Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate
Thursday, October 31, 2013
MA 211K
2:00 p.m.
AGENDA SETTING MEETING
2. University Curriculum Committee - Fran Butler, Chair
HONORS - Judy Elsley
HNRS2050
Exploring Key Concepts in the Disciplines:
Social Sciences - New Course Proposal
Syllabus
HNRS2050
General Education Course Proposal - Social
Sciences(SS)
SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Philosophy & Political Science - Richard
Price
POLS 3400
Sexual Orientation, Politics, and Law -
New
Course
POLS4620 The
U.S. Supreme Court -
New Course
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Business Administration -- Sebastian
Brockhaus
Program
Change Proposal -
Supply Chain Management
SCM4500
Supply Chain Relational Strategies -
New Course
SCM4550
Strategic Supply chain Design -
New Course
Economics - Doris G Stevenson
Program
Change Proposals
Economics with Legal Studies Emphasis
Economics, Quantitative Emphasis
International Economics Emphasis
ECON4970 Introduction to Research Methods -
New Course Proposal
ECON4980
Research Methods - Course Proposal Change
HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Nursing - Tamara Dahlkemper
NRSG4700 -
Forensic Nursing, New Course Proposal
Health Administration Services -
Richard Dalkemper
Program
Change Proposal -
Health Administration Services
HAS4160 -
Medical Practice Management -
New Course Proposal
EDUCATION
HPHP - Melissa Masters
Program
Change Proposal - Nutrition
NUTR1240 Exploration in Culinary Art and Science - New Course Proposal Syllabus
REC3230
Wilderness Nutrition & Backcountry Cooking -
New Course Propsal
Syllabus
ARTS & HUMANITIES
Foreign Languages - Diego Batista
Associate of Arts in French -
New Program Proposal
Associate of Arts in German -
New Program Proposal
Associate of Arts in Japanese -
New Program Proposal
Associate of Arts in Spanish -
New Program Proposal
3.
APAFT – Library, Post Tenure Document -
Stephen Francis, Chair and Wade Kotter
Library, Post-Tenure Docuement
4.
Mike, Take the Mic – Mike Vaughan
5.
Faculty Board of Review – Patti Cost, Chair
Approval of George Comber, COAST,
as member of FBR committee.
6.
Report on Committee Activities - Liaisons
7.
Other Items
Discuss a building location change on
one Facutly Senate meeting.
Next
Meeting: Program
Review
meeting is Thursday, 14 November, MA319 Board Room
Thursday, October 31, 2013
MA211K
2 PM
AGENDA SETTING MEETING MINUTES - Approved
PRESENT
Eric Amsel, John Armstrong, Patti Cost, Alicia
Giralt, Kirk Hagen, Kathleen Herndon, Ed Hahn, Jim Turner,
Mike Vaughan, Chuck Wight,
and Brenda Stockberger
EXCUSED
Carol Naylor
GUESTS – Fran Butler, Wade Kotter
1.
MINUTES – Approval of the minutes from Agenda Setting meeting – October
10, 2013.
DISCUSSION – No discussion.
MOTION
Move to approve the minutes from Agenda Setting meeting – October 10,
2013 by Ed Hahn.
SECOND
Alicia Giralt
OUTCOME Unanimous
2.
Curriculum Committee – Fran Butler, Chair
HONORS - Judy Elsley
HNRS2050 Exploring Key
Concepts in the Disciplines: Social Sciences - New Course Proposal
HNRS2050 General Education
Course Proposal - Social Sciences(SS)
SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Philosophy &
Political Science - Richard Price
POLS 3400 Sexual Orientation, Politics, and Law - New Course Proposal
POLS4620 The U.S. Supreme Court - New Course Proposal
HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Nursing - Tamara Dahlkemper
NRSG4700 - Forensic Nursing, New Course Proposal
Health
Administration Services - Richard Dalkemper
Program Change Proposal - Health Administration Services
HAS4160 - Medical Practice Management - New Course Proposal
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Business Administration --
Sebastian Brockhaus
Program Change Proposal Supply Chain Management
SCM4500 Supply Chain
Relational Strategies - New Course Proposal
SCM4550
Strategic Supply Chain Design - New Course Proposal
Economics - Doris G Stevenson
Program
Change Proposals
General
Economics
Business
Economics
Economics
with Legal Studies Emphasis
Economics,
Quantitative Emphasis
International Economics Emphasis
ECON4970
Introduction to Research Methods - New Course Proposal
ECON4980
Research Methods - Course Proposal Change
EDUCATION
HPHP - Melissa Masters
Program Change Proposal - Nutrition
NUTR1240 Exploration in
Culinary Art and Science - New Course Proposal
REC3230 Wilderness Nutrition
& Backcountry Cooking - New Course Proposal
HPHP - Brian
McGladrey
New Course
Proposals:
PE1055 Pilates
PE1058 Hatha Yoga, Level II
PE1068 Kettlebell Conditioning
PE1235 Flag Football
PE1316 Stand-Up Paddleboard
PE1351 Scuba Diving, Level II
PE1505 Kayaking, Level I
PE1670 Ice Skating, Level I
ARTS & HUMANITIES
Foreign
Languages - Diego Batista
Associate of Arts in French - New Program Proposal
Associate of Arts in German - New Program Proposal
Associate of Arts in Japanese - New Program Proposal
Associate of Arts in Spanish - New Program Proposal
MOTION
Move to forward the curriculum to Faculty Senate as a package by Ed Hahn.
DISCUSSION
A number of Program and Course proposals were brought to Curriculum
Committee. Do new courses need to be
taught as an Experimental Course first before becoming a regular course?
No this is not required.
Departments can create a new course as they see the need for one. If they have
the resources that will make the course successful.
Are titles of courses fitting the outcomes of the course?
Lab fees or course fees are determined by the department.
Fees are identified when students register for courses and extra fees in
the course syllabus. There are
some overlap in subject matter with courses across campus.
It is hard to determine if one class is taught in one discipline should
be also taught in another department because of certain subject matter needed
for a program. Student credit hours
is also another issue.
SECOND
John Armstrong
OUTCOME
Unanimous
3.
APAFT – Library, Post Tenure Document -
Jim Turner (representing Stephen Francis, Chair) and Wade
Kotter
DISCUSSION
The APAFT committee found the Library’s Post-Tenure Document well written
and did not see any issues with it.
There were no comments from the Executive Committee. Wade Kotter, Library, was
in attendance and Jim Turner, APAFT Liaison, was representing Stephen Francis,
APAFT Chair, who could not be at the meeting.
MOTION
Motion to move the Library, Post Tenure Document to Faculty Senate by John
Armstrong.
SECOND
Kathleen Herndon
OUTCOME
Unanimous
4.
Mike, Take the Mic – Mike Vaughan
A.
Tenure - Talked about making the tenure files electronic, long standing
confusion due to the different files that are part of the Tenure process.
APAFT committee and everyone involved with the process need to be aware
that the policy governing the paper file only governs the file that requires the
faculty to have three things that they prepare:
a. Employment Form; b.
Autobiographical form; c. Summary of Teaching Evaluations.
Supplemental File -
Faculty can maintain a file with supplemental information.
There is nothing in policy that states the faculty could not make this
file completely electronic. This
would be consistent with policy.
Faculty members could reduce the summary of
student evaluations to a page or two and could reference a website containing
the evaluation results. They should
list publications, but they could
provide a link to the publications rather than including them in the file.
With being consistent with policy they could reduce the size of the
Tenure and Promotion file to 30 to 35 pages.
B.
Template for the Autobiographical form.
We modify it periodically when needed.
It is not part of policy doesn’t need to be approved.
Brenda Kowlewski has asked me to change the language in the template.
The current template talks about Community Based Research consistent with
the Center’s name change. Brenda
Kowlewski would like to change the language in the template to Community-Engaged
Learning (CEL). Mike felt this
should be brought up to Executive Committee to be discussed.
The issue would be changing the word ‘Research” with “Learning”.
This is something to be aware of.
Her view is that CEL is an all-encompassing umbrella that includes
research. If this is for a
professor’s Research refers to research that the faculty does on their own or if
it is a project. Possibly a glossary
would help to define what language refers to in policy.
This form is a template for Tenure and Promotion.
Research could be viewed as research that the faculty member does
themselves whereas the other view is that it could be a research project that is
done by students in a class assignment.
C.
Degree proposals that require Regents approval.
Once a degree is approved, that degree can be modified without having to
go back to the Board of Regents.
There is an ‘Exception’ which is unless that the program is modified in such a
way that clearly violates Regents policy.
An example of this would be if a one year certificate program or
Associates program would change their courses from 2000 level to 3000 level.
D.
Additional Funding for Executive Committee
This will encompass technology from the
bookstore, such as software, towards an iPad, or other technology up to $450.00.
Look into what type of technology you would be interested in.
E.
Process of Program Review is working better now that the Executive
Committee assumed the responsibility as the program Review Committee.
Material is getting read and reviewed and getting
Third year that this has been in the work.
5.
Faculty Board of Review – Patti Cost, Chair
Approval of George Comber,
COAST, as member of FBR committee.
DISCUSSION - No discussion on this item.
MOTION
Motion to approve George Comber, COAST as a member of the FBR committee
by Kathleen Herndon.
SECOND
Jim Turner
OUTCOME
Unanimous
6. Report
on Committee Activities – Liaisons
RSPG – John Armstrong
Fall proposals being reviewed.
Working on the rubric.
CRAO – Kathy Herndon
Committee is collaborating via emails due to conflicting schedules, but
working on assignments.
EIC – Alicia Giralt
Working on signage for smoke and idle free zones.
TLA – Eric Amsel
Adjunct Retreat is coming up on Nov 9th.
Gen Ed – Eric Amsel,
Committee is working well.
Alternative Assessment Procedure.
7.
Other Items
Discuss a location (Building) change on one Faculty Senate Meeting -
It was decided that this would not be a good idea of moving this large amount of
people to another meeting place.
With the Lind Lecture Hall being at the top of the hill, it would cause parking
problems and weather issues could also come into play.
Opening the separating walls in the room is not an easy task as well.
MOTION
Move to adjourn the meeting by Ed Hahn.
SECOND
Alicia Giralt
OUTCOME
Unanimous
Meeting adjourned at
3:45 pm
Next
Meeting: Faculty Senate,
November 7, 2013 at 3:00 pm WB206-207
Next
Meeting: Program Review
meeting is Thursday, 14 November, MA319 Board Room