Present:

J. Murphy, Donna Dietz, C. Moulton, T. Doerksen, P. Savoye, K. Thorne, H. Pieper, C. Hoy, D. Monkiewicz, S. Stein, A. Ghods, G. Carson, D. McKee, W. Thornsley, N. Werner-Burke, W. Keeth, K. Thorne, F. Chua, S. Kasperek, N. Rinnert, I. Newman, S. Brown, L. Schankman, R. Keller, A. Molla, M Moore, M. Ewing

I.

I. J. Murphy called the meeting to order 4:03 p.m.
Approval of University Senate minutes of January 25, 2007:Accepted (Doerksen/Dietz)

APPROVED

II.

Treasurer's Report (D. Dietz)

$610, we need more money.

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APPROVED

III.

Announcements (J. Murphy)

• President’s approval of curriculum actions: President approved all actions from previous senate meeting (all watershed management); has not addressed distance ed subject.
• Thanks to Steve Brown for serving on search committee for student representative for board of trustees.

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IV.

Committee and Other Reports

Academic Planning (P. Savoye)

Will be acting on the Associate Degree program in Liberal Studies next week.

B.

Administrative Affairs & Elections (K. Thorne)

• Committee will meet next Thursday - parking & smoking issues are on agenda.
• Need someone to replace Hoy for SGA rep for one semester (SGA meets at 9:15 Mon. nights).
• Need more nominees to serve on committees – there are 66 rotating seats, 19 are open, 12 open to untenured faculty, 7 seats tenured. Currently we have 58 serving, there are 162 full time faculty. Senate webpage has committee meeting times that are set. If anyone notices discrepancy, let Thorne know. This is a good time to mentor junior colleagues; nominate new faculty for positions.

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C.

Student Affairs & Admissions (L. Labuski-Brown)

No report.

D.

Information Technology (J. Phillips)

No report.

E.

Library Advisory (H. Pieper)

• Discussed plans for North Hall library visiting scholar: Dr Samuel Newland (from Carlisle, PA) invited to talk about PA defense and the Quakers, to visit history classes and history club, have a book signing… Library will pay for expenses.
• Library survey results in: over 1/3 of faculty and about 24% of undergrads responded. Very positive responses overall.
• Update on library humanities search: search committee is identifying candidates to interview.
• New resources: expanding JSTORE and encyclopedia of art and image collection.

F.

Provost (M. Renner)

No report.

Academic Affairs (T. Doerksen)

• AAC discussed policy to limit the amount of time that may pass when a student appeals a grade. This policy is already in place (see Mountie Manual); committee asks that faculty follow policy.
• Working with grad council to establish a draft for quality of criteria of dual listed grad/undergrad courses.

V.

Old Business

None.

VI.

New Business

• Assembly usually meets in the last week of school.
• We are all requested to participate in inauguration.
• Committee consolidation ideas: Are there too many committees across campus? Joe M. would welcome ideas (email) to discuss whether some committees are redundant. Teri: we did consolidate a few years ago and as many groups that could be consolidated were. Committees were opened as much as possible for junior faculty. We should be wary of consolidating or reducing members on the Tenure and Sabbatical committees.
  

VII.

Meeting adjourned: 4:25 (Hoy/Brown).

Minutes respectfully submitted,
Christine Moulton, Senate Secretary