Faculty Senate Archives
Minutes 1-16-03

Lewis-Clark State College
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes
Jan. 16, 2003
SUB 143

Present:  Chris Riggs, Social Sciences;  Matt Brady, Mike Vernon, and Tris Utschig, Natural Sciences; Cheryl Dunlop, Kim Flottemesch, and Lori McCann (replacing Tom Mayburry) OBT; David McCullough and Eric Cummings, T & I; Jim Tarter, Larry Haapanen, Okey Goode, Humanities; Leanne Parker , Wayne Carroll, and Clay Robinson, Education; Sheila Watkins , Mary Lou Robinson, Nursing; Chuck King, Business; Lynne Bidwell, Library;  Diane Johnson, Registrar; Betsy Cowin and Melinda Van Horn, ASLCSC Senate;  and Richard Moore, Chair.

Guests:  Lynn Mathers

Absent:  Alan Marshall, Dave Thiessen, Social Sciences;John Dunn, T & I; Kathie Wilcox, Humanities; Michele Darcy’Evans, Nursing;  Rita Rice Morris, Administration;

1.  Call to Order:  Meeting was called to order at 3:15 by Dr. Richard Moore, Chair. 

2.  Introduction of Visitors:  There were no visitors to be introduced at this time.

3.  Approval of Minutes:  Tabled approval of Dec. 12 minutes

4.  Old Business:  1)  The Senate meeting schedule for the spring semester was passed out.  2)  Diane Johnson needs a copy of the Curriculum Committee report from Dec. 12 with the actual #’s of the proposals that were approved since the minutes do not reflect the numbers.  Richard will get her a copy of the report.  3)  There was further discussion of the BAS/BAT degree which was discussed on Dec. 12.  It was moved and seconded to reduce the number of credits for degree completion from 134 to 128 credits.  The motion carried.  MSC  T03-001A and T03-002A approved.   4)  Dean Froehlich has had some complications, but is stable again and sends his thanks for all our well wishes.  5)  Betsy Van Clief was duly elected as Standing Chair of the Tenure Committee at the Faculty Association meeting Dec. 19 in lieu of Tom Urquhart, who had to resign the committee for health reasons.  6)  The Promotion and Tenure and faculty evaluation deadlines for this year were handed out.

5.  New Business: 
Richard announced that anyone interested should inform Kathie Wilcox, who is on the Search committee for the new Provost, if your Division has any particular traits they are interested in seeing a new Provost possess.

a.   Faculty Association Treasury Report:  Account balance is about $1200 less than before, since that amount was spent for the Boise legislative trip.  Wayne Carroll and KenWareham, Education; Chris Riggs, Social Sciences; Gerry Ramey, Business; Victor Kriss, Natural Science; Patty Leonard, Classified Staff; Harold Crook, Humanities; and Richard Moore, Chair went from LCSC.  They met with about 80 legislators at lunch, and encouraged them to make no further cuts to education and reminded them that education is important for building a healthy economy in Idaho.  The governor gave a talk and encourages support of his sales tax increase.  There were about 30 faculty altogether there from the various institutions, and once again LCSC had one of the largest representations.  We need to continue to send a good size group.  Moore recommended that in the future, we should always have at least one professional technical and one nursing representative for the event.  Some members of the State Board of Education attended the lunch, also.  The lunch was upbeat and successful.  We spent about $500 on lodging and about $600 on the luncheon.  The rest of the money went to the van and per diems.   

b.   Reports:                                                    

• Administrative Procedures – no report
   
• Budget Liaison – no report
   
• Curriculum – the written report was accepted as written, thus the following curriculum committee proposals were approved:  T03-003b, T03-004a, T03-005a, T03-006a, T03-007a,T03-008b,T03-009b, T03-010b, T03011a, T03-012a, T03-013a, T03-014a, T03-015a, T03-016a,T03-017a,T03-018a, T03-019a, T03-020a, T03-021a, T03-022a, T03-023a, T03-024a, T03-025a, T03-026a, A03-51a, A03-052a, and A03-053a.
   
• Faculty Affairs – Kathie Wilcox wants guidelines from AAUP and to identify what the other colleges in ID are doing with the exigency policy from the State Board of Education and how it compares with the ones their institution’s had prior to and after the Board’s.  Kathy has our former policy and will compare it also to the State’s.  She wants to see how the various policies meet the AAUP standards for handling exigency.  The Senate moved to have the Faculty Affairs committee conduct the statewide investigation comparing exigency policies to AAUP standards.  MSC
   
• Faculty Development – the committee decided to award $750 per grant this spring.  A written report was submitted and accepted as written.
   
• Provost – no report
   
• Student Affairs – no report.
   
• Technology – no report. 

Good of the Order:    1)  Discussion about SRI’s:  some faculty had good return rates and good results, some did not.  Some faculty shared concerns about having to bribe students to do SRI’s.  2)  Barbara Kramer is investigating concerns about decreasing health benefits.     

Adjournment:  Meeting was adjourned at 4:35 by Richard Moore, Chair.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Sheila Watkins, Secretary

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