ACADEMIC SENATE
MINUTES
Members Present: Abdelwahed,
Arkenberg, Bedell, Boyum, Buck, Emry, Erickson, Fitch, Gannon, Gilbert, Gordon,
Guerin, Hewitt, Jeremiah, Kim, Meyer, Parker, Parman, Pasternack, Perkins, Putcha,
Reisman, Rhoten, Rimmer, Roberts, Russell, Rutemiller, Schroeder, Shapiro,
Smith, Sutphen, Taulli, Tavakolian, Vargas, and Wong
Members Absent: Cox, Fromson, Hagan, Jones, Junn, Klassen,
Nanjundappa, Randall, Sawicki, Szeszulski, and Wolverton
I.
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Gilbert
called the meeting to order at
II.
URGENT BUSINESS
None.
III.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
President Gordon informed
the members that Michael Ortiz [
President Gordon expressed pride that Dr. Ephraim Smith was a
finalist at
Dinner at the
home of President Gordon’s on Tuesday evening brought a first of its kind honor
to the Board of Trustees when they were entertained by our Theatre and Dance
students. The highlight of the evening
was our students singing an original song, lyrics composed by Dean Hess that
included the names of every trustee and Chancellor Reed. At the request of Chair Farar a copy of the
song and a photo of the group will be given to every individual board
member. President Gordon complimented Senator
Taulli and his students for their outstanding performance.
President
Gordon noted he will be attending an all day Budget Summit meeting in
Senator
Russell reminded the members of the 33rd Philosophy Symposium on
film held in the Library Thursday and Friday of this week.
Senator
Sutphen announced several political scientists are circulating an anti-war
petition and plan to place an advertisement in the Daily Titan. If interested in signing this petition,
contact Senator Sutphen or Phillip Gianos.
Senator Buck
reminded members that next week is the Third Thursday and he invited all to meet
at the Campus Pub for fellowship at
IV.
CHAIRS REPORT
Chair Gilbert
announced an open address will be held on campus Friday, March 21 from
He also
reported that he and Senator Jeremiah attended the Scholar Athlete Award
Brunch. Award recipients from Cal State
Fullerton were Kelly Mathiasen, member of CSUF gymnastic team and Tim Donnelly,
member of CSUF men’s soccer team.
V.
CONSENT CALENDAR
It was m/s/p to approve the following Consent Calendar:
A. ASD 03-15 Academic Senate
Meeting Minutes
B. ASD 03-19 Department Name
Change: Speech Communication
C. NOMINEE
TO STANDING COMMITTEES
Student
Academic Life Committee
Nominee: Jeanine
Congalton (COMM)
NOMINEES TO
AD HOC COMMITTEES - Program Performance Review
Nominee: David Fromson (CNSM)
VI.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
A. ASD 03-12 UPS
280.000 Intramural Research Grants.
It was m/s/p [Pasternack/Hewitt] to approve
the document ASD 03-12 with revisions proposed by the Faculty Research Committee.
VII.
NEW BUSINESS
A. ASD
03-18 Proposed new UPS Unit Limits for Summer YRO Sessions
It was m/s [Gannon/Boyum] to approve the document ASD 03-18. Senator Gannon deferred to Marika Becz, Chair
of Academic Standards Committee. She
stated that this proposed policy was brought to the committee’s attention
because there were no limits set for summer session. Students were not able to
enroll fairly across the board. Some
students enrolled in too many units and then had to drop out of some of the
classes.
It was m/s [Boyum] and accepted
as a friendly amendment on line 22 after
the word work to delete, p. 478 and insert the following language see “University
Regulations” section of the and continue
with University Catalog.
It was m/s
[Guerin] and accepted as a friendly
amendment on line 36 after the word advisor to delete the comma and insert
the word and.
Discussion of ideas and questions:
§
Use the
student’s GPA’s as a criteria for enrollment in excess units, but students may
not know their most recent semester’s GPA when they register for summer
session.
§
Availability of
financial aid.
§
Concerns
expressed as to whether expectations for summer school were less than the
regular session.
It was m/s/p
[Bedell/Sutphen] to end debate. Motion to approve the document ASD 03-18 passed
unanimously as amended.
B. ASD 03-21 “First
Chair Gilbert stated that Bylaw 92-101(UPS 100.001)
provides that no fewer than three statements of opinion on matters within the
Academic Senate's area of responsibility shall
be submitted to the Academic Senate by March 20 for
approval. When approved as ballot items,
they shall be circulated to the Senate electorate with pro/con statements and
shall be placed on the at-large ballot form at the all-university elections in
May. Executive Committee has submitted three possible questions which were then
discussed at seriatim.
First Statement of Opinion:
Should
the Academic Senate take a position on political issues?
Motion carried to include this question on the ballot.
Second Statement of Opinion:
Best
practice in classroom teaching now nearly always require a website to be
associated with the class?
Senator Roberts suggested making some editorial
changes to this question to read “Should
best practice in classroom teaching now nearly always require a website to be associated with the class?
Motion carried to include such a statement of opinion
on the ballot and making some editorial changes. Vote: Yes: 17;
No:
7
Third Statement of Opinion:
How
should the campus address large funding cutbacks?
a. Cuts should be made equally across the board.
b. Low enrollment programs should be eliminated.
c. All of the cuts should come from the
non-instructional budget.
d. Enrollment should be reduced.
Motion carried to include this question subject to some fine tuning and
editorial writing.
It was m/s/p [Buck] to include
the following two questions as possible statements of opinion:
The total enrolled students from the
a. Be kept at the
current number
b. Marginally
reduced
c. Marginally
increased
d. Continue to
increase to meet demand
Currently, CSUF estimates that the average student pays 22% of the
education. Which of the following comes
closest to what you feel is the appropriate percent that CSUF students should
pay for their education?
The motion carried to include a question on student fees provided the
body can come up with some questions. Vote:
Yes =17; No =
5
It was m/s/p [Bedell] to adjourn. The
meeting adjourned at