WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE MINUTES - August 8, 2000

MEMBERS PRESENT: Bajaj, Bakken, Campbell, Carroll, Celestin, Davis, DeLillo, DeSilva, Feleppa, Herzog, Hodson, Hoek, Hoyer, Hundley, Huntley, Iacovetta, Kabagrama, Klunder, Kohan, Kraft, Kuhn, Lancaster, Lause, Lescoe-Long, Long, Mandt, Markovich, Matson, Mau, May, Miles, Miller, Murphey, Myers, Paarmann, Riordan, Rokosz, Scheuerman, Smith-Campbell, Swan

MEMBERS ABSENT: Brooks, Hershfield, Lawless, Ravigururajan

MEMBERS EXCUSED: Blocher, Hazen, Liera-Schwichtenberg

Ex-OFFICIO MEMBERS PRESENT: Kindrick

SUMMARY OF ACTION:

1. Accepted the nomination of Don Byrum as Senator, School of Art & Design, College of Fine Arts

2. Accepted the appointment of Ed Sawan, Scholarship & Student Aid Committee

3. Accepted the Academic Affairs & Library Committees annual reports

4. Elected Senator Ron Matson to the Planning & Budget Committee representing LAS Social Sciences.

5. Appointed Senator Don Byrum to the Center for Teaching & Research Excellence Advisory Committee

I. CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order by President Klunder at 3:30 p.m.

II. INFORMAL STATEMENTS & PROPOSALS: None

III. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: Minutes of 5/8/00, 1999-2000 Senate were accepted as corrected (Miller & Myers were present). Minutes of 5/8/00, 2000 - 2001 Senate were accepted as corrected (Senator Mau represents Education on Planning & Budget Comm.)

IV. PRESIDENT'S REPORT:

President Klunder welcomed the Senators to a new academic year. He then noted that in discussions with President Beggs and VPAARR Kindrick he felt that the Senate would need to address the following issues this year:

1. Implementation of the Accountability Matrix

2. Examination of the structure and governance of graduate education

3. General education - the President wants to be sure that the curriculum fits the goals and objectives of the program.

President Klunder also noted that the Executive Committee will be working on the Intellectual Property policy and the revision of the Handbook for Faculty (Senators Mandt, Hoyer & Carroll & AVPAAR Davis will be working on this and present it to the Senate)

V. COMMITTEE REPORTS:

A. Rules - Jeri Carroll, Chair, presented the following for appointments:

Ed Sawan - Scholarship & Student Aid Committee

Don Byrum - Senator representing School of Art & Design

Accepted by the Senate

B. Senate accepted the annual reports from the Academic Affairs & the Library committees.

VI. OLD BUSINESS:

A. Election of Planning & Budget Committee member from LAS Social Sciences: Carroll (Hoyer 2^nd) nominated Senator Matson. Hoyer (Murphey-2nd) moved the Senate cast a unanimous ballot. Accepted

B. Appointment of Senator to the Center for Teaching & Research Excellence Advisory Committee - Senator Byrum volunteered and Senator Murphey moved the Senate cast a unanimous ballot. Accepted.

VII. NEW BUSINESS:

A. Recruiting Top Academic Students to WSU - Honors Director Mandt gave a presentation on the recruitment of highly qualified ("top") academic students to WSU. He discussed some current trends which indicate that WSU has the highest rate of increase of enrollment of top students and the greatest increase in average ACT scores of entering freshmen among Regents institutions over the last three years. He accredited this to such programs as the Presidential Scholars which invited students from Kansas in the top 10% of their class to visit WSU for a day and to the Distinguished Scholarship Invitational. He also discussed enrollment in the Honors program, and the 1997 KBOR Academy held at WSU. WSU is also doing additional programs to help recruiting such as Admissions and Financial Aid are changing scholarship award criteria to strongly emphasize academic credentials and the Colleges and departments are much more involved also. At the end of his presentation, questions about student retention rates and about nontraditional students were considered.

President Klunder ended by asking the members of the Faculty Senate to introduce themselves.

VIII. AS MAY ARISE: None

The meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully Submitted

Kirk Lancaster

Secretary