FACULTY SENATE MEETING
October 1, 1996
Members present: Ballester, Briggeman, Butler, Calhoun, Coufal, Dirks, Dungan, Edminston, Foyle, Greenlief, Harrell, Johnson, Keller, Martin, McCoy, Payne, Robinson, Schrock, Scott, Smith, Speedie, Stephens, Strickland, Terrell, Yanik
Members absent: Bleeker, Frederickson, Irwin
Substitutes: Finney for Kantamneni, D. Johnson for Kircheffer, Haselhuhn for Wyatt
Guests: Lloyd Stone
1. Call to order:
President Ron McCoy called the meeting to order at 3:35 p.m. in the Messenger Room.
2. Approval of Minutes:
Strickland moved and Dirks seconded approval of the minutes of the Senate's September 17 meeting. The motion passed.
3. Announcements and Remarks:
A. Vice President Payne
1. The Acting Director of the Library will be named soon. Suzy Achleitner has accepted the position of Acting Director of Continuing Education. She will assume these duties on January 1, 1997.
2. Enrollment figures are down. This may also be true in the spring semester of this year.
3. This is a very active time at the Board of Regents level. A committee has been formed to address the issue of intellectual property rights. There is also an Equipment Task Force to consider the needs of the regents institutions. The Board is currently revisiting the issue of geographic jurisdictions. ESU's Vision 2020 statement will be presented next month. Input about this document has been received from the deans and John Schwenn is working on incorporating these suggestions into the document. This document will not go through the Senate before its presentation to the Board. However, the deans have passed this document to divisional chairs.
B. Faculty President McCoy:
1. President McCoy distributed copies of the Faculty Information Initiative submitted to the BOR by representatives of the student governments, a paper discussing recent Minnesota proposal for drastic changes in tenure, and a draft copy of the Regent's recommendations on the Precollege Curriculum.
2. Judy Calhoun attending the September meeting of the Board of Regents meeting for President McCoy. The issues being discussed by Faculty Senate Presidents include appropriate compensation for faculty and a public relations effort to publicize the various activities of faculty members. In particular, this group is interested in obtaining information about recruiting efforts that have failed due to the low salaries being offered faculty applicants.
4. Committee Reports:
A. Academic Affairs (Ballester)
The committee hopes to have a bill ready on prior approval in the near future. The amount of "overhead" this policy would require is under discussion. The committee is also still studying the concurrent enrollment issue. The question of interpreting good academic standing in regard to extracurricular activities is still unresolved. The committee also discussed the issue of faculty input concerning the Vision 2020 document. Several members stated that they had not seen the current version of Vision 2020.
B. Committee on Campus Governance (Terrell)
This committee will be overseeing the review of three administrators this year, Vice President Farren, Dean Schwenn, and Dean Mehring. In response to an earlier inquiry about the review of the parking committee, Sen. Terrell has learned that the parking committee is not under the purview of the Faculty Senate.
C. Faculty Affairs (Butler)
Senator Butler discussed some modifications in Bill FSB96001, a Proposal for Procedures Relating to Dismissal of Tenured Faculty Due to Chronic Low Performance. The principal change is the inclusion of a time frame. Line 108 now states," three consecutive years or four out of six years", as the time limit under which action can be taken under the Chronic Low Performance document. This change was inserted after the Board of Regents rejected the KU document in part because of the omission of a time frame.
D. Faculty Handbook (Greenlief)
This committee reports continued slow progress. President Glennen's next newsletter will include an announcement to faculty that they may request a hard copy of the handbook, when completed, from the Faculty Senate Secretary.
5. Old Business
Senator Butler moved to accept the amendments to FSB96001. Robinson seconded. The motion passed. Strickland moved the previous question. This was seconded by Greenlief. The motion carried. No discussion followed. FSB96001 was voted upon and passed.
6. For the Good of the Order
The Music Scholarship Concert will be held Saturday, October, 5 th at 8:00 p.m. The Homecoming Musical will be performed October 10-13. The Student Health Center will provide a Health Fair from 10 am until 2 PM on October 4th. On October 9, 400 high students will be on campus for Career Day. The Laboratory Electronic Classroom will host an open house on October 10 th. The ESU Debate team won the tournament it participated in last weekend. Kim Maxwell's farewell reception is being held this afternoon. Regent Phyllis Nolan will be visiting ESU on October 10.
7. Adjournment
President McCoy adjourned the meeting at 4:35 P.M.
Betsy Yanik
Secretary
Last updated on October 10, 1996.
Provide comments about the text to Betsy Yanik at yanikeli@esumail.emporia.edu.
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