Millersville University, Faculty Senate

MINUTES

FACULTY SENATE MEETING

1 NOVEMBER 1994


Prior Minutes
Reports
...| Chairperson | Student Senate | VP Academic Affairs | VP Student Affairs |
Committee Reports
...| UCPRC | GCPRC | Acad Policies | Univ Theme | Gen Ed Review | Outcome Assessment
Faculty Emeritus
Proposed Courses
Business
| Retention in- and Completion of Major

Chairperson D. Eidam called the meeting to order at 4:05 p.m. in Chryst Hall, Room 210. All departments were represented except Political Science and Social Work. J. Ferullo, E. Kobeski, C. Coveleski, and T. Cawley attended for the Student Senate. J. Hoffman attended for the Snapper.

Minutes

Senate approved the 4 October 1994 meeting minutes with the following changes: on page 3353, Motions Concerning Admission to- Retention in- and Completion of the Major, change "Yelogates" to "Yelagotes." On page 3650, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, change "move the admissions office to the provost's office" to "move the admissions office staff under the authority of the provost."

Reports

Chairperson's Report

Chairperson D. Eidam distributed his report, (see Attachment A).

Student Senate

Student Vice-President J. Ferullo said that Student President J. Haugh would return for the next senate meeting. She has a list of student members of senate committees. She invited senators to attend the next student senate meeting.

Administrative Officers

President

President J. Caputo discussed the funding formula implications for the Millersville University budget. According to reports in newspapers and television, MU is projected to lose 2.2 million dollar in appropriations over the next four or five years. The presdient said that fact is not an accurate statement of what is happening. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education receives a general appropriation from the commonwealth. The SSHE has changed the formula for distributing the funds allocated by the commonwealth three times in President Caputo's tenure at MU. The projection of MU's loss of funds is probably inaccurate. the current change is not a reduction in our budget, but a drop in the increase of our budget. MU will get less new money.
Vice-President for Academic Affairs

Provost F. McNairy reported that MU has begun the search process for a new dean of humanities and social sciences; a search committee has been formed. She reported on the enrollment figures for this semester; there are 5,346 full-time undergraduate, 1355 part-time undergraduates, for a total of 6,701. The full-time equivalent number of students is 5,670. The number of full time graduate enrollees is 112. The number of part-time graduate enrollees is 604 for a total of 716. The full time equivalent number of graduate students is 254.

Vice-President for Student Affairs

Vice President for Student Affairs G. Reighard said that homecoming was very successful this year. The day was beautiful and thousands of people were on campus. He said that MU graduates who were there were doing very well. Saturday, 5 November 1994 MU is hosting the Eastern Women's field hockey tournament. He complimented University Police Chief Wayne Silcox for the amount of work Silcox did to recover the textbooks that were stolen from faculty offices. Chief Silcox pursuied the case until he recovered the books.

Committee Reports

University Course and Program Review Committee

Under the three meeting rule, Chairperson C. McLeod introduced one course: ENGL 337: Women Writers in the Middle Ages. It is a new three credit hour perspectives course to be first offered in the summer 1995 if approved. Chairperson McLeod introduced two new options in elementary education for senate approval at its next meeting (see Attachments B & C).

Graduate Course and Program Review Committee

Chairperson F. Erickson introduced a proposal for a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Degree (see the Nursing department for a copy of the 60 page proposal). A F. Erickson/W. Dorman motion to waive the three meeting rule for the proposal passed. Senate willl consider the proposal as an agenda item at the 15 November 1994 meeting.

Erickson introduced a Proposed Revision of the Masters in Mathematics Education Degree Program (see the Mathematics department for a copy of the 80 page proposal). Again an F. Erickson/W. Dorman to waive the three meeting rule passed; senate will consider the proposal at its 15 November 1994 meeting.

Academic Policies Committee

Chairperson B. Nakhai said the committee discussed the study abroad program and foreign study credit transfers reported on the MU transcript. How much MU credit will MU give to students taking courses abroad? Currently MU transcripts do not record credit for study abroad. the policy committee members and the chairperson have had many discussions with persons experienced with the issue. The committee is sympathetic to granting MU credit for study abroad courses. It strongly encourages senators to express their feelings about the issues before the committee's next 9 November 1994 meeting.

Nakhai discussed an incomplete grade policy. He spoke with the registrar and others about the current policy. Currently students have two months in the next semester to remove an incomplete grade. Students who do not complete a course because they do not attend MU in the semester following the semester in which they received an incomplete grade can not remove the incomplete. the policy the policy committee will recommend will take care of the problem.

Nakhai said that a faculty member should be the only person that assigns a student a grade. The committee would like the registrar to contact the faculty before changing an incomplete grade. There is also an inconsistency in the way incompletes are removed. the committee will propose a form that the student will initiate; it will allow the faculty member to certify why the student did not complete the course. the form could be useful in case a faculty member dies in the middle of the semester. The form will tell what the student specifically needs to do to remove an incomplete grade.

Theme Committee

Chairperson J. Piperberg said that three hundred people attended the Fred Pohl event. Between 1100 and 1200 attended the James Burke talk. Piperberg suggested that senators get their tickets for the Daniel Boorstin talk on 8 November 1994. Congressman Robert Walker will speak on the Space Frontier on November 19. That will essentially complete the theme's events this semester; they will resume next semester.

General Education Review Committee

Chairperson R. Wismer presented a motion concerning the separation of the CQ designation into C and Q categories (see attachment D). He asked that the motion be an agenda item for the next senate meeting. the motion separates the CQ designation but otherwise keeps the requirements the same. As in the past, students would have to take four courses from among the two categories. Wismer asked that each department check to see that their courses are correctly designated.

Academic Outcomes Assessment Committee

Chairperson E. Ottinger called for proposals from the faculty. The committee is currently reviewing two proposals. Since the committee does not know exactly what it is looking for, it will help out faculty who submit a proposal.

Faculty Emeritus

A J. McCade/J. Piperberg motion to recommend Dr. Austin G. Quick as Professor of Industry and Technology emeritus passed (see Attachment E). A D. Eidam/J. Piperberg motion to recommend Mr. Clark E. Taylor as Associate Professor of Mathematics emeritus passed (see Attachment F).

Proposed Courses

Under the three-meeting rule, senate approved one course:
Senator L. Ragouzeos said that the Art Department had made changes to ART244: Typography, at the request of the Industry and Technology Department. Since the changes were only minor, he was not resubmitting a copy of the course proposal to senate in the interest of saving paper.

Business

Motions Concerning Retention in- and Completion of the Major

Senate resumed discussion of three motions concerning admission to- retention in- and completion of the major (see page 3653 of the 4 October 1994 minutes, current Governance Manual policy on page 3642 of the 20 September 1994 minutes, page 3642, see also Attachment A, page 3, of the 21 April 1994 Agenda). For the first motion, Admission to the Major Policy, the chairperson stepped down in order to speak and to propose a motion to senate. Chairperson Eidam appointed G. Yelagotes to assume the chair. Senate gave its consent for Yelagotes to serve as acting chairperson.

A long discussion of the first motion followed. Senator D. Eidam asked what it means to have a course capped, how and by what means are caps determined, are students who are currently admitted to uncapped majors limited in any way, etc. What does permission of the department chair mean? D. Eidam/O. Iglesias moved to postpone action on the first motion until the first meeting of the spring 1995 semester at which time Eidam will submit a written report answering the above questions. After a long discussion, senate passed the Eidam/Iglesias motion.

Senate returned the two remaining motions to the next meeting's agenda.

Senate adjourned at 5:45 p.m.

The next meeting will be Tuesday, 15 November, 1994, from 4:05 - 5:45 p.m. in Chryst 210.

Respectfully submitted,

Marvin Margolis, Secretary
Faculty Senate


Prior Minutes
Reports
...| Chairperson | Student Senate | VP Academic Affairs | VP Student Affairs |
Committee Reports
...| UCPRC | GCPRC | Acad Policies | Univ Theme | Gen Ed Review | Outcome Assessment
Faculty Emeritus
Proposed Courses
Business
| Retention in- and Completion of Major

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