4.3 B Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, December 5, 2008

Title

4.3 B Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, December 5, 2008

Subject(s)

Faculty
Governance

Description

Highlights:
-Guest: Michelle Vachris, Professor of Economics
-The university has approved a 3 day/week and 5 day/week meal plan at a discounted price for faculty
-discussion on job sharing and adjunct pay rate
-major curriculum issues have been: the honors program, the civic engagement center and minor, and the newly shaped English curriculum
-budget reductions
-courses with fewer than 12 students may be cancelled
-how to compensate faculty for independent studies and internships
-Sabbatical Recommendations
-Student Pay if faculty are away from an Internet connection on the day that they time cards need to be approved; secretaries can become secondary approvers
-university eval4
-Curriculum Recommendations English, B.A. in Economics
-Examine handbook to accommodate 3 college model
-how the faculty senate will be constituted
-Examination of effectiveness of current evaluation order
-Curriculum: HIST 432, 489, 364, SOCL 215, 230, ANTH309, Psychology 201L
-Dossier Content
-Senate Absence Policy wording
-Blackboard complaints
-proposal for a director of undergraduate research


5 attachments
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Date

December 5, 2008

Call Number

4.3 B

Statement of Rights

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Original Format

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