Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Attendance: Jane Evans (Chair), Karen Turner (Vice-Chair), Paul LaFollette (CST), Robert Aiken (CST), Sally Harrison (Tyler), Joan Shapiro (Educ), David Baron (Med), Diane Maleson (Law), Ira Shapiro (STHM), Bonnie Averbach (FSBM), Luke Kahlich (BCMD), Zedenka Delalic (Eng), Lois Milner (SSA), Maxine Chisholm (Coord)
1. Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 1:10 PM
2. Approval of Minutes:
The minutes from the previous meeting were distributed and approved.
3. President’s Report:
President Evans reported that:
a) The formation of the Provost Search Committee is proceeding. CATA recommended eleven potential members to President Hart, who will choose six to eight, thus forming a committee to consist of 1 student, 6-8 faculty, and 1 permanent dean. She expects to become involved when the committee has narrowed its list down to the last few (2-5) candidates.
b) The P&T Task Group has completed its task and forwarded its new document to President Hart. It is nearly entirely re-written. President Evans and those FSSC members who were on the committee believe it is much improved over the previous document. The precise contents of the new document remain confidential and were not discussed.
President Hart will attend the next Representative Faculty Senate meeting, and will meet with the FSSC on Oct. 3.
4. Vice-President’s Report:
Vice-President Turner reported that:
a) We are still looking for an editor for the Faculty Herald.
b) She is working on filling empty committee slots.
5. Old Business:
The Gen Ed curriculum is going forward as mandated by the Board. The Chairperson of the GEEC will make a presentation at the next Representative Faculty Senate Meeting. Area coordinators have been meeting over the summer with Vice-Provost Jones and making progress in getting Gen Ed courses approved. Nothing has yet been done with respect to issues such as articulation agreements and advance placement. No official action has been taken with respect to postponing the beginning of Gen Ed.
6. New Business:
A long discussion took place about what issues we should bring to President Hart when she visits us. There was general agreement that we need to carefully choose what we discuss as this first meeting with her will to some degree define for her our perception of our role in governance at Temple. Proposed topics included:
a) Revisiting the workload committee - We were excluded from it and have never gotten the promised feedback about its decisions.
b) How to address the tension between new and old faculty.
c) Centralized vs. Decentralized administration
d) One size fits all philosophy
e) Merit, service, and the balance of teaching and researchI. Shapiro, LaFollette, Dealalic, and Averbach will attend the Board meeting on Oct. 10
Non-voting members of Board committees will be:
Academic Affairs - Gaffney
Athletics - Baron and Aiken
Budget and Finance - Dubeck
Development - Baron
Facilities - Harrison
Student Affairs - Ira Shapiro
Executive Committee - Evans, Maleson
Upcoming issues which we will need to take leadership on include Faculty Senate representation of non-tenure track faculty and emeritus status for non-tenure track faculty.
7. Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at 2:48 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Paul S. LaFollette, Jr. - Secty.
