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                           The Senate
                Michigan Technological University
            Minutes of Special Meeting No. 5 of 1992

Special Meeting No. 5 of 1992 of the Michigan Technological
University Senate was called to order by Senate President Julien at
7:15 pm on Wednesday May 6, 1992 in Ballroom A of the Memorial
Union Building.

I.    Roll Call
      20 Senators or alternates were present.
      Absent:  T. Shipley, W. Bulleit, D. Poplawski, J. Daavetila,
      J. Lukowski, J. Fynewever, C. Selfe, J. Ellis, M, McKimpson,
      A. Lahaie, P. Moore, G. Pliska-Matyshak, M. Mattson.

II.   Visitors
      The following visitors attended the meeting.
          Chris S. Anderson
          Brian Baker
          Marilyn Cooper
          Ronald Gratz
          Karen Hubbard
          Carol MacLennan
          Willie Melton
          Walter Olson
          Richard Tieder
          Mehenna Yakhou

III.  Minutes
      The minutes of Special Meeting No. 4 of 1992 were approved.
      The minutes of Meeting No. 189 were approved.

IV.   Senate President's Report
      A. The University Committee on Promotion and Tenure has made
         a brief report about the motion passed at Meeting No. 189
         (April 29, 1992) regarding the tenure decisions in the
         School of Business.  They will examine past practices and
         how the published policies are being applied.  The     
         pertinent section of the Handbook for Academic Faculty
         (October 16, 1989) is found on pages 63-64.

      B. A letter was received from W.Powers addressing the motion
         cited above.  This letter is attached as Appendix A.

      C. Comments related to this matter were as follows.
         1) The policy described in the Handbook (pp. 63-64) seems
            to have been applied selectively in the past.
         2) The interschool review committee convened for the   
            School of Business is the same committee as convened
            for the School of Forestry (W. Bulleit, J. Gale, G. 
            Mroz, M. Seel)


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      D. Reports from Subcommittees of the Task Force on Trade- 
         Offs.
         Some of the questions President Julien posed are as    
         follows.
         1) Should the Senate have a long-range planning committee?
         2) What can the Senate do to address questions which arise
            from the Task Force activities?
         3) Where can the Senate fit new tasks into our current 
            activities?

Reports: The texts of the reports presented are attached as     
         Appendices B, C, D, E, F, and G.
         1. Subcommittee on Efficiency and Resources (B. Baker, 
            chair)
            Budget Liaison officer could follow up on this report.
         2. Subcommittee on University character (C. Anderson,  
            chair)
            Senate involvement was suggested for several items.
            No. 2 - Instructional policy; curricular policy
            No. 3
            No. 4
            No. 6
            No. 9
            No. 10
            No. 11
            No. 12
            No. 13
         3. Subcommittee on Community and Public Service (R.    
            Tieder, chair)
            Institutional Evaluation committee could address some
            items in the subcommittee report.
         4. Subcommittee on Graduate Education (H. Evenson, chair)
         5. Subcommittee on Undergraduate Education (R. Freisinger,
            chair)
         6. Subcommittee on University Identity (W. Olson, chair)
         7. Subcommittee on Faculty Experience (G. Mroz, chair)
            No report presented.

V.   Senate Vice-President's Report
     No report

VI.  Committee Reports
     A. Elections
        1) Report about the referendum on governance proposals was
           presented.  A copy is attached as Appendix H.
  
     (a) Moved by P. Tampas and seconded by K. Heuvers:
         accept the ballots received on 1992 May 6.
         Passed:  20 yes; 0 no
     (b) Moved by B. Seely and seconded by J. Pilling:
         Do not send the results of the referendum on Proposals


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         2-92, 3-92, 4-92, 5-92, 6-92, 7-92, 8-92, and 9-92 forward
         to the President and Board of Control.
         Defeated:  1 yes; 19 no
     (c) Moved by L. Leifar and seconded by T. Sharik:
         The Institutional Evaluation Committee is directed to  
         prepare an interpretive report about the results of the
         referendum on the governance proposals and send it to the
         Senators for distribution.
         Passed:  20 yes; 0 no.

         2) Moved by D. Hubbard and seconded by P. Tampas:
            Destroy the ballots from the election held at the
            last meeting.
            Passed:  20 yes; 0 no.

     B. Budget Liaison Officer
        No report

     C. Curricular Policy
        Recommendations about options are discussed under old   
        business and new business.  A report about the proposed
        Environmental Geology Option and about other items is
        attached as Appendix I.

     D. Fringe Benefits
        Medical benefits program revisions are being discussed.
        Wyatt, Inc. is studying the history of the MTU medical
        insurance program for the past 30 years.

     E. Institutional Evaluation
        The forms for evaluating administrators are being       
         distributed as discussed at the last meeting.

     F. Instructional Policy
        A report about activities is attached as Appendix J.
      1) Item 1 is a correction to previous minutes in which the
         position description for the director of the Center    
         Teaching Excellence was published.  The complete       
         description is attached.
      2) Item 2. the annual report from the Center for Teaching 
         Excellence, is included as item 4.  The review was
         completed after the call for the meeting was distributed,
         so item 4 was distributed at the meeting.
      3) Changes to one section of Proposal 2-87 are recommended
         and submitted as Proposal 15-92.
      4) Item 4 is the annual report and analysis mentioned in item
         2.

     G. Board of Control Liaison Task Force
        No report


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     H. Committee on Senate Constitution and Constituency
        A report is attached as Appendix K.

     I. New Committees
        Forming new committees was deferred.

VII.  Committee Reports:  Ad hoc and affiliated committees.
      A.  President's Cabinet
          No report

VIII. Old Business
      A.  Proposal 13-92:  Honors Program in Biological Sciences
          Moved by K. Heuvers and seconded by D. Hubbard.
          Proposal be adopted.
          Passed:  20 yes; 0 no.

IX.   New Business
      A.  Proposal 14-92:  Option in Environmental Geology
          Moved by R. Freisinger and seconded K. Heuvers:
          Proposal 14-92 be adopted.
          Passed:  20 yes; 0 no.

      B.  M. Cooper presented a statement about the graduate    
          council.  This statement is attached as Appendix L.
          There is no recommendation in the statement.  The
          senators suggest that an interested group of faculty
          prepare a proposal if they believe that changes in
          the graduate council are needed.  M. Cooper, M. Gale,
          and R. Gratz will serve as the convening group for this.

      C.  Proposal 15-92:  Changes in wording of Section II.A.3
          of the procedure for student evaluations of courses.
          Moved by R. Freisinger and seconded by T. Sharik:
          Adopt proposal 15-92.
          Passed:  18 yes; 2 no.

          Moved by W. Shapton and seconded by R. Freisinger:
          Omit calculating the university averages when reporting
          the results of student evaluations of courses.
          Passed:  20 yes; 0 no.

X.    The meeting adjourned at 11:18 pm.


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3482 Appendix A     Memo:  Powers to Julien

3483 Appendix B     Efficiency and Resources Sub-committee report
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3490

3491 Appendix C     University Character Subcommittee report
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3498

3499 Appendix D     Community and Public Service Subcommittee   
 to                 report
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3527 Appendix E     Graduate Education Subcommittee report
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3538 Appendix F     Undergraduate Education Subcommittee report
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3545 Appendix G     University Identity Subcommittee report
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3591

3592 Appendix H     Elections Committee report

3593 Appendix I     Curricular Policy Committee report
3594
3595

3596                Proposal 14-92
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3601 Appendix J     Instructional Policy Committee report

3602                Proposal 15-92
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3617 Appendix K     Constitution and Constituency Committee report
3618
3619

3620 Appendix L     Structure and function of graduate council.

These pages are available to be read in the MTU Library.
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