UAH FACULTY SENATE
PRESENT:
ADSC: Pendley, Schnell
LBAR: Stewart, Bell, Enger, Early, Meister, Martin, Wray, Williams, Heikes, Eaton, Berbrier
ENG: Smith, Toutanji, Farrington, Fork, Pollock, Landrum, Karr
LIB: Warren, Herring
NUR: Redmon, Herrin, Reisenwitz, Williamson
SCI: Christopher, Boyd, Ng, George, Etzkorn, Friedman, Miller, Hillman.
ABSENT WITH PROXY:
ADSC: Wren, Floyd
LBAR: Bollinger, Waring
NUR: Stanfield
SCI: Baird, Loo, Pakhomov
ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:
LBAR: Givens, Horn, Dillard, Whatley, Reeves, Neuschatz, Brunsma
ENGR: Gaede, Tippett, Hawk
SCI: Johnson, Li, Ravindran, Geary
0. President James Miller called the meeting to order at 12:50 p.m.
1. Draft Minutes of Meeting #441 were approved. Motion by Melinda Redmon, seconded by John Warren.
2. The Senate Executive Committee Reports were accepted. Motion by Tommy Williams, seconded by Brian Landrum.
3. President Franz’s Report:
Dr. Franz reported regarding
the Board Meeting. He reported Ann
Reynolds is filing a discrimination suit.
The Board has asked the Chancellor to work in the transition. They have a search ongoing.
Dr. Franz talked to Dr.
Portera regarding salary increases. The
tuition increases are along the lines of what the Chancellor wants. We are waiting for the Board to approve the
request. The Board meets again in
June. We will try to implement something
in July rather than June. We should be
able to do that. We have already done
something for those teaching in the summer.
Dr. Franz and Dr. Greenwood
talked with Senator Shelby on Tuesday.
He is still interested in doing something. An Architectural team will work on plans and do skeletal designs.
4. Provost Radonovich’s Report:
Dr. Radonovich reiterated the
information regarding the summer pay increases.
5. A. Senate Committee Reports:
1. Executive: The report was distributed with the minutes. The report was approved.
2. Faculty and Student
Development: Ms. Redmon reported the
Committee has a bill to be brought to the floor later in this meeting.
3. Finance and Resources: Dr. Fork announced that if any one is
interested in seeing a draft from Dr. Greenwood regarding Faculty and Staff
participation in a Committee for formalizing faculty and staff involvement in
commercial businesses please contact Dr. Fork.
4. Governance and Operations: No Report.
5. Personnel: Dr. Boyd reported the Committee has dealt with the review of deans and
directors and passed two bills earlier this year. The Committee looked at the form for review of deans. The format and length were fine but the
Committee wanted to make two additions.
The Committee expressed concern that the form did not cover the characteristics
of the dean taking advantage of opportunities outside the university for
funding, and it did not ask the faculty about the dean’s vision for the future
of the college. The Committee has made
a request that two characteristics be added regarding obtaining external
sources and a vision for the college.
There was some discussion regarding the opportunity of sharing the form
with all the Faculty Senate. The
response was that individuals may contact the Office of Academic Affairs to see
the form. Dr. Franz stressed the
importance of deans working with the Vice President for Research and the Vice
President for Advancement regarding external sources and he supports the
statement recommended by the Committee as long as it supports this
collaborative relationship. There was
the question of whether these characteristics will be added. Dr. Radonovich responded they will be
included and he will give the Committee the exact wording. Dr. Franz would like the Vice Presidents to
look at this before making the final decision.
6. Undergraduate Curriculum: Dr. Landrum thanked the Committee. He stated most of the work was done by
email. There are a couple of classes he
will continue to work on through the summer. He will act on these in
conjunction with Dr. Fran Johnson.
7. Undergraduate Scholastic
Affairs: No Report.
B. University Committees: No Report.
C. Officer Reports:
Parliamentarian: No Report.
Ombudsperson: No Report.
President-Elect: Dr. Miller reported for Dr. Waring that the
ACUFP held its annual meeting here on campus last weekend. The Council drafted a letter to be sent to
the newspapers as an editorial or letter to the editor and to forward to the
Governor or the entire Legislature. The
letter outlined three ways to further the cause of Higher Education by the
public. You can view a copy of the
letter at http://www.uwa.edu/ACUFP.
President: Dr. Miller thanked the Faculty Senate once again and gave his report
on behalf of Dr. Waring regarding the ACUFP meeting.
Past President: No Report.
6. Senate
Bill 293: Academic Honor Statement (Second Reading): Ms. Redmon introduced
the bill. Ms Redmon reported the
Committee worked on the Academic Misconduct all year. Academic Misconduct comes in many forms. This bill is just the beginning of a series
of bills in this area. This puts the
responsibility back on the students.
Students make a promise. This goes back to their record in the
Student Affairs Office. Mrs. Reisenwitz
moved the bill to the floor, seconded by Dr. Williamson. There was a friendly amendment to change
“has” to “have” in line 4 and “make” to “take” in line 12. There was a question of whether there is
action for those who refuse to sign this.
There was no clear answer on this question. There was a motion by Dr. Meister to add between lines 6 and 7
“Public leaders regularly present work of speech writers as their own inviting
students to do the same.” This motion
failed for lack of a second. It was
stated this Honor Statement would raise the consciousness level of the
student. It is believed this would help
with reducing Academic Misconduct. Dr.
Franz suggested the Committee talk to SGA leaders. There was some concern expressed for students and faculty knowing
truly defined plagiarism. Concern was
expressed for emphasizing one part of the Handbook and not others. It was stated this part of the Student
Handbook appears to present more of a problem.
It was suggested Professors should remind students in classes about
this.
The vote regarding the bill was 22
in favor, 7 opposed, and no abstentions.
The bill will be back on the agenda for the first meeting in 2002/03.
7. University Standing Committee
Elections. Dr. Williams distributed
a ballot for election of members to University Standing Committees. He will report the results to Peggy next
week.
8. 2002/03 Faculty Senate Officers
Ratified. Motion by Ms. Redmon,
seconded by Mr. Pollock. The vote was
unanimous.
9. 2002/03 Faculty Senate Committee
Appointments Approved. The 2002/03
Faculty Senate approved the Committees.
10. The 2002/03 Faculty Senate Committees
met to elect Chairs. The Faculty
Senate Committees elected Chairs and Peggy was informed of the Committee Chairs
for 2002/03.
11. President Miller adjourned the meeting at 2:00 p.m.