UAH FACULTY SENATE
PRESENT:
ADSC: Floyd, Schnell, Sherman
LA: Stewart, Enger, Dillard, Neff, Meister, Waring, Severn, Berbrier,
ENG: Toutanji, Gaede, Farrington
LIB: Warren
NUR: Redmon, Weed, Hays, Williamson, Cobb
SCI: Lawton, Boyd, Ravindran, Friedman, Pakhomov, Hillman
ABSENT WITH PROXY:
ENGR: Landrum, Shen
LBAR: Williams, Eaton
SCI: Miller
ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:
LBAR: Whatley, Wilkerson
ENGR: Smith, Jarem, Hawk
SCI: Christopher, Baird, George, Li, Newman
0. President Joan Williamson called the meeting to order at 12:50 p.m.
1. Draft Minutes of Meeting #424 were approved. Motion by John Warren, seconded by Jack Schnell.
2. The Senate Executive Committee Report was accepted.
3. President Franz’s Report:
Dr. Franz reported regarding the unified budget recommendation to ACHE and then to the Legislature. There was a meeting of the Council of Presidents and a vote was taken. There were many abstentions. The recommendation was for a 50/50 split with 50% of the Education Trust Fund (ETF) distributed based on an across-the-board formula and the other 50% distributed based on the ACHE formula.
Dr. Franz and Dr. Williamson briefly spoke about the Strategic Planning Initiative.
4. Provost Radonovich’s Report:
Dr. Radonovich reported that the University is spending a small amount of money to remodel the old CS Building. ADSC needs two more computer labs to meet the needs of students in the Spring semester. Two labs are currently used by Continuing Education. ISE currently occupies a portion of Morton Hall and a portion of Wilson Hall. ISE is being moved to the Old CS Building. Early in the spring they will vacate the WH space and Continuing Education can move to Wilson Hall and vacate ADSC. Space will be freed in MH for classrooms and offices. The Old CS Building needs a roof and some interior work. This will be done over time.
There was a question regarding moving all of ISE out of MH. There was some discussion regarding faculty office space for faculty having a shared appointment with ISE and Education in that move.
There was some discussion and questions regarding recruiting more students, especially full time freshman and what it might take to do that. There was some discussion regarding dorms and future plans. There was some discussion regarding percentage of commuter students and what we would like to see with regard to ratio of full time resident students to commuter students.
5. A. Senate Committee Reports:
1. Executive: Dr. Williamson reported the main objective of the Senate Executive Committee this time was to work with the Personnel Committee regarding the Faculty Activity Report and the timing of reports. The Personnel Committee is looking at the form and the Executive Committee is looking at the timing issue. The Executive Committee is working with Dr. Radonovich to look outside the box and look at doing reports at the same time instead of several different times. We want consensus building on these issues.
2. Faculty and Student
Development: No Report.
3. Finance and Resources: No Report.
4. Governance and Operations: No Report.
5. Personnel: Dr. Boyd reported the Committee met on November 16 and looked at
example Faculty Activity Reports from other universities sent to them by Dr.
Radonovich. The Committee looked at
ours and revised it to four pages and a time period of one year. If anyone wants to look at it and give
input, the input would be welcomed. The
Form will be put on the Faculty Senate Web site. The Faculty will receive an email when the form is up on the web
site. Please send comments to Dr. Lynn
Boyd, your department Faculty Senate representative or Peggy.
6. Undergraduate Curriculum: Dr. Neff reported the Committee met November
16 and passed on an E- business Track Marketing Major, a Foreign Language Minor
or Cognate, HPE 138 and a name change for Sociology 306. The Committee will meet again in January.
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. Williamson reported that she attended the Board of Trustees
Meeting and there was a Strategic Plan Initiative distributed there and voted
on by the Board. The Board voted on a
summary. The detailed document has some
issues in it that may need to be addressed over time.
Dr. Williamson reported she went to a meeting last week with other
Faculty Senate Presidents, Staff Senate Presidents and Student Representatives. They met with the Chancellor. Dr. Williamson distributed some information
she received at that meeting regarding the upcoming budget issues.
Dr. Williamson talked about setting up a template for rapid response
regarding budget and Legislative issues. Dr. Williamson reported the UASPAC is doing well. We need to publicize this information. Any ideas anyone might have are welcome.
6. President Williamson adjourned the meeting at 2:00 p.m.