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Minutes 12-12-02

Lewis-Clark State College
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes
Dec. 12, 2002
SUB 143

Present: Chris Riggs, Marilyn Levine for Alan Marshall and Dave Thiessen, Social Sciences; Matt Brady and Tris Utschig, Natural Sciences; Cheryl Dunlop, Kim Flottemesch, and Tom Mayburry, OBT; David McCullough and John Dunn, T & I; Jim Tarter and Kathie Wilcox, Humanities; Leanne Parker , Education; Sheila Watkins, Nursing; Lynne Bidwell, Library; Ryan Gill, Registrar; Betsy Cowin and Melinda Van Horn, ASLCSC Senate; Rita Rice Morris, Administration; and Richard Moore, Chair.

Guests: Gene Straughan, SS, Ray Miller, SS, Lynn Mathers, OBT, and Sandy Allen, proxy for ?

Absent: Eric Cummings, T & I; Larry Haapanen and Okey Goode, Humanities; Mary Lou Robinson, Nursing; Mike Vernon, Natural Sciences; Wayne Carroll and Clay Robinson, Education; and Chuck King, Business

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: Minutes were discussed and corrected to reflect that Shaomin Huang has been attending as the proxy for Alan Marshall, and is not a Senator and that the faculty development report should not say “due to reduced funding”. Also it should be amended to note that the faculty association does pay the faculty costs for attending the legislative luncheon in Boise. With the amendments, the minutes were approved. Kathie Wilcox encouraged all Senators to go to the legislative luncheon as we had the largest faculty group there last year and it had a positive impact on the legislators. The details of the trip were reviewed.

4. Old Business: The faculty reactions to midterm grades basically were that no one objected to having midterm grades for faculty who want to do them but not to require midterm grades for all courses. Richard still wants to get input from faculty on how we feel about the online SRIs and how we can get more students to do them. Without a good response rate there is obviously concern about bias.

5. New Business:

a. Faculty Association Treasury Report: Account balance is about $ 3,100. New people are contributing to the treasury, and Richard thanks everyone for their contributions.

b. Richard gave out two handouts for review with our divisions that would revise the constitution and bring the Sabbatical process into the Constitution. Since changing the Constitution is a Faculty Association issue, it will be brought up at the Dec. 19 meeting. Richard asked us to review the handouts with our divisions prior to the Dec. 19 meeting. The sabbatical reviews could be assigned to the Faculty Development Committee in the revised Constitution.

c. Reports:

Administrative Procedures – Kathie Wilcox read the report submitted by Mary Lou Robinson, chair of the committee. There was some discussion of the report and the idea of separating tenure and promotion. It was moved to accept the report - MSC
Budget Liaison – no report.
Curriculum – Larry’s report was read to the committee by Richard. It was voted down with four in favor and 11 opposed. Then it was moved to accept the report except the BASAT which needs further clarification, the Senate feels. MSC The Senate then further stated the Curriculum Committee needs to identify the specific courses resulting in the awarding of the BASAT degree.
Faculty Affairs – written report presented and Faculty Affais and Administrative Procedures sub-committee met and drafted response about LCSC and State Board of Education Financial Exigency Policies. It was moved to accept the main report of the committee, but the attachment, or sub-committee report as the Senate had not had sufficient time to review that. The main report was accepted. MSC
Faculty Development – the committee has agreed to take on the revision of the sabbatical policies and to make future recommendations about sabbaticals. No other report at this time.
Provost – First Richard and the Senators congratulated Rita on her new appointment to be the President of Shawnee State College. We will miss her, and wish her well in her new job when she leaves next summer. Rita said the college has started the process of searching for the two deans with interims currently and for a new Provost. They are considering pricing sporting events for faculty. There are some conditions for degree completion that are out of compliance with national standards so she will discuss this with Richard and have him get an Ad Hoc committee together to review this issue. The Board of Education is considering fee indexing in which they would review peer institutions for fee increases and increase our fees a similar amount, but they made no decisions regarding going to this system. They want an objective way to decide how much to raise fees, yet they want to be independent in decision making, too.
Student Affairs – no report.
Technology – no report.

Good of the Order: Next meeting will be Jan. 16.

Adjournment: Meeting was adjourned at 5:00 by Richard Moore, Chair.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Sheila Watkins, Secretary

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