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ACADEMIC
SENATE MINUTES May 25, 2006 |
8:30
A.M. - 11:30 A.M. ACADEMIC
SENATE CHAMBERS
Members
Present: Alva, Bedell, Buck,
Dabirian, Drezner, Emry, Fidalgo, Fitch, Fromson, Gass, Gordon, Guerin, Hagan,
Hall, Hassan, Hewitt, Jones, Junn, Kanel, Kantardjieff, Kirtman, Klassen,
Klein, Liverpool, Matz, Meyer, Michalopoulos, Nanjundappa, Napper, Pasternack,
Rhoten, Rumberger, Shapiro, Smith, Taylor, Vogt, Walicki
Members
Absent: Burgtorf,
I.
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Bedell called the
meeting to order at 8:32 a.m.
II.
URGENT
BUSINESS
None.
III.
ANNOUNCMENTS
None.
IV.
CHAIR’S REPORT
Chair Bedell gave his final Chair’s report in
which he acknowledged Tiffany Gibson, Marilyn Miller, Erika Bakken, and Jorge
Luquin for their strong administrative support in the Academic Senate office.
He publicly acknowledged and thanked the Academic Senators, Associated Students
Inc., the Academic Senate committees, President Gordon, Vice President Smith
and their staffs, and CFA President Nanjundappa for their hard work, time, and
efforts. Chair Bedell expressed his appreciation of the many conversations and
deliberations had by the Academic Senate in effort to enhance our students’ education,
and enhance collegial governance. He expressed heartfelt gratitude and stated
that it has been nothing short of an honor to work with the Academic Senate.
V.
STATEWIDE
ACADEMIC SENATE REPORT
No report.
VI.
CONSENT
CALENDAR
Item 6.2 ASD 06-110 Proposed Bylaw 06-1:
Internship and Service Learning Committee: Functions was pulled from the
consent calendar.
M/S/P [Matz/Gass] to approve the Consent Calendar
as revised. (Approved unanimously)
VII.
TIMES CERTAIN
Time Certain
8:45 a.m.
Subject: Continued Discussion on
UPS 210.000 Personnel Policy and Procedures for Tenure-Track and Tenured
Faculty
It was brought to the attention of the body that a
motion was made and passed at the previous meeting to resume work on UPS
210.000 after all other Senate business has been completed. The body agreed to
honor the motion and proceeded to its other items of business. However, due to
lack of time, UPS 210.000 was not discussed at this meeting.
Time Certain
9:30 a.m.
President Milton Gordon
Subject: Faculty Leadership in
Collegial Governance Award
President Gordon presented the 8th Faculty
Leadership in Collegial Governance Award to Dr. Lee Gilbert. Dr. Gilbert has
devoted 35 years of service to Cal State Fullerton. Of all of the years, except
for a three period, he was involved on The Academic Senate. He served in
various positions, including chair and vice chair. President Gordon
acknowledged Dr. Gilbert’s extensive list of accomplishments. After accepting
his plaque, Dr. Gilbert expressed that he is deeply honored and humbled to have
been recognized and associated with the group of previous recipients. He
acknowledged his predecessors, Sandra Sutphen and Jane Hall, for being great
role models and for their support while he was chair of the Academic Senate. Dr. Gilbert thanked the body for the award. He
stated that the work of the Senators is very important and urged all stay
committed to “The Fullerton Way”.
Time Certain*
9:45 a.m.
Recognition of Service of
Academic Senators (Terms Ending 2005-2006)
Outgoing Senators Melinda Pierson, Jane Hall,
Hilary Kelly, Jesa Kreiner, Willie Hagan, Hamid Tavakolian, Joanne Gass, Irene
Matz, Jarret Lovell, and Bob Emry were individually recognized for their service
on the Academic Senate.
On behalf of the
Time Certain*
10:00 a.m.
Phil Gianos, Mike Mcgee,
Co-Chairs, SRI Committee
Subject: Proposed UPS: Policies,
Procedures, and Guidelines for the Administration and Use of Student Ratings of
Instruction Forms (SRI)
Gianos and Mcgee
responded to the list of concerns that the Academic Senate expressed in
previous meetings. VPAA Smith
provided background information on the formation of the SRI Committee. Senators
expressed additional concerns with the SRI process, pointing out various
student, staff, or faculty actions that could possibly affect the integrity of
the process, accuracy of the results, and the security of the collected data. Lengthy
discussion took place on the possible problems that could arise from allowing
student assistants and peers of faculty members to handle or have access to
completed SRI forms. Also emphasized was the importance of complying with the
Collective Bargaining Agreement and realizing that SRI results are an important
part of the RTP process. Senator Alva suggested that we approve an interim
policy.
·
Senator Pasternack (Friendly amendments)
o
Move section “I.H.” to a separate section. Make it section
“V. Administration on Online SRI Forms”
o
Make it clear that section II is “Departmental Responsibilities
for In Class SRI Forms”
·
Senator Buck (Suggested amendment not friendly)
[M] Buck to create a
section II. E that says “Faculty shall not be given sole possession of the
original forms until the data on these file has been processed”. (Motion failed
to get a seconder)
·
Senator Pasternack (Friendly amendments)
o
(Section III.A.): Change “procedure” to “procedures”
o
(Section II.A., p.2, line 11): Delete “and with
provisions for writing implements”
o
(Section II.C., line 23): After “students” add “the administrator
shall be provided with writing implements that can be used by students
completing the SRI forms.”
o
Somewhere in the document, include “Faculty members shall
not have unsupervised access to the original completed SRI forms.”
VIII.
OLD BUSINESS
8.1
ASD 06-84 Revised UPS
300.005 Final Examinations
Continued
Discussion:
M/S/P
[Alva/Fitch] to change end of sentence (on lines 18-19) to read: “…except for
reasons of illness, verified emergencies, or other extenuating circumstances.”
·
Senator Pasternack (Suggested amendment not friendly)
M/S/P [Pasternack/Fromson] to change the last
sentence (line 19) to read “No makeup final examination will be give except for
reasons of illness, verified emergencies, or other serious and compelling
reasons approved by the instructor.”
o
Senator Emry (Friendly amendment)
Line 19: “Makeup
finals examination may be given for reasons of…”
[M]
·
Senator Guerin (Suggested amendment not
friendly)
M/S/P [Guerin/Fitch]
to change sentence on lines 24-26 to: “When a take home final examination (or
term paper/project) is due during the final exam period, it shall be due no
earlier than the day scheduled for the final examination in that class.”
·
Senator Pasternack (Friendly amendment)
(Line 25): Remove the
word “term”
·
Senator Nanjundappa (Friendly amendment)
(Line 21): Change “may” to “shall”
·
Senator Hewitt (Friendly amendment)
(Line 19): Change
“emergencies” to “emergency”
M/S/P
[Kanel/Hagan] to approve ASD 06-84 Revised UPS 300.005 Final Examinations as
amended. (Approved unanimously)
8.2 ASD 06-113 Revised UPS 320.030 Policy on Computer Competency
for Entering Students [IT Committee]
·
Senator
Gass (Friendly amendments)
(Lines 24 & 41): Remove hyphen in “e-mail”.
(“email” is standard)
(Line 44): Remove the comma after
“competency”
·
Senator Guerin
(Friendly amendment)
(Line 30): Add “and Class Schedule”
M/S/P [Dabirian/Drezner] to approve ASD 06-113 Revised UPS 320.030
Policy on Computer Competency for Entering Students as
amended. (Approved unanimously)
IX.
NEW BUSINESS
9.1 ASD
06-90 Revised UPS 330.230 Tape Recording of Class Lectures [SALC]
·
Senator Pasternack
(Friendly amendment)
Add “By Students” at the end of the title.
Rationale:
We are moving into an era where more and more classes will probably be recorded
for podcasting and should have a separate policy that deals with recording of
classes by faculty. Senator Pasternack encouraged the appropriate committee (next
year) to look into creating such a policy for faculty. Chair Bedell suggested
that this topic may be one that the Faculty Affairs Committee could take up.
·
Senator Hewitt
(Friendly amendments)
(P.2, in title and in line 3): Correct the
spelling of “Transcription”
(In the title): Add “Audio” before
“Recording”
(P.2, line 7): Add “to” after the
word “not”
M/S/P
[Rhoten/Nanjundappa] to approve ASD 06-90 Revised UPS 330.230 Tape Recording of
Class Lectures as amended. (Approved unanimously)
9.2 ASD
06-98 Revised UPS 410.103 Curriculum Guidelines and Procedures: Programs [UCC]
·
Senator Pasternack
(Friendly amendment):
Add
“New” before “Programs” in title of UPS 410.103.
·
Senators
Meyer (Suggested amendment - not friendly)
(P.1, line 41): M/S/P [Meyer/Pasternack] to change
the word “maximum” to “minimum”. (Hand
vote 12-11)
·
Senator Guerin
(Friendly amendment):
(P.4, line 10) Add “New” before the word “Minors”
·
Senator
Buck (Friendly amendment):
(P.3, line 30) After “working days”, add
“excluding Saturdays and Sundays.”
M/S/P
[Fromson/Pasternack] to approve ASD 06-98 Revised UPS 410.103 Curriculum
Guidelines and Procedures: Programs as amended.
9.3 ASD
06-105 UPS 320.100 Consolidated International Education Policy Statement
·
Senator
Pasternack (Suggestions and revisions to be forwarded to the committee):
o
There should
be a review of programs on a periodic basis by the Office of Academic Programs
and a report provided to the Senate on the programs.
o
P.3, #2:
Change “shall” to “may”
o
P.3, #4:
Change “are” to “may”
o
P.3, #6:
Question for committee: Why do all 400-level have to go to the Graduate
Education Committee? The 400-level courses that do not count towards a Graduate
degree should go to the University Curriculum Committee.
o
P.4, #8:
Change “The” to “A”
o
P.4, Section
C, last sentence: Change to read “In general, academic programs operated abroad
or sponsored by any Cal State Fullerton unit shall:”
o
P.5, Section
1.a.: Regarding mentioning in the document, the “College of H&SS London
Semester and Florence Summer program”: Do we really want to have this level of
specificity in a UPS document?
o
P.5, Section
1.c.: “English language transcripts
The body
consented to referring this document back to the Executive Committee.
9.4 ASD
06-102 Proposed By-Law: Students Counting Towards Quorums (Standing Committees)
[Executive Committee] M/S/P [Buck/Pasternack] to approve as submitted.
9.5 ASD
06-110 Proposed By-law 06-1: Internship and Service Learning Committee:
Functions
It was M/S [Buck/Pasternack] to approve ASD 06-110
Proposed By-law 06-1: Internship and Service Learning Committee: Functions.
·
Senator
Pasternack (Friendly amendments):
o
Section b: Do
not capitalize “Internships and Service”
o
Section c: Do
not capitalize “Internships and Service Learning”
o
Section e: Do
not capitalize “The”
o
Section f: Do
not capitalize “The”
o
Section g:
Change to “To review and evaluate course proposals which have an internship and service learning component
based upon criteria and standards as specified by university policy.”
M/S/P
[Alva/Fromson] to refer to the Committee on Internships and Service Learning
due to the following:
·
Director of
Internship and Service Learning and Director of Career Center did not review
this policy before it was brought to the Senate for consideration.
·
There is
concern about section “g” of the policy, which establishes another layer of
curriculum review.
·
Section “g”
also uses the term “course proposal” when, in fact, various types of course
proposals are reviewed (i.e., new course proposals and revised course proposals).
This term needs to be clarified.
·
There is also
concern about the term “civic engagement courses”. Language needs clarification
and should be consistent with the terms regularly used by the campus (i.e.,
fieldwork, practicum courses, service learning, etc.).
X. ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 11:28 a.m.