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ACADEMIC
SENATE MINUTES March 2,
2006 |
11:30
A.M. - 1:00 P.M. ACADEMIC
SENATE CHAMBERS
Members
Present: Alva, Bedell, Buck, Drezner, Emry, Fidalgo, Fitch,
, Guerin, Hall, Hassan, Hewitt,
Absent: Burgtorf, Dabirian, Fromson, Gass, Gordon, Hagan,
I.
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Bedell called the
meeting to order at 11:35 a.m.
II.
URGENT
BUSINESS
The body discussed two dangerous crossing areas
for pedestrians on Nutwood Avenue. Senator Taylor stated that the flashing
lights on the “minor” crosswalk on Nutwood Avenue are not working.
Senator Matz added that drivers are making
right-hand turns on red lights on to Nutwood Avenue. This is endangering
pedestrians who are crossing in the diagonal crosswalk. Chair Bedell responded
that these issues will be followed up and addressed.
III.
ANNOUNCMENTS
Senator
IV.
APPROVAL OF
MINUTES
No
minutes were available.
V.
CHAIR’S REPORT
PAB received the draft of the Civility Statement.
ASI Inc. will see it on Tuesday and the Senate will receive it for
consideration in the next two weeks.
Chair Bedell submitted a President’s Initiative
Document to request augmenting next year’s sabbatical pool by 15 more
sabbaticals.
We are in the formative stages of preparing a
proposal to make the Academic Senate Chambers a SMART classroom.
VI.
STATEWIDE
ACADEMIC SENATE REPORT
The Statewide Academic Senators will meet next
Thursday.
VII.
CONSENT
CALENDAR
M/S/P [Jones/Junn] to approve the consent calendar
(ASD 06-21 Athletic Training Certificate). Passed unanimously.
VIII.
OLD BUSINESS
8.1
ASD 06-05
Revised UPS 103.004 Computing Facilities Use Policy [IT Committee]
Continued
Discussion:
Senator
Shapiro (friendly amendment to Senator Hewitt’s amendment): Section 7 (p.2,
line 24): change wording to “…computer
labs shall not be used for commercial purposes.”
M/S/P [Buck/Pasternack] to refer
103.004 back to the IT committee with instructions per the discussion of the
Academic Senate and request them to report back to the Senate during the
current academic year.
IX.
NEW BUSINESS
9.1 With the consent of
the body, Chair Bedell moved Item 9.4 ASD 06-22 Bylaw Changes [Elections Committee]
to the first items of New Business. Senator Matz, Chair of the Elections
Committee explained that the Elections committee recommends changing the Bylaws
to state that the last day of voting should end at 4:00p.m. to allow time for
people to contact the Academic Senate office if they encounter problems while
attempting to vote electronically.
It was M/S/P [Nanjundappa/Michalopoulos] to change the
Bylaws to indicate that elections run for a duration of four days.
M/S/P [Matz/Guerin] to approve the Elections Committee’s
recommendation.
9.2 ASD
06-10 Revised UPS 320.030 Policy on Computer Competency [IT Committee]
M/S [Drezner/Fitch] to
approve ASD 06-10 Revised UPS 320.030 Policy on Computer Competency.
It was M/S/P
[Michalopoulos/Kreiner] to refer this document back to the IT committee with
notes of the following discussion:
·
Overall,
the Senate felt that the IT committee should come up with the process for
implementation of the last sentence: "Students
who feel they do not meet the expected level of competency, should contact the
·
M [Pasternack] friendly amendment on Line 18
(Section 1a): Add
the words "back up" before "and save files and folders on hard drives..."
·
It
was suggested that the IT Committee consider rescission of this document since
it only tells us how to publicize the computer competency skills necessary for
entering students. It is not a policy on determining computer competency.
·
M/S
[Fidalgo/Fitch] to (1.) delete the entire second paragraph, (2.) delete “Preamble” as the title of the
first paragraph, (3.) change “Competency includes” to “Entering students should
have”, and (4.) change the last sentence of the document to bullet #3.
·
“Competency”
needs to be asserted in this document. Use of the words” proficient in basic
use” (of a computer) instead of “knowledgeable” was suggested by one senator.
9.3 President Gordon
requested that discussion of UPS 261.000 be deferred since he was unable to
attend today’s Senate meeting. With the
consent of the body, discussion of ASD 06-06 Revised UPS 261.000 Emeritus
Status [Faculty Affairs Committee] was deferred to the next meeting.
9.4 ASD 06-06 Revised UPS 103.005 World Wide Web Policy [IT Committee]
It was M/S/P [Pasternack/Michalopoulos]
to refer ASD back to the IT committee.
Senator Pasternack expressed that we are currently in violation of our own
policy. Other Senators had the following questions and concerns:
Section IIA2:
·
Who will be mandated to check
the web pages to see if this requirement has been met?
·
Posting the disclaimer at
least once seems feasible, but it might be troublesome when dealing with lots
of external links
Section IIA4:
·
Statement is too broad (define
personal information and other information).
Section IIA8:
·
Any department administrator would
probably try to find a site on freespace.com if this policy was implemented.
Consultation with the person(s) responsible should take place before a web page
is removed.
Section IIIB3:
·
Why isn’t the last sentence in
the section on non-administrative web sites (section IVB3) not included on the
section on administrative web sites (IIIB3)? Should be parallel in structure. Suggestion:
Last sentence (“Individuals may be
sued…”) should be moved into section two of the document and stated only
once so that it applies to all (administrative and non-administrative).
·
It would be distracting to
have to put name and contact information on every page. Someone is going to
have to do this and check the pages.
Section IVB3:
·
That which is considered
slander/defamation is open to debate. Legalistic references really need to be
considered carefully in this document because the law varies from jurisdiction
to jurisdiction. We should not tread too heavily on the freedom of faculty
members when they put material on web sites.
·
Define who is accountable for
“currency” of the material, if, for example, someone else (other than the
faculty member that posted the material on the web site) authored the material.
9.5 ASD 06-23 Revised
UPS 210.007 Appointment of Administrative Personnel [Senate Executive
Committee]
It was M/S/P [Guerin/Hewitt] to approve ASD 06-23 Revised UPS 210.007
Appointment of Administrative Personnel with the following amendments (passed
unanimously):
Senator Pasternack (friendly amendments):
·
Section IA1 (p. 1, line 32)
add “at least” before “three of whom…”
·
Section IA2 (p. 1, line 42)
add “at least” before “two of whom…”
·
Section IA3 (p. 2, line 10) add
“(at least three of whom must be tenured)”
·
Section IB2 (p. 2, lines 29-30
& 35-36) Change: “Secretarial assistance shall be provided by the
university to aid the committee in its work.”
to “Section IC” (and the section that was originally Section IC to Section ID)
Senator Hall (not
friendly):
·
Section IA3 (p.2, line 8)
change the word “elected” to “convened”
·
It was M/S/P [Pasternack/Hall] to change the word “elected” to
“convened”
X.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting was adjourned at 1:00p.m.