Agenda Setting Meeting
Thursday, 6 March 2014
MA 211K
2:00 p.m.
3. University Curriculum Committee - Fran Butler, Chair
EDUCATION
Child &
Family Studies - Paul Schvaneveldt
Program Change Proposal
- Family Studies (BS)
CHF4450
Children & Families in the Medical Setting -
New Course Proposal
Theatre Arts - Information only
Music Theatre Program Change Proposal (Proposal was denied and returned to
department)
4. ASSA Committee - To Be determined
PPM6-22, VIII
5. APAFT Committee - Stephen Francis, Chair
PPM4-34a
- Animal Subject Research (no changes except separated policy from Human
Subjects)
PPM4-43b
- Institutional Review Board and Human Subjects
6. PPM4.2a - Modifying Programs and Course in the Catalog - Patti
Cost, Chair
Document
To be in compliance with the Curriculum Policy and Procedure Manual, this policy
also needs to change to reflect the date changes that were made per Faculty
Senate approval on 17 October 2013.
7.
Selection of Faculty Governance Award Nominee – Patti Cost, Chair
Awardee to be announced in Faculty Senate on Apr 17.
(Kathy Herndon to present – 2013 Awardee)
8. Other Items
Election Results on New Executive Committee for 2014-15 -
Patti Cost, Chair
Eric Amsel, Social & Behavioral Science
Patricia Cost, Education
Alicia Giralt, Arts & Humanities
Kirk Hagen, COAST
Ed Hahn, Library
Kathleen Herndon, Arts & Humanities
Carol Naylor, Health Professions
Craig Oberg, Science
Shane Schvaneveldt, Business & Economics
Documents
Tests in Progress Main Campus
Testing Center Capacity
Standing Committee Activity – Executive Committee Liaisons
Next Meeting: Faculty Senate, 20 March 2014 at 3 pm WB206-207
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Thursday, 6 March 2014
MA211K
2 PM
AGENDA SETTING MEETING MINUTES-Approved
Present:
Eric Amsel, John Armstrong, Patti Cost, Alicia Giralt, Kirk Hagen, Ed
Hahn, Kathleen Herndon, Carol Naylor, James Turner, Mike Vaughan, and Brenda
Stockberger
Excused: Chuck Wight
1.
Approval of the minutes from February 6, (Executive Committee) and
February 13, 2014 (Agenda
Setting) meetings.
MOTION
Motion to approve the minutes from Feb 6 and Feb 13, 2014 by Ed Hahn.
SECOND
Carol Naylor
OUTCOME
Unanimous
ARCC
also has how much they are engaged within the AP committee. Conversation about
doing a better job on what needs to be done. ARCC join the committee twice a
year to use group as a sounding board to hear concerns and needs.
A member
of ARCC has been attending the committee which is good.
What other things should Madonne Miner and David Ferro do in regard to
accommodating the needs of the faculty.
Such as research data gathering.
No programmers assigned to Academics or design
Help
with academic concerns.
What can Information Technology do for faculty such as updated classroom media
equipment.
Requests for equipment do not get past the Dean of College due to no funds
available.
One proposal is to merge the class schedule with the calendar to show faculty
classes.
MBA program dashboard for
information for running a program.
Present a need and then prioritize them so they can get done.
Money somehow shows up at the end of the year.
This is what we want when money becomes available then the list is there to show
what is needed.
Is there someone in IT that is supporting academic computing?
No one is dedicated to this area.
Shelly Belflower is the facilitator of the
portfolio committee.
Establish a wish list of IT items needed.
Recommend that the Executive Committee submit a charge on this issue for ARCC
next year 2014-15.
3. Curriculum Committee – Fran Butler, Chair
EDUCATION
Child & Family Studies - Paul Schvaneveldt
Program Change Proposal - Family Studies (BS)
CHF4450 Children & Families in the Medical Setting - New Course Proposal
MOTION
Motion to forward the Child & Family Studies proposals to Faculty Senate
by Kathy Herndon.
SECOND John Armstrong.
Curriculum Committee approved the Child & Family proposals unanimously.
Music Theatre Program Proposal was denied and returned to the department for
further review.
This should come back to our next meeting.
There was a discussion with Ryan Thomas on this issue and how to keep programs
from adding additional credits to their programs.
This was done in the past when the catalog was updated.
He has tasked Heather Chapman to prepare a report on all the programs
that exist + or – 5, 10, 20 credits over the required hours.
OUTCOME
Unanimous
Program Change Proposal - Musical Theatre
BS 4 Year Rubric
2.
identify values and biases that inform the perspectives of oneself and
others,
3.
recognize and articulate the rights, perspectives, and experiences of
others.
MOTION
Motion to move the Diversity Mission Statement and Learning Outcomes to
Faculty Senate by Ed Hahn.
SECOND Kathy Herndon
OUTCOME Unanimous
4. ASSA Committee – Ted Cowan, member of ASSA Committee for
Becky Marchant and Brady Harris,
Vice President of Student Senate.
PPM
6-22 Student Code, VIII
DISCUSSION
This
policy is has important information that students need to know.
Student grievances against faculty are a very serious issue. Depending on
the complaint is can go to the Faculty Board of Review. This one can end with
consequences to faculty.
The second sentence needs to change the reference to “responsible administrator”
and “Faculty Board of Review”.
This should be a Due Process Officer decision.
This is how sentence will be amended:
Where
the interests of justice require, however, this time limit may be extended with
the approval of the responsible administrator or the
Faculty Board of Review “Due
Process Officer”.
If changes are made on the floor of the Senate, then those changes have
to be incorporated into the document.
This is sent to the Provost’s office and put on President Council agenda.
If approved there it goes to Trustee’s meeting.
Trustee’s meet most month’s of the year, but not every month.
There will be one this month and one during the Summer.
They resume the schedule in September for the next year.
SECOND John Armstrong
OUTCOME Unanimous
PPM4-34a – Animal Subject Research (no
changes except separating the policy from Human Subjects)
PPM4-34b – International Review Board and
Human Subjects
DISCUSSION - PPM4-34a – Animal
Subject Research no changes made to this policy except for separating it from
Human Subjects. Animal Subject
Research will be reviewed in the future.
The expansion on 34b is substantial.
Has this gone through Stephanie in Legal?
It will go to Legal before it goes to Trustee’s.
SECOND John Armstrong
OUTCOME Unanimous
Committee feeling is that we would alter this language if you did place a
condition such as fulfil a project.
Review letters by the college and department should not say anything as far as
employment is concerned.
It was
suggested to separate the full time Tenure track faculty and full time
Non-Tenure track faculty and
correct the language based on which category the faculty fall into.
The Committee will discuss this further at the next meeting and come to a
decision on this policy and bring forward if approved.
Committee will have a recommendation on the Charge on the Faculty ePortfolio’s .
To be in compliance with the Curriculum
Policy and Procedure Manual this policy also needs to change to
reflect the Curriculum Deadline date changes (January and February) that
were made per Faculty Senate approval on 17 October 2013.
SECOND
John Armstrong.
OUTCOME
Unanimous
7.
Faculty Governance Award Nominee – Patti Cost, Chair
Brian Rague was the only submission this year.
OUTCOME
Unanimous
PPM 1-13 Constitution and Bylaws of the
Faculty Senate
DISCUSSION
Faculty
LEAP outside any existing organization.
Come up with a way of some form of representation for them.
This change comes from the Charges given to the CRAO Committee for this
year.
The concern that there are faculty that are not represented and cannot vote.
The amendments listed in the document would help to clarify this issue.
Clarifying what an organizational unit is.
Determining who is faculty takes place in the fall by the CRAO committee each
year.
Proposed amendment to PPM1-13
Faculty Senate Constitution and Bylaws
ARTICLE C-I. THE GENERAL FACULTY Section 1
The general faculty membership shall be composed of faculty
members holding full-time salaried appointments, with the rank of professor,
associate professor, assistant professor, or title of insntructor
instructor, and whose primary function is that of instruction but who may
also hold administrative appointments at the organizational level of department
chair or lower. Each member of the general faculty associated with an
organizational unit, as defined in Article B-II of the Bylaws, shall have
voting power and shall have representation through
an
that organizational unit as defined in the Bylaws.
Section 3. Membership
and appointed student
members chosen in ratios proportionate to the number of members in each
organizational unit as hereinafter provided in the Bylaws. The number of elected
members shall be determined by maintaining not less than a one (1) to three (3)
ratio between administrative and faculty members. The total number of
administrative and faculty members shall not exceed 52.
Faculty members shall consist of members of the general
faculty chosen in ratios proportionate to the number of members in each
organizational unit as hereinafter provided in the Bylaws. Members shall be
elected for three-year terms. No member shall be eligible to serve more than two
consecutive terms. The appropriate ratios shall be set yearly by the Committee
on Constitutional Review, Apportionment and Organization. Any professor,
associate professor, assistant professor, instructor or instructor specialist of
the general faculty may be elected a member of the Faculty Senate.
Non-voting members have the right to discuss, to make
motions and to second motions but have no right to vote. Non-voting members will
include administrative members, one adjunct representative, and one
representative for unaffiliated faculty as defined below:
Adjunct representative: one representative of the
adjunct population shall be allowed to serve as a non-voting member of the
Faculty Senate.
Student members shall consist of four (4) designated
students duly appointed by the Executive Cabinet of the Weber State University
Student Association. Student members shall have the right to discuss, make
motions, second motions and to vote.
1.1 Elected faculty members shall have full privileges of
the Faculty Senate, including the right to introduce and to second motions and
to vote.
Proposed Amendments to Bylaws Article B-II Section 1:
Section 1. Terms of Office
Faculty members Members shall be elected for
three-year terms by each organizational unit. In these elections only persons
eligible for elective membership in the Senate shall vote.
Adjunct and unaffiliated members shall be elected for
one-year terms by assemblies of their respective faculty bodies.
Alternate members may also be elected to fill potential vacancies.
Proposed Amendment to Bylaws Article B-II Section 7
Section 7. Election Procedures Results
7.1 Results of the election of new members of the Senate
shall be reported officially to the chair of the Senate by the organizational
units (for faculty members) and assemblies (for adjunct and unaffiliated
members) no later than the eighth week of the spring semester.
Proposed Amendment to Bylaws Article B-II Section 8
Section 8. Vacancies
A declared vacancy of a faculty member for one year
or less shall be filled according to the election procedures established by the
faculty of the organizational unit which elected said Senate member. A person
serving a partial term shall be eligible for re-election to only one full term
without a lapse of time.
A declared vacancy of an adjunct or unaffiliated member
shall be filled by a duly elected alternate. If no such alternate has been
named, the seat shall remain vacant for the remainder of its term.
Proposed amendment to ARTICLE B-II.
ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY SENATE
Section 1. Terms of Office
Members shall be elected for three-year terms by each
organizational unit. In these elections only persons eligible for elective
membership in the Senate shall vote.
Section 2. Ratios for Representation
2.1 Each organizational unit shall elect members according
to the following determined ratio: total number of general faculty members
eligible to vote divided into the total number of voting faculty for each
organizational unit times the total number of elected members on the Senate.
The appropriate ratios shall be set yearly by the Committee
on Constitutional Review, Apportionment and Organization. Terms shall be so
arranged as to provide that one-third, or approximately that number of members,
shall be newly elected each year.
2.2 The term "organizational unit," as used in the
Constitution and Bylaws, shall refer to the various academic colleges and the
Library shall only refer to the following organizations:
1. College
of Applied Science and Technology
2. Telitha
E. Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities
3. John B.
Goddard School of Business and Economics
4. Jerry and
Vickie Moyes College of Education
5. Dr.
Ezekial R. Dumke College of Health Professions
6. Stewart
Library
7. College
of Science
8. College
of Social and Behavioral Sciences
MOTION
Motion to approve PPM 1-13 as edited above and forward to Faculty Senate by John
Armstrong.
SECOND Eric Amsel
AMENDMENT TO MOTION
Amended PPM 1-13 to include the sentences as written below to Section 2 - Ratios
for Representation, paragraph 2.2 included in the motion.
OUTCOME Unanimous
If an
existing organizational unit is split or a new organizational unit is created,
these unit(s) should request amendment of this section through the Executive
Committee of the Faculty Senate.
Eric
Amsel, Social & Behavioral Science
Patricia Cost, Education
Alicia
Giralt, Arts & Humanities
Kirk
Hagen, COAST
Ed
Hahn, Library
Kathleen Herndon, Arts & Humanities
Carol
Naylor, Health Professions
Craig
Oberg, Science
Shane
Schvaneveldt, Business & Economics
Carnegie Task Force
Eric Amsel
CCEL
Use some suggested language in Tenure Documents a Charge for APAFT next year.
Library Remodel Feedback - Ed Hahn
Library Specialists will be giving feedback from meeting
with Faculty on the Library Remodel at the next Executive Committee.
SECOND Carol Naylor
OUTCOME Unanimous