THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE

JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY SENATE

VOLUME XXV

MINUTES OF MEETING #488, 28 AUGUST 2008,

APPROVED SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

PRESENT:

ADSC: Bao, Burnett

LBAR: J. Johnson, G. Pritchard, D. Bell, K. Gyasi, D. Heikes, A. Reeves, J. Smith

ENG: Banish, Gaede, Kulick, Gholston, Cassibry, Wessling

LIB: Vaughan

NUR: O’Keefe, Linsky, George, Showalter, Ferguson

SCI: Mecikalski, Bishop, Davis, Edmondson, Zhang, Etzkorn, Wu, Miller

ABSENT WITH PROXY:

ENGR: Anderson

SCI: Scholz

NUR: Lawson

ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:

ADSC: Wilhite, Schnell

LBAR: Harwell, Smith, M. Johnson, Ragsdale, Seemann

ENGR: English, Coe, Lin

SCI: Ravindran, Takahashi

0. Senate President Rhonda Gaede called the meeting to order at 12:45 p.m.

1. Draft Minutes of Meeting Number 487 were approved. Motion by Letha Etzkorn, seconded by Louise O’Keefe.

2. Senate Executive Committee Report accepted. Motion by Diana Bell seconded by Gail Pritchard.

3. President Williams’ Report.

Dr. Williams was not present. He was with Chancellor Portera.

4. Dr. Radonovich’s Report.

Dr. Radonovich had no report. He thanked the Senate for eight years of cooperation. He reported he will be working with the Faculty Handbook Committee and will be attending the Executive Committee Meetings.

Dr. Severn announced the Foundation Teaching Awards Lecture on Friday, September 19 with Troy Skinner from Engineering and Molly Johnson from Liberal Arts. Announcements and Flyers will be sent out. The Lecture will take place in SC 107 and will be followed by a wine and cheese reception upstairs in the SC.

5. A. Senate Committee Reports:

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

2. Faculty and Student Development: No Report.

3. Governance and Operations: No Report.

4. Personnel: No Report.

5. Undergraduate Curriculum: No Report

7. Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs: Dr. Heikes reported: The Committee will be looking at the Withdrawal Policy and the Academic Action Threshold. Dr. Gaede gave a definition of the Academic Action Threshold.

8. Finance and Resources: Dr. Burnett reported the Committee will be administering the REU Program. He will send out a request for proposals and will go through and select winners. There will be a poster session this Friday from 2-4 p.m. with last year’s participants. It will be held in the Shelby Center third floor faculty lounge.

9. Faculty Handbook Review: Linda Vaughan requested that faculty encourage their colleagues to contact the Handbook Committee and make recommendations and suggestions.

She also encouraged faculty to tell their colleagues the Library is here to help. Linda would like to talk to faculty about what is available. Linda is willing to come to classes and talk. If you need to bring a class to the Library use the form on line to request. Construction is going on in the Library on the Coffee Shop and Art Gallery. There was also some discussion regarding the SuperTeaching Classroom. Linda advised faculty to go to superteaching.org for more information or contact Mark Moorehead or Wilson Luquire.

B. University Committees:

No Reports.

Officer Reports:

Parliamentarian: No Report.

Ombudsperson: No Report

President-Elect: No Report.

President: Dr. Gaede mentioned the “Why Not” web site through ChargerNet and indicated she could walk individuals through the process to change their password. Dr. Gaede encouraged faculty to get involved in strategic planning.

Dr. Gaede had everyone introduce themselves.

Dr. Gaede reported the survey results are in and she is trying to decide how to present the results. She received 180 responses from 332.

Dr. Gaede reported the Faculty Senate will meet twice this year with the Staff Senate. The first time on October 22 at the Staff Senate Meeting time of 11:00 a.m. and the second time at the Faculty Senate Meeting time.

Dr. Gaede reported Jeff Sands will come and talk about achieving goals and in January Rick and Sandra will talk about recruiting.

6. ANGEL-BobbiJo Rissmann— Talked about ANGEL-Banner works with ANGEL—working together part is taken care of behind the scenes. You automatically get an account. Courses are automatically populated. During add drop there is about a day delay for updating. It talks to Banner with grades.

What tools are available in ANGEL?

Content, Assessment, Communication, Multimedia.

Tools integrated in ANGEL

Turnitin

Wimba

MERLOT

How to get started in ANGEL.

Login

Online Resources

For assistance contact angel@uah.edu

Will start some workshops next week for automation features, etc.

7. Dr. Gaede adjourned the meeting at 1:40 p.m. Motion by Francis Wessling and Seconded by Rose Linsky.