Faculty Senate Minutes 
Thursday, November 15, 2007
SUB 143
 

I.         Call to Order

      The meeting was called to order at 3:16 p.m. by the Chair.

      Present:  Susan Odom, Tony Fernandez, Brian Christenson, Debbie Goodwin, Barbara Barnes,
Scott Brainard, Wayne Carroll, Clay Robinson for Mike Collins, Rhonda Combs, Linda Coursey,
Joe Curd, Tim Doty, Diane Douglas, Randy Eriksen, Tracy Flynn, Kathleen Grussing, Rachel
Jameton, Debbie Lemon, Dave McCullough, Nan Miguel, Leanne Parker, Joe Pergola,
Brianna Reid, Chris Riggs, Mark Sanders

      Absent:  Rik Brosten, Brian Kolstad, Alan Marshall, Joni Dickinson Mina, Holly Patterson-McNeill,
Tom Urquhart

      Visitors:  None

II.        Approval of Consent Agenda

      Consent agenda (including November 1, 2007, minutes and treasury report) were approved. 

III.      Provost’s Report

1.   CAAP:  1) Working with chairs to update 8-year plans.  2) LCSC is looking at how
residency is defined and is being audited.  Definitions for part-time and full-time
students are also being reviewed.  3) All NOIs have been approved.

2.        Nurses:  Working with the State in addressing the shortfall of nurses.

3.        Nursing & Health Sciences Building:  Announced that the Talkington Hall area
was selected as the construction site.  The architect firm is coming up with
conceptual drawings.  Plans are nearly done for labs, classrooms, meeting rooms,
RadTech areas, etc.  Shooting for a March groundbreaking.

4.        UAPs:  Currently going through the process.

5.        Accreditation:  Currently in the self-study phase of the process.  This phase compared
LCSC’s outcomes to the NWCCU standards to determine compliance.  Areas for
improvement will be emphasized in the self-study.

IV.  Chair’s Report

1.      President’s Council:  1) Winter Revels party on December 7 with online RSVPs;
2) SP08 enrollment is fairly flat with possible increase in Nepalese students;
3) November 29 is the University Place dedication.

2.      Accreditation:  Will begin seeing the written part.

V.    Ongoing Business

Constitution revisions/updates.  Nothing has come before the Administrative Procedures
Committee.  Provost mentioned that the entire policy and procedures handbook is being
updated.  Chet Herbst will be at the next Faculty Senate meeting to discuss progress.

VI. New Business

Domestic partnerships – This issue has been raised again, especially in light of family
leave policy.  Looking for collective statement from faculty in support of reviewing this.

SCE task force – In the future, this report will be via Faculty Affairs Committee.  The task
force has invited a faculty member from each division.  There are a few senators on the
task force.  What has been done thus far:  eliminating the student self-evaluation component
as it is not of much value; proposing a paper-and-pencil evaluation, or some hybrid version
between online and paper and pencil; using Likert scale type of evaluation; opening the
window for completing the evaluation from the first day after withdrawal date to right before
finals week or before final grades are input.  Also looking at content, global use, etc

VII.     Standing Committees

A.        Administrative Procedures (Leanne Parker) – Started looking at overall Constitution
to have it reflect reality.  Looking to have a strikethrough version early next semester.

B.        Budget Liaison (Susan Odom) – Met today.  Report will be sent to the President re. FARG
and UAP processes.  CRC – Not met since the beginning of the semester.

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) – The committee was debriefed
on information received from a Maine conference on general education.  Discussed was
the possibility of organizing Gen Ed courses along thematic lines such as: 
environmental/economic sustainability, technology, poverty, social justice, gender, and
diversity.  Also discussed were new methods concerning assessment of Gen Ed core goals. 
Subsequent committee meetings have been established to further discuss these and other
issues in more detail.  The committee will not organize a second fall semester Thinking
Through Lunch at this time in light of this new information.  Accepted report.

G.   Student Affairs (Rachel Jameton) – Completed Code of Conduct review and submitted
to Student Services.  Discussed charge to pursue new student orientation and to work
with Student Affairs, Faculty Affairs, and General Education committees to review how
content is delivered to non-traditional students.  Accepted report.

H.   Technology Advisor (Holly Patterson-McNeill via email) – The committee is reviewing
survey results and is making its decision today.  Input from this committee will be
incorporated into the decision after the November 30 meeting.  Faculty are encouraged
to contact their TAC representative if they have further input regarding email system
requirements.  The final recommendation from the Email Review Committee will be
submitted to Administration in early December.  Online minutes from the last meeting
are available.  Accepted report.

VIII.    In-Service (Diane Douglas)

        Approximately 200 students have not applied for graduation.

      If students are pursuing a second Bachelor degree, it requires an additional 16 credits per
Bachelor degree.  The Administrative Procedures Committee was asked to review the language
in the catalog regarding this issue.  The question was raised regarding why there are 16
additional credits required and the reason is unclear.  Another question was raised as to why
LCSC does not have dual majors, and the point was made that Datatel can handle it
electronically.  Again, the reason was unclear as to why.

IX.       Other/Good of the Order

      On November 28 at 7:30 p.m. in MLH, the Superintendent of Education will be speaking.

X.    Adjournment

      Meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m. by the Chair.

Lewis-Clark State College
Curriculum Committee Senate Report
11-09-07

The Curriculum Committee has approved the following proposals.

Faculty Affairs Committee Report to Senate
November 15^th, 2007

a)    Issue: Student Course Evaluations (SCE’s) Update

Ø    Craig and Lynne report confusion in LCSC documents referring to SCE guidelines,
but the original guidelines are no longer to be found.  MB said he thought the
purpose of SCEs has morphed over the years to be used in ways not originally
intended. There is a conflict between the future use of SCEs in relation to not
being used for faculty evaluation.  This is in direct conflict with promotion and
evaluation policies. 

Ø     Moved to recommend the SCE Task Force obtain a more representative membership
from all divisions due to lack of membership and participation; also that substitutes
be assigned if the assigned member cannot attend the meetings. It was noted that
four members have not been attending the meetings and three have resigned. The
motion passed unanimously.

Ø     Lynne reported that the student self evaluation portion will be removed because
the data has not been used in the past.  The group is discussing using a Likert scale
with a neutral point and voted to go back to the SCE paper version.

Ø      Susan Odom is participating on the committee now.

Ø     The window of administering the SCE has been broadened to include the day after
the drop date until the day before grades are due.

b)    Issue: Student Plagiarism Update

Ø    Student Affairs Committee has met in committee and forwarded their recommendations
to Andy Hanson.

Ø    The Faculty Affairs Committee discussed offering a workshop on academic integrity
and plagiarism to the entire faculty.  At the Nov. 11 continuation meeting it was
reported that the workshop has been approved to be supported by Dean Christine
Pharr, and it will be discussed at the next meeting. The committee has created an
initial Powerpoint presentation with resources for faculty and staff. More to come.
Brian Christenson met with Mary Flores to discuss the work an academic integrity
committee had conducted in 2004.  The draft academic integrity document is being
reviewed by the committee at the December meeting. Debra Lyber reported to Brian
Christenson that Dean Hanson has the draft document for consideration. 

c)     Issue: Tenure for Professional Technical Education (PTE) Faculty

Ø       This committee moved to support Tenure for Prof. & Tech faculty, but moved to
take no action on the matter at this time. The motion passed unanimously.

d)    Issue: Faculty Workload Issues

Ø       No report received from Christine Pharr on November 5th.  At the Nov. 11^th session,
it was reported that Dean Pharr would like to present the documents at our December
meeting. Dean Pharr will be presenting at 4:15.

e)    Issue: Promotable Rank for Lecturers

Ø       Continued discussion occurred with feedback from Divisions. Brian Christenson
recommended that the committee invite Provost Tony Fernandez to attend our
December meeting to discuss the issue at hand. Provost Fernandez has agreed to
attend the December meeting.

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