Faculty Senate Minutes - 11/18/2004

Missouri Western State College
Faculty Senate Minutes

November 18, 2004
SU 220

Senators Present: President Andrews, Vice President Hegeman, Secretary Ottinger, Past President Greiert, Caldwell, Gregory, Haney, Heider, Holian, Hunt, Nandan, Noynaert, Tapia, Tushaus, Voelkel, Williams

Senators Absent: None

Ex-Officio Members Present: Vice President Arnold, President Scanlon

Ex-Officio Members Absent: none

Guests Present: None

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Call to Order: President Larry Andrews called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m.

Approval of November 4th Minutes: (Noynaert/Hunt)
Approved by voice vote

Approval of Agenda: (Hunt/Caldwell)
Agenda approved by voice vote

Report from College President:
In a few weeks Dr. Scanlon will meet with our delegation to the Legislature to discuss upcoming legislation that will affect the college.

Question was asked if the latest rendition of the “Regents’ Award for Distinction in Faculty” was the final version that would be implemented. Dr. Scanlon said that it was.

Question was asked on the confidentiality/anonymity of the Vice-President’s evaluation, given that only signed responses would be tabulated. Members of the Evaluation Committee responded that procedures had been enacted at their meeting earlier in the day to ensure the anonymity of the respondents. Committee members Mitch Haney, Larry Andrews, and Larry Lawson will encode the tops of all pages of each evaluation with the demographic information from the first page (excluding name) without reading the evaluations [Demonstrated method by fanning out a stack of papers so only the tops were visible.] The cover sheets will then be separated from the evaluations.

It was asked if a person could have their name kept with the evaluation. If they wished to do so, they would have to sign each page.

It was suggested that an e-mail be sent to all faculty and staff to let them know the procedures and how their responses would be kept anonymous. The committee members agreed to send out the e-mail message.

Report from Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs:
See Minutes Appendix A for Dr. Arnold's report

In addition, Dr. Arnold clarified the changes in the Regents Award since it was submitted to the Regents. The application procedures and Cover Sheet for Letters of Recommendation were sent to all faculty via e-mail.

Dr. Arnold reminded everyone that Faculty/Staff Professional Development Funds are available. The first deadline is December 1, 2004 and a second deadline is March 1, 2005. The application forms were sent out about a month ago to all faculty.

Report from Senate President:
See Minutes Appendix B for President Andrews report.

Report from Committee Liaisons:
Senator Tapia (Promotion and Tenure Committee): The committee has met twice this semester. The first time they met with Dr. Arnold to review the standards of evaluation. The second time they met was to review Tenure Packets from the LAS School. The committee will meet again after Thanksgiving to review the packets from the PS School.

Senator Nandan (Salary Committee): The committee has met twice this semester. At the first meeting they reviewed their charges. At the second meeting they discussed the Distinguished Professor Program. They will continue to examine the problem of salary parity and compare us with like schools. It was suggested that they look at the “Benchmark Schools”.

Old Business:

Appointment of Committee Members for Ad Hoc Committee on Laboratory Load Hours: Executive committee recommended the following as members of the committee: Bonnie Gregory (Nursing), Monica Nandan (GSWS), David Tushaus (CJLS), Ben Caldwell (Chemistry), Matt Gilmour (Music), and William Eickhorst (Art). Motion to approve by (Noynaert/Voelkel). Committee membership was approved by voice vote.

SR-08-05 (Tapia/Hunt) The Faculty Senate shall create an Ad Hoc Committee to examine how advising should be equated into faculty teaching loads.
Approved by Voice Vote.

New Business:
None.

Adjournment: (Haney/Heider).
Approved by voice vote. Senate adjourned at 4:30 pm.


Respectfully Submitted,

Michael B. Ottinger, PhD
Senate Secretary.

Minutes Appendix A

MEMORANDUM

TO: Faculty Senate

FROM: Dr. J. David Arnold, Vice President for Academic & Student Affair s
DATE: November 18, 2004

SUBJECT: Report
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Activities by the Vice President since the last meeting of Faculty Senate include, but are not limited to, the following:

 Hosted, with Dr. Scanlon and the Ad Hoc Committee, a faculty forum on the Regents Awards on November 5

 Met with Jeff Ellison and Lonnie Johnson on bids approved by the Board of Regents for student engagement spaces on November 12.

 Co-chaired, with Howard McCauley, an Academic Affairs Enrollment Management Strategic Planning Implementation Meeting on November 16.

 Interviewed candidates for the Dean of Professional Studies position.

 Appointed Dr. Kelly Bouas Henry as the new Applied Learning Director starting January 2005. This new part-time administrative/faculty position was created on the recommendation of the Applied Learning Strategic Planning Implementation committee because of the large number campus activities needed to support applied learning on campus. Further, if applied learning is to be recognized externally as one of our institutional signatures, this position is needed to begin to lead Western into national prominence in the area of applied learning.

The following are activities planned for the remainder of the fall semester:

 A national teleconference on Foundations of Excellence™ in the First College Year can be viewed in Kemper Auditorium (MC101) starting at noon and ending at 3:00pm on December 2. Along with John Gardner and his Policy Center staff, both Dr. Scanlon and Bob Klostermeyer will be featured in segments as Western participants in the Foundations Project. The teleconference is entitled: Shaping the future: Aspirations, assessment, action!”

 A Noel-Levitz Enrollment Management Campus Summit will be held on December 8 @ 11:00 am and again at 3:30 pm in Kemper Auditorium (MC101) and will be entitled “How to start behaving like a hot college.” (NOTE time changes since last report)

Minutes Appendix B

Faculty Senate President Report
November 18, 2004


The following reviews the work of the executive committee of the faculty senate since the last senate meeting of the 2004/2005 academic years. The executive committee met twoce discussing the following topics:

 Senate defeated parking proposal supported by SGA.
 CGAC update

CGAC # 1 “J. IN PROGRESS GRADE

Under “Section IV: Instructional Policies” (Page 47) insert a new section between sections I and J, then renumber the following sections. The new section is to be worded as:


J. IN PROGRESS GRADE

Certain courses offered at MWSC, such as internships, research projects, high school dual credit courses, practica, recitals, and developmental courses, may require more than one semester to complete. Due to the nature of these courses, it may not be appropriate to award a letter grade nor give credit for the course, until the course is completed. In these cases a grade of “IP” may be awarded at the discretion of the instructor. The “IP” is not used in grade point calculations. It is expected that a student who receives an “IP” in a course will continue to be enrolled in that course until it is completed and a final grade is awarded. If the student is not re-enrolled in the course during the following academic semester the grade will be changed to “F.” Since the course is continuing, an “IP” grade will not count against the “Twice Enrollment Policy.”

Proposal returned to Senate for additional rewrite relating to the wording concerning “re-enrolled”.

Suggested proposal be returned to Faculty Senate Academic Regulations and Standards Committee for wording review and agreement with MWSC Registrar prior to return to Senate.

CGAC #2 Goldlink Groups Policy – approved
CGAC #3 Academic 2005-2006 Academic Calendar – approved
CGAC #4 Academic Calendar 2006-10 back to Registrar, Summer schedule
CGAC #5 Early Warning Provision – approved
CGAC #6 Regents Distinguished Professor Awards – changes approved.

 MAFS- Information Request

1. What percent of total student hours generated are taught by the following:
 Full-time tenured faculty
 Full-time tenure track non-tenured faculty
 Full-time non-tenure track faculty
 Part time faculty
 Graduate Assistants

2. What percent of your full time faculty fall into the following categories?
 Tenured or tenure-track
 Non-tenured

3. For each of the years 1994 to 2004,
 What are the total state appropriations for your institution in dollars?
 What is the tuition cost for your institutions, including any applicable fees such as student activities fee and technology fee?
So this question will have 2 pieces of data for each of 11 years.

 VP evaluation packets to faculty


Additional comments from Senate Vice-President Hegeman, Senate Secretary Ottinger and Senate Past-President Greiert.