UAH FACULTY SENATE
PRESENT:
ADSC Wren, Pendley
LBAR: Stewart, Givens, Bollinger, Early, Meister, Martin, Wilkerson, Reeves, Neuschatz
ENG: Smith, Gaede, Pollock, Kulick, Tippett, Karr
LIB:
NUR: Warren, Williamson, Newman
SCI: Boyd, Amin, Newman, Pakhomov, Hillman
ABSENT WITH PROXY:
ADSC: Bryson
LBAR: Enger
ENGR: Frendi
NUR: Lawson
ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:
LBAR: Wray, Brunsma
ENGR: Toutanji
SCI: Christopher, Leahy, George, Ravindran, Friedman,
0. President Lloyd Hillman called the meeting to
order at
1. Draft Minutes of Meeting Number 456 were approved. Motion by Dr. Karr, seconded by Dr. Wilkerson
2. Senate Executive Committee Reports accepted.
3. President Franz’s Report.
Dr. Franz brought drawings
of the third residence hall that is being planned. He reported we have $1.2M to build Greek
Housing. We have about $1M for the
residence hall. The Foundation has
agreed to underwrite the residence hall.
This will be an information item to the Board of Trustees at their next
meeting. We will use the same architect
as we used for the North Campus Residence Hall.
We will prequalify the contractor this time. There is no final numbers on the enrollment
yet but it looks good. There was some
discussion regarding food services and food facilities regarding the new
residence hall. There was some
discussion regarding parking and campus planning. It was reported the dining hall will remain
open until
4. Dr. Radonovich’s Report.
Dr. Radonovich reported the Black Faculty
and Administrators Recruitment and Retention Advisory Committee Plan has been
emailed to you. It is a plan for
assisting the Administration with recruiting and retaining black faculty and
administrators. Dr. Radonovich explained
and summarized the contents. He
explained the creation of a black faculty position and the commitment by UAH
for the next several years. He explained
the two components of the plan. The
first component was recruiting and hiring and the second is faculty
development. If you have comments or
questions please send them to Dr. Radonovich or any Committee Member or Peggy
Bower. Dr. Radonovich thanked the
Committee and Dr. Franz and Dr. Johnson.
He recognized the work of Peggy Bower for the Committee.
He reported the enrollment numbers for the spring are preliminary but
they are at least as good as the fall.
He reported we are improving student computing through the technology
fee. We are purchasing about 179 new
computers. Once these are purchased we
will not have any older than 2001 for student use.
5. A. Senate Committee Reports:
1. Executive: The report was distributed with the minutes. The report was approved.
2.
4. Governance and Operations: Dr. Williamson reported the Committee is reviewing the current University Standing Committees. The Committee will meet on January 22...
5. Personnel: Dr. Wren reported
the Committee will meet on January 22.
6. Undergraduate Curriculum: Dr.
Gaede reported the Committee will meet next week. They will be considering some MAE course
changes due to ABET.
7. Undergraduate Scholastic
Affairs: No Report.
8. Finance and Resources: No
Report.
B. University Committees: No Report.
C. Officer Reports:
Parliamentarian: No Report.
Ombudsperson: No Report.
President-Elect: No Report.
Dr. Hillman said he will have more information at the next meeting on
Higher Education Day in
Dr. Hillman reported he is becoming more aware of the community and
community activities in his Leadership workshops. He mentioned that we have two UAH faculty on
the Board of the Aids Awareness Coalition.
Dr. Hillman asked Dr. Pendley to report on the AACSB review that
recently occurred. Dr. Pendley reported
the
Past President: No Report.
6.