Minutes of the April 16, 2002 Faculty Senate Meeting - The minutes were approved as distributed.

Report of the Faculty Senate Chairperson

• Chairperson Piperberg apologized for the mixup with the rooms for the day's Senate meeting. Since the meeting was being held during finals week, a final exam was being administered in Chryst 210, the usual meeting place. He also thanked Sen. Melinda Rosenthal for bringing the room conflict to his attention and the English Department secretarial staff for posting a message on the door to Chryst 210 to remind people about the room change.

• The June Faculty Senate meeting will be on June 11 at 3 pm STB 210.

• Senators were reminded to notify Chairperson Piperberg once Senate elections have been completed in those departments scheduled for elections this year. The Alternate Senator for the department is to be reported as well.

• A preliminary list of vacancies for Senate Committees {see attachment} for the Fall was made available. Any errors in the list should be reported to the Chair.

• Also made available was another proposal from the Academic Policies Committee. This one deals with a new policy for Incompletes {see attachment}. Rich France was present to discuss the background for this proposal and the one that was introduced previously (procedure for approval of Liberal Arts Core Courses).

• The following administrative approvals have been received by Chairperson Piperberg:
  SOCY 329 - Topics in Sociology. Effective Fall 2002

  Revisions to the Master's Degree in Special Education, approved retroactive to Fall 1989 (to document and formalize past practice since 1989)

  ESCI 346 - Applied Climatology. Effective Fall 2002

  Military Science course changes. Increase MILS 101 & 102 from 0.5 to 1 credit and MILS 210 & 211 from 0.5 to 2 credits. Effective Fall 2002.

• Chairperson Piperberg has received a couple of annual reports from departments. Electronic versions can be sent by e-mail to be posted on the website.

• Chairperson Piperberg added approval of the changes to the Academic Proposal Cover Sheet to the agenda as Item X and pushed everything after it down the list.

• President Danz reported that appeals from student clubs seeking increases to Student Senate appropriations for 2002 - 2003 have been heard. New Student Senate officers were also recognized.

• The Brick-by-Brick fundraising project to build a walkway and seating around the Civil War monument in front of Ganser Library has been extended to mid-May.

No Report.

Report of Administrative Officers

• Provost McNairy announced that Commencement would be Saturday, May 11. All faculty were urged to attend. The Provost thanked all faculty who had participated in or attended the Honors Convocation held on May 1.

• Provost McNairy also announced that a steering committee has been formed to review the tasks that must be done to meet the 120 credit hour mandate policy. The Chancellor is expected to release a list of policies and procedures related to this policy, including the rules for exceptions to the mandate.

Reports of the Faculty Senate Standing Committees

• Senator Robert Wismer (chair, UCPRC) introduced four new proposals for changes in existing courses. These courses are: EDFN 463, EDMU 463, EDSP 463, and EDUC 463. These courses allow for an alternative to student teaching for students who have decided not to pursue teaching as a career, but who wish to graduate with a major in education anyway.

• The Senate voted to waive the one-meeting rule for the proposal to reduce the number of required science courses for Elementary Education majors. The R. Wismer/Heintzelman motion passed.

• Senator Fenwick introduced a motion from the General Education Review Committee to eliminate the General Elective Requirement from the General Education Curriculum. This motion will be formally discussed at the next Senate meeting and a written version will be distributed via e-mail prior to the June meeting {the proposal has been distributed since the meeting; see attachment}.

• Senator Schreiber, Chair of the Ad Hoc Honor Code Committee, reported on the results of an academic integrity survey done at Millersville. Associate Provost Robert Thomas noted that the proposed Honor Code and the Student Code of Conduct has some possible overlap of requirements and expectations for students at Millersville. The Honor Code proposal will be considered at a future Senate meeting in the Fall.

Proposed Courses and Programs

There were three proposals, all of which passed without dissent.

(1) CHANGE IN COURSES/CURRICULA
Redefinition and replacement of existing courses (ART 362 - Printmaking 1, ART 363 - Printmaking 2, ART 462 - Printmaking 3, ART 463 - Printmaking 4, ART 563 - Printmaking 5) with new, topic-based courses in each of the traditional fine art printmaking media (relief, intaglio, lithography & silkscreen). These courses will be offered in place of the introductory and advanced printmaking courses currently offered. This one proposal includes 11 separate course proposals.

ART 361 - Survey Printmaking, 3 credits, a new course. Effective Fall 2002.
ART 363 - Lithographic Printmaking I, 3 credits, anew course. Effective Fall 2002.
ART 364 - Relief Printmaking I, 3 credits, anew course. Effective Fall 2002.
ART 365 - Intaglio Printmaking I, 3 credits, anew course. Effective Fall 2002.
ART 367 - Water-Based Silkscreen I, 3 credits, anew course. Effective Fall 2002.
ART 463 - Lithographic Printmaking II, 3 credits, anew course. Effective Fall 2002.
ART 464 - Relief Printmaking II, 3 credits, anew course. Effective Fall 2002.
ART 465 - Intaglio Printmaking II, 3 credits, anew course. Effective Fall 2002.
ART 467 - Water-Based Silkscreen II, 3 credits, anew course. Effective Fall 2002.
ART 468 - Mixed Media Printmaking, 3 credits, a new course. Effective Fall 2002.
ART 469 - Contemporary Issues in Printmaking, 3 credits, a new course. Effective Fall 2002.
Note: In the original proposal, this course was numbered ART 569; the number has been changed to ART 469.

(2) CHANGE IN COURSES/CURRICULA
Revisions to the Printmaking electives sequence in B. A. Art, B. A. Art: Commercial Art option, B. S. E. Art Education, and B. F. A. Art. The change requests a change in course titles, course numbers, course content and course descriptions.

(3) CHANGE IN COURSES/CURRICULA
Elementary Education Science Option
Presently students are required to take 22 - 24 credits for the ELED Science Option in addition to an additional 6 credits in science for the General Education requirement. This has led to the concern that students could not complete the Science Option as presently constituted in a timely fashion. Thus, the proposed change will require students to take 16 credits to fulfill the Science Option and 6 - 8 credits to fulfill the General Education requirement for a total of 22 - 24 credits.

• A resolution supporting Dr. Robert S. Matulis for Professor of Mathematics Emeritus {see attachment} passed without dissent after a Fenwick/Luek motion.

• The Senate also passed a Wismer/Bvrger-Greco motion to suspend the rule to vote on emeritus resolutions at Senate meetings in order to vote on an emeritus resolution for Dr. Leon Miller via e-mail prior to the June 11 meeting should one be presented.

The Senate passed without dissent the revisions made to the Academic Proposal Cover Sheet after a Kevorkian/Wismer motion.

Discussion of the Diversity (D) Requirement - After much discussion of the issue, further consideration will be postponed until the second Senate meeting in September, 2002. A number of individuals who wish to take part in these discussions will be unavailable for the June 11 meeting.

Discussion of Proposal for Institution of an Award Recognizing Teaching Excellence at MU - Further discussion of the proposed Teaching Excellence Award was also postponed until the second Senate meeting in September, 2002.

Academic Policies Proposals - The two Academic Policies proposals (the Incomplete policy {see attachment} and the proposed procedure for approval of Liberal Arts Core courses) will be postponed until the second Senate meeting in September, 2002 so that Chairperson France can be present for the discussion and to allow sufficient time for departmental feedback.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:41 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted,

Paul Studdard
Acting Secretary