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ACADEMIC
SENATE MINUTES April 19,
2007 |
11:30 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. ACADEMIC
SENATE CHAMBERS
Members Present: Altar, Bedell, Buck, Burgtorf, Drezner, Fitch,
Fromson, Gordon, Guerin, Hassan, Hewitt, Holland,
Absent: Alva, Arnold, Bruschke,
Dabirian, Fidalgo, Hagan, Michalopoulos, Pasternack, Stein, Taylor, Vogt
I.
CALL
TO ORDER
Chair Guerin called the
meeting called to order at 11:31 a.m. She opened the meeting with a moment of
silent reflection for the victims of the tragedy that took place at
II.
URGENT
BUSINESS
Senator Hassan did not
receive unanimous consent of the body to move President Gordon’s response to ASD 06-194 Resolution to Restore Summer Pay to Faculty Who
Completed Instructional Work in Summer 2004 as an item of urgent business. It
became the first item of new business.
III.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chair Guerin reminded
the body that nomination petitions for Senate seats and General Committees are
due next Tuesday, April 24th at noon. The Elections will be held May
7-10th.
Senator Rhoten announced
that President Gordon was recently honored by the National Association of
Student Personnel Administrators with the President’s Award for his significant
and outstanding contributions to the campus, student affairs, and higher
education.
Senator Rhoten also
distributed four different cards as part of the academic integrity campaign
that was kicked off on Monday with the rap contest on integrity. She encouraged
all to share the cards, posters, and web site (www.fullerton.edu/integrity) with
their students in promotion of this campaign.
Senator Nanjundappa
reported that on Monday, April 23, 2007, a special meeting for all faculty
members will be held to discuss the provisions of the new contract. George Diehr,
CFA bargaining team member, will attend the discussion and be able for
question.
Senator Nanjundappa also
announced that ratification of the new contract will be held May 1-3, 2007,
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the CFA Fullerton Chapter office, LH-214. This
announcement will go out to all faculty members.
Senator Shapiro reminded
all of open enrollment until June 30th for the CalPERS Long-Term
Care Program.
Senator Buck encouraged
all to attend Dr. Jim Young’s presentation next Thursday, April 26th
in the Young Theatre on the history of the CSUF Theatre department.
IV.
APPROVAL
OF MINUTES
M/S/P [Bedell/Fromson]
to approve ASD 07-58 Academic Senate Meeting Minutes 3-15-07 as corrected:
o
Senator Junn seconded Senator Alva’s motion to amend a
portion of Section I.M. in UPS 210.000 (ASD 07-37).
M/S/P
[Nanjundappa/Stang] to approve ASD 07-59 Academic Senate Meeting Minutes
3-22-07 as submitted.
V.
CONSENT
CALENDAR
M/S/P [Drezner/Fitch] to
approve the consent calendar.
5.1 Nominees to General Committees:
Faculty Personnel Committee
Additional Nominees: Gerald Gannon (CNSM); Robert Gass (COMM); Ron
Hughes (SOC SCI);
Confirmed 4/5/07: Chandra
Putcha (ECS); Joanne Gass (HUM)
Continuing: Laurence Timm
(ARTS); Mabel Kung (CBE); Andrea Guillaume (EDUC);
Debbie
Rose (HHD)
Professional Leaves Committee
Confirmed 4/5/07: Gus Manoochehri (CBE); Kim Norman
(EDUC); Reyes Fidalgo (HUM)
Continuing: James Taulli (ARTS);
Anthony Fellow (COMM); Bin Cong (ECS);
Leslie
Grier (HHD); David
Drath (CNSM); Bill Haddad (SOC SCI);
Susan
Tschabrun (Library)
Faculty Research Committee
Confirmed
4/5/07) Marc
Dickey (ARTS); David Cheng (ECS); Grace Cho (EDUC);
Renae Bredin (HUM); Julie Stokes (SOC SCI); Barbara Miller (Library)
Continuing: Irene Lange (CBE); Cynthia
King (COMM); Sharon Seidman (HHD);
Chris
Meyer (CNSM)
5.2 Nominees to Search Committees:
ASSOCIATE
VP – COMMUNICATIONS and Marketing
Nominees: Irene Lange (CBE); Jon
Bruschke (COMM); Lenny Wiersma (HHD)
VI.
TIMES
CERTAIN
Time Certain
Subject: ASD 07-65 Revised UPS
210.000 Faculty Personnel Policy and Procedures
(As revised by Academic Senate –
Spring 2007)
Time: 11:45 a.m.
It was M/S [Drezner/Hewitt] to approve ASD 07-65 Revised UPS 210.000 Faculty Personnel Policy and
Procedures with the following revisions:
Chair Guerin reported
that during review of the revised UPS 210.000 as a whole, she and Tiffany
Gibson made the following edits as per the suggestions of the body:
·
Substituted “Student Opinions”
or “Student Opinion Questionnaires” for “Student Responses to Instruction” or
“Student Rating Forms” throughout the document
·
Capitalized review levels
(i.e., “Department Chairs” or “Dean”)
·
Substituted “Dean (or
equivalent)” systematically
·
Recognized that page numbers
in the table of contents will be added once the document is approved.
·
Changed the contents of the
Abbreviated Review files (in Section I.J.) to include the three items that are
mentioned later on in the document: (1) an updated curriculum vitae, (2)
statistical summaries of student opinions of instruction, and (3) grade
distributions for the period since the last full performance review. (When
pointed out, the body considered this a friendly amendment)
·
Page 8, line 371 (Section
II.A.5.d): When pointed out, the body
consented to deleting “not to exclude contributions made in earlier years,”
since this language is unclear in the context of the sentence.
The body made the following
revisions:
·
Page 3, line 123 (Section
I.G.3): (Friendly amendment – AVP Atwell): Insert “written” before “request”
·
Page 3, line 123 (Section
I.G.3): (Friendly amendment – Stang): Make “A written request for tenure…” a
separate item.
·
Page 7, lines 292-293 (Section
II.A.1): (Friendly amendment – Liverpool): Change “…or a master’s degree plus
license in Marriage and Family Therapy or Clinical Social Work is required…” to
“…or a master’s degree plus license in Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical
Social Work, or Licensed Educational Psychologist is required..”
·
Page 8, line 360 (Section
II.A.5.c): (Friendly amendment – Fromson): Add “Because the professoriate
entails growth and reassessment, the University expects that the tenured
faculty will continue to strive for excellence in teaching, creative activity,
and service.”
·
Page 9, lines 402-403 (Section
II.B.1.b.2): It was M/S [Junn/Fromson] to delete “However, they shall not count
for more than 50% for weighing teaching effectiveness” and substitute with
“However, they shall not be used by any level of evaluation as the sole measure
of teaching effectiveness.”
(Discussion of this item was halted to take up the next time certain.)
Time Certain
Subject: ASD 07-08 Proposed UPS on
SRI [Source: FAC]
Time: 12:15 p.m.
(Friendly amendment – Hewitt): Change SRI to SOQ (Student Opinion
Questionnaires) throughout the document to make the language parallel to the
proposed language in UPS 210.000.
(Section III.D.): (Amendment not friendly – Junn) M/S/P [Junn/Stang] to
delete the last sentence and substitute with “Your evaluation is confidential,
so please refrain from discussing your course evaluation with others. Thank you
for your consideration.” with the following amendments:
·
(Friendly amendment – Buck):
Add “talking or” before “discussing”
·
(Friendly amendment – Stang):
Add “during” after “talking
Sentence should read: “Your evaluation is confidential, so please
refrain from talking during the course evaluation or discussing your course
evaluation with others. Thank you for your consideration.”
(Section II.J): M/S/P [Mead/Fromson]: Change to read “All SOQ forms and
statistical summaries that are older than six years, and no longer needed for
retention, tenure, and promotion purposes, shall be returned to the faculty
member, whether completed in class or online.”
(Discussion of this item was halted to take up the next time certain.)
Time Certain
Subject: ASD 07-61 Revised UPS
300.002 Academic Advising Policy [Source: SALC]
Time: 12:45 p.m.
M/S/P [Rhoten/Drezner] to approve revised UPS 300.002 Academic Advising
Policy as amended:
(Section III.A.): (Friendly amendment - Hewitt): Change section A to
read “Students have responsibility to familiarize themselves with departmental
and university requirements and take advantage of opportunities for academic
advisement provided by the various University offices and programs.”
(Section III.C.1): (Friendly amendment – Hewitt): Add “This requirement
is in addition to any college or departmental mandatory advising.”
(Section III.C.2): (Amendment not friendly – Hewitt): M/S/P
[Hewitt/Nanjundappa] with one abstention to change section C.2. to read “All
incoming transfer students must complete a student orientation session prior to
registration for their second semester. This requirement shall be satisfied by
attending Transfer Student Orientation or by completing the Online Transfer
Overview. This requirement is in addition to any college or departmental
mandatory advising.”
(Approved unanimously)
VII.
CHAIR’S
REPORT
No report, due to lack of time.
VIII. STATEWIDE ACADEMIC SENATE REPORT
No report, due to lack of time.
IX.
FIRST
Item 9.1 was not reviewed due to lack of time.
9.1 UPS 271.101 Rights of Temporary Full and
Part-Time Faculty
X.
NEW
BUSINESS
Items 10.1 – 10.4 were
not discussed due to lack of time.
10.1
ASD 07-09 Revised UPS 300.040 Academic Standards for
Postbaccalaureate Students
[ASC]
10.2
ASD 07-17 Revised UPS 508.000 Policy on Return or
Replacement of Library Materials
[Library Committee]
10.3
ASD 07-27 Resolution: One-Year Trial to Elect
Standing and General Committee Chairs in the Spring [Academic Senate
Executive Committee]
10.4
ASD 07-38 Revised UPS 210.007 Appointment of
Administrative Personnel
[Academic Senate
Executive Committee]
XI.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 1:00 p.m.