Millersville University, Faculty Senate
MINUTES
FACULTY SENATE MEETING
1 NOVEMBER 1994
Prior Minutes
Reports
...| Chairperson
| Student Senate
| VP Academic Affairs
| VP Student Affairs
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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:
ART 244: Typography, a new three-credit non=General Education
course to be first offered Spring 1995.
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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