LCSC Faculty Senate
March 4, 2004
Minutes

I.                    Call to Order: At 4:08PM, The Chair, Kathie Wilcox announced that quorum not being attained, reports would be heard, but that there would be no actions for vote.

Present:  Lynne Bidwell, David McCullough, Scott Brainard, Leanne Parker, Clay Robinson, Jason Blazzard, Verna Studer, Susan Odom, Chris Riggs, Alan Marshall, Mike Vernon, Heather Rogers, Arnold Caines, Linda Coursey, Diane Johnson, Provost Dr. Tony Fernandez

Absent:  Larry Haapanen, Jim Tarter, Okey Goode, Anita Darrington, Wayne Carroll, Gary Mayton, Marilyn Heckendorn, Victor White, Gene Straughan, Bill Clouser, Eric Martin, Jeff Matthews, Ed Miller, Tom Urquhart, Robbie Reno

II.                 Introduction of Visitors: Interim Academic Dean, Richard Moore

III.               Approval of Minutes of Feb. 19, 2004: Quorum not being attained, the vote to approve the minutes was tabled until the next meeting.

IV.              Chair’s Report

A.      Treasury Report:  The balance in the allocated account is $773.19.  The balance in the service account is $3271.47.  The amount in the benevolence account is $515.00.

B.       President’s Council

·        Native American Awareness week is sponsoring a banquet next week.  The banquet will take place at the Williams Conference Center on Thursday, March 11 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.  A place can be reserved by calling Bob Sobotta.

·        State Board of Education meets next week.  President Thomas plans to request the full increase in tuition to 9.5% if the Senate does not vote for the full 2% salary increase for higher education employees.

·        On May 7 at 4:00PM, the Coeur D’Alene campus will hold a graduation ceremony for its 90 graduates. March 9^th is the date to pick up gowns at the bookstore for graduation.

·        Students must apply for graduation if they plan to graduate in spring ‘05.  Those applications should have been submitted already this semester.

V.                 Provost’s Report: At the State Board, LCSC will ask permission to change the fee rate for the summer sessions for the PACE students only.

VI.              Old Business

A.  Forgiveness Policy:  The policy as approved at the last meeting has been sent forward to Provost’s office.

VII.            New Business:

A.     The phone in the faculty lounge at the SUB:  Until now the SUB has picked up the cost for the phone at a cost of $5/mo.  As there is a cost increase, the Senate has been asked to pick up the cost of the phone. Since the phone is used very infrequently, the Chair would like the Senate to consider removing the phone.

B.      Next week, Dr. Marcus Harvey, Assoc. Secretary of the West Coast AAUP, is visiting Idaho campuses, and he'll meet with LCSC faculty on Tuesday, March 9th from noon-2: 30 at Antonio's ("Dutch" lunch) in downtown Lewiston.  All faculty - both members and non-members - are invited to attend to discuss "...ways in which we might strengthen the faculty's hand at the institution and within the state.  It isn't necessary to stay for the entire period.  Senators were asked to email the members of their divisions and pass this announcement and invitation to them.

C.     Interim Academic Dean, Richard Moore:  International Program Development: LCSC would like to reenergize international programs on campus.  Currently LCSC has: 1) An interdisciplinary program between the Business Division and the Social Science Division 2) The Intensive English Institute 3) An agreement with International Study Abroad, Inc. to support our students in Latin America and a few European locations 4) An affiliation with the N.W. Canadian Studies Consortium 5) An affiliation with the N.W. International Education Association. 6) Individual faculty members have taken personal responsibility to seek Fulbright fellowships, to organize foreign study groups, or to do research abroad on their own.

The Dean would like to organize a more systematic approach to international studies with the organization of a small exploratory faculty committee of three to four people to address this issue.

·        For example: Do we need overseas sister institutions? Why? Where? Which?

·        Do we need a semester abroad program?

·        Do we need faculty and student exchange programs?

·        Who should handle international advising and who trains the advisors?

·        How much can we spend?  How much should we spend?  How would this fit in existing curricula and programs?

VIII.         Standing Committee Reports

A.     Administrative Procedures – Patricia Keith, no report

B.      Budget Liaison – Kathie Wilcox The Budget Liaison Committee brought recommendations for Senate approval before taking them to the President and the Compensation Review Committee.  There was considerable debate over these items, which were not voted on due to the lack of a quorum.    Senators were asked to recommend any modifications to their division's BLC representative as soon as possible so that an amended version can be voted on at the next Senate meeting on April 1st. (see attachment)

C.     Curriculum – Mike Vernon  The Curriculum committee report will be presented at the next meeting since no vote could be taken without quorum.

D.     Faculty Affairs – Jeff Matthews no report

E.      Faculty Development – Susan Odom  The second round of Faculty Development grant proposals are due March 26 and must be completed by June 15 or have the receipts available by June 15.  Applications for faculty development are available online.

F.      Student Affairs – Wayne Carroll  no report

G.     Technology Advisory – Gary Mayton no report

IX.              Other:  The Chair requests that Faculty consider a letter writing campaign that would include letters to members of the legislature, to Joe Stegner, and/or letters to the editor.

X.                 Adjournment:  The meeting was adjourned at 5:07PM.

Respectfully submitted

Linda Coursey, Secretary