ACADEMIC SENATE
MINUTES
Members Present: Abdelwahed, Bedell, Boyum, Buck, Cox,
Emry, Erickson, Fitch, Fromson, Gannon, Gilbert, Guerin, Hewitt, Jones,
Klassen, Meyer, Parker, Parman, Pasternack, Perkins, Putcha, Rhoten, Rimmer,
Russell, Rutemiller, Schroeder, Shapiro, Smith, Sutphen, Szeszulski, Taulli,
Tavakolian, Vargas, Wolverton and Wong
Members Absent: Arkenberg,
Gordon, Hagan, Jeremiah, Junn, Kim, Nanjundappa, Reisman, Roberts, and Sawicki
I.
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Gilbert called the
meeting to order at
Time Certain
Jay Bond, Associate Vice President for Facilities Management
Subject: Final Master
Development Plan A “First Glimpse”
Jay Bond introduced Kim Apel and Willem Van der pol and then proceeded with a review of the revised master plan. The revised master plan includes a proposal to raise the current campus enrollment ceiling to 25,000, which is 5000 over our current enrollment ceiling, which was established at 20,000 FTES in 1962.
Jay Bond then briefly commented on the following features of the revised
master plan:
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Defines locations for future
expansion even beyond 25, 000 FTES
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Utilizes only existing,
currently-owned property
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Provides phased development of
required academic facilities
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Preserves quad, historic elements
and campus green spaces—primarily develops current parking lots
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Closes Nutwood and revises vehicle
entries to campus
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Expands on-campus student housing
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Provide east campus food service
in Engineering complex
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Provides location for
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Meets parking requirements with
peripheral parking structures
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Provides new site for expanded
Children’s Center that would include childcare for children of faculty and
staff
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Includes a Faculty/Staff
Center/Club
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Includes a future cogeneration
facility and anticipates infrastructure needs
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Provides for future development of
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Arboretum Visitor’s Center
Members expressed
serious concerns about the ability to smoothly and quickly evacuate the campus,
the existence or lack thereof of emergency plans and the need to study traffic
flow.
II.
URGENT BUSINESS
It was m/s/p [Buck/Fitch] to request the Senate Chair to schedule a formal discussion
of the FTES target.
III.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Senator Szeszulski announced that the Child & Adolescent Studies
Department is hosting a brown bag discussion on the Current Status of HIV and
AIDS on Wednesday, November 6th from
Senator Fromson announced Morris Dees, Co-Founder and Chief Trial
Counsel, Southern Poverty Law Center, has accepted an invitation to speak on
campus on
IV. CHAIRS REPORT
No report.
V.
CONSENT CALENDAR
It was m/s/p to adopt Consent Calendar as amended:
A.
ASD 02-117 Academic Senate Minutes
B.
NOMINEES TO AD
HOC COMMITTEE
Department Standards Review Committee
Nominees:
Jane Hipolito (HSS); Stewart Long (Dept. Chair/CBE); Sandra Sutphen (FDC/Exec Com)
Intellectual Property
Nominees:
Emily Bonney (HSS); Do Minh (CBE); Kolf Jayaweera (CNSM); Albert Flores (HSS); Marcelo Tolmasky (CNSM); Fleur Tehrani (ECS); Abbie Brown (HDCS);
Michael Parker (IT); Thomas Clanin (Chair, IT Committee); Pamela Madsen (ARTS)
VI.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
There being none.
VII.
NEW BUSINESS
A. ASD 02-121 UPS 210.001 Revised Recruitment of Faculty
It was m/s/ [Sutphen/Gannon] to adopt document ASD 02-121. Senator Sutphen indicated the revised
document attempts to bring the policy in line with the Collective Bargaining
Agreement (CBA), by allowing, with the President’s consent, probationary
faculty to serve on search committees.
It was m/s [Fitch/Perkins] to refer this document back to committee after the body’s
discussion of the document to identify areas of concerns.
Points of dissent:
§ Page 1; line 38 change “college request”
to “college’s request”.
§ Page 2; line 18 delete the words “of
tenured faculty”
line 20 add “While the committee shall normally consist of tenured faculty” at
the beginning of the sentence that starts with “If a department….
line 29 delete the word “all”
§ Page 2; line 24 after
the word President, add “via the VP for Academic Affairs”
§ Page 2; lines 1&
2 delete
the final sentence “At each point some flexibility will need to be maintained
to allow for contingencies”.
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Page 2; lines
43-45 Senators raised two issues: 1) whose
responsibility is it to inform prospective candidates regarding requirements
for tenure and promotion—is it the department chair or the chair of the
department personnel committee? 2) at what point in the process should this information be
shared with the candidate?
§ Page 3; lines
4-6 move the final two sentences of the paragraph on the
role of the department chair to the end of the paragraph on the role of the
dean, which ends on line 27.
§ Page 3; lines
12-19 biggest issues have to do with how much access
departmental faculty members, both tenured and untenured, who are not on the
search committee, have to materials contained in the applicant’s files, keeping
in mind the legal limits.
§ Page 3; section
5 suggests phone interviews are no longer acceptable - they should be included as
acceptable.
§ Page 4; line 9 at the end of the first sentence replace the word “Chair” with
“department”. Then revise the beginning
of the second sentence to read “After approval by a majority of the department
and by the Department Chair, …
§ Page 4; line
19 add a final sentence to the first paragraph to read
“The appointment offer shall be made within one week after the department has
submitted its recommendation and all required documents.”
It was m/s/p [Fromson/Meyer]
to close debate.
Motion passed to refer
UPS 210.001 document back to committee urging them to
quickly revise the document.
It was m/s/p
[Fromson/Bedell] to adjourn. The meeting
adjourned at