Minutes
of
The Purdue University Calumet
Senate Meeting
of April 3, 2002
SFLC 321

          PRESENT: Senators D. Barbour, G. Barrow, E. Bouktache, M. Cahn,   K.Corey, V. Damusis, H. Daubek, T. Dougherty, A. Elmendorf, J. Hack, L.  Hopp, N. Houshangi, M. Joyce, M. Longas, M. Mojtahed, D. Niedner, B.   Robinson, J. Russett, D. Underwood Gregg, E. Vockell, C.Winer, (Presiding Officer); Chancellor Cohen;

Parliamentarian S. Lerner, and Secretary A. Agosto-Severa.

              ABSENT:  C.Barczyk, R Bennett, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Singer; Vice
       Chancellor for Student Services Bryant,  SGA President C. Sizemore

I.          Call to Order

Chair C. Winer called the meeting to order at 3:40 pm.

II.            Approval of the Agenda

The Chair called for the approval of the agenda.
Motion to approve the agenda was made by Professor Elmendorf.  Seconded by Professor Russett.  Agenda was approved.

III.            Approval of the Minutes

The Chair called for the approval of the March 6, 2002 minutes.
Motion to approve the minutes was made by Professor Elmendorf.
Seconded by Professor Barrow.
Professor Hopp requested clarification regarding the grant information reported by Vice-Chancellor Singer at the last Senate meeting.  The question was “did the report on grant money received by faculty include both direct and indirect funding and over what period of time”?  Professor Winer will ask Dr. Singer to provide clarification for the next meeting.

The Chair made a minor correction on page 3 under the Report of the Chair the last bullet which listed the date for the Faculty meeting should read as April 4, 2002 from 10am to 3pm.

The minutes were approved.

IV.            Chancellor’s Report

Chancellor Cohen made the following report:

·      The Chancellor’s report was a slide presentation that the Vice-Chancellors helped present to the Mayor, the Administrative offices, the Hammond City Council and also university department heads.  This was a report of the various Purdue Calumet facilities projects over the next several years. The facilities projects include the parking garage, the Gyte renovation, a new sign for 173^rd street, student housing, the northwest technology incubator, and the south county learning center. 

§         The parking garage would be about  $11.5 million and is conditional upon our enrollment growth to 10,500 students.

§         The Gyte building will be renovated for a cost of $5.5 million.  The project must come in at that bid because the campus is paying for the project out of cash.  This first phase of the project will upgrade the chemistry labs and some classrooms.  A second phase will be expanding space for Physics and Biology labs and expanding space in the Gyte Annex.  The 2^nd phase will require state funds and will not likely be in line until 2005.  This is the highest priority for our campus for the next state budget.

§         There will be a 14’ high and 11’ wide sign on 173^rd street.  This sign will have a message board and give us better access for community people using The Center.  The bids are out now and the sign should be installed by June.  This will also be funded out of cash for about $70,000.

§         The Student housing project planning is continuing.  The goal is to have single bedroom units built around a common kitchen, living room, with one bathroom for two students.  We are looking at building 525 bedrooms.  This facility will be located between the Armory and the PER building.  Purdue owns that land and this is about a $30,000,000 project. We will hire a company who would design, build and manage the facility.  They will also be responsible for managing the facility.   A proposal will be submitted in June to the Board of Trustees.  If approval is granted we could begin building in Spring 2003 and have occupancy by Fall 2004.  

§         The Technology Park will be located in Merrillville.  This is a project that will be under the direction of the Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University for the first several years.  It will be built for about $7,000,000 using federal money that Congressman Visclosky has committed to find. The money will be for site development, the building and operating it for three (3) years as an incubator for new technology-oriented businesses.  Once that is up and running, Purdue Lafayette has expressed a desire that in the 3^rd or 4^th year Purdue Calumet will take it over.  Businesses that start in the incubator can only stay until they become stable and then find a permanent location, preferably in Northwest Indiana.

§         The Learning Center will become the consolidated center to offer the courses that are offered at the various locations in South County.  We will work with Purdue Research foundation to build a building at the same site as the technology incubator.  We would use this location to help build enrollments and use it as a feeder for the campus.

§         The facilities plan represents about $67,000,000 for projects on campus and another $21,000,000 for South County.

Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Singer was not present.

Vice Chancellor for Student Services Bryant was not present.

V.        Report of the Chair of the Senate

Chair of the Senate Winer made the following report:

·        The chair reported on the University Forum.  The chair of the forum is Dr. Singer and the Chancellor has been present at all the meetings.  This advisory committee has Senate representation by Professors Elmendorf, Damusis, Furdek and Vockell.  A few of the topics have been the parking garage and campus housing.  At the last meeting, Dr. Singer distributed a listing of the individuals and units, who are responsible for implementing their respective areas of the Strategic plan.  Those individuals have come to the forum and reported on the on-going efforts to implement the Strategic plan.

·        Professor Winer invited Senators to attend the Faculty Leaders meeting in Indianapolis scheduled for April 4^th.

·        The Chair reported on the University picnic sponsored by CSSAC and APSAC.  Professor Winer is a member of the planning committee hosting this event during the summer of 2002.  This activity is for staff, faculty and administration.  The committee will be scheduling the event on a Friday from 11:30 to 4:30pm.  There will be food provided as well as fun and games for everyone.  He asked for volunteers to serve on the various sub-committees.  Anyone who is interested is requested to see him after the senate meeting.

·        The Chair introduced Paul McGuinness, Co-Chair of the Enrollment Management Committee to present a committee update to the Senators.

§         Paul reported that the Enrollment Management committee was established during the Fall 2001 semester and reports to the Vice-Chancellor for Student Services.  This committee is Co-chaired by Gloria Smokvina.

§         The members represent administrative, academic and student services units. There are four sub-committees of the EMC and they are:
  --Recruitment who will identify, interview and propose hiring an Enrollment consultant
  --Retention who is responsible for identifying the types of
 retention activities currently done at PUC by way of recruitment/retention survey.
  --Student Profile or Cohort sub-committee will identify the
 characteristics of a successful student.
  --Definitions and Common Reporting look at our institutional
 definitions for the data and establish a common terminology to
 be used for reporting both internally and externally.
Finally, the committee has identified and interviewed enrollment
consultants.  They have presented the enrollment consultant solution, which received approval from the entire committee.  The next step will be to submit the proposal to the Chancellor and Senior Leadership.   The remaining step in the process will be to establish an implementation committee that will be responsible for implementing the campus-wide enrollment plan. Professor Winer asked Paul for a copy of the EMC slide presentation to be posted on our website

§         Chair Winer reported that on Friday, June 7^th the Board of Trustees will be meeting on our campus.  They are expected on Thursday evening and will conduct their meeting on Friday.

·       The Chair called Professor Niedner, the Nominating Committee Chair to conduct the election for the Senate chair for 2002.  Professor Niedner distributed a ballot containing seven (7) names of current Senators.  These names represented those individuals who did not respond to her email requesting the removal of their name from today’s ballot.
Because some of the Senators on the ballot had not contacted Professor Niedner to remove their names, a motion was made by Professor Vockell to stop the election.  Seconded by Professor Robinson.  Motion defeated.  Professor Hopp was elected chair of the Senate for academic year 2002-03.

VI.       Special Business of the Day
Senate document 02-01. Revision of Promotion criteria.  For Discussion

            Professor Elmendorf discussed the revisions to Senate document 02-01.  He pointed to the section on the first page which has been clarified to read:  ‘’promotion committees should therefore evaluate candidates for promotion based on professional impact using separate contributions on the three areas of teaching, scholarship, and service as guidelines only”.  Additional revisions include revising the criteria for promotion at all three (3) ranks.  The criteria for promotion to Assistant Professor have been changed to read: “that promotion to this rank be based upon strength in teaching”.
Associate Professor rank promotion is based upon excellence in one of teaching or scholarship together with strength in the other and with active participation in service.  We do not wish to promote faculty who do not show strength in teaching.  Excellence in service is now only relevant to promotion to Professor.  This document is on the agenda for discussion.

The Chair urged senators to take this information to their departments and share it with others not on the senate.

The Chair deferred the remaining items on the Agenda with the exception of the Curriculum documents.

Curriculum & Educational Policy Committee. 

Professor Russett submitted the following report on curriculum documents was submitted for Senate approval.

A motion to approve the report was made by Professor Damusis.  Seconded by Professor Longas. Report PASSED.

Professor Robinson expressed concern about the expediency of passing the curriculum documents and other Senate matters.  He called for a careful review of documents before the senate meetings.

The Chair deferred the remaining items due to lack of quorum and time until the next Senate meeting.

VII.            Unfinished Business

None.

VIII.            Reports of the Committees

Agenda Committee

Academic Support Services Committee

Student Affairs Committee

Curriculum & Educational Policy Committee

                Faculty Affairs Committee

Nominating Committee

Student Government

Not present.

IX.       Other New Business             

X.            Adjournment.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 pm.