ACADEMIC SENATE
MINUTES
Members Present: Allen,
Arkenberg, Bedell, Buck, Byrnes, Cox, Emry, Erickson, Fitch, Fromson, Gannon,
Gass, Gilbert, Guerin, Hagan, Hall, Hewitt, Jones, Junn, Klassen, Kelly,
Kreiner, Meyer,
Members Absent:
Boyum, Gordon, Michalopoulos, Rahmatian, Randall, and Shapiro
I.
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Gilbert
called the meeting to order at
II.
URGENT BUSINESS
As an item of
urgent business, Senator Kreiner stated he was unable to use the new
campus-wide ID number when he purchased his parking pass and instead had to
provide his social security number.
Senator Parker
informed the Senators that many months will be required before the CWID is
implemented in all processes and that changes to the student system will be
completed first.
III.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Senator Nanjundappa
announced the new contract has been ratified by both the CSU and CFA
board. He reminded the members of the
Welcome Reception for All Faculty on Wednesday, February 11, at
Adam Byrnes,
student representative, announced ASI will be holding a voter education and registration
drive with accompanying free barbecue
Chair Gilbert announced
“Maintaining the Balance” (between national security and civil rights) will be
the subject of a Town Hall on Thursday, February 12 at
He also
announced over the break, the Senate office received information from the
Chancellor’s office regarding a search for the position for Faculty Director of
the CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning and also the position of the CSU
Service Learning Scholar. Information is
available in the Senate office.
Senator Bedell
inquired whether Chair Gilbert had any information on searches being closed or
terminated at the Chancellor’s office.
Senator Gannon then suggested Chair Gilbert call the Chancellor’s office
to find out exactly how many searches they plan to cancel.
Chair Gilbert
announced “Engineering & Computer Science Week” will take place February 23
through February 26 on our campus. The
Council on Undergraduate Research is calling for “vignettes” dealing with the
topic of “Creating Time for Undergraduate Research.” Submission date is March 1; information is
available in the Senate office.
Anil Puri, Dean
of CBE, announced that Cal State Fullerton’s College of Business &
Economics earned a renewal of accreditation for its business and accounting
programs from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. CBE is home to the nation’s third largest
accredited undergraduate business program.
Senator
Sutphen announced two upcoming events: 1) a tour of the
IV.
CHAIRS REPORT
Chair Gilbert
reported the Executive Committee has been examining the size of two constituencies
of the Senate which have been increasing in size. Executive
Committee is working to ensure representation is appropriate and
recommendations will be coming forward very soon. He also reported the Library Committee is
very close to completing revisions to the Library Policy and this policy will be
forthcoming for consideration by the body.
He noted that
President Gordon and VP Smith met with Executive Committee on Tuesday to
discuss some of the implications of the state’s budget situation for the
university. The Governor has announced
an additional $240 million cut to the CSU. President Gordon reported that state support
for summer school will not be available, so this year summer school will be entirely
fee based. Chair Gilbert recognized VP
Smith.
VP Smith reported
that the Chancellor is allowing the campuses, if they so wish, to go back to fee
based summer school and to help absorb the 5% FTES cut that each campus will
receive next year. For this campus, this is a cut of 1253 FTES. However, 1253 FTES is just the starting point
of the 5% cut. Our share of the $240 million
cut is approximately $16 million; cutting 1253 FTES will save about $6 million;
still remaining is an unallocated cut to the campus of $10 to $11 million. The decision to make summer school fee-based
was made as a way of protecting 59 full-time faculty positions during the
academic year. Obviously, we are still
looking at the other $11+ million that have to get cut from the budget, and one
possibility is that the student-faculty ratio will be raised because so much of
the university budget is faculty positions and faculty dollars. In one way, it would have been better if the
system had taken a bigger hit to FTES rather than giving such a large
unallocated target reduction to the campus.
The Chancellor
said the campuses can go back to fee based with a proviso that they cannot
charge more tuition than is charged during the academic year; however, fees
will be charged on per unit basis. Last
summer the students were charged $115/unit.
Last year there were two tuition increases—30% in July and 10% mid-year. The fee this summer will be approximately
$138/unit. The Cal State Fullerton fee will
also be pro-rated. Faculty salaries will go back to the 2357 salary
schedule in the Unit 3 contract for fee-based instruction.
Senator Gannon
asked why FTES were not cut more, but VP Smith did not have an answer to the
question.
Dean Klammer
commented that in H&SS, 29% of the FTES are in the summer; this comes out
to be more than 22 faculty positions. If the college had to deal with that cut
without fee-based summer, that would be equivalent to cutting the Department of
Sociology or Political Science.
Senator Meyer
stated that he was not very fond of the word “cut” and urged the members to
stop saying “cuts” but call it “QARF” (Quality and Access Reduction Factor).
Senator Fitch suggested
that all divisions suspend publication of glossy and expensive annual reports due
to the budget situation.
Chair Gilbert
declared a Time Certain of
Time Certain
Jerry Olson, Director Titan Shops
Subject: Book Reward
Program
Mr. Olson
presented a check to Chair Gilbert in the amount of $6,575 and an equal amount
to Adam Byrnes for Associated Students, noting that these funds are generated
by the Requisition Rewards Program. To date,
the Foundation and Titan shops have given over $250,000 in the rewards
program. He also urged the Senators to
read the UC report on textbook price inflation [copies distributed].
Chair Gilbert,
on behalf of the Senate, thanked Mr. Olson for his generous support. The Student Academic Life Committee of the
Senate this year was able to actually double the number of scholarships awarded
for university service through the support of the bookstore. He then returned to Chairs Report.
Chair Gilbert
reported that the Senate office had received from the Vice President of
Academic Affairs a formal proposal to establish a “
V.
CONSENT CALENDAR
It was m [Senator Pasternack] to remove the
Academic Senate Minutes of
It was m/s/p to approve the following Consent
Calendar:
A. ASD 04-06 Fall 2003 New Course
Proposals—Undergraduate
B. ASD 04-07 Fall 2003 New Course Proposals—General
Education
C. CSUF
Representative at the System-wide Meeting on the Integrated Teacher Preparation
Programs for the Multiple Subject
Nominee: Jim
Hofmann (H&SS)
VI.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
A. ASD
03-139 Visiting Scholars and Other Formal Delegations of Visitors from
Abroad: Procedures for Invitations and
Considerations for Hosting
It was m/s [Buck/Fitch] to approve the
document. Senator Buck said there seemed
to be some concern on the part of the committee and others that we often do not
treat our visiting scholars very well and we should demonstrate more
hospitality. The motion passed unanimously to approve document ASD 03-139.
VII.
NEW BUSINESS
A. ASD 03-141
Academic Senate Meeting Minutes
It was m [Pasternack] on page 2, to insert the word “perfect” in front of
the word “prime” in Senator Gannon’s announcement. Motion
carried to approve the minutes as amended.
B. ASD 04-03 Proposed
Minor in Public Relations
It was m/s
[Fromson/Kreiner] to approve the document.
Senator Fromson stated this document was reviewed by the University
Curriculum Committee. Wendell Crowe,
Chair Communications, spoke on behalf of a new minor in Public Relations,
explaining that the concentration in PR in Communication has 600 students
enrolled and is one of the top ten Public Relations program in the
country. Motion passed unanimously to approve document ASD 04-03.
C. ASD
04-02 New Pilot On-Line Program Proposal—Masters Degree in Information
Technology
It was m/s
[Pasternack/Bedell] to approve the document.
Senator Pasternack stated that this is the third on-line master’s degree
proposed for
It was m [Bedell] to adjourn. The
meeting adjourned at