Faculty Senate Meeting
May 12, 2003
Members Present: Stephen Range (presiding), Steve Betros, Roger Bowles, Dale Bullock, Tinker Clift, Gerald Collum, Todd Ewing, John Falkenbury, Ruth Gray, Aniruddh Hathi, Bonnie Hopkins, Mike Huneke, Mark Long, Pat Markham, Tracy Marshall, Linda Martin, Ronald Neuman, Brenda Niekamp, Jean Norwood, Greg Poston, Dave Thomas, Lynn Tilden, Bandon Thomas, Richard Wheet, (substitutes for Bob Larsen, and George Reamy)
Presidents Council - The C.O.P. for the 9-month contracts has been formally approved. There were assurances that 9-month faculty would not be the first to go if there is a reduction of force.
The set up of a certain many slots for student workers and that a student worker could get a transfer one time only.
Campus wide e-mails, compose the letter yourself the way you want it stated in the campus wide e-mail so that communications only have to proof read it for mistakes.
Dress codes are up to departments to use their own judgments on the appropriate dress for that department.
Adjunct academic faculty no longer need 3 years field experience .
The enrollment is down from last year but the exact figures will not be out until the 12th class day.
Election of President-Elect
The election to fill the current president spot left open by Mark Spivey was held with Richard Wheet getting the majority of the senate votes.
Invited Speaker
John Spradling spoke to the faculty senate about C.O.P. 7.30 specifically the point of limiting the overload hours. The point was brought up that the Chair and Cluster Director should be responsible for seeing to the limits of overloads. The wording of 7.30 should be changed to take the cap off.
There was also discussion about the extended registration hours. The agreement of most of the faculty was that it was a waste of time as so few people register at these time. The suggestion was made that to advertise that the after-hours registration would be by appointment only.
Mr. Sprading agreed to take these concerns forward.
Meeting adjourned 6:20.