Faculty Senate Meeting
President Richard Wheet
called the meeting order at 5:20 p.m.
Present: all except those noted below
Absent: Gerald Collum – secretary, Amy Patrick –
academic chair, Walton Yantis – CNS, John Falkenbury – EHS, Dave Thomas - SBS
The December 2003 minutes
were approved and accepted with no changes.
Campus President Elton
Stuckly was first on the agenda, giving a report of what has happened and will
happen in the coming months:
·
Enrollment is up
considerably, no final numbers yet, but is looking good on retention and new
students.
·
Calendar will be three
semesters of 15 weeks each. This was arrived after considering the pros and
cons of other calendars. The Faculty
Senate Calendar Committee was recognized and given a round of applause.
·
John Connally Building,
the ball is in the architect’s hands now. Estimated cost of repairs is in the
neighborhood of one million dollars or more.
Forensic studies have been made on the building to see if it is safe to
inhabit. It is for now, but another study will be done again in the near
future.
·
ITC revamping Phase I
nearing completion. Chet Edwards will be contacted for Federal funding
possibilities for Phase II and III.
North entrance did not turnout looking very good, will be modified
during Phase II.
·
COP 7.30 – Faculty
Senate got all of the changes requested. At graduation, the faculty according
to their degrees should wear proper garb. The board of Regents will be looking
at some way to provide funding for all graduates to attend commencement
exercises.
·
Mall area – GLM is
working on ideas to improve the looks and alleviate the bird problem on the
mall.
·
Increasing enrollment
is everyone’s job, no exceptions.
·
Additional funding for
Waco TSTC is being looked at by TSTC and the City of Waco.
·
Does anyone know how to
get Stuckly a face-to-face meeting with Michael Dell?
·
The Baylor hanger will
be re-leased for $21k per year plus utilities.
·
APT & Baylor have a
problem. Airway management students at Baylor are essentially going 12 months
of the year without a break due to differences in school calendars. This will be looked at carefully.
·
Secret Service finally
has begun paying their rent.
John Spradling V.P.
Instruction made a brief appearance to say that there is no report from the
V.P.’s meeting, they will convene again today and he will have a report later
on.
PRESIDENT”S CABINET
REPORT (Richard Wheet).
·
Faculty Productivity
COP 7.30 was passed.
·
Student Graduation COP
7.37 – requires applications for graduation to include exit survey passed.
·
Village Oaks residents
will be possibly be required to use TSTC broadband for $15 and other providers
banned. Discussion tended to indicate
that they should be given it as an option or may choose a commercial provider based
on market conditions. No decision was made.
·
Regent Circle will only
take a 5% cut for donations that they obtain.
Donations made through the campus will not be charged the 5%.
FACULTY PRODUCTIVITY (COP 7.30)
The changes to COP 7.30 were
discussed and there were no objections.
Request for input into
System Operating Standards was discussed.
Administrations continued
refusal to give reasons for faculty dismissals was discussed.
There being no new business a motion to adjourn was made and seconded. Passed without abstentions or nays. Meeting adjourned at 6:20pm