West Campus Faculty Senate Minutes

July 10, 2003

Present:  Tom Byrnes (presiding), Leslie Lorett3 for Susie Forehand, George Dow, Terry Johnson for Fran Frierson, Shannon Hellard, Jean Henderson,  Gloria Hines, Lisa Macon for Jim Johnson, Dan Kimble, Maryke Lee, Terry Long, Sue Mathews, Stan Melnick, Boris Nguyen, Russell Takashima

Guests: Lisa Armour, Paul Licata

Call to Order

President Tom Byrnes called the meeting to order at 1:31 p.m.

Approval of Minutes

Correction: Shannon Hellard was present at the June meeting.

George Dow seconded the 6-6-0-0 motion.

June minutes were approved as corrected.

Action Items:

The Senate welcomed the new West Campus Provost Dr. Paula Gastenveld.

A motion was passed to ask the Provost for a secretary to record the minutes of the faculty senate meetings.

A request was made to Tom Byrnes to ask for an explanation of what has happened with the endowed chair program.

Research the possibility of putting coffee back into the faculty staff lounges and adding coffee and a microwave to the mezzanine.

Provost’s report:

Dan Dutkofski has been named the dean of humanities for West Campus.  A ten-month temporary position has been approved for his replacement. The department of Engineering and Technology will change its name to the department for Architecture, Engineering, and Technology. 

Five West Campus classrooms will be selected for conversion to smart classrooms for Fall Semester.  There will be an open house on East Campus to showcase the model for the new smart classrooms. There is a movement to make all the smart classrooms uniform.

Dr. Gastenveld expressed an interest in having open communications.  She will be distributing the minutes of the dean’s meetings to all faculty.  She will be sending short e-mails on a regular basis.

President’s report:

Jean Henderson was thanked for putting a basket together for the new provost.  The Senate would also like to thank the bookstore for it’s contribution of a shirt for the provost’s basket.

Standing reports:

Maryke Lee:  The consultants will share the results of several surveys and their initial faculty compensation proposal at the next meeting of the compensation taskforce which is scheduled for August 5^th from 2-4. Paul Licata asked if the consultants could provide information on the number of faculty in the forums and focus groups who were in favor of a new compensation model. 

Departmental Reports:

General Remarks:

The status of faculty and staff lounges was questioned, it was the consensus that they should remain off limits to students.

A request was made to Tom Byrnes to ask for an explanation of what has happened with the endowed chair program.

Adjournment

Meeting adjourned at 2:40 p.m.

There will be no August meeting.  The next meeting will be September 8 at 1:00 in room 1-151.