Present: S. Davis, N. Werner-Burke, C. Moulton, L. Iseri, J. Bosworth, J. Purk, M. Moore, K. Verno, H. Laydon, R. Timko, M. Ewing, C. Hoy, M. Lockwood, S. Stein, A. Ghods, J. Sim, D. Mason, M. Robarge, L. Hammann, L. Rashidi, W. Keeth, J. Demchak, W. Evans, J. Harris, P. Savoye (UP), A. Walters, S. Brown, L. Schankman, P. Richmond, R. Clark

I.    S. Davis called the meeting to order: 4:03

II.    Announcements

A.    President Loeschke has approved all curricular actions recommended by the Senate at the January 22, 2009 meeting.

B.    Senate Exec is working on memo to administration regarding professional development funds.

III.    Approval of University Senate minutes of January 22, 2009

Corrections:

·         Under Provost report add: Faculty Professional Development Funds distribution is currently being reviewed.

·         W Evans: 1^st yr exp: K. Verno confirmed that faculty are not limited to 1 section of UNV 1100, inferring that faculty could teach more than 1 section.

·         A Ghods: Remarks for good of order: Currently, Practicum is treated as either II or IS, because there is no campus wide policy. Therefore, faculty cannot have more than six practicum (three II and three IS). There are times that you may have more than 6 practicum. So, 6 defeats the purpose of having a Practicum because it limits the number of students from having on-the- job learning experience when opportunities are available. Should each dept develop its own Practicum Form or should it be one form for the campus wide like II and IS (Individualized Instruction and Independent Study) Form?  Mark Robarge indicated that if this is the current practice, it is against the CBA contract.

It has been referred to AAC for review.

·         NWB:  under discussion change:  “it disempowers the faculty” to ‘it disempowers the faculty committee’  (add: committee)

·         M. Moore was only here once despite anyone’s insistence that she was indeed here twice.

Accepted as amended. (Evans, Richmond)

IV.    Treasurer’s report (Iseri)

A.  Dues – we have $170, yet still need $330 to cover the scholarship just given (recipient is Samantha Schrumm).

SD: please get colleagues to contribute.

SB: what % of faculty body pay dues to cover this? If only a certain % pay, can we still cover this scholarship? Has the % been determined?

Rough estimate is if 60% of faculty body contribute, we can cover this scholarship.

V.    Committee / Other Reports

A.    Academic Affairs (Bosworth)

Ed program course # change:  ELE 5528 is now ED 5510 (Grad equivalent of ED 3310)

PASSED

Watershed Management course approved for GenEd status Group 6. GES did not wish to make this decision, thus AAC decided that this course is consistent with professional electives criteria. Credits stay the same, this just adds another course option to the group.

Discussion: BK: what is rationale?

JB: this is a program that students can explore for a professional elective, to see with this different field is like. This now counts as a professional elective except for the geography/geology majors. The choice was not made in an absence of principal. There has been precedent. AAC’s collective judgment was this course should be included.

SB: how do we define a professional course that is GE elective with the proper prefix.

SD: block 6 INCLUDES professional courses. The misnomer is calling it “professional block” and thinking it should have a GE prefix.

SB: recommends a request from the AAC committee to the senate to discuss what is professional and what is not professional for block 6.

PASSED (addition of WSM course in GE block 6)

1 opposed

Further discussion: WE: are these items all put on CAN? JB: yes. WE: are these issues open for debate in the next AAC meeting? JB: accepts input and yes, guests may come to the meeting.

B.    Academic Planning (Moore)

Will review dismissal/readmit policy with Academic Review Board. Discussion will continue.

C.    Administrative Affairs/Elections (Verno)

Nominations will come out Monday. Space Utilization survey has been responded to -THANKS! great ideas.

AG: can parking suggestions be included in a survey?

D.    Student Affairs/Admissions (Purk)

RAs have been trained re: GLTB awareness.

Statement from J Harrington: Greek life has tripled with new and reinstated fraternities. A Greek life position was eliminated 5 yrs ago - this has been reinstated and funding will come from auxiliary $ (Student affairs, student fees…) None will come from State System.

E.    Information Technology – No report

F.    Library Advisory - No Report  

G.    First Year Experience (Verno)

Invitation sent for lunch. If interested in teaching UNV, come to the lunch Feb 17^th - RM 301, 11:30 – 12:30. Applications will be accepted.

Also, still accepting peer leader applications.

H.    Provost  (Laydon)

• Classroom size/enrollment issues (cap on size): not much we can do this semester but should be addressed in future semesters. Problem has been registrar is not contacting faculty for adding students well over cap. This should not take place.
• Peter Keller should start as provost March 16^th. Hal will then leave - thanks all for cooperation.
• Monday – group going to Corning to explore teaching classes at community college. A number of our faculty responded they would be willing to teach. Exploring grad school classes up there too. Thought was many faculty who live up there would have opportunity, yet the interested seem to live in Mansfield! There is a union clause to maintain academic rigor. This should not adversely affect pension funds.
• Faculty Professional Development Funds – there is limited funds for summer. These funds WILL be open to tenured faculty. Suggests a group figure out the % of who would get what portion of funds (such as 25% tenured, 50% non-tenured, etc)
• State is looking to do away with governors schools. MU can think of doing something to fill this space.

VI.    Remarks for the Good of the Order - none

VII.    Adjournment: 4:40  (Evans/ Ghods)

Minutes respectfully submitted,

Christine Moulton, Senate Secretary