CSUDH Academic Senate Meeting
Dr. Claudia Hampton Lecture Hall, March 5, 2003
Voting Members Present: Andrews, Casten, Chlebicki, Christie, Cruise, Furtado, Goders, Gould, Jacobs, Jennings, Johnson, C., Kaplan, Kowalski, Leonard, Long, Lyons, Malamud, McCarthy, Moscovici, Moy, Smith, L., Sturm, Todd, Turk, Vanterpool, Waller, Welch, Whetmore and Wood, S.
Voting Members Absent: Auth, Cokelez, Dominguez, Frickel, Furusa, Ganezer, Gasco, Johnson, McDermott, Needham, Robles, Saunders, Sheu, Valle, and Watson.
Non-Voting Ex Officio Members Present: Bowman, Dowling, Lindsay, Pardon, Walton.
Guests: Mellblom, Pomerantz, Woods, and Yao.
Call To Order at 2:45 p.m.
Approval of Agenda Amended M/S/P
Approval of Minutes from 2/19/03 Amended M/S/P
Chair’s Report
· Chair Whetmore gave the results of the recent Senate Survey. Seventy percent of Senators read the electronic version of the agenda and minutes; 45% give regular reports to their departments; 60% are pleased with the existing Senate procedures; 77% said that the Senate gets too bogged down with trivial matters. Senator L. Smith will do a more thorough analysis of the survey.
· Whetmore asked that the Senate limit debates on second reading items to ten minutes. He wanted to just try it for this meeting. If a debate goes beyond ten minutes then the Senate votes to extend the time for another ten minutes.
· Mini budget item-Barbara Chrispin will be visiting us later to discuss the budget reduction process.
· James Lyle wrote Whetmore and asked that a policy on cell phone be drafted. Senator Malamud said that we don’t really need an official policy he just tells students to step outside. Senator Casten asks her students to put their phones on vibrate. Whetmore asked that Senators email him with further suggestions.
· Whetmore said that we are going to have parking stripes painted near Welch Hall.
· Whetmore said that there has been a new interest in bringing back the faculty lounge. It would be a nice place for faculty to hang out, talk, and drink coffee. Whetmore is requesting space through the University Space Committee. Please email Whetmore with any suggestions.
· Senator Jennings moved that all Second Reading Items be limited to ten minutes of debate per item. Senator Waller seconded it. Malamud was concerned that the Senate By-laws needed to be changed. Senator Vanterpool wanted to know when this item was discussed and said he disagreed with it. Whetmore said that it was discussed in the last Executive Meeting and was unanimously favored. There was a vote on the motion and 16 said yes, 3 said no, and 6 abstained. The motion carried.
Parliamentarian
· Parliamentarian Johnson conducted two elections: Election 1: Statewide Senator Replacement for Hal Charnofsky. One faculty member was nominated—Dick Williams. Williams was elected by acclamation.
· Election 2: Two Representatives for the Smoking Policy Committee. Two faculty members were nominated—Margaret Parker and Frances Lauerhass. Parker and Lauerhass were elected by acclamation.
Second Reading Items
· FPC 02-20 Outstanding Professor Award—Senator Goders noted that in item #5 the heading doesn’t match the paragraph and suggested changing the heading to read “Criteria for Nomination and Supporting Evidence” FPC Chair Christie took this as a friendly amendment. All were in favor. M/S/P.
· FPC 02-21 RTP Process—Senator Gould was not sure the document was ready and found some of it to be confusing. Vanterpool noted that the second paragraph should be separated out; however, Christie wanted two broad categories. ASI Representative Wood was concerned with the clerical language of the document and said that it needed to be edited. Goders general concern was that he found the simplified process to be quite complicated. The ten minutes were up and so the question was called to extend the debate another ten minutes and all were in favor.
Christie said that in terms of limiting faculty he did not understand. Malamud said that it needs to be more directly written and to take out items such as “for a year” etc. Part three—2 Year Appointments? Could we do that contractually? Malamud made a motion to remove chair review altogether. Waller seconded the motion. Senator McCarthy said that the department chair review is optional currently. Goders said that there is a long-standing assumption that the chair and department committee are best to review because of their expertise in the field. Acting Dean Dowling asked whether this document had been reviewed by Kent Porter and Ron Ambrosetti. He said that there were contractual problems in the whole document. McCarthy was in favor of having a department chair in the process because traditionally only the chair and the dean could provide information that is not already in the WPAF. That is why chairs like to write separate letters. McCarthy made strong plea to allow chairs to participate in process. The Senators voted on the amendment to remove the review of the chair from the document and it failed. The question was called to extend discussion another ten minutes and all were in favor. VP Walton wanted to know why the Provost review was left out of the document and wanted clarification. Christie said that it was an oversight. Whetmore said that the document would be taken back to FPC for further revisions, and he asked Senators to email any further suggestions.
· EXEC 03-07 Budget Negotiations and Principles--The revised copy was not included in the packets and the changes that were suggested are in the revised copy. As amended M/S/P.
· EXEC 03-08 Welch Hall Plaque--Dowling moved that the Senate accept the resolution for inscription on the plaque, which will be placed on Welch Hall. Senator Moscovici asked that in the title the words “To” and “During” be in lower case. As amended M/S/P.
First Reading Items
· EPC 03-02 Children On Campus—This came up for two reasons. Employees are bringing their kids to campus and students are bringing their kids to classes as well. This practice causes disruptions in the workday for employees, and it is disruptive and sometimes dangerous in classes. The University is liable if children are injured.
Casten wanted to know how students would be notified of this new policy. VP Bowman said that a PM would be issued, a newspaper article could be written, and it would be added to the student handbook. Senator Welch said that she supports the document but felt that it did not go far enough and thought that children should not accompany parents to their advising sessions or to drop off paperwork. Wood felt that this would be too severe and create a hardship for students with children. Linda MacAllister said that we are a public institution and could not make the policy too broad because we would not be able to enforce it. Mellblom said that we are not acknowledging our female students with children. She wanted to know what we could do to support students with children.
Senator Todd added her voice to rejecting this policy because it was mean and hostile. Linda MacAllister said that it’s not a banning of children on campus. It just helps if there is a problem—it is still up to instructors to allow children in their classes. Whetmore suggested that we invite whoever is in charge of the childcare center to speak at the next Senate meeting. Wood said that the childcare center could only accommodate 36 kids. Students voted down increasing fees for evening and weekend childcare hours. Bowman said that a new facility was coming, and that students have been putting their children in the game room in the LSU and that the children leave and end up wandering around on the campus unsupervised. Whetmore said that the document would go back to EPC for further revisions. Please email any suggestions to Edd Whetmore or George Jennings.
President’s Report
· The President spoke on the issue of terrorism and said that the University is on top of this issue. A document is being prepared which would look at different scenarios and how we would respond. We need your input and thought on some of these things. We might want to encourage students, faculty and staff to prepare an emergency kit.
TC: 4:00 p.m. Provost Report
· The Provost noted that Academic Affairs PEC is meeting and hearing the reduction plans. The Deans will complete their submissions next week then the PEC’s will write their reports.
· We are now in round two of the Space Allocation process. An inventory of space is available from Lane Koulevek and the former Playbox Theater has not been assigned to any department yet.
· The Center for Teaching and Learning will have a guest speaker on Friday--Alexander Astin. Please attend if you can.
· Academic Technology—There were consultants here last Friday and the purpose was to determine what faculty projects are underway to utilize academic technology and to assess any technology needs.
· There is a workload study of all the CSU Campuses, which will be on reserve in the Library if faculty would like to review and make comparisons. This study also includes universities from around the country.
ADT Naming Rights
· VP Pardon said that the estimated cost of the velodrome has been driven up from 1 million to 10 million dollars in order to put on a roof and a wooden track, to meet Olympic Committee standards. ADT would like naming rights. Gould wondered how ADT comes into it. The first paragraph of the letter says nothing about ADT. Goders said that we had a velodrome displaced and we thought it belonged to us. MacAllister said that it does belong to us and they are financing it. In the past the velodrome was bankrupting the Foundation. We wanted out of the original proposal because it’s an economic drain. MacAllister said that ADT started out as a telegraph company in 1874. Whetmore said the issue came to us on the eve of the last Trustee meeting and the Executive Committee voted to pull it off of the Trustees agenda until it could be brought to the Senate for discussion. Dean Williams was nervous about the language “real net” Pardon reminded everyone that this document only addresses the naming issue.
Budget Process
· Barbara Chrispin—By March 24 the VPs with appropriate consultation at all levels will develop a net reduction plan of 1-7% for review by the PECs. PECs make recommendations (provide feedback) to VPs and submit a final report to UBC. VPs finalize NRPs and submit to UBC. By April 4, UBC receives and reviews PEC and VP written reports. During the week of April 7 through 11 UBC will hold open hearings for all University divisions; from April 14 through 23 UBC will deliberate and make a final recommendation to the President.
Reports
· ECLP— L. Smith asked Senators to read the report in their packets and to please send him any questions. He said that if faculty have students that are having problems with their writing skills to please send them to CLASS.
· Statewide Senate—Vanterpool said that there have been no meetings since the last Senate meeting and so there is no report. He wanted to remind Senators to elect a good representative for the campus Statewide Senator.
Open Forum
· Goders said he was having a difficult time understanding private businesses on state land and suggested inviting VP Pardon back regarding the comprehensive agreement. Whetmore said that the Senate should have Home Depot come before the Senate and discuss their version of the events.
Meeting Adjourned at 5:00 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted By
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Mary E. Brooks Edd Whetmore, Chair
Chair’s Assistant