Minutes
Faculty Senate Meeting
Nov 4, 2003

On Nov 4, 2003, the SPSU Faculty Senate met in J-152, at noon. Prof. Tom Currin, Moderator of the Faculty presided, R. Dreyer, secretary.
        Senators                                Ex-Officio/Visitors
P       D. Brani (MET)                  P       D. Hornbeck (Int. VPAA)
P       L. Dollar (IET)                 P       W. Barnes (Dean-ACC)
P       J. Duff (BCP)                   P       A. Gabrielli (Dean-AS)
P       S. Edwards (Math)               P       M. Murphy (Dean-CSE)
P       W. Hodges (ECET)                P       C. Bachman (Acting Interim ETM) for B. Pearce
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       S. Vincent (Lib)
        A. Wang (SE)
P       M. Wilson (CET)

1.      Welcome and Comments-Moderator
1.1  Comments: The Moderator stated that this meeting's purpose is to determine where the Senate should be going during the next series of meetings.

 

2.      Budget Update-IVPAA
Interim VPAA David Hornbeck addressed the budget situation at SPSU.
2.1 Two the main issues are:
2.1.1.  How to accommodate the remainder of fiscal year's needs.
2.1.2.  Working on next year's budget.
        2.2  The President has posted the budget principles on the web for faculty/staff 
        review and comments.
        2.3  There is a major issue in finding funds for part-time faculty in the spring because
        fall semester required 70% of the year's part-time budget.  The IVPAA hopes to have
        an answer to the problem by the end of the week.
        2.4   For fiscal year 2005 the process will be different: zero-based budgeting will be
         used.
        2.5   The -2.5% is a reality for this year, and it is expected that there will be an
        additional 5.0% budget cut for next year for a total cut of 7.5%.

3.      Report on draft P&Ps for standing committees
3.1  Senators Nuhfer-Halten and Rupf reported that all the standing committees have been
        contacted and requested to develop draft P&Ps for their committees.
         3.2   Moderator stated a deadline for these standing committee P&P drafts is the end
        of 2003.

4.      Update and discussion of Senate items "To Do" list - Moderator
4.1  Moderator reviewed the status of the P&Ps that the Senate and Faculty have to
        develop.
 4.1.1 P&P’s (Faculty Related)

4.1.1.1         Pre-Tenure Review (803.0904): currently being rewritten by VPAA

4.1.1.2         Faculty Tenure (803.09): currently being rewritten by VPAA

4.1.1.3         Faculty Promotion (803.08): currently being rewritten by VPAA

4.1.1.4         Post Tenure Review (803.0905): currently being rewritten by VPAA

4.1.1.5         Graduate Faculty Status (803.0101): to be handled later

4.1.1.6         Strategic Plan (206.0): to be handled later

4.1.1.7         Course Syllabi, Grading, and Final Exams (304.0): to be handled later

4.1.1.8         Evaluation of Academic Deans, Directors, and AVPAA (no number

        assigned): to be handled later

4.1.1.9         Librarian Tenure (803.095): Need to resolve as soon as possible

4.1.1.10        Librarian promotion (803.085): Need to resolve as soon as possible

4.1.1.11        Student evaluation of faculty (803.0701): No concerns expressed by faculty

4.1.1.12 Reappointment of Untenured Faculty (803.0): Future action

4.1.1.13 Extra Compensation Policy (no number assigned): Future action

4.1.1.14 Academic Credit Certificate Programs (350.0): Future action

4.1.1.15 Faculty Use of Library (340.0): Future action

4.1.2   P&P’s Mainly Not faculty-related: approximately 14 of these: Faculty will have opportunity to review

4.1.3  A Request to modify the grading system to include pluses and minuses: Senate previously voted no.

4.1.4  Changes to the faculty approved Faculty Activities P&P as requested by the VPAA: Status unknown since Senate has passed P&P but VPAA disagreed last year.

4.1.5  Faculty status of librarians: Need to resolve as soon as possible

4.1.6  P&P’s defining the duties and responsibilities of each faculty committee: Committee's have been charged to complete  this task.

4.1.7  Miscellaneous other requests from faculty and administrators, which have been put on hold when they learn of all the items ahead of them.

4.2  Moderator suggested following priorities for the remaining 2003 Senate meetings:
                4.2.1 Priority number 1: Resolve faculty status of Librarians.
                4.2.2 Priority number 2: Get P&P drafts from the standing committees.
                4.2.3 Review, when available, VPAA's drafts of promotion and tenure P&Ps.
                4.2.4 Review the non-faculty related P&Ps.
         4.3 Motion made, seconded, and passed:
        The Senate gives the IVPAA the power to change any "program head" titles to
        "department chair" in any P&Ps. (This was in response to the VPAA noting that there
        are a number of         P&Ps that need re-writes because of the last re-organization.)

5.      Other Business
5.1 The Senators began a discussion on the status of librarians as faculty.  Discussion, and possible action will continue at the next Senate meeting.

6.      Adjourn
4.1  Next Senate meeting: Tuesday Nov 18, 2003, noon, room J-152.
4.2  Meeting adjourned at 12:45 pm      
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R. Dreyer, Secretary            T. Currin, Moderator