FACULTY SENATE
AGENDA
Smith Lecture Hall, WB 206-207, 3:00 p.m.
January 26, 2012
1. Roll Call
Information Item
3. Research, Scholarship &
Professional Growth – Azenett Garza, Chair
Fall Funding Report
Action Items
4. Admissions, Standards & Student
Affairs – Kathy Herndon, Chair
PPM 6-2 Admissions -
International Applicants
5. Constitutional Review,
Apportionment & Organization Committee – Tim Herzog, Chair
PPM 1-13 Faculty Senate
Chair (Second Reading)
C-II Section 4. Officers
The chair and vice chair of the Faculty Senate shall be elected by the voting members of the Senate from among the faculty members of the Executive Committee. A faculty senate executive committee member serving as a chair of an academic department shall be excluded from serving as faculty senate chair. The term of office shall be for one year. A secretary will be designated by the Senate.
6. Academic Resources & Computing
Committee
Membership change -
Replace Marek Matyjasic with Mahmud Akelbek
7. Gen Ed Review Process – Brian
Rague
Change from a 5-year
cycle to a 7-year cycle
Proposed Policy Change
for Gen Ed Course Discontinuance
8. Curriculum – Erika Daines, Chair
Information Items
Name change for
School of Accountancy
Department and Name
Changes from Applied Science & Technology
Name Change for
Telecommunications & Business Education
Name Change for Design
Graphics Engineering
Action Items
Diversity Requirement Ad Hoc Committee
PPM 4-9a Course Syllabus, and PPM 9-5 - Faculty Responsibility to Students
Gen Ed Course
Renewal - Computer and Information Literacy
Business
Administration/IS&T -
Business Computer
Skills - IST 2010
Curriculum
Physics - Course proposals for Principles of Observational Astronomy - ASTR/PHYS 2040 (Syllabus), Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics - ASTR/PHYS 3160 (Syllabus, Galaxies and Cosmology - ASTR/PHYS 3170 (Syllabus), Nuclear and Particle Physics - PHYS 3710 (Syllabus), Advanced Quantum Mechanics - PHYS 4620 (Syllabus), The Physics of Materials - PHYS 3200 changing to 4200 (Syllabus 4200) (Syllabus Old 3200), Advanced Physics Laboratory - PHYS 3640 changing to 4400 (Syllabus 4400) (Syllabus Old 3640), Materials Characterization Laboratory - PHYS 4410 (Syllabus). Program changes for Physics Major (B.S.), Applied Physics Major (B.S.)
Mathematics - Course proposal for Foundations of Algebra - MATH 2110 changing to 3110 (Syllabus)
Automotive Service Technology - Institutional Certificate in Automotive Service Technology Chrysler CAP Program
Telecommunications & Business Education - Summary of changes, Department name change; New course for Network Server Administration NTM 3310, Course changes for Advanced Transport Media - TBE 3720, Cyber Policy and Ethics - TBE 3730; Course Deletions for Introduction to Telecommunications - TBE 2500, Fiber Optics in Telecommunications - TBE 3710
Telecommunications & Business Education - Program Changes for Network Management Technology AAS Degree (old Telecommunications Administration), Business/Multimedia Technologies Minor or BIS Emphasis, Network Management Technology Minor (old Telecommunications Administration), Network Management Technology BS Degree - (old Telecommunications Administration BS Degree), Network Technology Institutional Certificate (old Telecommunications Administration Institutional Certificate).
Nursing - Graduate Certificate in Nurse Administration, Graduate Certificate in Nurse Education
Design Graphics Engineering Technology - New course proposal for
BIM
& The Green Built Environment - DGET 3000; Course changes for
Computer Aided Drafting - DGET 1250,
Basic Residential Architectural Drafting - DGET 1350, Advanced Architectural Drafting - DGET 2000; Course deletions for
Basic
Drafting - DGET 1050,
Blueprint Reading - DGET 1150,
3D Computer Aided
Drafting - DGET 1260,
Fundamentals of Architectural Drafting Using CAD - DGET 1360,
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing - DGET 2450,
Design
Fundamentals Using 3D CAD - DGET 2460; Program changes
and name change for
Design Graphics Engineering Technology
Psychology - Psychology of Language - PSY 3450
Visual Art - Foundations of Video Art - ART 2650, Advanced Time-Based Media/Video Art - ART 3500, Practicum: WSU Arts Bridge Service-Learning - ART 3525; Program changes for Art Education Emphasis BFA, Art Education Composite BA/BS
Performing Arts - Program change for Music Minor
Engineering Technology - Course deletions for Personal Computer Fundamentals - CEET 1105, Engineering Seminar - CEET 2000, Engineering Seminar - CEET 4000, Program changes for Electronics Engineering Technology AAS Degree, Electronic Engineering Technology BS Degree.
9. Other Items
MINUTES
| Laura Anderson Isabel Asensio Aaron Ashley Shalie Barber - Student Jim Bird - Excused Kyle Braithwaite - Student Julie Buck Russell Burrows Karen Burton Tracy Callihan Sally Cantwell Kraig Chugg Patti Cost Shelly Costley Michelle Culumber Brian Davis Bruce Davis Curtis DeFriez David Ferro Janelle Gardner Colleen Garside Azenett, Garza Ed Hahn Sue Harley Brady Harris - Student Frank Harrold Michael Hernandez Stephen Hill Chris Hoagstrom Joan Hubbard
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Colin Inglefield Gary Johnson JoEllen Jonsson David Malone Tom Mathews David Matty President Millner - Admin. Madonne Miner - Admin. Michelle More Justin Neville - Student Wei Qiu Brian Rague Jack Rasmussen - Admin. - Excused Peggy Saunders Jeff Steagall Yas Simonian Mali Subbiah Ryan Thomas Shelley Thomas - Excused Lisa Trujillo Michael Vaughan - Admin. Vikki Vickers Jeremy Farner Jan Winniford Joseph Wolfe - Absent - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kay Brown, Secretary
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1. ROLL CALL
2. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
Motion: Moved to approve the minutes from the December 1,
2012 meeting.
Made: Brian Davis
Second: Shelly Costley
Outcome: The minutes were approved.
3. RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP & PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – Azenett Garza, Chair
Fall Funding Report
The RSPG Committee received 21 proposals in the areas of Research, Instructional Improvement, and Hemingway Faculty Vitality.
After careful deliberation, the committee awarded—either partially or in full—18 of the 21 applications, and allocated a total of $25,482. The average amount of funding per proposal was $1,415. Unfortunately, several strong proposals were left without funding.
RSPG Research/Instructional Improvement (All funds spent)
Hemingway Faculty Vitality
After the Fall 2011 funding decisions, the RSPG committee reports a remaining total of $1,980 (Hemingway Vitality). This money will carry over to the Spring 2012 funding cycle within the same category. The complete RSPG Fall Funding Report can be found online at http://faculty.weber.edu/senate/Minutes%2011-12/FS26Jan12.htm Agenda item 3.
The RSPG committee will accept applications for Spring 2012 in two calls for proposals. The first call includes the Hemingway Collaborative and Excellence Awards (deadline February 13, 2012). The second call for is for RSPG research and Instructional Improvement proposals as well as for the Hemingway Vitality, New Faculty, and Adjunct proposals (deadline March 19).
4. ADMISSIONS, STANDARDS & STUDENT AFFAIRS – Kathy Herndon, Chair
PPM 6-1 Admissions - International Applicants
Proposed new language for PPM 6-2 Admissions - International Applicants
4. International applicants must submit the application information required of new freshmen or transfer students (as applicable), and must also submit evidence of:
a. English Proficiency: Provide evidence of English proficiency as described in the University catalogue. International applicants who are admitted but with insufficient English proficiency must first take the LEAP Placement Test and then complete the appropriate ESL courses according to their test results.They are proposing a minimum test score of 6.0 on the International English Language Testing System (IELT). Specific language regarding test scores will appear in the catalog.
Motion by the Admissions, Standards & Student Affairs Committee to
approve the above change to PPM 6-1 Admissions - International Applicants.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
5. Constitutional Review, Apportionment & Organization Committee – Tim
Herzog, Chair
PPM 1-13 Faculty Senate Chair (Second Reading)
C-II Section 4. Officers
The chair and vice chair of the Faculty Senate shall be elected by the voting members of the Senate from among the faculty members of the Executive Committee. A faculty senate executive committee member serving as a chair of an academic department shall be excluded from serving as faculty senate chair. The term of office shall be for one year. A secretary will be designated by the Senate.
The CRAO Committee passed the above revision by one vote.
Discussion
Motion: Moved to send back the proposal to the Constitutional Review, Apportionment & Apportionment Committee to reconsider the language.
Discussion
Motion: Moved to send back the proposal to the Constitutional
Review, Apportionment & Apportionment Committee to reconsider
the language.
Made: David Malone
Second: Michael Hernandez
Outcome: The motion failed
Back to the Main Motion
Discussion
Motion by the CRAO Committee to approve the proposed change to PPM 1-13
stated above and forward a ballot to the general faculty to vote in favor of
the amendment or against the amendment.
Outcome: 16 in favor of the motion, 19 apposed, 4
abstentions. The motion fails. The amendment will not go to
ballot and will not be sent to the general faculty.
6. ACADEMIC RESOURCES & COMPUTING COMMITTEE
Membership change - Replace Marek Matyjasic with Mahmud Akelbek
Motion by the ARCC Committee to approve the membership change to replace
Marek Matyjasic with Mahmud Akelbek.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
7. Gen Ed Review Process – Brian Rague
Change from a 5-year cycle to a 7-year cycle
Proposed Policy Change for Gen Ed Course Discontinuance
The following changes are proposed to University Curriculum Committee PPM.
SECTION 1 – CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES
Outline for procedures involving both Gen Ed and Curriculum Committees
Proposed change to policy regarding review of Gen Ed courses from a 5 year cycle to a 7 year cycle:
2. Courses will be granted General Education status in a specific core, breadth, or DV area for a period of 7 years, or until major modifications of the Weber State University General Education requirements warrant an earlier review. Any course seeking General Education status, whether new or renewing, must undergo review to insure that it appropriately addresses the current learning outcomes for the intended core, breadth, or DV area.
3. Existing Gen Ed courses will be reviewed for possible renewal of their Gen Ed status during the Fall Semester of their final or seventh year of approval. A similar procedure and the same curriculum forms will be used to generate, review, and approve course proposals for renewing courses.
Motion by the Executive Committee to approve the change from a 5 year
cycle to a 7 year cycle for review of Gen Ed courses.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
Proposed change to Gen Ed Course Discontinuance:
6. Departments sponsoring a course placed on Gen Ed probation may modify the course, and/or collect more assessment data, and resubmit the course the following Fall Semester. If the modified course is approved it will be granted Gen Ed status for the next 6 years, or until its core, breadth, or DV designation is next reviewed. Should a course on probation fail to be approved during the probationary year, that course may not be resubmitted until the next scheduled review for
its core, breadth, or DV designation . Unless approved for renewal during the probationary year, the course cannot be applied toward a student’s Gen Ed credit total starting on the academic year immediately following probation, regardless of the catalog year assigned to the student on admission as described in the University PPM 4-2, Section II-A. Students who previously completed the course during those academic years in which the course had Gen Ed designation will retain the Gen Ed credits associated with the course.Discussion
Motion by the Executive Committee to approve the above change for Gen Ed
course discontinuance.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
8. Curriculum – Erika Daines, Chair
Information Items
Name Change for School of Accountancy changing to School of Accounting and Taxation
Department and Name Changes from Applied Science & Technology - Last Spring the Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology Department was dissolved and courses were folded into a new Engineering Department.
Name Change for Telecommunications & Business Education changing to Network Technology and Business Multimedia.
Name Change for Design Graphics Engineering Technology changing to Design Engineering Technology
Action Items
A Diversity Requirement Ad Hoc Committee was set up by the Executive Committee with members from the Curriculum Committee and the General Education Improvement & Assessment Committee. The charge is determine if there is a better way to teach, assess, and organize diversity elements in curriculum.
Motion by the Executive Committee to postpone review of all diversity courses for one year.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
Motion by the Executive Committee to place a moratorium on diversity course proposals.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
PPM 4-9a - Course Syllabus and PPM 9-5 Faculty Responsibilities to Students
I. References
1-18 V Responsibilities of the Chair
3-54 C Selling Materials to Students
4-19 A Retention of Student Records
4-21 A Final Exams
6-22 III 7 h, i Student Rights
8-11 IV E Evaluation of Faculty
9-5 B 5 Faculty Responsibilities to Students
II. POLICY
A. Faculty members shall prepare a syllabus for each course they
teach, distribute it to students enrolled in the course during the first
week of class but no later than the end of the second week, and
place it on file with the department chair, and retain it for
at least a year.
B. The syllabus must contain the following information.
1. The general content of the course.
2. Course requirements (exams, assignments, quizzes) and their due dates, if available.
3. Instructor office hours or other means of availability for students.
4. The procedures and criteria for academic evaluation in the course.
5. Student learning outcomes.
PPM 9-5 - Faculty Responsibilities to Students
Rev. 05-09-06
Date 3-7-74
I. REFERENCE
AAUP Statement of Professional Ethics (1966)
II. POLICY
A. Ethical Canons
As teachers, faculty encourage the free pursuit of learning in students. Faculty hold before themselves the best scholarly standards of their disciplines. They demonstrate respect for students as individuals and adhere to their proper role as intellectual guides and counselors. Faculty make every reasonable effort to foster honest academic conduct and to assure that the evaluations of their students reflect their true merits. Faculty respect the confidential nature of the relationship between faculty or student. They avoid any exploitation of students for private advantage and acknowledge significant assistance from them. Faculty protect their students' academic freedom (based upon the AAUP Statement of Professional Ethics, 1966).
B. Standards of Behavior
1. The central responsibility of the faculty to students is to attempt to impart to them the knowledge and understanding of the faculty member's field of study and to encourage them to develop within themselves appropriate and relevant skills, particularly the ability to reason with and use this knowledge and to do so in accordance with the best standards of scholarship and pedagogy in the discipline.
2. The faculty at large has the right to determine course content. However, once approval for course offerings has been granted, the individual faculty member is obligated to teach the course in reasonable conformity with the course description, content and method announced in advance. The faculty member has the right to determine the manner of presentation. The academic freedom of the student as well as of the faculty member must be observed. While teachers are free to interrelate subject matter of their courses to contemporary issues which they find usefully relevant, they are primarily responsible for providing instruction in the announced subject matter and techniques of the course.
3. Faculty members have a responsibility to their students to entertain all relevant questions and to discuss controversial questions objectively and freely. Where faculty members find it pedagogically useful to advocate a position on controversial matters, they should exercise care to assure that opportunities exist for students to consider other views. Faculty members shall not reward agreement or penalize disagreement with their views on controversial topics, but they can reasonably expect their students to learn the rationale behind certain positions.
4. Prompt and regular meeting of classes, faithful keeping of appointments and, when assigned, academic, curricular and/or vocational advising are duties resting upon each faculty member. Alteration of schedules and cancellation or rescheduling of classes should be done only for valid reasons. The faculty and the administration are obliged to fill commitments to students in terms of class offerings. Faculty members should make available a reasonable number of hours for student consultation or otherwise assure their accessibility to students. Faculty members at Weber State University should keep regular office hours for student consultation. They should conscientiously try to be in their offices during those hours.
a. The hours should be scheduled at convenient times for students
b. The office hours should be posted on the office door of each faculty member at all times and should be honored at all times.
5. At the beginning of each course, faculty members, by means of
the syllabi, should
will inform students of the
general content, what is required and of the criteria with which
performance will be evaluated. The general content of the course and
the criteria for evaluating student performance should
will relate clearly to the legitimate academic purpose of the
course. The faculty member shall hold all students responsible for
meeting the requirements. (See PPM 4-9a)
Discussion
If a student doesn’t have a syllabus the first week, they are not aware of the class requirements and course content. If a student drops the class after the first week, they lose 10% of the tuition fee. If a student drops the class the second week of the semester, they lose 20% of the tuition fee.
Amendment to
The motion: A. Faculty members shall prepare a
syllabus for each course they teach, distribute
and publish it
to
for students enrolled in
the class before the end of the first week of classes, and
place it on file with the department chair,
and
retain it for at least a year.
Made: Thom Mathews
Second: Stephen Francis
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
Motion by the Curriculum Committee to approve the proposed changes to PPM
4-9a - Course Syllabus and PPM 9-5 Faculty Responsibilities to Students.
Outcome: The motion passed with 1 abstention.
Gen Ed Course Renewal - Computer and Information Literacy
Business Administration/IS&T - Gen Ed renewal for Business Computer Skills - IST 2010
Motion by the Curriculum Committee to approve the Gen Ed renewal for
Business Computer Skills - IST 2010.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
Physics - Course proposals for Principles of Observational Astronomy - ASTR/PHYS 2040, Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics - ASTR/PHYS 3160, Galaxies and Cosmology - ASTR/PHYS 3170,Nuclear and Particle Physics - PHYS 3710, Advanced Quantum Mechanics - PHYS 4620, The Physics of Materials - PHYS 4200 Advanced Physics Laboratory - PHYS 4400, Materials Characterization Laboratory - PHYS 4410. Program changes for Physics Major (B.S.), Applied Physics Major (B.S.)
Mathematics - Course proposal for Foundations of Algebra - MATH 2110 (changing to 3110)
Automotive Service Technology - Institutional Certificate in Automotive Service Technology Chrysler CAP Program
Nursing - Graduate Certificate in Nurse Administration, Graduate Certificate in Nurse Education
Design Graphics Engineering Technology - New course proposal for BIM & The Green Built Environment - DGET 3000; Course changes for Computer Aided Drafting - DGET 1250, Basic Residential Architectural Drafting - DGET 1350, Advanced Architectural Drafting - DGET 2000; Course deletions for Basic Drafting - DGET 1050, Blueprint Reading - DGET 1150, 3D Computer Aided Drafting - DGET 1260, Fundamentals of Architectural Drafting Using CAD - DGET 1360, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing - DGET 2450, Design Fundamentals Using 3D CAD - DGET 2460; Program changes
Psychology - Psychology of Language - PSY 3450
Visual Art - Foundations of Video Art - ART 2650, Advanced Time-Based Media/Video Art - ART 3500
Performing Arts - Program change for Music Minor
Engineering Technology - Program changes for Electronics Engineering Technology AAS Degree, Electronic Engineering Technology BS Degree.
Visual Art - Course proposal for Practicum: WSU Arts Bridge Service-Learning - ART 3525; Program changes for Art Education Emphasis BFA, Art Education Composite BA/BS
Motion by the Curriculum Committee to approve the above curriculum.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
Telecommunications & Business Education - Program Changes for Network Management
Technology AAS Degree (old Telecommunications Administration), Business/Multimedia
Technologies Minor or BIS Emphasis, Network Management Technology Minor (old Telecommunications Administration), Network Management Technology BS Degree (old Telecommunications Administration BS Degree), Network Technology Institutional Certificate (old Telecommunications Administration Institutional Certificate).
Ed Harris from Information Systems & Technology expressed concern about the Network Management Technology name change for the AAS Degree, the minor, and the BS Degree. The Goddard School of Business has in the past had some issues through AACSB accreditation. The Information Systems & Technologies Department objects to the Network Management name change from Telecommunications & Business Education.
Discussion
Motion by the Curriculum Committee to approve the above curriculum from
Telecommunications & Business Education.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 4:10 p.m.