August 31, 2001
UNAPPROVED Faculty Senate Meeting
Minutes
I. CALL TO ORDER AND
ESTABLISH QUORUM:
George
Alsbach, Ric Baugher, David Bessinger, Kathy Brooks, Nancy Buddy-Penner,
Stephen Burgess, Les Crall, Tommye Davis, Sylvia Esjornson, Elizabeth Ferrell,
Cynthia Foust, Mark Gales, Jeff Gentry, John Hayden, Faye Henson, David
Hertzel, Robin Jones, Debbie Keasler, David Lawrence, Kelley Logan, Don McGurk,
Steven O’Neal, Gus Ortega, Nelson Perkins, Shelly Prince, Stan Robertson, Ken
Rose, James South, Richard C. Henriksen, Jr., Ben Welch, and Andrea Ward
(Student Senate Representative).
II. CERTIFICATION OF
SUBSTITUTES:
Richard
C. Henriksen, Jr. for Ronna Vanderslice
III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The July 27, 2001 minutes were approved with
no corrections.
IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS
A. FS President: Les Crall
1. Inauguration
Ceremony for President John Hays will be held on December 5, 2001 at 3 pm in
the Fine Arts Auditorium. Vicki Hatton
is chairing the Inauguration Committee.
Faculty is encouraged to attend.
Reception following. Faculty may
order regalia for this event from Follett's Bookstore and may keep the regalia
through the May commencement exercises.
2. Dr.
Crall clarified several items discussed in the COD meetings:
a. Leave sharing
policy --COD made some changes related to limits, however they approved most of
the changes offered by Faculty Senate.
Policy will be posted on the web when approved by President Hays.
b. Grievance
policy-COD have taken this under advisement again. They are discussing the current document proposed by Faculty
Senate as well as examining what other universities are doing.
c. There is a Legal
Issues in Higher Education conference at Norman October 3 & 4 that the
administration and faculty are encouraged to attend.
d. Dr. Crall
presented President Hays's proposal enabling retiring faculty to receive
benefits earlier. (Handout 1)
e. Dr. Crall
presented the handout #2 of Examination of Retirement Benefits and
Solicitations for improvements. (Handout 2)
f. Dr. Crall
announced gleanings from meeting with Provost Becker, John Hayden, & Faye
Henson
· University of Oklahoma School of Health Sciences is
offering a BS degree in Dental Hygiene via electronic delivery. Murray State College has new certificate
programs in Medical Office Transcriptionist and Medical Office Coding.
·
Northeastern
Oklahoma A & M College is offering an Associate of Art in Early Childhood
Education.
·
SWOSU
has suspended two certificate programs in Applied Science in Medical Assistant
and Medical Technology.
3. AAUP-Dr. Jill Jones, SWOSU Chapter President
· announced a conference in October in Washington DC
at Howard University.
· Offered a journal article to faculty to read
entitled “Good Practice in Tenure Evaluation”.
Les had copy for interested faculty to read.
· Announced the need for faculty co-sponsors to Alpha
Phi Omega, a new service fraternity.
Contact Dr. Jill Jones of your interest.
B. Secretary/Treasurer: Cindy Foust
1. Roll Sheet-circulated.
2. Treasurer’s Report: A
deposit of $715.00 was made to Banc First, Faculty Senate checking account from
the faculty senate dues. This brings
the total of this account to $1573.04.
In the University account there is $ 647.28. No expenditures were made.
Discussion focused that the dues collected was less than 2000-2001,
approximately $100.00.
C. President
Elect: John Hayden
1. HEACO status-The application forms will be distributed in
September.
D. Student
Government Representative: Andrea Ward
September 4& 5 is the
SGA officer elections.
Also that week the Council
of Organizational Presidents will meet.
September 17 & 18, first
blood drive, located in the Ballroom.
Leadership Retreat is Sept
28.
Dr. Bellows, Hypnotist, is
scheduled for the Panorama event in October.
V. Old Business
A. FS to meet at Sayre (Tabled from July meeting, suggested
date March 29).
Faculty Senate selected December 14 to hold the
Faculty Senate meeting at Sayre. This
will be held via interactive video also from the School of Education for those
Faculty Senators who have other university responsibilities.
B. NCA Final Report is on the web.
C. Faculty Senate Web page. Thanks to Chip Diffendaffer who
continues to do a wonderful job. Chip
will be contacted to correct the membership on the web page. The Senate also requested that inactive
links be added with current minutes as available, along with the meeting dates.
VI. New Business
A. Election of School of Business representative to University
Computer/Telecommunications Advisory Committee (see Faculty Handbook pages 24
& 25). Denise Hamburger will
complete the one-year unexpired term of Max White.
B. Changes to Promotion and Tenure timeline (see
Faculty Handbook page 61)
The following motion was made and seconded:
FS Motion 2001-08-01
Dept. Committee: Completes feedback to candidates and forwards files and recommendations to the Department
Chair by December 10th.
Chair:
Completes feedback to candidates and forwards files and recommendations
to the Dean by end of the Fall semester.
Dean: Completes feedback to
candidates and forwards files and recommendations to UPTRC by 3rd week of January.
Motion passed.
C.
Selection
of University Promotion Tenure Review and Appeals Committee members. (Deadline
for selection is 3rd Friday of September)
·
Ric
Baugher is the contact person for School of A & S for member selection.
D.
Traffic
Appeals Committee—David Hertzel has been selected to represent the faculty on
this three-person committee.
E.
A
faculty senator raised an issue related to the process of delivery tenure and
promotion committee decisions.
FS Motion 2001-08-02
A motion was made and seconded to send this
to Personnel Policies Committee for review.
The committee is to consider how the candidate is to be contacted. This committee will also review the
timeline. Discussion included whether
the candidate needed to submit the T & P documents earlier.
The motion passed.
F.
University
Policies Committee is to consider Handout # 2—Retirement benefits.
G.
University
Policies Committee will examine adjunct personnel employment issues.
FS Motion 2001-08-03
H.
A
motion was made and seconded to purchase another brick ($50) with “Faculty
Senate—2001-2002” printed.
This motion passed.
Meeting adjourned at 2:53 pm.
Next
Faculty Senate meeting: September 28,
2001 STF 104 2:00 p.m.
_________________________ _________________________
Les Crall, Cynthia Foust,
Faculty Senate President Secretary/Treasurer
Quote
of the Month: “People you aren’t
related to can take care of you, and love you, and teach you to trust people
again. Families are not always
biological.”
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