Agenda Setting Meeting
Thursday, February 13, 2014
MA 211K
2:00 p.m.
2.
ASSA PPM 6-22 Student Code -
Becky Marchant, Chair
SOCIAL &
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Philosophy - Richard Greene
PHIL4530
Philosophy of Mind -
New Course Proposal
EDUCATION
Child & Family Studies - Carrie Ota
Early Childhood/Early
Childhood Education- Program Change Proposal
CHF4201 Coaching EC/ECE
Professionals: Foundation &
Organization of Coaching Application: Organization & Self Reflection -
New
Course Proposal
CHF4202 Coaching EC/ECE Professionals: Connecting Awareness with Application &
Deepening of Practice -
New Course Proposal
CHF4203 Coaching EC/ECE
Professional: Attuning for Personal
and Organizational Change -
New Course Proposal
Teacher Education - Carrie Ota
Master of Education in
Curriculum & Instruction - Program Change Proposal
MED6201 Coaching EC/ECE
Professionals: Foundation &
Organization of Coaching Application: Organization & Self Reflection -
New
Course Proposal
MED6202
Coaching EC/ECE Professionals: Connecting Awareness with Application & Deepening
of Practice - New Course Proposal
MED6203 Coaching EC/ECE
Professional: Attuning for Personal
and Organizational Change -
New Course Proposal
Engineering - Fon Brown
Electrical Engineering -
Program Change Proposal
EE4510 Power Systems -
New
Course Proposal
EE4710
Real-Time Embedded Systems -
New Course Proposal
ARTS & HUMANITIES
Visual Arts - Mark Biddle
Visual Communications - Program Change Proposal
Name Change to “Graphic Design”
Masters of English - Gary Dohrer
MENG6231 Wasatch Range
Writing Project Advanced institute -
New Course Proposal
Theater Arts - Jenny Kokai
Program Change Proposal - Musical Theatre
Program Change Proposal - Theatre Arts Acting/Directing Emphasis
Program Change Proposal
-
Theatre Arts Design/Technology/Management Emphasis
Program Change Proposal -
Theatre Arts Teaching Major
Program Change Proposal -
Theatre Arts Teaching Minor
Program Change Proposal -
Theatre Arts Minor
New Program Proposal
-
Theatre Arts Generalist
New Course Proposals (and
syllabi)
THEA2330 Dramaturgy and
Criticism
THEA2580 Computer Software
for Theatre
THEA3070 Voice and Movement
for the Actor II
THEA3100 Projection Design
THEA3350 Marketing for the
Performing Arts
THEA3500
Sound Design
THEA4120 Collaboration in
the Theatre
THEA4270 Dramatic Theory and
Analysis
THEA4860
Advanced
Playwriting
Course Proposal Changes
THEA1223
Stage Make-Up
THEA2012
Stagecraft (was Stage Scenery)
THEA2022
Costume Fundamentals (was Stage Costume)
THEA2032
Lighting Fundamentals (was Stage Lighting)
THEA3222
Stage Lighting Design
THEA3232
Scenic Art and Painting
THEA3212
Scenic Design (was THEA3810)
Communication - Kathy Edwards
Program Change Proposal -
Master of Professional Communication (MPC)
MPC6010 Intro Grad Study Comm Theory - New Course Proposal Syllabus
MPC6350 Visual communication
in the Workplace -
New Course Proposal
MPC6620 Conflict
Resolution/Mediation -
New Course Proposal
COMM3350 Communication
Design -
Course Proposal Change
(Nonsubstantive/Name Change)
5.
Salary, Benefits, Budget and Fiscal Planning -
David Malone, Chair
6.
RSPG Fall 2013 Committee Report – Azenett Garza, Chair
Next Executive Committee Meeting: March 6, 2014, 2 pm in MA211K
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AGENDA SETTING MEETING MINUTES-Approved
ROLL
Present:
Eric Amsel, John Armstrong, Patti Cost, Alicia Giralt, Kirk Hagen, Ed
Hahn, Carol Naylor, James Turner, Mike Vaughan, Chuck Wight and Brenda
Stockberger
Excused
Kathy Herndon
1. Approval
of the minutes from 16 January 2014 Agenda Setting meeting.
MOTION
Motion to approve the minutes from 16 January 2014 Agenda Setting meeting
by Ed Hahn.
SECOND
Carol Naylor
OUTCOME
Unanimous
2.
ASSA PPM 6-22 Student Code -
Becky Marchant, Chair
PPM 6-22 IV.
Student Responsibilities
PPM 6-22 VIII. Jurisdiction
PPM 6-22 XIV. Definitions
DISCUSSION
Approved by the Student Senate.
Inserted language and clarified language on Paragraph D, Section IV.
Section VIII clarification on Paragraph E Specific Issues concerning
Petitions.
Section XIV added definition on Cheating.
No further discussion.
MOTION
Motion to approve the recommendations to PPM6-22 Student Code, Sections
IV., VIII., and XIV by Kirk Hagen.
SECOND
Ed Hahn
OUTCOME
Unanimous
3.
Curriculum Committee – Fran Butler, Chair
Recommendation on Credit Ratios
DISCUSSION
Committee voted on and it will go into the
Curriculum PPM.
What does the Executive Committee want to put
this information to make it easier to locate.
Where should a link be put in the PPM so this
information can be found easier?
Never intended to be a standard for existing
courses.
Meant to be a guideline for new courses.
It has an impact on courses being approved by the
Curriculum Committee.
Committee doesn’t monitor the time that faculty assign students outside
of class.
Credit Ratios
Fran Butler and Craig
Bergeson collaborated and came up with the proposed language (highlighted in
yellow). Curriculum PPM Section 5.
The following is the recommendation, passed by the University Curriculum
Committee, to take to Executive Committee:
CREDIT RATIOS - Academic credit is a
measure of the total time commitment required of a typical student in a
particular course of study. Total time consists of three components: (1)
instructional time—which may be face-to-face,
online, or a combination
of the two; (2) time spent in laboratory, studio, fieldwork, or other
scheduled activity; (3) time devoted for reading, studying, problem solving,
writing, or
preparation. One
full-semester credit hour is assigned in the following ratio of component hours
per week devoted to the course of study: (1) lecture courses
(which include
face-to-face, online and hybrid) – one contact hour or equivalent
instructional time for each credit hour,
(two hours of outside
work implied, meaning that for a three-credit-hour class a student should plan
to spend a total of nine hours per week in some combination of instructional
time and outside study); (2) laboratory or studio course – at least two
contact hours for each credit.
SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL
SCIENCES
Philosophy - Richard Greene
PHIL4530 Philosophy of
Mind - New Course Proposal
EDUCATION
Child & Family Studies - Carrie Ota
Early Childhood/Early
Childhood Education- Program Change Proposal
CHF4201 Coaching EC/ECE
Professionals: Foundation &
Organization of Coaching Application: Organization & Self Reflection - New
Course Proposal
CHF4202 Coaching EC/ECE Professionals:
Connecting Awareness with Application & Deepening of Practice - New Course
Proposal
CHF4203 Coaching EC/ECE
Professional: Attuning for Personal
and Organizational Change - New Course Proposal
Teacher Education - Carrie Ota
Master of Education in
Curriculum & Instruction - Program Change Proposal
MED6201 Coaching EC/ECE
Professionals: Foundation &
Organization of Coaching Application: Organization & Self Reflection - New
Course Proposal
MED6202 Coaching EC/ECE Professionals:
Connecting Awareness with Application & Deepening of Practice - New Course
Proposal
MED6203 Coaching EC/ECE
Professional: Attuning for Personal
and Organizational Change - New Course Proposal
COAST
Engineering - Fon Brown
Electrical Engineering -
Program Change Proposal
EE4510 Power Systems -
New Course Proposal
EE4710
Real-Time Embedded Systems - New Course Proposal
ARTS & HUMANITIES
Visual Arts - Mark Biddle
Visual Communications
- Program Change Proposal
Name Change to “Graphic Design”
Masters of
English - Gary Dohrer
MENG6231 Wasatch Range Writing Project Advanced
institute - New Course Proposal
Communication - Kathy Edwards
Program Change Proposal -
Master of Professional Communication (MPC)
MPC6010 Intro Grad Study
Comm Theory Course Proposal Change (Inactivate)
MPC6350 Visual
communication in the Workplace - New Course Proposal
MPC6620 Conflict
Resolution/Mediation - New Course Proposal
COMM3350 Communication
Design - Course Proposal Change
(Nonsubstantive/Name Change)
Theater Arts - Jenny Kokai
Summary of Changes
Document
Program Change Proposal -
Theatre Arts Acting/Directing Emphasis
Program Change Proposal -
Theatre Arts Design/Technology/Management Emphasis
Program Change Proposal -
Theatre Arts Teaching Major
Program Change Proposal -
Theatre Arts Teaching Minor
Program Change Proposal -
Theatre Arts Minor
New Program Proposal -
Theatre Arts Generalist (Board of
Regents)
New Course Proposals
(and syllabi)
THEA2330 Dramaturgy and
Criticism
THEA2580 Computer
Software for Theatre
THEA3070 Voice and
Movement for the Actor II
THEA3100 Projection
Design
THEA3350 Marketing for
the Performing Arts
THEA3500 Sound Design
THEA4120 Collaboration in
the Theatre
THEA4270 Dramatic Theory
and Analysis
THEA4860 Advanced
Playwriting
Course Proposal
Changes
THEA1223
Stage Make-Up
THEA2012
Stagecraft (was Stage Scenery)
THEA2022
Costume Fundamentals (was Stage Costume)
THEA2032
Lighting Fundamentals (was Stage Lighting)
THEA3222
Stage Lighting Design
THEA3232
Scenic Art and Painting
THEA3212
Scenic Design (was THEA3810)
Proposal Pulled for
further discussion:
Program Change Proposal - Musical Theatre
DISCUSSION
No discussion on curriculum except for the Theatre Arts proposals.
Concern on the requiring of 129 to 153 credit hours for the program.
Excessive cost on the student for this program creates a burden.
Recommend to speak to the Dean on the requirements again .
Pull the Program Proposal on Music Theatre and have Curriculum discuss it
again.
MOTION Motion to
forward to Faculty Senate the Program and Course Proposals for Curriculum except
for Musical Theatre by John Armstrong
SECOND
Jim Turner
OUTCOME Unanimous.
4.
Academic Portfolios- David Ferro
could not make the meeting.
Postponed until March 6 meeting.
5. Salary,
Benefits, Budget and Fiscal Planning -
David Malone, Chair
Recommendation Charge 5
Explore and make recommendations on overload teaching and reassigned
time. Are they mutually exclusive?
DISCUSSION
Focusing on Teaching.
Schedules are just too loaded and people are stretched too thin.
Still gives the Dean’s flexibility to grant exceptions.
If you ask for overload you are signing up for overtime and more responsibility.
On the negative, it says by serving you can’t earn extra money.
Courses have to be taught because there is no one else to do it.
One reason to do overload are that faculty are not satisfied with their salary.
Cannot find an adjunct or other faculty with the expertise to teach the course.
Singling out “teaching” is going to create a lot of argument.
Frame the policy more positively.
They want to increase their earning potential.
They may look for another job if they are cut off from those funds.
People feel compelled to teach overload we need to find out why.
Objective is to reduce overload to improve quality of teaching.
Exceptions won’t seem very flexible to faculty.
MOTION
Motion to move forward to Faculty Senate as written by Eric Amsel.
SECOND
Alicia Giralt
OUTCOME
Unanimous.
6.
RSPG - Fall 2013 Committee Report
– Azenett Garza, Chair
Presenting the RSPG Fall 13 Report to the Faculty Senate.
MOTION
Motion to move the RSPG Fall 2013 Report to Faculty Senate by Patti Cost.
SECOND
Eric Amsel
OUTCOME
Unanimous
7.
Other Items
Developmental Courses Resolution – John Armstrong, Vice Chair, Faculty
Senate
TOPIC: Resolution encouraging the
administration to help students complete developmental courses in a timely
manner
WHEREAS,
Developmental education at Weber State University provides an important
foundation for preparing students for college-level coursework; and
WHEREAS,
It is in the student’s best interest to complete these requirements as
early in their college career as possible ; and
WHEREAS,
These courses provide fundamental skills required in general education
and major-level courses ; and
WHEREAS,
Recent language in PPM 6-2 removed provisions requiring early completion
of these courses; therefore be it
RESOLVED,
That the faculty senate encourages the administration to explore
appropriate policies to support students in acquiring these developmental skills
and ensure that developmental courses are completed as early in students’
coursework as possible.
DISSCUSSION
PPM 6-2 Admissions, at the last Senate meeting the section concerning
Developmental English and Math placement was removed from this section of the
PPM.
The reason was that the committee did not want to update the PPM every time this
policy was revised.
WSU Math & English Placement Standards document is currently under review.
The action said that we aren’t going to remove people from the university
because they haven’t finished their developmental courses.
What was found is they leave and don’t take any courses.
The ones that would have been subject to the policy won’t leave.
Hurts the student in the long run.
Students can’t do other courses if they don’t know Math.
Issue is that there is a four course sequence they won’t finish until they are
Juniors.
If they fail a course they could be seniors when they finish.
May have an impact on enrollments.
Look at the syllabus for Math 950.
Recommend to change “policies” to “strategies”
in the last sentence of resolution as follows:
“That the faculty senate
encourages the administration to explore appropriate
policies strategies
to support students in acquiring these developmental skills and ensure that
developmental courses are completed as early in students’ coursework as
possible.”
MOTION
Motion to move the resolution on Developmental Courses forward to the
Faculty Senate with the change from “policies”
to “strategies” as edited above by Ed Hahn.
SECOND
Alicia Giralt
OUTCOME
Unanimous
General Education Diversity Mission Statement
- Eric Amsel
Diversity Mission Statement (1-21-14)
General Education at Weber State University supports the development of cultural
competencies through designated Diversity (DV) courses which prepare students to
recognize a plurality of perspectives, including their own, to function
successfully in a global society.
Diversity Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete a General Education Diversity Course will:
1.
describe his/her own perspective as one among many,
2.
identify values and biases that inform perspectives of oneself and
others,
3.
recognize and articulate the rights, perspectives, and experiences of
others.
DISCUSSION
General Education Ad-hoc committee submitted this recommendation on Gen
Ed Diversity Mission Statement.
Forward to Curriculum Committee first and then if committee approves this
statement will return to the Executive Committee on March 6 for further
discussion. (no motion on this
item.)
Additional Items discussed.
Testing Center Data – Eric
Amsel
Will be sending out data on Testing Center usage.
This information to be discussed at a future meeting to be determined.
Salary Promotion/Compression
- Senior Faculty coming up for promotion - Eric
Amsel
Further discussion to take place at a future Executive Committee meeting.
Program Review Process
– Eric Amsel
Write best practices not sure how it gets done or where it should go.
Resolution processes.
Revisit Adjunct and Supplemental
Pay
– Patti Cost
Peggy Saunders wrote an email to voice her concerns about Adjunct and
Supplemental pay. She requests
that the Executive revisit the following issues.
1. A raise for the summer
supplemental pay per credit hour.
2. Moving control of what a
department offers away from Continuing Education into the specific
college/department (currently we can only offer “the number of credits we
offered last summer semester” which ties our hands for broadening our
offerings).
3. an ability to allow summer
semester to count towards the load a professor must maintain for the academic
year (i.e. if someone teaches a 3 credit hour course in the summer without
supplemental pay, he/she would be allowed to reduce fall load to 9 credit hours
(of course with permission from the department chair and possibly the dean).
DISCUSSION
Is hard to project what the legislature will give for salary increases.
Salary committee determines what percentage is given for salary increases.
Salary committee could take a tenth of the money for faculty increases and
earmark it for Adjunct pay increase, but will they vote for it?
Past several years there hasn’t been the budget to support an increase
supplemental and adjunct pay.
Doesn’t seem right that adjuncts are making the same as they did 10 years ago.
This issue seems like a further discussion needs to take place and charges need
to be assigned to the committees for
further discussion.
Meeting adjourned at 4:05
pm.
Next Meeting:
Faculty Senate, February 20, 2014 at 3:00 pm WB206-207
Next Agenda Setting Meeting:
March 6, 2014 at 2 pm, MA211K