Minutes for March 18, 2009

A meeting of the University Senate was held at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 18 March 2009, in Maxwell Auditorium.

Present were: Chancellor Cantor; Senators Anderson, Arnold, Banerjee, Bhatia, Breese, Burdick, Carty, Cihon, Clark, Cooper, Dobrowolski, Donabella, Donovan, Dudczak, Easton, Ferri, Frasciello, Fried, Golia, Greenberg, Heintz, Himley, Hurd, Isik, Judge, Keck, Kornfilt, Kucharavy, Kutcher, Kwasnik, Lee, Letterman, Lipson, Lloyd, London, Lore, MacInnes, Mager, Marcoccia, Massey, McClure (D.), McClure (R.), Meighan, Mohan, Mohanty, Mulliken, Murphy, Nicholson, O'Rourke, Park, Reed-Huff, Rio, Rupert, Russell, Saleh, Schell, Sedore, Shane, Sherman, Smith (C.R.), Spina, Srinivas, Strodel, Suchy, Tankersley, Teres, Thorin, Trionfero, Tucker, Turnipseed, Van Gulick, Van Hollen, Veley, Vidali, Wallace, Ware (B.), Ware (E.), Warren, Wasylenko, Webber, Witucki, Wright, Wrigley, Zubieta.

Presiding Officer: Chancellor Nancy Cantor

Chancellor called the meeting to order, proposed that the minutes of the March 4th meeting be approved as written, and the body concurred. She called on Prof. Eileen Schell to make the report of the Agenda Committee. Prof. Schell began with a motion to amend the bylaws, Article V, Section 19, as follows:

[New wording of second sentence: The committee shall be concerned with the impact of University as well as Athletic Department policies and practices on the well-being and progress of student-athletes who participate in intercollegiate competitions sponsored by Syracuse University.]

The motion carried. On motion made the body voted to approve the calendar of Senate meetings for 2009-10 as follows:

Prof. Schell reminded the body that those who wished to speak during the discussion of the report of the Academic Affairs committee report would be asked to limit themselves to speaking once only until everyone else had had a chance to comment.

The Chancellor called Prof. Barbara Kwasnik to present the report of the Committee on Curricula, which included a motion to approve new courses and changes from Education, Management, Public Communications, Visual and Performing Arts, Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Computer Science, and Human Ecology. A Senate member rose to make a motion to amend the report, removing the program revision from School of Education (p. 19). The motion was seconded and carried. The motion to approve the amended report carried.

The Chancellor called on Prof. Jaklin Kornfilt, who presented the report of the Committee on Appointment and Promotions. Prof. Kornfilt began by making a motion to approve new language for the Faculty Manual, §2.63, as follows:

The title Emeritus or Emerita represents a signal honor that may be conferred upon retirement. Recommendations and supporting evidence of distinction and service to the University proceed through a process of faculty nomination, endorsement by the designated bodies that normally vote on promotions in rank, endorsement by the dean, the Vice Chancellor and Provost, and the Senate Committee on Appointment and Promotions, and approved by the Senate and by the Board of Trustees. This title may accompany any rank. Emeritus/emerita faculty members are continuing members of the University community and have a distinguished record of outstanding contribution to the University over a substantial number of years. Privileges exercised by emeritus/emerita faculty include listings in University publications, using University libraries, participating in academic processions, receiving notices of all University events, receiving a University staff identification card and discount privileges at the University bookstores, and participating in academic, professional, or social activities of the faculty and staff.

In special cases, the title Emeritus/a may be conferred upon a person retiring from an academic administrative position at Syracuse University. The designation may be added to the titles of Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and Provost, and academic deans at the time of retirement from the University when there has been a distinguished record of University contributions and an expectation of continued service to the University.

The title of Emeritus/Emerita may be conferred posthumously, upon faculty recommendation in those cases in which death precedes the possibility of retirement or within one academic year after retirement.

The motion carried.

Prof. Kornfilt continued her report with a motion to approve promotion of the following faculty members to the ranks indicated:

Arts and Sciences to Professor	Margaret Himley William C. Horrace Hyune-Ju Kim Carol Lipson Scott Pitnick Beth Prieve Grant Reeher S.N. Sangmpam Joshua Smyth Michael Sponsler
to Associate Professor	Lois Agnew Robert Doyle Samantha Herrick Timothy Korter Leonard Lopoo Laura Lee McIntyre Alison Mountz Gregory A. Thomas John Albert Uy Roy Welch

The motion carried.

Prof. Kornfilt concluded her report with a motion to recommend that the following persons be granted emeritus status:

• Marvin Druger, Professor, biology
• Gus Engbretson, Professor, biomedical and chemical engineering
• Christopher Gray, Professor, architecture
• Leon Hanouille, Assistant Professor, accounting
• H. Ernest Hemphill, Associate Professor, biology
• Badr Ismail, Professor, accounting
• Meredith Lillich, Professor, fine arts
• Carol Lipson, Professor, writing
• Mary Lou Marien, Professor, fine arts
• Fred Marquardt, Assistant Professor, history
• Augustus Pallotta, Professor, Italian
• Fred Phelps, Professor, electrical and computer engineering
• Louise Phelps, Professor, writing
• William Stinchcombe, Professor, history
• Frances Zollers, Professor, law and public policy
• Michael Freedman, Associate Professor, anthropology (posthumous)
• David Rubin, Dean
• Gurnek Singh, Librarian

The motion carried.

The Chancellor called Prof. Tom Keck, who presented the report of the Committee on LGBT Concerns in the absence of the chairman. Prof. Keck began by highlighting the report, mentioning the continuing efforts, working with the Health Care Advisory Committee, to improve domestic partnership benefits. Keck said that while they realized that in the current economic climate improvements would not come about right away, he said the committee did not believe that the current financial crisis should lead the University to lose sight of the long-term principles involved or the negative impact of current policies on the lives of faculty and staff. In the discussion, Vice President for Business and Finance Lou Marcoccia rose to comment that ultimately the University was considering a benefits program whereby the employee would decide where the money for her/his health care would go.

The Chancellor called Prof. Hub Brown, who presented the report of the Academic Affairs committee in the absence of the chairman. Prof. Brown made a motion that the Senate approve new language for the Faculty Manual, contained in Sections 2.31 through 2.33. Prof. Brown gave a brief summary of the background to the committee's motion:

In the discussion, a member rose to amend the wording, by substituting a new version of 2.31, third paragraph, entitled "Research/Scholarship/Creative Accomplishment" after the second sentence, and inserting the following as two separate paragraphs:

Scholarship, including basic and applied research, means in-depth study and learning in a specific field and inquiry and experimentation designed to make direct contributions to knowledge in that field. Scholarship, as measured by peer recognition of its originality, impact on, and importance to the development of the field, is demonstrated most typically by refereed publications, such as journal articles and books of high quality. Under some circumstances it can also be demonstrated by high quality publications in other non-refereed but influential journals. Scholarship and research accomplishments are also demonstrated by the design and execution of applied research in the laboratory or in the field, through the presentation of papers at organized scholarly meetings, usually at the national or international level, through the attraction of external support or competitive fellowships and awards appropriate to the faculty member's field of study, through such activities as editing, translation, the acquisition of significant patents, the compilation of information, and the development of materials that make information more accessible to researchers, other scholars, and practitioners, and lecturing in professional and other public forums.

The appointment of a faculty member in the creative or performing arts may permit the primary assessment of his/her efforts to be on scholarship, on artistic accomplishment, or on a balance between the two that is appropriate to the artist/scholar's appointment. For faculty members with such appointments, artistic accomplishment in the fields of literature, music, art, dance, or drama is most often demonstrated by dissemination of the artist's work through performance, publication or exhibition in professionally recognized settings usually outside the University. The artist's work shall have an intrinsic value equal to scholarship and shall be subject to equally rigorous evaluation.

that wherever a particular field is mentioned, the term "relevant discipline" be inserted and strike the word "specific" (so that it reads: in a field or relevant discipline"), and strike the phrase "Under some circumstances" at the beginning of the 3rd sentence.

Teresa Gilman
University Senate Recorder

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