PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET
UNIVERSITY SENATE MEETING
05 April 2006
3:30pm, SFLC 321
PRESENT: Senators, C. Barczyk J. Coffey, M. Dakich, R. Foreman,
T. Gregory , T. Guerrero, N. Houshangi, A. Mitra, M. Marthaler, B. Pai, D.
Rinke, J. Rowan, E. Ting, K. Tobin, C. Winer, J. Hack ((Presiding Officer),R.
Stankowski, Parliamentarian, Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs N. Ibrahim,
Vice Chancellor for Student Services L. Bryant, Vice Chancellor Administrative
Services K. Johnston, Student Government R. Dunn, and Secretary A. Agosto-Severa,
S. Conners PUWL Representative
ABSENT: L. Hollingsworth, M. O’Toole, D. Pick, A. Agosto-Severa, M. Pickett
GUESTS: K. Carpenter, P. Gerard, S. Howard, R. Kovach, B. Pellicciotti, J. Morales, R. Cruz, D. Sharp, R. Evans, C. Boiarsky
I. Call to Order.
The Chair called the meeting to order at 3:35pm
II. Approval of the
Agenda.
The Chair called for the approval of the Agenda. Professor Coffey moved to
approve the agenda as submitted. Seconded by Professor Rowan.
PASSED
III. Approval of the
Minutes for March 1, 2006
The Chair called for the approval of the minutes of the March 1st
meeting. Professor Winer moved to approve the minutes as submitted. Seconded
by Professor Foreman.
PASSED
Chancellor’s Report.
Chancellor Cohen provided News and Update items:
Public transportation:
Linking Purdue Calumet to the South Shore. We have contacted the Director of Hammond Transportation to discuss routes and links to Purdue Calumet. We will be setting up a meeting. There exists a need to know who would actually use the transportation and the times needed. Colin Fewer will be organizing and chairing this effort.
The President has requested a strategic plan review from each campus. We need tp provide a status report on where we are and how much remains to be accomplished. The report needs to be submitted by September 1st. The Chairs of the of governance groups have been asked to give names of faculty, staff and students for serving on this review committee. The deadline for submitting names is Friday.
The Chancellor distributed a handout regarding anonymous letters. The 5 letters contain confidential information. An investigation to find out who sent the letters is futile. The Chancellor emphasized that breaches of confidentiality are not in line with collegial behavior. He hopes that faculty and staff can have discussions about these issues at the beginning of the semesters especially with new faculty coming on board.
All information in our Student
Information system (Banner) is meant to be protected. As an institution it
is an important responsibility we have to protect the information. If you
know of colleagues who do not treat these items as confidential that you will
speak with them. If people have concerns, criticisms and complaints we hope
that they will be free to voice them.
Vice Chancellor Bryant reported that the health fair has been going on for
the last several days. SSF Fee allocation committee determines how student
fees are allocated and they have been meeting for the last month. They will
be releasing the decisions soon.
Vice Chancellor Johnston reported
on the OnePurdue project. Finance and Human Resources are conducting testing
and training. There is a blueprint approval meeting scheduled for April 27th
for the student modules. There will be a town hall meeting on April 12 (8-10
am) Town Hall for Finance and Human Resources.
He also reported that Chancellor Cohen has created a University Facilities
planning committee which replaces the former office space committee. Peggy
Gerard will chair. There will be thirteen (13) members and two (2) resources
on the committee. They are not advocates for their area, but representing
the university as a whole.
The State has agreed to return a portion of the money already owed (approximately
$853.000+). This will be used for repair and maintenance and possibly us
for the Gyte renovation. The proposed budget recommendations have been provided
to Lafayette for submission to the board. The budget includes the unavoidable
expenses, salary adjustment at 2% plus 1% for extra merit money. We have
allocated 200,000 for Best and Brightest scholarships. The salary adjustments
will be allocated to each unit. And will be subdivided by classification.
The intent is that the standard for staff meeting expectations is set at 1.5
% which gives departmental personnel another ½ percent to make necessary adjustments.
The 1% is not restricted to allow Vice Chancellors to address further salary
needs within particular units. Vice Chancellor Johnston reminded everyone
of the Service Recognition luncheon on April 28th 11:30-1:30.
Outstanding employees will be recognized.
Migration into Outlook continues and we are close to 70% completion. Training
opportunities continue. If there are other needs, please forward those to
be addressed. Discussion took place that there are numerous bounce back messages
at this time in Outlook. The environment is continually changing and challenging.
As more users are being migrated, there are fewer problems happening. Many group-wise addresses still exist in contact lists.
Vice Chancellor Kaufmann reported on the Fundraising efforts. Last year there was a colossal increase raised from 14% to 34%. We made a great impression with donors. We are trying to bring up this amount to 40%. Teams are being divided up keeping people together who are together. This year the team w/ highest % participation (participation not how much) which will be luau au beach party in July
Each team will be visited over the next couple weeks. Appointment calls will be forthcoming
Vice Chancellor Ibrahim reported
that the Dean of the School of Management has signed the contract and she
is to arrive by June 1st. She will still have to be approved by
Board of Trustees at their June 2nd meeting. Dean of Technology
search committee has been formed and Professor Gregory will be chairing.
They have met once and a number of applications have already been received.
Application screening will be taking place soon with recommendations for presentations
will be made. We are hopeful for a July 1st starting date.
Vice Chancellor Ibrahim reported that AQIP is up and running very smoothly.
There was a meeting with the steering committee today. Members from each
of five committees provided progress reports. The website is also live and
there will be projects linked with AQIP on website. Marh 24th
was deadline to put AQIP projects online. Beth is working on final date.
The tentative date is April 19th and 20th of 2007.
An update on the Dean of Engineering, Math and Science—Dr. Murphy will remain as Acting Dean. Due to timing, no recruiting took place for January. Nabil worked with department heads and the decision was to extend Dr. Murphy as interim Dean for a year. This fall 2006 we will begin search for Dean of EMS. She will remain acting through spring 07
IV.Report of the Chair of the Senate.
Professor Hack reported that she was involved with the following activities
representing the faculty
Conflict of Interest Conference
Intellectual Property Workshop chair
Wrote article on Civility for the Academic Affairs newsletter Academic Focus
Scheduled six lunch meetings with School curriculum committee members for CEP tweaking bylaws
Attended student affairs committee
Met with Rudy Cruz regarding comments from last Senate meeting on computer problems
Urged everyone to clean out frequent contacts
PAAC awards Professors John Lucas and Ralph Ocon were both honored
Attended Accommodating students with Disability workshop
Attended Aqip meeting for Program Review committee
University Forum
Honors program kickoff
Library search
Strategic plan review committee:
asking for volunteers from their school other than LASS since they already
have volunteer
West Lafayette representative S. Conners reported that PUWL: elected new officers. Check website for new officers.
V. Special Business of the Day
Faculty Affairs Senate
Document 06-03 Resolution on Admission Standards
-For
Discussion
Professor Gregory introduced Dean Gerard. The task force was chaired by Dean.
Gerard and Professor Boriarsky. She thanked all members who served on committee.
The committee reviewed reference materials as well as conducting benchmarking
on admission criteria with peer institutions, other tier 3 schools and other
schools in Indiana. Looked at how we compared to institutions in both tier
3 and 4 schools. Developed resolution based upon findings. Gradually increase
requirements for admission to the university. Raise and improve graduation
and retention rates, gradually increase student population. As other institutions
attract more quality students the institution as a whole becomes more attractive.
Using standardized test scores. Some students in lower income backgrounds
do as well on standardized tests. no minimum normalized GPA by subject areas.
Certain pool of student not meeting requirement will be admitted to center
for student achievement. About 200 students will be declined admittance however
student achievement academy will work with them to get them enrolled at Ivy
tech. The process is very gradual. 2009/2010 we change from normalized
gpa core 40 requirements. We will implement to have early decisions. SAT
scores are based on English and math. Table will be adjusted when data has
been normalized for writing component. C. Boriarsky: Want to increase the
quality of student population without losing a large number of the population.
Please remember that the scores are listed at a minimum. They may turn out
to be higher. A school could make their admission standard higher. Task
was to determine how to raise the levels. Another task force is working on
retaining students. Those students who do not meet qualifications have a
place to go. They made recommendations on how to retain students. This includes
different delivery methods. There is effort to increase International students.
We should be looking in to having reciprocity agreements with other states.
Recruit more Veterans. Housing is a good way to begin to recruit more students.
Core 40is a compilation of courses that are college preparatory courses. All high schools in Indiana will be required to take college prep curriculum by 2010 except for those students who bring their parents into meet with a counselor and sign off on it.
Question asked for conversion affecting home schooled kids and out of state kids regarding core 40. Other similar criteria will be evaluated. Comments by K. Tobin: thought the document was very well written. We would like to make sure that general education courses are good and strong. R. Kovach commented that students will now be addressing their math and English deficiencies earlier in their academic careers. This will help them in the rest of their courses which will in turn help to retain them. These students will be restricted to 12 hours in their first semester. They will not be counted in numbers as they will not be considered first time full time as they will not be full time because of their ivy tech courses. Their PUC courses will be counted in headcount, but they will not be included in national reporting counts. E. Ting asked if the continual transfer out of students will count against them. B. Pelliciotti sated that PUC Board of Trustees is looking at not counting it against department if they transfer and graduate within the Purdue system.
J. Hack thanked them and requested
that if you have any further questions send it to them. Any further questions
can be addressed at next meeting.
Nominating Committee - Election of Senate Chair 2006-07 - For Action
All nominees agreed to stay in the election. If none of get majority, top
two will be picked and another election will occur.
The two top nominees were Professors Marthaler and Winer. We did not have
a majority so there was a revote. Professor Marthaler was elected Senate
Chair for 2006-07 Academic Year.
Report on the Library Services
– K. Carpenter- For Information
Gave handout on the Emerging Role of the Library at Purdue University Calumet.
K. Carpenter reported that the mission is visionary in that they would like to be trusted and sustain quality. Need to constantly improve resources and facilities. The library is attempting to be a state of the art technology environment. Try to have information which includes various viewpoints. Partnerships are essential especially with PUWL. She viewed the relationship/partnership with Senate increasing. She discussed mission, vision and strategic initiatives for 2004-2007 all of which were included in the handout. They will be hiring 3 new librarians in July who will be able to reach out to faculty and departments. Best Practices were pulled from Tier 3 institutions.
L. Rittenmeyer requested that
in the interest of time and to have a quorum to conduct the Senate business
that the Chair move forward with the remaining documents.
Report of the Curriculum & Educational Policy Committee- For Action
March 22nd committee met. Presenting document as approved by committee
A. Mitra moved the report
for approval. Seconded by Professor Foreman - PASSED
Document Number Title & Description
EDUC 05-02 Change in prerequisites for EDPS 285 Diversity and education
EDUC 05-03 Change in prerequisites for EDCI 355 Teaching and Learning: K-12 Classroom
EDUC 05-04 Add prerequisites for EDPS 260 Introduction to Special Education
EDUC 05-05 Add prerequisites for EDCI 321 Literacy and the Young Child
EDUC 05-06 Change prerequisites for EDCI 307 Corrective Reading for the Classroom Teacher
EDUC 05-07 Change prerequisites for EDPS 370 Teaching Students with Diverse Needs in K-12 Classrooms
EDUC 05-08 Change prerequisites for EDCI 309 Reading in Middle and Secondary Schools
EDUC 05-09 Change prerequisites and co-requisites for EDCI 497 Supervised Teaching
EDUC 05-10 Change in course description and pattern for EDCI 205 Exploring Teaching
EDUC 05-11 Change in course description and pattern for EDPS 220 Psychology of Learning
EDUC 05-12 Change prerequisites for EDCI 341 English Teaching in Senior High, Junior High, and Middle School
EDUC 05-13 Change prerequisites for EDCI 342 Strategies for Foreign Language Instruction in Senior High, Junior High, and Middle School
EDUC 05-14 Change prerequisites for EDCI 344 Strategies for Mathematics Instruction in Senior High, Junior High, and Middle School
EDUC 05-15 Change prerequisites for EDCI 346 Strategies of Science Instruction in Senior High, Junior High, and Middle School
EDUC 05-16 Change prerequisites for EDCI 347 Strategies of Social Studies Instruction in Senior High, Junior High, and Middle School
MGMT-CC-06-11 Change the title and description of CIS 166 in order to establish some flexibility for the course
MGMT-CC-06-12 Change the title of CIS 266
MGMT-CC-06-13 A new Information Systems post-baccalaureate certificate for the Information Systems Department in the School of Management with an emphasis in E-Business Management
MGMT-CC-06-14 A new Information Systems post-baccalaureate certificate for the Information Systems Department in the School of Management with an emphasis in Project Management
MGMT-CC-06-15 This document changes the title and description of the course to better reflect current content
MGMT-CC-06-16 This document changes the title and description of the CIS 180 course
MGMT-CC-06-18 This document establishes a new CIS course for the IS Department in the School of Management
MGMT-CC-06-20 This document establishes a new CIS course for the IS Department in the School of Management
MGMT-CC-06-21 This document creates a new course for Information Systems majors on information systems change management and its impact on business
MGMT-CC-06-23 This document establishes a new CIS course for the IS Department in the School of Management
MGMT-CC-06-24 This document establishes a new Information Systems post-baccalaureate certificate for the Information Systems Department in the School of Management
TEC 06-02 Revised Program of Study - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE DEGREE
TEC 06-03 New Course – OLS 415 Environmental Health and Safety Management
TEC 06-04 New Course - OLS 421 Psychology of Safety
Nominating Committee - Senate
Document 06-04 – Results of the Committee Preference
For
Action
J. Coffey: Stagger terms rather than having everyone replaced at the same
time.
This document will be presented
for action at the May meeting
Faculty Affairs Committee – Senate
Document 06-05 –Guidelines for Promotion- For Discussion
Faculty Affairs Committee- Senate
Document 06-06- Promotion Procedures - For
Discussion
Faculty Affairs Committee – Senate
Document 06-07- Tenure Procedures – For
Discussion
T. Gregory recognized the hard work of the task force. L. Rittenmeyer thanked
committee. Presented to faculty affairs who put forth the document for consideration.
Changes are in bold on document. There is a key on the back of each document.
Promotion of non-tenure-able positions. Enabling documents are from PUWL.
Language in documents came from language in PUWL documents.
Abramowitz felt there was
conflicting information
Student Affairs Committee Senate
Document 06-08 Establishment of Honors Council- For Discussion
J. Rowan reported on the
establishment of honors council which is one component of
academic integrity. This will create a process for students to go through.
The chair of
this committee will get release time based upon time commitments related
to this
area. This item will be moved to action next meeting
Professor Marthaler suggested that a timeframe be included in the documents.
There were concerns expressed about the Honor Court. That it seems more punitive.
Perhaps have Honor Council convened. J. Coffey who would populate the honor
committee, the deans are responsible for appointments. M. Dakich questioned
what will happen at council meeting if student brings attorney. Possibly
need to add that attorney can be present as advisor, but doesn’t get a vote.
The committee should bring some checks and balances on who runs the process
should be clarified.
Student Affairs Committee Senate
Document 03-03 Revisions to the Grade Appeal Process – For Discussion
03/03 changes are very minor to bring the document into line with honor code
IV. Unfinished Business-None.
V. Reports
of the Committees.
Agenda Committee |
T. Gregory |
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Academic Support Services Committee |
R. Foreman |
The committee is fielding questions regarding migration to outlook. Anyone with questions/concerns may contact R. Forman as chair. |
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Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee |
A. Mitra |
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Faculty Affairs Committee |
T. Gregory |
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Nominating Committee |
J. Coffey |
They conducted an election for at large Senators. He announced
Senators |
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Student Affairs Committee |
J. Rowan |
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Student Government |
R. Dunn |
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VI. Other
New Business.
None.
VII. Adjournment 5:17 pm
Respectfully submitted:
Ms. Sandy Czekaj for Anne Agosto-Severa, Secretary of the Senate