Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate 
Thursday, October 10,  2013
MA 211K
2:00 p.m.

AGENDA SETTING MEETING

1.   Approval of the minutes from 12 September 2013 meeting.

Information Items

2.     Chat with Chuck  – President  Wight

Action Items

3.  Curriculum Committee – Fran Butler, Chair
COAST

Electronics Engineering – Kirk Hagen

Electronics Engineering Program Change to  “Electrical Engineering”
Supporting documents

Sales Service & Technology – Carl Grunander

Sales Service and Technology  Program Change to “Professional Sales”
Supporting documents
Sales Service and Technology Department change to "Professional Sales"

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Neuroscience  – Matt Schmolesky

NEUR 3850  Clinical Neuroscience – New   Syllabus

NEUR4900 Topics in Neuroscience – New   Syllabus
Supporting documents

LIBRARY – Kathy Payne

LIBS2504  Information Resources in History 

LIBS2504  General Ed Course proposal Computer and Information Literacy

ARTS & HUMANITIES

English – Mark LeTourneau

Program Change – Interdisciplinary Linguistics Minor

4.     CRAO Apportionment – Tim Herzog, Chair
        Apportionment Data File 

5.     University Ranking Tenure Evaluation Committee Chair Selection
        University Ranking Tenure Evaluation Committee Document

6.      Faculty Board of Review Change in Committee Member - Patti Cost
       Recommendations for a new committee member.

7.    Define Charge on PPM 8-11 concerning “Tenure-track faculty members must be evaluated in two classes per year.” (Section IV, E. Teaching, 1. Student Evaluations)
       Link to PPM 8-11  http://www.weber.edu/ppm/Policies/8-11_EvalFacultyMembers.html

8.    Report on Faculty Senate Standing Committee Activities - Liaisons

9.     Other Items.

Next Meeting:    Faculty Senate, October 17, 2013 at 3:00 pm WB206-207

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Thursday,  October 10, 2013

MA211K

2 PM

AGENDA SETTING MEETING MINUTES (Approved)

PRESENT

Eric Amsel, John Armstrong, Patti Cost, Alicia Giralt, Kirk Hagen, Ed Hahn, Carol Naylor, Jim Turner,  Mike Vaughan,  Chuck Wight,  and Brenda Stockberger

EXCUSED       Kathy Herndon

GUESTS          Fran Butler and Tim Herzog

1.  Approval of the minutes from September 12, 2013 meeting.

      Motion to approve the minutes from September 12, 2013 meeting by Ed Hahn.

      Second  John Armstrong

      Outcome  Unanimous

Information Items

2.  Chat with Chuck – President Wight

      Inauguration Events and Readiness

Action Items

3.  Curriculum Committee – Fran Butler, Chair

COAST

Electronics Engineering – Kirk Hagen

Electronics Engineering Program Change to  “Electrical Engineering”

Sales Service & Technology – Carl Grunander

Sales Service & Technology - Program Change to “Professional Sales”

Sales Service & Technology - Department Name Change to “Professional Sales”

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Neuroscience  – Matt Schmolesky

NEUR 3850  Clinical Neuroscience – New Course Proposal

NEUR4900 Topics in Neuroscience – New Course Proposal

LIBRARY – Kathy Payne

LIBS2504  Information Resources in History – New Course Proposal

LIBS2504  General Ed Course proposal Computer and Information Literacy

ARTS & HUMANITIES

English – Mark LeTourneau

Program Change – Interdisciplinary Linguistics Minor 

DISCUSSION

Any other kinds of changes expected on the Sales Service & Technology or Electronics Engineering courses? None at this time.

Were other departments in the college in support of this change? Yes--there was no opposition.

Do program name changes go to the Board of Regents?  Yes, they go to the Board of Regents.

Program Name changes are information item only for the Faculty Senate.

>>Another item discussed during this item.

The University Curriculum Committee (UCC) made recommendation to extend the Curriculum Deadline to January.  The reason being the eCatalog no longer needs to be sent to a printer for publishing. No opposition was heard and the UCC approved to move this to the Executive Committee for approval.

At the Executive Committee meeting there was a discussion on moving Curriculum Deadline out one month from Dec 4 to Jan 29 which would move the final Faculty Senate for Curriculum approval to February 20.

MOTION   Motion to move curriculum forward to Faculty Senate as a package and to extend the Curriculum Deadline to January and Faculty Senate by February made by Eric Amsel.

SECOND   Carol Naylor

OUTCOME  Unanimous

4.   CRAO Apportionment – Tim Herzog, Chair

This document can be viewed in its entirety at:

http://faculty.weber.edu/senate/Minutes13-14/FS17Oct2013.html click on Item 5 of the Agenda.

Committee is going over the document to define how seats are calculated.  The total Faculty Senate seats did not change from last year.   Do Adjuncts need representation in the Faculty Senate?  This is an ongoing discussion.  Concern of LEAP representation on the Senate also. Faculty are all instructors and don’t fit into the criteria.  CRAO still discussing this issue.

MOTION   Motion to forward the 2013 – 14 Apportionment as calculated by CRAO to the Faculty Senate by Ed Hahn.

SECOND         John Armstrong

OUTCOME      Unanimous

5.   University Ranking & Tenure Evaluation Committee Chair Selection

      Kathleen Stevenson has accepted to serve as the Chair of the University Ranking & Tenure Evaluation Committee for 2013-14.

MOTION         Motion to move Kathleen Stevenson forward to the Faculty Senate for approval by Alicia Giralt

SECOND         John Armstrong.

OUTCOME      Unanimous

6.   Faculty Board of Review   - Patti Cost

      Recommendations to replace Mike Olpin on FBR were Diana Green and George Comber.  These individuals were to be contacted prior to Faculty Senate, 17 Oct.

MOTION         Motion to move forward to Faculty Senate the recommendation of FBR members listed  above by  Kirk Hagen.

SECOND         Ed Hahn

OUTCOME      Unanimous

7.   Define Charge on PPM 8-11 concerning “Tenure-track faculty members must be evaluated in two classes  per year.” (Section IV, E. Teaching, 1. Student Evaluations) 

      Reason for this recommendation is to clarify this section on Student Evaluations for who and how many course evaluations are given out.

      Take the first part of the 8-11 take the old language that was removed at Faculty Senate and put right before the post tenure review section to clarify this section and make information easier to locate.

      See Faculty Senate link:  http://faculty.weber.edu/senate/Minutes%2011-12/FS16Feb12.htm

      Scroll to the Minutes, Item 3 to see the changes approved at the 16 Feb 2012 Senate meeting.

      MOTION   Move to send this recommendation to APAFT Committee as a charge by John Armstrong

      SECOND   Ed Hahn

      OUTCOME   Unanimous

8.   Report on Committee Activities - Liaisons

      ASSA –  Charge 3 need to clarify the language on this charge.

3.   Discuss the reporting of cheating and plagiarism in  PPM6-22, IV, D, 2, a. Cheating and b. Plagiarism.

      Should there be a more formalized mechanism to have some remediation on a student that plagiarizes?

      Eric Amsel and Jeff Hurst are willing to meet with ASSA and explain what is meant on this charge.

Addition of Charge 6 to ASSA Charges

            6.  Consider adding  a sub-section “c” to PPM4-19 D.1 granting an exemption to the credit/no credit policy for students whose program requires them to take credit/no credit classes beyond the limits established by current policy. (Charge added by legal counsel and the registrar’s office/Oct 13)

APAFT – Jim Turner

Committee met and reviewed two Post-Tenure documents.  The College of Education document went back to the college and the Library document was approved to move forward to Agenda Setting meeting.  Sub Committees were created and assignments made to work on charges for the year.

ARCC - Kirk Hagen

Asking for a round of proposals for this Fall due Nov 4.  21,000 available for funding.

CRAO – Kathleen Herndon

Reported on Apportionment.

CC – Ed Hahn

Approve extending the eCatalog deadline extended date to January.

EIC –   Alicia Giralt

A busy committee.  They meet two times a month.  Glass recycling will be coming to Weber State.  Several “On Air” topics held in conjunction with the Center for Community Engaged Learning.  The Utah Sustainability Summit will be in March.  The 650 Fast Bus from Frontrunner Station in Ogden to WSU with no stops (takes 10 minutes) has reduced the commute by 30 minutes.  Many other events and projects are being discussed. 

GEN ED – Eric Amsel

Gen Ed – Sub-committee’s are writing reports that are due on Nov 15. 

RSPG – John Armstrong

Discussed the Rubric to help evaluate proposals.

SBBFP – Patti Cost

This committee hasn’t met yet this year.

TLA – Eric Amsel

Doing nice work on Adjunct Retreat Coming up in November.  Eric Amsel is planning to attend. 

Mike Vaughan suggested that liaisons invite the Administrative member to the meetings.  ARCC needs an Administrative member for this year.

9.   Other Items

Updating Committee Interest Survey for next year.  The committees on the second page no longer exist.

It was recommended to remove the non-senate committees on the back side and replace with a more general question such as:  I’m interested in issues dealing with  A.  Students; B. Information Technology; C.  Administrative Services. 

Motion to adjourn by Eric Amsel

 Meeting adjourned at 4:55 pm.

Next Agenda Setting meeting on Thursday, 31 October, 2 pm in the MA211K Conference Room