THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE
JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY SENATE
VOLUME XXV
MINUTES OF MEETING #418 16 MARCH, 2000,
APPROVED: 13 APRIL, 2000
PRESENT:
ADSC: Sherman, Floyd, Schnell
LA: Enger, Schenker, Neff, Gyasi, Waring, Hanks, Whatley, Wilkerson, Williams, Bliss, Sitaraman
ENG: Hayes, Shen, Boykin, Swain, Landrum
LIB: Warren
NUR: Brookman, Hays, Williamson, Cobb
SCI: Christopher, Lawton, Kunin, Miller, Comfort
ABSENT WITH PROXY:
LBAR: Meister
ENGR: Leonard, Jarem
NUR: Warren
SCI: Richards
ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:
LBAR: Dasher
ENGR: Abushagur, Hawk
SCI: Garstka, Baird, George, Zhang, Hillman
0. President Hanks called the meeting to order at 12:36 p.m.
1. Draft Minutes of Meeting #417 were approved. Motion by Tommy Williams, seconded by Jack Schnell.
3. A. Senate Committee Reports:
1. Executive: The Senate Executive Committee met and the report was included with the information packet to all Senators. They set the agenda for today’s meeting.
2. Faculty and Student Development: No Report
3. Finance and Resources: No Report
4. Governance and Operations: No Report
5. Personnel: Dr. Sherman reported the Committee is reviewing two requests dealing with University benefits—Pharmaceuticals and TIAA/CREF.
6. Undergraduate Curriculum: No Report
7. Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs: Dr. Bliss reported there has been a request from the Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee to re-add S&U to the Midterm Progress Grade Reports. The Committee will meet next Thursday to discuss this.
Dr. Bliss reported the Education Technology and Distance Education Committee met to deal with their charge and decide how to advise Dr. McManus. Dr. Emslie was appointed chair and they are proceeding with advisory actions.
Parliamentarian: No Report.
Ombudsperson: No Report.
President-Elect: No Report.
President: Dr. Hanks reported the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Search is underway. Dr. Hanks reported he is on the Committee. He reported the Committee work is confidential but if you have questions or comments let him know. He reported he cannot discuss details of the Committee work but he will take advisement.
Dr. Hanks reminded the group that new Senators are needed. He asked the group to think about nominations for officers for next year.
4. President Franz Report:
Dr. Franz reported on the current work in the Legislature.
Dr. Franz reported regarding the Times Board editorials from last week.
Dr. Franz talked about the Legislation of greatest contention right now and its effects on the future budget for the State. He reported regarding the testimonies of last week and reported he will be returning next week for more testimony.
Dr. Franz talked about recruitment and retention. He thanked the group for their work on the NC grading option. This will help soften the transition between high school and college for students. He reported retention is still a very high priority. The new facilities (Recreation and Library) will help and these are moving along. Bids are coming in and fine tuning to plans and bids are ongoing. Dr. Franz reported on the plans for parking lot expansions and the environmental effects of this. He reported the Library/Nursing parking lot will be expanded. He reported that the original proposal for expanding the ADSC/WH parking lot is being seriously considered again. He reported the number of trees on campus and the number that will be effected by the parking lot expansions. He reported the replacement will increase the number of tree with ~7 being removed and ~20 being added. This parking lot expansion will add ~90 parking spaces. Dr. Franz brought drawings for interested persons to review. Dave Brown was also available to answer questions.
Dr. Franz announced the Provost Search Committee.
5. Provost McManus Report:
Dr. McManus responded to the report from the Library Committee on the Serial reduction request. He reported the Administration added $100,000 to the Library budget last year. He also reported the AVL may offset some of the problems encountered by reducing the number of serials.
Dr. McManus announced the Promotion and Tenure Decisions and the Teaching and Research Awardees.
Business was suspended for Mr. Quick’s Report.
6. Mr. Quick offered to distribute copies of the Financial Report or send them out later.
Mr. Quick discussed the types of funds, the availability of funds, funds expended, income, fund balance, credit hours, tuition, and comparisons in appropriations.
He reported we are second in the state in efficiency, a substantial bragging right.
He talked about the credit hour production per college.
He talked about the efficiency indicators from NACUBO.
He ended with the positive trends in the last year.
He opened the floor for any questions.