Minutes - May 4, 2015 - 2:00pm
CCSU FACULTY SENATE MEETING
Present: Anderson, C.; Bigelow, L.; Bilisoly, R.; Blitz, D.; Boscarino, N.; Callery, T.; Cistulli, M.; D'Addio, D.; D'Amato, K.; Dukes, C.; Fafunwa-Ndibe, S.; Fallon, M.; Foster, P.; Fothergill, W.; Gamache, J.; Garcia-Bowen, M.; Ghodsi, R.; Givens, E.; Hermes, K.; Johnson, D.; Jones, C.; Kapper, M.; Karpuk, P.; Kean, K.; Kim, Y.; Koplowitz, B.; Kostelis, K.; Kovel, J.; Kullgren, A.; Larsen, K.; Mahony, M. A.; Marquette, C.; McGuire, M.; Melnyk, J.; Moffo Simpson, T.; Nelson, W.; Paolino, J.; Pearson, F.; Phillips, E.; Pozorski, A.; Ragusett, J.; Reasco, A.; Sadanand, N.; Santoro, K.; Schlickmann, P.; Shen, X.; Spear, E.; Spector, D.; Sweeney, D.; Tellier, A.; Tomoda, S.; White, C.; Williams, C.; Wood, R.
Ex-Officio: Fitzgerald, G.; Root, P.
Parliamentarian: Dimmick, C.
President of the Senate: Cohen, S.
Guests: Phil Halloran (Promotion and Tenure Committee); Nancy Hoffman (Task Force on Minority Student Success); Luis Recoder-Nunez (Mathematical Sciences)
The Steering Committee recommends the following items for inclusion on the Consent Agenda:
1. Minutes
3g. through 3p., various informational committee reports
Items 3g, 3h, and 3p were removed from the consent agenda. Senator Blitz wonders why there has been no report from the University Planning and Budget Committee, and asks that the Steering Committee take a look.
- Consent Agenda approved unanimously
1. Minutes
- Approved as part of consent agenda
2. Announcements:
a. AAUP President (M. A. Mahony)
- There will be a chapter meeting on Wednesday at 3pm.
b. SUOAF-AFSCME President (L. Bigelow)
- The election for the administrative faculty seat on the FAC will be held soon.
c. SGA (S. Sonet)
- No report.
d. FAC to the Board of Regents (S. Adair)
- No report.
e. President of the Senate (S. Cohen)
- Online Learning Task Force: an implementation committee will be created to look at this report.
3. Committee Reports
a. Elections Committee (J. Melnyk)
- Runoff election: CCSU Foundation Grant Advisory Committee
- Khaled Hammad versus William Watkins
- William Watkins was elected to the committee.
b. Curriculum Committee (P. Karpuk)
- Senator Spector is concerned about the design of the poll in item #2. A request was made that the committee bring the proposed language for the poll before administering it in the Fall.
- Senator Kovel is concerned about the poll being administered by the chairs. It seems that this is just one more task that is being passed on to department chairs.
- Report approved unanimously.
c. Promotion and Tenure Committee (P. Halloran)
- Preliminary report accepted by the Senate.
d. Committee for the Concerns of Women (F. Pearson and M. Garcia-Bowen)
- The Committee for the Concerns of Women will review the Board of Regents' sexual harassment policy.
- There was a systemwide conference on work-life balance involving participants from 9 Community Colleges, the 4 CSUs and Charterk Oak; issues include the tenure clock, maternity, spousal care, elder care, child care.
e. Task Force on Minority Student Success (N. Hoffman)
- Senate President Cohen asked what faculty can do to improve minority student success. The response: faculty need to be in constant attentive mode.
- Some senators talked about the importance of intrusive advising and suggested using the Academic Center for Student Athletes as a model.
- A senator asked about the role of CACE, and stated that we need to look thoroughly at advising from beginning to end.
- A senator pointed out that issues that students face are often more psychosocial than academic.
- Report accepted by the Senate.
f. Ad Hoc Committee on Campus Safety (D. Blitz)
- Senators talked about the need for broader representation of the campus community on this committee (for example, a student representative).
g. International Education Committee (L. Williams)
- Report accepted by the Senate; the rubric for the "I" designation is not approved for the moment. More discussion is needed about this rubric, to make sure that all interested parties (including the Curriculum Committee) are on the same page.
h. Graduate Studies Committee (G. Fitzgerald for S. Seider)
- Report approved by the Faculty Senate.
i. Grade Appeals Committee (L. Bowman)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda.
j. BOR Research Award Committee (J. Farhat)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda.
k. BOR Teaching Award Committee (K. Larsen)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda.
l. Committee on Academic Advising (N. Moore)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda.
m. CCSU Foundation Grant Advisory Committee (R. Waterman)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda.
n. Information Technology Committee (C. Menoche)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda.
o. Library Committee (P. Foster)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda.
p. Excellence in Teaching Committee (R. Smith and C. White)
- Report accepted by the Senate.
4. Unfinished Business
- Motion (Blitz/Spector): to strike item 3 of "Criteria for Eligibility" as inconsistent with the new item 1.
- Approved unanimously
- Motion (Cohen/Johnson): to replace "if the committee deems it appropriate" at the end of item 1 of "Criteria for Eligibility" with "if an appropriate candidate can be identified".
- Approved unanimously
- New bylaws approved unanimously.
- Dance major Professional Program admission requirements
- Approved unanimously
a. Committee on Committees - Updates to Committee Bylaws (B. Barr)
i. Excellence in Teaching Committee
b. Academic Standards Committee (F. Latour for R. Schwell)
a. Approval of May and August 2015 candidates for graduation
- Undergraduate (Deans Pease, Root, Alfano, Malhas)
- Graduate (Dean Fitzgerald)
- Approved unanimously
6. Adjournment
- The meeting adjourned at 4:15pm.