IET	P	Charles Bachman, ECET
	Fred Hartfield, IT	P	Joel Fowler, MATH
P	Steven Vincent, LIB	P	John Sweigart, MET
P	Steven Edwards, MATH	P	Venu Dasigi, CS
P	Jennie Conn, MGNT
P	Britt Pearce, MET
P	Tom Rotnem, SIS
P	Andy Wang, SWE

1. Approval of Minutes

1.1 The minutes to the 19 October 2004 meeting were approved.

2. Institutional Review Board P&P (no number), May 2003

2.1 The Senate approved the Institutional Review Board P&P with the following amendments made at the 19 October 2004 Senate meeting:

2.1.1 Under Background, after “This P&P provides the charge for the Institutional Review Board. (IRB)” add “It is the responsibility of the principal investigator, employee, or agent to initiate and follow the procedures described below to ensure the safety and rights of the human and animal participants.”

2.1.2 Under Goals, after “The Southern Polytechnic State University Institutional Review Board (SPSU-IRB), reviews for approval and monitors for progress all research protocols” insert “and instructional experimentation.”

2.1.3 Under Submission Process, after Incomplete applications will be returned without review.” add “Note: Grant applications require this approval prior to submission.

2.2 The Senate also approved the amended Institutional Review Board application form “Application for the Use of Animal and Human Subjects in Research.”

3. Student Life Committee P&P 203.06

3.1 The Senate approved the 12 October 2004 revision of the Student Life Committee P&P 203.06.

4. Updates from Subcommittee Chairs

4.1 Senator Thain, chair of Subcommittee 3, promised to present some P&P drafts at the next Senate meeting. On the horizon for his subcommittee, the Faculty Senate P&P.

5. Discussion of Summer Term

Interim VPAA Hornbeck, speaking on plans for the upcoming summer term, made it clear that Summer 2005 faculty salaries must come from the FY2006 budget, which is anticipated to be less than the current budget. If the faculty pay rate is to remain the same as summer 2004, then the minimum class sizes for cancellations and for full compensation would have to be increased for summer 2005 if we are to approach a true “break-even” point.

The meeting adjourned at 12:54.

The next Senate meeting will be Tuesday 16 November 2004 in J152.

Mark Stevens, Secretary             Becky Rutherfoord, Moderator