PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET
UNIVERSITY SENATE MEETING
07 September 2005
3:30pm, SFLC 321
ABSENT: A. Agosto-Severa, Chancellor Cohen, N. Jackson, Vice Chancellor K. Johnston, J.
Rowan
GUESTS: R. Biddings, R. Kovach, K. Carpenter, L. Osika, D.
Sharp, S. Kristin, S. Howard,
S. Conners, D. Powers
I. Call
to Order.
Chair J. Hack called the senate
meeting to order at 3:30 p.m.
II. Approval of the Agenda.
Professor
Gregory distributed the revised agenda.
The Chair called for a motion to approve the agenda. Professor Gregory made a
motion to approve the agenda as revised. Seconded by Professor Foreman.
Motion passed. Agenda was approved.
III.
The Chair called for the
approval of the May 4, 2005 meeting minutes.
Seconded by Professor Gregory. Corrections to minutes as follows: the
following senators were in attendance at the May meeting; T. Gregory and M. Marthaler.
Professor Choi provided a committee report. Document Tech 05-12 should be listed
as approved. Report 2 was repeated as not approved and was approved.
Motion PASSED. Minutes were approved as revised.
IV.
Chancellor’s Report.
The Chancellor was out of the country on business and not present.
Vice Chancellor Reports:
n Vice Chancellor Bryant expressed appreciation for all the support and help on move-in day for student housing. There was a great response from both faculty and staff. We are currently at 70% capacity. Confident that next fall we will have to start a waiting list. Student Services Resource Fair is currently underway to support academic mission of the university. The student is a total being, therefore, we need to create an atmosphere on campus to support that holistic approach.
n Vice Chancellor Ibrahim extended a warm welcome to everyone in the new academic year. He provided an enrollment update for Fall 05: the highest ever headcount since fall 1999 with 9302 students as the official headcount. We also have the highest ever billable hours generated 92, 330 billing hours for fall 2005 which represents a 2.8% growth between last year and this year. Purdue Calumet exceeded our goal by 330 billing hours.
n Dr. Ibrahim reported that the Academic Learning Center is active for fall 2005 with over 1000 students enrolled in classes. We projected about 900 students therefore this is significantly higher than expected.
n Purdue Calumet has finalized a partnership with Argonne National Labs. This is a historical event for PUC. This partnership will attract the best scientists in the country. The partnership will focus on three major areas: Water resources, Energy, and Transportation. Our main objective will be on economic development. We have hired the largest number of tenure track faculty ever. Part of our strategy is to hire a high percentage of full-time tenure track faculty. Our percentage is currently 64%.
n Our Center of Instructional Excellence will be led by Lee Artz who has already announced 1st event and developed a newsletter.
n The Honors program is now established with Dr. Bipin Pai as the director. We will begin offering courses in the program and start full implementation in spring 2006.
n The US News & World report ranks students by certain criteria. We have a good reputation among our peers which accounts for 25% of weight of overall evaluation. We are ranked 56 instead of 58 out of 148. However, we are ranked 140 out of 143 on retention and graduation rates. We are currently139 this year. In terms of faculty resources: we were 73 last year we are now 77. On student selectivity we were 139 we are now 140. Financial Resources 106 last year 106 this year. Alumni Giving 103 this year instead of 113 last year. US News is a valued way to assess the university and a usable way for students and parents when selecting a college. We will target academic quality as our goal for this year. The faculty will be the best champions of this goal. Dr. Ibrahim will work with faculty and solicit their help.
n Grants and Contracts for 2004/05 ended 6/30/05, our faculty grants and contracts have increased by 20%.
n Vice Chancellor Kaufman invited everyone to a ribbon cutting ceremony for Friday, September 16th at 11:00 am for University Village followed by a buffet and tours of UV and for Monday, September 19th at 4:00pm the ALC ribbon cutting. President Jischke will be attending. Food and tours will be available. Alumni from the area will be invited.
V. Report of the Chair of the Senate.
n Chair Hack was invited by Liz Osika to meeting to move to new university e-mail system. University Senate was well attended and able to give their feedback. L. Osika reported that the project was put on hold due to her two staff members being assigned to some security projects. The project will be started in mid October 2005.
n Professor Hack attended a university forum meeting. There will be four (4) faculty representatives from university senate: R. Stankowski, S. Conners, M. Marthaler and J. Hack. The first meeting in August identified the following items: budget planning, tuition and fees, wayfinding, faculty and staff development in a 24/7 campus and strategic planning.
n An invitation was extended to Senate to participate on an administrative leadership forum that discussed matters of importance to the campus. J. Hack will attend first meeting.
n The Chair worked with Kate Carpenter, Sherry Kristin and K. Corey on senate documents and accessibility. The new process will improve the reporting between the documents that the Senate Secretary provides and the documents posted to the Web.
n The Agenda Committee met and Chair Hack reported that Professor Gregory was elected chair. She introduced the new chairs of various committees and the chairs introduced their committee members. The Senate will have the following leadership this year; Anne Severa-Secretary, B. Stankowski-Parliamentarian,M. O’Toole-Sergeant of Arms,
n Announcement that the nameplates for the new senators will be ready for the October meeting.
n Professor S. Conners reported that the 1st Purdue Lafayette Senate meeting will be Monday, September 12th. If you have any issues please contact her and she will take them forward.
VI.
Special Business of the Day
Professor Mitra made a motion to
approve the CEP report as submitted. Seconded by Professor Coffey -
Report Approved
Reports of the Curriculum & Educational Policy Committee
The following
documents were approved by the Curriculum and Educational
Policy Committee. For
Action
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Document Number |
Title & Description |
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Revision: MA 261 will be added as a prerequisite for MA 315 |
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Revision: Change MA 264 to a co-requisite rather than a prerequisite for MA 446. |
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Revision: Change prerequisite for MA 312. |
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Revision: Revise the lab science requirements for all three MCSS majors (STM, SMA, SCS) |
Senate document 05-20R – Revised Nominations to Senate
Committees
for 2005-2006 -- Nominating Committee
Professor Coffey presented the document which included new members. The
Student Affairs needs an additional member and it was decided to leave this
open with all of the new senators that are starting. He moved the document to
action
Seconded by R. Foreman.
No discussion. Professor Coffey moved to approve the document. Seconded by
Professor
Foreman. APPROVED
Please note that new faculty members denoted with a plus sign mean you were
not on the Senate last year.
Senate document 05-21 - Student Selectivity & Admission Standards Task Force
-- Nominating
Committee
Professor Hack worked with P. Gerard and J. Coffey to nominate non-senators for this committee and reduce committee duplication. Professor Coffey made a motion to move this document for action. Seconded by Professor Foreman. The document was moved to action.
Professor Coffey made motion to approve the document. Seconded by Professor Foreman APPROVED
Governance group's Listserv
(demonstration) – S. Kristen & D. Powers
The listserv have been created. There are six for the Senate. All governance groups are limited to seven. They will be monitoring them in order to report to the Chancellor. This provides an additional forum for giving feedback rather than using GroupWise to discuss issues. There are two rules: This is not a personal venue for vendettas and you may not violate rules of conduct. If you violate the rules then you may be permanently removed from the listserv.
The listserv is to communicate with faculty chairs. Faculty Affairs has its own listserv. Student Affairs listserv has been established. CEP has an established listserv. Academic Support Services has been created. The Senate Faculty Chair listserv has been created. There will be a joint listserv for the governance groups Faculty Senate, APSAC and CSSAC to comment on mutual issues.
A Listserv is an e-mail tool used for collaboration on
communicating on mutual issues. Demonstration provided: log into GroupWise,
click on composing a message, send an e-mail to the listserv join-test@listserv.calumet.purdue.edu
send a blank e-mail to the list. You will then receive a response asking if
you want to join the listserv which includes the code of ethics Computer Code
of Ethics, privacy and system administration. Reply to the message if you want
to subscribe. Upon receipt of confirmation, you will receive all mailings from
that list and can send postings to the list. This is an internal server only.
It is not used for external e-mails at all. Some of the conversations and
documents are university specific and remain under university business and
confidentiality. The listserv will migrate over when we change to Outlook.
The role of the chair if you have signed up to be a moderator is to monitor the
list and make sure that no one is abusing it. You are in charge of guiding the
members and help with logging in. The chair will be moderator for the academic
year and cannot assign it to another committee member at this time. Will
consider changes as the listservs get up and running.
Report on the Flashlight Implementation Taskforce – D. Korchek cancelled at the
request of the members of the taskforce and C. Boiarsky. This item will be
placed on the agenda for the October senate meeting.
Update on Web CT Vista and Netmail projects – L. Osika
Vista is official course management system. Blackboard is available for pulling old information off of it only. Vista has run smoothly for 3 semesters. Only one outage occurred over the Labor Day weekend which was a Lafayette maintenance issue. Almost 2/3 of students have a course in Vista. Response time for questions is within 24 hours. Customer Service Center has been opened to students. About 500 calls made during first week with most of them being from students with questions.
Academic Computing Council chaired by R. Rivers ensuring quality of distance education courses. E-Courses website was improved. List in PDF format was included on Web of instructors so that students can find out who their instructors are. Vista relies heavily on Java. The link is included on e-courses to help walk people through. Tip Sheets are all online through Knowledgebase to assist students in logging into Vista.
Netmail is being used as a
source of communication for university business. Dean’s, Department Heads and
Directors were sent e-mail message outlining information and policies
pertaining to sending out distribution e-mails to students. If anyone is
interested in sending out a distribution e-mail to students, they should
contact their department head.
VII. Unfinished Business.
None
VIII.
Reports of the
Committees.
Agenda Committee T.
Gregory
The
committee met on August 24 and developed the agenda at today’s meeting.
Academic Support Services Committee R. Foreman
No
report
Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee A. Mitra
The committee met and prepared the curriculum report discussed at today’s
meeting.
Faculty Affairs Committee T.
Gregory
The
committee had an organizational meeting on August 7th.
Nominating Committee J. Coffey
The
committee met on August 31st and approved the documents presented
today.
Student Affairs Committee J. Rowan
No
report
Student Government S. Lynch
The
SGA Office hours are posted in the hallway of the Center for Career Leadership
and Development. Sept. 16th at 2:00pm will be the first meeting. SGA
will be on groupwise email soon. SGA will be coordinating Hurricane Katrina
Relief Efforts.
IX. Other New Business.
Pictures will be taken at the next Senate meeting to update Web page.
D.
Sharp reported that OnePurdue is heavily underway. There will be many updates
at future meetings regarding this project. We are currently in the
blueprinting process until December and then begin moving into the realization
phase.
X. Adjournment
Meeting
adjourned at 4:50 pm
Respectfully submitted: Ms. Sandy Czekaj
for Anne Agosto-Severa