Faculty Senate

CCSU Faculty Senate

Minutes—May 8, 2006

VAC 105  3:00 PM

Next Faculty Senate Meeting, September 11, 2006 in Vance 105

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Present: Abadiano, Adams, Alicandro, Al-Mousad, Barrington, Broadus-Garcia,  Candales, Cohen, Conway, Craine, Cutler,  Deloy, DiPlacido,  Dowty, Foshay, Fried, Garcia-Bowen,Gendron, George, Grasso,  Hager, Hedlund, Jones, King, Kurkjian, Lapuerta, Leake, Leong,  Lisi,  MacDonald, Mahony, Mamed, Marlor, Miller.A , Mulcahy, C, Mulcahy, D, Murphy, O'Connell, Orlosoke, Osterreich, Petrosino,  Pirog, Poirier, Rajaravivarma, Recoder-Nunez, Sadanand, Schuberth,  Sevitch, Spector, Warshauer, Watson, Westcott, Wolff

 

 Ex-Officio: Galligan, Kremens, Lemma, Miller, J., Pease, Sakofs

 

 Guests: Bachoo, Baumann, Braverman, Burkholder, Dornan, Larsen, Petterson, Pope, Tully

 

Meeting called to order by President Craine at 3.00 pm

 

1. Motion to approve Minutes of April 24: ( Wolff )  - Passed

 

2. Announcements:

  1. President Craine requested that senators  and guests keep their remarks brief because of a full agenda. Motion to limit debate would be in order. It would require a two-thirds majority vote.
  2. There will be an open meeting of all faculty with President Miller on May 11 in C-231 between 2 and 3.30 pm to discuss his letter to faculty on Promotion & Tenure.
  3. The Promotion & Tenure Committee report has been referred to the Committee on the Concerns of Women and the Diversity Committee for consideration
  4. President Miller has deferred action on the Sixth Year Program in Mathematics Education Leadership and the Chemistry Minor proposals that were passed by the Curriculum Committee and the Faculty Senate
  5. Copies of the CCSU Department of Athletics Annual Report on Student-Athletes, 2006, could be picked-up by senators at the door.
  6. In the absence of Cindy White, President of the CCSU-AAUP, President Craine mentioned that she had one announcement. The counting of votes for the run-off Council elections would be completed soon.
  7. President Craine expressed thanks on behalf of the Senate for the work of the Secretary for 2004-05 and 2005-06, Dr. Nanjundiah Sadanand.

 

    1. Unfinished Business: None

 

    1. New Business:

 

  1. Graduation Candidates list (Graduates – Undergraduates) and Dean’s Memo (Graduate – Undergraduate) to the Senate

http://www.ccsu.edu/facsenate/Agendas/2005-06/Attachments/GraduateList05-06.htm

http://www.ccsu.edu/facsenate/Agendas/2005-06/Attachments/UndergradList05-06.htm

 

On behalf of the Faculty, the Deans of the Schools of Arts & Science, Business, Education and Professional Studies, Technology and Graduate School presented the list of undergraduate and graduate students for Spring 2006 and Summer 2006 getting degrees of BA,BS, BFA, MA, MS, MBA, 6th Year Certification in Reading and Education Leadership, Ed.D in Education Leadership

      subject to completion of academic requirements

 

Motion to accept candidates list

Arts & Science - (Westcott): Passed

Business – (Wolff): Passed

Education & Professional Studies – (Wolff): Passed

Technology – (Al-Mousad): Passed

Graduate School – (Schuberth): Passed

 

  1. Facilities report (R.Bachoo, Vice-President, Administrative Affairs)

Mr. Bachoo provided an overview of Facilities usage, development and upcoming critical issues

Please see attachment for items he covered.

 

  1. Promotion & Tenure Committee report (K.Larsen) 

Motion to accept the report as submitted (Fried): Passed

 

  1. Curriculum Committee report (T. Burkholder):

Thomas Burkholder (Chemistry) was elected to serve a two year term F'06-S'08 as chair of the curriculum committee.

James Mulrooney (BMS) was elected to a one year term F'06-S'07 as secretary of the curriculum committee.

The curriculum committee heard from Tim Craine, chair of the Math department about additions to the math placement exam process. The consensus was that this issue does not need to be addressed by the committee at this time. Members of the committee urged the Math department to fully communicate the new guidelines to faculty and students.

The department of Teacher Education has asked to have the wording of the prerequisite of EDF 415, Educational Foundations, changed from “Admission to the Professional Program or permission of department chair" to read: “Admission to the Professional Program.” The Dean of the School of Education and Professional Studies has approved this and the chair of the committee has ruled it to be a minor change.

Motion to have a 5-minute recess to review the report (Westcott): Failed

Motion to accept the entire Curriculum Committee report (Westcott): Passed

Including

-deletion of courses not offered as listed in the report,

-changes to courses and programs as listed in the report from the departments of

Art, Biology, Biomolecular Science, Computer Electronics & Graphics, Computer Science, Physics & Earth Science, Engineering Technology, English, Mathematical Sciences, Modern Languages, Music, Philosophy, and

-Item 19 of the report concerning International Area Studies

  1. Exceptions to Department DEC’s and Chairs (J.Miller)

Motion to approve President Miller’s request for exceptions to DEC’s and Chairs as in his memorandums to the Faculty Senate President (Fried): Passed

  1. Committee on Committees report on Academic Integrity Bylaws and Diversity Committee Bylaws (S. Cohen)

Motion to accept the report as submitted  (Cohen): Passed

  1. University Planning and Budget Committee report (P.Petterson)

Chair of the UPBC, Prof. Petterson, submitted his report that had the following priorities for 2006-07.

    1. On-line education and, more generally, computer assistance to academics
    2. Implications of GPA-based admission to programs
    3. Recommendations for prioritizing university objectives
    4. Examination of allocation of resources among remedial education, general education, majors and minors, graduate studies, international education and special programs.
    5. Coordination of strategic planning of campus units

Motion to accept report (Miller, A): Passed

  1. Student Affairs Committee report (J. Tully)

Concerning proposed restructuring of the Division of Student Affairs

             and the Division’s Self-Assessment Program

Motion to accept report as submitted (Spector): Passed

i.Academic Standards Committee report (M. Warshauer)

The report consisted of three items:

-Residency requirement for Minors

-Overall credits for Minors

-Evening Final Examination schedule

Motion that residency requirement for students who do not have Minors be 15 credits in their Major only (Warshauer): Passed

[Note: The students will still require 45 overall credits for residency]

The committee felt that policy as stated in the catalog regarding credits in the Minor is fine.

Motion to reaffirm the Chemistry Minor and ask President Miller to act favorably on it (Westcott):

Passed

Motion to adopt an examination schedule for evening classes as for day classes (Warshauer):
Passed

  1. Information Technology Committee report (C. Menoche)

The role of the Committee is informational. A majority of the committee’s time was spent on VISTA and the search for the new CIO – expected by July 2006.

Two other items were:

      1. -         request for software for laboratories; a subcommittee has been formed to review request
      2. -         request for information on other instructional technology resources; a subcommittee has been formed to review  request

Motion to accept report (Cohen): Passed

  1. Appointments & Personnel Committee report (C. Barrington)

the report has details on recent University administrative office searches and recommendations for the future

Motion to accept the report and thank the committee (Wolff): Passed

    1. Adjournment

Motion to adjourn – 4.47 pm – (Adams): Passed

 

Submitted

 

Nanjundiah Sadanand

Secretary

Faculty Senate

 

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