UAH FACULTY SENATE

DRAFT MINUTES OF MEETING #420

27 APRIL, 2000

PRESENT:

ADSC: Sherman, Floyd, Schnell

LA: Stewart, Hubler, Schenker, Dillard, Neff, Waring, Williams, Bliss, Columbus, Berbrier, Sitaraman

ENG: Hayes, Leonard, Shen, Abushagur, Swain, Farrington, Landrum

LIB: Warren

NUR: Redmon, Weed, Hays, Cobb, Williamson

SCI: Christopher, Boyd, Baird, Li, Richards, Kunin, Ravindran, Miller, Comfort, Hillman, Delugach

ABSENT WITH PROXY:
ENGR: Jarem, Hawk
LBAR: Enger
NUR: Brookman
SCI: George, Miller

ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:

LBAR: Dasher, Meister, Wilkerson, Whatley

ENGR: Smith, Toutanji, Boykin

SCI: Lawton, Garstka, Friedman, Zhang, Pakhomov

0. Past-President Harry Delugach called the meeting to order at 12:34 p.m.

1. Draft Minutes of Meeting #419 were approved. Motion by David Neff, seconded by Peggy Hays.

  1. The Senate Executive Committee Report was accepted. Motion by James Bliss, seconded by Jim Baird.

  2. Dr. Delugach entertained a motion to take the ordinary business out of order allowing Tommy Williams, Chair of the Senate Governance and Operations Committee, to complete the Elections of University Standing Committee Members. Dr. Williams distributed ballots for the election of University Standing Committee Members. The Faculty Senate voted and returned the ballots to Dr. Williams. Dr. Williams and two members of the Governance and Operations Committee counted the ballots and reported the results. (Campus Planning- Eugene Bryson, Bonnie Sneed and Rolf Goebel; Employee Benefits-Nancy Dillard and Jean Cobb; Financial Aid-Linda Maier; Information Services Users Advisory-Peggy Hays and Kyle Siegrist; Intercollegiate Athletics-Diana Bell; Library-Lillian Joyce and David Allen; Patents and Copyrights-Kenneth Smith; Publications Board-Michael Newchurch; Student Affairs Advisory Board-Mary Piersma and Timothy Newman; Student Life Allocations-David Brunsma; University Commencement-Eugene Bryson; University Judicial Board-Timothy Newman, Diana Bell, Sharon George and Gary Gardner)

 

4. 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: No Report.

6. Undergraduate Curriculum: Dr. Richards reported the Committee will meet tomorrow to deal with issues of a number of course changes, new courses, cognates, general problems and HPE changes.

7. Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs: No Report

B. University Committees: Engineering Technology and Distance Education Committee met a couple of times and they are looking at recommendations. Dr. Emslie has been appointed as Chair. Dr. Delugach is the Secretary and the next meeting is Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. in the Conference Room.

    1. Officer Reports:

Parliamentarian: No Report.

Ombudsperson: No Report.

President-Elect: No Report.

President: No Report.

5. President Franz Report: Dr. Franz reported on the new payroll plan. Dr. Franz distributed a memo for the Faculty Senate to look at and get feedback to him. He talked about the December paycheck that was issued before Christmas. This was an enormous job and cannot be done again. Every check had to be done by hand. We must either go back to the old system or bring the entire paycheck before Christmas. The biweekly pay is favored by many staff. The other issue is an accounting issue. The accounting is not after the fact, which causes numerous problems especially on the contract and grant side. Changing in December this year is possible with a minimum of impact or holdback. Questions and discussion ensued. Dr. Franz will send out the memo and then meet with the Faculty and Staff Senate Executive Committees before implementing.

6. Provost McManus Report: No Report.

  2. Senate Bill 283: Dr. Schnell and Dr. Neff moved the bill to the floor. There was some question of the content of the bill. There was some question of the use of the midterm progress report. Dr. Johnson reported the advisors in the colleges contact all the students, with emphasis on those in trouble. The vote was 5 in favor, 21 opposed and 2 abstentions. The bill failed at third reading.
  3. Ratification of Senate Officers for 2000/01 by the new Senate: Dr. Boykin moved, seconded by Dr. Hays to ratify the Senate Officers for 2000/01.(President-Joan Williamson, President-Elect-James Miller, Ombudsperson-Robert Lawton, Parliamentarian-Steve Floyd, Past-President-Harry Delugach).
  4. Approval of Senate Committees for 2000/01 by the new Senate. The 2000/01 Faculty Senate Committees were approved by a vote of the new Senate.
  5. Business was suspended for a caucus of the Senate Committees to Elect Chairs for 2000/01.
  6. Faculty Senate Committee Chairs were reported to Dr. Delugach, Dr. Williamson and Peggy. (James Smith, Faculty and Student Development; Peggy Hays, Finance and Resources; Tommy Williams, Governance and Operations; Lynn Boyd, Personnel; David Neff, Undergraduate Curriculum; Stephen Waring, Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs)
  7. Past-President Delugach adjourned the meeting at 1:50 p.m.