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ACADEMIC
SENATE MINUTES May 23, 2006 |
11:30
A.M. - 1:00 P.M. ACADEMIC
SENATE CHAMBERS
Members
Present: Alva, Bedell, Buck, Dabirian, Drezner, Emry,
Fidalgo, Fitch, Fromson, Gass, Guerin, Hagan, Hassan, Hewitt, Jones, Junn, Kanel,
Kantardjieff, Kelly, Kirtman, Klassen, Klein, Kreiner, Liverpool, Lovell, Matz,
Meyer, Michalopoulos,
Absent: Burgtorf, Gordon, Hall,
I.
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Bedell called the
meeting to order at 11:33 a.m.
II.
URGENT
BUSINESS
None.
III.
ANNOUNCMENTS
As assigned, Senator Pasternack and Senator Buck provided
the following report:
·
It was
suggested that the first item on the 2005-2006 Statements of Opinion, which
deals with General Education, should be discussed by next year’s Executive
Committee.
·
The committee
that drafted the document on international agreements should review the
statement of opinion data.
·
VCAQ should
review the statement on deferred maintenance.
·
The opinion
on online SRI’s seems to be evenly divided between full-time faculty and
part-time faculty. Part-time faculty members’ vote in opposition of moving all
SRI’s online was slightly higher. This may due to the fact that decisions to
reappoint part-time faculty relies more heavily on SRI results.
IV.
CHAIR’S REPORT
·
The first
Carol Barnes Award has been conferred on Dr. Raphael Sonenshein, Political
Science.
·
The Academic
Senate office received an anonymous gift of $2,000 in support of the Carol
Barnes Award.
·
The chair of
the Second Language Graduation Requirement Committee reported that the
committee held its inaugural meeting yesterday and elected co-chairs Radha
Bhattacharya and Brad Starr.
·
The Academic
Senate Marathon meeting scheduled on Thursday, May 25th will begin
with breakfast at 8 a.m. and will be called to order at 8:30 a.m.
·
Several hundred
students have responded to the survey on academic quality, however, we received
over 300 undeliverable e-mail message notices. Chair Bedell expressed concern
over the number of undeliverable e-mail message notices. Senator Dabirian
explained that our campus does not have a policy that requires students to
check their university-issued e-mail accounts. The Senators discussed alternative
methods of contacting students when messages are returned and ways of directing
students to check their e-mail accounts when university information is
distributed to them.
V.
STATEWIDE
ACADEMIC SENATE REPORT
The Statewide Academic Senate concluded its 2005-2006
year.
The Board of Trustees adopted the constitutional
change to reduce one senator from five CSU campuses.
VI.
CONSENT
CALENDAR
Items 6.1 and 6.3 were pulled from the consent calendar and
moved to items of New Business.
M/S/P [Rhoten/Buck]
to approve the consent calendar as changed. Item 6.2 ASD 06-104 Proposed
Constitutional Amendment: Committee on Internships and Service Learning passed
unanimously.
·
Also noted
was a mistake on the agenda: Delete the word “DRAFT” after ASD 06-105
Consolidated International Education Policy Statement.
VII.
NEW BUSINESS
7.1 ASD 06-63 Revised
UPS 411.100 Curriculum Guidelines [UCC]
It
was M/S [Fromson/Alva] to approve ASD 06-63 Revised UPS 411.100 Curriculum
Guidelines.
·
M/S/P [Buck/Fitch] to
refer back to University Curriculum Committee with comments from The Academic
Senate and instructions to consult with the other two curriculum committees
(General Education and Graduate Education committees). (Hand vote taken, 21-9 result, motion
passed.)
o
Issue addressed: (P.2, lines 38-39) “UCC shall be the
central university level committee for curriculum review.” This is no longer
true. There are essentially three curriculum committees.
7.2 ASD 06-86 Revised UPS 300.040 Academic Standards for
Postbaccalaureate Students [ASC]
It was M/S [Kanel/Hagan]
to approve ASD 06-86 Revised UPS 300.040 Academic Standards for Postbaccalaureate Students.
o
Senator Kanel (friendly amendment)
(Lines 16 & 23) Capitalize “P” in
“postbaccalaureate” throughout the document
§
Senator Shapiro (friendly amendments)
·
(Lines 16 & 23) Change back to “A postbaccalaureate”
·
(Line 18): Replace “their” with “the student’s”
·
(Line 24): Replace “he or she” to “the student”
o
It was M/S [Buck/
o
It was M/S [Hewitt/Buck] to reduce units from 12 to 6
(lines 18, 21, and 25)
M/S/P [Emry/Klassen] to refer back to the Academic
Standards Committee due to the following reasons:
·
There are multiple issues in this document that are being
governed by one policy. Perhaps they should be broken down by subheadings or
into a different series of UPS documents that address the needs of :
§
Postbaccalaureate students
§
Teaching credential students
§
Students looking for recreational education
7.3
ASD 06-87 Revised UPS 411.200 General
Education Guidelines and Procedures: New Existing Courses [General Education
Committee]
·
M/S/F
[Pasternack/Guerin] to reinsert “over a five year period” and delete “periodic”
(lines 31-32). Motion failed.
o
[M] Senator Shapiro to change “five” to “ten”. Failed to
get a seconder.
o
It was M/S/P [Taylor/Drezner} to end debate on
[Pasternack/Guerin] motion: division of the house/hand vote. Motion passed.
·
Senator Alva (friendly amendment)
(Page 1, line 30):
Delete “especially section 11” after UPS 411.100 and add a period.
·
Senator Guerin (friendly amendment)
(Page 1, line 38): Add “and faculty” after “the
·
Senator Hewitt (friendly amendment)
(Page 1, line 42): Re-insert
“, and on department responses to the General Education Curriculum Review”
·
Senator Fidalgo (friendly amendment)
(Page 2, line 40):
Re-insert the word “ample”
·
M/S/P [Buck/Alva] to
change “five” to “eight” (p.2, line 31). Motion passed.
M/S/P [Emry/Fitch] to approve ASD 06-87 Revised UPS
411.200 General Education Guidelines and Procedures: New Existing Courses as
amended. (Approved unanimously)
7.4 ASD 06-85 Revised UPS 300.017 Incomplete Authorized (I)
and Incomplete Charged (IC) [ASC]
·
Senator Hewitt (friendly amendments)
(Page 2, line 8): Change “when specific” to “when the stated requirements”
(Page 1, line 37): Change
“must” to “shall”
(Page 1, line 37-39): Change to “In
assigning an Incomplete, the instructor shall file with the department a
“Statement of Requirements of Completion of Course Work,” which will include a
time limit (up to one year) for completing requirements and shall provide the
student a copy thereof.”
M/S/P
[Kanel/Hagan] to approve ASD 06-85 Revised UPS 300.017 Incomplete Authorized
(I) and Incomplete Charged (IC) as amended.
7.5 ASD 06-84 Revised UPS 300.005 Final Examinations [ASC]
It was M/S [Kanel/Hagan]
to approve ASD 06-84 Revised UPS 300.005 Finals Examinations.
Meeting adjourned with
discussion of this document on the floor.
VIII.
CONTINUING
DISCUSSION ON UPS 210.000 PERSONNEL POLICY AND PROCEDURES FOR TENURE-TRACK AND
TENURE FACULTY
Due to lack of time, UPS
210.000 was not discussed.
IX.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting was adjourned at 1:01 p.m.