On Oct. 7, 2003, the SPSU Faculty Senate met in M100, Auditorium, at  noon. Prof. Tom Currin, Moderator of the Faculty presided, R. Dreyer,  secretary.
 

Senators                                        Ex-Officio/Visitors
P       D. Brani (MET)                          D. Hornbeck (Int. VPAA)
P       L. Dollar (IET)                         W. Barnes (Dean-ACC)
P       J. Duff (BCP)                   P       A. Gabrielli (Dean-AS)
P       S. Edwards (Math)                       M. Murphy (Dean-CSE)
P       W. Hodges (ECET)                P       C. Bachman (Acting Interim) for B. Pearce (Int. Dean  ETM)
P       G. Banik for Itr (Const)
P       B. Nuhfer-Halten (SIS)
         R. Richardson (Mgt)
 P      T. Rizzuto (Arch)               P       P. Carden (chair-IET)
 P      J. Rupf(CS)                     P       K. Rainey (chair-TCOM)
 P      J.A. Samra (IT)                 P       S. Tippens (director-CTE)
 P      M. Stevens (HTC)
 P      W.Thain (ECET)                  P       A. Churella (SIS)
 P      S. Vincent (Lib)                        P       T. Rotnem (SIS)
 P      A. Wang (SE)
        M. Wilson (CET)
 

 1. Welcoming, opening remarks-Moderator
 1.1 Comments:
 1.1.1 Moderator emphasized that the Senate is not the cause of the  delays in developing the new Promotion and Tenure P&Ps. The major  problem has been a failure to follow the process of creating P&Ps.
 

 1.1.2 Moderator summarized the process for creating new P&Ps: P&P is  drafted (by anyone), then it should be sent to the senior administration  for review, then sent to the Senate for approval, then sent to the faculty for approval, and then sent directly to the President for  approval .
 

 1.2.2 The current Senate discussion on "philosophy" is an  attempt to help get the first draft correct. The VPAA will get the  information and, interactively, will draft the P&P, and then as the  originator, will present it to the Deans and Vice Presidents for  comments. When satisfied, the draft will then be forwarded to the  Senate.
 

 1.2.3 Goal today is to complete the discussion and forward the  information to the VPAA. The mechanism for forwarding the information  will be a summary letter drafted by the Faculty Secretary and Lester Dollar and Mark Stevens, received by the Faculty Moderator, who will  forward the letter to the VPAA.
 

 2. Continuation of Discussion of Report by P&T philosophy  committee-L. Dollar and associates
 

 2.1 Discussion continued, led by Lester Dollar. Report will be  issued when discussion is completed.
 

 2.2 Discussion was not complete. Moderator expects Senate to  complete discourse at next meeting, Oct 21, 2003.
 

 3.0 Other business
 3.1 None
 

 4. Adjourn
 4.1 Next Senate meeting, Tuesday Oct 21, 2003, noon, M100
 4.2 Meeting adjourned at 12:58pm
 

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 R. Dreyer, Secretary
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 T. Currin, Moderator