Senate Meeting:  September 24, 2009                                             4:00 p.m  Alumni 307

Session: XXVI  Meeting # 3

Present: R. Timko, S. Davis, C. Moulton, S. Gregorich, J. Bosworth, J. Purk, D. Wetzel, K. Verno, R. Dodson-Webster, T. Prothero, C. Hoy, J. Kirby, C. Smith, D. Mason, N. Werner-Burke, T. Murphy, B. Holtman, C. Kopf, W. Evans, W. Hardenberg, P. Savoye, A. Walters, L. Schankman, R. Keller, Y. Yang, M. Moore, J. Brown

      I.    Call to order: R. Timko called the meeting to order 4:03

    II.    Announcements: There were no motions from September 10, 2009 meeting to act upon.

   III.    Approval of University Senate minutes of September 10, 2009

Approved (Evans/Hoy) 

   IV.    Treasurer’s report (Gregorich): currently have $140 (just collected about $100 more). Please continue to collect ‘dues’ from your departments.

Approved

    V.    Committee / Other Reports

A.    Executive Committee- no report

B.  Academic Affairs (Bosworth)

        1.       2^ND YEAR FOREIGN LANGUAGE:

MOTION: 2nd year language proficiency means the successful completion of the 2202 level of a foreign language.

                Approved

2a..       PROGRAM CHANGE: MUSIC EDUCATION

2b.       NEW COURSE: MU 1100: FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC EDUCATION

2c.       NEW COURSE: MU 3241: GENERAL MUSIC METHODS K-12

2d.       NEW COURSE: MU 3305: TECHNOLOGY IN MUSIC EDUCATION

2e.       COURSE DELETION: MU 1141: INTRO TO MUSIC EDUCATION

2f.       COURSE DELETION: MU 2241 & 2241L: MUSIC IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

2g.       COURSE DELETION: MU 3342 & 3342L: MUSIC IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL

         Approved (whole group) 

3.       COURSE CHANGE: MU 3221: CLASSIC AND ROMANTIC MUSIC

4.       COURSE CHANGE: MU 3222: POST ROMANTIC AND 20^TH CENTURY MUSIC

This is a clarification. These courses are sequential and require a grade of C or better.

Approved (both).

5.       PROGRAM CHANGE: MUSIC

Requires another fine arts course for block 6

Approved 

6.       PROGRAM CHANGE: MUSIC WITH ELECTIVE STUDIES IN BUSINESS

Adds conducting and 2 electives.

Approved

7.       PROGRAM CHANGE: MUSIC WITH EMPHASIS IN MUSIC TECHNOLOGY

Adds conducting, Intro to Music Tech and an elective

Approved

C.    Academic Planning (Wetzel):

·         Looked at program change for music minor - Reduce the credits for a music minor by reducing the credits for freshmen, to limit them to 2 semesters of lessons.

·         More will be coming about SPITs and Honors Program.

Report accepted

D.    Administrative Affairs/Elections (Verno)

·         Met w/Mike Reid…

·         S. Hall walkway completed.

·         S. Manser entrance almost done.

·         Allen Hall on schedule, sort of…

·         Grant Hall project will need reevaluation.

·         Soon to come: Straughn renovation.

·         Elliot & Decker will have AC soon.

·         There will be food court renovations over winter break in Manser.

·         Possible new residence halls. New dorms where tennis courts are. Then replacement of Cedar Crest, then Hemlock.

·         Reid: Still have $ for strategic budget proposals. Proposals are on line to see ranking.

If your project was rejected, contact Mike Reid with any questions.

·         Looking for new members for Strategic Budget Committee.

Q : Parking spaces and traffic direction on campus are problems.

A: Kerri will look into it.

Report accepted 

E.    Student Affairs/Admissions:  no report

  F.    Information Technology (Dodson-Webster):

Energy issues in data center are being addressed.

Energy conservation program in labs have saved lots of $.

      The contract for Bb will be extended 1 more year while other system is reviewed.

      Report accepted

G.    Library Advisory (Dodson-Webster):  Regarding the issue of no money for books and other items: $90 thousand was freed up from technology monies and put toward e-databases and other similar resources, allowing for some money to be subsequently used for books.  When (?) a budget is passed, we’ll know more, but it seems the situation is not quite as dire after this money was transferred.

            Report accepted

H.    First Year Experience (Verno) – planning opening weekend for next year. Want to keep same schedule as was used this year. Kerri has gotten mostly positive feedback about the new schedule. Convocation was moved to Friday to prevent it interfering w/class time. Upperclassmen should be moved in by that Friday. There was a great turnout so it is considered successful. Convocation is scheduled for noon with the picnic afterward.

Q: what happened to Mountie Movers?!

Concern: some freshmen didn’t get clear message of what room they were supposed to be in.

Concern: organization meeting was poorly attended because of new schedule.

Motion: To keep opening weekend schedule the same (Bosworth)

Approved

MAPworks survey coming out – encourage freshmen to take this, their response will help us track if there are any problems going on with our freshmen (like trouble in the dorms, etc). The results will go to Judy Brayer.

Report accepted

I.      Provost: Dean Brown – enrollment: up 6.8 percent FTE as of freeze date. Head count is 3569. 3422 one year ago. # of freshmen 718, 1 short of record (set 20 years ago). # is a record high. Transfers, readmit, persistence rate are all up.

Budget: there is none

J.     Other—Committee for General Education Restructuring

Plan is to look at the whole process of GenEd and consider restructuring along lines of strategic plan. Aim is for this to come from faculty and be transparent & to go through all MU processes (AAC, APC, Fac Assembly, etc).

Q: does this committee guarantee any change?

RT: committee’s charge will be to come up with a few models. There is not a preexisting model now, contrary to rumors.

Election to this committee will be through Ad Aff & Elections.

WE: would like only 1 rep from each dept.

RT: this was discussed. Idea was that the committee would be large enough to keep diversity.

Motion to add to criteria: no program may be represented more than once. (Evans/Brown)

In favor: 12

Opposed: 7

Motion passes.

If more than 1 person is nominated from a program, there would be a run-off election.

Q: Can we represent each dept AND each of the SPITS and not have a conflict with this motion? A: Theoretically yes.

TM: The committee will come up with recommendations to be discussed in Senate, Faculty Assembly, etc. To limit ourselves with this motion doesn’t seem to be practical.

RT: This proposal was to keep in mind all the emerged models from standing committees already. The current SPITS committee will work with this new committee.

TM: problem with the way this has come to us. We do already have a process in place. A proposal should be sent to AAC first. That is the way we handle curricular change. 

Faculty Assembly can make a recommendation to senate, which can accept or not. Faculty Assembly is to ensure that there is a full faculty representation. The whole process should be followed. 

Motion: increase representation from professional programs to three. (WernerBurke/Moore)

JB: this is danger of making the committee too big.

Motion defeated.

Motion : send this committee proposal to AAC for consultation and recommendation. (Murphy/WernerBurke)

Discussion:

RT: this came out of discussions which included the chair of AAC, and members of senate exec. If we delay this process it could be damaging to the university community in implementing the strategic plan.

SB: AAC will review these models.

SD: this committee proposal is before us for transparency.

Motion defeated.

RT:  the idea is to have the whole faculty involved while respecting the current processes in place. 

Friendly amendment: Prior to the Fall Semester 2010 propose at least two plans or models for restructuring general education at Mansfield University.

Motion to suspend discussion on this until next full senate meeting. (Brown/Evans)

Discussion: send this document out to entire faculty.

JB: Intention has been to make this process as open as possible. There is a degree of urgency. This is JUST the process, not the result. It is as open as it can be.

Response: it may be just a process, but we need to give faculty time to respond.

Motion passed. 

   VI.    Remarks for the Good of the Order:

Motion that drop/add be restricted to days when classes are in session, NOT on Sat/Sun (Evans/Purk)

Approved

 VII.    Adjournment: 5:24 (Purk/Brown)

Minutes respectfully submitted,

Christine Moulton, Senate Secretary