Faculty Senate Minutes
Thursday, November 1, 2007
SUB 143
 

I.         Call to Order

         The meeting was called to order at 3:17 p.m. by the Chair.

      Present:  Susan Odom, Tony Fernandez, Brian Christenson, Debbie
Goodwin, Barbara Barnes, Wayne Carroll, Mike Collins, Linda Coursey,
Joe Curd, Tim Doty, Ryan Gill for Diane Douglas, Randy Eriksen, Tracy
Flynn, Kathleen Grussing, Rachel Jameton, Debbie Lemon, Alan Marshall,
Dave McCullough, Nan Miguel, Joni Dickinson Mina, Leanne Parker, Holly
Patterson-McNeill, Joe Pergola, Chris Riggs, Tom Urquhart

      Absent:  Scott Brainard, Rik Brosten, Rhonda Combs, Brian Kolstad,
Brianna Reid, Mark Sanders

      Visitors:  Matt Johnston, Rob Lohrmeyer, Dene Thomas, Lori Stinson

II.        Approval of Consent Agenda

      Consent agenda (including October 11, 2007, minutes and treasury report)
was approved.

III.      Provost’s Report

Tabled until next meeting. 

Administration discussed the new Nursing Health Science building, showing
the lots available for construction and asking faculty and staff to vote
online.

IV.  Chair’s Report

Tabled until next meeting.

V.    Ongoing Business

Tabled until next meeting.

VI. New Business

Tabled until next meeting.

VII.     Standing Committees

A.        Administrative Procedures (Leanne Parker) – Will address at the
next meeting.

B.        Budget Liaison (Susan Odom) – Nothing new to report with CRC. 
Currently involved with merit pay issue and upon what criteria
merit is decided by divisions for increases.

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

D.   Faculty Affairs (Brian Christenson) – Approved report (see
attached).

E.   Faculty Development (Alan Marshal) – No report.

F.   General Education (Susan Odom reporting for Eric Martin) – Some
members of the committee attended the out-of-state conference
on general education and are assimilating the information.

G.   Student Affairs (Rachel Jameton) – Approved the recommendation for
Student Services to go forward with developing an orientation program. 
It will be shared with Student Services which committees to work with
(General Education, Student Affairs, and Faculty Affairs).  A draft
version of the Student Code of Conduct was created.  It is provided as
an appendix to the last meeting’s minutes.  Others are encouraged to
review it and email feedback to the Chair by November 8.

H.   Technology Advisor (Holly Patterson-McNeill) – Provided a flyer from
professional development and mentioned that not enough faculty are
taking advantage of training on campus.  The review of various email
systems is finished.  A choice will be made two weeks from tomorrow. 
If consensus cannot be reached, then Campus Cruiser will remain the
provider.  The survey for the classroom management system is at
www.lcsc.edu/IT/facultysurvey.asp.  An e-records policy is being
assessed (see attached).

VIII.In-Service

            Ryan Gill, Associate Registrar, agreed with tabling this until the next
          meeting.

IX.       Other/Good of the Order 

      Thinking Through Lunch session on advising and financial aid is next
Wednesday at noon in the WCC.  RSVP tomorrow for lunch. 

      Approved cancelling the November 8 Faculty Senate meeting.  Next meeting
is November 15.

      Senior Research Seminar – Brian Christenson asks that programs inform him
if they will be taking part in the Symposium; Brian and the Symposium
committee are also looking for potential guest speakers to serve as
Keynotes. Please let him know if you have suggestions.

X.    Adjournment

      Meeting adjourned at 4:37 p.m. by the Chair.

Curriculum Committee Report to Senate
11-01-07

The Curriculum Committee has approved the following proposals.

Report to the Senate from the Faculty Affairs Committee: 11-1-07

• Next Meeting: Monday November 5^th at 3:15 PM: SUB Conference Room
• Faculty Affairs has met twice to date on 9-10 & 10-8
• 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. The task force had its first
  meeting recently. More information to come after our next meeting on
   November 5^th.
• Student Plagiarism: Recommendations have been made pertaining to a
  change in the student code of conduct and current policy. Faculty Affairs
   forwarded their recommendations pertaining to the student code of
  conduct policy language and student academic integrity and plagiarism
   education to the Student Affairs Committee, and is awaiting a report
  back prior to taking further action. Library services has provided a website
   pertaining to plagiarism and academic integrity as well as a bibliography
  of resources for faculty. Thank you to the Library, Barbara Barnes &
  Lynne Bidwell.  The direct links are at: http://www.lcsc.edu/library/faculty/instruction.htm#Plagiarism http://www.lcsc.edu/faculty/faculty_affairs_plagiarism_bibliography.htm
• 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
  at the next meeting on Monday, November 5th.
• 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.
• Promotable rank for lecturers. FA has made a recommendation pertaining
  to LCSC looking at the potential for PR for lecturers. The issue will be
  discussed at our next meeting on Monday, November 5^th in more detail.

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Electronic Records Retention Team: Holly Patterson-McNeil is a faculty representative on this committee

E-RECORDS POLICY

Federal regulations require all business and education entities to keep an
archive of email for e-discovery purposes in the event of litigation.  The
regulation required all entities to comply by December 1, 2006.  If an agency
cannot produce an email in questions, courts have instructed jurors that they
can assume the defendant is trying to hide a correspondence.  The State of
Idaho has recommended 3 options for an agency to follow.  LCSC is trying to
convince them the importance of having a standard for all state agencies to
follow.  Please review Appropriate Use of Technology and not use their LCSC
email for personal conversations.  No college or university in Idaho has a
finalized version to comply with this.  This committee is showing the State a
good faith effort to come up with a suitable system.

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