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Faculty Senate
Thursday,
October 11, 2007
SUB 143
Minutes
I. Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 3:17 p.m. by
the Chair.
Present: Susan Odom, Brian Christenson, Debbie
Goodwin, Barbara Barnes, Rik Brosten,
Wayne Carroll, Mike Collins, Linda Coursey, Joe Curd,
Diane Douglas, Randy Eriksen,
Kathleen Grussing, Rachel Jameton, Brian Kolstad, Debbie
Lemon, Dave McCullough,
Joni Dickinson Mina, Joe Pergola, Chris Riggs, Mark
Sanders, Tom Urquhart
Absent: Tony Fernandez, Scott Brainard, Rhonda
Combs, Tim Doty, Tracy Flynn,
Alan Marshall, Nan Miguel, Leanne Parker, Holly
Patterson-McNeill, Brianna Reid
Visitors: Andy Hanson, Debra Lybyer, Jacob
Hornby
II. Approval of Minutes
Minutes from the September 27, 2007, Senate meeting were
approved with insertion
of section IX. Registrar (in-service,
advising, and honors).
III. Provost’s Report
None.
IV. Treasury Report
Faculty Senate Appropriated Account:
$2,460.83
Faculty Association
Account: $3,932.08
Faculty Benevolence
Account: $3,057.90
V. Chair’s Report
1.
President’s Council:
1) handed out LCSC facts brochure; 2) handed out
information
regarding students from Idaho, who are first-time
college attendees, going out of
state for their first year; 3) handed out changes to the
instructional calendar
2.
SBOE:
at LCSC today; may not be tomorrow.
3.
Archiving:
former versions of the Constitution and policies and
procedures need
to be archived in the library for historical purposes.
4.
Student email:
vendors are being assessed regarding the student email
system.
The current vendor will present tomorrow for those
interested in attending in
ADM 203 at 3 p.m.
VI. Ongoing Business
Constitution update:
Each committee is being asked to look at its section for
current,
consistent information. Committee chairs will submit
changes to the Faculty Senate
Chair, who will forward them to the Administrative
Procedures Committee. These will
eventually be sent to the SBOE for approval.
VII.
New Business
1.
Senate meetings:
Pace and format were discussed. Suggestion: have
committees
report and hold off on actionable items until the very
end of all reports. Concern:
how much information one can retain before voting?
Suggestion: limit time for
feedback. Concern: more complex issues cannot always
be addressed in ten minutes.
Other suggestions: maybe agenda should indicate sub
topics as to what committees
will be discussing; maybe take committees out of order
based on what they have to
discuss, vote on, etc.; let Faculty Senate Chair know
ahead of time regarding more
in-depth topics for discussion and vote. Also, let the
Chair know of any other items
for Senate consideration.
2.
Guiding principles:
Think on whether having some guiding principles for
faculty
senators is worth it for LCSC and let the Chair know.
If pursued, it will likely go
to Faculty Affairs.
VIII. Standing Committees
A.
Administrative Procedures (Leanne Parker) – Has not met since the last meeting.
B.
Budget Liaison (Susan Odom) – Will meet next Thursday for first time before Faculty
Affairs meets. Will talk about potential CEC change of
4-5% in compensation.
CRC
– Has been charged to look at last year’s documents and
identify where to go
from those.
FARGs
– Have not met yet.
C.
Curriculum (Chris Riggs) – Approved curriculum
changes (see attached).
D.
Faculty Affairs (Brian Christenson) – Met October
8. Report was approved with
one abstention (see attached).
E.
Faculty Development (Alan Marshal) – Brian
Christenson provided an update.
Decisions have been made regarding faculty development
requests and letters
are forthcoming.
F.
General Education (Chris Riggs reporting for Eric
Martin) – Sponsored the first
Thinking Through Lunch on service learning at which
there was good discussion
about pros and cons. Another Thinking Through Lunch
session will be on
November 8 regarding advising issues.
G.
Student Affairs (Rachel Jameton) – Has not met
since the last meeting.
H.
Technology Advisor (Susan Odom reported for Holly
Patterson-McNeill) – Approved
report. Faculty opinion is being solicited about
email/classroom management
tools. Webinar Series to observe presentations by email
providers is open to
campus: October 12, CampusCruiser (LC WarriorMail);
October 19, Windows
Live@Edu; Ocotber 26, Google Apps. The online Faculty
Survey for classroom
management tool use is now available until November 1
(http://www.lcsc.edu/it/facultysurvey.asp).
Encourage faculty to complete.
IX. Guests
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First-year experience:
There is a first-year experience program at LCSC via
the “Promoting Student Success Through Technology”
grant. Accomplishments
include some advising documents and definition
around at-risk students and providing
them with everything they need to know to be
successful. There have also been
STAR changes. Revamped freshman seminars (SD 100);
want to weave it through
other programs on campus. Faculty members are
encouraged to have students call
Student Services if they are failing or at risk.
Those students who are suspended
have to meet with Student Services before being
readmitted. Student Services
will be calling first-year students who receive a
“D” or an “F” at midterm. Hope to
establish a peer mentoring program. Wants a full
menu of freshman seminars to be
available. Need a good profile (statistical
definition) of who are at-risk students.
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Orientation:
Wants to see new student orientation be a
requirement for all new
degree-seeking students. Wants Faculty Senate to
give Student Services charge
to develop this required orientation program and
then work with standing committees
to make this happen. This was moved, seconded, and
approved.
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Code of Conduct:
(can be found online and is linked to new Student
Handbook
under Student Life.) The Code of Conduct is
separate from the Student Handbook.
It needs to be updated (modernized to reflect the
campus as it is now and current
technologies). Faculty members are being asked to
take a look at the Code, share
with colleagues, and identify where it needs to be
revised by November 8. Formal
feedback will be through Student Affairs Committee.
X. Other/Good of the Order
Library awarded Library Website of the Month.
Higher Education Week starts January 14 in Boise.
Midterm grades are due October 26.
Communications Board needs a new faculty rep from
Humanities. Joe Pergola will
check with Kathie Wilcox (last year’s rep) regarding
what is involved and ask others
from the Division whether they are interested. Need
someone who is supportive.
There is a once-a-month Friday meeting at noon.
Faculty Association meeting is October 18 at 3:15 p.m.
in the WCC.
Next Senate meeting is November 1 at 3:15 p.m. in SUB
143.
XI. Adjournment
Meeting adjourned at 4:53 p.m. by the Chair.
Curriculum Report to Senate
Oct
11, 2007
The Curriculum Committee has approved the following
proposals. Core changes in bold font.
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Course Impacted |
Explanation |
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T&I |
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T07-10 |
DSLTC 250 Deleted |
DSLTC 250 no longer taught |
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Report to the Senate from the Faculty Affairs Committee:
October 11, 2007
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Faculty Affairs has met twice to date on 9-10 & 10-8
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SCE Initiative: Task force has been created and two
FA members have been appointed,
who will report back to FA in November. The members
are Craig Steenberg and
Lynne Bidwell.
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Student Plagiarism: Recommendations have been made
pertaining to a change in the
student code of conduct, software, and current
policy. The following motions carried
unanimously by the FA committee.
(1)
“The Faculty Affairs Committee recommends that
the current language in the
Student Code of Conduct remain with the addition of, “In
the event that a
student is found guilty of plagiarism as defined by the
Student Code of
Conduct, and disciplinary action has been taken by the
faculty, the student’s
infraction will be reported to the Judicial Affairs
Office, and documented.”
(2)
“The Faculty Affairs Committee does not support
the purchase of plagiarism
detection software at this time. The use of world wide
web resources has
proven to be an effective method of plagiarism
detection.”
(3)
“The Faculty Affairs Committee recommends that a
standard plagiarism and
academic honesty educational component be required by
all new students
within one semester of their first academic term. The
current online modules
developed by Barbara Barnes is being considered as a
proposal at this time.
Brian Christenson will be meeting with Distance Learning
to discuss testing
options as not to add workload to Library Services due
to the current testing
options only being available through Blackboard.”
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Tenure for PTE Faculty. Divisional stakeholders are
having discussion on the issue
at this time and will report back to FA via their FA
representatives.
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Stipends for directed study. The following motion
carried unanimously by the FA
committee: “The Faculty Affairs Committee recommends
that compensation decisions
related to directed study be handled equitably at
the discretion of individual Divisions.”
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Faculty workload. Dean Christine Pharr will be
providing a FW report for review by
the end of the FA07 semester. FA will review the
document and begin to address
FW issues at that time.
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Promotable rank for lecturers. FA has made a
recommendation pertaining to LCSC
looking at the potential for PR for lecturers. The
following motion carried unanimously
by the FA committee: “The Faculty Affairs Committee
recommends that Lewis-Clark
State College evaluate and consider a proposal to
implement a Promotable ranking
criteria for lecturers campus wide.”
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