MINUTES
Continuation-Faculty Senate Meeting (of Feb 11, 18, 25)
March 20, 2003
March 20, 2003 Faculty Senate met in M100 Auditorium, at noon. Professor Tom Currin, Moderator of the Faculty presided.
Senators: Ex Officio / Visitors
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Patrick Bobbie (CSE) |
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Richard Aynsley (ETM) |
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Bill Burnett (PCB) |
Bill Barnes (ACC) |
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Dave Caudill (IET) |
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Alan Gabrielli (AS) |
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C. Richard Cole (ARCH) |
Mike Murphy (CSE) |
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Tom Currin [Moderator](CET) |
Sandy Pfeiffer (VPAA) |
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Robert N Dreyer (ECET) |
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Steve Edwards (Math) |
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Leigh Hall (Lib) |
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Don Horton (MET) |
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Joel Fowler (Math) |
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Zuhair Itr (CNST) |
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John Sweigart (MET) |
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Susan Morrow (HTC) |
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Walt Thomas (ATET) |
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Bernice Nuhfer-Halten (SIS) |
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Tom Rotnem (SIS) |
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Hassan Pournaghshband (CSE) |
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Fred Hartfield (CSE) |
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Ronny Richardson (Mgt) |
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Terry Carter (HTC) |
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Mark Stevens (HTC) |
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Barbara Thomas (CSE) |
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Scott Tippens (ECET) |
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Matt Wilson (CET) |
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Don Young (MATH) |
1. Welcome
1.1 Moderator started the meeting at 12:00
1.2 E-mailed list of "things to do" is just a partial list. Refer to list at end of this document.
1.3 Motion made, seconded, and passed: Send all the pending P&Ps back to their originator to make corrections to reflect the new organization.
1.4 Motion made, seconded, and passed: Provide authorization (for Faculty Moderator and Secretary) to make editing changes to approved P&Ps already sent to the President so that new organizational structure is included
1.5 Motion made, seconded, and passed: Procedure to form subcommittees to deal with future P&P submissions: have groups of three senators, rotating through all members, to review P&P and report to the Senate at the next meeting. Selection would be in alphabetical order.
1.6 Notice to all standing committees: Senate needs P&Ps for standing committees mentioned in new Statutes to be drafted by the committees to be submitted first Senate meeting Fall semester.
1.7 Motion made, seconded, and passed: Create subcommittee to handle election of members to standing committees: members are Scott Tippens, Mark Stevens, and Barbara Thomas.
1.8 Request: Moderator would appreciate suggestions for end of year faculty survey (recruiting, budget, etc.)
1.9 Request from Senate: UCC to look at the core and its effect on recruitment, particularly transfer students
1.10 Request for nominations for Faculty Moderator and Secretary to the Faculty along with elections. Warning: currently the Moderator's release time is only one course.
2.0 Academic Calendar
2.1 Motion made, seconded, and passed: Adopt following schedule-
Calendar
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2003-2004 |
Fall |
Spring |
Summer |
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1st Day of Classes |
18 Aug (M) |
7 Jan (W) |
20 May (Th) |
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Last Day of Classes |
4 Dec |
28 Apr |
30 July |
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Finals |
6-10 Dec |
30 Apr- 5 May |
31 July – 4 Aug |
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Graduation |
13 Dec |
8 May |
7 Aug |
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Spring Break |
8-13 Mar |
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Student Holidays |
1 Sep 26-28 Nov |
19 Jan |
31 May 5 July |
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2004-2005 |
Fall |
Spring |
Summer |
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1st Day of Classes |
23 Aug (M) |
7 Jan (F) |
19 May (Th) |
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Last Day of Classes |
9 Dec |
29 Apr |
29 July |
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Finals |
11-15 Dec |
30 Apr- 4 May |
30 July – 3 Aug |
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Graduation |
18 Dec |
7 May |
6 Aug |
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Spring Break |
7-12 Mar |
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Student Holidays |
6 Sep 24-26 Nov |
17 Jan |
30 May 4 July |
3.0 Continuation of Promotion P&P discussion
3.1 Motion made, seconded, and passed: Postpone discussion until next meeting because of rejection of Faculty Activities P&P by President.
3.2 Problem is an apparent lack of agreement between senior administrators and the faculty. Senators should receive "marked up" copies of document ASAP.
4.0 Scheduling of senate meetings for remainder of the semester.
4.1 Motion made, seconded, and passed: Senate approved following schedule:
March 26 (W) meeting on Faculty Activities P&P and Promotion P&P.
April 1 (Tu) Academic Plan Review
April 8 (Tu) Wrap-up semester
April 24 (Th) Faculty meeting
5.0 Other business
5.1 Proposal from Architecture regarding grade policy-Rich Cole
5.1.1 The faculty of the Architecture Program have requested that the Faculty Senate initiate action to modify the University’s grade recording system to accommodate partial grades. They believe that the current system unfairly penalizes some students and rewards others by forcing the faculty to assign the same grades to students whose performance varies widely. They request that SPSU’s system be brought into accord with those of many other universities (including those in the entire Wisconsin State System) to allow for the recording of plus and minus grades.
5.1.2 After some discussion, Senators were urged to discuss this issue with their constituencies, and the administration was urged to study the impact with respect to Board of Regent’s guidelines. This recommendation would probably need approval not just from the BOR, but also from all the other universities in the system.
5.2 Formation of Distance Learning committee- Fred Hartfield. Withdrawn, and will be considered at a later date.
5.3 Academic Plan: no copies available
5.3.1 Hard copies of draft from senior administrators, are to be provided ASAP.
5.3.2 When document is received, moderator stresses that the goals pages 6 and 7 should be studied.
5.4 Motion made, seconded, passed UNANAMIOUSLY: The Faculty Senate is very concerned about the current
Department Chair position descriptions, specifically the lack of financial reward (no stipends), the triple-teaching load, and the increased responsibilities assigned to those people.
6. Adjournment/Postponement
6.1 Meeting was adjourned at 12:55
_________________ (Faculty Secretary)
Robert Dreyer
_________________(Faculty Moderator)
Thomas Currin
Senate Items—3/16/03
(From Moderator Currin) This is a partial list of items on the Senate docket, which as of this date have not been completed.