| MINUTES FACULTY SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE September 7, 2004 RSC 111, 2:30 PM |
| PRESENT: Hal Bertilson, David Carroll, Tim Cummings, Martha Einerson, Terri Kronzer, Peter Nordgren, Nick Sloboda, Gloria Toivola, Joel Sipress, and Greg Trudeau. |
| MINUTES: Motion (G. Toivola/N. Sloboda) to approve the August 24 Faculty Senate Executive Committee minutes passed. |
| COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS: Committee assignments were discussed. |
| PROMOTION PORTFOLIOS: Promotion portfolios were recommended by the Personnel Council at the April 2004 Faculty Senate meeting. Motion (G. Toivola/M. Einerson) that the Executive Committee recommends that the Faculty Senate approve the Personnel Portfolio as presented by the Personnel Council and that it become the common standard format effective with faculty hired in 2003 was approved. |
| DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL RULES: The Personnel Council has asked to present their Department Personnel Rule report at the November Faculty Senate meeting. Departments have until October 1 to give their reports to the Personnel Council. |
| PLAN 2008: Each department is to review its Plan 2008 report. The report from the Plan 2008 committee needs to come to the Senate in October and be approved by the Senate in November. |
| SENATE CHARTER REVIEW: Deferred to a later meeting. |
| NCAA WORKING GROUPS AND LIBERAL ARTS TASK FORCE: Coordination of the NCAA Working Groups was discussed by Joel Sipress and Greg Trudeau. Joel discussed flow charts illustrating phase 1 and phase two of the NCA review. Motion (M. Einerson/G. Toivola) to endorse the initiatives identified by the Faculty Task Force on the Public Liberal Arts Mission (Community Service Learning, First-year Experience, Global Awareness, Senior Experience, and Writing Across the Curriculum with Supportive Writing Center) and create implementation groups to develop detailed implementation plans with the understanding that the Executive Committee is authorized to create such groups with deadline for curriculum and budget implementation recommendations by December 1, 2005 was approved. Joel Sipress will make a five-minute presentation with flow charts at the September Senate meeting. |
| ELECTRONIC REPORTS AT FACULTY SENATE: It was agreed that the Faculty Chair will require all reports be in writing except for reports by the Chancellor and Provost. This includes the President of the Student Senate, Academic Staff Council, and the Faculty Representative. Deadline for including reports on the agenda is delivery of reports to the Faculty Senate Secretary by the Wednesday before the Senate meeting. |
| ADJOURNED. |
Prepared by Senate Secretary Bertilson, September 17, 2004.