ACADEMIC SENATE November 14, 2002
MINUTES
Members Present: Abdelwahed, Bedell, Boyum, Buck, Cox,
Emry, Fitch, Fromson, Gannon, Gilbert, Guerin, Hewitt, Jeremiah, Jones, Junn,
Kim, Klassen, Meyer, Nanjundappa, Parker, Parman, Pasternack, Perkins, Putcha,
Randall, Reisman, Rhoten, Rimmer, Roberts, Russell, Rutemiller, Schroeder,
Shapiro, Smith, Szeszulski, Tavakolian, Vargas, Wolverton and Wong
Members Absent: Arkenberg,
Erickson, Gordon, Hagan, Sawicki, Sutphen and Taulli.
I.
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Gilbert called the meeting to order at
II.
URGENT BUSINESS
None.
III.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Chair Gilbert announced the sad news that Judy Ramirez’s husband, Frank,
passed away on November 13th.
Condolences may be sent to Judy Ramirez,
He also announced receiving a notification a week ago of a volume that
the CSU Institute for Teaching & Learning is putting together relating to
issues on academic technology in the CSU.
They are looking to identify published articles written by faculty from
all the campuses, who have effectively integrated academic technology into
their teaching. They encourage papers
that address the use of technology to improve student learning or student
access to learning, but will accept any article that was written or co-authored
by CSU faculty members that addresses the use of academic technology in higher
education. Submission deadline is
Chair Gilbert noted he had received a notification from David Spence
concerning an international faculty partnership seminar that will be held this
summer in
Senator Nanjundappa announced the 2003-04 Contract Re-Opener Bargaining
Survey Luncheon Meeting scheduled to be held on Monday, December 9th at
Senator Rhoten commented on the materials she distributed to
Senators from the Academic Integrity campaign sponsored by the
Dean of Student’s Office, Judicial Affairs and University Honors and
Scholars through University Initiative funding. The aim of the campaign is to help
students understand academic integrity expectations within the
university community. They worked
with an advisory group of students from across the colleges
who came up with the theme, “CSUF-Making Integrity Count,” and helped
produce four different posters aimed at students to help them do the right
thing. The campaign was kicked off in late October at an Honor’s Week
event and they will be out at other student events throughout the
rest of the academic year.
Senator Pasternack announced he had attended the statewide Senate meeting
last week. A major item of discussion on
Friday was a Senate resolution calling for reconsideration of the Trustees’
proposed budget. The budget proposal adopted
by the Board of Trustees is inconsistent with Senate budget priorities in that
it:
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Provides for only 1% faculty
salary increase within the partnership agreement;
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Seeks funding for salary costs
already funded under previous legislative allocations;
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Sets the interests of faculty and
university staff against each other through an attempt to achieve salary
parity;
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Fails to cover first-year costs of
ACR-73 in the partnership agreement.
Senator Meyer explained that a major source of frustration for the
faculty is that over the last 7 or 8 years, the system has received from the
legislature exactly what the trustees have asked for. We have not asked for monies to help with the
closing of CPEC salary gap, or money for taking care of burdening
maintenance. We are not going to get
additional funding from the State of
IV.
CHAIRS REPORT
Chair Gilbert reminded the Senators that the discussion of the proposal
to raise CSUF’s enrollment cap to 25,000, as part of the revised Master Plan,
will be on the agenda for the next Senate meeting on December 12th. In order to create a context in which we can
have an informed, collegial and constructive discussion of that issue, he
encouraged the Senators to communicate to the Senate office any questions,
concerns or issues that they would like to raise at that meeting, so that the
individuals who will be in a position to respond to those issues, can do so as
responsibly and comprehensively as possible.
Time Certain
Amir Dabirian – Director, Information Technology
Subject: Faculty
Portals
Amir Dabirian was invited to do a presentation to the Senate on Faculty Portals. The Faculty Portal provides secure access to online information personalized for each user. The faculty pages feature tabs for easy navigation, and faculty can customize the appearance of their pages to reflect their particular needs. Additional features will be added for faculty in the coming months. Features currently being offered include:
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My CSUF
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Email
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Library
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Profile
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Committees
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Training
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Finance
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Services
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Titan Card
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Campus Calendar
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Classes – faculty will now be able to post a message to the
student’s portal. Faculty has access to class lists, an information-posting
feature for the Class Schedule that displays notes and/or a syllabus for a
particular class.
Chair
Gilbert, on behalf of the Senate, thanked Amir for the informative
presentation.
Time Certain
Dr. Louise Adler, Chair--Educational Leadership
Subject: ASD 02-129 Joint Ed.D. Program
It was m/s [Bedell/Pasternack] to adopt the document ASD 02-129 Joint Ed.D.
Program.
It was m/s/accepted
as a friendly amendment [Shapiro/Fitch] to amend Section
1, sub-section g. Options concentrations or special emphases—page 20. After the sentence “It is expected that most
of those admitted to the program on this campus will be leaders or potential
leaders in K-12 education” add the following sentence “Students with
a rich background in classroom instruction gained through five or more years of
teaching experience, are likely to bring to the program the necessary knowledge
and dispositions to successfully complete the program.”
It was m/s/accepted as
a friendly amendment [Vargas/Fitch] to amend the second
paragraph on page 2, under Joint Executive Committee. Immediately after the second sentence “All
will be members of the Executive Committees of the participating campuses” add
the following sentence “The chair of
the joint Executive Committee will rotate between the campuses on an ad hoc
basis, so that a member from each campus would be chair before a campus repeats
in the chair position.”
It was m/s/accepted as a friendly amendment [Vargas/Fitch] that because of the previous motion, which changes the chart in the abstract and instead of having just one campus in the center and all the others pivoting around a satellite, propose changing this picture to a round table showing a pentagon where they are all equally arranged.
It was
m/s/accepted as a friendly amendment [Nanjundappa/Bedell] to add a sentence
on page 38 under “Procedures for formation of Initial Governing Faculty Group
(first 3 years): section d.” to read “During
the first three years of the Governing Faculty Group, a member of the group may
be removed by the Associate VP, Academic Programs in consultation with the
appropriate dean and the chair.”
It was m/s/p [Pasternack/Bedell] to close debate.
It was m/s/p to approve document ASD 02-129 Joint Ed.D. Program as amended with one
abstention.
V.
CONSENT CALENDAR
It was m/s/p [Bedell/Abdelwahed] to approve the following Consent Calendar:
A.
ASD 02-126 Academic Senate Minutes
B.
ASD 02-127 Department Name Change
for Department of Foreign Languages & Literature
VI.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
A. ASD 02-123 UPS 300.030 Revised Academic Appeals
It was m/s [Gannon/Rimmer] to approve document UPS 300.030.
It was m/s/p [Rhoten/Gannon] on page 2, line 16 at the end of the sentence that ends
in “either party” insert “according to
Presidential Directive #9 the representative may not be a licensed or
practicing attorney”.
Accepted as a friendly amendment on page 4, line 21 at the end of the
sentence that ends in “either party” insert “according to Presidential Directive #9 the representative
may not be a licensed or practicing attorney”.
Accepted as a friendly amendment on page 4, line 15 to insert “or uphold” after the
word “dismiss”.
It was m/s/f [Rutemiller/Gannon] under Section C. Timing of Appeals Process amending
line 39 and 40 to read the “written appeal
shall be submitted within 60 calendar days of the completion of the
consultation process described in Section B. 2.”
It was m/s/f [Nanjundappa/Abdelwahed] to delete the first part of the sentence on
page 1, line 20 “Because the
university presumes that students act honestly.”
It was m [Fromson] to call the question on this amendment. Amendment
failed.
It was m/s/p [Shapiro/Fitch] to call the question on the document as amended.
Motion passed to approve ASD 02-123 UPS 300.030 as amended.
VII. NEW BUSINESS
A.
ASD 02-128 Revisions to Academic Senate
Bylaws
This
item was not considered at this meeting due to time limitations and will be
placed on the agenda as Unfinished Business for the next meeting.
It was m/s/p [Fitch/Shapiro] to adjourn. The meeting adjourned at