WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE MINUTES – Monday, November 11, 2002
MEMBERS PRESENT: Bees, Behrman, Carroll, Chopra, Dawe, DeLillo, deSilva, Edwards, Enns, Forlaw, Goldy, Hemans, Hershfield, Herzog, Hill, Hiltner, Hodson, Kear, Klunder, Lancaster, Lause, Markovich, Matson, McDonald, Miller, Moore-Jansen, Muma, Murphey, Parker, Quantic, Ravigururajan, Rokosz, Ross, Roussel, Russell, Williamson, Withrow, Yeager, Zhang
MEMBERS ABSENT: Bakken, Brooks, Celestin, Eichhorn, Johnson, Kahol, Mau, May, Riordan, Sheikh-Ahmad, Teshome, Wimalesena
MEMBERS EXCUSED:
Ex-OFFICIO MEMBERS PRESENT: VPAAR Kindrick, SGA
SUMMARY OF ACTION:
1. Joyce Cavarozzi, chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee,
presented the committee’s list of questions and recommended procedures pertinent
to consideration of the motion pending before the Senate for approval of
mandatory external peer reviews.
2. Upon the request of the President, the Senate tabled a
motion by Senator Herzog to amend the mandatory external review motion that
appeared in the Oct. 14, 2002, meeting's agenda.
3. The Senate approved the revised modifying the "cell phone
policy" previously approved by the Senate.
4. The Senate approved a motion to retain the current
language in the Policies & Procedures Manual, sec. 4.11 (and Faculty Handbook,
sec. 3.10) pertaining to the effort of the University to find a suitable
position for faculty members terminated for reasons other than cause.
5. The Senate adjourned without taking action on the
resolution proposed by the Library Committee relative to the
USA PATRIOT Act.
I. CALL TO ORDER: President Lancaster called the meeting to order at 3:30 p.m.
II. INFORMAL STATEMENTS & PROPOSALS:
Senator Carroll spoke about the recent Lyceum speaker on campus, and expressed
appreciation to the administration for its support of this lecture series.
III. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: Minutes of 10/28/02 accepted as presented.
IV. PRESIDENT’S REPORT:
President Lancaster discussed the various items listed in the Agenda relative to
his President's Report. In the course of the report, VPAAR Kindrick was called
on to speak, and said, among other things, that, due to an increase in tuition
that will certainly occur, the climate may be unfavorable in the near future for
instituting the differential tuition that is being discussed by some units on
campus.
V. COMMITTEE REPORTS:
A. Library Committee
– Phil Parker, Chair,
discussed the background of the USA PATRIOT Act's effect on the confidentiality
of library usage. Action on the resolution proposed by the Library Committee,
which is recited in the Agenda, was held over, however, until the New Business
portion of the meeting. As will be indicated below, the meeting was adjourned
before that portion was reached. Prior to the meeting, Senator Murphey
distributed a statement explaining why he can neither support the resolution nor
propose an amended version
(Copy available in the Senate Office).
VI.
OLD
BUSINESS:
A.
Faculty Affairs Committee - Joyce Cavarozzi, chair, spoke at the invitation of
the Senate Executive Committee. A page was handed out listing certain questions
and procedural recommendations from her committee on the issue of mandatory
external peer reviews; and she went over them verbally in her presentation. The
committee is urging discussion within each of the colleges, followed by a
general faculty meeting before any action by the Senate to apprise the Senate of
the faculty's wishes.
Senator Herzog moved, and Senator Behrman, 2nd,
the following amendment to the motion made by the Senate Executive Committee at
the meeting of October 14, 2002, relative to mandatory external reviews:
The Faculty Senate
adopts the principle that external peer reviews obtained according to university
policy as expressed in section 4.18 of the WSU Policies and Procedures Manual
and section 3.176 of the WSU Handbook for Faculty shall be required for all
candidates for tenure hired after June 2003 and shall remain optional in all
other cases. The Faculty Senate Faculty Affairs Committee shall have the charge
of preparing a motion to amend the Faculty Handbook and the Policies and
Procedures Manual so as to implement this principle.
The Faculty Senate directs the Faculty Senate Faculty Affairs Committee to
review the procedures currently published in the Policies and Procedures Manual
section 4.18 as 3The Use of External Evaluation2 [sic] with the purpose of
allowing the following items to be included in the cover letter mailed to
potential external reviewers:
(i) the candidate's teaching/research/service profile
(ii) the candidate's teaching load
(iii) the candidates access to university/external research
funds.
The Faculty Senate further directs this committee to prepare proposals which
would modify or amend the Policies and Procedures Manual/Faculty Handbook to
allow Colleges to include additional non-teaching areas such as external
professional service as issues which may be addressed by external peer reviewers
and to prepare proposals which would require that at least two of the external
reviews received come from the candidate's list of potential reviewers unless
five or more of the individuals on the candidate's list decline to provide a
review.
The Faculty Affairs Committee shall present these items to the Executive
Committee of the Faculty Senate no later than January 21, 2003 for placement on
the agenda of the January 27, 2003 Faculty Senate meeting. If the Faculty
Senate Executive Committee believes that additional motions are required to
further the intent of the Faculty Senate, it shall prepare such motions for the
same Faculty Senate meeting; in every case, it shall bring forward the items
from the Faculty Affairs Committee.
This amendment was tabled upon a motion to that effect requested by the President
B. Cell Phone/Pager Policy -
Upon motion made by
Senator Bees, Behrman, 2nd, the Senate approved the language suggested by the
administration about the use of cell phones and pagers: "Student cell phones
and pagers must be turned off during class times. Faculty may approve an
exception in special circumstances." This replaces the wording approved by
the Senate at an earlier meeting.
C.
Revisions to Sect. 3.10 Handbook for Faculty - The three different wordings
for the Policies and Procedures Manual sec. 4.11 (Faculty Handbook, sec. 3.10)
put forward, respectively, by the current Manual, the administration, and the
Senate Executive Committee (as
those wordings appear in the Agenda for the meeting)
were discussed. These relate to the extent of the effort by the University to
find a position for faculty who are terminated for a reason other than cause.
Upon motion by Senator Klunder, Senator Moore-Jansen, 2nd, the
Senate approved the language as it currently appears; to-wit, that the
university "has the obligation to make every effort to find a suitable
position...."
VII. NEW BUSINESS:
A. Motion from the Library Committee
-- postponed until 11/25/02 meeting
VIII. AS MAY ARISE:
The Meeting was adjourned at 5:00 pm
Respectfully Submitted
Dwight Murphey, Secretary