Wichita State University Faculty Senate Minutes of the meeting Monday, October 13, 2003

 

MEMBERS PRESENT:  Behrman, Chopra, Decker, deSilva, Enns, Glenmaye, Goldy, Henry, Hershfield, Herzog, Hill, Hiltner, Hodson, Huxman, Kear, Klunder, Lancaster, Loftus, Ma, McDonald, Moore-Jansen, Myose, Ravigururajan, Riordan, Rokosz, Ross, Roussel, Russell, Wine, Withrow, Wolf, Zhang

 

MEMBERS ABSENT:  Bakken, Brooks, Dudte, Eichhorn, Johnson, Krishnan, Lezotte, Mau, May, Swan, Teshome, Wimalesena, Yeager

 

MEMBERS EXCUSED:  Carroll, Celestin, Gill-Hopple, Scherz

 

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS:  VPAA&R Kindrick

 

Summary of Action:

        1.   Confirmed William Henry, Senator, LAS Math/Natural Sciences (replaces Kahol) - term ends 6/04,  Thomas Wine, Senator, School of Music, term ends 6/05, and John Conlee, Senator, FREDS, (replaces Murphey) - term ends 6/04.

        2   Accepted the following committee appointments:

                Exceptions --  Rachel Crane (replaces Goldy) -- appointment ends 6/04

                                        Craig Torbenson (replaces Bennett Fall 03 only)

                Faculty Support -- Robert Ross (replaces Murphey) -- appointment ends 6/04

                Tenure & Promotion -- John Gries - at large rep. --(replaces Myose) -- appointment ends 6/05

                Heskett Center Advisory Board --  1 yr. appointment -- Kathy Gill-Hopple

                                                                          2 yr. appointment -- Dharma Chopra

                                                                          3 yr, appointment -- Terrence Decker

        3.  Senator Will Klunder was elected President-Elect of the Faculty Senate

        4.  Senator Roussel was appointed by the President to the Executive Committee
        5.  Accepted the School of Business recommendations to discontinue Legal Assistant Program & Master of Science in Business.

     

I.       Call of the Meeting to Order:  President Behrman called the meeting to order at 3:30 pm.
 

II.    Informal Statements & Proposals:
Senator Roussel reminded the senate of the AAUP meeting in Lawrence.  The topic is Academic Freedom.
Senator Hodson notified the Senate that a former Senator and current faculty member in the College of Education , Hal Edwards, underwent brain surgery.   

 

III. Approval of the minutes:  The minutes of May 12, 2003,  2002-03, Senate were accepted as presented.  The minutes of the Sept. 22, 2003, meeting were accepted as presented.
 

IV.  President’s Report:
 President Behrman commented on the following:
    1.  There will not be a senate meeting on Monday, October 27, 2003,  the Executive Committee will meet with several of the chairs of the Senate committees.
    2.  The Faculty Handbook Committee has begun its work. Chapters 1 & 2 should be completed by next week and chapter 3 by January 
    3.  President Behrman has appointed Senator Roussel  to the Executive Committee.
    4.  Council of Faculty Senate Presidents retreat (Oct. 4, 2003) issues
      a ..   Libraries- purchasing consortiums

            b.      Cooperation and collaboration proposal (Sen. Lancaster)

            c      Kansas Senate Bill 345- accountability in place but not compensation. 
      d.    Administrators evaluations -- the BOR has requested faculty input for evaluations of the Presidents.  She is sending a charge to the Faculty Affairs committee to develop procedures for this.  She noted that we have a copy of the procedures used at Emporia ( http://webs.wichita.edu/senate/ESU%20Administrators%20Evaluation.htm and UMKC (http://webs.wichita.edu/senate/UMKC-Nursing%20Dean%20eval..htm. &  http://webs.wichita.edu/senate/UMKC-Allied%20Health%20Dean%20eval..htm.    They will be posted on the senate web site.
     e.  BOR Performance Agreements -  Dean Kopita and Donna Hawley, Director, Institutional Research, have agreed to compile the WSU reply,  This will be submitted to the various senates for  consideration.
     f.  President Behrman met with the Library faculty and has invited them to the next Executive Committee meeting.  Among the issues discussed was the possible state consortium and ways to find funding.

           g.  Marketability raises -  She noted that the Executive committee  will look into the criteria used and report back.  VPAAR explained that the process was carried out over a short period of time and that the personnel who constructed the policy worked very long hours to meet the deadline set by the Regents.  http://webs.wichita.edu/senate/Marketability.htm
     h.  The Executive Committee met with the chairs of the Court of Academic Appeals -- they are working well, heard 8 cases last year -- and Academic Affairs -- they are very busy investigating the issues of the number of Mondays for class in the fall semester, this cannot be altered because the Academic Calendar is set until 2007.  they are also studying the issue of differential tuition.  VPAAR Kindrick noted that he needed this information ASAP.
    i.  The Tuition Advisory Committee proposal has been accepted by SGA and has been forwarded to the Classified & Unclassified Professional Senates for acceptance.

 

 V. Committee Reports   
        A.  Rules Committee ( see Summary of Actions) for the report

        

VI.  Old Business:
        A.  Election of President-Elect  -- Senator Will Klunder was nominated and accepted the nomination.  Senator Lancaster - Goldy, 2nd- moved nominations close.  Accepted.  Senator Lancaster, Hodson 2nd. moved Senator Klunder be  elected by acclamation.  Accepted. 
        B.  Update on the Political Science General Education Course --  President Behrman noted that the course was not a New course, but a substitution for one that is not being taught.  Senator Lancaster, Herzog, 2nd, acceptance.  Motion passed.
        C.  Barton School of Business programs to be discontinued --  MS in Business & Legal Assistant Program.  Senator Ross, noted that the faculty have no objections to these programs be discontinued and that all the appropriate procedures have been followed, and that this does not affect the MBA programs.  He then moved, Lancaster 2nd.,  that the Senate favor the discontinuance of these programs.  Motion Accepted.

 

VI.         New Business: 
A.  Motion from Academic Affairs & Exceptions Committee  --  Senator Goldy reported that Admissions was going to disband their Exceptions committee and would forward all cases to the University/Faculty Senate Exceptions committee for review.  The Senate, in a Sense of the Senate vote, agreed with this change as did the VPAAR. 

             

VII.      As May Arise: 
 Information requested by the Senate regarding the North Central Associations reports and comments about the WSU General Education program is available at:  http://webs.wichita.edu/senate/NCA%20Gen.Educ%20notes.htm

 

The meeting was adjourned at 4:30 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted

Scott Goldy

Secretary