Faculty Senate

CCSU Faculty Senate

Minutes—December 6, 2004

VAC 105  3:00 PM

Present: Abadiano, Adams, Aebersold, Al-Mousad, Austad, Barrington, Bello, Benfield, Brann, Braverman, Candales, Casella, Cohen, Craine, Crundwell, D’Addio, Dowty, Foster, Garcia-Bowen, Gould, Halkin, Hedlund, Hentschel, Kremens, Kurkjian, Leake, Lee-Partridge, Lemma, Ljugholm, Machuga, Marlor, Meyer, Miller, Morales, Murphy, Odesina, Orloske, Osterreich, Park, Passaro, Pevac, Rivera, Roth, Sadanand, Sakofs, Salinas, Sevitch, Sweeney, Talit, Terezakis, Thornton, Walo, Warshauer, Whitford, Williams, Zottola

Guests: Broadus-Garcia, Fitzgerald, Golub, Notaro, Pudlinski

 

Meeting called to order by President Craine at 3.05 pm

 

1. Approval of Minutes of November 15 (with corrections)

Terezakis/Murphy; passed unanimously

 

2. Announcements:

  1. President Craine (Senate) announced that the Senate was co-sponsoring a special reception for the new CCSU President in Founders Hall on December 10 at 1.30 pm
  2. Vice-President Gendron (AAUP) announced that the AAUP sponsored holiday social would be held on Wednesday, Dec. 8 in Marcus White (Living Room) between 4 and 7 pm

 

3. Address by President Aebersold (CCSU)

The president announced that the Presidential Search Committee had recommended to the CSU Board of Trustees that Dr. John Miller be chosen as the next CCSU President. This was expected to be done at the next BOT meeting on Dec.10 and a reception would follow at Founders Hall.

President Aebersold mentioned that he would serve in office until July 1, 2005.  He had recommended to the BOT that Mr. Larry Wilder, formerly at the University of Connecticut health Center, be appointed the interim Chief Financial officer at CCSU.

The president referred to the “points of pride” he had mentioned in his opening address to CCSU Faculty and Staff in August 2004 at the beginning of the academic year. He mentioned several faculty and student accomplishments and was impressed with the excellent turnout at the Open House in October. He thanked faculty, students and staff for making it a great success. He indicated that over 130 students with SAT scores above 1100 had applied to join CCSU. But there were four areas deserving of attention, he added.

  1. Center for International Education (report due by February 2005)
  2.  Enrolment Management (Seven task groups established under AssociateVice-President Salahu-din)
  3. Human Resources (concerns over, (a) turnover and resulting loss of institutional memory and (b) hiring procedures for internal recruitment and temporary/emergency needs
  4. External Affairs ( Mr. Joseph Harper has retired and Mr. Ernie Marquez, InterimVice-President, Personnel, will be leaving soon)

 

President Aebersold stressed the importance of diversity. He asked for a renewed commitment on everyone’s part and exhorted search committees to be pro-active in seeking out candidates from under-represented groups.

He mentioned that RFP’s would be sent out for a new Food Services contract by January 2005 with approval expected by April 2005. He stressed the need for all contractual agreements with other entities to be cleared with the Attorney General’s office. Training sessions on purchasing policies and ethical concerns that need to be addressed will be held next semester. The president closed with a plea to all faculty and staff, that we read and rededicate ourselves to our goals as embodied in the CCSU Mission Statement.

 

  1. Unfinished business: None

 

  1. New Business:

 

5        a.Proposal from President Craine for Spring Senate meeting dates

Motion to suspend bylaws to approve the proposed dates

Crundwell/Terezakis ; passed unanimously

 

January 31 (in lieu of February 7)

February 14 (in lieu of February 21 which falls on a holiday)

March 7

March 28 (in lieu of March 21 which falls during Spring break)

April 4

April 18

May 2

May 16 (last meeting of the semester)

 Motion to approve new dates also passed unanimously

 

5        b.Approval of Baccalaureate and Graduate Degree Candidates for December 2004

Motions made by Deans/Associate Deans of Schools to approve the list submitted subject to satisfactory completion of degree requirements

 

Graduate Studies (Lemma/Terezakis); passed unanimously

Arts & Sciences (Roth/Leake); passed unanimously

Technology (Kremens/Osterreich); passed unanimously

Business (Braverman/Austad); passed unanimously

 

5        c.University Curriculum Committee Report (Chris Pudlinksi)

 

http://www.ccsu.edu/curriculum/senate_reports/04_05/dec.html

In consultation with the President of the Senate, consideration of the report was divided into different coherent segments.  Numbers refer to items listed in the Curriculum Committee report

a. (1,2,3,4,5,6,11,15,16,17) Motion to approve additions/revisions in the departments of Design, Physical Education, Accounting, Art, Biological Sciences, Bio-molecular Science, Physics-Earth Sciences, Music, Nursing and Psychology

Terezakis/Austad ; passed unanimously

 

b. (5) Motion to approve program revision in Biological Sciences (Bio 111 and Bio 211)

Osterreich/Halkin; passed with one opposed

 

  1. (7) Motion to approve program revision in Counseling & Family Therapy

Terezakis/Murphy; passed unanimously

 

  1. (9) Motion to approve reorganization of the two tracks in Communication

Leake/Crundwell; passed unanimously

 

  1. (12) Motion to add course and program revision in Finance

Orloske/Osterreich; passed unanimously

 

  1. (13) Motion to revise courses and add Master’s program in Construction Management

Murphy/Dowty; passed unanimously

 

  1. (14) Motion to add Master’s program specialization in Italian in Modern Languages

Passaro/Foster; passed unanimously

 

  1. (10) Motion to revise courses and admissions standards in Criminology and Criminal Justice (incorporating Academic Standards Committee report by Matt Warshauer, Item 5 f. on the Agenda, recommending that students who intend to major in Criminology & Criminal Justice must get at least a B grade in CRM 301: Principles and Ethics in Criminal Justice)

Crundwell/Terezakis;  passed unanimously

 

5 d. Graduate Studies Committee Report (Glynis Fitzgerald)

 

  1. Announcements: Scholarship Award recipients named (please see report)
  2. Policy changes recommended in admissions to programs in

Art, History, Criminal Justice

 

Motion to approve recommended policy changes

Osterreich/Halkin

Amendment to motion to accept report as read with motionable items tabled till the next Senate meeting

Dowty/Terezakis; passed with 4 opposed

 

Main motion; passed unanimously

 

  1. e University Planning & Budget Committee report (David Blitz)

The timetable for the University College proposal is available at

*http://www.ccsu.edu/UPBC/Documents/Univeristy_College_Timetable.htm

The draft working paper will be released to the University community on December 16, 2004 (also to be posted on the UPBC web site at http://www.ccsu.edu/UPBC/)

 

The UPBC will discuss costing and other issues at its meeting on December 15, 2004.

A final discussion on the entire proposal will take place on February 16, 2005 that will incorporate the strategic plans from all the schools and overall effect on the university’s budget.

A resolution from the UPBC will be presented to the Senate on March 7, 2005

 

Motion to approve the report

Abadiano/Osterreich; passed unanimously

 

5f (please see 5 c, section h, above)

 

5 g. CCSU students’ request for Senate’s endorsement of anti-sweatshop resolution

(Kath Golub and Kris Notaro, CCSU Progressive Students Alliance members)

Motion proposed by Senator Terezakis reads as follows:

 

Whereas there is a concern about CCSU apparel being manufactured in factories that do not respect worker’s rights and

Whereas acknowledging that worker’s rights are a key component of human rights and moral concern and

Whereas the CCSU Student Senate has already endorsed the adoption of the Worker Rights Consortium Code of Conduct into CCSU policies,

 

Be it resolved that the CCSU Faculty Senate endorses the adoption of the Worker Rights Consortium Code of Conduct into the CCSU purchasing and selling policies.

 

The students explained that they are asking that CCSU follow the example of over 125 universities nationwide that have adopted the Worker Rights Consortium Code of Conduct, which can be viewed at the link below, as the standard they would require of licensees.

http://www.workersrights.org/coc.asp

The students requested that the Faculty Senate pass the resolution as proposed by Senator Terezakis at the next senate meeting. They wanted all the departments on campus to become aware of the issues. They offered to explain to any department or group that wished to know more about the matter.

 

Motion to table consideration of the proposed anti-sweatshop resolution till the next senate meeting

Terezakis/Osterreich; passed unanimously

 

President Tim Craine announced a special meeting of the Faculty Senate for 1 pm, Vance 105 on December 13, 2004, to consider two items

  1. Graduate Studies Committee Report Resolution
  2. Anti-Sweatshop Resolution

 

  1. Motion to adjourn (4.55 pm)

Terezakis/Benfield; passed unanimously

 

Respectfully submitted

 

Nanjundiah Sadanand

Faculty Senate Secretary