THE
university SENATE OF
Minutes of Meeting 433
1 February 2006
Synopsis:
The Senate
(1) heard a presentation by Chris Anderson on family friendly policies.
(2) heard that the presidential evaluation is underway.
(3) passed Proposal 9-06, Transfer of Tenure and Rank between Academic Units
(4) passed Proposal 10-06, Guidelines for Transfer of Tenure and Rank between Academic Units
(5) passed Proposal 11-06, Charter Proposal
(6) passed Proposal 12-06, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, B.S.
(7) passed Proposal 14-06, Minor in Electrical Engineering
(8) passed Proposal 15-06, Proposal for Bachelor's Degree Title Change (to Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology)
(9) introduced Proposal 16-06 to revise the procedure for Senate emergency submissions
(10) introduced Proposal 17-06, Exercise Science, B.S.
(11) introduced Proposal 18-06, Department of Physical Education Name Change
(12) introduced Proposal 19-06, Timing of Committee Assignments (Senate)
(11) declared Scott Pollins as their representative to the CIO Search Committee by acclamation
1. CALL TO
ORDER AND ROLL CALL
President Sloan called the University Senate Meeting 433 to order at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, 1 February 2006, in Room B45 EERC.
Secretary Glime called roll. Absent were representatives from Computer Science, Education, Fine Arts, Materials Science & Engineering, and IT & Ed. Tech. Serv. Liaisons in attendance were Becky Christianson (Staff Council), Liz Van Heusden (USG), and Nick Nanninga (GSC). Army/Air Force ROTC, Biomedical Engineering, Academic Services C, and Auxiliaries currently have no elected representatives.
2. RECOGNITION OF VISITORS
Guests included John
Adler (Biol. Sci.), Chris Anderson (Educ. Oppor./PCW), Donna Michalek
(ME-EM/COE), Anne Warrington (SBE & PCW), Ellen Horsch (Admin), Max Seel
(Sci. & Arts), Dave Reed (Provost), Scott Amos (
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
President Sloan requested that item 6 (Family Friendly Policies Presentation) be moved to follow the approval of the agenda and that a new item be added to New Business – election of a Senate representative to the CIO Search Committee.
Williams MOVED and Clancey seconded the motion to approve the agenda as amended. The motion to approve PASSED on voice vote with no dissent.
4. Family
Friendly Policies presentation – Chris anderson, donna michalek, anne
Chris Anderson stated that the family friendly policies were initiated by the PCW (President's Commission for Women). Dana Johnson and MC Friedrick wrote the proposals and the PCW (Donna Michalek, Sherry Kauppi, Dana Johnson, MC Friedrick, Anne Warrington, and Chris Anderson, with input from HR and Debbie Lassila) reviewed them. These were delivered by the Provost to the Senate. The Senate sent them back to the PCW for further refinement.
Donna Michalek stated that she had attended the 2005
National Leadership Workshop in
The PCW group recommends policies in three areas: tenure, promotion, and reappointment (in progress in the Senate), children in the workplace (needs to be more flexible), and bereavement & compassionate leave (they suggest the language used in the staff union contract and clarification that sick leave time can be used).
One method that has been used on other campuses is fractional and flexible work arrangements. These include fractional appointments, home-based work, and flexible hours.
Senator Waddell asked what was happening with daycare. Horsch (Administration) stated that the
Administration is still looking at that.
There are two possibilities under consideration: the President's residence or building near
Senator Landsparger stated that it would be good to get the preschool to change their calendar from quarters to semesters.
Senator Nitz inquired how programs such as these are usually
supported. Michalek responded that they
are usually resource-based, but that support is a concern everywhere.
Senator Waddell stated that two concerns that have been
expressed are secure places for nursing and diaper changing stations. Michalek responded that the Student
Commission has already dealt with the diaper changing problem and identified
locations in most public buildings on campus.
Additional stations have been added and there is an intent to provide
signs indicating where such stations are located. Senator Janners added that the
Senator Jambekar asked if we have lost dual career couples. Dean Seel responded that we have a lot of dual career couples and that we are trying to make dual hires work. However, we have no written policy and we do lose some both before and after hiring.
Senator Gotschalk stated that we don't have a policy called a maternity policy, but that maternity provisions are covered under several other policies such as the leave policy. We need to organize or index these in a way that makes it easy to look up the maternity provisions more easily.
Ann Warrington (PCW) stated that there are other expectations such as travel to other countries that create problems for faculty.
5. approval of minutes from meeting 432
Turnquist MOVED and Waddell seconded the motion to approve the minutes of Meeting 432 as presented. The motion PASSED on voice vote with no dissent. [Appendix A. NOTE: Only Senate and library archival copies of minutes will have a full complement of appendices.]
6. President’s Report
President Sloan
reported that her report would be short because there is a full agenda.
Proposals
The Provost attended
the state university academic officers' meeting last Friday to obtain their
approval of the BS program in Anthropology, Proposal 5-06. This proposal will again be on the Board of
Control agenda for final approval.
Proposal 6-06,
Request for Change in Board of Control Policy 6.4 on Office of Ombuds, will go
to the Board of Control for approval.
Proposal 7-06,
Addition of Coursework Only (No Oral Exam) Master's Degree Plan (revised) has
been approved by the Provost but the President has not yet had a chance to
review it.
CIO Search
The Senate Executive Committee requested a Senate representative to the Search Committee for Chief Information Officer, a new internal position. The Provost agreed and the Senate may elect such a representative tonight. The Executive Committee and the Provost also agreed to revisit the issue of search policies to improve clarity and efficiency.
Evaluation of the President
Evaluation of the University President is underway. Results are expected at the Senate meeting on 22 March.
7. old Business
A. Proposal 8-06,
Academic Integrity Policy 2005-2006 Proposal Revised [Appendix B]
Senator Gotschalk presented changes to the proposal on academic integrity. [The procedure had been removed from this proposal to be put into a separate proposal.] She stated that the Academic Integrity Committee is not a Senate Committee but is appointed by the University Senate. She stated that it was suggested to her that the policy should also include the sanctions.
Secretary Glime suggested that the proposal should include the sanctions and new wording before the Senate voted on it. The voting was postponed until a full proposal was provided.
B. Proposal 9-06, Transfer of Tenure and Rank between Academic Units [Appendix C]
Secretary Glime made an editorial change to remove the wording "that provide for union requirements" from the end of the first paragraph under background.
Janners MOVED and Jambekar seconded the motion to approve Proposal 9-06 as edited. There was no discussion.
The motion PASSED on voice vote of academic units with no opposition.
C. Proposal 10-06, Guidelines for Transfer of Tenure and Rank between Academic Units [Appendix D]
Pollins MOVED and
Williams seconded the motion to approve Proposal 10-06. There was no discussion.
The motion PASSED
on voice vote of academic units with no opposition.
D. Proposal 11-06, Charter Proposal [Appendix E]
Secretary Glime asked that "60 days" be replaced by "60 calendar days" in the first two occurrences of the proposal as an editorial change for clarity.
Pollins MOVED and
Williams seconded the motion to approve Proposal 11-06 as edited. There was no discussion.
The motion PASSED
on voice vote of the full Senate with no opposition.
E. Proposal 12-06, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, B.S.
Janners MOVED and
Boschetto-Sandoval seconded the motion to approve Proposal 12-06. There was no discussion.
The motion PASSED
on voice vote of academic units with no opposition.
F. Proposal 14-06, Minor in Electrical Engineering
Pollins MOVED and
Clancey seconded the motion to approve Proposal 14-06. There was no discussion.
The motion PASSED
on voice vote of academic units with no opposition.
G. Proposal 15-06, Proposal for Bachelor's Degree Title Change
Pollins MOVED and
Turnquist seconded the motion to approve Proposal 15-06. There was no discussion.
The motion PASSED
on voice vote of academic units with no opposition.
8. New business
A. Proposal 16-06, Proposed Revision of Emergency Submissions (Senate By-laws) [Appendix F]
Martha Sloan
presented this proposal to expedite Senate proceedings. Senator Boersma suggested that the words
"ballot of" be removed from section 9b. There was no further discussion.
B. Proposal 17-06, Exercise Science, B.S. [Appendix G]
Senator H. Gorman
stated that the proposal to change the name of the Physical Education department
to the Department of Exercise Science, Health, and Physical Education should
probably precede the proposal to establish a B.S. in Exercise Science as it
will be the department to offer the new degree. He noted that many of the
courses in the new curriculum were biology courses and that the Curriculum
Committee supported this proposal.
Dean Seel
explained that this proposal would permit the department to offer academic
programs. The name change would not be
approved by the Board of Control if the program that necessitates it has not
been approved. Therefore that approval
would only come after downstate approval of the program.
Senator Beck
stated that the Finance Committee sees no problems with the proposal. The estimates are reasonable. Internal transfers do not provide income, but
retention due to such transfers do. The
proposed GTA cost means that the University must increase the number of
GTA's. Dean Seel will support the
required renovation costs, which he expects to be minimal.
Seel stated that
one advantage of adding this program is that we can phase it in without needing
to make any irreversible decisions in case it doesn't work. If there is no net increase in students then
there will be no need for new resources or new lab sections. There would be a need for research space for
the department Chair. This program
builds on the strengths already present in biological sciences and in
biomedical engineering.
Senator Turnquist
expressed his support for the proposal, stating that there is tremendous job
growth in this area and this could lead to wider support for health professions
at the university.
Senator Miskioglu
asked if biological sciences would need more faculty. Seel responded that the department can handle
the anticipated number of students but that they would need more GTA support
(as requested) for the labs. Dean Seel
had met with the biology faculty to discuss the proposal and had also met with
the chair of biomedical engineering.
Senator Williams
asked where the GTA will come from.
Seel responded
that if the expected numbers of students materialize the GTA will need to be a
new line, but if the numbers are simply shifts from other majors, a new line
would not be needed.
C. Proposal 18-06, Department of Physical Education Name Change [Appendix H]
D. Proposal 19-06, Timing of Committee Assignments (Senate) [Appendix I]
President Sloan
stated that we would try this schedule as an experiment this year by making
committee assignments in the spring. The
presidential evaluation was late this year because the committee was constituted
late. The whole election schedule needs
to be backed up to accomplish this early appointment of committees. New Senators would need to be identified by
early April.
Waddell asked when
new Senators meet for the election of officers and when the committee members
would be approved. Would officers need
to be elected at the last meeting or the next to last meeting? President Sloan said that she would look at
that schedule.
E. Nominations for the CIO Search Committee
President Sloan
stated that Scott Pollins had agreed to serve on this committee as the Senate
representative, if elected.
Senator Nitz asked
for an explanation of what a CIO is.
President Sloan responded that the BRITNC report had suggested that the
university needs a CIO to have the vision and provide the direction for
computing facilities on campus. The Administration
later supported their suggestion by approving an internal search. There are seven individuals on the search
committee. The Senate Executive
Committee had expressed concerns that this position has no direct reports and
felt it would enhance the search if the Senate had representation on the Search
Committee. Most higher administrative
searches do have Senate representation.
However, this is a new position and there is no policy to cover the
search committee. The Provost and the
committee both agreed to add a Senator to the committee.
President Sloan
suggested that Scott Pollins be elected by acclamation. There were no objections.
9. Adjournment
The meeting adjourned at 6:30 pm.
Respectfully Submitted by Janice M. Glime
Secretary of the University Senate