Faculty Senate Minutes, 3 May 1994

Minutes

Faculty Senate Meeting

3 May 1994

Chairperson D. Eidam called the meeting to order at 4:05 p.m. in Chryst Hall 210. All departments except Computer Science were represented. T. Cawley, E. Kobeski, and J. Haugh attended for the Student Senate.

Minutes

The minutes of the 19 April meeting were approved as read.

REPORTS

Chairperson

D. Eidam asked Senators to review the previously circulated "Fall Election Call" form and to indicate by June 14 if additional information on committee vacancies is required to facilitate voting. He indicated Secretary Schneller would prepare any needed materials. Additional announcements appear in Appendix A.

Student Senate

Student Senate President J. Haugh announced a 5 May meeting of the Student Senate to discuss the Co-ed Naked Relays. He distributed a memo listing the Student Leadership Opportunities Task Force's recommendations for increasing student's involvement on committees (see Appendix B). After a brief discussion led by Chairperson Eidam on how the Senate should handle this report, the chairperson determined a conversation with J. Haugh and Senator J. Lynch immediately after the Faculty Senate's meeting was in order with a report to the Senate on June 14 to follow.

Administrative Officers

President J. Caputo reported on the University budget noting this year's balanced budget plus a slight surplus makes this the best fiscal year in the last three. A $470,000 deferred anonymous gift was recently given to the Capital Campaign, he noted. Dr. Caputo deferred to Acting Vice-President for Student Affairs, E. Thomson to discuss the Co-ed Naked Relays as a full report has not been prepared yet.

Acting Vice-President for Student Affairs Thomson narrated the incidents of the Co-ed Naked Relays and contrasted it with student programs of the previous weekend which drew large crowds without any problems. He said that he would be meeting with campus administrators and student leaders to discuss how to avoid a situation such as the campus experience with the Co-ed Naked Relays. He then answered Senators' questions and stressed his need to receive a full report before commenting further.

Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs J. Stager announced fall admissions targets have been met with over 1500 deposits received from both June-January and regular, new, admissions.

Assistant Vice-President for Computing and Information Technologies, A. Mordosky reported on the progress of networking the campus. He explained the background of the project and profiled the three phases of the program: 1) how the academic and administrative buildings were connected through the existing manholes without any digging on campus; 2) how the buildings will be brought onto the network through installed hubs in 1994-1995; and, 3) how the dorms will be brought onto the network in 1995-1996. After a pause for questions, he showed on overheads, the modular jack for voice and data and the Hughes Enterprise Hub, noting that these were essential for the future growth of the project. Dr. Mordosky received a round of applause in appreciation of his ten minute presentation.

Committee Reports

UCPRC

Senator C. McLeod introduced three new courses COMM 206: Communication and Media Law; COMM 302: Business and Professional Communication; and ENGL 335: Journalism through Women's Perspectives. He placed a proposal from the Elementary and Early Childhood Education Department to count their honor thesis for the Advanced Composition Requirement (see Agenda Attachment A). He also distributed Dr. J. Alden's response to the Communications Department's objections to ENGL 318.

Academic Policies

Senator R. Clark placed motions concerning calculations of QPA in both the major and the minor on the 14 June agenda. An additional motion regarding "C" and "Q" course designations was referred to General Education Review on a Clark-Benson motion (see Appendix C).

Outcomes Assessment

Senator E. Ottinger placed the AOA Plan Proposal on the 14 June Agenda (see Agenda Attachment C).

Faculty-Student Athletic

Senator F. Erickson placed a proposal for establishing a Student Athletic Advisory Council as a sub-committee of the FSAC (see Agenda Attachment D).

General Education Review

The last meeting of the semester was Tuesday, April 26, 1994.

As matter of information for Senators, a discrepancy exists between the MU Governance Manual/pink curriculum sheet and the MU 1992-94 Catalog concerning general prerequisites for Perspective courses. The 1992-94 MU Catalog incorrectly identifies Fundamentals of Speech as a prerequisite for Perspective courses (see Appendix D). Historically, Faculty Senate minutes reflect Fundamentals of Speech as a graduation requirement. Perspective general prerequisites include English Composition and at least 24 credits of the Liberal Arts Core.

Our general education consultant's draft report (written by Dr. Michael Knight) was reviewed by the GER membership. Areas identified by GER members that warrant greater elaboration or clarification have been addressed to Dr. Knight by the Chair. The final document, which is expected mid-May 1994, will be distributed to faculty, administrators, and Student Senate.

A rough draft of the GER 1993-94 Annual Report was verbally shared with the membership for inclusions and corrections. A written advance copy was distributed to GER members prior to distribution at today's Faculty Senate meeting.

Academic Standards

Senator R. Clark announced June 8-9 dates.

Committee chairs submitted their annual reports at this meeting. These will be separately distributed in the late summer.

Faculty Emeritus

On an E. Ottinger-S. Luek motion, Dr. W. Richard Kettering was recommended by the Senate to the Council of Trustees for the status of Professor of Education and Psychology Emeritus (see Appendix E)>

Proposed Courses

ENGL 318: Technical Skills for Journalism (W) and ENGL 418: Literature of Scotland and Ireland: Eighteenth-Century to the Present were approved.

Business

Election of Senate Secretary

An S. Luek-J. Piperberg motion to appeal the interpretation of Governance Manual by the chairperson that candidates for Senate offices came "from the Senate membership" applied only to Senators and not alternate Senators failed. Senator C. McLeod nominated Senate M. Margolis who was elected as Secretary for 1994-95.

Motions concerning...the major Policies

Due to the lateness of the hour, a B. Nakhai-B. Schneller motion to return this item to the 14 June agenda was approved without dissent.

On a S. Peters-R. Wismer motion the discussion of Academic Amnesty was advanced to Item IX on the 14 June agenda (see Agenda Attachment E).

On a C. McLeod-G. Yelagotes motion the meeting adjourned at 5:50 p.m.

The next meeting of the Faculty Senate is 14 June at 2:30 p.m. in Myers Auditorium, McComsey Hall. No refreshments are allowed in this auditorium.

Respectfully submitted,

Beverly Schneller
Secretary

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