FS17Apr2014

3. Faculty Governance Award for 2014 Presented To Brian Rague by Kathleen Herndon

4. Certificates to Outgoing Senators, Students, Committee Chairs and Executive Committee Members

5.    IT Policies - Vern Morgan, IT Policy and Planning Administrator
       Software Distribution Standards and guidelines (Refresh)   Document
       Mobile Services agreement and procedures (Refresh)       Document

8. Faculty Senate Standing Committees and Chairs for Academic Year 2014-15 Committee List

11.    SBBFP - Salary Report - David Malone, Chair          Power Point Document
        Annual Assessment of faculty salaries in the context of CUPA and current year raise
        Summary of the sibson Consulting report: Faculty Total Compenstation Assessment

13 APAFT - Stephen Francis, Chair
PPM 8-13 Maintenance on the Professional File Document

14.   Other Items -
        CRAO - Tim Herzog, Chair
        PPM 1-13 Constitution and Bylaws Amendments
        Due to the end of the semester activities, the Faculty Senate and Faculty Vote will take place next Fall 2014.

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FACULTY SENATE MINUTES – Approved _____________________ 17 April 2014

MEMBERS - Listed Alphabetically

Eric Amsel

Laura Anderson

John Armstrong

Tim Border

Casey Bullock, Admin. – Fran Hopkin

Cary Campbell - Amanda Sowerby

Sally Cantwell

Rex Christensen – Diane Kawamura

Kraig Chugg - Excused

Patti Cost

Bruce Davis, Admin.

Jill Ericson, Student Success Center – Shandel Hadlock

Jeremy Farner

David Ferro, Admin. – Allyson Saunders

Azenett Garza

Alicia Giralt

Kirk Hagen

Ed Hahn

Sue Harley

Brady Harris, Student

Frank Harrold, Admin.

Jeffery Henry, Student

Kathy Herndon

Tim Herzog

Brent Horn

Joan Hubbard, Admin.

Colin Inglefield

Kerry Kennedy

Tom Mathews

David Matty, Admin.

Marek Matyjasik

Madonne Miner, Admin.

Carol Naylor

Matthew Nicholaou - excused

Matt Ondrus

Carrie Ota

Ryan Pace

Wei Qiu

Clay Rasmussen - Excused

Jack Rasmussen, Admin. - Excused

Scott Rogers

Shane Schvaneveldt

Yas Simonian, Admin.

Jeff Steagall, Admin.

Brian Stecklein, Admin. - Excused

Sarah Steimel

Mali Subbiah - Excused

Ryan Thomas, Admin.

Jim Turner

Michael Vaughan, Admin.

Vikki Vickers

President Chuck Wight, Admin. - Excused

Mary Beth Willard

Kristiann Williams

David Wilson, Student

Josh Winegar

Jan Winniford, Admin. - excused

Joseph Wolfe

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New Senators – 2014-15

Diego Batista - Excused

Thomas Bell

Alexandra Hanson

Gary Johnson

Kathy Newton

Tanya Nolan

Craig Oberg - Excused

Jenn Ostrowski

David Read

Rob Reynolds

Doris Stevenson

Drew Weidmen

Liese Zahabi

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Brenda Stockberger, Secretary

Guests:

Fran Butler, Chair, Curriculum Committee

Becky Marchant, Chair, ASSA

Stephen Francis, Chair, APAFT

Tim Herzog, Chair, CRAO

David Malone, Chair, SBBFP

Vern Morgan,

Leigh Shaw, GEIAC, Chair

4. Certificates to Outgoing Senators, Students, Committee Chairs, Executive Committee and Faculty Senate Chair.

Information on policies for information only. Policies were updated to reflect new language and refresh to meet more current billing practices. Changed process of providing software to computers. See policies for more information.

Program Reports were submitted last November and compiled into this General Education Assessment Summary. Better yield of data. On target for regular assessment during the semester. Committee has done a good job to complete the goals for this year and goals for next year. Clean up the web presence to make General Education information easier to access on the Weber Home page. Work to make the assessment schedule will be more transparent and make the schedule more clear on when assessment is done. Work with Curriculum Committee to craft a policy regarding the quantity and quality of assessment data that will be required for Gen Ed courses to be renewed or new courses to attain Gen Ed status. Also working to explore new ways to assess General Education more holistically outside of the various silos of Core and Breadth areas and to improve the quality of Gen Ed courses in their Learning Outcomes. Keep up the good work on assessing your courses. Use this assessment data to improve your teaching and improve the learning outcomes and measures of assessment. This documents the things that are happening in our classrooms and where we can improve and seek to do in the classroom.

There are four courses evaluated for the QL outcomes. There are three or four paths to satisfy QL that don’t involve any of those courses. One is a score of 3 on the AP test.

How would we assess the students that satisfy QL in a different way? That specific issue wasn’t discussed this year.

Changes are coming from the Board of Regents regarding QL and American Institutions that are going to open up the option for other courses that meet the learning outcomes to satisfy those requirements.

There is no assessment data for those students because they didn’t take a course to satisfy the QL requirement. It would be the same for CIL requirement.

Isn’t assessment more about the course than the student? What we as an institution are doing rather than what the student’s knowledge is.

MOTION Motion to approve curriculum listed above as a package by John Armstrong.

Learning Outcomes on Computer Information Literacy (CIL) and Composition (ENG2010)

Motion to accept the Learning Outcomes on Computer Information Literacy (CIL) and Composition (ENG2010) by Eric Amsel

MOTION Motion to approve the Faculty Senate Standing Committees and Chairs for Academic Year 2014-15

Ballot will be in your Name Card – Vote for five faculty - Ballot is on the website.

Annual assessment of faculty salaries in the context of CUPA and current year raise

A report was given on the Salary Comparison to the Faculty Senate by David Malone.

The addition of ‘c’ will help those students that are required to take credit/no credit courses for their program of study.

The basic objective of credit/no credit grading is to allow students the opportunity to enroll in classes outside their major or minor on a pass/fail basis without affecting their GPA.

a. Freshmen students may take no more than one class per term on a credit/no credit basis.

b. Students with 30 or more credit hours who have a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or above may register for no more than two classes per term on credit/no credit basis.

c. Credit/no credit classes required by a student’s program or degree are exempt from the limitations of 1.a and 1.b, above.

MOTION Motion to approve PPM 4-19 Grading Policy, Section D. 1. C. by Tom Matthews.

The College is encouraged to define the best practices on how Tenure Documents are input into the Campus course management system. Uniformity not only for faculty to upload their files as well as outside reviewers to be able to view the files. This is a university policy to allow for either digital or paper professional file. The Colleges would create the Best Practices on how to input the files for review.

OUTCOME Unanimous

Due to the end of semester activities, the Faculty Senate and Faculty Vote on the amendments to the Faculty Senate Constitution and Bylaws will take place next Fall 14.

Have an update on the Library remodel. The Library Faculty had meetings within the colleges and departments. Joan Hubbard summarized the feedback that was given. The summary covered the five points in the petition. In some cases there was agreement with the points on the petition and in some cases there was not agreement with the points on the petition. Faculty would like to see growth in the collection and in the electronic collection. There was agreement on that point. On the point of compact shelving – It did not appear that there was great concern about it or any concern from faculty that this was really an issue. Faculty seemed to be comfortable on compact shelving. Faculty would like to be consulted about the adequacy of the collection. Get regular feedback on what makes up the collection. On the weeding process – there was no great concern about weeding the collection and getting rid of materials that were not used on a regular basis. On the Testing Center – faculty were not in favor of a large center in a prominent location, but were in agreement with a smaller center in a less prominent location. Architects have been given this information. There will be some changes to the budget on this project due to other things that are taking place on campus.

What is the status on the Flying J building? The project is still moving. This would be a donation. Deals like this move very slowly.

Northwest Accreditation - How can faculty get prepared for this process. Ryan Thomas gave some information on preparation for this visit in October. It will be a much different process than in the past. Faculty will be able to meet with evaluators. During the first few weeks of Fall semester materials and a tentative schedule will be sent out to faculty and staff.