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Minutes for October 11, 2006
A meeting of the University Senate was held at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 October 2006, in Maxwell Auditorium.
Present were: Chancellor Cantor; Senators: Alcoff, Alston, Anderson, Artuso, Arvas, Bazemore, Bender, Biklen, Burak, Burdick, Carr, Carter, Castro, Cihon, Cobb, Corley, Crowston, Curtis, de Berly, Donovan, Doyle, Droney, Elin, Evans, Faiola, Faulkner, Ferguson, Ferri, Fiese, Frasciello, Gale, Gartenberg, Gates, Gilman, Glauser, Grady-Willis, Graves (C.), Graves (S.), Grimes, Hackman, Heintz, Hensberry, Himley, Hogan, Hollenback, Horacek, Horlings, Hurd, Isik, Jeaneault, Johnson, Karpoff, Kornfilt, Kyle, LaGraff, Lane, Lantier, Letterman, Lloyd, Mager, Marrero, McConnell, McNeal, Moller, Moore, Mugo, Murphy, Notas, Olson, O'Rourke, Patteson, Pellow, Rebovich, Rosenzweig, Rupert, Quinn, Russell, Samson, Schell, Sharp, Sherman, Smith C.J.), Smith (C.R.), Smith (D.), Smith (Do), Smith (H.), Spina, Sternlicht, Thompson, Thorin, Turner (N.), Turnipseed, Tussing, Van Gulick, Vitharana, Ware (B.), Ware (E.), Warren, Watts, Webber, Wells, Wolf, Wortman, Yanai.
Presiding Officer: Chancellor Nancy Cantor
The Chancellor called the meeting to order, and proposed that the minutes of the September 13th meeting be approved as written. They were approved. She then called Prof. Bruce Carter to present the report of the Agenda Committee. Prof. Carter began by making a motion to approve the following list of changes to Senate committees:
| Academic Affairs |
Add:
Hannah Bert Kauffman (G)
Mel Stith (Administration)
Remove:
Armen Hratchian (G)
Mark Rupert (Faculty)
Ben Ware (Administration)
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| Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics |
Add:
Mark Rupert (Faculty)
Remove:
Shobha Bhatia (Faculty)
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| Administrative Operations |
Add:
John Olson (Librarian)
Neville Williams (U)
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| Appointment and Promotions |
Add:
Ryan Kelly (G)
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| Athletic Policy |
Remove:
Steve Chapin (Faculty)
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| Budget and Fiscal Affairs |
Add:
Tom Hackman (U)
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| Computing Services |
Add:
John Warren (Faculty)
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| Curriculum |
Add:
William Garrison (Librarian
Remove:
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| Honorary Degrees |
Remove:
Melissa Chessher (Faculty)
Judy O'Rourke (Staff)
Evan Smith (Faculty)
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| LGBT |
Add:
Minnie-Bruce Pratt (Faculty)
Remove:
Jeremy Brunson (G)
Colleen King (U)
Claudia Klaver, Faculty)
John Molesky (G)
Jason Tifone (G)
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| Instruction |
Add:
Jackson Droney (U)
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| Research |
Add:
Nancy Turner (Librarian)
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Student Life |
Add:
Jarell Corley (U)
Yusuf Abdul-Qadir (U)
Remove:
Ryan Kelly (U)
Rogan Kersh (Faculty)
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Women's Concerns |
Add:
Patricia Demyan (Staff)
Remove:
Sue Borker (Faculty)
Mercy Walter (G)
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The motion carried. Carter then made a motion to approve the appointment of the following non-senators to chair Senate committees and also be recognized and permitted to speak at Senate meetings when reports from their committees were presented:
- Elisa DeKaney (Student Life, co-chairwoman)
- Jeremy Gilbert (Research)
- Martha Hanson (Women's Concerns, co-chairwoman)
- Kathleen Hinchman (Athletic Policy)
- Michael Olivette (Curricula)
- Robb Pusch (LGBT co-chairman)
- Linda Straub (Services to the Faculty and Staff, co-chairwoman)
The motion carried. Prof. Carter continued his report by drawing the body's attention to the Summary of the Senate's 2005-6 work, a list of committee chairs, and a list of student senators, which had been distributed in the packet. He reported that SA President Wayne Horton had been elected to serve on the Agenda Committee, and announced that the University Senate Office had been reorganized into the Registrar's Office, and would be moving to a new location in Steele Hall.
Prof. Carter concluded his report with a motion that a search committee comprised of the following persons be constituted and charged to search for a new Provost/Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs:
- Douglas Anderson (Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences)
- William Banks (Faculty, College of Law)
- Shobha Bhatia (Faculty, College of Engineering and Computer Science)
- Douglas Biklen (Dean, School of Education)
- Mehrzad Boroujerdy (Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Pat Burak (Exempt Staff, Slutzker Center for International Services)
- Ann Clark (Faculty, College of Visual and Performing Arts)
- Clarence Cross III (Undergraduate, School of Public Communications)
- Barbara Fiese (Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Gina Lee-Glauser (Assoc. VP for Research, Director of the CASE Center)
- Ian MacInnes (Faculty, School of Information Sciences), Chair of the Search Cme.
- Carlos Perez (Graduate student, College of Engineering and Computer Science)
- Carrie Jefferson Smith (Faculty, College of Human Svces and Health Professions)
The motion carried.
The Chancellor called Prof. Amos Kiewe to present the Report of the Committee on Curricula in the absence of its chairman. Kiewe made a motion to approve the course and program changes, and a new program from Utica College (B.A. in Foreign Languages), in the report. In the discussion, various questions were raised, including:
- A question about the budgetary effects of lowering the credit hours in the Religion PhD program; senator said other departments might also wish to do so [Vice Chancellor Spina said there was a subcommittee working on this, that he hoped such decisions would be made based on pedagogy rather than finance; a faculty member from Religion rose to say that the department had not been thinking of RCM when it made the change.];
- Could the college not come up with a more descriptive title for the new major, considering that it offered only two languages? [Faculty member from Utica rose to say that the department expected to expand to other languages in future.];
A Senate member rose to make a motion to amend, removing the section about the new B.A. in Foreign Languages. It was seconded, and after some discussion, the motion to amend was lost. The Chancellor called for a vote on the main motion, and it carried.
The Chancellor called Prof. Leslie Bender to present the report of the Committee on Women's Concerns, which was a summary of the committee's 2005-6 work. Bender began by thanking Prof. Susan Borker who had capably chaired the committee for so many years, and went on to highlight the various matters the committee had discussed, including: how the staff grievance procedure was working; the idea of "safe places" on campus where employees could register work concerns; the University's draft Sexual Harassment Complaint Procedure for Staff; a survey by HR of SU employees who were leaving for various reasons. She said that during 2006-7 the committee intended to continue to track the progress of the staff complaint process, consider the "safe places" issue, explore an apparent deterioration of safety for women in and around the University, follow up on the departing employee survey, and explore the concern over differential treatment/compensation of SU staff. She finished with a plea for additional members, and asked that anyone interested in serving on the committee contact her or the Senate Office.
The Chancellor called Prof. Dale Tussing, who presented the report of the 2005-6 work of the Committee on Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Professional Ethics in the absence of its chairman. In response to a question about one of the cases, Tussing explained that the AFT committee's findings were non-binding, and that its role was to make a recommendation to the Vice Chancellor based on those findings.
The Chancellor asked if there was old business, and a Senate member rose to raise two concerns: 1)whether the RCM budget model would have the effect of encouraging people to keep their students in college; and 2)whether the Senate would be getting data on the non-academic costs referred to in the spring 2006 report. The Chancellor referred both questions to Budget Director John Hogan, who said he would get the data for the Senate. Another Senate member rose to ask what had happened to the motion on reapportionment of the Senate, which had been brought to the Senate in the spring of 2006. The Chancellor called Prof. Carter, who said that a subcommittee of the Agenda Committee was working on it, and that they hoped to bring a report to the Senate in the spring semester.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
Teresa Gilman
University Senate Recorder
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