Faculty Senate

CCSU Faculty Senate

Minutes—November 15, 2004

VAC 105  3:00 PM

Present: Adams, Al-Masoud, Austad, Barrington, Button, Braverman, Cohen, Craine, Crundwell, D'Addio, Dowty, Erdmans, Foster, Gilmore, Gould, Halkin, Hedlund, Hentschel, Kurkjian, Leake, Lee-Partridge, Lemma, Lisi, Machuga, Mahony, Marlor,Martin-Troy, Meyer, Miller, Moran, Mulcahy, Murphy, Odesina, Oliva, Osterreich,Passaro, Pirog, Poirier, Sadanand, Salerno, Salinas,Sevitch, Sweeney,  Talit, Terezakis, Walker, Walo, Warshauer, Whitford, Williams, Wolff 

Ex-Officio: Kremens, Lemma, Pease, Petrosino, Read, Sakofs

Parliamentarian: O'Connell

Guests: Baumann (Eng.Tech), Pudlinski (University Curriculum Committee) 

Meeting called to order by President Craine at 3.07  p.m

 

  1. Motion to approve minutes (corrected) of November 1, 2004

Austad/Wolff ;
Passed  unanimously
  

  1. Announcements

President Craine (Senate) mentioned that the Senate Steering Committee had participated in interviewing the candidates for the University's presidential job opening. He was pleased that many faculty members also attended the open meetings with the candidates and provided feedback to the advisory committee.

 

President White (AAUP) wanted a discussion next Spring on the relationship between the Senate and the AAUP so the two could work more closely on issues of common concern and interest. She also indicated that this year the December AAUP holiday social would not clash with the President's social.

 

  1. Unfinished Business: None

 

  1. New Business:

a.       Curriculum Committee report was submitted by the Chair C. Pudlinski

Please see http://www.ccsu.edu/curriculum

 

Motion to approve Department of Biomolecular Sciences request for changes to pre-requisites and that some courses could be taken concurrently

Wolff/Osterreich - passed unanimously

 

Motion to approve Department of Engineering Technology request for skill area IV designation for transfer students, changing a course number and pre-requisites,  redesignation of a course , addition of a new course as elective

Terezakis/Crundwell - passed unanimously

 

Motion to approve Department of Physical Education request of changes to pre-requisites as long as students are admitted to professional programs

Martin-Troy/Wolff - passed unanimously

 

A longer curriculum committee report will be submitted at the last senate meeting of the year (December 6)

 

b.      Ad-hoc Committee on Academic Integrity 

University Judicial officer Chris Dukes provided an overview to his work and requested faculty cooperation with his office in investigating student misconduct as it related to academic integrity. He provided statistics on disciplinary sanctions in 2003. The Judicial officer has no say on a student's grades, has to comply with regulations governing due process but cannot share all the details of any sanction with faculty because of confidentiality rules. Less than 5% of his investigation has been related to academic misconduct. Several senators made comments and raised questions. A request was made that he provide a report to the Senate at the end of each semester.

 

c.       Ad-hoc Committee on Constitution/Bylaws

Sen. Terezakis (who serves on the committee together with Sen. Crundwell and Parliamentarian O'Connell requested recommendations/suggestions from the entire faculty for changes in the Senate constitution/bylaws by December 20. A report will be forthcoming in early Spring 2005.

 

  1. Motion to adjourn (Dowty/Osterreich): 4.15 p.m - passed unanimously 

 

Respectfully submitted

 

Nanjundiah Sadanand

Faculty Senate Secretary