Title
4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes, March 20, 2015
Subject(s)
Faculty
Governance
Description
Highlights:
-Finance and Audit: University is doing well financially; audit of department charge cards showed several incidents of incorrect usage; disabling of email accounts for individuals who leave the University; auditing of the study abroad program planned for the future
-Academic Affairs: Luter Dean search progess; Summer Scholars program; new parental leave policy and the lecturer proposal discussed; Reaffirmation of the business degree; faculty waiting to publish until the last few months of their tenure process; CNU has a
new diversity director; there is a diversity working group; student equality and diversity council has also been formed; Safe Zone training
-Student Life: CNU sponsors 23 varsity sports; 8% of student-athletes were on the Dean’s List in Fall 2014; had a GPA of 3.0 or higher; overall GPA is 2.91; discipline statement that all athletes sign; fall 2015 freshmen enrollment goal is 1225; Fall 2014 freshman 95% returned for spring semester;
-University Advancement: two more years remaining in the Capital Campaign; Lighthouse fund
-Elections: ballot for University standing committee seats is almost ready to go out to faculty
-Academic Standing Committee Updates: Title IX working group to come up with a comprehensive policy related to Title IX; Additional training related to Title IX will take place next academic year; information on 1990 CLERY act to be distributed; IDEA committee has created a document to help all evaluators in their work; considering what other instruments that we, as a faculty, would like to include as part of teaching evaluations; LLC suggests handbook changes that attempt to guarantee that future student assessment results be kept separate from faculty evaluation
-Handbook Proposals: Provost, ViceProvosts,
and the Deans reviewed the suggested handbook changes and have questions; UDC should be considered a curricular committee; administration had additional suggestions regarding wording for the Council on Health
Professions Preparation; Provost has voiced that he would prefer to keep the IDEA committee as being a Provost
appointed committee; one of the appointees to the FRC committee continue to be made by the Provost instead of the Faculty Senate; revised version on the wording for the Honors faculty to be included in the faculty handbook suggested; Prestigious Scholarships Committee (PSC) suggested changes; allow three consecutive two year terms on the UCC; Faculty Senate recommends that all committees need some form of training; committees begin to create guiding documents for the workings of their committee; UCC committee itself recommended that department chairs not be allowed to serve on the UCC -administration suggested that we reconsider this suggested change; Provost suggest's suggested changing the name of the University Assessment and
Evaluation Committee to the University Assessment Committee
-Lecturer Proposal: proposal to include language that Instructors at CNU can negotiate their
years of service as Instructors at CNU toward the length of teaching requirements written for Master/Senior Lecturer status; Many concerns voiced at the town hall meeting addressed the tenure /lecturer ratio at CNU; resolution on matter passed; adjunct usage discussed; class size expanding discussed; departmental EVAL-4 discussed; discussion of lecturer research requirement; need each department to come up with more specific evaluation standards
for lecturers
-Finance and Audit: University is doing well financially; audit of department charge cards showed several incidents of incorrect usage; disabling of email accounts for individuals who leave the University; auditing of the study abroad program planned for the future
-Academic Affairs: Luter Dean search progess; Summer Scholars program; new parental leave policy and the lecturer proposal discussed; Reaffirmation of the business degree; faculty waiting to publish until the last few months of their tenure process; CNU has a
new diversity director; there is a diversity working group; student equality and diversity council has also been formed; Safe Zone training
-Student Life: CNU sponsors 23 varsity sports; 8% of student-athletes were on the Dean’s List in Fall 2014; had a GPA of 3.0 or higher; overall GPA is 2.91; discipline statement that all athletes sign; fall 2015 freshmen enrollment goal is 1225; Fall 2014 freshman 95% returned for spring semester;
-University Advancement: two more years remaining in the Capital Campaign; Lighthouse fund
-Elections: ballot for University standing committee seats is almost ready to go out to faculty
-Academic Standing Committee Updates: Title IX working group to come up with a comprehensive policy related to Title IX; Additional training related to Title IX will take place next academic year; information on 1990 CLERY act to be distributed; IDEA committee has created a document to help all evaluators in their work; considering what other instruments that we, as a faculty, would like to include as part of teaching evaluations; LLC suggests handbook changes that attempt to guarantee that future student assessment results be kept separate from faculty evaluation
-Handbook Proposals: Provost, ViceProvosts,
and the Deans reviewed the suggested handbook changes and have questions; UDC should be considered a curricular committee; administration had additional suggestions regarding wording for the Council on Health
Professions Preparation; Provost has voiced that he would prefer to keep the IDEA committee as being a Provost
appointed committee; one of the appointees to the FRC committee continue to be made by the Provost instead of the Faculty Senate; revised version on the wording for the Honors faculty to be included in the faculty handbook suggested; Prestigious Scholarships Committee (PSC) suggested changes; allow three consecutive two year terms on the UCC; Faculty Senate recommends that all committees need some form of training; committees begin to create guiding documents for the workings of their committee; UCC committee itself recommended that department chairs not be allowed to serve on the UCC -administration suggested that we reconsider this suggested change; Provost suggest's suggested changing the name of the University Assessment and
Evaluation Committee to the University Assessment Committee
-Lecturer Proposal: proposal to include language that Instructors at CNU can negotiate their
years of service as Instructors at CNU toward the length of teaching requirements written for Master/Senior Lecturer status; Many concerns voiced at the town hall meeting addressed the tenure /lecturer ratio at CNU; resolution on matter passed; adjunct usage discussed; class size expanding discussed; departmental EVAL-4 discussed; discussion of lecturer research requirement; need each department to come up with more specific evaluation standards
for lecturers
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Date
March 20, 2015
Call Number
4.3 B
Statement of Rights
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