ࡱ> EGDq` !bjbjqPqP 76::%       8>,j$!"$hk      `   0 dx0!,_, @^Ld!d         Minutes Faculty Senate September 1st, 2015 Senators present: Arrasmith, Brenner, Converse, Cudmore, Harvey, Jensen, Kozaitis, Marcinkowski, Murshid, Nnolim, Perdigo, Polson, Ray, Rusovici, Sandall, Shearer, Silaghi, Suksawang, Tenali, van Woesik; non-voting attendee: Professor Tom Utley President Rusovici called the meeting to order at 3:30 p.m. and asked for a motion on approving the minutes of Aprils meeting; it was made and seconded, and the vote to accept was unanimous. Dr. Rusovici introduced several new senators: Dr. Sherry Jensen of the Bisk College of Business; Dr. Marius Silaghi of Computer Science; and Dr. Pallov Ray of the Department of Marine and Environmental Science. Dr. Rusovici then introduced Ms. Karen Gathercole, Director of Human Resources. Ms. Gathercole addressed the question of whether there could be gifting of ones time in the Sick Bank to a specific recipient. She said the Sick Bank was not set up that way, and having such an option could create an imbalance; as well, there is the question of confidentiality about faculty members medical conditions. The Sick Bank, as such, has never been used, she said. As proposed, sick leave questions will appear on the enrollment screens for benefits sign-up. Once in the bank, one can pull out; and one can always make a donation. Day requirements have been changed to hours. Recently hired faculty and staff can use it immediately. Prof. Utley said he was in favor of gifting ones time to specific individuals, and wondered why this cant be set up. Ms. Gathercole answered that the University is funding sick leave in a contingency fund. She clarified the way the Sick Bank would work. In order to draw time out faculty or staff members must commit themselves to putting time in. Ideally, everyone puts in one hour and this allows everyone to draw hours. Ms. Gathercole added that there is no difference between faculty and staff for using the Sick Bank. Senator Silaghi asked how the sick leave operated, and she answered that it pays ones salary while one is out for health reasons. Another issue Ms. Gathercole spoke to was the way research supplements can be set up so as not to constitute a lump sum, which latter can create tax problems. She concluded her remarks by discussing the issue of faculty retirement, where the concern is retiring with grace. One way is a slow phase-out, and another is early retirement with a pay-out. She said she is looking for faculty help in resolving this. Sen. Cudmore asked about the family leave policy. Ms. Gathercole said family leave should go through Human Resources. The leave policy should be for twelve weeks. Dr. Rusovici thanked Ms. Gathercole for her presentation, and introduced Dr. Monica Baloga, Vice President for Institutional Effective-ness, who spoke briefly on the Universitys Mission Statement. The Faculty Senate needed a copy of the proposed statement, and Secretary Shearer said he would email all senators with this document for future discussion. Presidents Report Pres. Rusovici spoke on the items that were discussed in the recent Presidents Retreat: Admission standards have been raised. The College of Engineering needs to be top-100-ranked; this is an achievable but not an easy goal. There is to be no Medical School. There will be no Law School. We need to be doing better in research, but we lack the means; some things need to be in the budget that currently are not. Faculty equity raises are still in order. A new set of Dean's awards for faculty is being considered and researched at this time. This initiative was proposed by Drs. Catanese and McCay during the Retreat. Committee Reports Since this was the first Senate meeting of the semester, there were no committee reports as such. Sen. Cudmore, head of the Welfare Com-mittee, spoke about the issues his committee will be concerned with, among them maternity and paternity leave procedures; student complaint processes; a formal process to train new faculty on advising and how proactively to document faculty/student problematic interactions; online course compensation for course creation; and our liability with regard to online courses we create, with particular focus on where partial redevel-opment is done by someone else. New Business Pres. Rusovici announced that Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Kksal is working on a new set of Faculty Guideline, which will be presented for discussion to the Senate in the coming months. Another of his concerns is using electronic polling pertaining to Senate activities such as voting, or obtaining a Sense of the Senate. Dr. Rusovici expressed his aim of setting up a technology commit-tee as a standing committee of the Faculty Senate, which would provide a point person to interact with the IT (Instructional Technologies) staff. Sen. Arrasmith would be the chair of it. When Dr. Brenner was asked to sit in on ACITC (Academic Information Technology Committee) meetings as part of his Senate duties for one year in the early 2000s, the ACITC was not focused on instructor work stations for on-campus lecture delivery. Sen. Marcinkowski suggested that we make the proposed commit-tee a task force first and then later assess it as a possible standing committee. Sen. Arrasmith responded that he didnt think it would be a good idea to make it a transient arrangement first. Sen. Polson pointed out that, according to the bylaws of the Faculty Senate, new standing committees can be established only by a vote of the full faculty at the time of the Faculty Assembly each August. In light of this, a new commit-tee of this kind can be established only on a temporary basis. Sen. Nnolim thought we should map out the responsibilities of the proposed committee before making it a formal entity. Sen. Arrasmith would have the committee be concerned with technology, infrastructure and re-sources. As it stands now, Sen. Arrasmith added, the faculty is not well represented in technology matters; it appears that we need a faculty representative involved. Sen. Polson suggested that we see in writing what the proposed committee would do (i.e., its purpose and scope). Owing to the lateness of the hour, Pres. Rusovici called for a motion to adjourn. By unanimous consent, the meeting ended at 4:56 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Bob Shearer, Secretary     PAGE  PAGE 2 "$n  ! 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