PURDUE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY
SENATE MEETING
07-November-2007
3:30-5:00pm,
Student Union & Library 321
Approved:
December 5, 2007
ABSENT: H. Abramowitz, N. Parashar,
Vice Chancellor M.
Dalgarn, Vice Chancellor K. Johnston,
J. Agrawal- West
GUESTS: N. Latif,
Kamali
I. Call
to Order.
Chair Winer called the meeting
to order at 3:35 pm
II. Approval
of the Agenda.
The chair called for motion to approve
the Agenda. Professor Elmendorf moved
to approve the Agenda. Seconded by Professor Barczyk PASSED
III. Approval of the Minutes for November
7, 2007 meeting
Chair Winer called for a motion
to approve the minutes of November 7, 2007
meeting. Professor Barczyk moved
to approve the minutes. Seconded by
Professor Conners. Motion approved
PASSED
IV. Chancellor’s
Report.
The Chancellor provided an
update on the Strategic Planning process and distributed the committee
membership listing. The members were
recommended by the various governance groups.
The first meeting will be on Friday, Nov. 9th. They will prepare a draft report and
distribute for campus wide feedback. The final report is due to Board of
Trustees in May 2008.
The Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs Search Committee will include representation from Senate and
others who have been nominated to serve.
There will be a distribution E email officially announcing the
committee. Nominations and applications
for the VCAA position will be due by January 18, 2008 with an
expected hire date of July 1, 2008.
The President has informed
the Chancellor that it is not her intention to participate in the Regional
campus commencements. She may be
involved from time to time in the future.
Therefore the Chancellor expects that we will still have Board members
attend the commencement but we will be making modifications to the order of the
ceremony.
The Chancellor also reported
that he has had conversations with the President regarding the Senate
constitution and she has asked him to send his written comments and work with
the Interim Provost at
Report of the Chair of the Senate
The chair reported that discussions have already taken place regarding the
purchase of the home for Faculty club and Professor Boiarsky will provide a
report.
Chair Winer also reported that there was an Academic
Affairs town hall meeting and various items discussed included faculty salaries
and also the expansion of the ELP (English Language Training program) and
attracting more international students.
Professor Agrawal is still interested in serving as the West Lafayette
Representative, however, he is unable to continue this semester. Professor
The Outstanding Faculty award usually was accompanied by
a parking space and apparently this is no longer the practice. Upon further investigation, the Chair
discovered that some faculty were being charged and taxed for the space and
therefore declined the space. Therefore
the parking space was not allocated.
There is a lag time on the updating of our Senate website
therefore the Secretary has agreed to work with the Library (Professor Corey)
and Beth Pellicciotti to find an appropriate solution to the timeliness of
posting Senate business on the website.
The Chair encouraged all senators to attend the Faculty
club luncheon 12-2 pm on Monday, Dec. 3rd. A DVD presentation will
be “Declining by Degrees: The State of Higher Education in the
V. Special Business of the Day
Report of the Curriculum
Education Policy Committee Professor Rittenmeyer moved to
remove MGMT-CC
07-02 (Revision of CIS 426) and then moved for approval of the report
as amended. Seconded by Professor Elmendorf PASSED
Document Title
CEP
Committee: Approval of Curriculum documents
Document Title
EMS 08-01 Creation of Senior Capstone
Course
EMS 08-02 Addition of a new course:
Introduction to Forensic Science
EMS 08-04 Change in Pre-requisite’s
Agenda Committee:
Senate
Document 07-01Rev Revision of
By-laws Professor Rittenmeyer move
to
approve the document. Seconded by
Professor Tazbir. PASSED
Curriculum and Educational Planning
Committee:
Senate Document
07-18 Process for requesting approval for Experiential learning
courses Professor
Rittenmeyer moved the document for action.
Seconded by Professor Tazbir
PASSED-document moved to
action. Professor Rittenmeyer moved to
approve the document.
Seconded by Professor Barczyk. PASSED
Senate Document 07-19 Criteria for approving
experiential learning courses.
Professor
Rittenmeyer moved the document for action.
Seconded by Professor
Barczyk. PASSED
Faculty Affairs
Committee:
Senate
Document 07-20. Faculty
certification of distance education courses.
Professor Elmendorf presented this document for
discussion. Professor Detmer
requested documentation about the certification
program since the document
submitted to senate did not contain the specific
information about the program.
Professor Rittenmeyer volunteered to send out the
documents. Also mentioned in
the discussion is that there are no additional fees
for experiential learning charged
to students.
This certification program is not a requirement at this time. Professor
Elmendorf stated the Senate does play a consultative
role in matters that relate to
faculty and therefore the document 07-20 reflects that
the certification is
recommended but not listed as a requirement. He further requested that additional
feedback be sent to the Faculty Affairs
committee.
Senate
Document 07-21 Resolution governing campus Grievance Committees.
Professor Elmendorf moved the
document for action. Seconded by
Professor Conners. PASSED. Professor Elmendorf moved for approval of the
document. Seconded by Professor Pena. PASSED
Senate
Document 07-22 Name changes for departments in
Professor Elmendorf moved document
for action. Seconded by Professor
Rittenmeyer. PASSED. Professor Elmendorf moved for
approval of document.
Seconded by Professor Pena. PASSED
Interpretation of tenure and promotion procedures
documents
.
VI. Unfinished Business.
Professor Boiarsky reported on the status of the
Faculty Club. It appears that the
initial cost of $20.00 is now increased.
She gathered an initial listing of 50 faculty who were interested. Her committee has worked with Vice
Chancellors Kaufman and Johnston to review the purchase of the house on
Due to funding issues this project is on hold.
She also reported that there is now a faculty lunchroom in the area of
Room with a view (west side).
Approximately half of the room is now allocated for faculty use. There will be a guestbook available to track
use of the room
Reports of the Committees.
Agenda
Committee L.
Rittenmeyer
Agenda committee met and
developed today’s agenda.
Academic Support Services Committee S.
Conners
No report.
Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee L.
Rittenmeyer
The chair reported that the committee met and prepared the report presented at
this meeting. They also prepared the
experiential learning documents presented today.
Faculty Affairs Committee A.
Elmendorf
Professor Elmendorf reported that the committee will be meeting on November 9,
2007, 10:00 am in CLO 314 to discuss the Provost’s revisions to the Promotions
and Tenure documents.
Nominating Committee C.
Barczyk
No business
Student Affairs Committee T.
Roach
No report.
Student Government J.
Robinson
J. Robinson reported that SGA will be hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for the
International students at
Ms. Robinson requested information on the policy on
due dates for class assignments during the holiday breaks, especially for those
students taking distance learning classes.
Professor Ibrahim reported that he did receive this issue and that it
was related to the
VII. Other
New Business
VIII. Adjournment meeting adjourned 4:55 p.m.-
Respectfully submitted: Anne
Agosto-Severa, Secretary to the Senate