Title
4.3 B CNU Faculty Senate Minutes, September 19, 2014
Subject(s)
Faculty
Governance
Description
Highlights:
-Because the state of Virginia has mandated some funding cuts, Chief of Staff Perry was invited to present a budgeting overview session to the senate
-people have asked her in the past how the
University can continue moving forward with our building projects even in times of economic
stress and have wondered why we cannot redirect some of the building funds toward academics: reason - we have two distinct budgets, operating and capital, and the
state forbids transferring funds from one budget to the other
-Chief of Staff Perry gave a presentation on the operating budget
-University’s operating budget: derives from two sources of revenue:
general funds (GF), which come from state tax dollars, and non-general funds (NGF), which are
comprised of tuition, comprehensive fees, room and board fees, sales and services, commissions, federal work study and gifts, grants and contracts
-operating budget includes: Educational and General (E&G); Auxiliary Enterprises; Student Financial Assistance (Student Aid); Financial Assistance for E&G Services (Sponsored Research)
-The GF may be used for Educational and General (E&G) and Financial Aid only
-Student enrollment drives the operating budget
-Tuition is the largest source of University revenue with GF second, room fees third, and comprehensive fees fourth
-Chief of Staff Perry discussed the budget reductions recently mandated by the state: state initially asked us to present a 5% budget reduction plan for next year and a 7% budget reduction plan for the following year; These cuts would amount to 1.3 million and 1.8 million dollars, respectively; Governor McCauliffe assigned different cuts to different schools, with a 3.3% average overall for higher education; CNU has been designated for a 2.3% cut, for an overall $600,000 reduction in funds this year; the 2.3% cut will remain in effect next year as well
-Trends in state funding: these funds have consistently been going down for the past several years
-All universities in Virginia are supposed to target a no more than 25% out of state student population
-President’s Report: President Trible supports the Faculty Senate agenda and commends our attention to increasing
communication between the faculty and administration; -The SEC met with the administration one week after our August meeting to review the agenda for the year and begin moving forward on a number of action items
-Sponsors for Curriculum - forms have been changed to include this information
-request to provide the actual weighted score rather than a rounded score for overall performance was not supported
-Senator Barnello proposed that evaluees write
in their own weighting at the top of EVAL forms. Senator Busch clarified that indeed any faculty can request an individual specific weighting on the three categories
-Action item: Determine a policy designating who is responsible for filling in the weights on EVAL
forms
-Action Item: Give the CUC a deadline of March 1st for preparing a draft of the departmental EVAL-4.
-discussion about EVAL-4
-value that is being given to core advising questioned
-Committee on Committees has been formed
-Liberal Learning Core Changes
-expecting Handbook proposals from Provost
Doughty and Quentin Kidd soon re: FMLA and Lecturers
-Child care subcommittee: The committee believes that having a child care facility on campus will not be
possible in the near future; the subcommittee will be focusing on the camp idea; find out what our neighboring universities do; survey for faculty/staff input
-Endowment Agreement: Examples of faculty dependent scholarships at other universities
-BOV reports given for Student Life Committee, Academic Affairs Committee, University Advancement Committee, and Finance Committee
-Action Agenda to the Provost: the manner of recording student hours needs to be reviewed
-Senate Composition from Departments: discuss whether the policy for Senate membership should
be changed so that no college may have two members from the same department; Action
agenda for this Friday’s meeting with the Provost is to ask more about this issue
-Philosophy of Faculty Senate regarding budget cuts: document, Philosophy of the Faculty Senate 2014-2015, was presented then there was discussion about it
-Faculty Excellence Awards: recommendation that part time faculty be included in with full time faculty for the purpose of deciding awards
-BOV is working on an endowed minority scholarship for CNU students
-Look at how part-time faculty are being evaluated
-Because the state of Virginia has mandated some funding cuts, Chief of Staff Perry was invited to present a budgeting overview session to the senate
-people have asked her in the past how the
University can continue moving forward with our building projects even in times of economic
stress and have wondered why we cannot redirect some of the building funds toward academics: reason - we have two distinct budgets, operating and capital, and the
state forbids transferring funds from one budget to the other
-Chief of Staff Perry gave a presentation on the operating budget
-University’s operating budget: derives from two sources of revenue:
general funds (GF), which come from state tax dollars, and non-general funds (NGF), which are
comprised of tuition, comprehensive fees, room and board fees, sales and services, commissions, federal work study and gifts, grants and contracts
-operating budget includes: Educational and General (E&G); Auxiliary Enterprises; Student Financial Assistance (Student Aid); Financial Assistance for E&G Services (Sponsored Research)
-The GF may be used for Educational and General (E&G) and Financial Aid only
-Student enrollment drives the operating budget
-Tuition is the largest source of University revenue with GF second, room fees third, and comprehensive fees fourth
-Chief of Staff Perry discussed the budget reductions recently mandated by the state: state initially asked us to present a 5% budget reduction plan for next year and a 7% budget reduction plan for the following year; These cuts would amount to 1.3 million and 1.8 million dollars, respectively; Governor McCauliffe assigned different cuts to different schools, with a 3.3% average overall for higher education; CNU has been designated for a 2.3% cut, for an overall $600,000 reduction in funds this year; the 2.3% cut will remain in effect next year as well
-Trends in state funding: these funds have consistently been going down for the past several years
-All universities in Virginia are supposed to target a no more than 25% out of state student population
-President’s Report: President Trible supports the Faculty Senate agenda and commends our attention to increasing
communication between the faculty and administration; -The SEC met with the administration one week after our August meeting to review the agenda for the year and begin moving forward on a number of action items
-Sponsors for Curriculum - forms have been changed to include this information
-request to provide the actual weighted score rather than a rounded score for overall performance was not supported
-Senator Barnello proposed that evaluees write
in their own weighting at the top of EVAL forms. Senator Busch clarified that indeed any faculty can request an individual specific weighting on the three categories
-Action item: Determine a policy designating who is responsible for filling in the weights on EVAL
forms
-Action Item: Give the CUC a deadline of March 1st for preparing a draft of the departmental EVAL-4.
-discussion about EVAL-4
-value that is being given to core advising questioned
-Committee on Committees has been formed
-Liberal Learning Core Changes
-expecting Handbook proposals from Provost
Doughty and Quentin Kidd soon re: FMLA and Lecturers
-Child care subcommittee: The committee believes that having a child care facility on campus will not be
possible in the near future; the subcommittee will be focusing on the camp idea; find out what our neighboring universities do; survey for faculty/staff input
-Endowment Agreement: Examples of faculty dependent scholarships at other universities
-BOV reports given for Student Life Committee, Academic Affairs Committee, University Advancement Committee, and Finance Committee
-Action Agenda to the Provost: the manner of recording student hours needs to be reviewed
-Senate Composition from Departments: discuss whether the policy for Senate membership should
be changed so that no college may have two members from the same department; Action
agenda for this Friday’s meeting with the Provost is to ask more about this issue
-Philosophy of Faculty Senate regarding budget cuts: document, Philosophy of the Faculty Senate 2014-2015, was presented then there was discussion about it
-Faculty Excellence Awards: recommendation that part time faculty be included in with full time faculty for the purpose of deciding awards
-BOV is working on an endowed minority scholarship for CNU students
-Look at how part-time faculty are being evaluated
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Date
September 19, 2014
Call Number
4.3 B
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