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DAFVM
Faculty Senate
MINUTES
January 13, 2005
ATTENDING:
Duane Motsenbocker, Mike Kidd, Laurie Grace, Bill
Evans, Sharon Grace, Angelica Chapa, Ken Williford,
Wayne Wilkerson, Eugene Columbus, Linda Andrews,
Wes Schilling, Deborah Gaddis, Mark Shankle, Robert
Meyer, Cliff Hampton, Jacque Deeds, Dan Poston,
Steve Nichols
GUEST:
Melissa Mixon
The
minutes from October's meeting were
approved.
New
Member: Joe Fratesi will be the new DAFVM
Faculty Senate member representing the Center for
Governmental Technology. He replaces Mike Allen on
the Senate.
Vice
Chair Report: Cliff Hampton presented the
Legislative Budget Office recommendations for
Fiscal Year 2006. He noted the percent (amount of)
cut to your department is based on total available
funds. Dr. Vance Watson informed Mr. Hampton that
there "will be some pain experienced in this year's
budget".
Holland
Faculty Senate Report: Jacque Deeds presented a
report on the Holland Faculty Senate.
- They
will be reviewing promotion and tenure
guidelines as well as promotion criteria for
non-tenure track employees.
- Campus
Planning Committee reported that all of the
dormitories on the northeast side of campus will
eventually be torn down and by 2008, two new
ones will be built. There will be some student
services included in that dormitory area to
promote a community environment. They are now
planning to enlarge the proposed museum and
bully store by Bost and the stadium to include a
welcome site. During the summer, the roads
around the stadium, Lloyd Ricks and Dorman will
once again be torn up to eventually remedy the
traffic flow problems.
- Parking
decals for the fall are going up to $50. There
will be an additional $10 monthly charge if you
wish to park in gated lots. Students will buy
decals for one specific lot which will cut down
much of the traffic on campus during the day.
The large gravel lot by McComas will be
paved.
- The
issue of doing away with computer marketing spam
is a continuous one. It will be dealt with
soon.
- Duane
Motsenbocker serves on the Starkville Planning
and Development Board. He said that Starkville
is intent on keeping the bypass entrances to
campus aesthetically pleasing. It was suggested
that our Faculty Senate draft a resolution to
the Holland Faculty Senate asking that we
cooperate in promoting this principal in support
of the Starkville Planning and Development Board
and further, that the MSU Planning Committee
should work closely with the City in this
matter. This was voted on positively by the
DAFVM Faculty Senate and resolution language was
proposed by Jacque Deeds. It will be formally
presented for approval to our
Senate.
Old
Business:
- Charter
and Bylaws Committee Report (J. Deeds) -
Dr. Deeds obtained a listing of faculty by
department from Human Resources. She distributed
this to her committee members. They will meet to
determine the correct apportionment of Faculty
Senators per department.
- Faculty
Affairs (D. Reynolds) - Dr. Reynolds
discussed the matter of standardized timetables
for all departments on promotion and tenure
packages with Dr. Vance Watson. Dr. Watson is
agreeable in concept and probably would okay
whatever timeline we present. This may not be
the best time to make this proposal in light of
the changes being considered in the Holland
Faculty Senate. Dr. Deeds said we should go
ahead and proceed with our plans since they will
probably not finish with their changes by Fall,
2005.
New
Business:
Mr.
Hampton asked Dr. Watson if he had any challenges
for our group. Dr. Watson brought up the issue of
standardized guidelines in quantifying annual
evaluation scores. In the minutes of our Faculty
Senate's first meeting in Fall, 2004, this issue
was presented and a commitment was made to address
it on a priority basis. During discussion, it
appears that the entire DAFVM Faculty Senate does
not generally favor quantifying evaluation
standards. The suggestion was made to create an ad
hoc committee representing several different
departments and reporting to the Faculty Affairs
committee to study this issue. The head of this
committee should be a member of the Faculty Affairs
committee. This measure was approved and the
committee will be appointed by Darren
Hudson.
Wes
Schilling brought a discussion to the table
concerning MIRS reporting. A faculty member in his
department has some issues with this system. Dr.
Schilling distributed a question sheet exploring
the value of the system. Mike Kidd has worked on
the system and brought out the point that it is
only as good as the input. Mr. Hampton suggested
that we get Clarence Watson to come to our next
meeting and address these issues.
Melissa
Mixon, Associate Vice President in the DAFVM, made
a presentation concerning the new cell phone
policies. MSU decided to take a proactive strategy
toward cell phones since it was on the radar of the
legislature. In our division, we deleted 118 phones
completely and of the remaining 237 phones, 141
were placed on monthly allowance. The next step
will take place on January 31 and February 1, 2 and
3 from 1 - 4 pm in McArthur. There will be
representatives from Cellular South, ITS and
Property Control there to enable you to change your
service over to private service if you so desire.
New appliances, like Blackberries and other data
retrieval devices will fall under the same
regulations if you activate the cell phone
technology.
Meeting
adjourned.
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