UAH FACULTY SENATE

DRAFT MINUTES OF MEETING #410

2 SEPTEMBER, 1999

PRESENT:

ADSC: Sherman

LA: Enger, Bollinger, Meister, Waring, McDuffie,Hanks, Wilkerson, Williams, Bliss

ENG: Hayes, Shen, Boykin, Jarem, Swain, Landrum

NUR: Brookman, Hays, Cash

SCI: Christopher, Lawton, George, Li, Richards, Zhang, Miller, Comfort

LIB: J. Warren

ABSENT WITH PROXY:

ADSC: Floyd

LBAR: Neff, Sitaraman, Schenker

ENGR: Leonard, Hawk

NUR: Warren

SCI: Garstka, Kunin, Hillman

ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:

LBAR: Dasher

ENGR: Abushagur

SCI: Baird

0. President Hanks called the meeting to order at 12:40 p.m.

1. Draft Minutes of Meeting #409 were unanimously approved. Motion by Swain, seconded by Bliss.

  1. The Faculty Senate Executive Committee Reports were accepted as presented.

3. A. Senate Committee Reports:

1. Executive: The Senate Executive Committee met August 26 and discussed issues for the coming year and set the agenda for the September 2 meeting. Acceptance motion by Brookman, seconded by Landrum.

2. Faculty and Student Development: No Report.

3. Finance and Resources: No Report.

4. Governance and Operations: No Report.

5. Personnel: No Report.
    1. Undergraduate Curriculum: No Report.
    2. Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs: Dr. Bliss reported the Committee has been active due to readmissions and bankruptcy cases. The Committee had one meeting to address 32 readmits and 13 bankruptcy cases. Dr. Bliss discussed the problem with the current procedure. The petitions for readmission and bankruptcy can come in at anytime and therefore may dwindle in over time. It is a problem with getting Committee members together to handle these in a timely manner. The Committee proposes to set dates for submission action. The date would be the first day of open regular registration and the Committee would meet and make decisions the second day of open registration for each semester. These dates would be advertised and any petitions received after this date would be tabled until the next date. The proposal was approved by the Executive Committee and will be sent on to the Office of the Provost for Administrative action.
  1. University Committees: No Reports.
  1. Officer Reports:
    1. Ombudsperson: No Report.
    2. President-Elect: No Report.

3. President: No Report.

4. President Franz Report:

Not Present

5. Provost McManus Report:

Provost McManus encouraged the faculty to continue to give attention to items that deal with student retention and student success. We have not made great progress in this area. We need to be more competitive. Some questions and discussions ensued regarding the reasons, the problems and the solutions. Issues and answers were discussed. We need to look at ways not to disadvantage but to have better outcome and a better chance at success. Some are big things and some are little things but all are important. Dr. McManus reminded the Senate that President Franz and he are interested in working with the Senate.

6. Suspension of Rules for Sense of Senate Resolution.

Dr. Bliss moved, seconded by Dr. Landrum to suspend the rules in order to accept a Sense of the Senate Resolution regarding a Strategic Plan for Faculty Salary Problems that was not included on the agenda. All three system campuses are uniting to bring resolutions to the Board for consideration. After time for review of the Resolution and time for discussion the Resolution was unanimously accepted and Dr. Hanks will carry it to the Board meeting on September 17.

7. President Hanks adjourned the meeting at 1:25 p.m.