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UAF FACULTY SENATE MEETING #100
Monday, March 5, 2001
1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Wood Center Ballroom
1:30 I Call to Order - Larry Duffy 5 Min.
A. Roll Call
B. Approval of Minutes to Meeting #99
C. Adoption of Agenda
1:35 II Status of Chancellor's Office Actions 5 Min.
A. Motions Approved:
1. Motion to amend Section 3 (Article V:
Committees, Standing, Permanent) of the
Bylaws by deleting E. 9.
2. Motion to amend the Foreign Language
Advanced Placement Credit policy.
3. Motion to recommend UAF Administrators
be reviewed on a four year cycle according
to Guidelines.
B. Motions Pending:
4. Motion to approve the Certificate and
A.A.S. degree program in Dental Assistant.
5. Motion to approve the Certificate and
A.A.S. degree program in Tribal Management.
1:40 III A. Remarks by Chancellor M. Lind 10 Min.
B. Remarks by Provost P. Reichardt 10 Min.
C. Debbie Wilson, UAF Dining Services 5 Min.
2:05 IV Governance Reports
A. ASUAF -S. Banks / GSO - 5 Min.
B. Staff Council - S. Culbertson 5 Min.
C. President's Report - L. Duffy 5 Min.
2:20 V New Business 15 Min.
A. Motion to approve a new integrated B.S./M.S. degree
program in Computer Science, submitted by
Curricular Affairs & Graduate Academic & Advisory
Committee (Attachment 100/1)
B. Motion to amend the Constitution dealing with
research faculty membership on Senate, submitted by
Faculty Affairs, ***First Reading*** (Attachment 100/2)
C. Motion to add Senate agenda item on budget
presentation, submitted by Faculty Affairs
(Attachment 100/3)
D. Nomination for President-Elect
2:35 VI Discussion Items 30 Min.
A. Accreditation - Dana Thomas & Ron Gatterdam
See: /provost/accreditation/draft/
1. Standard 1 - Institutional Mission and Goals
2. Standard 6 - Governance and Administration
3. Standard 9 - Institutional Integrity
3:05 VII Public Comments/Questions 5 Min.
3:10 VIII Committee Reports 15 Min.
A. Curricular Affairs - R. Illingworth (Attachment 100/4)
B. Faculty Affairs - P. McRoy (Attachment 100/5)
C. Graduate Academic & Advisory Committee - J. Gardner
(Attachment 100/6)
D. Core Review - J. Brown
E. Curriculum Review - S, Bandopadhyay
F. Developmental Studies - J. Weber (Attachment 100/7)
G. Faculty Appeals & Oversight - G. Chukwu
H. Faculty Development, Assessment & Improvement -
T. Robinson (Attachment 100/8)
3:25 IX Members' Comments/Questions 5 Min.
3:30 X Adjournment
ATTACHMENT 100/1
UAF FACULTY SENATE #100
MARCH 5, 2001
SUBMITTED BY CURRICULAR AFFAIRS & GRADUATE ACADEMIC &
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
MOTION
======
The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve a new integrated B.S./M.S.
degree program in Computer Science.
EFFECTIVE: Fall 2001
Upon Board of Regents' Approval
RATIONALE: See full program proposal #66 on file in
the Governance Office, 312 Signers锟� Hall.
Executive Summary
B.S./M.S., Computer Science
The Department of Mathematical Sciences proposes a NEW integrated
Computer Science BS/MS degree program for qualified undergraduate
students to complete BS and MS degrees in a shorter time than
traditional BS plus MS degrees. The combined accelerated degree for
Computer Science undergraduate students is designed for students to
complete both a Bachelor in Science and a Master in Science in five
years. The basic rationales for the program are:
1. Better use of University resources
2. Leverage existing strong BS programs to increase graduate
enrollment.
3. A national trend in a highly demanding field
4. An attractive option for qualified undergraduate students
Students, university, and industry are three most important
components for the technology advancement. Since this is an
integrated program for excellent students through planning and
commitments, it is a win-win-win (WWW) program. Students can finish
both degrees in shorter time without sacrificing educational quality in
the discipline. The university can retain excellent undergraduate
students in the graduate program and increase the enrollment and
throughput. Computer science graduates have accepted positions with
Microsoft, IBM, SUN, DEC, ARCO, BP as well as government agencies
(state and federal), research institutes and centers. They are main
stream workforces for the information era.
ATTACHMENT 100/2
UAF FACULTY SENATE #100
MARCH 5, 2001
SUBMITTED BY FACULTY AFFAIRS
**FIRST READING*
MOTION
======
The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend Article III, Section 2 of the
UAF Faculty Senate Constitution as follows:
[[ ]] = Deletions
CAPS = Additions
ARTICLE III - Membership
Sect. 2 Voting members of the Senate must EITHER hold academic
rank [[and must be]] WITH full-time CONTINUING
APPOINTMENT AT [[permanent employees of]] the
University of Alaska FAIRBANKS OR HOLD SPECIAL
ACADEMIC RANK WITH TITLE PRECEDED BY 'RESEARCH'
OR 'TERM'.
EFFECTIVE: Upon Chancellor approval
RATIONALE: The number of research faculty on campus
has increased in recent years. Members of this faculty
group seek participation in faculty governance as well
as representation on the Faculty Senate. This change
accommodates this group of faculty.
ATTACHMENT 100/3
UAF FACULTY SENATE #100
MARCH 5, 2001
SUBMITTED BY FACULTY AFFAIRS
MOTION:
======
The UAF Faculty Senate moves that the Senate agenda will include a
standing agenda item on the university budget and it associated
priorities, to be presented by the Chancellor and/or designated
representative.
EFFECTIVE: Immediately
RATIONALE: Review of the university budget is one of
the charges of the Faculty Affairs Committee.
ATTACHMENT 100/4
UAF FACULTY SENATE #100
MARCH 5, 2001
SUBMITTED BY CURRICULAR AFFAIRS
Curricular Affairs Committee Meeting Report - Ron Illingworth, Chair
The Curricular Affairs committee held audioconferenced meetings on
February 7th and 21st and sponsored two open forum discussions on
distance learning on February 15th and 22nd Our next committee
meeting is scheduled for 7 March, 2001 from 1145-100pm.
All meetings are audioconferenced as well as face to face as several
members of the committee are from outside Fairbanks.
The committee reviewed the current policy regarding double counting
of courses and concurred with the Core Review Committee in retaining
the wording in the catalog: "Courses used to meet core requirements
may not be used to meet any other requirements for a degree."
The School of Education provided a presentation on the current
proposal for a new BA in Education. The proposal is proceeding
through the approval process and will be presented to us for action
after March 19th.
The committee moved to accept the recommendation of the BT
committee to recognize the journeyman status for demonstration of
competency and credit award for a student. The acceptance was
forwarded to the Governance Office for action.
The chair of the committee reported on UAF participation in the two
Dialogue on Distance Education open forums which have been held.
The third forum in the series, concentrating on student issues, will
occur on 7 March 2001 from 1:00-2:15 p.m. in the Kayak room of the
library. Over 50 people and 7 audioconference sites have joined in the
discussion so far. Materials from the discussion may be viewed at
http://www.dist-ed.uaf.edu/distancelearning/forum.html. Issues which
develop from this dialogue will be brought to the committee for
resolution. We hope that issues and proposals regarding distance
education currently being discussed at the SAC and Faculty Alliance will
be presented to UAF faculty for our consideration and input prior to
their implementation.
The committee discussed student requests to include a 4 year schedule
of courses in the catalog and to change the policy on which grade
counts when a course has been retaken. Committee members believed
that the catalog is not the best place to site a 4-year schedule of
courses. However, this raises advising issues and we recognized a
sense of student frustration. We will continue to dialogue with the
student organizations regarding these two issues.
ATTACHMENT 100/5
UAF FACULTY SENATE #100
MARCH 5, 2001
SUBMITTED BY FACULTY AFFAIRS
FACULTY AFFAIRS MEETING REPORT, 21 February 2001
Committee Members Present: M. Box, M. Davis, J. McBeath, C.P. McRoy
(chair) and J. Wiens
Old Business:
1. Research Faculty Membership:
After some discussion by the committee and noting the rationale
brought forward from the 99-2000 Senate on the issue of membership
of research faculty on the Faculty Senate, the committee the following
motion was unanimously passed. This would be a change in the Senate
Constitution. With respect to Article III, Section 2 of the UAF Faculty
Senate Constitution
MOTION:
ARTICLE III - Membership Sect. 2.
Voting members of the Senate must EITHER hold academic rank [[and
must be]] WITH full-time continuing APPOINTMENT AT [[permanent
employees of]] the University of Alaska FARIBANKS OR HOLD SPECIAL
ACADEMIC RANK WITH THE TITLE PRECEEDED BY 'RESEARCH' AND
HAVE THAT RANK FOR AT LEAST 3 YEARS.
2. Legislative Interaction
This is a broad area of responsibility for Faculty Affairs under the
Senate Bylaws. Mike Davis took a class to Juneau in the first of
February for instruction on the legislative process. This was well
received by the Legislature. Faculty Affairs will pursue ways to inform
faculty and the Legislature on needs and process.
3. Term Faculty Promotions:
Dean Leipzig brought this item to the committee last semester. After
further discussion with the Dean the Faculty Affairs Committee
recommends that no action be taken at this time to formalize a policy
on promotion of instructors.
4. Other Items
Faculty Affairs noted that its portfolio includes responsibility for
fiscal issues. To this end the following motion was passed unanimously:
MOTION:
Faculty Affairs requests inclusion in the Senate agenda a presentation
and discussion by the appropriate administrators of the university
budget and its associated priorities.
ATTACHMENT 100/6
UAF FACULTY SENATE #100
MARCH 5, 2001
SUBMITTED BY GRADUATE ACADEMIC & ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Graduate Advisory and Academic Committee - Jim Gardner, Chair
GAAC met February 12 and 26, 2001.
At the February 12 meeting, GAAC approved the one Trial Course
submitted to the committee. The committee also finalized a rough
draft for recommended regulations for Graduate Student Advisory
Committees and dispersed the draft to all Chairmen of departments
with graduate degree programs. At a future meeting GAAC will revise
that draft based on received comments.
At the February 26 meeting, GAAC approved the proposed combined
BS/MS degree in Computer Science and will forward it to the full Senate
for the March 5 meeting. GAAC also began reviewing the proposed
M.A. in Administration of Justice, with David Blurton in attendance and
decided to postpone final decision until further review.
No other business was discussed and the committee adjourned to their
other mounds of work.
ATTACHMENT 100/7
UAF FACULTY SENATE #100
MARCH 5, 2001
SUBMITTED BY DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIES
Minutes of The Developmental Studies Committee
February 15, 2001, Wood Center Conference Room B
Attending: Barbara Adams, Patty Baldwin, John Bruder, Rich Carr, Jerah
Chadwick, John Creed, Marty Getz, Cindy Hardy, Marjie Illingworth, Ron
Illingworth, Joe Mason, Wanda Martin, Greg Owens, Lisa Thomas, Jane
Weber.
The committee met, discussed and acted on the following items:
Preparation for the upcoming meeting with President Hamilton.
Chancellor Lind and Provost Reichardt have requested to meet with us
before our meeting with Hamilton. This meeting is set for March 1.
We need to gather data to present to Hamilton with copies for Lind and
Reichardt. Specifically, we will gather information on the UA scholars
that shows the level of these students, as shown by Compass, Asset,
ACTs, or SATs and shows how they are served by Developmental
classes currently in place. Wanda suggested that we use statistics
from the Early Warning program that show the levels of entering UAF
students and how many have enrolled in Developmental courses. We
will also request similar information from Bethel and the Emerging
Scholars program. In addition we will look at the data Greg has
generated to see if it applies. Ron will check with NADE to gather data
on how our Developmental programs compare with other schools, and
he will also glean data from the accreditation report that shows the
number of full-time and part-time faculty and the number of students
in our programs.
In addition, we agreed to keep the discussion focussed on the original
concern that led to our request for a meeting with Hamilton: how best
to serve UA scholars who come to our programs underprepared to the
extent that they need courses below the level of our current
Developmental offerings.
We agreed to have all this information to Jane by February 23 so she
can fax it to members of the committee and to Hamilton, Lind, and
Reichardt.
FY03 Initiatives:
The initiatives for a Student Learning Center put forth by Wanda and
by Jane, Cindy, Marjie, and Debbie are going forward, but have been
combined with an initiative from Joan Braddock on advising issues and
with another advising initiative from Wanda. The amount of the
initiatives has been significantly scaled back. Ann Secrest and Jane did
compose a proposal letter for a FIPSE grant and the two SSSP grants
submitted by CRA and a group consisting of RSS and Upward Bound
and others are still out there, with notification due in May.
PRAXIS:
Issues relating to the PRAXIS exam have come to the attention of this
committee. Specifically, we looked at some statistics from Delena
Norris-Tull on the numbers of students in different categories who have
failed the PRAXIS test. Of these, the numbers of rural and Alaska
Native students failing is most worrisome.
Since PRAXIS is not a topic of discussion at our meeting with the
President, we have decided to table this discussion until a later
meeting.
Future Meetings:
March 1, 2:00-3:30pm. Chancellor's Conference Room
Meeting with Lind and Reichardt 2-3
March 5, 10:00am-12:30pm. Chancellor's Conference Room
Meeting with Hamilton 11-12
March 22, 2:00-3:30pm. Regular meeting. Wood Center Conference
Room B
ATTACHMENT 100/8
UAF FACULTY SENATE #100
MARCH 5, 2001
SUBMITTED BY FACULTY DEVELOPMENT, ASSESSMENT & IMPROVEMENT
Faculty Development, Assessment & Improvement Committee Meeting
Report
The Faculty Development, Assessment & Improvement committee held
it锟絪 meeting on January 23, 2001 as an audio-conference from 11:30 -
12:30 in the library conference room (341). Those present: B.
Butcher, J. Collins, B. Cooper, L. Curda, R. Dupras, D. McLean-Nelson, J.
Morrison, R. Norris-Tull, E. T. Robinson, C. Price. Absent: A. Rybkin
The meeting was convened by chair Robinson. Following introductions,
the minutes of the last meeting (11/12/2000) were accepted as
presented.
Chair Robinson reported on the administrative meeting where our post-
tenure resolution was presented. Due to the Fairbanks team that will
be attending the AAHE conference at which a section will address post-
tenure review, the committee锟絪 resolution was tabled. It is hoped that
the team will be able to better evaluate the nature and direction our
post-tenure review should follow based on the conference.
The Tuesday meeting time at 11:30 锟� 12:30 was reconfirmed for our
committee gatherings.
Joy Morrison reported on various activities. A main item presented was
that relating to a grant writer presentation scheduled in March through
Ted DeLaca. A planned workshop on grant writing by Bob Lucas on
3/20 is to provide for a maximum of 25 faculty. Elements of scholarly
writing and the desirability of making the presentation cover greater
breadth and for more than the one day was discussed at length.
Development funds should be made available to expand the original
plans. A variety of scenarios were discussed as to who could/should be
involved in the limited and expanded presentations and how the
committee锟絪 desires are to be communicated. After much discussion it
was decided that Deans Collins, Norris-Tull and Joy Morrison meet after
our meeting to discuss the various possibilities with DeLaca and the
Provost. Results of these efforts will be reported as decisions are
made.
The Fairbanks team attending the AAHE conference, in addition to
post-tenure review will share their enlightenment with the committee
upon their return. Topics of the sessions will include, in addition to
post-tenure review, faculty roles & rewards, technology impact,
honoring different forms of scholarly excellence, and other items of
interest.
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, February 13, 2001.
The committee adjourned. Respectively submitted, E. Tom Robinson
UA