Minutes
of
ABSENT: R. Bennett, K. Corey, O. Farook
GUESTS:
L. Herr, J. Burdan, S. Lerner, R. Riddering, D. Korchek
I. Call to Order.
Chair L. Hopp called the Senate meeting
to order at 3:40 pm.
II. Approval of the Agenda.
Motion to approve agenda. Professor Mura made a motion to amend the
Agenda to include under “Special Business of the Day” the addition to the
curriculum report of curriculum documents CC 01, 02, 03 and 04. These documents were on hold pending the
results of the ad-hoc committee. The
issues have been resolved and the documents are now being included in the
Curriculum and Education Policy report for action. Second Professor Niedner.
The agenda was amended and approved.
III. Approval of the Minutes
The Chair called for the approval of the
December 4, 2002 and January 15, 2003
minutes.
Professor Robinson called
for clarification of the minutes of the January 15
meeting. The minutes should be corrected to read “a
motion to move the
document to action was made
and seconded. Motion passed. The original
motion was then brought to
action and that motion was passed.
IV. Chancellor’s Report
Chancellor Cohen made the following
report:
•
The
Chancellor distributed a compensation report that identifies Purdue Calumet in
relation to our benchmark universities and provides a six year salary and compensation
table by rank. It also provides
comparative data for administrative staff and non-exempt employees. We are in the middle to low middle of our
peer group.
We are committed to raise our compensation in our peer group. We want to improve retention and graduation
rates.
•
The budget
request made for the next biennium included funding for additional faculty and
compensation adjustments. It is
unlikely that we will see the funding in the 2003-04 budget. We do have access to tuition but we have
tried to keep the increases at a reasonable level. There will be a need to be even more careful this year because
there are discussions that the state may want to look at capping tuition. This is probably not the year that we are
going to make great gains on our position with respect to our benchmark
universities on salary and compensation.
Vice Chancellor Bryant – No report
Interim Vice Chancellor Gealt – No report
V. Report of the Chair of the Senate
•
Professor
Hopp expressed her appreciation to Senators Tazbir and Daubek for the great job
they did in organizing the silent auction for the Winter Festival celebration
held on January 31, 2003 at The Center.
The committee raised $1500.00 from the silent auction. The activity was very well received and a fun
celebration for the 120 Purdue Calumet members attending the event.
•
The chair
thanked the Chancellor for his support of this celebration.
•
Chair Hopp
introduced Leticia Herr as the Senate web developer. She will be responsible for the creation of the governance web
site. The goal for the website is to
provide easier access to information, and to strengthen the Senate presence on
the web. The chair encouraged the Senators to forward any additional ideas they
may have for the website.
•
The Chair
reported on the change in parking fees for staff and students. The parking will be taken out of pre-taxed
dollars. There will be an incremental
increase over the next several rates.
The out of pocket cost for staff will increase to $66.00. The student increase will be charged at an
incremental increase for students as well.
•
The Chair
will be attending the February 14, 2003 Board of Trustees meeting.
V. Special Business of the Day
Professor Robinson presented the
Promotion and Tenure Status Notification Policy documents. For
Information
The Chancellor is seeking the advice and consent of the Senate on the two
policy documents. The important issue
related to this process is that the university must be not just be in full
compliance with expectations, but that there are also legal expectations with
regard to notification to the candidates of their status in regard to the
various procedures regulating tenure and promotions. The university must exceed the expectations imposed by several
entities such as the AAUP, the Purdue University system, and other cases that
have worked their way through the legal system.
Professor Robinson was asked by the Faculty Affairs committee to review the
documents and ensure that the wording was compatible with the language used in
the Promotion and Tenure process. The
intent of the documents is to ensure that no reasonable step is overlooked in
the process, and that the candidates have full and sufficient feedback in every
step of the procedure relative to promotion and or tenure.
There was discussion regarding the posting of documents to the "official
personnel file".
The Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
will maintain tenure and promotion files.
Chair of tenure and promotion committee
responsibilities for reporting could create a possible redundancy between
Department Head responsibilities and Committee Chair responsibilities where
this could be the same person.
A
question was raised concerning time limit and Professor Boiarsky commented that
it could be ten years.
The nature of "criteria"
referred to:
Criteria are not established in document,
merely procedures.
Criteria are established and evaluated by
departments.
Professor Robinson proposed reviewing
specific issues with the Chancellor for clarification and determination.
Senate Chair Hopp introduced D. Korchek
and Mr. Riddering, Chair and Co-Chair of the New Student Orientation committee.
The Freshman Seminar Experience Template
presented by Dean Korchek and Rick Riddering elaborated on the activities of
the New Student Conferences.
Following completion of Strategic Plan
committees were formed to address access and student success. The Committee on New Student Orientation and
Freshman Experience developed the new student orientation process and
recommendations for the development of the Freshman Experience course. The copies of the proposal will be shared
with the various governance groups including the University Senate. The Senate will review the template as an
action item in so far as Freshman Experience course will require Senate
approval. The team provided handouts
that included data assembled out of general research and benchmark institution
information. New Student Conference
(NSC) is to be articulated around initial registration as only certain point of
contact with new students. Social
aspects are desirable and food is a plus.
The New Student conference’s are to be conducted by majors/departments
with a certain amount of flexibility.
Mr. Riddering provided a sample of the NSC prototype schedule.
Questions from Senators:
When will New Student Conference’s be
held?
The committee anticipates they will be held from April through first week of
class, and will include early admits to those admitted during week before
classes.
The conferences will be administered
through Center for Career and Leadership Development with a hands-on
leader.
Do students all know their majors before they arrive at Purdue Calumet?
GNS students already have a mandatory
orientation process. For others who
arrive without a major we intend to help them designate an intended major early
in the process.
It is expected that current programs, like counseling center assessment
services continue in place.
The biggest hurdle will be getting
faculty to show up. This was a
challenge this summer but feedback from faculty indicated, once they attended,
they actually thought it was excellent.
It has been observed that we don't want
to refer to this as a "mandatory" process; rather, it is simply to be
considered a part of the registration process.
Students will be encouraged to meet with their advisor at designated
time and place and be able to process a registration.
Is this program always entirely
appropriate for older, non-traditional students?
We have anticipated that, to a certain
extent, with a 60 credit hour limit on the "required" part of the
program. Proven successful students
would not be required to participate.
Where does placement testing fit in to
this structure?
Students would have to complete placement
testing before registration and would be ready to be advised.
Where do student mentors fit in?
That may be a second phase component of
the program.
The second charge to the committee was to
develop a Freshman Experience
Course (FEC) to develop connection
between the student and the institution and between the student and their
major. For that reason we recommend
that the FEC also be tied to the separate departments and schools. We are asking for a mandate for departments
to establish these courses. In some
cases they exist already. This
curriculum document is intended to give some form to these courses. One option is to alter the General Education
Requirements to include this course.
Existing courses can be modified to fulfill then intent of the FEC or an
existing course could be replaced with the FEC. Attachment includes recommended content and a bibliography.
Readings and some writing experience
should be included. That would help
incorporate the course into the department offerings.
Accreditation is an issue at some level.
Some of the existing courses (GNS 103) require research and writing
assignments.
When we met with the chancellor he
indicated that debate on these issues should be conducted here as well as other
governance groups. Obviously the
curriculum issues belong here. We look
forward to your advice.
There are many interdepartmental things
at this university. Would these classes
be limited to the specific department?
As far as the committee is concerned, the
intent is that the courses be discipline-specific. If there are interdisciplinary programs, the FEC could be
interdisciplinary.
The Agenda Committee will look into this
and next month we will continue the discussion on the Freshman Experience
courses.
Report of the Curriculum and Education
Policy Committee:
The following documents were submitted
for Senate approval.
|
EMS 03-06 |
Revision of Environmental Science Minor curriculum to combine two separate study plans, and to expand elective courses |
|
EMS03-04 |
Creation
of BIOL 200 Field Biology |
EMS03-05
|
New
course BIOL 428
Biology Seminar |
Nursing Revision |
Change current “guided science” to “nursing/science elective” |
Motion to approve was made by M.
Darayseh. Seconded by M. Mojtahed.
Report passed.
We also have documents from Management
and the ISCP objections, which were
sent to an ad hoc committee. Professor thanked the committee members. They recommended approval, with a 5 to 1
vote, of Management CC 2-01 which is the creation of Management 102, the course
that was objected to by the ISCP Department and, per our bylaws, when that
committee makes that decision, the issue is resolved. The other two documents were not contentious but their approval
depended upon approval of 102. I am
reporting, at this time, that CEP and the ad hoc committee have approved these
three documents.
Motion to approve documents was made by
M. Mojtahed. Seconded by M. Darayseh.
Documents passed.
VI. Unfinished Business.
Senator Barbour reported that Teacher
Education Advisory Committee forwarded a proposal for a committee of six
members. When the proposal arrived at
Academic Affairs they did not want to restrict the body that would do the
review. The referenced document is SD
01-09-R. Professor Barbour challenged
the Senate to review this document again to ensure that, for those people who
will be in this review process, it may not be a sufficient guarantee of
uniformity in the reviews. It will be necessary to redirect the Faculty Affairs
Committee to restudy and consider the meaning of "proportionate".
VII. Reports of the Committees.
Agenda
Committee.
Professor Niedner reported that the
committee met and approved today’s agenda
Academic
Support Services Committee.
Professor Corey – Not
present
Curriculum
& Educational Policy Committee.
Professor Mura reported that there are 1206 documents to consider and
they have been posted. There were 396
deletions posted last week in one category.
The remaining categories involve description changes and prerequisite
changes. The deletions and description
changes are posted. The CEP will be
considering them at the February 19, 2003 meeting. If you have any concerns contact Professor Mura or the responsible
department head. If you would like a
course to be held we will be happy to pull it from the list of deletions. The list has been approved by cognizant
faculty, department heads and deans and this is essentially
"house-cleaning" and auditing of the university master course file.
Faculty Affairs Committee.
M. Cahn –
Reported that the committee has not met.
Nominating
Committee.
Professor Niedner requested volunteers to serve on the Traffic Appeals
Committee to finish out the remainder of her term.
The Grievance Committee names can be
pulled from preference survey from last year.
Student Affairs Committee.
No report.
Student Government.
S. Ruiz – No report
IX. Other New Business.
Announcement regarding the Commencement
date is Monday, May 12, 2003.
X. Adjournment.
The meeting was
adjourned at 5:00 pm.