PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET
UNIVERSITY
SENATE MEETING
06-February-2008
Approved:
March 5, 2008 meeting
3:30-5:00pm,
Student Union & Library 321
ABSENT: H. Abramowitz, C. Boiarsky, T. Pavkov, D. Rinke,
J. Agrawal-
West Lafayette Representative, Interim Vice Chancellor P. Gerard
GUESTS: G. Downen, R. Kovach, Chronicle
reporter
I. Call to Order.
The Chair called the meeting to
order at 3:35 pm
II. Approval of the Agenda.
The chair called for motion to
approve the Agenda. Professor Rittenmeyer
moved
to amend the agenda to add to
the CEP report TECH 07-30 document.
Seconded by Professor
Barczyk. Motion to amend PASSED. Professor Barczyk moved to approve the Agenda
as
amended. Seconded by Professor
Zimmerman. PASSED
III. Approval
of the Minutes for December 5, 2007 meeting
Chair Winer called for a motion
to approve the minutes of December 5, 2007
meeting. Minutes corrected to reflect that Professor
Parashar was present at the
December meeting. Professor Elmendorf moved to correct the
Chancellors report
to reflect that Maureen Marthaler
was chairing the VCAA search committee and
not applying for the position. He also corrected the Faculty Affairs committee
report to remove the date of
November 7th . Professor
Barczyk moved to approve
the minutes as corrected. Seconded by Professor Rittenmeyer. PASSED
IV. Chancellor’s Report.
The Chancellor reported on
the campus Master Planning process.
There will be campus open forums in early March to see the final draft
of the master plan document. There will
be a community open forum for the neighbors to seek their input and comments. The Chancellor hopes that this plan will be
approved at the April Board of Trustees meeting. This plan will serve as a guide that will
help coordinate our campus enrollment growth with facilities growth. The plan looks at the facilities that we have
and whether
they are compatible with our enrollment growth.
It is not meant to be a fixed plan but flexible to meet our changing
needs.
The Strategic Planning
committee is currently in the editing and revising stage. Once there is a
usable draft the information will be shared with the campus community at several
town hall meetings which will occur in February. Everyone will be invited to provide
input. There will be assessment measures
and there will also need to be a “rough” cut budget developed to fund the plan. In May or June our campus plan will go to the
board of trustees.
Interim VCAA Dr. Gerard
reported at the faculty convocation on the process for reviewing faculty
salaries and recommending increases.
Academic Affairs is using benchmark data from a set of campuses that
have some similarity to us locally, regionally and nationally. Also, the process is using CUPA data which
compares departmental programs, in order to review where PUC falls for median
salaries for the various areas. The
Chancellor reported that the Deans will be looking at using a common process
for recommending salary increases. This
will not be across the board increases and cannot disrupt the merit
process. The Chancellor reported that he
is expecting a report by the end of February.
Chancellor Cohen reported that there will be a systematic process for
faculty salary increases. The process
will be to review the data looking at median salaries, reviewing where people
are with respect to the median, looking at merit history data and then applying
those principles to identifying those individuals who need to have adjustments
made to their salary.
Report of the
Chair of the Senate
The chair reported that the Academic Affairs Faculty affairs committee will
include Professor Tazbir as liaison for Senate and VCAA.
Items reported at the
Faculty Convocation included the VSA (Voluntary System of Accountability). This is a means for parents and students
coming to our campus to compare us to other institutions. VSA offers various assessment tools that we
can use. The chair will be creating a
special sub-committee that will include Senators and other faculty at large to
make up a committee to look at how we can come up with a better method to
review and analyze the assessment of students in terms of value added. The
chair offered examples such as what are students getting from us that make them
better graduates, better employees, and on to graduate school.
The Chair reported that a response to the revised constitution will be going to
the Provost for review.
V. Special
Business of the Day
Report of the Curriculum
Education Policy Committee. Professor Rittenmeyer moved to
approve the report
Seconded by Professor Corey PASSED
Document Title
LSS
07-02 Change in prerequisite
comm. 420
LSS 07-03 Deletion
of IDIS 491 History and Political Science Freshman Experience
LSS
07-04 Addition of 3 cr.
hr. Intro to History and Social Studies
LSS
07-05 Revision of
History Major to include new Intro to History
Course
and Social Studies course
LSS
07-06 Revision of Social
Studies Teaching Major to include
New
Intro to History and Social Studies
TECH
07-14 Add existing West
Lafayette course Met 111
TECH 07-17 Addition
of new course: ET 100 Intro to Engineering Tech
TECH
07-19 Revision to pattern
and description of MET 211
TECH
07-20 Revise junior year
plan of study to include an IET course to
the junior year plan of
study
TECH
07-25 addition of new UG
course OLS 483: Common Law of the
Workplace.
TECH
07-26 Revision of the MFET
AS curriculum
TECH
07-27 Revision off the MFET
BS curriculum
TECH
07-28 Change the prefix of
all METS and 2 MFET courses to ET
TECH
07-29 Addition of new
course for Mechatronics: MET 420
TECH 07-30 Addition of new course for Mechatronics ECET 330
TECH
07-31 Addition of existing
West Lafayette course OLS 491
MGMT
08-01 Change in number and
prerequisite ENTR 320
MGMT
08-02 Revision of AS in
Business Degree replacing BA 231 with
BA
230 as a requirement.
NUR
08-05 Revision of course
description of Capstone Course
CEP Committee: Approval of Experiential
Learning Documents
Document Title
NUR 08-01 Approval
of NUR 498 as EXPL Course
NUR
08-02 Approval of NUR 318
as EXPL Course
NUR
08-03 Approval of NUR 393
as EXPL Course
NUR
08-04 Approval of NUR 283
as EXPL Course
TECH
07-31 Approval of OLS 491
as EXPL Course
EDCI
08-01 Approval of EDCI 497
as EXPL Course
VI. Unfinished Business.
None
VII. Reports of the Committees.
Agenda Committee L.
Rittenmeyer
Agenda committee met and
developed today’s agenda. The ad-hoc
committee for
Voluntary System of
Accountability will be reporting to the Agenda committee.
Professor Green reported the work
of the General Education assessment committee
Academic Support Services Committee L.
Green
L. Green has replaced S. Conners as chair.
No report.
Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee L.
Rittenmeyer
The chair reported that the committee met and prepared the curriculum report
presented at this meeting. The
Faculty Affairs Committee A.
Elmendorf
Professor Elmendorf reported that the Committee met and considered the Provost’s
revisions to the Promotions and Tenure document. They will forward documents for the March
meeting.
Nominating Committee C.
Barczyk
The nominating committee met to populate the Grievance committee as directed by
SD 07-21 which called for the addition of 10 members. The Faculty Preference survey will be
distributed soon. The chair urged faculty
to respond otherwise the assumption is that no response will be considered a
willingness to serve on committees.
Student Affairs Committee T.
Roach
No report.
Student Government J.
Robinson
J. Robinson requested faculty to respond to the textbook survey which will
include textbook information for the upcoming Summer and Fall terms.
VIII. Other New Business
The Chair announced that on
Monday, March 24th the Commission for Higher
Education will be hosting the
annual faculty meeting in Indianapolis.
Contact
Professor Winer if you are
interested in attending the meeting.
Professor Winer reported the J.
Agrawal will not be able to continue as the
Calumet representative to the
Lafayette Senate. Contact Professor
Winer if you
are interested in serving as
representative.
Adjournment
meeting adjourned 4:55 p.m.-
Respectfully
submitted: Anne Agosto-Severa,
Secretary to the Senate