Minutes - May 6, 2019 - 3:05pm
CCSU FACULTY SENATE MEETING
Present: Adair, S.; Amaya, L.; Austad, C.; Ayeni, T.; Bernstein, S.; Best, F.; Bishop, J.; Bishop, R.; Blitz, D.; Bray, A.; Casiano, N.; Chakraborty, S.; Chen, S.; Emiliani, B.; Fafunwa-Ndibe, S.; Farhat, J.; Foster, P.; Gamache, J.; Garcia-Bowen, M.; Gardner, P.; Givens, E.; Gutierrez, S.; Halkin, S.; Karas, R.; Karpuk, P.; Kean, K.; Kim, Y.; Kriscenski, J.; Kurkjian, C.; Langevin, K.; Latour, F.; Leonidas, E.; Mendez-Mendez, S.; Menoche, C.; Mongillo, M.; Morales, A.; Moreno-Fuentes, G.; Pancsofar, E.; Paolino, J.; Phillips, E.; Ruhs, T.; Sakaki, H.; Schenck, S.; Siporin, R.; Sohn, Y.M.; Sommers, B.; Spear, E.; Spillman, D.; Styrczula, S.; Sylvester, C.; Tafrate, L.; Vedeler, H.; Williams, L.; York, C.
Ex-Officio: Toro, Z.; Wolff, R.
Parliamentarian: Dimmick, C.
President of the Senate: Jackson, M.
Guests: Cassandra Broadus-Garcia (Art); Maria Lourdes Casas (Modern Languages); Maria Mitchell (Sabbatical Leave Committee); Ivan Small (Anthropology)
1. Minutes
- Approved unanimously as part of consent agenda
2. Announcements:
a. AAUP President (L. Williams)
- The AAUP social is being held today until 6pm in the Connecticut Room.
b. SUOAF-AFSCME President (L. Bigelow)
- No announcements.
c. SGA (K. Fruin)
- No announcements.
d. FAC to the Board of Regents (S. Adair)
- No announcements.
e. President of the Senate (M. Jackson)
- Consultants have been hired regarding the reorganization of Human Resources, Diversity and Equity, and the Ombudsperson's Office. They will be reaching out to individual faculty members for interviews.
3. Elections of Standing Committees of the Faculty elected by the Faculty Senate
The Elections Committee distributed, collected and counted ballots for all Standing Committees of the Faculty elected by the Senate, and for other positions elected by the Senate.
- The following faculty members were elected for two-year terms unless otherwise indicated:
- Academic Integrity Committee: Jerold Duquette, Fan He, Brian Matzke, Kimberly Meyer, Maria Mongillo
- CCSU Foundation Board of Directors: Joseph Farhat (one-year term) [since he is now Interim Dean, his seat will be taken by the runner-up, Kristine Larsen]
- CCSU Foundation Grant Advisory Committee: Steven Johnson, Bin (Brenda) Zhou
- Excellence in Teaching Committee: Phil Halloran (1 year), Youngseon Kim, Maria Mongillo
- Framework Implementation and Review Committee: Martha Kruy
- Distinguished Service Award Committee: Kate Ayotte, Khaled Hammad
- Grade Appeals Committee: Fan He, Krishna Saha
- Library Committee: Brian Osoba, Aimee Pozorski, Jason Snyder
- Student Affairs Committee: Kristine Larsen, Jason Sikorski
- University Athletics Board: Diana Cohen, Christina Robinson, Brian Sommers, Lisa Washko
- University Planning and Budget Committee: Scott Hazan, Jason Melnyk, Katherine Poirier, Christina Robinson, Jason Snyder
4. Committee Reports
a. Graduate Studies Committee (E. Leonidas)
- Approved unanimously
b. Promotion and Tenure Committee (C. Andreoletti, P. Foster)
- Report accepted by the Faculty Senate
c. Sabbatical Leave Committee (AAUP) (M. Mitchell)
- The discussion centered on ways the committee could provide feedback to applicants.
- Report accepted by the Faculty Senate
d. University Planning and Budget Committee (J. Farhat)
- Report accepted by the Faculty Senate
e. Ad Hoc Committee on FYE (J. Bishop)
- Motion (Jackson/Farhat): To create a task force as described.
- Approved unanimously
f. Academic Assessment Committee (C. Broadus-Garcia)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
g. Board of Regents Research Award Committee (J. Kara-Soteriou)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
h. CCSU Foundation Grant Advisory Committee (R. Waterman)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
i. Committee on Academic Advising (J. Gamache, K. Oliva, J. Sikorski)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
j. Community Engagement Committee (M. Dischino, N. Thai)
k. Council of Academic Chairpersons (D. Carter)
l. Diversity Committee (J. Bishop)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
m. Excellence in Teaching Committee (L. Casas, V. Garcia)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
n. Information Technology Committee (T. Burkholder)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
o. International Education Committee (M. Ciscel)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
p. Library Committee (E. Olsen)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
q. Online Learning Committee (J. Farhat)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
r. Student Affairs Committee (J. Sikorski, C. York)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
s. University Athletics Board (P. Resetarits)
- Report accepted as part of consent agenda
5. Unfinished Business
a. Academic Planning Procedure
- Approved with one senator opposed
6. New Business
a. Approval of May and August 2019 candidates for graduation
- Approved unanimously
b. Resolution on Service Awards for part-time faculty
- Approved unanimously
c. Resolution of No Confidence in "Students First", President Ojakian, and the Board of Regents
- The vote was taken by secret ballot.
- Thirty-two ballots were case in favor of the resolution, eleven were cast in opposition to the resolution.
- Resolution of no confidence approved
d. Other Business
- On behalf of the Steering Committee and the Faculty Senate, Vice President Bishop thanked President Jackson for his excellent leadership this year and the Senate gave him a resounding round of applause. President Jackson then thanked the Steering Committee for all their help.
- Senator Phillips moved that the Faculty Senate Steering Committee bring back a resolution regarding the climate concerning racial , disability, sexuality and other forms of discrimination to the first meeting of the Faculty Senate in the Fall.
- The motion was debated, but before a vote could be taken, the meeting adjourned due to lack of quorum.
7. Adjournment
- The meeting adjourned at 5:20pm due to lack of quorum.