Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes
May 13, 2002

President’s Council Meeting

Introduced new student government officers

Shelly Sheffield had a list of students that were going to be deregistered. Some owed .16˘ or had a $40 credit.  They have decided on a $100 limit, if they do not pay after notification they will be dropped from all their classes. No Faculty to call these students, Dr. Ellis agreed that it was not the faculty’s job to call these students. There was a suggestion of mailings, but no current addresses are available in the student files.  Dr. Grulick suggested the new advisors get current information.

Student Appeal Process was not the same document as at the last president council meeting.  Therefore, the Faculty Senate did not review the document in its current state. All members of the President Council voted for acceptance except for Richard who voted against. Copy on website of this appeal process.

COP 2.4 dismissal of non-Faculty and non-contract.  Richard asked that they take out reference to faculty in the first sentence out.

Ellis changed time for council meeting to Wednesday a week before the Faculty Seante meeting on the day of the meeting.

Faculty ranking, HR decided not to do until Sept. 1 because of budget.  It does not concern budget but HR still claimed they did not have time. Dr. Grulick said that they can wait until September.  Dr Ellis indicated that she would get the faculty ranking list and make it official via a personal letter to each faculty member.

Official date of Dr Ellis’ resignation will be in the middle of July.

Change of Spring 2003 graduation date.  Coliseum is booked.  Proposed date is April 29th.

RFQ for computer stuff, 20 submitted proposal and there will be 3 days set aside to make presentations. This will take place in June.  2 people from faculty senate are on committee (President; Richard and the president-elect.)

End of president’s Council Meeting

COP 7.30 (recommendations of committee)

Faculty productivity, committee met 4 or 5 times made recommendations. Not everyone will be happy. Members of committee: Richard Wheet, Elton Stuckley, Mark Long, and Dale Bullock

Recommended Changes to the latest revision of COP 7.3 (dated 2/15/2002) by the Faculty Senate Faculty Productivity Committee.

Definitions:

C.    faculty 5 – 24 hours

H.     add that faculty can decline overload

 Procedures:

 C.    faculty SHOULD teach 15 – 24 hours

 D.    remove except for last line.  On last line remove cluster director and dean

 J.      remove

K.     define release time and set rules

L.      make contact hours the same for academic and technical faculty

M.    remove technical department and remove “and in the academic… lab hours).

N.     Remove

O,P,Q,R.         place in separate document

T.      remove

U.     add Department Chairs

V.     remove first sentence.

Additional:

All pay and release time for overload will be limited to 4 hours.  Any hours in excess of 4 hours will not be paid.  During that semester in which the excess exists, it is the responsibility of the instructional division to make advance arrangements for this situation to be solved by the next semester.

Cap of 4 hours of overload.  If the instructor wants to teach more than 4 hours then they do it on his or her own.  Senators were asked to take back to the faculty and get information.  There is no telling if we are even going to get these recommendations.  Define within the 18-24 range when overload begins.  Need to put on paper formally what we would like.

Students Appeal Process

Approved

Evaluations

There was a meeting during the break.  Harlingen (170) Marshall (40) Sweetwater (70) did all evaluations.  Only 2 got satisfactory rating in Harlingen.  There are evidently problems with the evaluation process. Many of the administrators as well as faculty does not understand how process works. Training to take place in September or October.

There will be training for DC’s on the evaluation process, what it is and how to do it.

Handout for Mentoring

Election of President-Elect and Parliamentarian

Only the members of the Senate (Senators, Officers and Chair) may vote for those nominated.

President-elect elected will take office as President on September 1st. 

Nominees for President-Elect:

Open Questions:

Q: directed to Bob Larsen; Mark is for changing bylaws to represent the number of senators by number of faculty in the department.

A: Bob: Feel like it should be a level playing field for all departments at the current one senator per department.

Closed ballot was tallied:

Bob Larsen was declared the new President-Elect.

Parliamentarian: Parliamentarian’s term will end August 31st

New Business

Pat Markham asked: Do we actually need someone to be here after hours for registration?  Take back to faculty and bring info back to next FS meeting

Meeting adjourned.