FACULTY SENATE AGENDA   Click here for .pdf file  of Agenda
Thursday,  17 MARCH 2017
3 pm  WB206-207

Click here for March Minutes

CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW FOR THE ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED AT THE MEETING.

1.    ROLL CALL

2.    Approval of the Minutes from 18 February 2017 meeting.

Information Items

 

3.   Update on Weber State University Activities – Chuck Wight, President

 

4.   Internationalization of Weber State University   - Cliff Nowell, Dean, Office of International Programs
        Internationalization Document

 

Action Items

 

5.  Vote for Faculty Senate Chair and Vice Chair – Ballot is attached to your name plate.  If you need to leave early, please mark your ballot and leave it in the designated place.  Will need 2 volunteers to count the ballots.  Thanks! 

 

 

6.  University Curriculum Committee – Sally Cantwell, Chair

See proposals in Curriculog, 17 March Faculty Senate Agenda or My Tasks Tab.    If you need instructions on how to access Curriculog, please contact Brenda, 6233

 

Curriculum listed was approved at the 24 February 2017 University Curriculum Committee Meeting.

 

ARTS AND HUMANITIES

New Course proposals – Becky Jo Gesteland

ART4801 Arts & Humanities Leadership lecture Series

COMM4801 Arts & Humanities Leadership lecture Series

DANC4801 Arts & Humanities Leadership lecture Series

ENGL4801 Arts & Humanities Leadership lecture Series

FL4801 Arts & Humanities Leadership lecture Series

MUSC4801 Arts & Humanities Leadership lecture Series

THEA4801 Arts & Humanities Leadership lecture Series

 

Business & Economics

Business Administration – Randall Boyle

Program Change

Information Systems & Technologies (AS)

Information Systems & Technologies (BIS)

Information Systems & Technologies (BS)

Information Systems & Technologies Minor

 

Program Change – Wendy Fox-Kirk

Business Administration for Non-Business Majors/Minors


Education

Child & Family Studies - Mark Adams

Program Change

Family Studies

New Course Proposal

CHF3400 Development in Middle Adulthood

 

HEALTH PROFESSIONS

Health Admin Services – Miland Palmer

New Program – Miland Palmer

Bachelors of Public Health

 

New Course Proposals

HAS3800 Public Health Finance

HAS4500 Grant Writing

HAS4700 Public Health Capstone

 

New Course Proposals Continued

HIM3210 Advanced Epidemiology & Population Health

HIM3550 Health Care Data Analytics

 

SOCIAL & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

History – Susan Matt

Program Changes

History BA

History BS

History Teaching BA

 

New Course Proposal – Susan Matt

HIST2000 Introduction to the Craft of History

Criminal Justice - Brent Horn

Course Revision Proposals

CJ1070 Law Enforcement/Corrections Academy Part I

CJ1080 Law Enforcement/Corrections Academy Part II

SCIENCE

 Chemistry – Laine Berghout

Course Revision Proposal

CHEM1210 Principles of Chemistry 1

CHEM1220 Principles of Chemistry 2

CHEM3070 Biochemistry I

CHEM3075 Biochemistry I Lab

 

 

Zoology – Christopher Hoagstrom and Michele Skopec

General Education LS Course proposal

ZOOL1110 Principles of Zoology

Course Revision Proposal
ZOOL1110 Principles of Zoology

 

General Education LS Course proposal

ZOOL2200 Human Physiology

Course Revision Proposal

ZOOL2200 Human Physiology

 

>>End of Proposals<<

7.   Appointment, Promotion, Academic Freedom and Tenure – Stephen Francis, Chair
PPM 8-11 Recommendation                Current PPM 8-11

Recommendation on PPM 8-11 Evaluation of Faculty Members, Section III. Tenure Review, added to Subsection D. as follows:

Academic Units that wish to change these documents shall submit their documents in writing to their Tenure-Track and Tenured faculty for comments and a vote.  The outcome of the vote shall be reported to the faculty and the Academic Units and shall accompany the documents throughout the approval process. 

 

8.  PPM 8-6 Faculty Appointments - Craig Oberg, Faculty Senate Chair 
    Discuss the recommendation to the policy to add a statement about mediation.   

PPM 8-6 Recommendation                Current PPM 8-6     


9.   Other Items

       
Salary, Benefits, Budget and Fiscal Planning - Laine Berghout, Chair

The recommendation of the Faculty Senate Salary, Benefits, Budget, and Fiscal Planning Committee regarding the disposition of the 2% increase in money allocated by the state for base salaries is: 

1) The full 2% increase in salary funding shall be applied as a cost-of-living increase to all faculty.  This will not be regarded as a merit increase, however, Deans may exclude faculty with documented unsatisfactory performance. 

2) None of the 2% base salary increase funding will be assigned for merit increases. 

It is further noted that the 7.3% increase in the cost of medical coverage for 2017-17 will be offset by an additional $775K allocated by the state for that purpose.  This increase amounts to approximately a 1% increase in total compensation. 

The Performance Salary Increase addresses merit increases at some level. The Performance Salary Increase along with the increases related to advancement in rank represent approximately a further 1% increase in average faculty salary.

 

Next Meeting:    Faculty Senate, 14 April 2017 at 3:00 pm WB206-207
New Senators and Current Senators please attend!  This will be the final meeting this year.