Attachment H
WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
FACULTY SENATE
MINUTES
Monday, October 14November
4, 2002
Minutes reviewed
by University Faculty President James Sayer and Dave Sauter, University
Registrar. Prepared by the
Registrar's Office.
I.
Call
to Order:
University
Faculty President James Sayer called the meeting to order at 2:30 p.m. in E156
Student Union. The Faculty Senate meetings are broadcast via
videoconference to Lake Campus.
Senators: (those present in bold)
Baker, B., Baker, M., Coleman, J.,
Crites, G., Curry, D.,
Dobbins, J., Dustin, J.,
Goldenberg, K., Goldfinger,
M., Goldstein, D., Grandhi, R., Houston, M., Kerr, E., Lemkau, J., Leung, J., Lindsey-North, J., McGowin, A., Molitierno, A, Moore, P., O’Brien, M., Pringle, D.,
Rowley, B., Rutter, E., Sav, T., Sayer, J., Sayer, C., Steffan, M., Voss, D.,
Walbroehl, G., Wenning, M., Wilcox, N., Wolff, M.
II.
Approval
of the Minutes:
The
minutes of the June October 14,3,
2002, meeting were approved as written (Attachment H to agenda).
III.
Report
of President:
· The U.S. Department of Education recently
awarded WSU a $915,000 grant for improving the teaching of American History in
the Dayton Public Schools. Faculty
from Education and Liberal Arts will work with public school teachers and local
and national museums.
· The N.I.H, National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute recently awarded WSU a $500,000 grant to improve early detection and
prevention of cardiac and stroke risk factors, which are higher than the
national average in the Miami Valley.
· The Alumni kick off weekend on campus was
a success, and we also spent two hours each with the editorial boards of the
Dayton Daily News, Dayton Business Journal and a number of television stations
including channel 7, bringing them up to date on faculty successes in all of
our colleges.
· The Lake Campus - Dean Anita Curry-Jackson and her staff, Greg Shumm, Tom
Knapke and others, helped me present our annual report to the neighboring
communities in Wapakoneta, Auglaize County, New Bremen, Minster and others.
This provided us an opportunity to galvanize those community leaders and their
legislators to support higher education in Ohio.
· Please vote and kindly ask students, who
can, to vote in tomorrow’s election. Also, if you have not yet done so, encourage your colleagues
to contribute to the United Way.
We receive a lot of help from United Way for our community both
personally and professionally, and we would like to continue to demonstrate our
capacity to respond. Thank
you.
· Dr. Goldfinger’s question to
President Goldenberg – In the last 20 years or so the IUC has been using
state money through university budgets to run a lobbying interest in the
legislature on behalf of higher education. During these years of IUC activity, Ohio has sunken to near
the bottom in dollars spent per student and near the top in dollars in costs. Why?
· President Goldenberg’s response -
There is no lobbying; i.e. there is no transferred state money to any
legislator. We do have people who work at the university and help policy makers
understand higher education better.
It is true that in the last 20 years universities have not been as
effective as they need to be in garnering the support of the policy makers, but
in the last year they have been far more successful. I know that our own Vice President of Business and Finance,
who has looked at the budget over a period of 30 years, has pointed out that
last year, for example, though the universities took a cut, they took a
disproportionately lower cut than they would have taken 10 or 20 years ago when
we had less budget problems. In
fact, last year we had quite an amount of activity in terms of educating policy
makers about higher education, both in the Governor’s office as well as
among the legislators. This was
done with a variety of people from every university. It included myself, the provost, our Vice President of
Business and Finance, and throughout the universities in the state some of the
faculty have gotten together and talked with legislators. Similarly, in the next few years we are
looking to move toward changing policy so that over a period of time higher
education will get more appropriate funding than it has in the past. For example, both candidates for
governor talked about higher education as a high priority. That has not occurred in prior
times. We realize that when the
economy is tough all the agencies are hit. We are in a particularly precarious time but we know that
the economy will recover. As that
occurs, we will continue to make a very strong case for increasing support of
higher education. The Board of Regents and the IUC have not often been aligned
in past budget difficulties. Right now the corporate and staff members of the
OBR and the universities are working together to change the state of higher
education.
· Dr. Sayer’s question – Is
there a possibility that the state universities may be hit with a 10% budget
cut?
· Dr. Goldenberg – To the best of our
knowledge there is no cut planned right now but it is predicated on the fact
that the last two months of revenue stream in the state has had a modest growth
and if that continues we have no indication there will be further cuts to
higher education. If for whatever
reason that changes in a negative way, obviously, people will be figuring out
how to make up that difference.
· Dr. Moore – If your question is,
“Will there be a cut in this fiscal year?”, I think Dr.
Goldenberg’s answer is right on target. If you are projecting out to the
next fiscal year, and you are talking about the state trying to find sources of
revenue to cover one-time funds, then it is a murkier picture.
IV.
Report
of the Senate Executive Committee: James Sayer
· We have been very busy preparing agendas
for the November 25 faculty senate meeting, and General faculty meeting on Nov.
19. You will be receiving notification on these through the faculty list serve.
· On a different note, something to share -
Last week I sent an email to Dr. Jory Hancock, the President of the University
Faculty at the University of Arizona, expressing our sympathies to the faculty
and students at the University of Arizona. Dr. Hancock responded the following day expressing
appreciation for the expression etc., including the statement –“I
think it particularly stunning for us to experience this kind of thing because
the University of Arizona is known for its friendly supportive climate. The level of trust and respect for one
another is high, and, of course, now some question whether the campus might
have done something to prevent this incident. Caring makes one ask that question. Certainly I don’t have the answer
to that but I think it is important that you took the time to be in touch with
us and I thank you very much.”
I hope that during the remainder of this year I will never have to write
a similar note to anyone in any university.
A. Guest Report: 2003 Fall Schedule –
Dave Sauter
Dave
Sauter, University Registrar, provided a status report of Fall 2003 class
schedule. He first reminded the
Senate about Fall 2003 changes, including the following:
· The quarter will start early, and end
before Thanksgiving
· New GE
· New timeblock grid with 8:30 start times
approved by Senate
· New guidelines to prioritize class
assignments approved by the Senate
· Continuing to settle into new space, including use of the new computer labs, specialty labs and Millet Hall
· Of 2655 classes listed on the first draft, all but 102 were placed, which compares typically to 130 – 150 not placed.
Observations
o
One
third of classes not in timeblocks.
o
Available
Times/Days/Spaces Most of the unassigned 102 classes are in
the 20-40 seat range
o
8:30
time slot for
general classrooms is unused approximately one-third of the time
o
2:15/3:00/4:30
late afternoon time slot for
general classrooms is unused approximately one-fifth of the time
o
Kettering
Center is not yet
scheduled; review for future credit offerings.
o
Insure that
departments have requested IVDL and EC space as needed;
o
Review list
of 14 general classrooms not yet scheduled or not used very much: Many available
classrooms are the general specialty PC/MAC labs; review current offerings for possible
change from traditional classroom to PC/MAC lab.
o
Determine
if there are other dedicated spaces that could be used by departments for their classes and
events (i.e. Honors, seminar rooms).
o
Next Steps
o
Work
with RSCOB since F03
RSCOB classes number 206 but may be reduced by up to one-quarter of the
currently assigned classes as they move from a 3 to 4 credit hour base.
o
Several
departments are utilizing a MW daytime schedule, at times using 8:00 start but more often
cutting across timeblock.
o
Several
departments did not change any meet times from F02; review F03 offerings to determine if
slight time shifts free up classrooms from overbooked timeblocks.
o
Review
math department innovative M-F class scheduling concept in which MWF classes meet longer
and TR classes meet shorter, thereby accommodating two classes within the TR
block.
Question
from Dr. Sayer – Should we assume that everyone would be massaged into
using the 8:30 and mid-afternoon time slots more than we have in the past? Is that the solution to the
problem?
Dave-
We will do what will be reasonable.
We have certainly seen some changes coming in on draft two to fit into
the timeblocks.
Dr.
Moore – We will look at some that jump across timeblocks and are blocking
other courses. These pose problem for others, and ultimately we may have to
look at dedicated space. Overall,
it looks much brighter than expected.
Dave
– Some departments have had labs that may be adjustable, startinga little
earlier or a little later, opening up the next time block so that the students
can then take another class. That is another issue riding over all of this, can
the students put their schedules together? Dr. Sayer - I would imagine that
with the reduction in the number of time slots during the week, having courses
scheduled that run across two timeblocks, with fewer time blocks makes the
scheduling problem even more acute than in the past and that really hurts the
student.
Dave
– Regarding the question of space used for “other things”,
our priority will be, after the classes -, academic support, study sessions,
and the meetings . Again, if we
have more classes within the timeblock we will be able to schedule in even
more.
B. Guest Report: Strategic Planning –
Robert Sweeney (postponed to November 25, 2002)
C. Guest Report: Provost Search – Greg
Bernhardt
·
Handout referenced.
President Goldenberg has met with each of the constituency groups, students,
classified, unclassified, faculty, collective bargaining, Faculty Senate, and
Faculty President, to be sure that each group and the Deans are aware of what
is going on. There has been a lot
of preliminary information and the search is underway.
·
Chronicle of Higher Ed
ad appeared on November 1, 2002.
We have spent time since October generating a pool of high quality
candidates and will continue this until January 6, which will be our first
consideration date. We will then
take 9 to 10 days to narrow the pool down to about 10 qualified candidates.
·
Interviews will be
coordinated on February 8 and 9 at the airport after which we will reduce to
approximately five candidates to bring on campus at the end of winter quarter,
February 10 - 22. The input from all constituency groups will then be
considered to forge a recommendation on a minimum of three acceptable
candidates to the President and the Sr. Vice-President by the end of
March. The targeted date for an
announcement is the first week of April, with the new Provost starting on or
about July 1, 2003. The committee
will be meeting this Wednesday. We will be following a traditional interviewing
schedule in that we will have them in on the evening on the first day they
arrive, perhaps in small groups and then two full days on campus. In addition, we expect that if the
schedule is adhered to, we will have a candidate on Monday and Tues, one on
Thursday and Friday, and this will continue for about three weeks to get
through the five final candidates.
·
We are accepting
nominations and we hope that you would use your various professional contacts
throughout the US and the world to make sure that the position is widely spread
and the word is out there. We have
about a dozen applications so far, approximately 10 that have come as a result
of people seeing the online ads and a few nominations from various individuals
from around the nation and Ohio.
Question
from Senator Goldfinger regarding when names would be published.
Dr.
Bernhardt’s response - This will be discussed with the
committee members, and we will be complying with the law but an exact date is
not known.
A. Faculty Budget Priority Committee: James Sayer, Chair
The
committee met on Monday, October 28, 2002, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM in 138 Fawcett
Hall. With the exception of Dr. Clark-Graham, all members of the committee were
present.
The
focus of the meeting was the use of and compensation for adjunct faculty at
WSU, and the discussion was both far ranging and insightful. Although a proposal for increasing
adjunct salaries had been prepared by the committee chair prior to the meeting,
it was decided that it was premature to offer such until additional information
about adjunct usage had been secured.
Accordingly,
the committee chair will be contacting the deans of the undergraduate colleges
to collect information regarding adjunct usage, including number for adjuncts,
their ranks, salaries paid, and the numbers and types of courses taught by
adjuncts.
The
committee will next meet on November 18 with CFO Dr. Fillipic to discuss
revenue streams and expenditure patterns.
B. Non-Bargaining Unit Faculty Affairs
Committee: Carole Endres,
Chair - No report
C. Undergraduate Curriculum & Academic
Policy Committee: Tom Sav, Chair
· We are anticipating receiving a large proposal
from the College of Business to convert all programs and courses to a
four-credit hour base. If that is
received in time the committee will be asked to hold a special meeting on Nov
14 that will allow UCAP to get all the proposals before the Senate for the
November 25 meeting.
· Question raised by Senator Rowley about
the push for all colleges and all courses to move to a 4-credit hour base;
response from Dr. Sav that there is no push because almost all have converted to
the 4 hour base. The College of Business is the only college that is still
working towards this. The Provost
responds that those that remain as 3-hour courses should not go across the
timeblock. If they continue at
three then they should do so in a fashion that the students can move easily
from the three to the four.
D. Buildings & Grounds Committee: James Amon, Chair - No report
E. Information Technology Committee: Vince Yen, Chair - No report
F. Student Affairs Committee: Margaret Clark Graham, Chair - No
report
G. Student Petitions Committee: KT Mechlin, Chair
VI.
Council
Reports
Note
that on November 25, we will have a formal report by Graduate/Research council
from
Dean
Thomas.
VII.
Old
Business:
A. Call for Nominations for
Professor-at-Large for University Promotion and Tenure Committee (Attachment
B). *Nominations will be taken
today with the vote taken at the November 25, 2002 Senate meeting. Please confirm that your nominee is
willing to serve prior to the vote.clarification that eligibility is by Full professor
and member of Bargaining Unit
B. Proposed GE Policy for Continuing
Students – David Orenstein
(Attachment C)
· Allow students who began before Fall 2003
to finish their education on the new GE.
· Proposal approved
C. Proposed GE Policy Governing Transfer
Students' Completion of GE - David Orenstein (Attachment D)
· Policy will enable, per Ohio Board of
Regents guidelines, WSU to accept students who have GE transfer module
completed at another university as having completed our GE requirements even if
they have not completed our WAC component.
· Goal is that students who complete Gen Ed
requirement have a coherent GE and that they meet our goals. Transfer courses should meet a general
goal of WSU General Education, even if the course is not identical.
· Single GE system to make full use of the
DARS (Degree Audit Reporting System) for improving advising and enabling students
to check their own status, including running a “What if?” DARS for
reviewing new majors.
· Questions regarding Area VI courses
having to be a WI course; Senator Rowley shared concern that transfer students
would need to take a freshmen level class in some colleges to meet this.
Dr. Rutter commented that the committee
has been attempting to get CECS to offer more than just the one WI they have
thus far. Colleges can also identify other courses within the programs as WI
for the student.
Dr. Orenstein - If the GE transfer module
is completed, it is not an articulation between the colleges but is mandated by
the BOR. We do work with the local
schools, they know about our WAC requirements. If they have an Associates Degree, we cannot require them to
take a WI course as part of the GE program. Dr. Howard recommended colleges talk with Charles Long,
Director of Adult and Transfer Students, regarding established articulation
agreements.
· Proposal Approved.
VIII. New Business
A. WAC Program Changes To Accommodate New GE
Fall 2003 - Tom Sav (Attachment E)
1. Match the WAC to the GE requirements
2. Dual major WI requirements clarification
3. Change in language to the proposal as to
what is being done at present
B. Graduate Certificate in Health Care
Management - Joe Coleman (Attachment F)
· Has been reviewed and approved by
Graduate Council and RSCOB.
· Senator Coleman moved that rules be
suspended to approve the proposal today to enable implementation for Winter
2003.
· Moved and approved to make Old Business
· Proposal Approved
C. Graduate Certificate in School Nursing -
Joe Coleman (Attachment G)
· Motion to place on November 25 Faculty
Senate agenda
· Has been reviewed and approved by
Graduate Council.
· Item moved to Old business for November
25 Faculty Senate meeting.
D. University General Education
Implementation Committee has completed its job. It will now be a subcommittee of UCAP. The NCA will be
returning for an accrediting visit and will be looking for a demonstration of
Faculty control over General education.
· Moved and seconded for new business item
D to consider during the November 25 Faculty Senate meeting.
IX.
Announcements:
A. Fall Quarter General Faculty
Meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 19, 3:30
p.m., 163 Student Union
B. Next Faculty Senate Meeting: Monday, Nov. 25, 2:30 p.m., E156
Student Union
X.
Adjournment:
The meeting adjourned at 3:50 p.m.