UAH FACULTY SENATE
PRESENT:
ADSC: Pendley, Schnell, Wren
LBAR: Stewart, Givens, Enger, Bollinger, Early, Meister, Waring, Martin, Wray, Wilkerson, Neuschatz, Brunsma
ENG: Smith, Toutanji, Gaede, Pollock, Tippett, Karr
LIB: Moore
NUR: Redmon, Williamson
SCI: Christopher, Johnson, Li, Etzkorn, Miller, Hillman.
ABSENT WITH PROXY:
ADSC: Floyd
LBAR: Reeves
SCI: Ng, Friedman, Ravindran
ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:
ENGR: Fork, Hawk
NUR: Reisenwitz, Stanfield
SCI: Loo, George
0. President Stephen Waring called the meeting to order at 12:50 p.m.
1. Draft Minutes of Meeting #442 were approved. Motion by Rhonda Gaede, seconded by David Pollock.
2. The Senate Executive Committee Reports were accepted. Motion by Melinda Redmon, seconded by Jack Schnell.
3. President Franz’s Report:
Dr. Franz was not present.
4. Provost Radonovich’s Report:
Dr. Radonovich was
not present. Dr. Johnson reported the
Learning Communities were attempted this fall but the efforts did not
work. After the first COMPASS
Orientation about 24 to 25 has registered.
After the third COMPASS Orientation the number was still 24 to 25. There was an upgrade to the SIS system that
wiped out the tags for the Learning Communities. The marketing was also not what it should be and was not
effective. She reported we have
postponed the initial launching until fall 2003. We will work closely with enrollment services. We would like to send two or three faculty
to the Southern Region Conference. If
you would like to attend or have colleagues who would like to attend please
contact Dr. Johnson. Dr. Johnson
thanked Dr. Neuschatz for his work on forms and surveys.
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 is looking at the plagiarism issue and “turnitin.com”. They will also look at the students who take
the NC courses and may have misconduct and the fact that the faculty cannot
give them an F because of the NC policy.
They will have a bill at third reading later in the meeting.
3. Finance and Resources: Dr. A. Johnson reported they will continue
activities that were started last year such as the parking inequity issue. They will look at the medical insurance
coverage, the commercial startup policy, computer security, and identify
faculty resources on campus.
4. Governance and Operations: No Report.
5. Personnel: Dr. Williamson reported that the Committee has a full plate. She will talk about some of these
later. She requested a meeting with the
Committee after the Senate adjourns.
6. Undergraduate Curriculum: Dr. Karr reported the Committee will meet
next week. There is no business yet but
there are a few things that are carried over from last year and there will be
issues related to the revision of the catalog.
The Committee will meet in the MAE Conference Room in Tech Hall.
7. Undergraduate Scholastic
Affairs: Dr. Smith reported the Committee
has not met. He asked the individuals
on the Committee get together to give email information, etc. They will be looking at the academic
bankruptcy forms and revising it. They
will also look at the NC grading issue.
B. University Committees: No Report.
C. Officer Reports:
Parliamentarian: No Report.
Ombudsperson: No Report.
President-Elect: Dr. Hillman reported that he will be working
on getting the TGIF reinstated and invite politicians to those events. He also commented on the implementation of
the new Network Securities and put aside some of the rumors that had been
spread.
President: Dr. Waring reported that he is invited to many meetings. He reported on attending the Administrative
Council. Some of the highlights
were: The Math Department reforms, the
Retirement System has not done as well in the last year. They are talking to the state about new
requirements for a way to increase funding into the retirement system. UAH might be asked to pay more into the
system. The stock market has affected endowment scholarships also and the money
is not in the scholarship. As a result
many cannot get scholarships. This
impacts students.
Past President: No Report.
6.
Senate Bill
293: Academic Honor Statement (Second Reading): Ms. Redmon brought the bill
to the floor and commented. The bill
rose out of an increase in cheating and plagiarism. Over the summer Dr. Franz and Dr. Radonovich took the Honor
Statement and added it to the Admission Application Validation Statement. In doing this they accomplished the issue of
the bill. She reported the Committee
would like to look further at a way to educate students on plagiarism either in
orientation or another time. Ms.
Redmon moved, seconded by Dr. Schnell to indefinitely postpone the bill because
the issue has been dealt with in adding the statement to the application. Dr. Williamson called the question. The vote was 3 in favor and 22 opposed. There was a motion to strike
“misrepresentation”. It failed for the
lack of a second. After much discussion
and determination that the addition of the statement to the Admission
Application Validation Statement had not accomplished the spirit of the bill
and failed to affect a large group of students, there was a motion by Dr.
Williamson, seconded by Dr. Smith to table the bill back to the Committee for
revision and to be reconsidered at the next meeting. The vote was 24 in favor and 1 opposed. The Committee will take another look at the bill and bring it
back to the next Senate meeting.
7.
Dr. Williamson reported regarding the Alliance. She reported on the Summer Chillout. She reported the Alliance will have town
meetings. She reported members of the
Alliance are willing to come to departments and explain the Alliance and answer
questions. She noted there is a website
for the UASPAC that is very informative.
She reported the Chancellor convinced UAB to relinquish the efforts for
a separate PAC and t hey have folded into the UASPAC. One individual has pledged $25,000 annually to the PAC. There was a question regarding a list of
candidates to vote for on the website.
8.
Dr. Waring distributed a draft list of the top 10
agenda items for the coming year and discussed the items.
9. President Waring adjourned the meeting at 2:15 p.m.