Report from Faculty Senate Executive
Committee Meeting
1.
Meeting of
Attending:
1.1
Faculty
Senate President’s Report
Dr. Boyd reported there was some discussion in Deans and Directors regarding SIE Scores on line. Think about that. Some discussion—Academic Affairs would like to go to sending reports electronically. Some discussion of doing SIEs on line. It is being looked into.
Dr. Boyd announced that April Harris offered to come to Senate and discuss events of Inauguration week.
Mission Statement --Dr. Williams stated the faculty responses are coming in individually and some by college, Alumni had a large response. He is awaiting more responses and will bring it back to this Committee. Dr. Boyd suggested a vote from the Senate. Dr. Williams plans to announce the new Mission Statement at Inauguration. He will bring it back to the Committee who did the work on it and get them to make a final recommendation. He will bring it forth for discussion during his report at the Faculty Senate Meeting.
There was a question of when will the NC Grading stop.
1.2 Reports from Administration
Dr. Radonovich—The Department of English wrote to John Severn who wrote to Dr. Radonovich stating they cannot give the D grade in Freshman Composition. They used NC—now they do not know what do to. Dr. Radonovich stated we could do nothing and work with ABC F. We could do away with all NCs and invite the U grade. We could leave the NC grade for them.
There was discussion regarding when we can eliminate the NC. Dr. Severn announced that structurally we need to work on it now if we want to do it. The Registrar needs to know now. There was a request for some clarification of not giving a D. Is it that they truly cannot give a D leaving A, B, C, F. It is not a passing grade so the students have to repeat the course. F helps flag the students to get them help whereas NC does not. Dr. Severn will go back to English and find out if they truly cannot give a D or if it is just not a passing grade. Dr. Severn will find out and will deal with the English Composition issue separately. Dr. Radonovich reported the Resolution on Faculty-Student Relationships has been approved by Dr. Williams. The Smoke Free Building Environment Resolution has been approved by Dr. Williams. The Faculty-Student Relationship Resolution will go into the Faculty Handbook and Dr. Williams will work with Mike Finnegan to implement the Smoke Free Building Environment Resolution.
Dr. Radonovich reported the WebCT recommendation is due to him by early April.
Clickers—Dr. Severn reported there is another glitch which is that cell phones now have this same capacity.
There was a question of whether there will be a support person to help facilitate installation and use of the clickers.
Looking at program from
It was stated the SGA was asked for input on abolishing the NC Grading and no response was received. The resolution will be sent to them as an information item.
Dr. Williams- Budget reported he will address the University in the future once he has more information. There is currently no proration for this year. There is no point to talk to the University Community now because we do not have definitive information. We will go through an exercise to see where we can cut. We need to look at what we can do without or what we do not have to do. Dr. Williams has asked April to make a 10% cut in the Inauguration budget. Dr. Radonovich has asked for a 5% cut in the exercise the Deans are going through. We need to be looking in advance of what we can do. We need to look on the revenue generating side where we do have some control. Admissions—increase students, especially out of state students. Encourage all faculty to seek external funding. Work with new VP for Advancement to generate more funding. We can do better at these things. Reward those who have helped with revenue generation. We will require this year that everyone be evaluated. We need a matrix and we need formal input. I understand there is a form that was rarely used. All will be evaluated and a record kept in HR of evaluations. Dr. Williams stated the President is evaluated by the Chancellor and everyone else will be evaluated by appropriate people. There will be merit increase criteria in place by next year. P&T criteria is being developed. There needs to be consistency between P&T and merit increase. There must be a basis for pay increases and those who deserve them and those who do not. The criteria for evaluating is done at the College level because each College is different and the Provost is responsible for approving these. Dr. Williams is responsible for VPs having criteria for staff in their areas. Managers are responsible to get input needed. It will take some time to get this right but we will start with what we have. Those who are not earning what they receive should be dealt with appropriately. We must look at whether there are those who are not earning what they receive. We have to have warnings in place in order to encourage some to seek positions elsewhere. There is a broad matrix of increased student = increase faculty. We will be looking at this closely and will develop it further. Dr. Williams will put criteria in place for evaluating his own staff.
Dr. Williams reported the Space Committee is formed and Harry Delugach is on that Committee. Harry Delugach is responsible for passing along information to the Faculty Senate. Where are areas to consolidate? How efficiently is space used? As get data will pass along. There was some discussion that the five year plan is essentially done and we will look at the next five years.
1.3 Committee Items and Chair Reports
1.3.1 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Sharon George).
The undergraduate Curriculum
Committee is currently reviewing one program approval form from the
1.3.2
Personnel
(Michael Anderson).
No Report.
1.3.3 Governance and Operations (Jeff Kulich -Rhonda Gaede Proxy).
No Report
1.3.4 Faculty and Student Development (Andree Reeves).
No Report.
1.3.5 Finance and Resources (John Burnett-Letha Etzkorn Proxy).
Revised Distinguished Speaker Proposal Request and will go out this week. Typical grant is $1000 to $1500.
1.3.6 Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs (Clarke Rountree).
No Report.
1.3.7 The Agenda was set for the February 21, Faculty Senate Meeting.