Minutes - April 22, 2019 - 3:05pm
CCSU FACULTY SENATE MEETING
Present: Adair, S.; Amaya, L.; Austad, C.; Ayeni, T.; Bailesteanu, M.; Bray, A.; Bernstein, S.; Best, F.; Bigelow, L.; Bishop, J.; Bishop, R.; Blitz, D.; Chakraborty, S.; Dharavath, N.; Duquette, J.; Emiliani, B.; Farhat, J.; Foster, P.; Gamache, J.; Garcia-Bowen, M.; Gardner, P.; Gichiru, W.; Givens, E.; Gutierrez, S.; Hughes, H.; Kapper, M.; Karpuk, P.; Kean, K.; Kim, Y.; Kriscenski, J.; Kullgren, A.; Kurkjian, C.; Langevin, K.; Latour, F.; LoGiudice, S.; Mendez-Mendez, S.; Menoche, C.; Minor, L.; Misbach, K.; Mongillo, M.; Morales, A.; Moreno-Fuentes, G.; Pancsofar, E.; Paolino, J.; Phillips, E.; Ragusett, J.; Ruhs, T.; Sakaki, H.; Siporin, R.; Sohn, Y.M.; Sommers, B.; Spear, E.; Spillman, D.; Styrczula, S.; Sylvester, C.; Tellier, A.; Thomas, J.; Vedeler, H.; Wang, W.; Williams, L.; York, C.
Ex-Officio: Dauwalder, D.; Kirby, Y.; Kremens, Z.; Toro, Z.; Wolff, R.
Parliamentarian: Dimmick, C.
President of the Senate: Jackson, M.
Guests: Marianne Fallon (Academic Affairs); Ivan Small (Anthropology); Robbin Smith (Political Science)
1. Minutes
- Approved unanimously as part of consent agenda
2. Announcements:
a. AAUP President (L. Williams)
- There will be a Sabbatical Leave workshop on Tuesday, April 23, at 3pm in the Connecticut Room.
- There will be a Chapter Meeting and Social on Monday, May 6.
b. SUOAF-AFSCME President (L. Bigelow)
- The annual meeting will be on June 5 at Dave and Buster's in Manchester.
c. SGA (K. Fruin)
- No announcements.
d. FAC to the Board of Regents (S. Adair)
- Jane Gates, the systemwide provost, has responded to our letter about Institutional Research consolidation, stating that the BOR has no plans to consolidate Institutional Research at the CSUs.
e. President of the Senate (M. Jackson)
- The BOR has requested that the Faculty Senate stop approving so many resolutions.
- Police Chief Dooley has seen our draft safety posters and has said that they could be used for the whole system.
- Governor Lamont and Lieutenant Governor Bysiewicz hosted a meeting with community leaders and his transition team at CCSU on April 16.
- Governor Lamont will be one of our commencement speakers this semester.
3. Committee Reports
a. Curriculum Committee (B. Merenstein)
- Approved unanimously
b. Board of Regents Teaching Award Committee (J. Farhat)
- Report received as part of consent agenda
c. Grade Appeals Committee (T. Vasko)
- Report received as part of consent agenda
d. Academic Integrity Committee (M. Martin)
- Report accepted by the Faculty Senate
4. Unfinished Business
a. External Program Review (M. Fallon)
- Proposed policy (version 26)
- Previous version (version 22)
- Summary of changes
- Timetable of program review
- Some faculty members expressed concerns that this proposed policy (version 26) requires departments to report the number of their majors, but not the number of minors, or the contributions of a department to the General Education program. Faculty members want to make sure that their contributions to the university are valued, and that the feedback from the program review is not used for purposes other than its stated purpose (program improvement). For example, can the feedback be used to make decisions about resource allocation? Also, some faculty members feel that this policy proposals infringes upon faculty control of assessment.
- Dr. Fallon responded that, while the guidelines do not require reporting the number of minors, or a department's contributions to General Education, this does not mean that the department cannot report these data.
- Faculty members responded that their departments may not feel that their contributions to the universities are valued if roughly half of what they do is reported as "miscellaneous" information.
- Some faculty members responded that a "program review" is not the same thing as a "department review".
- With President Jackson leaving the meeting early, Vice President Bishop presided over the following votes:
- Motion (Blitz/Karpuk): To amend Item IV.1.B. (lines 72-73) so that it reads as follows:
- What is the program's enrollment? Include number of majors, and where appropriate, minors, students served in general education courses and interdisciplinary program courses, and departmental student credit hours with full-time equivalent enrollment.
- Motion to amend approved (6 senators opposed)
- Motion (Kurkjian/Best): To amend the sentence on lines 53-54 so that it reads as follows:
- The final review report will serve as the basis for the Department (i.e., chair, program director, faculty), Dean, and Provost to meet in person and discuss findings from the external review.
- Motion to amend approved unanimously
- Policy approved as amended (22 senators in favor, 7 opposed)
5. New Business
a. Academic Planning Procedure
- Postponed due to lack of time
6. Adjournment
- The meeting adjourned at 4:55pm.