4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes, February 18, 2011

Title

4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes, February 18, 2011

Subject(s)

Faculty
Governance

Description

Highlights:
-Guests : Jean Filetti, Associate Professor of English; Carolyn Ericson, Associate Professor of Social
Work; Marion Manton, Associate Professor of Sociology;
Ross Snare, Student Assembly
-Faculty Mentoring Committee Update report presented
-Proposal for B.A. in Social Work
-Approval of January Meeting Minutes
-President’s Report includes: information on the move to the 33
load; new task forces on STEM initiatives and
the Student Scholar Associate Proposal; a Senate working group charged with clarifying the tenure
process; the Senate assessment; faculty elections; and study abroad.
-Discussion of STEM Task Force
-feedback no later than the first week of March on dossiers
-survey students to assess the Core Advising Program, and Core Advisors will be individually evaluated
-removing faculty representation on certain University Committee on Student Discipline hearing panels and staffing those panels with students selected by CHECS
-The Student Assembly supports the creation of panels that are entirely student run provided that the Student Assembly has the right to choose the student representatives
-possible elimination or reconfiguration of the Liberal Learning Emphasis
-Internships/Community Service/Independent Studies draft motion presented
-Distinguished Professor Calendar
-Change to Overload Policy
-draft motion for a faculty-driven academic standing committee on instructional development that would focus on IDEA
-Handbook Changes: Family and Medical Leave; Lecturers; The Graduate Faculty; Graduate Programs Council; Calendar for Distinguished Professor; Steps for Peer Review; FIG Grants; Academic Freedom; Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct; The Honor System; Academic Standing Committees; Faculty Senate Constitution and ByLaws; Faculty Review Procedures; Uniform Command Team/Emergency Policy Group-Emerita Status for Prof. Betty Anglin
-Institutional Referral Forms
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Available online only.

Date

February 18, 2011

Call Number

4.3 B

Statement of Rights

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Original Format

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