Faculty Senate Steering Committee
September 11, 2007
Attendance:
Robert Aiken (Chair), Jane Evans (Past Chair) Karen Turner (Vice-Chair), Paul LaFollette (Secretary) Bonnie Averbach (SBM), Ann Barr (CHP), Joan Delalic (ENGR), Terry Dolan (TYL), Judy Goode (CLA), Luke Kahlich (BCDM), Diane Maleson (Law), Ira Shapiro (STHM), Joan Shapiro (Educ),
Cheryl Mack (Coord.)
1. Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 1:05 PM
2. Guests: Director of GEEC, Terry Halbert and Co-Director, David Watt
President Aiken introduced our guests Terry Halbert and David Watt from the General Education Executive Committee.
Halbert began by discussing the progress made by the GEEC over the summer. Originally the GenEd program was designed to be implemented from the top down and was rigidly constrained. New leadership at Temple has brought changes.
- We now understand that we need the full support of colleges and chairs for any implementation to be successful
- The "College 65" plan will not work. New governing structures have been developed including the GIG and the deans' liaison committee
- The governing documents have been "flexiblized"
a) There is now allowed some overlap between GenEd and
major courses.
- b) The issue of free electives has been resolved.
The GEEC is now issuing "Proposal guidelines" instead of RFP's
She summarized by saying that we have moved from a philosophy of "excellence through beatings" to "excellence through desire."
Finally, she introduced David Watt who discussed the impending financial issues that implementation will create.
We expect that in 2008 we will need 10,000 GenEd seats.
In 2009 we will need 20,000.
In 2010 we will need 25,500.
We are only now developing good estimates of the cost. The Provost's office has agreed to absorb the cost of transition while we are running both GenEd and old core courses. However, costs will continue to be higher after full implementation because of the different nature of the core courses, and because of the desire, expressed in the Board's documents, that GenEd be staffed principally by full time faculty. The cost of this seems prohibitive at this point.
President Aiken asked Watt to keep the FSSC informed as to how we can help, and also asked him to be part of the agenda for the next Senate meeting.
A brief discussion followed.
3. Approval of Minutes:
The minutes of the previous meeting were approved as distributed.
4. President's Report:
Aiken reported that he had spoken with CATA about their role in preparing nominations for the Academic Planning Committee.
We discussed the fact that some schools will not be able to get nominees by next week, and we agreed to begin our discussions of nominees on Sept. 18th and finish one week later on Sept. 25th.
Aiken also reported that he met with the Associate Vice Provost about our concerns that the Faculty Senate be involved as early as may be when searches are going to occur.
President Hart has invited us to a reception on Monday, Sept. 24.
For upcoming FSSC meetings, we have invited Teresa Powell, Pamela Barnett, the Director of the Teaching & Learning Center, and Dave Zitarelli from the Honors program
We have identified five possible nominees for the NCAA committees. We voted to recommend
Ray Coughlin
Wililam Dunkleberg
Matt Fine
We prepared the agenda for the Representative Senate Meeting on Sept. 17. It will include: President's Report, Vice President's Report, Presentations by President Hart and Provost Lisa, and a presentation about the state of GenEd by Terry Halbert and David Watt.
There was a short discussion of the proposed draft for a motion to reconsider the issue of adding NTT faculty and Librarians to the membership of the Faculty Senate. It was suggested that the motion should be changed to allow schools and colleges decide for themselves about the membership of their collegial assemblies. Goode will discuss the proposed motions with CLA faculty and return next meeting with a report of their feelings.
5. Old Business:
LaFollette will contact Art Hochner to try to arrange a meeting of the Bargaining Units Liaison Committee
At this point, Aiken had to leave and Vice-president Turner presided for the remainder of the meeting.
6. Vice President's Report (Turner):
She is working on a system for electronically dealing with volunteers for Senate committees.
The Library Committee is now "more than staffed."
The EPPC is short two members.
Online grading will NOT happen this spring.
Sloan (SCT) passed out a brochure for Temple Theatres and asked us to help publicize it.
7. Adjournment:
The meeting adjourned at 2:45 PM
Respectfully submitted,
Paul S. LaFollette, Jr.
Secretary
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