APPROVED APRIL 24, 2003

PRESENT:

ADSC: Schnell, Floyd

LBAR: Stewart, Goodson-Espy, Early, Meister, Waring, Martin, Wray, Reeves, Neuschatz, Brunsma

ENG: Toutanji, Fork, Pollock, Tippett, Karr

LIB: Moore

NUR: Reisenwitz, Williamson, Stanfield

SCI: Ng, Amin, Etzkorn, Friedman

ABSENT WITH PROXY:

LBAR: Bollinger, Wilkerson

NUR: Redmon

ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:

ADSC: Wren, Pendley

LBAR: Brown-Givens

ENGR: Hawk, smith, Gaede

SCI: Christopher, Johnson,George, Miller, Hillman

0. President Stephen Waring called the meeting to order at 12:50 p.m.

1. Vice President Ray Pinner’s Report: Mr. Pinner distributed budget information and explained some of the details of that information. Mr. Pinner’s information included budget sheets with additional sheets showing changes to the original budget. Other sheets included revenue sources, funding sources, efficiency studies for expenditures, credit hour comparisons, debt services, and overhead rate information.

Mr. Pinner took questions regarding underwater scholarships, and next year’s budget. It was really too early to have a great deal of information on either of these topics.

There was also brief discussion regarding some of the support services on campus and the quality, etc. Mr. Pinner requested specifics and he will check into the problems.

2. Senate Bill 297: Distinguished Professor Selection Process: Dr. Williamson brought the bill to the floor. Dr. Williamson explained the background of the bill. The bill established a process for the nomination and selection of the Distinguished Professor. Dr. Waring reported on the number of Distinguished Faculty on campus and the areas they are from. The vote for the bill was unanimous and Faculty Senate President Waring declared the bill passed at third reading.

3. Draft Minutes of Meeting #449 were approved with corrections. Motion by D. Pollock, seconded by Dr. Goodson-Espy.

4. The Senate Executive Committee Reports were accepted. Motion by Dr. Reeves, seconded by D. Pollock.

5. President Franz’s Report:

Dr. Franz was attending a meeting in Birmingham.

6. Provost Radonovich’s Report:

Karen Mack Clanton has been appointed Interim Director of Continuing Education. A search for a permanent replacement will be conducted in 2003/04.

7. A. Senate Committee Reports:

1. Executive: The report was distributed with the minutes. The report was approved.

2. Faculty and Student Development: No Report.

3. Finance and Resources: The Committee worked on the questions for Mr. Pinner. The Committee will follow-up.

4. Governance and Operations: Dr. Reeves reported the Committee is looking at the structure of the University Committees to determine appropriate faculty representation on the Committees.

5. Personnel: Dr. Williamson reported the Committee has a bill on the agenda today.

6. Undergraduate Curriculum: No Report.

7. Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs: No Report.

B. University Committees: No Reports.

C. Officer Reports:

Parliamentarian: No Report.

Ombudsperson: No Report.

President-Elect: No Report.

President: Dr. Waring reported Higher Education Day was last Thursday. There was a good turn out. There was a larger turn out that last year. There were about 2000 people. There were many distinguished speakers this time—more than last year. ACUFP held their meeting the same day. UAH is the leader in the political education and lobbying. ACUFP endorsed the resolution regarding tax reform. They are taking the petition and circulating it now. We have approximately 1500 names. We now need to go to the students and peripheral groups. We should get the petitions back by the third week in April.

Dr. Waring talked about the Council of Deans and Directors meeting that occurred Thursday morning. He reported they talked about the UAH website and were given sample web pages to review and make comments. They will ask for the process to be expedited. He reported Dr. Schnell proposed a change in the calendar for fall break at UAH to coincide with fall break in the Huntsville Schools. It was agreed this would be considered for the future; however, to do it for this fall would be problematic. The calendar for this fall has been set and too many items have already been set around the date.

Dr. Waring distributed some reappointment information and explained the change. The proposal is to change the beginning dates for the second through fifth year reappointment process in order to give the Department Committee, Chair, and Dean more time for review of the material. The Faculty Senate gave unanimous support for this change.

Dr. Waring asked Dr. Johnson to report regarding the BellSouth Program. This is a project to assist in minority success. It is called the BellSouth CGM-PLUS Project. It works in conjunction with AMP and OMA. There is not a great deal of money but it is a good program. The activities of this program are what colleges and department should be doing.

Past President: No Report.

8. President Waring adjourned the meeting at 2:05 p.m.