UAHuntsville FACULTY SENATE

DRAFT MINUTES OF SPECIAL CALLED MEETING

3 FEBRUARY, 2009

PRESENT:

BA: Burnett, Schnell, Wilhite

LBAR: Bell, M. Johnson, Heikes, Harwell, Reeves, Berbrier, Sanderson

ENG: Banish, Gaede, Coe, Wessling, Cassibry, Kulick, English, Gholston

LIB: Vaughan

NUR: Lawson, O’Keefe, Linsky

SCI: Etzkorn, Scholz, Miller, Davis, Bishop, Wu,

ABSENT WITH PROXY:

BA: Bao

LBAR: Pritchard, Smith, E., Seemann, J. Johnson, Ragsdale, J. Smith, Gyasi

ENG: Lin, Anderson

NUR: Showalter, Ferguson

SCI: Edmondson, Mecikalski, Zhang, Ravindran, Takahashi

Dr. Karbhari and Severn were present.

0. President Gaede called the meeting to order at 12:45 p.m.

1. The Sense of the Senate Regarding a Realignment Committee was presented.

Dr. Reeves presented an amendment to add

“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED

That this Academic Realignment Committee develop a set of formal procedures for faculty involvement to protect academic integrity in cases in which a realignment occurs.

After discussion and questions and answers the vote was unanimous in favor of the amendment.

Dr. Berbrier proposed an amendment to change the date of the report to 09-10. After discussion the amendment failed to pass.

Dr. Wessling proposed an amendment to the third Whereas to read “The faculty desire formal input and influence into the process.

After discussion the amendment passed unanimously.

Dr. Heikes proposed taking out the parenthetical “not including department chairs” and put in “faculty representative eligible for Faculty Senate” and “with the vote conducted by the Governance and Operations Committee” in lines 15 and 16.

The amendment passed unanimously.

Dr. Banish proposed an amendment to have the faculty representative be one from each department. The amendment failed to pass.

The vote for the resolution was 30 in favor and 3 abstentions.