Faculty Senate

CCSU Faculty Senate

Minutes—January 23, 2006

VAC 105  3:00 PM

Next Meeting of the Faculty Senate on February 13, 2006, 3 pm Vance 105

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Present: Adams, Al-Mousad, Barrington, Button , Candales, Cohen, Conway, Craine, Cutler,Deloy,  DiPlacido,  Foshay,Forcella, Gallagher, Garcia-Bowen,  Grasso ,Greenebaum,  Hedlund,Horan,  Jones, Kapper, Kershner, King, Kurkjian, Lapuerta,  Leake, Lisi,  MacDonald, Mamed,  Marlor, Miller.A ,Mulcahy.D,  OConnell, Orloske, Petrosino, Pirog, Rajaravivarma, Recoder-Nunez, Sadanand, Schuberth, Sevitch, Sianez, Spector, Talit, Westcott, Williams, Wolff

 

Ex-Officio: Kremens,  Lemma, Miller.J,  Roth, Sakofs, Whitford

 

Guests: Fallahi, Konciewicz, Mulcahy,C   

 

Meeting called to order by President Craine at 3.05 pm 

 

 

1. Motion to approve Minutes of December 12, 2005  : ( Wolff )  - Passed

 

2. Announcements:

 

President Craine (Senate):  Message from Vice-President for Human Resources Anne Alling asking for Senate input regarding Workmen's Compensation Act. The university has to be in compliance with this act and a committee from all the bargaining units will be formed to consider issues. President Craine will refer it to the Senate Constitution/Bylaws Committee.

President White (CCSU-AAUP): In her absence, President Craine mentioned that a CCSU-AAUP chapter meeting will be held in the Connecticut Room between 12 and 2 pm on March 15. All members are invited to attend.

 

3. Unfinished Business: None

 

4. New Business:
a. Appointments & Personnel Committee report (C. Barrington): The chair of the committee gave a brief report on the committee's work concerning the four university searches - CFO, CIO, Provost and Director of the CIE. The committee is concerned with process not outcomes. It has distributed a questionnaire to the chairs of the search committees for those positions and expects to make recommendations for more transparency and increased faculty/staff involvement. The Chair requested senators to provide feedback to the committee on the questionnaire and suggest improvements.

 

b. Diversity Committee report (C.Fallahi): The Committee met with President Miller and obtained his support for activities to be organized in Spring 2005. He has pledged about $ 5,000 towards the various activities including a Safe Zone program, Men's issues speaker, Race issues speaker and Non-violent communication training.   The committee will have a web site soon.

Motion to accept the report (Wolff): Passed

 

c. "Learning in Communities" report (J.Jones):  Following the UPBC report of 2005 recommending that CCSU initiate innovative practices to foster teaching/learning, a pilot project has been developed for the Fall semester of 2006[Sadanand, Nanjundiah (Physics)] . It was developed after  a CCSU faculty/staff delegation attended a conference last year at Evergreen State College (Washington)  on Learning Communities. The proposal is to create clusters of courses with common themes, texts. The key goals are improved  -
student retention, 
graduation rates,  

academic success, and 
transition from high school to college

Two open informational meetings will be held on Feb 3 (Carlton Room, Student Center, 1 - 3 pm) and Feb 9 (Philbrick Room, Student Center, 3.30 - 5.30 pm). People can contact Prof. Jones or Dean Roth for more information. A web link will be sent out to everyone.

Motion to accept report (Schuberth): passed with one opposed

 

 5.    Motion to adjourn - 3.47 pm  pm (Wolff ) : passed

 

Submitted

 

Nanjundiah Sadanand

Secretary