APPROVED AUGUST 28, 2003

PRESENT:

ADSC: Pendley, Floyd, Wren

LBAR: Stewart, Givens, Bollinger, Early, Meister, Waring, Martin, Wray, Wilkerson, Reeves, Neuschatz

ENG: Smith, Gaede, Fork, Kulick, Tippett, Karr

LIB: Moore

NUR: Redmon, Williamson, Newman, Warren

SCI: Leahy, George, Gebauer, Amin, Ravindran, Hillman

ABSENT WITH PROXY:

ENGR: Pollock

SCI: Ng, Newman

ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:

ADSC: Schnell

LBAR: Goodson-Espy, Enger, Brunsma

ENGR: Toutanji, Hawk, Frendi

NUR: Reisenwitz, Stanfield

SCI: Christopher, Johnson, Etzkorn, Miller, Friedman, Pakhomov

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

1. Draft Minutes of Meeting Number 450 were approved. Motion by Dr. Gaede, seconded by Ms. Redmon.

2. Senate Executive Committee Reports accepted. Motion by Ms. Redmon, seconded by Dr. Reeves.

3. President Franz’s Report.

Dr. Franz reported we had a good Board Meeting. There were good remarks from Dr. Waring. He reported there has been a good job by the Senate this year.

Dr. Franz reported there have been some strange things occur in the Legislature. We are defeating them one by one. He reported the Legislature is at an impass. They are waiting for the Governor to bring forth ideas. There will probably be a special session. We have been prudent to protect those things that are important. We would like to have a reasonable budget.

Dr. Franz reported admissions are up and the Residence Halls are scheduled to be filled.

4. Dr. Radonovich’s Report.

Dr. Radonovich reported t he WEB CT is changing. We are expanding it this fall.

Dr. Radonovich reported Pugh introduced a bill declaring a moratorium on all new degree programs in the State until we have appropriate funding. We are opposing this because there are no exceptions. We need to be able to provide what is necessary to meet needs.

Dr. Radonovich reported Math has proposed a 200 level course to match the rest of the State.

Dr. Radonovich thanked Dr. Waring for his leadership and stated it has been a productive year.

5. 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: No Report.

4. Governance and Operations: Dr. Reeves reported the Committee will oversee the elections of University Standing Committee Memberships and the ratification of Senate Officers and Senate Committees.

5. Personnel: No Report

6. Undergraduate Curriculum: No Report.

7. Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs: No Report.

B. University Committees: Dr. Gaede reported the Campus Planning Committee met and discussed a new parking lot across from the Fitness Center.

C. Officer Reports:

Parliamentarian: No Report.

Ombudsperson: No Report.

President-Elect: No Report.

President: Dr. Waring reported the Library is supplying tech support for Turnitin.com. They will also have it up on a web page. The writing center is providing pedagogical information. The Provost is supporting a graduate student to work on this. We will have trial users this summer. If some are willing to try it please send Dr. Waring an email. Dr. Waring will send an email in the next few days announcing it is available in the fall. We will have an orientation session in the summer and fall.

Dr. Waring presented a Sense of the Senate Resolution “Thanking Peggy Bower”. Dr. Waring read the touching and witty resolution aloud and received a strong endorsement from the Faculty Senate. The resolution will be framed and presented to Peggy and a copy will be retained in the Senate Minutes.

Past President: No Report.

6. Senate Bill 298: PF for Academic Misconduct (Second Reading)

Dr. Waring introduced the bill. He explained the Faculty Handbook speaking to the bill and rights for it. Grading policies emerged and made an unforeseen impact on Professors ability to establish conduct and apply penalties. The goal of this bill is to establish a permanent F. This supersedes other policies. We want to have the F appear on the transcript discreetly. We do not want to call attention to it but have internal notes so that it will not be removed. It was reported Scott Verzyl pointed out problems with the system and an F with an asterisk. Scott also raised other information related to the bill such as withdrawals and special changes by the Administration to help students graduate.

There was some discussion of why we want this bill. What role does it play and how does it interact with the judicial system. There was some discussion regarding restoring academic power to the faculty.

There was a motion to table the bill. Call the question Dr. Gaede, seconded by Ms. Redmon. The vote to table the bill was 18 in favor and 9 opposed. The bill is tabled back to Committee.

7. Sense of the Senate Resolution: Senate Event and Lecture Fund

Dr. Waring explained the resolution. There was some discussion regarding who will use this fund. The vote for the resolution was unanimous.

8. University Standing Committee Memberships were elected. The Governance and Operations Committee will count the votes and report to Peggy.

9. Faculty Senate Committees met and elected a Chair and reported the name to Peggy.

10. The Faculty Senate Officers for 2003/04 were ratified unanimously.

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