The Waco-Marshall Faculty Senate Executive Board met in the IDEAS center on Friday, October 18, 1996. President Barbara Lease called the meeting to order at approximately 10:12. Among those present were the following board members:

President--Barbara Lease
Treasurer--Sid Lenoir
Parliamentarian--Jerry Hutyra
Secretary--Brenda Cornell
Scholarship Chair--Dave Day
Communications Chair--Terry Conroy
Personnel Committee--Mike Combs
Academics Committee--Fred Khozein
Ombudsman--Jim Lillie

Also present was Sam Cryan, newly re-elected SGA President.


Minutes from the October 11 meeting were accepted with minor corrections. Although the major item on the agenda concerned the evaluations of the Minnie Piper Stevens Award nominations, there were a few items of old and new business.

Academics Committee Report: Fred Khozein distributed David Meine's Ranking Committee Survey (which is to be mailed to the faculty) and instructed Executive Board members to complete the forms together with their suggestions. According to Fred, two Campus Operating Policies (COPS), Student Attendance and Scholastic Probation, have been approved.

Appreciation to Faculty for Dismissal of Students (to vote): Sam Cryan expressed appreciation to the faculty for letting the students out in order to vote. Approximately 438 students voted, in favor of keeping the institution and its mission intact.

Marker for Marlin Beamon (BET): The group voted to purchase a marker in memory of Marlin Beamon, who recently passed away. Communications Chair Terry Conroy will call Don Kunze for more information.

Treasurer's Report: Sid Lenoir, Treasurer, stated some good news: The Faculty Senate Executive Board now has money! We have a travel/expense budget of $672.99 and an overall budget figure of $4,599.65.

Meet the Candidates: Sam Cryan announced the public forums, "Meet the Candidates," which will take place next Wednesday night and the Wednesday following [Oct. 23 and Oct. 30]. Barbara Rusling, Jim Dunnam, Chet Edwards, and Jay Mathis are featured guests. Sam invited everyone to attend.

Transferability: On October 17-18, some Department Chairs and faculty went to Dallas (at the instruction of THCB) to work on a 4-digit course numbering system for technical courses. since we are being pushed in the direction of master's degrees in all areas, forthcoming also is the ideas of transferability and teacher certification.

Faculty Senate Website: According to Terry Conroy, the permanent website is now up and running. The address is:
http://surf.tstc.edu/~facsen

The Faculty Senate Secretary can now send Terry the electronic--e-mail--minutes, and she will change the format to suit the home page. Then the faculty can call up the minutes via the Faculty Senate website.

Evaluation of Minnie Piper Stevens Award Applications: The group (minus those who were also nominees and those who nominated applicants) proceeded to screen applications and rank them in order of excellence. Because each applicant possessed certain outstanding traits, this task was an extremely difficult one.

Meeting With Salary Committee Next Week: Next week (October 25) Senior Instructor John Hendry, Committee Chair, and other members of the Salary Committee will meet with the Faculty Senate Executive Board.

There being no further business, the motion to adjourn was made, seconded, and passed at approximately 12:00 p. m.