PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET

UNIVERSITY SENATE MEETING

01 March 2006

3:30pm, SFLC 321

PRESENT: Senators, C. Barczyk J. Coffey, M. Dakich, R. Foreman, T. Gregory , T. Guerrero, L. Hollingsworth, N. Houshangi, A. Mitra, M. Marthaler, , M. O’Toole (sergeant at arms),, B. Pai, D. Pick, M. Pickett, 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.

ABSENT: Chancellor Cohen, M. Fatthizadah, N. Jackson, L. Rittenmeyer, R. Roames,
      K. Tobin, Vice Chancellor J. Kaufman

GUESTS:  J. Johnson, S. Howard, M. Dobberstein, B. Pellicciotti, R. Biddings

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 Barzyk moved to approve the agenda as submitted.  Seconded by Professor Gregory.                   PASSED

III.          Approval of the Minutes for February 1, 2006

The Chair called for the approval of the minutes of the Feb. 1^st meeting.  Professor Barczyk moved to correct the minutes to reflect that he was present.  Additional corrections were as follows:  Professor Gregory under Agenda committee report that the committee reviewing the senate Constitution & Bylaws will be meeting and the chair is Professor Conners.  Vice Chancellor Bryant reported that the temporary location for the campus health in Gyte Annex 25 until the permanent location has been established; remove Winer listed twice under committee reports and SD 05-24; correct spelling of Professor O’Toole’s name.  Professor Gregory reported that the faculty affairs committee met on 1-23 and will be meeting again on 2-28; change P. Hack to J. Hack; under Approval of the minutes it was for the December meeting; under Chancellor’s report change 14 to 11 members attending AQIP strategy forum; Vice Chancellor Ibrahim distributed a copy of the AQIP proposed structure; correct spelling for University of Bayan; under Special business of the day Professor O’Toole introduced the CEP report.

Professor Barczyk move to approve the minutes as corrected.  Seconded by Professor Foreman.                                                                                                    PASSED

IV.          Chancellor’s Report.

The Chair announced the Chancellor Cohen would not be present and asked Vice Chancellor Ibrahim to report.  He announced that the President was here and had an opportunity to meet with students participating in undergraduate research programs and internships.  After a very good discussion over lunch, the President had an opportunity to visit the labs and observe demonstrations of the projects the students were working on.  The president presented to the entire campus community at a 3pm session in Alumni hall.  Overall the visit went quite well. 
The Vice Chancellor also reported on the progress we are making in regards to AQIP.  The committee structure is now in place and we have over 50 campus-wide representatives serving in the various committees.  The Steering committee has met and will be responsible for managing the entire project.  Orientation sessions have been organized to provide the committees with the charge and tasks they will need for their work on the committees. Vice Chancellor Ibrahim will provide a report on a monthly basis. Dr. Ibrahim indicated that we are planning for the AQIP visit and it will take place on April 19, 2007.  AQIP will expect updates 6 weeks (mid-March) before they come for the visit.  We will need to have a first draft of the systems portfolio by the end of December.
Vice Chancellor Bryant announced that we have hired a residence hall director Elani Karlos and she is already on board at University Village.  He reviewed her background in student housing.
Vice Chancellor Johnston provided a One Purdue update and indicated that we are in the blue print phase of the student system requirements of the April 27^th implementation for HR and Finance.  Decision on the faculty pay schedule has been made.  10 payments will occur August through May (August and May 1/18 each of salary and September through April 1/9 each of salary).  The training sessions for MS Outlook are now being offered.  There are three, one hour modules over various topics offered during two sessions on the following dates:  Beginning Feb. 28^th, there will be sessions offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays which will be held every other week.  Beginning March 6, there will be sessions offered on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays which will also be held every other week.  Evening sessions will be available upon request.  All training modules will be held in Powers Room 204.  Vice Chancellor Johnston was asked to investigate the problem some faculty are experiencing with timing-out from their home computers when accessing MS Outlook or GroupWise email systems.

V.          Report of the Chair of the Senate.   

Professor Hack reported that she helped organize the Spring semester Faculty Convocation.  She has also been busy with final plans for the Intellectual Property workshop which will be held March 21st.  Dr. Peter Dunn Office of Research will be among the speakers.  Professor Hack has also engaged in discussions with him regarding the syllabi issues and distance learning as they relate to the President’s Memorandum B-10 and the faculty handbook. Dr. Dunn is the one who will be updating the documents and he will address these areas at the workshop. Seating is limited to 70 and the chair encouraged faculty to sign up early.  The Chair also had the opportunity to meet with the Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee regarding Bylaws, and is working with CEP Chair Mitra to arrange some meetings with School curriculum faculty to improve the process of preparing curriculum documents.  She did not have the opportunity to attend the Board of Trustees meeting, although she did report that Purdue North Central was granted academic autonomy.  Professor Hack signed up to represent the Senate in the Business Services Budget Assessment committee and attended the first meeting.   She also attended 2 of 3 interviews for the candidates for Vice Chancellor for Student Services.  She met with Asst. Vice Chancellor Administrative Services M. Kull to discuss bookstore, food service and parking lot issues.
Professor Conners was not present; however Professor Foreman delivered the Purdue Faculty Senate (W. Lafayette) report.  The main issue at the meeting was PUWL SD 05-5 regarding Alternatives to Redlining The document passed with an amendment that will allow all students to have up to 24 months to get  up to three (3) courses (12 credits) deleted from their index.
Vice Chancellor Ibrahim reported that the search for Dean of the School Management is coming to a close and the candidate has verbally accepted and a formal offer will be forthcoming.  He further commented on the search for the schools of EMS and Technology in which a job description has been created and they are in the process of forming search committees.

VI.    Special Business of the Day        

   Senate Document 06-01 Recommendations of the Task Force on
   Student Civility--                                                                                      For Action
   The Agenda committee put forth the document for approval.  Professor Gregory  
   moved to approve the document.  Seconded by Professor Foreman            PASSED

   Report of the Curriculum & Educational Policy Committee

   The following documents were approved by the Curriculum and Educational
   Policy Committee.                                                                For Action

Professor Mitra introduced the report and moved to approve.  Seconded by Professor O’Toole                                                                                                       PASSED
        
Sub-committee on Compensation and Benefits Report  – M. Dobberstein--
                                                                                                      For Information
Professor Dobberstein provided the report from the sub-committee on Compensation & Benefits which reports to Faculty Affairs.  (See Attached report on the senate website) 

Faculty Affairs will be studying the document and bring forth information to the next senate meeting.


          Senate Document 06-02 Resolution Regarding Appropriation of Syllabi
        – Faculty Affairs Committee--                                                 For Discussion

Professor Gregory introduced this document.  The Agenda committee was asked by the faculty affected by the misappropriation of syllabi in the Fall to formally review their statement requesting resolution of the matter.  The Agenda Committee of the Senate discussed and agreed to send the request to Faculty Affairs to decide what should be done and if anything should be brought forward to the Senate.  The Faculty Affairs Committee prepared Document  06-02 for today after their discussion.  Professor Gregory made a motion to move the document to action.  Seconded by Professor Dakich.  Discussion:  What is the compelling reason to move to action?  The original request called for the return of the syllabi that were provided and a request has been sent out that the syllabi would be returned to the faculty.  The question remains regarding the University’s handling of intellectual property issues and compliance with President’s Memorandum B-10.  The Faculty Affairs Committee felt the Resolution should not wait.   Motion Passed.
Professor Gregory read the statement from the affected faculty that was included in SD 06-02, along with wording from Faculty Affairs.  Professor Dakich made a motion to change the wording of the Resolution at the end to read: … therefore, in the future such materials may not be appropriated and or distributed without the consent of the instructor for use outside of the university.  The Chair called for the vote on the amendment and it passed.  Discussion continued on the document.  Professor Gregory made a motion to approve the document with the revised language.  Seconded by Professor O’Toole. 

Vote was 10 for, and 7 against.   PASSED

VI.                   Unfinished Business-None.

VII.                   Reports of the Committees.

         Agenda Committee                                                       T. Gregory
         The committee met on February 15^th and will meet again two weeks before the
         next senate meeting.
        

Academic Support Services Committee                        R. Foreman

No report

Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee   A. Mitra
Professor O’Toole reported that the committee will meet again on March 28^th.

Faculty Affairs Committee                                             T. Gregory
The committee met on February 8^th and 22^nd and prepared the syllabi use document discussed at today’s meeting.  The committee will be discussing the following topics:  confidentiality of flashlight evaluation system, promotion and tenure, academic standards, and compensation and benefits report.  The committee will meet on March 6^th.

Nominating Committee                                     J. Coffey

Professor Coffey reported that the Senate needs to elect a successor to Professor Conners as the PUC representative to the PUWL Faculty Senate.  Professor Jai P. Agrawal has agreed to serve the three year term as our representative.  Professor Coffey moved to accept Professor Agrawal as the Lafayette representative.  Seconded by Professor Barczyk.              Approved.

Professor Coffey distributed a listing of those who are eligible to serve as Chair of the Senate next year.  Professor D. Pick removed his name from the listing due to his sabbatical status next year. Professor E. Ting also asked to be removed.   Professor Coffey should be contacted within the next three weeks if there are additional requests to be removed from the listing.  He also reported that the standing committees should elect a chair for next year no later than their final spring meeting for this year.  Senators whose term is ending should contact their Department Heads for  a replacement and make sure the new names are forwarded to Professor Coffey before the May meeting.  The at-large senators running for election  are C. Boiarsky (Engl & Phil), M. Eisenstein (Hist & Pol. Sci), T. Elmendorf (MCSS), L. Rittenmeyer (Nursing).  Printed ballots for this election will be in faculty mailboxes this week.  Nominating committee will be meeting on March 3^rd.



Student Affairs Committee                                            J. Rowan
Professor Rowan indicated that the Bookstore has become a university wide issue and there will be a larger campus wide work group convened to deal with the issues.  Prof. Rowan delivered a report to the Deans, Directors, Department Heads and Governance Leaders at the Chancellor’s monthly meeting in February.  Asst. Vice Chancellor Administrative Services M. Kull will be developing a statement regarding food services and what is the protocol for bringing food from off-campus.  Student Affairs is also working on the establishment of an Honor Council which goes in line with the honor code – This committee provides the student another option for appeal when they believe they have been treated unfairly.

Student Government                                                     R. Dunn
President Robin Dunn reported that they are working on a student survey on the student service fee and how knowledgeable students are regarding the services that are offered.  SGA is working on textbook costs and will work with the campus group established by the Chancellor.  They have drafted a resolution for “dead week” which is the week before final exams.  The resolution is that no exams be scheduled during the final week of class prior to final exams.  Since 1985 Purdue Lafayette has not given exams the last week of class.  They are also working to get Net mail to enable students to forward their emails to their preferred provider.  They are working through various issues in University Village. They are currently working on a Student Forum with the Senior Leadership Team.

VIII.                   Other New Business.
         None.

IX.                   Adjournment  5:05 pm

Respectfully submitted:  Anne Agosto-Severa, Secretary of the Senate