Friday, December 12, 2008
1. Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 1:52 PM.
2. Approval of the Minutes:
The minutes of November 19, 2008 were approved as distributed.
3. President’s Report – Karen M. Turner:
Turner welcomed Ambler and Health Science Center faculty via videoconferencing. The senate proceedings are available to listen to after the meeting by logging onto the Senate website (www.temple.edu/senate) and clicking the Apreso link. Points of President's report:
- The Steering Committee met with Peter Jones, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies about the newly designed student feedback forms. It was suggested that a “Wiki” be set up as a means of getting feedback about the forms from faculty.
- The Steering Committee has also met with Provost Lisa and Betsy Leebron-Tutelman, Senior Faculty Advisor to the Provost. The Academic Strategic Plan has been approved by the Board of Trustees. The Provost will be attend the January 26th Faculty Senate meeting to give a presentation on the implementation of the Plan.
- The latest edition of the Faculty Herald is available. You can link to the Herald from the Senate website. The editor, David Waldstreicher, would like to begin posting “letters to the editor” to the Herald website. Faculty are encouraged to get involved.
- A reminder that all Senate meeting minutes are also on the Senate website.
4. Vice President’s Report – Paul S. LaFollette
Nothing to report, but Happy Holidays.
5. Guest: Andrea Swan, Manager, City and Neighborhood Relations for Temple University
This year the city and surrounding region will hold its annual Martin Luther King Day event at the Liacouras Center on Monday January 19, 2009. President Hart and Mayor Michael Nutter will be there at 9:00AM for the kick-off ceremony. Temple will have a series of internal programs including
- a “health and wellness fair” with the help of the College of Health Professions and
- a children’s carnival with help from the College of Education.
- Norris Homes health clinic and 12th Street recreation centerIota Phi members will be helping out. The fraternity has agreed to mentor the students
People can sign up as volunteers at the MLK website.
6. Guests: Tim O’Rourke, Vice President for Computer and Information Services and Lynne Zullo, ERP Project Manager
O’Rourke gave an update on Project ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and the new SunGard Banner System which will replace Temple’s antiquated main frame computer system.
- The project is about change from what we have been doing and what we will be doing. All of our old computer systems are out of date, have functional problems and have limited ability to support new technology.
- A Steering Committee had been formed to investigate vendors and set up basic principles.
As a result the SunGard Banner system was chosen. This system will give greater access to information and enable us to be more efficient. The system will be upgraded at least once a year.
- Lynne Zullo, discussed the teams who will work on various projects. There are 300 people involved in the teams. There is also an Executive Steering Committee making major policy decisions.
- All systems will be accessed through TU Portal.
- O’Rourke wants faculty participation. Any one who wants to be involved in this project is welcome to contact Tim O’Rourke.
- For the timeline of what has already been accomplished and what will be accomplished by 2011, and to get more information on the project, go to www.temple.edu/enterprise .
- Responses to questions:
We are trying to have Blackboard integrated into the system.
All students are now using Google for email. Faculty and staff email accounts will not be transferred to Google at this point. Because there is concern about privacy issues, faculty and staff will be migrated to Outlook Exchange for email. The systems are new, but you will be getting the same information as before.
7. Unfinished Business:
None
8. New Business:
None
9. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 3:05 PM.
Bonnie Averbach, Secretary
