Approved 3-2-06
Thursday
February 9, 2006
2:00 p.m.
MA 211K
AGENDA SETTING
PRESENT
Bill Clapp, Tamara Chase, Gary Dohrer, Dawn
Gatherum, Bruce Handley - Chair, Becky Johns, Wade Kotter, Jack
Mayhew, President Millner, Gene Sessions, Mike Vaughan - Kay Brown -
Secretary
MINUTES
Bill Clapp: Moved to approve the
minutes from the February 2, 2006 meeting.
Second: Dawn Gatherum
Outcome: The minutes were approved.
RSPG Marge Balzer has left the University. Ken Johnson was thought to still be on the RSPG Committee, however, he is not. It was suggested that Valerie Gooder represent the Dumke College of Health Professions on the RSPG Committee. Her name will be presented to the Faculty Senate February 16, 2006.
AD HOC
GEN EDCRAO
Tony Allred representing the Constitutional
Review, Apportionment and Organization Committee.
The Executive Committee discussed PPM 1-13, ARTICLE B-II. ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY SENATE
Section 7. Report of
Election Procedures
Results
7.1 Results of the election of new members of the Senate shall be reported officially to the chair of the Senate by the organizational units no later than the eighth week of the spring semester.
Section 8. Election of Executive Committee
7.2 Prior to the eleventh week of spring
semester, the Faculty Senate Office will email and mail a sample
ballot to all full time faculty. Executive Committee shall
call a general faculty meeting for the purpose of electing members of
the Executive Committee for the following year. The following
week the official ballot will be emailed to faculty listed in the
apportionment document approved by the Faculty Senate. Faculty will
have three days to either email the ballot or hand deliver the ballot
to the Senate Office. The procedure to insure the secrecy of the vote
will be outlined in the memo and sample ballot announcing the
election. The faculty must vote for nine members; and in the case of a
tie for the ninth member, it shall be decided by the flip of a coin.
A secret ballot shall be used. The highest vote recipient
from each academic college shall serve as an elected member of the
Executive Committee. The next two highest vote recipients shall also
be elected to the Executive Committee; however, no more than two
members from the same organizational unit shall serve on the Executive
Committee at the same time; for this purpose, a top-vote recipient
will be eliminated in favor of the next highest vote recipient from
another organizational unit.
Section 9. Newly Elected Senators Terms
7.3 The newly elected senators shall be designated as "Senators-elect." They shall assume their
duties after the last day of spring semester and continue in office until the last day of the spring semester ending their term.
Section 8. 10.
Vacancies
The Executive Committee discussed striking out the second sentence after the last highlighted area in Section 7.2 as shown. They also decided to renumber the sections as reflected above.
MOTION Gene Sessions: Moved to forward PPM 1-13 Article B II to the Faculty Senate for its first reading at the February 16, 2006 meeting.
Second: Gary Dohrer
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
ASSA Erika Daines representing the Admissions, Standards and Student Affairs Committee.
The ASSA Committee looked at the cut scores for Math and English, and recommends no changes in the cut scores.
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ACT Cut Scores for Math and English Spring 2006 |
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Institution |
Math 1010 |
Math 1030 |
English 1010 |
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Eastern Utah |
19 |
23 |
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Dixie |
18 |
23 |
19 Writing |
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Snow |
19 |
20 |
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SUU |
18 |
23 |
17 |
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Univ of Utah |
17 |
23 |
Essay |
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Utah State |
18 |
23 |
17 |
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UVSC |
19 |
24 |
19 |
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SLCC |
18 |
22 |
Testing |
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WSU |
Comp Test |
23 |
17 |
Test Results for Accuplacer as of January 9, 2006
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Math 0950: 394 students Math 0960: 98 students Math 1010: 240 students Math 1030/40/50/80: 39 students Math 1210: 3 students Refer to Academic advisor: 163 students |
English 900: 29
students English 955: 300 students English 1010: 240 students Refer to ESL Office: 15 students |
Unfortunately there has been a document circulating that has inaccurately shown cuts scores. The above cut scores reflect what is being used at the state institutions.
MOTION
Gary Dohrer: Moved to forward to the Faculty
Senate as an information item the cut scores for Math and
English.
Second: Wade Kotter
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
PPM 6-2 ADMISSIONS
IV Admission Procedures
4. International applicants must submit the application information required of new freshmen or transfer students (as applicable), and must also submit evidence of:
c. Current Immunization: A form signed by a health care provider showing current evidence of DPT and MMR immunization, and no active Tuberculosis.
MOTION
Gene Session: Moved to forward to the Faculty Senate
the above change in policy for international students as
stated above.
Second: Tamara Chase
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
SBBFP
Craig Oberg representing the Salary, Benefits, Budget and
Fiscal Planning Committee.
Changes to the Supplemental Pay policy were worked on last year, approved by the Faculty Senate and then placed on hold by President’s Council. University Counsel wanted the policy to include definitions, particularly that of "full time appointments, regular faculty, and 9-month equivalent salary." More checks and balances are included in these recommendations to the policy. II D - The new language includes a salary adjustment so that the policy is not discriminatory toward lower paid faculty members. No one will be disadvantaged by this policy.
PPM 3-50 PPM 3-50 SUPPLEMENTAL PAY FACULTY
I. DEFINITIONS
A. Extra Compensation
Payment for services rendered in addition to normal full-time activity or 100 percent of an individual’s salaried effort.
B. Funds Administered by the University
General funds, uniform school funds, sponsored projects, grant and contract funds, restricted and unrestricted funds, auxiliary funds, WSUSA funds, and gift funds.
C. Full-time Appointment
Full-time appointments for both faculty and staff members require full commitment of working time and effort. This term is used to identify those faculty paid on a salary basis (not an hourly basis), whose appointments are at least 9 months in length during each fiscal year and whose appointments are equal to or greater than the equivalent of 100% for 9 months or 75% for 12 months. Full-time appointments for both faculty and staff members require full commitment of working time and effort.
D. Regular Faculty
A faculty member with a full-time appointment as defined above.
E. Regularly Contracted Faculty Member
A faculty member with a contract involving a full-time
appointment as defined above.
F. 9-Month Equivalent Salary
For faculty with contracts other than 9-month contracts, the
9-month equivalent salary is simply their base contract salary
converted to a 9-month period (e.g. the 9-month equivalent salary
for an 11-month contract is 9/11ths of the base contract).
II. POLICY
2. Grants and Contracts officer in addition to the dean, for individuals who are compensated wholly or in part by sponsored funds.A. Applicability
This policy applies solely to funds administered and paid by the University.B. Approval Requirements
Faculty Members and Other Academic Personnel:1. Department Chair and academic dean, for all faculty members receiving additional compensation.
3. For department chairs and other administrators reporting to the dean, approval of the dean is required. For supplemental pay received by deans, approval of the provost is required.
NOTE: When faculty members are requested to teach a course outside their own departments during a regular teaching semester (e.g.), that course will either be scheduled as part of the faculty member’s normal teaching load or extra compensation will be paid to the faculty member
C. Faculty members may engage in research, sponsored projects,
training grants, interdepartmental consulting, extra teaching, etc.,
during the any twelve month academic year in which
they also fulfill the requirements of their regular full-time
faculty appointment at the University. and be reimbursed as
supplemental pay. If any portion of the
supplemental pay is to be paid from federal funds, written
permission for that supplemental pay must be obtained in advance
from the agency that granted or authorized the use of the federal
funds.
D. Maximum extra compensation for supplemental work (described in
C above) done during the academic year (two semesters) is limited to
the greater of either one-third of the 9-month equivalent salary for
the individual faculty or one-third of the average 9-month
equivalent salary for the regular faculty in the highest and second
highest salary quartile. A regularly contracted faculty
member may be paid by the university to teach a maximum of twelve
credits during any twelve-month academic year beginning with the
start of Summer term for supplemental pay. No more than five credits
may be so funded in addition to a normal instructional load during
each of the Fall and Spring Semesters.
E. If any portion of the supplemental pay is to be paid from
federal funds, written permission for that supplemental pay must be
obtained in advance from the agency that granted or authorized the
use of the federal funds. Exceptions may be made to the
statements listed above in unusual situations when extenuating
circumstances exist. However, these exceptions must be approved in
advance by the dean and reported to the provost. If federal funds
are involved, the exceptions must be approved by the Grants and
Contracts officer as to their compliance with federal regulations.
F. A regularly contracted faculty member may be paid by the
university to teach a maximum number of credit hours. See PPM 4-6 B.
Any payment made to a faculty member for work on projects
involving federal funds must not exceed the basic University
contracted
G Exceptions may be made to the policies described above for a limited time when extenuating circumstances exist. However, these exceptions must be approved in advance by the dean and reported to the provost. If federal funds are involved, the exceptions must be approved by the Director of the Office of Sponsored Projects as to their compliance with federal regulations.
H. Any payment made to a faculty member for work on projects involving federal funds must not exceed the basic University contracted salary rate unless the exception was properly detailed in the project proposal or a subsequent letter and given prior approval in writing by the granting agency.
A question was raised about some of the specific wording in the policy. It was noted that Rich Hill, University Counsel, very carefully crafted the wording in this document. Rich Hill will attend the Senate meeting if there are questions.
PPM 4-6 PPM 4-6 STATEMENT: FACULTY WORK LOAD
B. TEACHING OVERLOAD
1. A regularly contracted faculty member may teach a maximum of 7 credit hours per semester up to a maximum of 12 credit hours per academic year (two semesters).
2. Uncompensated courses (directed readings, clinical supervision, internships, etc.) are exempt from the overload limit.
3. Overload teaching must be approved by the department chair and the dean. Department chairs and deans may restrict overload teaching to a level less than the maximums described in PPM 4-6, B. 1. Department chairs and deans are also responsible for determining enrollment limits in courses. In instances where the department chair and dean cannot reach an agreement on enrollment limits, the decision will be referred to the provost.
4. Exceptions may be made to PPM 4-6, B. 1 and 2 for a limited time when extenuating circumstances exist. Exceptions will be considered on a case by case basis. Such exceptions must be approved in advance by the department chair and dean.
B C. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
In addition to the normal 24-semester hours of teaching, faculty members are expected to assume other professional responsibilities such as advising students, maintaining office hours, performing public service, engaging in research and other scholarly activities and serving on committees.
MOTION
Gary Dohrer: Moved to forward to the Faculty Senate
PPM 3-5 Supplemental Pay/Faculty and PPM 4-6 Statement: Faculty
Work Load to the Faculty Senate.
Second: Dawn Gatherum
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
AD HOC S.I REQUIREMENT
Jim Wilson representing the Ad Hoc Committee on the S.I.
requirement.
Recommendation -The S.I. Committee brought forward a preliminary report The Committee recommends that the University remove the SI requirement and associated course list and return to a modified version of the system used prior to semester conversion.
The point of S.I. was to distinguish between the BA and BS. They recommend doing away with S.I. and looking at the gen ed distribution. The gen ed distribution would be the same no matter what field you are in. This would require taking away the elective (3 credits) from Humanities/Creative Arts and moving it to science which would increase the science in the BS degree. By making this change Arts & Humanities will be hurt.
The Ad Hoc Committee looked at the gen ed requirement for the BA degree. The BA degree requires more hours because of the foreign language requirement.Concerns were expressed about losing humanities credits, the literature requirement, and changes in gen ed. Executive Committee members felt that there needed to be coordination between the Ad Hoc Committee on S.I. and Diversity and the Ad Hoc Committee on Gen Ed Assessment and Improvement, and the Curriculum & General Education Committee. It was suggested that the documents be reviewed for correctness.
MOTION
Gene Sessions: Moved that the Ad Hoc Committee on
S.I. and Diversity meet again to edit the document and
recommendation, and that Gary Dohrer meet with the group for
that process. The document will then come back to the
Executive Committee for review and to be forwarded to the
appropriate committee.
Second: Gary Dohrer
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
CGE
Laine Berghout representing the Curriculum & General
Education Committee.
The Executive Committee discussed procedures for presenting curriculum items to the Faculty Senate. All curriculum items will be presented as a package. If there are any concerns about a proposal, that proposal will be pulled from the packet to be discussed. The proposals that have not been pulled will be passed as a package. The pulled proposals will be discussed individually.
TBE
Telecommunications & Business Education - Program
changes for Business/Marketing Education Teaching Minor, Business
Education Teaching Minor, Business Systems Technologies AAS Degree,
Telecommunications & Business Education, Telecommunications AAS
Degree, Business Education - Business Systems Technologies Emphasis,
Telecommunications Administration; Course changes for Web Page
Design and Development - TBE 2532/3532 changing to TBE 2532 only,
Database Applications - TBE 3080 changing to TBE 2080,Training the
Trainer - TBE 3400 - adding prerequisites, Senior Project - TBE 4990 -
adding prerequisite, Web Page Design and Development - TBE 2532/3532
changing to Internet/Database Integration - TBE 3532; New course
proposal for Advanced Linux Systems Administration - TBE 3210.
CEET/ELEN
Computer & Electronics and Engineering Technology
program proposal for Electronics Engineering (ELEN); New course
proposals for Introduction to Electronics - ELEN 2100, Microelectronic
Circuits - ELEN 2110, Power Control Systems - ELEN 2120, Electronic
Project Development - ELEN 2130, Microcontrollers - ELEN 2150,
Lower-Division Assessment - ELEN 2899, Signals and Systems - ELEN
3110, Programmable Integrated Circuits - ELEN 3130, Measurement and
Signal Conditioning - ELEN 3140, Computer Control and Interfacing -
ELEN 3150, Real-time Embedded Controllers - ELEN 3160, Engineering
Research & Writing - ELEN 3170, Embedded Networks - ELEN 3180,
Communications Circuits and Systems - ELEN 3210, Fields & Waves -
ELEN 3220, Senior Seminar - ELEN 4100, Project Management - ELEN 4110,
Senior Project - ELEN 4120, Controls & Systems - ELEN 4130,
Digital Signal Processing - ELEN 4140, Engineering Fundamentals FE
Exam Prep - ELEN 4150, RF & Wireless - ELEN
4160, Individual Studies - ELEN 4800, Professional
Internship - ELEN 4890, Bachelor Degree Assessment -
ELEN 4899, and Special Topics - ELEN 4900.
MOTION
Motion from the CGE Committee to approve the above
curriculum proposals and forward them to the Faculty Senate.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
Laine Berghout mentioned that the moratorium on S.I. and Diversity is in place through Spring semester 2006. The provision was made to possibly renew the moratorium for another year. This needs to be considered before the April Faculty Senate meeting.
INFORMATION
SECURITY
Kathleen Miller has requested a faculty member sit on the
Information Security Task Force. Eric Sweden was suggested.
PROVOST
REPORT
Mike Vaughan will give a report/update on policy and program
changes.
TLA It was suggested that the chair appointment for the TLA/T&LF be changed from a two year term to a three year term.
MOTION
Gene Sessions: Moved to forward to the CRAO
Committee the charge to look at changing the chair
appointment for the TLA/T&LF from a two year term to a
three year term, and to discuss the possible change with the
TLA/TLF Committee.
Second: Becky Johns
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
LEGISLATIVE REPORT
President Millner provided a Legislative update:
LUNCHEON DATES
Possible dates for Executive Committee members to meet with
the President this semester over lunch will be sent out.
ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m.