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ACADEMIC
SENATE MINUTES May 4, 2006 |
11:30
A.M. - 1:00 P.M. ACADEMIC
SENATE CHAMBERS
Members
Present: Alva, Bedell, Burgtorf, Dabirian, Drezner, Emry,
Fitch, Fromson, Gass, Gordon, Hall, Hassan, Hewitt, Jones, Junn, Kanel, Kantardjieff,
Kelly, Kirtman, Klassen, Klein, Kreiner,
Liverpool, Lovell, Matz, Michalopoulos, Nanjundappa, Napper, Pierson, Rhoten,
Rumberger, Shapiro, Taylor, Williams
Absent: Buck,
Fidalgo, Guerin, Hagan,
I.
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Bedell called the
meeting to order at 11:32 a.m.
II.
URGENT
BUSINESS
None.
III.
ANNOUNCMENTS
President Gordon:
·
Equity
increase letters will go out this week. He clarified that theses notices are
for equity increases, not market salary increases.
·
The President
will be meeting with the co-chairs of the 50th Anniversary
Committee.
·
It appears
that we will exceed 80% of our hiring goal. One reason for this is the
availability of housing.
Senator Nanjundappa:
·
The contract has
been extended until July 1, 2006. Though this is the last day that the contract
is effective, it is not necessarily the deadline to apply for a 5-year FERP
appointment. Information clarifying this will be distributed to faculty via
email. VP Atwell stated that if someone is still interested in applying for
FERP, he or she may still submit an application.
·
Requested
that everyone complete the survey on quality and remind colleagues to do so.
Senator Dabirian updated the body on the pilot SRI
project. It will began on Monday. Faculty gave permission for 140 classes to
participate in the project. Thirty-nine percent of the students responded
(1,200 out of 3,100).
Senator Matz reminded the body that the All-University
Election is next week. The Statements of Opinion and Candidate Statements will
be publicized tomorrow.
Chuck Kissell reported that the campus reached a
milestone when Titan Shops received 65% adoptions on time, the highest amount
ever received for a fall semester.
Senator Burgtorf announced that Fulbright Scholar,
Andrea Cano, a student in the TESOL Program, will teach in
IV.
TIME CERTAIN
Time Certain
11:45 a.m.
Subject: Continuing Discussion on
UPS 210.000 Personnel Policy and Procedures for Tenure-Track and Tenured
Faculty
Chair
Bedell opened discussion on this document with the suggestion to deal with the
suggested changes first and then go through the document and fine-tune the
language.
Section I.C. Personnel File (p.4):
·
Senator
Kreiner suggested that language be inserted to indicate that information placed
in a Personnel Action File be subject to notification of the faculty member.
·
Senator
Michalopoulos (friendly amendment):
Add
the following sentence to the end of Section C: “All information to be inserted
in the Personnel Action File is subject to notification of the faculty member.”
Section I.E. Service Credit (p.4):
·
The Front
Table was asked to note to ask for equivalent ranks for others in Unit 3.
·
Senator
Liverpool (friendly amendment):
Add “or equivalent” after “V.P. for Academic
Affairs”
·
Senator
Section
I.E.5: change “more heavily” to “greater weight”
·
Senator
§
Chair Bedell
offered the following language “Accomplishments during service credit years
must be considered in the decision for the granting of promotion and/or
tenure.”
·
Senator Nanjundappa
agreed with this language.
·
VP Atwell did
not agree. She explained that the original sentence stipulates that service
credit in it of itself is not sufficient.
·
Senator Nanjundappa
stated that the language should indicate what type of consideration is given to
service credit
·
Senator Hall
(friendly amendment):
“Accomplishments
during service credit years shall be considered, but shall never be sufficient
in and of themselves for the granting of promotion and/or tenure.”
·
Shapiro
stated that for librarian and counselor faculty, language should indicate that
service credit is for work in positions that correspond with one of the ranks
at CSUF.
Section I.G. Tenure (p.5):
·
Senator Liverpool
(friendly amendment):
Add “the appropriate Vice President” to the end of
item 4.
Section I.H. Promotion (p.5, lines 15-16):
·
Senator Fitch
(friendly amendment):
Delete
“A probationary faculty member shall not normally be promoted during
probation.” Replace “However” with “Under exceptional circumstances,”.
Section I.J. Timing of Review Cycles and Types of
Recommendations
·
M/S/P [Kanel, Michalopoulos] (17 yes, 12 no, 4
abstentions) to change the second sentence in Section b to read: “For Abbreviated Reviews, the faculty member must
submit a current curriculum vita, copies of the statistical summaries of
teaching performance from the previous year, and copies of reviewers’ comments
from the previous year for review by the Chair and the Dean.”
§
Rationale: To
make this a simpler process. To relieve people of the time it takes to review
these files. Including review by a Department Personnel Committee places an
added burden on primarily newly tenured associate professors. Some departments
have a limited amount of faculty who are available to serve on a DPC. Places
burdens on associate professors since they have to work on DPC’s, serve on other
committees, and teach more classes. This prohibits many associate professors
from doing the research and writing required to be promoted to full professor.
It’s almost repetitive or unnecessary for the DPC to go through this. It will not
make a recommendation, at that level, anyway.
·
Senator
Hall: We owe our younger faculty the effort of reading the files and giving
feedback.
·
Dean
Rikli: Agreed with Senator Kanel’s amendment. Supports lightening the load for
associate professors so that they are not completely overloaded.
·
Senator
Kanel: Perhaps the associate professors’ mentors could be present at the
meetings.
·
Senator
Michalopoulos: Can we make it an option at the discretion of the department?
·
Senator
·
Senator
Kanel (friendly amendment):
Since DPC was deleted on line 13, delete it from line 20.
·
Senator Kanel
(suggested amendment not friendly):
Line
20: Change sentence to read “The Department Chair shall meet with the faculty
member to review both the written comments from previous year’s reviewers’ and
the faculty member’s progress since the last review. The Chair will provide a
written summary of this meeting with the faculty member and forward this to The
Dean for his/her review and comments”. And delete last sentence.
·
Senator Burgtorf
(friendly amendment):
(Page 6, Section b): Change “vita” to
“vitae”. Vita in connection with curriculum is “vitae”.
§
Senator Jones:
Amend the amendment. Concerned that there is no check and balance for the
faculty. Add that the mentor can be included. (Will come back to this)
§
Senator Hassan:
In this section, we should indicate that any material that is used in the
review process should be available to view. (Senator Hassan will work on this
language and body will come back to this.)
·
It was M/S [Drezner/Hassan] to eliminate the
Abbreviated Review.
Meeting adjourned with
discussion of this document on the floor. Discussion will resume at the next
meeting.
V.
CHAIR’S REPORT
Chair Bedell reminded Senators to complete the
lunch request forms for the added Tuesday senate meetings and return it to the
Senate office staff.
The street near the Marriott will be reconfigured so
that cars can enter campus from
VI.
STATEWIDE ACADEMIC SENATE REPORT
No report.
VII.
CONSENT CALENDAR
M/S/P [Drezner/Rhoten] to approve the consent calendar. (Approved
unanimously)
VIII.
NEW BUSINESS
Item 8.1 ASD 06-63
Revised UPS 411.100 Curriculum Guidelines was not discussed due to lack of
time.
IX.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting was adjourned at 12:54 p.m.