Title
4.3 B CNU Faculty Senate Minutes February 17, 2012
Subject(s)
Faculty
Governance
Description
Highlights:
-changes to minutes of 1/20/2012 meeting
-survey of faculty life and religious tolerance completed
-IDEA administration issues from the fall
-final exam schedule problems from the Fall are being handled proactively by the Registrar‟s Office
-University budget
-Senate dossier reorganization proposal and the counter-proposal provided by the University Administration
-President Trible does not support the idea of creating a faculty club, or any kind of permanent dedicated space for faculty to gather, during his tenure as university president
-Trible supports setting aside space in the dining facilities for faculty lunches and might dedicate a portion of Regattas to such a purpose
-Trible supports child care solutions for faculty
-The BOV meeting on 24 February will provide a final ruling on the tenure cases that went forward this year and will also consider one appeal by a faculty member
-surveys to assess faculty workload and the writing intensive courses and to solicit faculty feedback on the fall electronic IDEA survey
-issue in Philosophy and Religious studies involving the Sabbatical applications of two department members
-academic performance reports solicited by the Athletic Department on student athletes seemed to come regularly, but then there is very little communication if a problem is identified on the form
-travel schedule for a student athlete that required that s/he miss more than 30% of the class s/he was enrolled in with that faculty member
-General perceptions from the survey data seem to indicate that none of the faculty surveyed were dissatisfied with the experience of faculty mentoring
-teaching award information provided
-Dossier Organization
-IDEA for Administrators
-ENGL/ULLC 223 – move this back to English
-offer “Bachelor of Arts in Theater” instead of its current degree “Bachelor of Arts in Fine and Performing Arts with a major in theater”
-survey for on campus child care
-Religious Tolerance survey misunderstanding of the purpose of the survey expressed by the University Administration
-Handbook Changes
-ballot for University Standing Committee elections ready
-Evaluation of the Areas of Inquiry assessments
-approval of the EVAL 1-D which is a calendar for those wishing to apply for the rank of distinguished professor
-changes to minutes of 1/20/2012 meeting
-survey of faculty life and religious tolerance completed
-IDEA administration issues from the fall
-final exam schedule problems from the Fall are being handled proactively by the Registrar‟s Office
-University budget
-Senate dossier reorganization proposal and the counter-proposal provided by the University Administration
-President Trible does not support the idea of creating a faculty club, or any kind of permanent dedicated space for faculty to gather, during his tenure as university president
-Trible supports setting aside space in the dining facilities for faculty lunches and might dedicate a portion of Regattas to such a purpose
-Trible supports child care solutions for faculty
-The BOV meeting on 24 February will provide a final ruling on the tenure cases that went forward this year and will also consider one appeal by a faculty member
-surveys to assess faculty workload and the writing intensive courses and to solicit faculty feedback on the fall electronic IDEA survey
-issue in Philosophy and Religious studies involving the Sabbatical applications of two department members
-academic performance reports solicited by the Athletic Department on student athletes seemed to come regularly, but then there is very little communication if a problem is identified on the form
-travel schedule for a student athlete that required that s/he miss more than 30% of the class s/he was enrolled in with that faculty member
-General perceptions from the survey data seem to indicate that none of the faculty surveyed were dissatisfied with the experience of faculty mentoring
-teaching award information provided
-Dossier Organization
-IDEA for Administrators
-ENGL/ULLC 223 – move this back to English
-offer “Bachelor of Arts in Theater” instead of its current degree “Bachelor of Arts in Fine and Performing Arts with a major in theater”
-survey for on campus child care
-Religious Tolerance survey misunderstanding of the purpose of the survey expressed by the University Administration
-Handbook Changes
-ballot for University Standing Committee elections ready
-Evaluation of the Areas of Inquiry assessments
-approval of the EVAL 1-D which is a calendar for those wishing to apply for the rank of distinguished professor
Available online only.
Date
February 17, 2012
Call Number
4.3 B
Statement of Rights
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