Minutes - March 5, 2018 - 3:05pm
CCSU FACULTY SENATE MEETING
Present: Adair, S.; Austad, C.; Bailesteanu, M.; Baratta, C.; Bell, T.; Bernstein, S.; Best, F. ; Bishop, J.; Blitz, D.; Callery, T.; Cistulli, M.; Criscola, J.; Crundwell, G.; Dhar, P.; Dharavath, N.; Duquette, J.; Emiliani, B.; Foster, P.; Gamache, J.; Garcia-Bowen, M.; Ghodsi, R.; Givens, E.; Hughes, H.; Jarvis, K.; June, A.; Kean, K.; Kelly, D.; Kim, Y.; Koulidobrova, H.; Kyem, P.; Langevin, K.; Lapuerta, P.; Latour, F.; LoGiudice, S.; McGuire, M.; Mendez-Mendez, S.; Menoche, C.; Minor, L.; Mongillo, M.; Moreno-Fuentes, G.; Nelson, W.; Ngazimbi, E.; Orange, M.; Paolino, J.; Ruhs, T.; Sadanand, N.; Sakaki, H.; Small, I.; Sohn, Y.; Spear, E.; Spillman, D.; Stickland, A.; Styrczula, S.; Thornton, E.; Vedeler, H.; Watson, S.; Williams, C.; Williams, L.; Zering, J.
Ex-Officio: Bigelow, L.; Pease, S.; Toro, Z.
Parliamentarian: Dimmick, C.
President of the Senate: Cohen, S.
Guests: Julie Schnobrich-Davis (Academic Standards)
1. Minutes
a. Minutes of February 26, 2018
- Approved unanimously
2. Announcements:
a. AAUP President (L. Williams)
- On Thursday, March 8, faculty members are encouraged to testify in favor of a bill that would provide for zero tuition for students at community colleges for 2 years, and for the 3rd and 4th year at UConn and the CSUs.
b. SUOAF-AFSCME President (L. Bigelow)
- No announcements.
c. SGA (B. Kruh)
- No announcements.
d. FAC to the Board of Regents (S. Adair)
- The FAC met on Friday, March 2. A memo to the BOR stating that the President of the new Community College of Connecticut must be selected according to the BOR's standard selection process for presidents was approved.
- The BOR is discussing a possible letter to NEASC outlining concerns. In particular, the FAC is concerned that it has had very little time to review the proposal.
f. President of the Senate (S. Cohen)
- The draft of our NEASC self-study is available for review and comment.
3. New Business
a. Resolution to NEASC on "Students First" (S. Mendez-Mendez)
- Motion to amend (Blitz/Koulidobrova): To add the following statement to the resolution: Be it resolved that we reject any effort to consolidate so-called "back office" support staff and operations at the universities, and/or require them to double-report to the individual university and the System Office.
- Motion to amend the amendment (Best/Austad): To replace the first four words of the added text with: Whereas in order to protect and defend the autonomy and integrity of the missions of the universities...
- Amendment to the amendment approved (1 senator opposed)
- Amendment approved as amended (1 senator opposed)
- Motion (Cohen/Foster): To strike the paragraph that begins with Be it resolved that our Faculty Senate requests from NEASC to halt the consideration...
- Approved unanimously
- After considerable discussion of the resolution, including a discussion of strategy and of the meaning of shared governance to the BOR, the question was called (1 senator opposed)
- Motion: to approve the resolution as amended, to have the President of the Senate edit the letter for grammar, spelling and presentation, and to have the letter sent to NEASC by the Secretary of the Senate.
- Resolution approved unanimously; the edited version can be found here.
b. Proposals from Academic Standards (J. Schnobrich-Davis / R. Boncoddo)
- Both proposals approved unanimously
4. Adjournment
- The meeting adjourned at 4:31pm.