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2004-2005 Faculty Meeting Minutes Colorado State University-Pueblo November 29, 2004
The regular meeting of the Faculty Senate was held on Monday, November 29, 2004 at 3:00 p.m. in the Ethel Arthur Conference Room – Library 106.
Members Present: Eleni Adrian, Ahmad Ahmadian, Janet Barnett, Sandra Bonetti, Jude DePalma, Moussa Diawara, Neb Jaksic, Carol Loats, Janet Nichols, John Ryan, Wolfgang Sauer, Paul Sefcovic, Keith Sinkhorn, Roy Sonnema, Dan Sullivan, Ted Taylor.
Members Absent: Ian Brennan, Colette Carter, Carol Foust, David Keplinger, Marilyn Lucero, Tim McGettigan, Beatrice Spade, Mike Wakefield, Karen Yescavage.
Guest Present: Joe Marshall, Director of Admissions & Records; Ronald Applbaum, President; Tony Montoya, Director of Diversity
Ex-Officio Member: Barbara Montgomery, Provost
Parliamentarian: Keith Sinkhorn
I. CALL TO ORDERCarol Loats, Vice President of Faculty Senate, called the meeting to order at 3:05 pm.
II. APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA Without objection the agenda for the 11-29-04 Faculty Senate meeting was approved.
III. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES Minutes for the 10-25-04 Faculty Senate meeting were approved with the meeting date being changed to 9/27/04.
IV. INFORMATION, DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS
A. Director of Admissions & Records – Joe Marshall · Joe Marshall circulated the list of fall 2004 potential graduates. There are 249 potential graduates. · Dr. Montgomery suggested that the accuracy of the list be evaluated within each department at a later time when files and other data are accessible for comparison. · Fall 2004 potential graduate list was approved unanimously as is.
B. First Year Experience- Katherine Frank Dvorsky · Katherine Frank Dvorsky circulated handout regarding proposed model for the first year experience program. English 099, 101, or 102 will be linked with one other class related to major. An extra hour will be attached to the English course. The model includes a fully integrated curriculum. There will be peer mentors included in the model. The pilot program will include 6 mentors and 2 lead mentors. Mentors are to receive course credit for participation. Discussion is taking place to decide whether faculty should receive release time or a stipend for their involvement. Potential goals for this program are listed on handout. Pilot program for fall 2005 is listed on handout pg 3. There will be six tracts: music, engineering, liberal studies, biology, business and undeclared with English 101 as the anchor course. Pairing courses are listed in handout. Mentors have already been selected. Currently the English course and the pairing course are trying to be scheduled back to back. 150 students will participate in the program this fall. Students will be selected as to represent a campus wide sample. Committee feels that compensation for participating instructors need to be considered carefully. · Brief discussion followed.
C. Senate President- Dr. Carol Foust Absent- No Report
D. CSU-Pueblo President- Dr. Ronald Applbaum
· Dr. Applbaum attended a meeting in Denver with the CCHE system staff and representatives from CSU-Ft. Collins dealing with the performance contract. Meeting went well. We are still in negotiations. By the end of December or beginning of January there should be a version available of the performance contract. · The JBC is meeting with all higher education. Senator Tapia and Chancellor Penley discussed tuition differentials and where do we stand. CCHE has not thrown differentials out yet. A recommendation was made to accept disciplinary differentials together with CSU-Ft. Collins if this is approved. · The Massari gymnasium is open. Renovation is taking place on the west side bleachers. Goal is to get the west side bleachers to be able to move back and forth. The structure of the east side bleachers are being worked on. The east side bleachers will not be able to be moved once finished. By March the gymnasium should be ready for use for high school tournaments. We are sitting in the #2 spot for state money for the Massari gymnasium project. Additional monies will need to be raised to complete the project.
E. CSU-Pueblo Provost – Dr. Barbara Montgomery
· Retention: o Retention rates have taken a dip. Best predictors of retention are still academic preparation coming in, ACT scores and high school G.P.A. Another area of interest in regard to retention is related to the financial aid packages we offer to students. We are also looking at the effects of retention when making students pay their bills first before receiving funding. We have a new advising structure however data is not conclusive on how that has affected retention. The relationship between a student’s probationary status and retention rates are also being examined. There is a correlation between first generation college students and retention. The university is currently looking at that data. Low income also has a lot to do with retention. · First Year Experience Program: o The first year experience program is very important and holds some promise. Overall, 25% of students are on academic probation at some time. Large proportions of students are struggling with math and writing. Career paths should be discussed with student and advisor. · Faculty Salary Study: o There has been a delay on the faculty salary study. Researcher that was working on this was not able to finish it. Carol Foust identified a faculty member at Lamar University who said we were very far along with the study and it could be completed fairly soon. He cannot run the report until the holiday break. We have contracted with him to get this done. Results should be available in January. The implementation of the salary study would not be available until next fiscal year. We are waiting to see what the budget will be like. Deans are very supportive of the salary study. The plans are all phased in models. Existing dollars are now in the control of academic affairs. Decision making is more flexible and how to spend these dollars needs to be figured. Not everyone will get an increase. Merit record and time will determine whether there is an increase or not. The goal is to bring those who are under the recommended salary up to par. · General Education: o Statewide general education is being worked toward. 2nd year foreign language courses and diversity courses may be accepted toward general education requirements as long as they meet the established criteria.
F. Extra Guest Speaker—Tony Montoya-Director of Diversity · Introduced by Carol Loats. Tony Montoya is the new director of diversity and is located in Administration 310. His office is trying to renovate the student center to house the new multicultural center. His goal is to set up an advisory board in addition to the multicultural council. He would like a member(s) of faculty senate to join this board along with outside community members and students to discuss how to design the center and what the center should do. He hopes to establish relationships in the community through this board that will lead to the development of internships for our students later on. Let him know if you would like to be involved. He would also like to develop a mentoring program in the center that would be available to all students across campus. The new center is to be all inclusive not just geared toward minority students.
G. COC – Dr. Janet Barnett
· Correction: Previously mentioned elections for the at-large position available on the grievance mediation board was incorrectly reported. The position is a board appointed position. Elections will not be held.
H. CAPB – Janet Nichols · 2nd reading of a motion to list programs in an alpha order index in the catalog was presented. The motion was 2nd by Janet Nichols for the in print and online alpha order index. Motion was approved unanimously. · Motion to accept the Fall 2004 report on proposed curriculum changes was made by Janet Nichols. 2nd by Neb Jaksic and approved unanimously with stipulation from Janet Nichols that departments of emphasis areas be consulted prior to making changes to major’s curriculum. The math emphasis area within the liberal studies major was changed without first consulting with math department. · Program reviews: MET justification resulted in continuance of program.
I. APSB - Paul Sefcovic · 1st reading of a motion to accept revisions to the Grade Change Policy (distributed changes to wording). Main change was to replace all the “shalls” with “must”. Deans’ signatures are still required. · 1st reading of proposed graduate faculty criterion. A generic graduate faculty criterion statement would be printed in the catalog to demonstrate that faculty teaching graduate courses do meet a minimum specific criterion. Additional requirements for graduate faculty will be determined by the specific departments. The generic statement will only establish a minimum institutional criterion requirement. · Discussion of Intellectual Property Policy: o Electronic request of changes in intellectual property policy was distributed. It will be listed in the faculty handbook. “Department of Continuing Education” was changed to “University”. Legal counsel requested that “university works” be clarified. Distribution of proceeds from proposed works needs to be clarified. CSERF (?) would be responsible for getting any patents. They would market the product as an independent agency. They would receive reimbursement of direct expenses and a percentage of the earnings. This will resolve the conflict of interest that would exist if proceeds were distributed by the institution. This will come back to Senate at a later time.
J. Faculty Compensation Committee – Dr. Moussa Diawara · A change was proposed to the language of faculty handbook in regard to independent study courses. It was to allow for faculty to have more than 1 course credit overload for an independent study course. The idea was not approved by the Senate.
K. Faculty Handbook Committee – Dr. John Ryan · No Report
L. Gen Ed Board – Dr. Wolfgang Sauer · 2nd reading of a motion to accept General Education Course Guidelines. The university does not need its own guidelines. It was proposed to go with what is presented by CCHE. This motion was dropped. · 1st reading for acceptance of definition of cross-cultural content presented by CCHE. (CCHE homepage was printed out and distributed so definition can be looked at). A suggestion was made to look at the reference to the United States (“Inclusiveness” section) as to its appropriateness. Will solicit comments from the Multicultural council regarding this statement.
M. Information Technology Board – Dr. Neb Jaksic · Windows XP will roll out starting next summer 2005. Windows 2000 will be obsolete and will not be supported by Microsoft anymore. Survey regarding spam filters returned a 2/3 in favor vote.
N. Board of Governors Rep – Dr. Roy Sonnema · Attended a meeting on November 18th to discuss the process of defining a new mission statement for CSU- Ft Collins. Chancellor Peney is working on the CSU-Ft. Collins statement. He will approach CSU-Pueblo at a later date.
O. CFAC – Dr. Jude DePalma · No report
V. UNFINISHED BUSINESS · Already addressed. VI. NEW BUSINESS · Already addressed.
VII. ADJOURNMENT Without objection, the meeting was adjourned at 4:50 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Nebojsa Jaksic Faculty Senate Secretary
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