FACULTY SENATE MINUTES – Approved                                                              October 17, 2013

 

MEMBERS - Listed Alphabetically

 Eric Amsel

Laura Anderson

John Armstrong

Tim Border

Cary Campbell

Sally Cantwell  

Rex Christensen

Kraig Chugg

Patti Cost

Bruce Davis - Admin. - Absent

Jill Ericson, Director, Student Success Center

Jeremy Farner

David Ferro, Admin.  - Brian Rague

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 - Excused

Joan Hubbard, Admin. - Excused

Colin Inglefield

Kerry Kennedy

Tom Mathews

David Matty, Admin.

Marek Matyjasik

Madonne Miner - Admin.

Carol Naylor

Matthew Nicholaou

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.

Sarah Steimel – Leise Zahabi

Mali Subbiah

Ryan Thomas - Admin. - Absent

Jim Turner – Sean Hansen

Michael Vaughan - Admin.

Vikki Vickers – Jeff Richey

President Wight – Admin.

Mary Beth Willard – Gary Johnson

Kristiann Williams – Kimball Johnson

David Wilson, Student

Josh Winegar

Jan Winniford – Admin.

Joseph Wolfe

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Brenda Stockberger, Secretary

 

Guests:

Fran Butler

Tim Herzog

 

1.  ROLL CALL

 

2.  Approval of the minutes from the 19 September 2013 Faculty Senate Meeting.

 

MOTION   Motion to approve the minutes from the 19 September 2013 Faculty Senate meeting by John Armstrong.

SECOND   Tom Matthews

OUTCOME  Unanimous         

Information Item

3.   Chat with Chuck – President Wight

President Wight gave the Senate updates on projects that are in work on campus.

Five major Projects have been completed on campus:  Marquardt Field House & Weber County Sports Complex,  WSU Downtown on Washington Boulevard is nearing completion. It will house a campus store, development of mobile apps and Continuing Education, as well as, Wildcat Center, Residence Hall 3 and Davis D3 building.   The Inauguration of President Wight has many activities scheduled for the week of Oct 19 through 26.  Color Dash, Opening of the Marquardt Field House & Weber County Sports Complex, Imagine Dragon Concert and Make a Difference Day.   Proceeds go to the Dream Weber Scholarship. The Science Building in the final stages of the design process.  There are two more stages to go through.  We are in a very good place that this process will go forward. 

Q. When will buildings 3 and 4 be torn down?  A.  If the funding is approved during the legislative session next year, then Buildings 3 and 4 will be demolished in May, with construction starting soon after.  The old building will stay open until completion of the new building.

Q.  Has there been any impact on the university due to the Government shutdown?  A.  This has been slight. It may have affected a grant by a slight delay. 

 Action Items

4.   University Curriculum Committee – Fran Butler, Chair

     

      COAST

            Electronics Engineering – Kirk Hagen

            Electronics Engineering Program Change to  “Electrical Engineering” – Information Item

 

            Sales Service & Technology – Carl Grunander

            Sales Service & Technology Program Change to “Professional Sales” – Information Item

            Sales Service & Technology - Department Change to “Professional Sales” – Information Item

 

      Social & Behavioral Sciences

            Neuroscience  – Matt Schmolesky

            NEUR 3850  Clinical Neuroscience – New Course Proposal

            NEUR4900 Topics in Neuroscience – New  Course Proposal

 

      No Discussion.

 

      LIBRARY – Kathy Payne

            LIBS2504  Information Resources in History – New Course Proposal

            LIBS2504  General Ed Course Proposal -- Computer and Information Literacy – New

      No Discussion.

 

      ARTS & HUMANITIES

            English – Mark LeTourneau

            Program Change – Interdisciplinary Linguistics Minor  

 

      No Discussion

 

MOTION   Motion to approve the curriculum as a package by Laura Anderson

SECOND   Kathy Herndon

OUTCOME  Unanimous         

5.   Constitution Review, Apportionment, and Organization - Tim Herzog, Chair

      Apportionment Report for 2013-14

      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.

 

College	2013-14 Seats
Arts & Humanities	8
Moyes College of Education	4
Library	1
Dumke College of Health Professions	7
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences	6
College of Applied Science & Technology	4
Goddard School of Business & Economics	3
College of Science	6
Total Seats Faculty Senate	39

 

 

 

 

 

 

 DISCUSSION

Are instructors counted?  Instructors are counted if teaching.   Instructors on leave were not included.  This will be discussed at a future CRAO meeting.

 

MOTION   Move to approve the Apportionment for the 2013-14 Academic Year by John Armstrong.

SECOND   Marek Matyjasik.

OUTCOME  Unanimous         

   6.   University Ranking & Tenure Evaluation Committee Chair – Patti Cost, Faculty Senate Chair

      Executive Committee Recommendation

 

Kathleen Stevenson was recommended and accepted the invitation to serve as Chair of the University Ranking & Tenure Evaluation Committee.

 

MOTION

Motion to approve the nomination of Kathleen Stevenson as Chair of the University Ranking & Tenure Evaluation Committee by John Armstrong.

SECOND   Colin Inglefield

OUTCOME  Unanimous

7.   Faculty Board of Review  - Patti Cost, Faculty Senate Chair

      Committee Member replacement – This item will be postponed until the next senate meeting.

 

8.   Faculty Senate Standing Committee Changes- Patti Cost, Faculty Senate Chair

            ASSA – Replace Kristin Nelson, ED with Linda Gowens, ED

            APAFT – Replace Melissa Neville, HP with Debra Judd, HP

 

MOTION   Move to approve the changes to the Faculty Senate Standing Committees by Colin Inglefield.

SECOND   John Armstrong

OUTCOME  Unanimous

 

9.   Discussion on Curriculum and eCatalog Deadline Dates - Patti Cost, Faculty Senate Chair

 

It was discussed and approved by the University Curriculum Committee on Sept 25 to move the deadlines for curriculum and eCatalog dates to 29 January(Curriculum) and 20 February 2014 (eCatalog).   No concerns were brought up by the Registrar’s office.

 

DISCUSSION    No Discussion.

 

MOTION    Move to approve the deadlines for curriculum and eCatalog dates to 29 January(Curriculum) and 20 February 2014 (eCatalog) by Eric Amsel.

SECOND   Jeremy Farner

OUTCOME  Unanimous

 10. Other Items

       No other Items discussed.

 Motion to adjourn by John Armstrong.

SECOND Kathy Herndon

Meeting adjourned at 3:45 pm

 

 Next Meeting:  Faculty Senate, November 7, 2013, at 3:00 pm, WB206-207