PURDUE
UNIVERSITY CALUMET
COUNCIL OF FACULTY DELEGATES
MINUTES
6th Meeting March
3, 1997
Present:
Professors C. Chancey, R. Colon, S. Conners (Sergeant-at-Arms), M.
Dobberstein, A. Elmendorf, R. Evans, R. Foreman, J. Hack (Presiding Officer), J.
Jennings, L. Mura, B. Pai, K. Pierce, L. Rittenmeyer, C. Sekhar, S. Sil, C.
Stacy, R. Stankowski, W. Ting, C. Torres-Robles, J. Walker, G. Wegner, L.
Willer, Vice Chancellor S. Singer, Vice Chancellor L. Bryant, Vice Chancellor
G. Newsom, Chancellor J. Yackel, M. Dakich (Parliamentarian), J. Mitchell
(Student Government), J. Wermuth (Secretary),
Absent: Professors D. Pick, S. Tickoo
I. The meeting was called to order by
Professor Hack.
II. Professor Dobberstein moved the approval of the minutes of the
February 3,1997, meeting of the Council of Faculty Delegates. Professor Foreman seconded the motion. The motion to approve the minutes passed.
III. Professor Dobberstein
moved the acceptance of the agenda for the March 3, 1997, meeting of the
Council of Faculty Delegates. Professor
Chancey seconded the motion. The motion
to accept the agenda passed.
IV. Chancellor's Report
Chancellor Yackel said
the Board of Trustees held their
business meeting on campus on Friday, February 28. He said the Board extended President Beering’s appointment to
July 1, 2000; promotions were approved; and Purdue Calumet’s academic reorganization was approved “in
principle”. He said the Board had met
Thursday also, and that he, Vice Chancellor Singer, and Associate Vice
Chancellor Dunn met with a committee of the Board on the academic
reorganization. He said a presentation
on Purdue Calumet’s outreach to K-12 was made to the Trustees Thursday evening.
Chancellor Yackel said
the Indiana House has approved a budget bill and sent it on to the Senate. He said the House bill contains more for the
universities than the State Budget Committee recommendation but less than the
Commission for Higher Education proposal, which included a 1% base budget
increment for new initiatives. He said
the bill contains a 1% of base budget cash amount for one year. He said the university will make its
presentation before the Senate Finance Committee in mid-March. He said the House bill contains the $8M for
Anderson and the $1.8M for the Classroom Office Building.
Chancellor Yackel said
that the building is about three weeks behind schedule, and that the steel
superstructure should start going up within a few weeks. He said completion of the building will then
result in the movement out of Anderson in 1998; and that the timing is
dependent on the financing for the buildings.
Chancellor Yackel said
that the men’s and women’s basketball teams will be in the NAIA tournament if
each wins its next two games.
Vice Chancellor Bryant
noted the success of Black History
Month, due to support from the university and the community for the many
activities presented..
In response to a question
from Professor Elmendorf, Vice Chancellor Singer said the new school structure
will be effective July 1, but that not all schools will have permanent deans at
that time.
Chancellor Yackel said
that a Town Hall meeting on the budget is being planned for noon, Thursday, April 10, in Alumni Hall, to which
all are invited.
Professor Hack said that
the Senate Document 96-3 Grades
and Grade Reports for Incomplete Work
was withdrawn from consideration at the February meeting of the Purdue
University West Lafayette Senate. She
said that both she and Mr. Mitchell had the opportunity to address the Board of
Trustees at its meeting on Friday, February 28.
V. Special Business of the Day
Council Document
97-02. Establishment of the General Education Review Committees. Research and Educational Policy
Committee. For Discussion.
Professor Mura introduced
the document. Professor Jennings
suggested that the second paragraph should begin, “In the event a committee
determines that a program has not identified and implemented the general
education requirements, ...” to make it consistent with the general education
documents. Professor Lerner was
recognized by the presiding officer of the Council with the consent of the
Council. He introduced, distributed and
spoke to a personal revision of Council Document 97-02. Professor Hack said that such a document
would need to get itself to the Agenda Committee before being discussed by the
Council.
Professor Mura, noting
the Fall 1997 effective date of the general education requirements said that a
document needed to be passed to meet the Council’s responsibility for ensuring
that programs have met their general education requirements. During the discussion which followed, it was
noted the documents moved to action must so move with no amendments. After further discussion, Professor Mura
moved Council Document 97-02 to action after two changes, ruled non-substantive
by the chair, had been made; viz., in
the second sentence of paragraph three, the substitution of “Nominations...”
for “Appointments...”; in the third sentence of paragraph three, the deletion
of the terminal “s”; and the name of Professor Stacy moved from “Approved” to
“Absent”. Professor Conners seconded
the motion. After some further
discussion, the motion to move Council Document 97-02 to action did not pass.
Council Document
97-03. Appointments to the General Education Review Committees. Research and Educational Policy
Committee. For Information.
Professor Mura introduced
the document, and described how Council members were picked to serve on the
committees. She said the process will
involve the updated bingo sheets being sent to the committees for their
review. A lengthy discussion followed,
which focused on the content of Council Document 97-02 rather than Council
Document 97-03. One group maintained
that the departments determine which courses meet general education
requirements in their programs, with the role of the Council being to determine that appropriateness was present
in the departments’ actions. Another
group maintained that the Council has the responsibility to determine whether
specific courses or recommendations by departments met the established general
education requirements. It was noted in
the discussion that the General Education Review Committee memberships need to
be approved by the Council in accordance with ByLaw 4.01.C.
Council Document
97-04. Nominations to Council Subordinate Committees. Nominating Committee. For Discussion.
Professor Ting introduced
the motion. Professor Foreman moved
Council Document 97-04 to action.
Professor Pai seconded the motion.
The motion passed.
Professor Ting moved
approval of Council Document 97-04.
Professor Foreman seconded the motion.
The motion to approve Council Document 97-04 passed.
Council
Document 97-05. Proposed Constitution of the Faculty of Purdue University Calumet. Agenda Committee. For Discussion.
Professor
Hack thanked those who had served to develop the new constitution. She requested and received the Council
permission for Professors P. Gupta, D. Kirkpatrick, and R. Rivers, members of
the Council on Academic Reorganization to address as needed the Council on the
proposed constitution. Professor
Dobberstein introduced the document and agreed that the document should be
reviewed by the Council item by item.
The following summarizes the discussion of and comments on each item of
the constitution.
Preamble No changes were proposed.
I. Composition of the Purdue University Calumet
Faculty
The
exclusion of the President of the University from the faculty was noted. Reasons for doing so included the lack of
presidential participation in campus governance activities in the past, and to
demonstrate the campus’s autonomy.
Chancellor Yackel noted that the President was excluded but visiting
faculty were now to be accorded voting rights.
Professor Wermuth said that the Board of Trustees has designated the
President as “...the President of its Faculty...” which will likely preclude
excluding the President from the Purdue Calumet Faculty.
II. Establishment
of the Governing Body
Professor
Dobberstein said this section changes the governing body’s name from Council of
Faculty Delegates to Senate. He said
the section is essentially identical to Article I. A. paragraph two of the
Articles of Organization.
III. Amendments
Professor
Dobberstein said that this section is essentially identical to Article I. B. of
the Articles of Organization.
IV. Powers and Responsibilities of the Faculty
Professor
Dobberstein said that section A. General Powers is essentially identical
to Article III. A. of the Articles of Organization.
There
was much discussion of section B. Authority. It was noted that the Board of Trustees has given to the Faculty
specific powers and responsibilities, which are spelled out in Academic
Regulation A. 4.05.; and that the list of authorities in IV.B. of the draft
constitution does not agree with that list.
After much discussion, it was agreed to review and compare the the
authorities in the draft for differences with the powers and responsibilities
granted by the Board of Trustees.
Professor
Dobberstein said some of the previous authorities were split into two items for
clarity.
There
was discussion of Section C. Advisory Role. Vice Chancellor Newsom noted that in section C.3., audio visual
services were included with the library.
He said that unit no longer reports to the library. He recommended placing audio visual services
in section C.4. It was noted that
section C.7. is identical to item III.C.7 of the Articles of Organization
except for the deletion of the terminal phrase, “...in the attainment of the
educational objectives of Purdue University Calumet.”. It was noted that section C.8. is a proposed
advisory role for the faculty.
There
was discussion of Section D. Appeal to Trustees. It was noted that this section is identical
to Article III.D. of the Articles of Organization, but that the approach of the
Faculty to the Trustees seems unclear in that the words “directly” and “through
the President’ seem contradictory or at best ambiguous.
It was
noted that Section E. Purdue University System-wide Faculty Government
is essentially identical to Article III.E. University-wide Faculty
Governance, except for the substitution of “system-wide” for
“university-wide” in the title and body of the item. There was a discussion of the difference between an university
and a university system, and whether the section needed to be reviewed.
Professor
Hack halted the discussion of the draft constitution due to time
constraints.
VI.
Unfinished Business
There
was no unfinished business.
VII. Reports of Committees
Agenda
Committee: Professor Dobberstein
said the committee had met and prepared the present agenda, and will consider
the need for a special or May meeting.
Faculty
Affairs Committee: Professor Evans
said the committee will meet later in the day to continue its discussion of
promotion and tenure.
Nominating
Committee: Professor Ting said the committee met February 18 and elected
Professor Walker chair of the committee for the 1997-98 academic year. She said the committee is preparing a ballot
for election to the Council presidency for the 1997-98 academic year. She urged those who are eligible but choose
not to serve as presiding officer to notify her.
Research
and Educational Policy Committee: Professor Mura said the committee will meet
later in the day to discuss Council Documents 97-02 and 97-03. She noted her and Professor Hack’s letters
to the Chronicle, and the Administrative Update column’s attempt to correct the
information previously presented in the Chronicle on the general education
issue.
Resources and Planning Committee: Professor
Dobberstein said the committee had met February 11 and discussed the fall
break.
Student Affairs Committee: This
committee will meet March 7.
Intercampus
Faculty Council: Professor Dobberstein said the committee
will not meet during the present semester..
Student Government: There was no report from
Student Government
VIII. Other New Business
There was no
other New Business.
IX. Adjournment
With no further business
before the Council, Professor Hack declared the meeting adjourned.
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