Draft 12-1-09

Thursday
November 19, 2009
MA 210 J
2:00 p.m.

AGENDA SETTING MEETING

AGENDA

1. Approval of the minutes from the October 29, 2009 meeting

2. Appointment, Promotion, Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee – Afshin Ghoreishi, Chair
PPM 3-2 Employee Definitions

3. Curriculum Committee – Erika Daines, Chair
Gen Ed Life Science Course Renewal

Microbiology - Introductory Microbiology MICR LS 1113

Curriculum

Nursing - Course deletions for Basic Trauma Nursing - NRSG 3000, Issues in Nursing - NRSG 4012
Computer Science - General Education Creative Arts proposal for Introduction to Interactiv Entertainment - CS 1010

Military Science - Program change for Military Science Minor; Course deletion for Leadership Lab - MILS 0000; Course changes for Leadership and Personal Development - MILS 1010, Introduction to Tactical Leadership - MILS 1020, Innovative Team Leadership - MILS 2010, Foundations of Tactical Leadership - MILS 2020, Adaptive Team Leadership - MILS 3010, Leadership in Changing Environments - MILS 3020, Developing Adaptive Leaders - MILS 4010, Leadership in a Complex World - MILS 4020

4. Liaison Reports

Teaching, Learning & Assessment – Colleen Garside
Salary, Benefits, Budget & Fiscal Planning – David Ferro
Environmental Issues – David Ferro
Research, Scholarship & Professional Growth – Azenett Garza
Honorary Degree – Kathleen Sitzman
General Education Improvement & Assessment – Laine Berghout
Curriculum – Laine Berghout
Constitutional Review, Apportionment & Organization – Doris Geide-Stevenson
Appointment, Promotion, Academic Freedom & Tenure – Sue Harley
Admissions, Standards & Student Affairs – Peggy Saunders

Academic Resources & Computing – Ed Hahn

5. Other Items

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Approved 1-7-10

MINUTES

PRESENT
Laine Berghout, David Ferro, Colleen Garside, Azenett Garza, Doris Geide-Stevenson, Ed Hahn, Sue Harley, Ann Millner, Peggy Saunders, Kathleen Sitzman, Mike Vaughan – Kay Brown, Secretary

GUESTS
Vel Casler, Erika Daines, Susan Matt

MINUTES
Colleen Garside: Moved to approve the minutes from the October 29, 2009 meeting.
Second: Kathleen Sitzman
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.

APAFT
Appointment, Promotion, Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee – Afshin Ghoreishi, Chair PPM 3-2 Employee Definitions

The changes to the section below were made to address the concerns of the Deans.

Each year the department chair and dean shall review ~~both the candidate~~ their contract faculty and the need for the positions before deciding on reappointment ~~or whether or not to terminate~~. If ~~the~~ a decision is made not to re-appoint ~~to terminate~~, the ~~candidate~~ individual must be notified by June 30, or, in the case of an appointment expiring during an academic year, by the anniversary date of the appointment. Otherwise, the candidate will receive a new contract. That contract will be a one-year contract during the probationary period and a two- or three-year contract commencing with the start of the fourth year. Contract faculty in their first year of employment will be formally reviewed by a faculty committee consisting of one faculty chosen by the contract faculty member, one faculty chosen by the chair, and at least one faculty elected by the department. This committee may include faculty from outside the contract faculty member’s department and must include at least two faculty members on tenure-track or tenured appointments. By April 1, this committee will make a recommendation to the department chair regarding reappointment. After the first year formal review, contract faculty employed continuously on one year or two year contracts, will be reviewed every three years using the above review process.

A couple of years ago the APAFT Committee changed the wording in the section below to step up the degree requirements. The new language now appears to make the policy weaker. It was pointed out that there are some fields that do not offer mater or doctorate degrees. The proposed policy opens up more widely the hiring of instructors with a bachelor’s degree.

Suggested wording: "The master’s degree shall be the minimum degree for an appointment with this title. Where the master’s degree is the highest degree awarded a baccalaureate degree and appropriate professional experience will be accepted . . ."

III. APPOINTMENT CRITERIA

B. Title

B. 1. Instructor

The master's degree shall be the minimum degree for an appointment with this title. ~~to this rank~~. ~~Where the master's degree is the terminal degree~~, If a candidate does not have a master’s degree, a baccalaureate degree and appropriate professional experience will be accepted for

the position of instructor upon approval of the faculty of the discipline, the chair, the dean, and the provost. ~~and the college Ranking Tenure Evaluation Committee.~~

The Provost pointed out that there is some constraining language in the policy below for both instructor and visiting faculty.

Visiting Faculty - The wording " an individual whose recent or primary affiliation is with another institution" would prevent for example the College of Arts & Humanities from bringing back June Phillips for a semester. Suggested wording - "an individual whose ~~recent or~~ primary affiliation will not be Weber State University ~~is with another institution~~.

Instructor - "An instructor is hired for a fixed time period and may (can??) be rehired at the sole discretion of the university."

II. POLICY

B. Titles

Faculty on contract appointments will be assigned one of the following titles: Instructor, Adjunct, Clinical, Affiliate, Concurrent, Research, or Visiting.

Instructor - an individual having academic, professional or specialized training, employed on a half-time or more basis and who either cannot be hired as a tenure track faculty or does not wish to be in a tenure track position. An instructor is hired for a fixed time period and may be rehired at the sole discretion of the university. See PPM 8-7.

Adjunct, Clinical, Affiliate, Concurrent, and Research faculty are defined in PPM 3-2.

Visiting Faculty - an individual whose recent or primary affiliation is with another institution. The university may employ an individual under this title for a limited amount of time. A visiting faculty may be given a title containing an academic rank (assistant, associate, full) provided the additional title of "visiting" precedes the designation of rank. Such establishment of rank has no significance for the achieving or holding of rank if the person should apply for a tenure track position.

MOTION
Colleen Garside: Moved to send the proposed revisions to PPM 3-2 Employee Definitions to the Faculty Senate as is.
Second: Sue Harley
Outcome: The motion failed with 1 abstention. The proposal will be sent back to the APAFT Committee.

BA/BS DEGREES
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degree requirements.

Guests: Susan Matt and Vel Casler

Susan Matt - The History Department is almost unanimous behind changing their degree to a BA, but they are reluctant to do so if other departments who should only offer a BA degree choose to offer a BS degree.

If you are essentially a humanities field or history field and you are pushing for a BS degree, then the burden of proof should be with your department to show that the degree would have any currency in the world.

Vel Casler - The Sales & Technology Department does not currently have classes that satisfy the requirements for the proposed BS degree. The science requirements for the BS degree does not add much to what happens to the sales person in industry or the market place. They currently offer both BA and BS degrees. The are looking at the possibility of adding a class with a research component.

Scientific method could be changed to read "evidenced based investigation." The intent is not to add more courses to a major, but look at the courses already within the major for the investigative, problem solving element. These elements exist in many of our courses. There are some fields of research in sociology and psychology that include qualitative data.

Discussion

Is the degree up to the department? Is it up to the University?
Suggested change to the proposal - ". . . This coursework leading to a BS degree must address the critical steps of the Scientific method: formulation of hypotheses, data collection, empirical testing, and data analysis. Whether through actual field work, laboratory inquiry, or diligent study of what others have done, students must become familiar with the processes of the scientific method and become an educated consumer of scientific research."

WSU offers approximately 100 majors, 39 majors offer one option.

Set up the standards and see which programs match up. If you are an outlier then we can look deeper at the curriculum.
The perception is that students will have to take 6 more credit hours. This is a misunderstanding.
Just because your major is in the College of Science doesn’t mean the degree will be a BS degree. Many Biology degrees are BA degrees.
Associate of Science and Associate of Arts degrees will need to be looked at.
There are standards for the AS, AAS and the BFA degrees.
We need the support of the deans for this proposal to be successful.
Time line? Implementation process?
Departments are worried about SCH’s.

It was suggested that a "what is" chart be created. The Provost’s Office will sort the information and make it available. There are peer institutions identified by the Regents. The U.S. Government also puts out a list of higher education institutes for comparison and it is available through President Millner’s office.

CURRICULUM
Curriculum Committee – Erika Daines, Chair

MICR
Gen Ed Life Science Course Renewal - Microbiology - Introductory Microbiology MICR LS 1113

MOTION
Peggy Saunders: Moved to forward to the Faculty Senate the gen ed life science course renewal from Microbiology for Introductory Microbiology - MICR LS 1113.
Second: Kathleen Sitzman
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.

NRSG
Nursing - Course deletions for Basic Trauma Nursing - NRSG 3000, Issues in Nursing - NRSG 4012

MOTION Kathleen Sitzman: Moved to forward to the Faculty Senate the course deletions for Basic Trauma Nursing - NRSG 3000, Issues in Nursing - NRSG 4012
Second: Ed Hahn
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.

MILS
Military Science - Program change for Military Science Minor; Course deletion for Leadership Lab - MILS 0000; Course changes for Leadership and Personal Development - MILS 1010, Introduction to Tactical Leadership - MILS 1020, Innovative Team Leadership - MILS 2010, Foundations of Tactical Leadership - MILS 2020, Adaptive Team Leadership - MILS 3010, Leadership in Changing Environments - MILS 3020, Developing Adaptive Leaders - MILS 4010, Leadership in a Complex World - MILS 4020

Contact hours are listed for the week. Lecture hours, lab hours are listed as well as other hours. What are the other hours? Physical exercises and training hours are required and listed under other.

MOTION
Ed Hahn: Moved to forward to the Faculty Senate the proposals from Military Science stated above.
Second: Kathleen Sitzman
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.

CS
Computer Science - General Education Creative Arts proposal for Introduction to Interactive Entertainment - CS 1010

This course from COAST is seeking gen ed status with the creative arts designation. There was no concern from the Curriculum Committee or the College of Arts & Humanities over giving this course the creative arts designation.

MOTION
Ed Hahn: Moved to forward to the Faculty Senate the gen ed creative arts proposal for Introduction to Interactive Entertainment - CS 1010.
Second: Kathleen Sitzman
Outcome: The motion passes unanimously.

LIAISON REPORTS
It was suggested that the Liaison reports be postponed until the January 7, 2010 meeting.

MOTION
Colleen Garside: Moved to postpone the liaison reports until the January 7, 2010 meeting.
Second: Azanett Garza
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.

REGENTS
The Regents have made some changes in the Master of Communication proposal. The changes will come back through the process.

PROGRAM NAME CHANGES
Program name changes are currently considered as a nonsubstantive item and have been signed off by the University Curriculum Committee Chair, and listed on the agenda for University Curriculum Committee members. The Provost suggested that program name changes be approved by the Faculty Senate.

MOTION
Lane Berghout: Moved to have program name changes forwarded to the Faculty Senate.
Second: Peggy Saunders
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.

The proposed name change from Emergency Care & Rescue changing from Emergency Care & Rescue AAS Degree to Paramedic Studies AAS Degree will go to the Faculty Senate for the December 3, 2009 meeting as an information item.

MEMBERSHIP OVERVIEW
The Faculty Senate carryover membership for the 2010-11 academic year was distributed.

ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 3:45 p.m.