FACULTY SENATE AGENDA(*Revised 11/4/2013)
Thursday, November 7,  2013
3 pm  WB206-207

1.    ROLL CALL

 

2.   Approval of the minutes from the 17 October 2013 meeting.

 

3.*   Chat With Chuck - President Chuck Wight

 

Action Items

4.     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)
- Gen Ed SS Form

SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

      Philosophy & Political Science - Richard Price

      POLS 3400 Sexual Orientation, Politics, and Law - New Course Proposal  Syllabus

      POLS4620 The U.S. Supreme Court - New Course Proposal  Syllabus

     

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

      Business Administration -- Sebastian Brockhaus

      Program Change Proposal - Supply Chain Management

      SCM4500  Supply Chain Relational Strategies - New Course  Syllabus

      SCM4550  Strategic Supply chain Design - New Course  Syllabus

 

      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     Syllabus

      ECON4980 Research Methods - Course Proposal Change

 

HEALTH PROFESSIONS

      Nursing - Tamara Dahlkemper

      NRSG4700 - Forensic Nursing, New Course Proposal     Syllabus     Supporting Documents

 

      Health Administration Services - Richard Dalkemper

      Program Change Proposal - Health Administration Services

      HAS4160 - Medical Practice Management - New Course Proposal     Syllabus

 

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

 

5.  APAFT – Library, Post Tenure Document -  Stephen Francis, Chair and Wade Kotter

       Library, Post-Tenure Document

 

6.     Faculty Board of Review – Patti Cost, Chair

        Approval of  George Comber, COAST, as member of FBR committee.

 

7.     Other Items

 

 

Next Meeting:    Faculty Senate, December 5, 2013 at 3:00 pm WB206-207

 

 

 

FACULTY SENATE MINUTES – Approved                                                                 7  November  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.

Jill Ericson, Director, Student Success Center - Absent

Jeremy Farner

David Ferro  - Brian Rague

Azenett Garza Absent

Alicia Giralt - Excused

Kirk Hagen

Ed Hahn

Sue Harley

Brady Harris, Student - Absent

Frank Harrold - Admin.

Jeffery Henry, Student

Kathy Herndon

Tim Herzog

Brent Horn

Joan Hubbard, Admin.

Colin Inglefield

Kerry Kennedy - Absent

Tom Mathews

David Matty - Admin.

Marek Matyjasik

Madonne Miner - Admin.

Carol Naylor

Matthew Nicholaou

Matt Ondrus

Carrie Ota

Ryan Pace 

Wei Qiu

Clay Rasmussen

Jack Rasmussen - Admin.  

Scott Rogers- Excused

Shane Schvaneveldt

Yas Simonian – Admin. Excused  

Jeff Steagall - Admin.

Sarah Steimel Absent

Mali Subbiah  Excused

Ryan Thomas - Admin.

Jim Turner

Michael Vaughan - Admin.

Vikki Vickers

President Wight – Admin.

Mary Beth Willard – Gary Johnson

Kristiann Williams

David Wilson, Student

Josh Winegar

Jan Winniford, Admin. - Absent

Joseph Wolfe

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Brenda Stockberger, Secretary

 

Guests:

Fran Butler

Stephen Francis


 

1.  ROLL CALL

 

2.  Approval of the minutes from the 17 October 2013 Faculty Senate Meeting.

 

MOTION   Motion to approve the minutes from the 17 October 2013 Faculty Senate meeting by .

SECOND  

OUTCOME  Unanimous         

 

3.   Chat with Chuck – President Wight

 

A very special inauguration week

 

Five priorities from President Wight

1.  Keeping college affordable.

2.  Maintain a beautiful and sustainable Campus.

3.  Diversity - Important that diversity of campus reflects the diversity of the community.  The Board of  Trustee’s approved a proposal on a LGBT Center on campus.

4.  Maintain strong ties with the community – Hill AFB, Ogden City and Community boards.

5.  Faculty – Reimagine the ways we teach, come up with innovative ways of teaching for the benefit of the students.

 

Building Projects

- Breaking ground on a new Public Safety Building on the Northwest Corner of Campus.

Remodel of the Stewart Library – digitization of collections and create new space for students. Improved student group areas, small rooms for group study, a café to have food available.

Science Building – Ranked number 1 by the Board of Regents.  State building board Ranked number 1.  In a very good position and we will get an additional amount of funding from the state and look for the demolition of Buildings 3 and 4 starting in May 2014. 

 

Higher Education Legislative Appropriations Request.  Will not know the results until March, however, the request includes a  3% increase in compensation for faculty and staff and a 9.5 % increase in benefit funding.  This was projected by PEHP.  It is a normal increase in medical care and changes in coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act.

 

Distinctive Mission Funding  - Funding for new initiatives mostly to do with student success.  There is a 10 million dollar request and our share of that, if appropriated, would be 11% or 1.1 million.

 

 Acute Equity Funding – Utah System of Higher Education USHE)

Request from USHE in recent years have had to pay a larger share of their education that in the past.

The state is unwilling to fund increases for enrollment growth.  Tuition increases four times the rate of inflation.  Our tuition is low compared to national rates. The average tuition nationally is $8000 – 8600 where WSU is at just under $5000 making it 40% lower than the national average.  

 WSU is making a commit to use some of that money to hold tuition increase to the normal rate of inflation.

 The request from USHE is 69 million.  Our share would be 6 million.  Somewhere in between is where we will land and we will work with what they give us.

Q & A

Why do Higher Ed costs increase at four times the rate of inflation?

Economic downturn states difficult time balancing their budgets. Medicaid is the fastest growing part of the state budget nationally.  There no energy in legislature to increase taxes They cut somewhere not fund enrollment growth for eight years.  Many states have enrollment formulas they have to hold the line or raise taxes.  Generally speaking it was the downturn in the economy and lowering of taxes.

Some students get priced out of their education  which is bad for society.  We have the responsibility to do our part to keep costs low.

 

Q.  What is the construction north of Browning Center and North of the Lampros Hall?

 It an area to honor the history of WSU.  Plaques on the down town campus are being reproduced and placed on the wall.  Students and faculty can be reminded of the history of this institution.  On January 7 we will celebrate 125 anniversary. 

 

 

4.   University Curriculum Committee – Fran Butler, Chair

HONORS - Judy Elsley

      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

 

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

      Business Administration -- Sebastian Brockhaus

      Program Change Proposal Supply Chain Management

 

      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

 

      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

      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

 

The Program and Course Proposals listed above were voted on as a package by the Faculty Senate.

Motion       Move to approve the Program and Course Proposals as outlined on the Faculty Senate agenda by Laura Anderson.

Second       Tom Matthews

 

A friendly amendment was made to pull the Honors2050 course proposal and Supply Chain Management SCM4500 and 4550 course proposals to be discussed separately.  This was approved by Laura Anderson and Tom Matthews  and the original motion was withdrawn.

 

Curriculum Voted on Separately from the Package

EDUCATION

HPHP - Melissa Masters

NUTR1240  Exploration in Culinary Art and Science - New Course Proposal

 

Discussion  A friendly amendment was made to change the title of NUTR1240  to Exploration in Culinary Art and  Food Science.  Adding the word “Food” to the title. There was no opposition to this amendment.  

 

Motion       Move to amend the title of NUTR1240 to “Exploration in Culinary Art and Food Science” by Marek Matyjasik.

Outcome    Unanimous.

 

HONORS - Judy Elsley

HNRS2050  Exploring Key Concepts in the Disciplines: Social Sciences - New Course Proposal

 

Discussion   A friendly amendment was made to change the course description to call out the Prerequisite: HNRS1520 in the course description of HNRS2050.

 

MOTION   Move to add Prerequisite: HNRS1520 in the course description of HNRS2050 with the approval of the Honors Director, Judy Elsley.  If she agrees, the proposal is approved, if she disagrees, the proposal will return to the University Curriculum Committee for further discussion.  Motion made by Brent Horn.

 

Outcome    Unanimous.

 

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

      Business Administration -- Sebastian Brockhaus

      SCM4500  Supply Chain Relational Strategies - New Course Proposal

      SCM4550  Strategic Supply Chain Design - New Course Proposal

 

Discussion 

Why are there so many prerequisites to this course.  These two courses are capstone courses.

BSAD2899 is a better way to show the business foundations instead of the Business foundation.

Course description goes into the catalog if this is incorrect then Cattracks will be incorrect.

Registrar is okay as long as Business Foundations is replaced with BSAD2899 on the prerequisites for SCM4500 and 4550.

 

     

MOTION   Move to change Business Foundations with BSAD2899 as prerequisite for SCM4500 and 4550

SECOND   John Armstrong

OUTCOME  Unanimous

 

5.   APAFT – Library, Post Tenure Document -  Stephen Francis, Chair and Wade Kotter

     

      DISCUSSION        No discussion.

 

OUTCOME    Unanimous

 

6.   Faculty Board of Review – Patti Cost, Chair

      Approval of  George Comber, COAST, as member of FBR committee.

 

 MOTION   Move to approve George Comber, COAST, as member of FBR committee by John Armstrong.

SECOND   Vicki Vickers

OUTCOME      Unanimous.

 

7.   Other Items

 

Recommend that the Executive Committee draft  a resolution to support to the LGBT Center for students.  This to be on the agenda at the December 5 Faculty Senate Committee.

 

Motion to adjourn by Patti Cost.

 

Meeting Adjourned at 3:50 pm

 

 

Next Meeting:    Faculty Senate, December 5, 2013 at 3:00 pm WB206-207