FACULTY SENATE
AGENDA
Smith Lecture Hall, WB 206-207, 3:00 p.m.
February 21, 2013  

Roll Call

1.    Approval of the minutes from January 24, 2013 meeting.

Information Items

2.    WSU Logo - Johh Kowalewski, Executive Director of University Communications

3.    Adherence to Final Exam Policy – Brian Rague, Chair, Faculty Senate

Recommendation Item

4. Environmental Issues Committee - Hal Crimmel, Chair
Smoke Free Zone Policy 5-48, Idle Free Zone Policy 5-49 and No Smoking Zones Campus Map

5. Policy Statement for Ombudsman Charter Review - Brian Rague, Chair, Faculty Senate

Action Items

6. Appointment, Promotion, Academic Freedom, and Tenure Committee, Chris Eisenbarth, Chair
   
Charge 2, PPM8-11.III.C Tenure Review Process, Recommendation

Charge 3, PPM9-10.H Faculty Board of Review, Recommendation

7. University Curriculum Committee - Jim Wilson, Chair

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Masters of Business Administration
Graduate Certificate in Aerospace Management - Program Change
MBA6370 Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) and Strategic Planning in Aerospace Management - New Course Proposal  Syllabus
MBA6340 Strategic Aerospace Management - Deletion
MBA6350 Continuous Process Improvement in Aerospace Management - Deletion
COAST
Sales & Service Technology - Interior Design Technology
IDT1010 Intro to Interior Design - General Education Creative Arts - Course Proposal    Learning Outcomes   Syllabus

8. Other Items:

Next Meeting: Faculty Senate, March 21, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. WB 206-207

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APPROVED
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes
21 February 2013

MEMBERS - Listed Alphabetically

Laura Anderson

John Armstrong

Isabel Asensio

Aaron Ashley

Genevieve Bates

Anne Bialowas

Karen Burton

Sally Cantwell - Diana Leggett

Rex Christensen

Kraig Chugg

Patti Cost - Excused

Shelly Costley

Bruce Davis - Admin.   - Brian Stecklein

Ben Eschler, Student

Jeremy Farner - Excused

David Ferro

Stephen Francis

Andrew Gardiner, Student - Excused

Azenett Garza

Ed Hahn

Sue Harley

Brady Harris - Student

Frank Harrold - Admin. - Excused

Michael Hernandez

Kathy Herndon

Chris Hoagstrom

Brent Horn

Joan Hubbard - Excused

Colin Inglefield

JoEllen Jonsson

Kerry Kennedy

Jared Lisonbee

Tom Mathews

David Matty - Admin.

Madonne Miner - Admin.

Ryan Pace  - Excused

Michelle Paustenbaugh  - Excused

Wei Qiu

Brian Rague

Jack Rasmussen - Admin.

Scott Rogers

Peggy Saunders

Shane Schvaneveldt

Yas Simonian - Admin.

Amanda Sowerby

Kelsey Spaulding, Student

Jeff Steagall - Admin.

Mali Subbiah

Ryan Thomas - Admin.

Jim Turner

Michael Vaughan - Admin.

Vikki Vickers

President Wight - Admin

Kristiann Williams

Josh Winegar

Jan Winniford - Admin.

Joseph Wolfe

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Brenda Stockberger, Secretary

Guests

Chris Eisenbarth, Chair APAFT Committee

Jim Wilson, Chair, Curriculum Committee

John Kowelowski, Executive Director of University Communications

Hal Crimmel, EIC, Chair

Shaun Hansen, EIC member

ROLL CALL

1.     APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
Motion:         MOTION  Tom Mathews moved to approve the minutes from the January 24, 2013 meeting.
Second:         Stephen Francis
Outcome:      Motion Carried

 Information Items 

2.  WSU Logo Update - John Kowalewski, Executive Director of University Communications

 3.     Adherence to Final Exam Policy - Brian Rague, Chair, Faculty Senate Last fall it was noted that there were conflicts with students having two exams scheduled at the same time.  This usually happened when an Adjunct professor followed the Final Exam schedule and the Faculty member did not. Please remind your colleagues to use the Final Exam Schedule in order to avoid conflicts with other professors during Finals Week.

4.         Environmental Issues Committee - Hal Crimmel, Chair and Shaun Hansen, member of EIC

Smoke Free Zone Policy - 5-48 and Smoke Free Zone Campus Map

DISCUSSION
When this item is voted upon, it is supporting the policy not necessarily making it policy.
This policy would govern the campus as a whole not just faculty.
There is a total of 1,130 Smoke free Campuses in the US as of 2012.
Staff and Professional employees have reviewed and approved this policy.
Goal of the policies are to come in line with the Clean Air Initiative.
Utah Air quality is bad.  Experience 20-40 red air days in the winter and summer.
why only the Ogden Campus?  Most of the complaints have come from the Ogden Campus.
Survey was sent out in 2011 to all faculty, staff and students.   
Why not go ahead and go 100% smoke free?
Work with Wellness program to encourage stop smoking.
Partner with Facilities on no smoking signs and bookmarks.
Announce in Signpost, WSU bulletins,
Educational policy.
Cannot enforce without being a policy.
What is the justification with an e-cigarette?
Utah House Bill 245 banned E-cigarettes from public places in May of 2012.
Air intakes on the buildings suck smoke and exhaust into the building.  Expansion of the 25 foot rule is possible.
What is the definition that causes exposure?        
How much exposure do we want to expose ourselves to.
If we enact this policy as is, next year we will be back to fill in the rest of the corridors on the campus. 

Motion on Friendly Amendment.

MOTION: Brent Horn moved to make a friendly amendment to redefine the boundaries of the core of the campus on the no smoking zone campus map to increase no smoking zones.
SECOND: Shelly Costley seconded the motion.
OUTCOME: Motion Denied.

DISCUSSION - Discussion on the friendly amendment.
Speaking against the amendment, not a 100 % ban but here are a couple of places that you can smoke.
This policy will be tweaked over the years. But this is a good place to start.
Corridor as it is now
This is a good start with this plan and see how it plays out.
More needs to be investigated to see how it work.
There will be more discussion on this issue.
Focus on the Health issue rather than the environmental issue.

MOTION Brian Rague motioned to go back to discussion on the original policy.

What if I’m with a WSU donor and due to health reasons, I have to leave the vehicle running?
Enforcement is too harsh.
There is too much power given the campus police to discipline and enforce the policy.
Discipline comes in with not complying with a police officer.
Campus Police has the discretion to enforce the policy.

MOTION David Ferro moved to call for the Question.
SECOND Kathy Herndon
OUTCOME Motion Carried.

MOTION Motion to vote on the policy as written.
OUTCOME: 23 For; 8 Nay; 1 Abstention

Idle Free Zone Policy - 5-49

DISCUSSION
Clean Air Act - Idle Free
Facilities has adopted the Idle free policy on all its fleet vehicles
Big source of pollution is commuting to and from campus.
There is a need to educate students, faculty and staff on the Clean air initiative
Exceptions on emergency vehicles. Rather see no exceptions than what is listed on the policy.
Necessary exceptions would be police who need to keep their equipment running.
Utah State wide no idle policy - State vehicles are not allowed to idle for more than 30 seconds.
Parking enforcement vehicles should not be included in this exception.

Amendment to the policy.
MOTION Brent Horn motioned to remove from the Idle Free Zone Policy the following sentence:

II. POLICY
A. Idling is defined as having the engine running while the vehicle is parked or stationary. Idling of vehicles for more than two minutes is prohibited at all WSU campuses. Exceptions are made for emergency vehicles, including police, fire, and ambulances, for parking enforcement vehicles when emergency lights are running, and for vehicles stopped in traffic or for traffic control devices.


SECOND Michael Hernandez
OUTCOME Motion carried.

CALL TO QUESTION
Motion to approve the Idle Free Zone policy as amended.
OUTCOME FOR - 32 NAY - 2 ABSTAINED- 0

5. Policy Statement for Ombuds Charter Review - Brian Rague, Chair, Faculty Senate

DISCUSSION
As mentioned in last meeting to add a statement in the PPM to define the role of the Faculty Ombuds. This policy is under discussion at today’s meeting.
Charter can still be revised independently from the policy.
Charter will be hyper-linked to policy.
This is new wording added to PPM 9-11 under section II. Policy, added as Paragraph A. The rest of the paragraphs were moved down and re-lettered.
The word “concerned” contradicts “impartial” in the sentence: “The Weber State Faculty Ombuds is an impartial ‘concerned’ party whose primary role is to help faculty members resolve problems involving or affecting them.”
An amendment was made to removed the word “concerned”


MOTION Stephen Francis made the amendment to to remove the word ‘concerned” from the sentence: “The Weber State Faculty Ombuds is an impartial ‘concerned’ party whose primary role is to help faculty members resolve problems involving or affecting them.”

SECOND Vikki Vickers
OUTCOME Motion carried

No further discussion on the policy.

MOTION Brian Rague motioned to approve the statement added to the PPM9-11 as amended.
OUTCOME Motion carried.

6. Appointment, Promotion, Academic Freedom & Tenure - Chris Eisenbarth, Chair
Charge 2, PPM8-11.III.C Tenure Review Process, Recommendation

In the case in which a faculty member receives an unsatisfactory third-year, interim tenure review, the faculty member shall have the right to request a fourth-year another interim review and/or a fifth-year interim review (see PPM 8-17.II). This policy does not negate the university's right to terminate a non-tenured faculty member with or without cause, as stated in PPM 9-17.II.A, and in accordance with the dated guidelines for termination specified in PPM 8-26.

Discussion
Charged to examine the policy to see if a change was needed.
What was the intent of the additional wording?
Another policy already exists in another section with the same topic makes this too confusing.
Could remove the new language and just refer to the link to the other policy.
This instruction refers to only those with negative reviews.

MOTION Brent Horn moved to amend PPM8-11.III.C Tenure Review Process

An amendment was made as follows:
In the case in which a faculty member receives an unsatisfactory third-year interim tenure review, the faculty member shall have the right to request a fourth-year another interim review. and/or a fifth-year interim review (see PPM 8-17.II). This policy does not negate the university’s right to terminate a non-tenured faculty member with or without cause, as stated in PPM 9-17.II.A, and in accordance with the dated guidelines for termination specified in PPM 8-26


SECOND Sue Harley
OUTCOME Motion Carried.

Discussion on PPM8-11. III. C Tenure Review Process as amended.

No further discussion on the policy as amended.

Motion to approve the policy, PPM8-11. III. C Tenure Review Process as amended.
OUTCOME 17 FOR; 10 NAYS; 7 ABSTENTIONS Motion Carried.

Charge 3, PPM9-10. H Faculty Board of Review, Recommendation
H. Faculty Board of Review
The Faculty Board of Review will normally operate from the first day of fall semester to the last day of spring semester and be in recess during the summer. While in recess, all board action deadlines will be suspended until fall semester. In exceptional cases, the chair of the Faculty Board of Review, in consultation with the Executive Committee and upon availability of board members, may call a meeting(s) in the summer. If a Faculty Board of Review member cannot serve during the summer, the chair of the Faculty Board of Review may request the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate to select a faculty member to fill in for the member who must be off campus during the resolution time.

Discussion
The number of membership to the FBR committee is in the Constitution Bylaws. Seven members and two alternates.
Is two alternates sufficient.
The Faculty Senate Constitution and Bylaws state in Section 7 as follows:
Section 7. Appointment of Temporary Member
Whenever a member of the Faculty Board of Review is disqualified by the terms of Sections 5 or 6 above or is no longer a member of the teaching faculty, the Executive Committee shall appoint one of the elected alternate members to fill the vacancy for the particular case pending before the Board. If no alternate members remain to fill the vacancy, the Executive Committee shall appoint a member to fill the vacancy for the particular case pending before the Board.
Should more alternates be assigned to the FBR committee in case it has to convene in the summer?
Committee felt that it could not compel faculty to stay on campus during the summer.
Wording sounds like more members would be added to the committee.

MOTION Sue Harley motioned to return Charge 3, PPM9-10. H Faculty Board of Review policy to the APAFT committee for further review.
SECOND Aaron Ashley
OUTCOME Motion Carried.

7. Curriculum - Jim Wilson, Chair

COAST - Interior Design Technology - 
IDT1010 General Education Course Proposal Creative Arts
MBA Business & Economics
Graduate Certificate in Aerospace Management - Program Change
MBA6370 Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) and Strategic Planning in Aerospace Management - NEW COURSE PROPOSAL
MBA6340 Strategic Aerospace Management - DELETION
MBA6350 Continuous Process Improvement in Aerospace Management - DELETION
Discussion on Curriculum as a package.
No discussion or request to pull any program out for discussion.

MOTION Brian Rague motion to approve the Curriculum listed in the agenda as a package.
OUTCOME Motion Carried.

8. Other Items:


MOTION TO ADJOURN by Mike Hernandez

Meeting adjourned at 4:41 pm


Next Meeting: Faculty Senate, March 21, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. WB 206-207