1) CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order by Dennis Rome, Chair, at 3:35 P.M.  Also attending were members Herb Colston, Peggy James, Farida Khan, and Greg Mayer.  Chris Evans was excused.  Interim Chancellor Lane Earns was a guest.  Evelyn Zepp was present as Interim Secretary of the Faculty.

A motion to suspend the agenda was approved 5-0-0. 

5) NEW BUSINESS 

• Discussion with Lane Earns, Interim Chancellor

Introductions were made.

--I.C. Earns will check his calendar in order that the Faculty Meeting scheduled for Oct. 23rd may be moved (Senate is Tuesday Oct. 21st).

--Status of the campus survey: Friday is the deadline.  The Deans will be asked to send out a final reminder. 

--Prof. James presented the results of the most recent surveys on administrators.  We can work on making positive uses of this information.

--Prof. Mayer presented some personnel issues, especially relating to searches.  I.C. Earns said that some of the hiring policies have been deemed illegal by System.  He is working on the issue of the timeliness of responses, on bringing HR more into the process, on procedures aimed at widening pools at the beginning of the process, and on saving the Office of Equity and Diversity from being on an island by itself.  The question of ranking and not ranking final candidates was also discussed.

--Prof. Rome talked about cases of student misconduct and getting support from the Dean of Students.  The system of flagging students seems to be more about potential terrorist activity than about student conduct in the classroom.  I.C. Earns said that he will ask the Dean of Students to be more active; we need to make sure we have a good way to get information.  It would be good to separate the positions of Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, but there may be no money to do this.

--Prof. Khan raised the question of (the relative lack of) research support for tenured faculty.  I.C. Earns stated that departments need to look a little closer at whether some people are showing enough work to keep the research reduction in teaching.  Reductions should be made according to research, after which service and administrative considerations should be brought in to make adjustments (service should not replace research in teaching reduction considerations).

--Provisional admission was discussed.  Something needs to be done about the perception that we have open admission.  We can’t afford to lose the numbers, but we need to look at other ways to bring in students, i.e. articulations.  State support will never go back up again; we need to figure out other sources of revenue.  Everyone else have a model for growing; we need to do more planning.  We have to have the academic program plan in place.  The community will give not because we need it but because they can be proud of our programs.  We need to show some of the donors what we really do.

Interim Chancellor Earns left the meeting at 5:30 P.M. 

2) Approval of Minutes from September 23, 2008
POSTPONED 

3) Announcements

POSTPONED 

4) Unfinished Business: 

• New Policies 36, 45, and 54

POSTPONED 

• Creation of new committee for Student appeals

              Oct. 7th 

• Secretary of Faculty position—an offer is being made to the person who applied, who would begin in January

• Revision to the charge of the Assessment Committee

Oct. 7th

• First Friday: Oct. 3rd

Send reminder 

• Appointment of Sabbatical Proposal Review Committee:

2 from CRCA: (Michael Gurtman, Scott Thomson, Jay McRoy, Trenton Baylor, Susan Lincke, Ed Schmitt)

                            Trenton Baylor and Ed Schmitt were suggested.

2 from CoTL: (Fran Kavenik, Lori Allen, Jonathan Olsen, Linda Crafton)

                            Jonathan Olsen and Lori Allen were suggested.

2 recent recipients: (Zhaohui Li, Jonathan Shailor, Helen Rosenberg, Alex McNair, Roby Rajan; Farida Khan, Penny Lyter, Jonathan Olsen, Joy Wolf)                           Farida Khan volunteered; Alex McNair was suggested.

5) New Business: 

• Dean Ebeid:

Augmention of Department of Computer Science Executive Committee by Laura Gellott (History) and Paul Mohazzabi (Physics)

The augmentation was approved 5-0-0.

 [The line “Norman Cloutier, Frances Kavenik and Skelly Warren” here was an

 error.] 

• CTS Director Position Description

   POSTPONED until next week.

d) Appointment to First-Year Experience Committee to replace Christine Evans (resigned): committee recommends Scott Thomson or Ed Wallen.

                            Members recommended asking Ed Wallen first. 

6) Miscellaneous Business

There was no other business.

  

7) Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 5:40 P.M. 

Submitted by Evelyn Zepp, Secretary of the Faculty