Executive Senate: Minutes for All Senate Meeting 02/07/14

Members present: Yoshiko Fukushima, Lincoln Gotshalk, Mazan Hamad, Jean Ippolito, Faith Mishina, YuchengQuin, Janet Ray. Absent: Becky Ostertag and Tracy Wiegner because of the Epscor Conference. Johann Kuipers, the student representative was not present.

The corrected minutes were approved for the Executive Senate Meeting on 01/24/14.

Old Business:

  • The CRC will meet following this meeting to decide how to stagger continuity of its members.
  • The APC has not submitted an official assessment on their membership yet.

Motions formerly forwarded to Congress passed: a reiteration

  • Nursing students will be eligible for the Dean’s List
  • The Sabbatical Tracking System will be implemented

Motions passed in this meeting:

  • Articulation of at least three issues in the distinction between on-line labs and face-to-face labs:

1) On-line courses being accepted from other schools have no designation that distinguishes between the two types of labs. There is no way of knowing whether the student has had a face-to-face lab with the training so critical to safety.

2) The refusal to accept on-line labs is dependent on the first issue.

3) There exists a third complication: the existence of hybrid courses that are partially on-line and partially in a physical lab.

There needs to be a discussion with colleagues on an intercampus basis. The complications are such that a motion was presented and passed by the 7 members present to send Bill Mauer’sMemorandum to Congress and their APC.

  • Discussion of the CAS Tenure and Promotion revision elicited one small correction to the

designation “doctorate” was expanded to clearly add “or a terminal degree” as certaindisciplines’ terminal degree is not a doctorate.

A motion was suggested and passed by all 7 members present to send out the CAS

Tenure and Promotion document to all CAS faculty by email to elicit participation by the all Senate Faculty in the finalization of this document. If there is not a 51% quorum as a result of the participation, the Executive Senate will then finalize the amendments to this document. A thank-you will be included for those outside of the Executive Senate who have contributed to the discussion.

  • The proposal that Directed Studies be recognized as service and permitted credit hours for professorial pay was discussed. In outside universities, graduate courses, research and mentoring of thesis garner credit towards pay: six individual studies and/or thesis mentoring credits would be the equivalent to a three hour course for the professor. Discussion about undergraduate credit was lively given the acute problem of canceled courses that students need for graduation.

There was a motion that this also be passed to Congress. It was approved by all present.

  • After discussion of the CAS Charter and the definitions of quorum, it was decided that the statement that the All Senate Body needed 51% of the vote and that Executive Senate required a two thirds vote stood.

New Business:

  • There was a question on the practice of conducting three All-Senate forums every semester. The democratic nature of the practice is considered very good; however, due to faculty’s very busy schedules, the preponderance of meetings throughout February and the Epscor Conference, there were no faculty present outside of the Executive Senate members. It was suggested that the March All Senate meeting be canceled. Mazen made the excellent suggestion that the All Senate meetings should happen only when there are gripping issues or very important speakers.