FACULTY SENATE
AGENDA
October 15, 2009
1. Roll Call
2. Approve the minutes from the September 17, 2009 meeting
3. H1N1 Virus
4. University Ranking Tenure Evaluation Committee Chair Recommendation
5. 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 "Curriculum
Proposals for Senate Approval."
Bachelor of Integrated Studies - Program Change
Course Change - BIS Capstone BIS 3800
Education - Program Change - Teacher Education
New Course - Reading Instruction in the Primary Grades - Educ
3120; Course Changes - Instructional Technology - Educ 3110, Reading
Instruction in the
Intermediate Grades - Educ 3240, Advanced
Instructional Technology - Educ 3370, Integrated Elementary
Education Student Teaching Seminar - Educ 4850
Health Professions - New Courses - Study Abroad 4850 from the following departments, CLS, DENT, HAS, HTHS, NRSG, PAR, RADT, REST
General Education Course Renewal
2009-2010 - Physical Science and Life Science, 2010-2011 -
Creative Arts and Humanities
Geoscience - Earthquakes and Volcanoes - GEO PS/SI 1030,
Environmental Sciences - GEO PS 1060, Dynamic Earth: Physical Geology - PS/SI 1100, Introduction
to
Meteorology GEO PS/SI 1130, Principles of Earth Science - GEO PS/SI
1350
Physics - Elementary Physics - PHYS PS/SI 1010, Elementary
Astronomy - PHYS PS/SI 1040, Principles of Physical Science - PHYS/CHEM PS/SI 1360,
College Physics I - PHYS
PS/SI 2010, Physics for Scientists and Engineers I - PHYS PS/SI 2210
Chemistry - Introductory Chemistry - CHEM PS 1010, Introduction
to General, Organic and Biochemistry - CHEM PS/SI 1050, Elementary Chemistry I - CHEM PS/SI
1110, Principles of Chemistry I - CHEM PS/SI 1210
Geography - Natural Environments of the Earth - GEOG PS/SI 1000
6. Other Items
Next Meeting: November 5, 2009
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MINUTES
MEMBERS - Listed Alphabetically
Yousef Al-Awadhi - Student Mark Baugh Laine Berghout Dave Berry Julie Buck - Excused Russell Burrows Matt Choberka Ken Cuddeback Dick Dahlkemper Bruce Davis Eric Ewert - Brian Dorsey representing Dave Ferro Robert Fudge - Excused Lewis Gale Janelle Gardner - Absent Colleen Garside Azenett, Garza Doris Geide-Stevenson Afshin Ghoreishi Ed Hahn Bruce Handley Rod Hansen Sue Harley Michael Hernandez Allison Hess Warren Hill - Admin. Joan Hubbard Colin Inglefield - Dan Schroeder representing Gary Johnson John Kelly Tina Kraaima Elene Kvernadze - Student Tyler Lathem - Student - Absent
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David Malone President Millner - Admin. Madonne Miner - Admin. Dale Ostlie - Admin. - Excused Ryan Pace Thom Priest Jack Rasmussen - Admin. - Jack Mayhew representing Richard Sadler - Admin. - Carla Trentelman representing Peggy Saunders Paul Schvaneveldt - Wei Qiu representing Cori Segovia-Tadehara Gene Sessions Yas Simonian Kathleen Sitzman Rick Sline Ryan Thomas - Excused Shelley Thomas - Becky Jo McShane representing Susan Thornock Lisa Trujillo - Absent Michael Vaughan - Admin. Jeff Ward Katelynne Wilson-Shaw - Absent Jan Winniford Michelle Zwolinski - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kay Brown, Secretary
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1. ROLL
2. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
Motion: Moved to approve the minutes from the September 17, 2009
meeting.
Made: Warren Hill
Second: Colleen Garside
Outcome: The minutes were approved.
3. H1N1 VIRUS
The CDC recommends that if you have flu symptoms you should stay home and not go to the doctor unless you have serious side affects from the flu. Those between the ages of 4-24 are encouraged to get the flu shot. You can go online to see where the shots are available. The shot is free. Faculty need to accommodate students who miss classes because they have the H1N1 virus. Faculty are asked to think about how they can conduct classes if they get the flu or if the need should arise to close the campus.
4. UNIVERSITY RANKING TENURE EVALUATION COMMITTEE CHAIR RECOMMENDATION
PPM 8-16A ". . . The chair of the University Committee shall be recommended from that committee's members by the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate. The Faculty Senate shall then approve or reject the recommendation. If rejected, the Faculty Senate may either select a different chair from among the University Committee's members or have the Executive Committee make a new recommendation."
Motion by the Executive Committee for Alicia Giralt to Chair the University
Ranking Tenure Evaluation Committee for the 2009-10 academic year.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
5. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE – Erika Daines, Chair
Bachelor of Integrated Studies - Program change; Course change for BIS Capstone BIS 3800
Education - Program change for Teacher Education; New course proposal for Reading Instruction in the Primary Grades - Educ 3120; Course changes for Instructional Technology - Educ 3110, Reading Instruction in the Intermediate Grades - Educ 3240, Advanced Instructional Technology - Educ 3370, Integrated Elementary Education Student Teaching Seminar - Educ 4850
Health Professions - New course proposals for Study Abroad 4850 from the following departments, CLS, DENT, HAS, HTHS, NRSG, PAR, RADT, REST
Motion by the Curriculum Committee to approve the above curriculum proposals
from Bachelor of Integrated Studies, Education, and Health Professions as stated
above.
Outcome: The motion passed
unanimously.
General Education Course Renewal
We are currently reviewing Physical Science and Life Science gen ed courses. Next year we will review Creative Arts and Humanities
Geoscience - Earthquakes and Volcanoes - GEO PS/SI 1030, Environmental Sciences - GEO PS 1060, Dynamic Earth: Physical Geology - PS/SI 1100, Introduction to Meteorology GEO PS/SI 1130, Principles of Earth Science - GEO PS/SI 1350
Physics - Elementary Physics - PHYS PS/SI 1010, Elementary Astronomy - PHYS PS/SI 1040, Principles of Physical Science - PHYS/CHEM PS/SI 1360, College Physics I - PHYS PS/SI 2010, Physics for Scientists and Engineers I - PHYS PS/SI 2210
Chemistry - Introductory Chemistry - CHEM PS 1010, Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry - CHEM PS/SI 1050, Elementary Chemistry I - CHEM PS/SI 1110, Principles of Chemistry I - CHEM PS/SI 1210
Geography - Natural Environments of the Earth - GEOG PS/SI 1000
Motion by the Curriculum Committee to approve the General Education course
renewal for courses from Geoscience, Physics, Chemistry and Geography as stated
above.
Outcome: The motion passed unanimously.
6. OTHER ITEMS
To make information readily available to faculty the Faculty Senate Chair has a blog at: http://blog.weber.edu/users/dferro/blog/
Weber State has received a proposal from Ogden City to put a water tank on the hill south of the Weber State "W." Kevin Hansen, Associate Vice President/Facilities & Campus Planning, will meet with the Environmental Issues Committee for further discussion. If you are interested in this issue you can contact Hal Crimmel, Chair of the Environmental Issues Committee. Others who have been involved in this issue are Gene Sessions, Bryan Dorsey, Dan Schroeder, and Sam Zeveloff.
The water tank will be on Weber State property, however, it doesn’t appear that it will be on land that can be developed. Weber State is looking at the land and determining what the impact will be. The city maintains that the bond is the driving force, and, therefore, a four month time line within which construction needs to begin.
ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m.