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PRESENT: Senators J. Agrawal, C. Boiarsky, Y. Choi, J. Coffey, S. Conners,
M. Dakich,
M.Darayseh, M.Didelot, D. Gray,
A.Gregory, J. Hack ((Presiding Officer),
L. Hollingsworth, N. Jackson, S.
Lerner, M. Longas, M. Marthaler, A. Mitra,
L. Mura, M.O'Toole, , D. Punday,
A. Russell, R. Stankowski, J. Tazbir,
Chancellor Cohen, Vice Chancellor
for Student Services L. Bryant,
Parliamentarian F. Colucci, Student
Government E. Bottando, and Secretary
A.Agosto-Severa.
ABSENT: Chancellor Cohen, D. Pick, K. Rowberg, R. Stankowski, P. Turbek, M. Mojtahed
GUESTS: M. Dobberstein, B. Pellicciotti, R.
Riddering, C. Taylor, D. Korchek, M. Eisenstein,
A reporter from the Chronicle
I. Call to Order.
Chair J. Hack called the Senate meeting to order at 3:35 pm.
II. Approval of the Agenda.
The Chair called for a motion to
approve agenda. Professor Tazbir made a
motion to amend the Curriculum and Ed Policy report to
remove the MGMT courses, 04-01, 04-05, 04-06, and 04-07.
Seconded by Professor Lerner. Professor Conners
requested the removal of the Resolution for the Calendar
template. Seconded by Professor Lerner. The document
was removed. Motion
PASSED Agenda was approved as amended.
III. Approval of
the Minutes
The Chair called for the approval of
the October 6, 2004 minutes. Motion to approve
the minutes was made by Professor Lerner. It was
noted that the minutes be
corrected to show that Professor Coffey's name was
misspelled. Professor Coffey also
move to correct the minutes under Professor Dobberstein's
report change to reflect that
the committee is a
Sub-coordinate committee not a sub-committee. The
report should
also be changed to reflect that in 2002-03 faculty
salaries were 7% lower than peer
institutions. Professor Mura requested that
the minutes be corrected to reflect that SD
04-01 Resolution on Academic Integrity was introduced to
the Senate by the Student
Affairs standing committee. The minutes corrected to
reflect that the Secretary was not
present and that Senator Stankowski recorded the
minutes of the October 6th
meeting.
Professor Mura moved to approve the minutes. Seconded
by Professor Longas. Motion
PASSED. Minutes were approved as
corrected.
IV. Chancellor's
Report (Not present)
·
Vice Chancellor Ibrahim reported that Purdue University and
Purdue Calumet was able to receive $2 million through the
Lilly Foundation to institute for endowed professorships
throughout the Purdue system. Purdue Calumet has to
raise have to raise $500,000 to add to the $2 million -we
would have enough money to institute five endowed
professorships for each of the schools and possibly get the
sixth school funded as well. The Vice Chancellor and
the Deans are working to get donors to raise the money.
The goal is to seek a nationally recognized person to
provide leadership is such programs as Health Literacy,
Water Institute, and various Centers and Institutes.
· Dr. Ibrahim also reported that about a month ago the Chancellor decided to combine Enrollment Management into Academic Affairs. Ron Kovach and Anne Severa are working to coordinate the efforts of the Student Success network and Enrollment management.
· The final candidate for Director of the Center for Extended and Distance Education will be on campus for an interview on Thursday, November. 4th.
· Vice Chancellor Bryant reported that he has been involved in the coordination of the selection of the furniture for the Housing unit.
· Dr. Bryant also reported that the mascots Peregrines have been named as Victor and Pride.
· Vice Chancellor Bryant reported that the Housing Leasing office has opened and the Director has been hired. The leasing office is currently taking applications for the fall 2005 opening of University Village
IV. Report of the
Chair of the Senate
·
Chair Hack reported that she has met with
the Chancellor Cohen and Vice
Chancellor Ibrahim on several
faculty issues. She reported that the Senate
needs to clearly define
"voting" faculty. There appears to be some
confusion
regarding this
classification.
·
There are links of the Senate webpage
regarding promotions, tenure and the
most recent documents
regarding these procedures.
·
The Chancellor approved the $6000.00
request for the establishment for the
listserv for the various
governance groups.
·
The Chair received a request from Dr.
Sharp regarding faculty representation
to serve as evaluators of
the software for the One-Purdue (ERP) project.
The
chair selected Professors
K. Pierce (LSS), B. Pai (EMS), S. Conners (TECH),
and L. Hopp
(NUR)
·
Professor Hack also reported that there
will be a spring convocation for
Academic Affairs and has
been tentatively scheduled for January 31, 2005.
·
The chair reported on the work with E.
Bottando in getting departmental
participation
·
The Agenda committee selected
Senators Marthaler, Stankowski, Conners,
and the Chair of the Senate
to serve on the University forum
·
Professor Conners attended the Senate
meeting at West
Lafayette. She
indicated that the Senate
is looking at the creation of a non-tenure track
faculty appointment
designated as a Research Professor. Dr. Ibrahim
indicated that this system
is present in a lot of universities and is equivalent
to the continuous lecturer
but on the research side. The Research professor
will be doing research most of
the time rather than teaching and would have
to bring external funding.
The Chair called for a vote to support
Approved
V. Special
Business of the Day
Report of the Curriculum & Educational Policy
Committee
The following documents were approved by the Curriculum and
Educational
Policy Committee.
For
Action
Professor Mura made a motion to approve the report.
Professor Longas seconded.
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LSS 04-01 |
Adding pre-requisites for PSY 433 Theories in Human Development |
Report PASSED
Faculty Affairs Senate Document 04-04 Teaching
Effectiveness
For Discussion
Professor Boiarsky presented SD 04-04 Teaching
effectiveness and the elimination of the
cafeteria system and put in place a variety of methods
which faculty can utilize to do
assessments. Professor Boiarsky moved document to
action 04-04. Professor Lerner
seconded. Motion passed document was moved to
action. Professor Boiarsky made a
motion to adopt the document. Professor Lerner
seconded. Motion Passed
Faculty Affairs
Senate Document 04-02 Adoption of
E-Listen
For Discussion
Live demonstration of the software via the web.
Faculty Affairs Senate Document 04-03
Resolve
CORE
For Discussion
Revised Senate document 03-12R Nominations of the
Senate
For Action
Professor Coffey presented the revised document 03-12R and
the document now includes
the corrected terms of Senators and other minor
corrections. Professor Coffey made a
motion
to approve the document. Seconded by Professor
Lerner. Motion PASSED
Report on Student
Employment - R. Riddering & C.
Taylor
For
Information
(Full report appears at the end of the
minutes)
VI. Unfinished Business.
Report of the Senate subordinate committee on Compensations & Benefits
Professor Dobberstein called for questions regarding the information he distributed at last
Month's meeting.
VII. Reports of the Committees.
The Chair suspended the committee reports in order that
the Senators participate in the live demonstration of the
E-Listen software from Scantron Company coordinated by
Professor Tazbir.
Agenda Committee.
Academic Support Services
Committee.
Curriculum & Educational
Policy Committee.
Faculty Affairs Committee.
Nominating
Committee.
Student Affairs Committee.
Student Government.
IX. Other New
Business.
None
X.
Adjournment.
The meeting was adjourned
at 5:15 p.m.
Cathy Taylor
Student Employment Coordinator
The Center for Career and Leadership Development
SFLC 349
219-989-4119
Project Employment
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