Report from Executive Committee Meeting
1.
Meeting of
Attending:
Reeves, Tippett, Karr, Boyd, Franz, Delugach, Gaede, Radonovich, Newman
1.1 Faculty Senate President’s report:
No Report.
Dr. Karr, Past President and Ombudsperson reported on the ACUFP Meeting. Dr. Karr reported some of the topics at the meeting were: Guidelines on monitoring faculty computer usage and notification to faculty when their computer usage is monitored; evaluation of administrators from an outside agency; and publication of faculty salaries.
1.2 Reports from Administration
Dr. Radonovich reported the UAH web page has been redone and there are two issues. The Deans will work on input from their areas. All links must be maintained until after SACS. Dr. Radonovich would like to have pictures and faculty interests/research areas, etc. on the web sites.
Dr. Radonovich reported he met with
Bernhard Vogler about the REU. They are
looking at how it will interact with other
Dr. Radonovich gave a brief report on the SACS Preliminary Report. He talked about the General Education Requirements. There is work needed in that area. Learning Outcomes is the other area that needs some work. Budgets were a concern but will be taken care of when the final audit is received in January. The other areas were just technical errors to be corrected. There may be some policy changes that need to come through the Faculty Senate.
1.3 Committee Items and Chair Reports
1.3.1 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Rhonda Gaede and Kathy Newman).
Dr. Gaede had no report but still had concerns regarding the 64 hour policy.
1.3.2
Personnel
(Lynn Boyd).
Dr. Boyd reported the Committee has been working on the OSP User Survey. There were 268 sent out and 89 returned. Mary Spann was hired by Dr. Greenwood to help with the analysis of the survey. She took the responses from Peggy and made a summary which was a 12 page report. It did not include the comments. It showed that some people are happy and some people are unhappy. There was survey evidence that many contract administrators do a good job but some do not. People at the Centers appear to be happier than faculty and this may have something to do with having more staff available to support the people in the Centers. We may need to include something in orientation for faculty members to know what they should do and what OSP does. There needs to be something that explains what OSP is responsible for and what the faculty member is responsible for and what the faculty member needs to know and what they have to do and where or who to get help from. There was some discussion regarding the desire to see the comments or a summary of the comments. The consensus was that seeing the comments would better assist the administration in knowing what to do rather than just looking at quantitative numbers. The consensus was that transmitting the comments to Dr. Greenwood would be useful. The committee will meet today to discuss the results.
There was some discussion regarding the possibility of having a staff position in the Deans’ offices dedicated to take care of Research information for faculty in the college—a kind of liaison person. The Committee will work on a proposal.
1.3.3 Governance and Operations (Donald Tippett).
No report.
1.3.4 Faculty and Student Development (Harry Delugach).
Dr. Delugach reported he had talked with Toni Morgan about publicizing UJB summary information in the Exponent. Dr. Delugach reported the number of cases have gone down. Alcohol abuse is down and academic misconduct is down. Turnitin.com has made an impact. We need to encourage faculty to file reports. If they file a report they do not have to request action at the time of filing the report. The report goes in the file and the Judicial Officer takes action if a pattern is noted. There was a suggestion of training/educating students about what plagiarism and academic misconduct is. There was a discussion regarding self plagiarism. The Committee will meet to discuss making faculty more aware of the judicial process.
1.3.5 Finance and Resources (Melinda Lawson).
No Report.
1.3.6 Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs (Jeffrey Neuschatz).
Dr. Neuschatz reported the Committee met and talked about the iTOEFL. Dr. Moriarity met with the other Graduate Deans and all others are keeping the same standards as before. We will keep the same standards and see how it goes. We will meet again and discuss six academic bankruptcies and three readmissions.
1.4 Agenda
The December 8, 2005, Meeting was cancelled.
Dorothy Foote will talk about Health Fitness at a future meeting.