Faculty Senate Archives
Minutes 4-24-03

Lewis-Clark State College
Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes
April 24, 2003
SUB 143

New Business: 

1. Chet Herbst reported that the NASC visitor had given us a very positive verbal exit report and that we were still awaiting the written report.  We had made excellent progress and were in great shape on the role and mission, strategic planning, and advising areas, and had improved on assessment and were told to keep up the growing work in the assessment area.  We will need to do our five year report on all areas of the NASC next year so it will be a busy year preparing for the fall 2004 visit.  Chet is getting good evaluator training on assessment to share with the new Provost and with the faculty and the campus community for new processes for us to use next year. 

Chet also shared with the Senate that the Division Chairs decided at their last meeting that they wanted to try to get 100% response rates on SRIs so the IT people have the tracking in place to report which students do not complete SRIs.  The faculty have requested a mechanism to evaluate administrators and Chet and Human Resources have developed a tool to allow the faculty to do so.  The tool is similar to the employee rating tool and the Faculty Affairs Committee is approving the first draft of the tool at this time and will bring it to the Senate in the fall.  If the tool is approved it will be used next year for faculty to evaluate their Chain of Command.

2. Faculty Association treasury payroll deduction account has $2,672.63 as of April 1.  The appropriated operating account is rapidly declining with one more Board meeting to attend.
    
3. We are in the process of interviewing our three candidates for Provost.  The last chance for faculty to meet with Tony Hernandez is today at 4:00 and Senators who have not met him were encouraged to go meet with him then.  Mary Ellen Fleeger will be on campus April 30 and May 1.
    
4. The next Faculty Association meeting will be at 3:15 on May 8 for the purposes of electing officers (Chair Elect and Secretary, Promotion and Tenure Review Committee Chair and Administrative Procedures Committee Chair) and approving the graduation list.  The graduation list is on the Pathfinder.
    
5. The Senators were reminded of the Community Programs Dean Search which is in progress, and some stated they had seen Kathy Martin’s presentation and thought it was excellent.  The presentations of the Deans and Provosts are taped and the tapes are available in the Library.  The Professional Technical Dean candidate information will be available on the Web soon.

Old Business:

Reports:

1. Faculty Development Committee-  the committee submitted the draft of the sabbatical policy for its second reading and it was moved and seconded to approve the report, and the motion carried.
    
2. Budget Liaison – no report.
    
3. Curriculum – The Curriculum Committee report was approved, thus approving A03-092a.
    
4. Administrative Procedures- Policy revisions as above.  No other report.
    
5. Faculty Affairs – no report
    
6. Provost – Rita Morris further reported on the NASC visit, and stated that the written report had not yet been received.  She stated that the new Provost will be busy getting the next report ready for the next NASC visit.  She reported that the State Board of Education had approved the 9.7% increase in student fees for next year.  She requested the Senate provide the President with input regarding Midterm grades – should we give Midterm grades to all students, or those with 25 credits or less or those with 57 credits or less.  Discussion followed, and the Senate agreed we wanted to help the students with 25 credits or less however that would be easiest.  It seemed easiest to give midterm grades to all 100 and 200 level classes except practicums, 190 and 290 classes, and mostly to 3 credit or greater than 3 credit classes.
    
7. Student Affairs – No report.
    
8. Technology –  Senators expressed concerns about the suspension of pre-registration and Warrior Web from 3 PM on April 30 until May 5 for the Datatel update.  It was explained how those dates were chosen and why.  Senators hope that IT can schedule the Technology committee meetings when the Technology faculty members can attend so that the faculty can be better represented next year.  

Good of the Order:  The language on the Lecturers contract has been improved.  Also, if the lecturer will not be rehired, there will be 60 days notice.  The Faculty Affairs committee thanked the Administration for working with them on the Lecturer contract improvements. There was a discussion about our not having an easy process to declare a double major, so if a student wants to graduate with two majors, the student needs to not complete one major before completing the second major, also.  If one major is completed the student will have to graduate, so be sure to hold one course out until both majors are complete. 

Meeting adjourned at  5PM  by Richard Moore, Chair

Minutes submitted by Sheila Watkins, Secretary