Millersville University, Faculty Senate
MINUTES
FACULTY SENATE MEETING
20 SEPTEMBER 1994
Prior Minutes
Reports
...| Chairperson
| Student Senate
| VP Academic Affairs
| VP Student Affairs
|
Committee Reports
...| Acad Policies
Faculty Emeritus
Proposed Courses
Business
...| Renumbering COMM courses
| Elections
| ELED and Honors Theses
| Acad Outcomes Assessment Plan
| Amendment of Governance Manual
| Incomplete Grades
| Retention-in Major
Chairperson D. Eidam called the meeting to order at 4:12 p.m. in Chryst
Hall, Room 210. All departments except Administrative Faculty, Art,
Counseling and Human Development, and Political Science were present.
Jeanne Ferullo, Acting Student Senate President, Ed Kobeski, and Terri
Cauley attended for the Student Senate. Brian Weaver attended for the
Snapper.
Minutes
Senate approved the 6 September 1994 meeting
minutes without changes.
Reports
Chairperson's Report
Chairperson D. Eidam distributed his announcements to senators by mail
(see Attachment A). He received a request for
the Snapper to tape record senate meetings. After putting the issue to the
senate, a senator objected. The chairperson ruled that the Snapper
representative could not record senate meetings.
Student Senate
Acting Student President J. Ferullo announced that she would be taking
over J. Haugh's duties this semester. She asked that senators call the
student senate office to ascertain who is their student representative on
their senate committees.
Administrative Officers
Vice-President for Academic Affairs
Provost F. McNairy reported that Millersville University was ranked among
the top fifteen for regional universities in the North in a recent U.S.
News and World Report article. She also discussed the state System's
still evolving planning process. The Vice Chancellor intends to use a
round table method to develop a new strategic plan; she plans to use a
group of about fifty representatives from the fourteen campuses. She is
still developing the representative selection process. she and her staff
will visit Millersville to meet with SPARC to discuss Millersville
University's planning process and what we consider to be major issues. She
will visit all fourteen campuses hopefully by mid-October.
Vice-President for Student Affairs
Vice President for Student Affairs G. Reighard said that this Saturday
Millersville will have an open house to recruit students for the coming
year. He asked that faculty participate in the open house. He anticipates
that 1500-1800 people will attend. The following Saturday, Millersville
will sponsor a family weekend. Millersville schedules the family weekend
during the fifth or sixth weekend of the fall semester every year.
Millersville tries to get parents here to meet with their sons and
daughters because it knows that if freshmen survive the first six weeks,
they will most likely stay until graduation.
Committee Reports
Academic Policies Committee
Chairperson B. Nakhai announced the first meeting of the committee will be
September 28. On the agenda are issues concerning financial aid, study
abroad and the transferring of degrees.
Faculty Emeritus
Senator M. Houlahan recommended three retired faculty members for emeritus
status, Dorothy P. Beam, Associate Professor of Music (see Attachment B),
Carol J. Myers, Associate Professor of Music (see Attachment C), and Jean
M. Romig, Associate Professor of Music (see Attachment D). Senator S.
Suziedelis recommended Reynold S. Koppel, Professor of History, for
faculty emeritus status (see Attachment E). Senate unanimously passed all
recommendations.
Proposed Courses
No new courses were proposed. Under the three-meeting rule, senate
approved COMM 206: Communication and Media Law, a new three-credit
non-General Education course to be first offered Fall 1994. It also
approved ENGL335: Journalism through Women's Perspectives, a new
three-credit Perspectives (P) course to be first offered Fall 1994.
Business
Renumbering of Communications Courses
A B. Dorman/S. Peters motion to change the course numbering for COMM 302:
Business and Professional Speech to COMM 305 carried (see Attachment F).
Faculty Senate Elections
The Senate continued its elections from the previous meeting. For the
vacant academic policies committee position for non-School, Senaotr M.
Warmkessel nominated S. Anderson from the Library. Senate elected him by
acclamation.
For the vacant general education review committee position for Science and
Mathematics representative, B. Zimmerman was nominated. Senate elected her
by acclamation.
There were no nominees for the vacant position in the undergraduate course
and program review committee from social sciences. The position will be
advertised for one more meeting. If there is no nominee, the position will
remain vacant for the semester. Two candidates, J. Mone and S. Turchi,
were nominated for a second committee vacancy in the School of Science and
Mathematics. On the first ballot, senate elected S. Turchi.
Senator M. Warmkessel nominated C. Glass for the non-School position on
the Commencement Speaker Committee. Senate elected her by acclamation.
Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education's
Proposal to Accept Honors Thesis for Advanced Composition
Requirement
Senator C. McLeod's motion that the three-hour thesis written as a
requirement for Departmental Honors in the Department of Elementary and
Early Childhood Education be counted as fulfilling the University Advanced
Composition requirement carried.
Academic Outcomes Assessment Plan
Senator E. Ottinger said the motion was first introduced last semester and
is now being introduced a third time (see 7 September 1994 Agenda). He
asked that senators study the Academic Outcomes Assessment Statement of
Principles and Guidelines that is given in the proposal. On the Requests
for Proposals involving grants, he referred senate to Acting Assistant
Provost for Academic Affairs K. Gregoire.
Acting Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs K. Gregoire said that in
designing the proposal, the Academic Outcomes Assessment Committee had
looked at various models around the country. She said the committee tried
to propose an assessment plan that would work at Millersville. The theme
is to give plan ownership to the faculty. She said that MU would monitor
the first year experience to see how the $11,500 total budget works.
After a long discussion of the issues, senate approved the committee's
motion with the exception of a change of date for submitting proposals
from May 25, 1994 to an unspecified date in the future.
Motion to Amend Governmence Manual, p. 18, #2a,
Section 2b
A B. Dorman/J. McCade motion to approve Function 2b (GM, p. 18) of
the Academic Outcomes Assessment Committee carried (see Attachment C of
the 7 September 1994 Agenda). The motion eliminates an overlap between the
AOAC and the General Education Review Committee.
Incomplete Grades
Senate considered an Academic Policies Committee recommendation concerning
incomplete grades (see the 7 September 1994 Agenda Attachment D. The 14 June
1994 senate minutes, Attachment G, page 3627,
contain a reference to the current University policy on incomplete
grades). former policies committee chairperson, R. Clark, moved to change
the current policy with the intention of reducing the number of incomplete
grades awarded. Senator M. Gray-Schlegel seconded the motion.
After a long discussion, senator C. Stameshkin moved to amend the motion
to graft various parts of the original language in the governance document
back into the motion (for example "...a student can remove an incomplete
by...rescheduling the course..."). A long discussion followed before a
senator could second the Stameshkin motion to amend. A C. McLeod/J.
Piperberg motion to amend restated the Stameshkin amendment to say that
the following wording be added to the last sentence of the original
motion: "...that is, unless an extension has been granted." Since the hour
was late, a F. Erickson/S. Thompson motion to postpone action until the
next meeting carried.
Motions Concerning Admission to- Retention in- and
Completion of the Major
Senate returned the item to the agenda by adjourning.
Senate adjourned at 5:45 p.m.
Senate's next meeting will be Tuesday,
October 4, 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
...| Acad Policies
Faculty Emeritus
Proposed Courses
Business
...| Renumbering COMM courses
| Elections
| ELED and Honors Theses
| Acad Outcomes Assessment Plan
| Amendment of Governance Manual
| Incomplete Grades
| Retention-in Major
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