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DAFVM
Faculty Senate
MINUTES
March 10 , 2005
ATTENDING: Hamid
Borazjani, Duane Motsenbocker, Dan Reynolds, Mike Caprio,
Wes Schilling, Laurie Grace, Angelica Chapa, Darren Hudson,
Robert Meyer, Ken Willeford, Wes Burger, Hart Bailey, Jacque
Deeds, Deborah Gaddis, Cliff Hampton, Bill Evans, Mark
Shankle
The minutes
from February's meeting were approved.
Ad
Hoc Committee on Evaluation Standardization: (Hampton)
Multiple
copies of the committee's draft were circulated. They tried
to incorporate all the suggestions brought forth at last
month's Senate meeting. Cliff Hampton asked that all Senate
members look over the document and decide if you want this
to be the standard for satisfactory on evaluations across
the Division. Dr. Watson only wants a framework which defines
minimal standards for a satisfactory performance rating.
One of
the big issues with the document appears to be the use
of extension as one of the evaluation categories. This
should be changed to Extension/Service on the final document.
Please
provide any input to Mr. Hampton or any committee member
by noon on March 22 so that they can submit a final document
for a vote at the April Faculty Senate meeting.
Standardization
of Promotion and Tenure Guidelines: (Reynolds)
The Faculty
Affairs committee presented their handout on their progress
in setting a uniform promotion and tenure timeline for
the Division. The committee assumes that the timeline will
be the same for tenured and non-tenured faculty. During
discussion, it was brought up that some of the guidelines
on this handout were in conflict with department promotion
and tenure guidelines. Dan Reynolds clarified that the
timeline was the important issue and that the departmental
guidelines would always take precedence.
Please
send any comments or input to Dan Reynolds prior to the
Faculty Senate's April meeting so that the committee can
submit a final draft for a vote.
Regulations
on Consulting for 9-Month Employees: (Williford)
Ken Williford
re-introduced an issue that has been discussed in Faculty
Senate before concerning policy on consulting for 9-month
employees. Although there are policies in effect concerning
9-month employees who work for the other three months under
supplemental contract, but, as far as we are aware, there
are not policies concerning outside consulting during those
three months. The consensus is that this matter should
be referred to university counsel. Dr. Hudson and Mr. Hampton
will discuss this matter with Dr. Watson and request that
he submit it to counsel. Dr. Hudson will report to the
Senate at the next meeting.
Holland
Faculty Senate Report: (Deeds)
- The
Promotion and Tenure revisions will be approved tomorrow.
These revisions are listed on the Holland Faculty Senate
website.
- There
is an AOP coming before the Holland Faculty Senate concerning
a Winter Intersession. This will be a two-week separate
semester in January for which 9-month faculty can get
paid to teach.
- The
Holland Faculty Senate will be working toward guidelines
for non-tenured promotion criteria. If you have such
a document in your department, please forward a copy
of it to Jacque Deeds.
- The
spam resolution passed. The Faculty Senate has asked
ITS to put a spam filter (as opposed to a blocker) on
our systems which will identify email as potential spam.
Then, the user will be able to make the decision as to
whether to block it or not.
- The
Holland Faculty Senate is looking at expanding the policy
on electronic devices in the classroom. They would like
to see them banned, but some were concerned that it should
be clear that this would not include laptop computers.
This ban should apply to cell phones, blackberries, pagers
and other communications devices.
New
Business:
- Election
of Officers for next year: The DAFVM Faculty Senate will
need to elect officers for the coming year. Darren Hudson
will be getting off the Senate and Cliff Hampton will
be Chair for the coming year. We must elect a Vice Chair,
who would become Chair the next year, as well as a Parliamentarian.
Dr. Hudson would like to hold these elections at the
April meeting.
- Dr.
Hudson has contacted department heads about electing
representatives from their units for the DAFVM Faculty
Senate. Dr. Deeds is going to try to get a list of dates
when each member is due to rotate off the Senate. Dr.
Hudson will try to have all positions filled before the
May meeting so that new members might join the Senate
on their last meeting of this academic year in May.
Adjourned
at 2:25 p.m.
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