Faculty Senate

 

 

Next Senate Meeting:  May 16, 2005 in Vance 105 at 1 pm

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Present: Adams, Al-Masoud, Austad,  Bello, Brann, Braverman, Button, Candales, Cohen, Craine, Crundwell, D'Addio, Dowty, Fried, Garcia-Bowen, Greenebaum,Halkin, Hedlund, Hentschel,  Leake, Lee-Partridge, Ljugholm, Machuga, Mahony, Marlor, Martin-Troy, Meyer, Mulcahy, Murphy, Odesina, Orloske, Osterreich, Park, Passaro, Petrosino, Pevac,  Pirog, Poirier, Recoder-Nunez, Rivera,  Sadanand, Sevitch, Terezakis, Thornton, Tracey, Walo, Williams 

 

 Ex-Officio:  Kremens, Pease,  Sakofs, Whitford

 

Guests: Blitz (UPBC), Claffey, Pudlinksi (Curriculum Committee), Ricci (ITS), White (AAUP)

 

Meeting called to order by President Craine at 3.03 p.m

 

1. Approval of Minutes of April 18, 2005

with correction of April 2005 Curriculum Committee report of course addition: :BIO 488 Animal Behavior Laboratory where word “students” replaced by “student’s”

(Leake/Terezakis) : passed unanimously

 

2.Announcements: President Craine

 

a. Mentioned a good dinner meeting with some BOT members and representatives of the Senate steering committee,  with a general agreement to push for more faculty lines and support for grant applications

 

b. Stated that the last meeting on May 16 will have graduation lists for approval and some committee reports

 

President White (CCSU-AAUP)

 

a. Reiterated that the dinner meeting with BOT members and AAUP council representatives (that also had Senate representatives) was very positive. Thanked Sens. Craine, Adams and Lisi for being forceful voices for the faculty at the meeting.

b. Thanked everyone who voted to re-elect her President of CCSU-AAUP,  with Michael Gendron as Vice-President, Michael Terezakis as Secretary and Aram Ayalon as Treasurer. Reminded everyone to vote for several run-off elections to the Council

 

President Craine introduced Sen. Tina Rivera and Ms.Lisa Ricci (ITS) who presented/demonstrated a brief introduction to the next version of Central Pipeline that will be inaugurated on June 20. It should be a lot easier to use than the present version and they hope that it will become the portal for everyone one campus with many added features, such as individualized customization and easier navigation.

 

3. Unfinished business: Continuation of discussion of revision of Senate Constitution/Bylaws

http://www.chemistry.ccsu.edu/crundwell/SCCB.htm

 

Suggested change of UPBC to strike section 2.9.2  of the Bylaws

(terezakis/Austad): passed unanimously

Discussion on suggested change on “friendly amendments” in section 4.2 of the Bylaws

 

Motion to include addition of “and seconder” of the motion’s agreement in the last sentence (Halkin/Best): defeated  with 14 in favor, 20 opposed

 

Motion to strike section 4.2 (Dowty/Murphy): passed unanimously

Motion  to accept changes to Constitution/Bylaws (Terezakis/Austad) passed unanimously

 

4. New Business:

 

a.  Report from the Central College Subcommittee of the University Planning and Budget Committee (Sen. Leake)

 

The report will be forwarded to President Aebersold to be passed on to incoming President Miller. Senator Leake, a member of the Subcommittee, outlined the main features of the Report which had three sections with six goals and four initiatives. Several senators spoke during the discussion and raised the following points:

-  asked for recruitment of more full-time faculty as critical to its success

-  requested more resources for the various programs

-  raised concerns on faculty overload, costs and transfer students

-  questioned reliability of retention statistics used in the report

 

Motion by Crundwell/Greenbaum to amend the report to advocate in Section 4.0 “Recommended Initiatives” the need for new full-time faculty lines : defeated with 10 in favor and 24 against

 

Motion by Halkin/Martin-Troy to add to a sentence in section 4.1.4 of “Recommended Initiatives”, so that the line, “The fourth hour of load credit for faculty will encourage greater participation in the program….” Will read, “The fourth hour of load credit for faculty is needed to prepare for these activities and will encourage greater participation in the program…”,  passed with 33 in favor,1 opposed

 

Senator Austad called the question; Senators Crundwell/Dowty asked for a roll call vote. Motion to accept the report (Leake/Austad) passed as indicated below:

 

For (28): Adams, Austad, Bello, Button, Brann, Braverman, Craine, D’Addio, Halkin, Hedlund, Hentschel, Leake, Lee-Partridge, Mahony, Mulcahy, Murphy, Odesina, Park, Passaro, Petrosino, Poirier, Rivera, Recoder-Nunez, Sadanand, Terezakis, Thornton, Walo, Williams

Against (11): Al-Mousad, Crundwell, Dowty, Machuga, Marlor, Martin-Troy, Meyer, Orloske, Osterreich, Pirog, Sevitch

Abstain (2): Greenebaum, Tracey

Absent (28): Abadiano, Barrington, Best, Borst, Callery, Casella,Cohen, Deloy,  Foster, Fried, Gilmore, Halloran, Kurkjian, Lisi, Ljugholm, Morales, Moran, Oliva, Pevac, Poirier, Salerno, Salinas, Sweeney, Talit, Walker, Warshauer, Wolff, Zottola

 

c. Resolution of appreciation for President Aebersold’s sevices (Adams)

 

Moved by Adams/Best: passed unanimously

 

d. President Craine brought forward the request by the Marketing Department for an exception to its DEC so Dr. Eugene Baten, Department of Management & Organization, could serve on it for 05-06.

Motion to support request (Best/Martin-Troy)

A question was asked whether the Marketing Department already had three tenured members who could serve on its DEC and hence its request was in violation of the Bylaws. No one from the department was available to clarify.
Motion to table request (Meyer/Walo): passed unanimously

 

 5. Motion to adjourn 4.30 p.m (Adams/Austad) : passed unanimously 

 

Respectfully submitted

Nanjundiah Sadanand

Secretary

Faculty Senate, CCSU