UAH FACULTY SENATE

DRAFT MINUTES OF MEETING #467

5 APRIL 2005

PRESENT:

ADSC: Bryson

LBAR: Brown-Givens, Bollinger, Meister, Shuck Hall, Heikes, Reeves, Neuschatz, Colclough

ENG: Anderson, Kulick, Karr, Lin

LIB: Vaughan

NUR: Williamson, Newman, Warren, Lawson

SCI: Mecikalski, Ravindran

ABSENT WITH PROXY:

ENGR: Gaede, Frendi

LBAR: Early, Martin, Wilkerson, Coward

SCI: Friedman

ABSENT WITHOUT PROXY:

ADSC: Pendley, Wren

LBAR: Jones, Eaker

ENGR: Smith, Jovanov, Tippett, Frederick

SCI: Boyd, Leahy, George, Paddison, Cox, Newman, Hillman, Pakhomov

0. President Gerald Karr called the meeting to order at 12:50 p.m.

1. Draft Minutes of Meeting Number 466 were approved. Motion by Ms. Lawson, seconded by Dr. Reeves.

2. Senate Executive Committee Reports accepted. Motion by Ms. Lawson, seconded by Dr. Reeves.

3. President Franz’s Report.

No Report.

4. Dr. Radonovich’s Report.

Dr. Radonovich reported he should finish several items this week. There is currently a plan for Faculty Evaluation for Part Time Faculty before the Deans. This will come to the Senate Executive Committee at their next meeting. We need an institutional policy for evaluation.

The ACHE viability issue for Core Liberal Arts courses is up again. We are working on this. We have collected some national data on Physics and we can’t figure out how some of the institutions are viable with ACHE when we are not. We are the same as some of these institutions. We will keep you informed.

Other items are in various stages of completion.

We will apply as much as possible in the budget to salaries. We hope for an increase in the budget from the State. We are optimistic.

We offered the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Services position to two individuals and they both declined. We are closing the search and we will announce what we will do very soon. There is a shortage in the Enrollment Services area right now nation-wide.

5. A. Senate Committee Reports:

1. Executive: The report was distributed with the minutes. The report was approved.

2. Faculty and Student Development: No Report.

4. Governance and Operations:

Dr. Williamson reported the Committee is currently working on elections.

5. Personnel: No Report.

6. Undergraduate Curriculum: No Report

7. Undergraduate Scholastic Affairs: No Report.

8. Finance and Resources: No Report.

B. University Committees: Dr. Reeves reported the Graduate Council met on March 14 at 7:30 a.m. They added a Library representative to the Committee. They discussed stipends and passed the upper limit for each level per semester. They had some student petitions—one passed and one was declined. The catalog changes are available at the web site. The Committee talked about courses for one and two credit hours. They looked at a draft manual for “how to get through graduate school.” They also talked about strategies for advising.

C. Officer Reports:

Parliamentarian: No Report.

Ombudsperson: No Report.

President-Elect: No Report

President: No Report

6. Banner Presentation.

Mr. Don Halverstadt was present to talk about Banner. Two years ago there was an option to use Oracle or move up to Banner. Oracle was too expensive. Banner is a replacement for our current system. Everything is in a database. We won’t have to come out at night to consolidate information. This gives us a 24/7 system. Access is through a browser. There are currently two systems the self service and the administrative. The faculty system is split with faculty self help and they only see the students in their class. The Administrative is for the faculty advisor and they are able to take off holds, etc. The administrator can change a series of things and this is limited to a very few people. Mr. Halverstadt reported we are working through the Provost Office for a list of people to train. This program can handle all types of machines. You need JAVA Script on the machine. You should know that if you give someone your access information to help you, they then have access to all the records you have access to. The Standards are important because all areas are going to work together. We needed a consistent way to put information in. Students, faculty, and staff will get an ID number to get away from using the SS #s. You will be able to do searches on this system. We are trying to determine those already established and use those. If there are those that do not yet exist we will create a crystal report and we will be able to deliver information to you in various programs such as excel, access, etc.

There was a question regarding handling students with more than one major. Mr. Halverstadt did not know the answer to this question but will find out.

Mr. Halverstadt this is a password secure systems. They are working on sign on and security issues. There is no direct access to data in BRAVO.

The change to an ID number for faculty and staff should occur sometime between October and January.

There was some discussion regarding login and prevention of the computer remembering the password.

Faculty will be entering grades in Banner in December.

7. President Karr adjourned the meeting at 1:40 p.m. Motion by Dr. Bollinger, seconded by Ms. Lawson.