FACULTY SENATE MINUTES – APPROVED                                                                                                                                   December 5, 2013

 

MEMBERS - Listed Alphabetically

 Eric Amsel

Laura Anderson – Laura MacLeod

John Armstrong

Tim Border

Cary Campbell

Sally Cantwell  

Rex Christensen  - Casey Neville

Kraig Chugg

Patti Cost

Bruce Davis - Admin. – Chris Rivera

Jill Ericson, Director, Student Success Center

Jeremy Farner - Excused

David Ferro, Admin. -  Excused

Azenett Garza

Alicia Giralt

Kirk Hagen

Ed Hahn

Sue Harley

Brady Harris – Student

Frank Harrold - Admin.

Jeffery Henry, Student

Kathy Herndon

Tim Herzog

Brent Horn

Joan Hubbard, Admin. - Excused

Colin Inglefield

Kerry Kennedy

Tom Mathews

David Matty - Admin.

Marek Matyjasik – Adolph Yonkee

Madonne Miner - Admin. – Catherine Zublin

Carol Naylor

Matthew Nicholaou

Matt Ondrus

Carrie Ota

Ryan Pace 

Wei Qiu

Clay Rasmussen - Absent

Jack Rasmussen - Admin.  

Scott Rogers

Shane Schvaneveldt

Yas Simonian - Admin.  

Jeff Steagall - Admin.  - David Malone

Sarah Steimel

Mali Subbiah

Ryan Thomas - Admin. - Excused

Jim Turner

Michael Vaughan - Admin.

Vikki Vickers

President Wight – Admin.

Mary Beth Willard – Gary Johnson

Kristiann Williams  - Excused

David Wilson, Student

Josh Winegar

Jan Winniford – Admin.  - Excused

Joseph Wolfe

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Brenda Stockberger, Secretary

 

Guests:

Fran Butler

Stephen Francis

1.  ROLL CALL

 

2.  Approval of the minutes from the 7 November 2013 Faculty Senate Meeting.

 

MOTION   Motion to approve the minutes from the 7 November 2013 Faculty Senate Meeting by Brent Horn.

SECOND   Vikki Vickers

OUTCOME  Unanimous         

 

Information Item

 

3.   Chat with Chuck – President Wight

 

Three friends of the University died this week - Steve Curtis, Mayor of Layton, Kent Green, a Donor to the University and Brian Davis one of our faculty passed away in the last week.

 

Governor Herbert released his proposed budget for the next year.

He is proposing a 1.25% increase in salary

Science building is in the budget.  The project remains on track.

 

There are two other requests Non compensation part of the money.

 

Distinctive Vision & Acute Equity

 

Acute Equity – bring the state support for higher education per FTE up to a minimal level.  Different institutions will get different amounts of this equity money.

 

USHE 80 Million dollars  The proposed 19 million dollars  If it goes through then we would get 9% back or approximately 1.9 million dollars. We will know more in March.

This will change daily depending on how much the state has to spend and appropriate to higher education.

Trustees approved the formation of the new LGBT resource center.  To become official it has to  go to the Board of Regents.  No problems anticipated.  Appreciate the senate’s expression of  support for the Center.

 

Q & A

Has there been any discussion on the Partner Benefits with the Administration?

Heard the expression of support from this body on partner benefits.

Federal government states if you are legally married in any state you can file jointly, Utah State says you have to file separately.  In Utah Federal and State Tax Returns are tightly coupled.

The difficulty is getting clarity on the taxability of some benefits and what we may have to withhold. 

Administration  is trying to move forward in a reasonable way.

 

On the Acute Equity funding.  What does that money go toward – Departments, student programs?

The administration every year in the budgeting process identifies new money that we are requesting and 

The legislature depending on how they

budgeting how they structure the appropriation money on certain things.

New things we need to spend money on shift categories depending on what the restrictions are.

Could be spent on anything.

 Write a report on what the money is used for High priorities to make college more affordable to students.

If we are able to spend the money on need based scholarships, that will satisfy the informal legislative intent for that item.

Prefer to spend  first dollars on those sorts of things depends on what kinds of restrictions are placed on the money.  We will know more in March.

The Developmental Math Policy Hold restriction has been suspended while the policy is being reviewed.

 Will this be retroactive to students in prior semesters?  Many students lost financial aid due to this policy and it has created a hardship for many students. 

This is a difficult issue.  Students were getting into the last semester of their program and they were not passing the math.  The university does not want to be in this position.  While the policy is being reviewed, the restrictions will be lifted for a time. 

Memorial on Remembering Brian Davis  - Jim Turner

 Action Items

 4.   University Curriculum Committee – Fran Butler, Chair

 

MOTION   Move to approve the Program and Course proposals except for the Nursing program by Tom Matthews

SECOND   Mali Subbiah

OUTCOME      UNANIMOUS

 

HEALTH PROFESSIONS

      Health Information Services - Pat Shaw

      HIM3600 - Advanced Diagnosis and Procedure Coding - New Course Proposal

      HIM3610 - Advanced Principles of Revenue Cycle Management - New Course Proposal

      HIM3620 - Principles of clinical Documentation Improvement - New Course Proposal

 

Emergency Care & Rescue - Jeff Grunow

Paramedic Institutional Certificate and Paramedic Studies AAS - Program Proposal Change

PAR3010 Cardiac & Medical Emergencies - Course Proposal Change

 

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Communications - Ryan Cheek

Communications Associates Degree - New Program Proposal (Board of Regents)

 

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

School of Accounting & Taxation - David Malone

Finance Emphasis: Business Administration - Program Proposal Change

 

School of Accounting & Taxation - Ryan Pace

Master of Accounting - Program Proposal Change

MACC6695 Graduate Accounting Internship - New Course Proposal

 

Master of Taxation - Program Proposal Change

MTAX6405 Accounting for Income Taxes - New Course Proposal

MTAX6435 State & Local Taxation/Federal Tax Practice - New Course Proposal

MTAX6445 Gifts, Estates, Trusts and Exempt organizations - New Course ProposalMTAX6495 Graduate Tax Internship - New Course Proposal

 

Business Administration - Wendy Fox-Kirk

BS in Business Administration - Program Proposal Change

 

Master in Business Administration - Matt Mouritsen

Graduate Certificate in IST: Information Assurance - Program Change Proposal

Graduate Certificate in Environmental Sustainability for Business - Program Change Proposal

      Name Change to: “Sustainability for Business Graduate Certificate”(Board of Regents)

MBA6715 Sustainability Tools and Methods - New Course Proposal

MBA6850 Entrepreneurship - New Course Proposal

 

Nursing- Sally Cantwell

Nursing AS degree PN-RN Program of Study - Program Proposal Change

 

Nursing program Proposal Change was pulled out of the package as requested by a member of  the senate.

 

DISCUSSION

Nursing didn’t feel that they didn’t have much choice in removing these courses from their program.  The Nursing department was under pressure from their accrediting body that they need to lower the total number of credit hours  to 70-72 in their program.  They reviewed the courses in their courses and looked at the curriculum and what courses can we eliminate now. This required removing 3 Gen Ed courses (Micro, Nutr, Patho) that totals nine(9) credit hours from the program requirements.  Points will be given to students who have taken these courses for Admission checklist entering in the program. We are offering minimum general education.  We are not trying to hurt other programs in this process.  We are reviewing our curriculum continually to be sure we are complying with accreditation requirements as well as graduating well educated nursing students.

 

MOTION         Move to approve the Nursing Program Proposal Change by Vikki Vickers.

SECOND         Matt Nickolaus

OUTCOME      Unanimous

 

5.   APAFT – Post-Tenure Documents - Stephen Francis, Chair

     

Motion to approve these documents made by the APAFT committee and move them forward for the Faculty Senate’s approval.

 

      College of Education – Post-Tenure Document

      College of Social & Behavioral Sciences – Post-Tenure Document

 

Mike Vaughan wanted to clarify some language issues that are found in PPM8-11, Section II, Paragraph D.  Remedial Actions Based on Post-Tenure Review.  This paragraph calls out in the last sentence “PPM9-9-though 9-17|”.   PPM9-17 is titled “Termination of Non-Tenured Faculty and appeal of Tenure Denial Decision”.  We do not want to tie a policy that governs tenured faculty with one that governs a Non-tenured faculty.  This was not the intent of the committee.  The problem is now that most colleges have copied this language into their Post-Tenure documents.  This is will cause some confusion on Post-Tenure documents.  A friendly amendment could be made to change 9-17 to 9-16 in PPM 8-11. 

 

MOTION

Move to make a friendly amendment to change in PPM 8-11,Section II, Paragraph D.  Remedial Actions Based on Post-Tenure Review in the last sentence to change “…described in PPM 9-9 through 9-17” to “…described in PPM 9-9 through 9-16”. Motion made by Sarah Steimel

SECOND  Kathy Herndon
OUTCOME  Unanimous

Move to add another friendly amendment to change the references to PPM9-9 through 9-17( changed to 9-16) in the College of Education and all other approved Post-Tenure documents that call out this language.

Motion made by Tom Matthews.

 

No further discussion on this amendment. 

 

SECOND by John Armstrong

OUTCOME      Unanimous

 

6.   LGBT Resource Center  - Statement of Support

The Faculty Senate supports the new LGBT Resource Center and thanks senior administrators for their ongoing efforts to support all students in fulfilling their educational aspirations, without regard to age, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation or preference (as documented in PPM 3-32).

 

MOTION  

Motion to accept the statement of support for the WSU LGBT Resource Center by Sue Harley.

SECOND   Alicia Giralt

OUTCOME      UNANIMOUS

7.   Other Items –No other items discussed

 

Meeting adjourned at 3:44 pm

 

 

Next Meeting:  Faculty Senate, January 23, 2014, at 3:00 pm, WB206-207