Faculty Senate Minutes - 9/4/2003

Missouri Western State College
Faculty Senate Minutes

September 4, 2003



Call to order:

Senate President Barry Nelson called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m.

Senators present:

Blessing, Caldwell, Cluff, Haney, Hegeman, Hennessy, Hunt, Mikkelsen, Ottinger, Wacek, Williams, Past Senate President Senator Greiert, Senate President Nelson, Senate Vice-President Tapia, Senate Secretary L. Andrews


Senators absent:

Wagner

Ex-officio members:

MWSC President James Scanlon
MWSC Vice-President for Academic and Student Affairs David Arnold

Guests present:

Bonnie Alsbury/Nursing Department, Phil Mullins/H/P/G, Mark Mabe/Computer Center, Kevin Anderson,/CS/M/P, David Steiniche/G/SW/S, Tim Kissock/Risk Management

Approval of minutes:

Minutes of the May 1, 2003 meeting were corrected to indicate that Senator Hunt was present which was incorrectly reported as an absence. Minutes were then approved (Senator Ottinger/ Senator Greiert)

Approval of agenda:

Agenda approved (Senator Mikkelsen/Senator Williams)

Report from MWSC college president:

President Scanlon reported that faculty would be receiving email from his office concerning the 2003 Strategic Plan progress. He will be making an annual report to the Board of Regents concerning the yearly progress on this plan. In addition faculty, staff, students and the community will be invited to attend a series of open forums to discuss the progress. Dates of the forums are listed below and all will be held in SU 220:

Monday, September 29
Tuesday, September 30
Monday, October 6
Tuesday, October 7
Wednesday, October 15
Tuesday, October 21
Wednesday, October 22


The Governor’s Academic Resource Team is working toward agreement on a 16 unit core for high school students. President Scanlon reported the governor’s Team on Higher Education was working on several areas of interest:
1.) Information on student achievement and data is not stated the same from campus to campus and needs to be reviewed.
2.) 2.) Affordability for student opportunity,
3.) 3.) Transferability of credits,
4.) 4.) Degree accomplishment,
5.) 5.) Teacher preparation,
6.) 6.) Assessment and testing mechanisms (MAP tests, etc ).

There will be a commemoration of 9/11 at the MWSC Bell Tower, Thursday September 11.

University status is still under consideration.

Salary adjustments are expected to be made at the end of this year (03). They will partially address equity on campus. This will apply to faculty, support staff and professional staff.

Report from the Vice-President for Academic and Student Affairs:

Vice-President Arnold reported that Senator Tapia had received the Governor’s Award for faculty at MWSC. He acknowledged several faculty members:
Professors Mullins, Sawin, and Bensyl for Griffin Edge reading,
NIH grant for Biology/Chemistry,
Senator Caldwell for Summer research grant,
Senator Haney for the Evergreen committee,
others for their work on multiple grants, programs and committee work along with all faculty for their assistance with the quality at MWSC.
He reported that the Department of Engineering Technology had received accreditation from ABET.
He highlighted the Western Institute proposal and discussed the request for faculty input concerning the Center for Applied Research.
He also mentioned a new combination position posting in the Chronicle for assessment/accreditation etc.,
The vacancy notice is attached with a job description referring to a “Director of Development”.

Senator Hennessy asked about a new college organizational directory. V.P. Arnold indicated a new one needs to be distributed.

Report from Faculty Senate Executive Committee:


Senate President Nelson indicated the executive committee had met six times over the summer. He distributed an Senate Executive Committee report (attachment A.). Senate V.P. Tapia handed out the new list of Faculty Senate standing committee assignments. He also distributed a short list of “table of motions” for use by senate members to assist with meetings. President Nelson offered a proposed list of senate committee charges which were approved by the senate. New charges are to be distributed the day following this meeting. Senate liaisons were asked to meet with their committees.

Informational report from Computer Center:

Mark Mabe and Tim Kissock reviewed changes that are being studied for implementation relating to MWSC electronic data and information systems. The material discussed the requirements under the federal Leach-Bliley Act and a new proposed “information security policy”. These changes will relate to students, staff and faculty. Training will be required for all groups this fall. Social Security numbers will not be used as student identification purposes in the future.

Old Business:

None

New Business:

Senate V.P. Tapia made a motion to change pages 250, 255-256 of the MWSC policy guide as it relates to grievance procedures. (Senator Tapia/Senator Blessing) (attachment B. )

Senator Mikkelsen reported that on October 4th there would be information presented on the MWSC campus about AQIP. Senator Greiert indicated faculty needs to be aware of this program and issues related around this process.

Adjournment:

Senate was adjourned at 5:30 p.m. (Senator Greiert/Senator Williams)



Respectfully submitted,




Larry D. Andrews
MWSC Faculty Senate Secretary