4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes, April 21, 2006

Title

Subject(s)

Faculty

Governance

Description

I. The meeting was called
II. Introduction of guests
III. President Schwarze acknowledged the electronic approval of the minutes
IV. Professors Pam Pringle and Sally Sledge made a presentation
V. President's report
VI. Committee reports
VII. Old business
VIII. New business

Highlights:
-Guests: Candace Mascia (Vice President of the Student Government Association), Professors Tom Berry, Brian Bradie, Scott Pollard, Sally Sledge, and Pam Pringle, New Faculty Senators: Tim Marshall, Eric Duskin, and Ming Zhang
-Professors Pam Pringle and Sally Sledge made a presentation about their
proposal for having faculty members sign the students' honor code at the same
ceremony in which the incoming freshmen do so.
-academic calendar 2006-2007
-Chairs should be tenured for Liberal Learning Council (LLC) and the Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee (UCC)
-Restricted appointments handbook changes
-Police will no longer be unlocking car doors.
-Budget revenue is "right on target"
-unsolicited desk copies of textbooks
-turn in grades
-Review of Senate achievements
-results of Senate Elections
-Report from today's meetings of the Board of Visitors'
-Classroom Design Working Group update
-Liberal Learning Council update
-proposal from Academic Advising Committee "Master Advisors"
-reviewing chairs' workload
-inception of CNU teaching awards
-resolution for shift to 3-4 teaching load
-recommendations on the academic calendar for the 2008 -09
-review of recommendations from UCC
-evaluation and assessment of faculty update
-plan from the First Year Initiatives Committee for
the proposed "Academic Day", on the Thursday of "Getting Started" week
-It will now become possible for departmental distinction to appear on the transcript.
-Changes to Faculty Development Grant process
-Funding for student research
-deans' recommendations for nominations for Outstanding Faculty Award
-Election Minutes

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