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ACADEMIC
SENATE MINUTES February 23,
2006 |
11:30
A.M. - 1:00 P.M. ACADEMIC
SENATE CHAMBERS
Members
Present: Bedell, Buck, Burgtorf, Dabirian, Drezner, Emry,
Fidalgo, Fitch, Fromson, Gass, Gordon, Guerin, Hagan, Hassan, Hewitt,
Absent: Alva, Hall,
I.
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Bedell called the
meeting to order at 11:32 a.m.
II.
URGENT
BUSINESS
Senator Dabirian provided an update on the CMS
project. Human Resources 8.0 is completed. We are moving into implementation of
the update, Human Resources 8.9. The timeline was readjusted to move
implementation of the Finance system from July 2006 to July 2007 to allow us to
go directly into the new version of CMS for finance. The student project will
go live April 2008, allowing students to register for summer 2008 through the
new system.
Senator Nanjundappa encouraged faculty to attend
the CFA rally and reception on March 6th. The rally will take place
in the quad from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., and the reception, in the Academic
Senate Chambers from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. George Diehr, CSU San Marcos, and
CalPER’s spokesperson will be the guest speaker.
III.
ANNOUNCMENTS
President Gordon announced that CSUF is among the
first seven Cal State Universities to create an Ed.D. proposal. He is looking forward
to the approval of the courses for this program by the end of the spring 2006 semester.
The President stated that the details for funding of this program are being
finalized, but the fees will be UC equivalent. In addition, there will be a
differential increase for graduate tuition systemwide. VP Smith stated that in the future, we will
be dividing by 12 units at the graduate level for an FTES, as opposed to 15
units. He and several of his staff will attend a meeting next month to develop
new budget formulas for this graduate level tuition change.
In his update on recruitment, VP Smith reported
that there are currently 35 acceptances and 10-13 outstanding offers. VP Smith
was unsure of the number of rejections we have received, but almost all of them
have been due to issues with housing. We are hoping to yield 80 new faculty
members. We anticipate 35 resignations. As of today, 5 have resigned. There
have also been a couple of full retirements, 5-6 faculty members entering the
FERP program, and 18 ending the program. Currently, there are 91 active in the
FERP program, 5-6 applications have been submitted, down from 18, this time
last year. New FERP applicants should be told to apply, even though a contract
agreement with CFA has not been reached.
IV.
APPROVAL OF
MINUTES
ASD
06-08 Academic Senate Minutes 12-8-05 was approved with the correction that
they should simply state that the meeting was adjourned at 12:58 p.m.
V.
STATEWIDE
ACADEMIC SENATE REPORT
No report.
VI.
CHAIR’S REPORT
Chair Bedell reported that WASC met and is off to
a good start. We will be hearing more about this very lengthy process in the
future.
Senators were reminded to complete the General
Education survey issued by the CSU as soon as possible so that CSUF can provide
a response to system-wide data collection effort.
Chair Bedell referred to Senator Junn who reported
that a word-by-word transcription and summary of the recording of the Senate
meeting on 11-10-05 is being completed and will be made available for review
and approval. She invited Senator Kleiner and all other Senators to visit the
Academic Senate office and listen to the tape of the meeting, if interested.
More discussion on sabbaticals is forthcoming.
VII.
CONSENT
CALENDAR
M/S/P [Shapiro/Kreiner] to approve the consent
calendar with the replacement of Reyes Fidalgo with Alexandro Gradilla as the
HSS nominee for the Search Committee for Director, Academic Advisement.
VIII.
RESCISSION
ITEM − ACTION
M/S/P [Nanjundappa/Fidalgo] to rescind ASD 06-14
UPS 286.000 Faculty Merit Increase Policy.
(Approved unanimously)
IX.
UNFINISHED
BUSINESS
9.1
M/S/P [Burgtorf/Fidalgo] to approve ASD 05-132 Revised UPS 330.163 Culminating Experience
Guidelines with the following additional amendments:
Senator
Buck (friendly amendments)
·
Section II
(p. 2, line 29): Add “shall” after “…two full-time faculty members”
·
Section III
(p.2, line 35): Change title to “Oral Defenses of Theses and Projects; and Oral
Comprehensive Exams”
·
Section IIIC
(p. 2, line 46): Add “or exam” after “The defense”
·
Section IIIB
(p.2, line 41): Add “and oral comprehensive exams” after “Oral defenses”
·
Section IIID
(p.3, line 3): Add “or an exam” after “The oral defense”
Senator Guerin (for Senator Pasternack): Section
IIIA (p.2, line 36): Add the following sentence: “The decision to require an
oral defense of either a thesis or project is the purview of the academic unit
offering the degree.” (Friendly amendment)
9.2 It
was M/S [Dabirian/Fromson] to approve revise Revised UPS 103.004 Computing
Facilities Use Policy.
Senator Nanjundappa (friendly amendment): Page 1,
line 29: Change “available” to “possible”
Senator Nanjundappa: (Page 1, end of line 29): Add
“and/or legal action only after the appropriate due process investigation.” (Amendment
not friendly)
·
M/S/P
[Nanjundappa/Taylor] to approve amendment. Motion
passed with the following friendly amendment:
o
Senator
Burgtorf: (page 1, line 29): Change “including loss of computer privileges” to
“including temporary suspension of computer use privileges”. (Senator
Nanjundappa and the body consented to this suggestion)
Senator Fitch: (Page 1, line 27): At the end of
first sentence, add “after consultation with the affected user.” (Amendment
not friendly)
·
M/S/P
[Fitch/Fidalgo] to approve amendment. Motion
passed with the following friendly amendment:
o
Senator
Hewitt: (page 1, line 27) Add the word “normally” to the beginning of Senator
Fitch’s proposed amendment, so that it sentence would read “Violation of these
guidelines may result in the loss of user privileges normally after
consultation with the affected user.” (The body consented to this suggestion).
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President
Gordon noted that under certain circumstances,
he will have no choice but to order a computer to be shut down without
notification. He has the authority to do so.
Senator
Hewitt (friendly amendments):
·
Section 1
(p.1, line 39) Insert the word “capacity” after “disk”
·
Section 2
(p.1, line 42) Insert “division,” before “college or department”
·
Section 5
(p.2, line 14) Change wording to “from, or into, or using…”
Senator Hewitt proposed the following amendment,
but it did not receive the consent of the body (not friendly). The meeting
adjourned with this proposed amendment on the floor. Discussion of UPS 103.004
will resume at the next Senate meeting.
·
Section 7
(p.2, line 24) Change wording to “…computer labs shall not be used for personal
financial gain.”
Item 9.3 was not discussed due to lack of time and
will move to the agenda for the next Senate meeting on March 2, 2006.
X.
NEW BUSINESS
Items 10.1 and 10.2 were
not discussed due to lack of time and will move to the agenda for the next
Academic Senate meeting on March 2, 2006.
XI.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 12:57p.m.