FACULTY SENATE
AGENDA
1. Roll Call
2. Approve the minutes from the February 19, 2009 meeting
3. Faculty Governance Award – Presented by Bruce Handley
Awarded to Laine Berghout
4. Election of Faculty Senate Chair and Vice Chair for 2009-10
5. Appointment, Promotion, Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee, Afshin Ghoreishi, Chair
PPM 9-10 Due Process
Jerry and Vickie Moyes College of Education Tenure Document
6. General Education Improvement & Assessment Committee – Rick Ford, Chair
Mission Statement and Learning Outcomes for Computer & Information Literacy
7. Curriculum Committee – Erika Daines, Chair
Curriculum Proposals can be viewed at:
http://faculty.weber.edu/senate/
On the Faculty Senate homepage in the purple column on the left is a
link for "Curriculum Proposals for Senate Approval."
Communication
Program Proposal - Master of Professional Communication
Course Proposals - Intercultural Communication - MPC 5080, Gender and Communication - MPC 5090, Small Group Facilitation and Leadership - MPC 5100, Editing - MPC 5220, Health Communication - MPC 5230, Public Relations Media and Campaigns - MPC 5440, Topics in Communication - MPC 5500, Organizational Communication - MPC 5550, Communication Law - MPC 5650, Persuasive Communication - MPC 5810, Advertising - MPC 5850, Introduction to Graduate Studies for a Master in Professional Communication - MPC 6000, Team Building and Facilitation - MPC 6100, Communicating Professionally in Speaking, Writing, and Visual Communication - MPC 6200, New Media in Professional Communication- MPC 6300, Communicating Organizational Leadership - MPC 6400, Topics in Professional Communication, MPC 6500, Strategic Communication - MPC 6600, Measurement and Evaluation for Professional Communication - MPC 6700, Advanced Communication Research and Writing - MPC 6800, Thesis/Project - MPC 6900, Thesis/Project - MPC 6950
Computer Science - Course Proposal - Introduction to Interactive Entertainment - CS 1010
Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology - Program Proposal - Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Plastic & Composite Engineering Technology Emphasis
Course Proposals - Metal Forming Lecture/Lab - MFET 2151, Metal Casting Lecture/Lab - MFET 2152, Metal Welding Lecture/Lab - MFET 2153, CNC/CAM for Plastic & Composite - MFET 2850, Plastic/Composite Materials and Properties - MFET 2860, Design of Plastic/Composite Products - MFET 2870, Reinforced Plastics/Advanced Composite - MFET 3830, Mold Design and Process Strategies - MFET 3870, Integration of Automated Systems - MFET 4850
Course Changes - Metal Forming, Casting and Welding - MFET 2150L, Six Sigma Methods and Tools in Manufacturing - MFET 3910, Production Planning and Process Control - MFET 4590, Senior Project Planning and Estimating - MFET 4610
Business and Economics - Course Proposals - Accounting and Finance for Environmental Sustainability - MBA 6710, Environmental Economics for Sustainable Business - MBA 6720, Consulting Project in Environmental Sustainability - MBA 6730; Course Change - Managing for Environmental Sustainability - MBA 6700
Microbiology - Course Proposal - Tropical Diseases - Micro 3403
Health Sciences/Library Science - Course Proposal - Information Resources in the Health Professions– Hths/Libs TD 2904
8. Other Items
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MINUTES
March 19, 2009
MEMBERS - Listed Alphabetically
| Isabel Asensio Mark Baugh Laine Berghout Shannon Butler Matt Choberka Ken Cuddeback - Absent Dick Dahlkemper Larry Dooley Eric Ewert Dave Ferro Robert Fudge Lewis Gale Janelle Gardner Colleen Garside Azenett, Garza Doris Geide-Stevenson Afshin Ghoreishi Jeff Grunow Susan Hafen Bruce Handley Rod Hansen Kami Hanson - Excused Laird Hartman - Absent Michael Hernandez Valerie Herzog Warren Hill - Admin. - Greg Anderson representing Joan Hubbard - Excused Michelle Johnson - Student - Elene Kvernadze representing John Kelly - Steve Stuart representing Wade Kotter Tyler Latham - Student - Absent < Becky Jo McShane President Millner - Admin. Madonne Miner - Admin. Dale Ostlie - Admin. Ryan Pace Jack Rasmussen - Admin. Rob Reynolds Richard Sadler - Admin. Peggy Saunders Paul Schvaneveldt - Absent |
Dan Schwab -Student Cori Segovia-Tadehara Gene Sessions Yas Simonian - Marie Kotter representing Kathleen Sitzman Rick Sline John Sohl Ryan Thomas - Excused Victoria Thompson - Student - Absent Michael Vaughan - Admin. Barbara Wachocki Jeff Ward Jim Wilson - Excused Jan Winniford Bill Zundell - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kay Brown, Secretary
2009-10 Senators Dave Berry |
1. ROLL
2. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
Motion: Moved to approve the minutes from the February 19
meeting.
Made: John Sohl
Second: Colleen Garside
Outcome: The minutes were approved.
3. FACULTY GOVERNANCE AWARD
Bruce Handley presented the Faculty Governance award for this year to Laine Berghout. Some of Laine’s service to governance includes: Service on the Curriculum Committee as a member from 2003-07, as chair from 2005-07, and as liaison from 2007-09. He served on the General Education Committee as an ex officio member from 2005-07. He has served as a member of the Program Review Committee. He has been a member of the Faculty Senate since 2004. He served on the Executive Committee during 2007-2009 and as Vice Chair of the Faculty Senate for 2008-09. David Ferro nominated Laine Berghout for the award and made the following statement: "I believe that Laine represents the best of this University in terms of his willingness to serve and serve admirably for the good of the faculty despite all his other endeavors. He is fair minded, hard working, successful and conversant in the details of legislature. He also loves Weber State University."
4. ELECTION OF FACULTY SENATE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR FOR 2009-10
Motion: Moved to elect David Ferro as Chair of the Faculty Senate
and Laine Berghout as Vice Chair for 2009-10 by acclamation.
Made: Gene Sessions
Second: Colleen Garside
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
5. APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION, ACADEMIC FREEDOM & TENURE COMMITTEE, Afshin Ghoreishi, Chair
PPM 9-10 - New Language
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.
The change allows the Faculty Board of Review the option to be in recess during the summer.
Motion by the Appointment, Promotion, Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee.
Outcome: The motion passes unanimously.
Jerry & Vickie Moyes College of Education Tenure Document.
Category II: Scholarship and Professional Growth
Scholarship and Professional Growth is defined as those
activities that contribute to the profession and increase the individual's
effectiveness as a teacher. While the faculty member is not expected to be
equally active in all areas listed below prior to the sixth year review, the
individual must submit evidence of significant professional activity.
The evidence should indicate ongoing scholarly endeavors.
The evidence
should indicate ongoing scholarly endeavors since arriving at Weber State
University unless otherwise arranged in conjunction with the College of
Education Dean. Quality and quantity of effort and the results obtained are the
standards of measurement.
"The evidence should indicate ongoing scholarly endeavors" was deleted as it was stated twice in the document.
A question was raised about the peer review committee "of at least three faculty members from the department," in the paragraph below and whether or not it was consistent with PPM language. Dean Rasmussen and Afshin Ghoreishi will investigate the language for consistency with other areas in the PPM.
By the beginning of the second
By February 1st of the
candidate’s peer review year, the peer review committee of at least three
faculty members from the department will be appointed by the department chair in
consultation with the faculty member to be reviewed. The team will review
the
faculty member’s teaching portfolio, course syllabi and materials,
observe several at least five classroom sessions, interview
several at least five students from the classes observed, and
submit a written report on teaching effectiveness to the professional file and
the individual not later than April 15th. December 10 of the
evaluation year. The written report of the peer review committee shall
include, but not be limited to, a report on the individual's performance in the
following areas: content mastery; mastery, quality and design
of curriculum materials used and developed; developed,
evaluation policies and procedures utilized; utilized,
availability to students; students, student
supervision;
supervision, maintenance of high academic
standards; standards,
and personal commitment to improvement. (See PPM 8-11.IV.E.3)
A question was also raised about how the timing of the process will be affected by removing December 10 and putting in April 15.
Category II: Scholarship and Professional Growth
Scholarship and Professional Growth is defined as those
activities that contribute to the profession and increase the individual's
effectiveness as a teacher professor. While the faculty member
is not expected to be equally active in all areas listed below prior to the
sixth year review, the individual must submit evidence of significant
professional activity. The evidence should indicate ongoing scholarly endeavors.
The evidence should indicate ongoing scholarly endeavors since arriving at Weber
State University. Quality and quantity of effort and the results obtained are
the standards of measurement.
There was a question raised about the definition of scholarship: "Scholarship is defined as those activities that contribute to the profession and increase the individual's effectiveness as a teacher." Some clarification appears later in the document. It was suggested that "teacher" in the second line above be replaced with "professor."
Definitions of: "Satisfactory," "Good" and "Excellent" were questioned because they don’t specify what sort of scholarship is required. It was pointed out that some clarification appears later in the document as stated below.
Evidence of Scholarship Includes:
a. Refereed publications, such as articles in refereed journals, articles in
professional periodicals. periodicals,
b. Non-peer reviewed Non-refereed publications, such as
books, book reviews, published monographs, or other professionally reviewed
written material.
c. Professional presentations, such as papers presented at international, national, regional, or state conferences or workshops.
d. Projects, such as grants, funded proposals, action
research, teaching innovations and developments, or other long-term professional
associations with a public school, a service agency, or other field-based
setting appropriate to the individual's discipline.
e. Professional improvement, such as additional degrees beyond the terminal
degree, formal post-graduate study, documentation of additional training,
additional or increased expertise through self-study, conference attendance,
development of new courses and/or programs, significant modifications to
existing courses or programs, etc. (PPM 8-11.IV.F)
f. Other activities, which are appropriate to the category
Clarification of Rating for Scholarship: A candidate shall be rated satisfactory (minimum rating in channel C and E) if he/she demonstrates a pattern of scholarly work which includes activities from a minimum of three areas. In order for the candidate to be rated "good" in this area, he/she must meet the requirements for a satisfactory rating and
a) for the interim review, provide evidence of a regional and/or national refereed publication since employment began at Weber State University
b) for the final tenure review, provide evidence of a regional and/or national refereed publication since the interim review.
Peer Review Committee - Candidates have the right to bring in candidates that they consider peers and they may be from other departments or other colleges. It was suggested that the language found in PPM 8-11 regarding the peer review committee be used in the tenure document.
Motion by the Appointment, Promotion, Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee
to approve the above policy and to include the friendly amendments.
Outcome: The motion passed with 1 opposed.
6. GENERAL EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT & ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE – Rick Ford, Chair
Computer & Information Literacy mission statement and student learning outcomes.
Computer & Information Literacy
Mission Statement
COMPUTER AND INFORMATION LITERACY MISSION
The Weber State University Computer and Information Literacy requirement provides students with the ability to use computers, the Internet, and library resources. Specifically it provides students with skills and knowledge to input, format, find, identify, retrieve, analyze, and evaluate information to support academic success and lifelong learning.
Student Learning Outcomes
COMPUTER AND INFORMATION LITERACY
Computer Literacy requires that students meet a four-part requirement (A, B, C, and D) at a 70 percent level in each of the following:
Part A. Word Processing (TBE TE 1700, TA 1701, or TA 1501) classes and production exam. Competencies: Create, edit, and retrieve a document; move/copy, indent, space, find/replace, bold/underline/italicize, and center text; number pages, format font, create references, insert headers and footers, place graphics, spell check, and save/print documents; and create, format, and edit tables.
Part B. Operating Systems/E-mail/Graphic Presentations (TBE TE 1700, TB 1702, or TB 1502) classes and production exam. Competencies:
Part C. Spreadsheets (TBE TE 1700, TC 1703, or TC 1503) classes and production exam.
Competencies:
Create and enter data, format and edit spreadsheets. Retrieve spreadsheet, adjust column width, add/erase data cells, create column/row labels, format data, enter/copy functions and formulas such as AVG, IF, MAX, MIN, PMT, SUM, know basic formulas for percentages and markup, use absolute cell references, create graphs, spell check spreadsheets, and save/print spreadsheets.
Part D. Information Literacy (LIBS HU1115, 1704, 2201, 2704, 2804, or TBE TD1504 exam) classes and Internet-based exam.
Competencies:
Identify Information Needs:Find Information Effectively:
Demonstrate how information is organized; use Boolean Logic and other
search strategies to effectively use library catalogs, article
databases, and Internet search engines.
Critically Evaluate Information:
Identify and apply evaluation criteria to assess the quality of
information retrieved.
Use Information Ethically:
Demonstrate the importance of properly and correctly citing a source
used. Identify what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it.
Discussion
Motion by the General Education Improvement & Assessment Committee to approve
the Mission Statement and Learning Outcomes for Computer & Information Literacy
as stated above.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
7. Curriculum Committee – Erika Daines, Chair
Computer Science - Course Proposal - Introduction to Interactive Entertainment - CS 1010
Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology - Program Proposal - Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Plastic & Composite Engineering Technology Emphasis
Course Proposals - Metal Forming Lecture/Lab - MFET 2151, Metal Casting Lecture/Lab - MFET 2152, Metal Welding Lecture/Lab - MFET 2153, CNC/CAM for Plastic & Composite - MFET 2850, Plastic/Composite Materials and Properties - MFET 2860, Design of Plastic/Composite Products - MFET 2870, Reinforced Plastics/Advanced Composite - MFET 3830, Mold Design and Process Strategies - MFET 3870, Integration of Automated Systems - MFET 4850
Course Changes - Metal Forming, Casting and Welding - MFET 2150L, Six Sigma Methods and Toolsin Manufacturing - MFET 3910, Production Planning and Process Control - MFET 4590, Senior Project Planning and Estimating - MFET 4610
Business and Economics - Course Proposals - Accounting and Finance for Environmental Sustainability - MBA 6710, Environmental Economics for Sustainable Business - MBA 6720, Consulting Project in Environmental Sustainability - MBA 6730; Course Change - Managing for Environmental Sustainability - MBA 6700
Microbiology - Course Proposal - Tropical Diseases - Micro 3403
Health Sciences/Library Science - Course Proposal - Information Resources in the Health Professions – Hths/Libs TD 2904
Motion by the Curriculum Committee to approve the above curriculum proposals.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously
Communication
Program Proposal - Master of Professional Communication
Course Proposals - Intercultural Communication - MPC 5080, Gender and Communication - MPC 5090, Small Group Facilitation and Leadership - MPC 5100, Editing - MPC 5220, Health Communication - MPC 5230, Public Relations Media and Campaigns - MPC 5440, Topics in Communication - MPC 5500, Organizational Communication - MPC 5550, Communication Law - MPC 5650, Persuasive Communication - MPC 5810, Advertising - MPC 5850, Introduction to Graduate Studies for a Master in Professional Communication - MPC 6000, Team Building and Facilitation - MPC 6100, Communicating Professionally in Speaking, Writing, and Visual Communication - MPC 6200, New Media in Professional Communication- MPC 6300, Communicating Organizational Leadership - MPC 6400, Topics in Professional Communication, MPC 6500, Strategic Communication - MPC 6600, Measurement and Evaluation for Professional Communication - MPC 6700, Advanced Communication Research and Writing - MPC 6800, Thesis/Project - MPC 6900, Thesis/Project - MPC 6950
Discussion
Motion by the Curriculum Committee to approve from Communication the MPC
program and accompanying course proposals as listed above.
Outcome: The motion passed with 1 opposed.
ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m.