Faculty Senate Minutes 
Thursday, January 17, 2007
SGC 41
 

I.         Call to Order

          The meeting was called to order at 3:20 p.m. by the Chair.

      Present:  Susan Odom, Brian Christenson, Debbie Goodwin, Barbara Barnes, Scott Brainard,
Wayne Carroll, Mike Collins, Rhonda Combs, Tim Doty, Diane Douglas, Randy Eriksen,
Tracy Flynn, Kathleen Grussing, Rachel Jameton, Alan Marshall, Dave McCullough,
Nan Miguel, Holly Patterson-McNeill, Joe Pergola, Chris Riggs, Mark Sanders

      Absent:  Tony Fernandez, Rik Brosten, Linda Coursey, Joe Curd, Brian Kolstad,
Debbie Lemon, Joni Dickinson Mina, Leanne Parker, Brianna Reid, Tom Urquhart

      Visitors:  None

II.        Approval of Consent Agenda

      Consent agenda (including November 15 and November 29 minutes and treasury report)
approved.

III.      Provost’s Report

None provided as the Provost was in Boise.

IV.  Chair’s Report

Higher education week.  The Chair and Chair-Elect attended and co-sponsored the
legislative reception held Monday night.  Five out of seven schools reported.  Heard
Dene Thomas’ JFAC presentation, which was well received by the legislators.  There is
a safe and healthy enrollment goal cap of 4,500.  Discussed distance learning centers,
placement figures, PACE award, groundbreaking for the Nursing & Health Sciences Building,
budget requests, etc.  Capital improvements:  4^th Street parking and renovation of
Talkington Hall.  Questions from legislators included faculty salaries, GED placement rates,
dual enrollment for high school students, etc.

V.    Ongoing Business

Constitution updates:  If you have updates to the Constitution, please submit them
to the Administrative Procedures Committee.

Faculty Senate priorities:  Verbally updated progress on the priorities set in August 2007
(see attached). 

VI. New Business

Double majors researched by the Registrar.  The Registrar will be attending a conference
in March and will query other registrars on how they handle specific situations.  LC’s 16
additional credits were adopted from the University of Idaho several years ago.  If students
pursue double majors, then need to look at quality issue.  Registrar was asked to address
the double major issue and the 16 additional credits to the Curriculum Committee and to
look at pros and cons and draft recommendations as to what is reasonable on how to
proceed. 

VII.     Standing Committees

A.        Administrative Procedures (Leanne Parker) – No report.

B.        Budget Liaison/CRC (Susan Odom) – The Governor has recommended 5% increases
hopefully for the next few years.  Do not know what will happen to benefits, but do
know that they will be going up.  There was much discussion regarding the AACL tables
that the Committee uses for reviewing faculty salaries.  Faculty issues include:  bringing
up compression rates within divisions, getting internal compression relief, bringing up
merit issue, not being able to give merit increases if there is no merit evaluation system.

C.   Curriculum (Chris Riggs) – Approved curriculum changes (see attached).

D.   Faculty Affairs (Brian Christenson) – There will be a Thinking Through Lunch workshop
on January 31, noon-1 p.m., in the WCC regarding plagiarism.  Also, the Committee
will put back on its agenda the issue of stipends for directed study.

E.   Faculty Development (Alan Marshall) – An announcement is on the Intranet for a call
for faculty development grant requests.  The Committee will meet the first of February. 
There is $17,000 available.

F.   General Education (Chris Riggs reporting for Eric Martin) – The Committee met
January 9 and will meet again on January 24 to plan for a General Education
“Retreat” on January 25 to which some Senate members are invited.  The purpose
is to devise a set of instruments to assess LCSC’s progress in meeting Gen Ed goals.

G.   Student Affairs (Rachel Jameton) – Student Code of Conduct recommendations were
given to Student Services at the end of last semester.  The Committee is currently
working on new student orientation.

H.   Technology Advisor (Holly Patterson-McNeill) – Currently accepting proposals for
classroom infrastructure.  Requests exceed the $25,000 available.

VIII.In-Service (Diane Douglas)

       Divisions should have received laminated advising tips.  LCSC does not have D- grades. 
Transfer Guides are on the Intranet.  Be sure to check the report that shows purged
students who have not paid and ensure that students know.  LC had 100% of grades
submitted on time last semester – thanks!  General Studies Program Plan will go into
effect for the 2008-2009 academic year.

IX.       Other/Good of the Order

      Professional Development Training Program – needs two faculty members to join
committee.

      On the Intranet is an announcement from IT as to what is currently being tested by
students.

      An issue arose regarding the fact that the capacity of 10 mg for LCSC’s distance
learning courses is not enough; this is one-third the capacity of the University of
Idaho’s 100 mg.

      If faculty want classroom management tools for their courses, then they are to
inform their respective Chairs so that the course can be coded appropriately.

      VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) is being offered again this year through the
Business Division beginning Saturday, January 26, and running every Tuesday evening,
6-9 p.m., and Saturday, 9-noon, after that through April 15.  This volunteer service
is available to the college and community free of charge to complete and file income
taxes.

X.    Adjournment 

      Meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m. by the Chair.

  FACULTY SENATE PRIORITIES
2007-2008

SCE Considerations  (Faculty Affairs)

·        faculty vs. student responsibility for response rate

·        possible consequences of not completing (e.g., “View Grade”
    computer function not available until SCE submitted)

·        student education re. SCEs (e.g., orientation)

·        relationship of SCEs to faculty evaluations

Plagiarism Considerations (Student Affairs, Faculty Affairs)

·        parameters/guidelines/criteria – what is it?  degrees of it?  etc.

·        student code of conduct/honor code

·        software – limitations, uses, mandatory vs. optional, all or nothing,
    privacy concerns, logistics, security issues

Student Basic Skills (SD 107) Considerations (Student Affairs)

·        study skills – time management, research, etc.

·        code of conduct/honor code

·        plagiarism

·        computer skills

·        financial aid

Faculty Evaluation/Merit Pay Considerations (BLC)

·        faculty evaluation form/process – tied to merit pay

·        scaled approach vs. “Adequate/Inadequate”

·        factors in evaluating – SCEs, peer reviews, advisee feedback, etc.

Other Considerations

·        PTE tenure (Faculty Affairs)

·        Gen Ed goals/courses (General Education, Curriculum)

·        stipends for directed study (Faculty Affairs)

·        Warriormail (TAC)

·        Distance Education committee (subcommittee under TAC?)

·        Faculty workload (Faculty Affairs)

Curriculum Committee Report to Senate
1-17-08

The Curriculum Committee has approved the following proposals.

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