Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Attendance: Jane Evans (Chair), Karen Turner (Vice-Chair), Paul LaFollette (CST), Robert Aiken (CST), Bonnie Averbach (FSBM), Judith Goode (CLA), Sally Harrison (Tyler), Pauline Hurley-Kurtz (Ambler), Luke Kahlich (BCMD), Diane Maleson (Law), Lois Millner (SSA), Ira Shapiro (STHM), Joan Shapiro (Educ), Roy Stevens (Dental), Karen Schaefer (CHP), Maxine Chisholm (Coord)
1. Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 1:05 PM.
2. Approval of Minutes:
The minutes from Oct. 3 were approved as corrected.
3. President’s Report:
The Standing Committee on Continuous Revision in Faculty Handbook will meet on Oct. 18 with Susan Smith and Richard Englert. Smith and Evans are in agreement that the Constitution and By-Laws of the Faculty Senate do not need to go through the Board for their approval. Englert wants also to re-write the Academic Freedom and P&T portions of the Handbook to make them more consistent.
Evans has talked to EPPC, CATA, and Personnel Committee to see what changes they might like.
The SCoCRiFH will next be looking at emeritus status and senate membership.
Evans met with Englert to explore further issues. They discussed the P&T guidelines. It is expected that the Merit guidelines will be re-written next year.
The FSSC expressed its belief that, in evaluating merit, we prefer going back to looking only at the previous year's accomplishments, not the previous three years.
We also identified the following issues as of continuing concern to the faculty:
Recognition of service
Gen Ed implementation
Use and misuse of CATES
Workload
We proposed the following people for the Mid-States Review Coordinating Committee:
Corrine Caldwell
Bill Aaronson
Alice Hausman
The agenda for the Representative Faculty Senate meeting on Oct. 17 was approved.
4. Vice-President’s Report:
Aiken proposed that we invite administrators and deans to meet with us along with inviting senate committee chairs.
We approved Amy Caples for membership on the Committee on the Status of Women and Paul Swann for membership on the Library Committee.
The Committee on the Status of Women wants to increase its size to 20, which request we approved.
We still have no editor for the Herald.
5. Old Business:
There was no old business.
6. New Business:
President Hart has returned to the Senate the proposal of the International committee, suggesting that this committee become the very task force that they requested.
7. Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at 2:45 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Paul S. LaFollette, Jr.
Secretary
