LCSC | Faculty Senate Minutes 9-13-07

Faculty Senate Minutes
Thursday, September 13, 2007
SUB 143

I. Call to Order

The meeting was called to order at 3:18 p.m. by the Chair.

Present: Susan Odom, Tony Fernandez, Brian Christenson, Debbie
Goodwin, Samantha Thompson-Franklin for Barbara Barnes, Scott
Brainard, Rik Brosten, Wayne Carroll, Mike Collins, Linda Coursey,
Joe Curd, Tim Doty, Diane Douglas, Randy Eriksen, Tracy Flynn,
Rachel Jameton, Debbie Lemon, Alan Marshall, Dave McCullough,
Nan Miguel, Joni Dickinson Mina, Leanne Parker, Holly Patterson-McNeill,
Joe Pergola, Chris Riggs, Mark Sanders

Absent: Rhonda Combs, Kathleen Grussing, Brian Kolstad, Tom
Urquhart

Visitors: Rob Lohrmeyer

II. Approval of Minutes

Minutes from the May 10, 2007, Senate meeting were approved. It
was recommended that the credit hours be removed from the General
Education report.

III. Provost’s Report

1. Petition Committee (Rob Lohrmeyer) There is a need to
disseminate information to students regarding situations they are
in (e.g., advising, financial aid, etc.) There will be ongoing general
seminars (“Thinking Through Lunch”). All are encouraged to attend
and to share information with others.

2. Enrollment: LCSC is experiencing record enrollments with a large
increase in head count and FTE. Enrollment is up 6.4% with 3,612
students of which there are 143 international students.

3. Accreditation: Starts in earnest this semester. Tomorrow is the
first meeting (TCC) for all interested and appointed to the initial
committees. On Monday at 10:30 a.m. (WCC), Al Johnson, VP of
NWCCU, will give an all-campus presentation on accreditation.

4. CAAP: Presidents and VPs from across the state have been meeting
throughout the summer regarding the online Special Education degree
program. Institutions will take turns hosting courses. This will be
transparent to students (LC students will always sign up for LC
courses regardless of who is hosting). This is the first effort at
cooperating with other state institutions. A number of programs
have been approved (available online) and the Registrar’s Office
will soon reflect those changes on the PIF.

5. Gear Up Program: This program provides federal grant funds to
encourage low-income students to attend college. The federal
government is dissatisfied with Idaho State expenditures. As a
result, the Idaho SBOE has asked institutions to come up with
$3 million in in-kind donation matching funds or the grant will be
withdrawn.

6. Program Guidelines: Concerns and recommendations were
voiced last year regarding SCEs, which have been addressed
by the President via 2008 program guidelines. Specifics are
available on the Intranet under PG 57. A task force will be
formed to address areas and report back in January.

7. Pay and Benefits: This pertains to Professional and Classified
part-time and part-year staff. The current practice is that most
faculty and staff work nine months and are paid over twelve months.
However, an issue arose when DFM and the Controller’s Office
recognized that LC was pro-rating hours via the I-Time system,
which had been Boise’s and DFM’s recommendation as a workaround
with this system. The concern is that it is a misrepresentation of
time. Faculty are specifically allowed to be paid over twelve months.
Professional and Classified staff members are not. Actual hours
need to be tracked to determine how much to pay these employees
during the summer and not affect benefits. LC is insisting that
every institution be aware of this and wants the SBOE to get
involved. There are thirteen staff members caught in this part-year
problem; and part-time employees, if affected, would be about 45.
LC will be meeting with the SBOE about its concerns.

8. Building Update: LC has hired the contractors and architects for
the Nursing and Health Sciences building. There are open meetings
every two weeks on Fridays, with the main attendees being faculty
and staff from Nursing, Health Sciences, and Administration. The
firms are currently doing an analysis of three-four sites. Faculty
are visiting other institutions’ buildings that these companies have
built.

IV. Treasury Report

Faculty Senate Appropriated Account: $2,554.99

Faculty Association Account: $3,663.73

Faculty Benevolence Account: $2,986.94

V. Chair’s Report

1. Accreditation: A reminder that Al Johnson from NWCCU will be
presenting on accreditation on Monday at 10:30 a.m. in WCC.

2. State Permanent Building Advisory Council: Visited campus to
discuss parking, Talkington Hall, and the Nursing and Health
Sciences building.

3. Academic Program Course Offerings: The FA07-SP09 brochure is out.
The question of how students access this was raised.

VI. Old Business

Incomplete grade policy issue will be moved forward this year,

The structure of the Administration Procedures Committee passed in SP07
and will be changed in the Constitution.

VII. New Business

The Senate approved the nomination of Leanne Parker to serve on the
Petition Committee.

Planning and assessment workshops are being conducted by Howard
Erdman – Institutional Planning and Assessment Office and Dean Pharr
September 19 (3:30-4:30 in ACW) and October 5 (3:00-4:00 in ACW).

The General Education Committee needs one person. Five divisions were
eligible to submit nominees. Three have responded. This will be voted on
at the October 18 Faculty Association meeting.

The General Education Committee is not listed in the Constitution as a
standing committee, even though it has been approved. It needs to be
reflected online.

The STPRC Chair will be elected at the October 18 Faculty Association
meeting.

The SPRC needs two new members to obtain its full membership of five.
The existing three are from T&I. There are no BTS members. Both
Assistant and Full Professors are needed. The Faculty Senate Chair
will talk with BTS about nominees.

The Faculty Senate Secretary position will be confirmed at the
October 18 Faculty Association meeting.

The Policies and Procedures Manual is being updated to reflect our
organization now.

VIII. Standing Committees

A. Administrative Procedures (Leanne Parker) – Is setting up first
meeting.

B. Budget Liaison (Susan Odom) – FARGs (Functional AREA Resource
Groups) have been named. They will meet after the CRC meets.

C. Curriculum (Chris Riggs) – Its first meeting is tomorrow at 12:30 in
ACW 135.

D. Faculty Affairs (Brian Christenson) – Met on Monday. The report is
online.
1) The first issue on SCEs was addressed by the Provost. Link in
notes directly to PG initiative. 2) Feedback is requested regarding
student plagiarism issues. Go to the online committee minutes, take
to your respective division meetings the questions posed, and provide
feedback for the next committee meeting on October 8. 3) Issues
and concerns related to tenure for P-T programs will be taken to the
divisions. 4) Will evaluate workload issues identified from a report
that will be received from Dean Pharr.

E. Faculty Development (Alan Marshall) – First meeting will be tomorrow
for discussing distribution of funds. The deadline is September 21 and
proposals should be submitted online.

F. General Education (Eric Martin) – Have met twice and is continuing to
work on implementing General Education goals. It will hold two general
forums each semester to keep General Education issues before the
faculty. The first, focused on Service Learning, is tentatively
scheduled for September 25. An evaluation system for the General
Education core should be in place before the next LC accreditation
visit. The fifth member of the committee is still to be determined
and it is being suggested that this member be elected at the last
Faculty Association meeting this year so that there will be a full
committee at the beginning of next term. From then on,all new
members should be elected at the last Faculty Association meeting
in the Spring semester.

G. Student Affairs (Rachel Jameton) – First meeting is on September 25
to discuss the code of conduct with Andy Hanson.

H. Technology Advisory (Holly Patterson-McNeil) – First meeting is on
Monday.

IX. Other/Good of the Order

More participation is encouraged with the second annual senior research
program in May.

The Registrar’s Office distributed numbers reports for Majors to each
division.

The Email Retention Committee was formed this summer and is working
with a new e-discovery federal law that was just enacted. This is
similar to paper tracking, recordkeeping, etc. Specified email messages
related to agency business only will need to be retained, filed, etc.,
with similar rules to hard copies. Ideally, do not use business computers
for personal use and vice versa. The committee will also look at this law’s
connection to FERPA. Jerry Hindberg will come to a future Senate
meeting.

CSO cookbook recipes are due by November 1.

Priorities identified at the Senate retreat are posted on the Intranet
Senate page for review.

The Chair will provide a Senate snapshot nearly every Friday.

X. Adjournment

Meeting adjourned at 4:36 p.m. by the Chair.

PETITION COMMITTEE PROPOSAL

Current Membership

Dean of Academic Programs

Dean of Professional Technical Programs

Dean of Student Services

Dean of Community Programs

Diana Ames – academic faculty member

Ed Miller academic faculty member

Bill Frei – professional technical faculty member

Diane Douglas – non-voting member

Laura Hughes – non-voting member

Proposed Membership

Dean (one only)

Division Chair (one only)

Four faculty members – 1 professional technical, 3 academic

Diane Douglas - nonvoting

Laura Hughes – nonvoting

Proposed:

1. The committee will continue to be chaired by the Dean (generally either
the Academic or PT Dean or their designee), who will write the letters to
students based upon the committee decision.

2. The senate would appoint a new academic faculty member for Fall 2008 –
retaining the current faculty membership for consistency in the first year.

3. Each year one faculty member would rotate off of the petition committee
and the senate would appoint a new member.

4. Each year the Division Chairs will nominate one Chair to represent them
on the committee.

5. All appeals of the petition committee decisions would come first to the
Deans Council and secondly to the Provost.

Curriculum Report to Senate
May 10, 2007

The Curriculum Committee has approved the following proposals. Core
changes in bold font.

Proposal #

Course Impacted

Explanation

BTS

T07-550

Medical Office AAS & ATC; Medical Receptionist
CERT

Medical Biller/Coder CERT; Medical Transcription
CERT

change major requirements (math req)

Increase options for students

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