CCSU Faculty Senate
Minutes—November 7, 2005
Copernicus 231 3:00 PM
Present: Adams, Conway, Craine, Cutler, DiPlacido, Dukes, Forest, Foshay,Friedman, Gendron, Jones, Kapper, Kershner, Kim, King, Kurkjian, Lapuerta, Leake, Lesik,Lesser, MacDonald, Mamed, Murphy, OConnell, Osterreich, Pirog, Rajaravivarma, Recoder-Nunez, Sadanand, Sevitch, Spector, Talit, Tower, Warshauer, Westcott, Williams, Wolff
Ex-Officio: Kremens, Lemma, Pease, Sakofs, Whitford
Guests: Baumann, Prusak, Pudlinski
 Special Meeting called to order by President Craine at 3.08 p.m
1. Motion to approve Minutes of October 24, 2005 - (Leake): passed unanimously
2. Announcements:
President Craine (Senate): a. Sen Gendron has resigned from the Appointments & Personnel Committee. A special election will be scheduled at the next meeting to elect a replacement for him
 b. SUOAF has a meeting with the "management team" of CSU to discuss "Systematic Initiatives" pertaining to Information Technology on Nov. 11 at 9 am in the Student Center Philbrick Room. All faculty interested in attending or in knowing more about this should contact Sen. Ramon Hernandez
b.President White (CCSU-AAUP)Â was represented by Vice-President Gendron. He reported that the ballots for the referendum on the AAUP request for a dues increase has gone out today and are due back in the AAUP office in Marcus White by November 18.
  3 . New Business: President Craine stepped down from the Chair and Vice-President Adams presided over the rest of the meeting
       Curriculum Committee Report (Pudlinski, Chair):
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       The Chair of the Curriculum Committee explained there were no changes to the preliminary curriculum report and the Mechanical Engineering program will have to be approved by the Department of Higher Education.
       Sen. Westcott moved to accept the report.
       Sen. Craine indicated the Department of Mathematical Sciences support for the entire proposal and that his department would be proposing a substitute for Math 228 which is currently a pre-requisite for ME 345 in the proposal. But he did not want this to hold-up the Senate's approval.
       Sen. Sevitch commented that "adopting" a report indicates a stronger action than "accepting" a report.
       Sen. Westcott withdrew his motion to "accept" the Curriculum Committee report and made a new motion to "adopt" the Curriculum Committee report.
       He also asked whether the name of the School of Technology would change after approval of the program addition.
       Sen. Murphy raised questions on whether the existing Engineering Technology program would be replaced, how the university would get extra faculty/staff/facilities/space/equipment needed and whether these will get priority compared to other needs of the university.
       Sen. O'Connell expressed support for the motion from the Department of Computer Science. Personally, as an active member of IEEE, he saw the need for this addition to the program and felt it was essential if we were to grow as a university. It would also get us greater community recognition.
       Chair Gates of Engineering Technology made the following points:
       1. Faculty in Engineering Technology support both the existing program and the addition of the Mechanical Engineering program. Students can have a choice of which program to join based on their satisfying the pre-requisites.
       2. There has been no discussion in the School of Technology on any name change
       3. President Miller (CCSU) addressed the questions related to staffing, space and equipment at the last senate meeting.
       Motion passed with 1 against and 1 abstention.
4 . Motion to adjourn: ( 3.25 pm) - ( Westcott ): Passed unanimously
Nanjundiah Sadanand
Secretary
Faculty Senate
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