9:30 am
Beck rooms

Agenda

1. Sign in for quorum

2. Call to order

3. Communications from Provost Robinson

4. Approval of agenda

5. Approval of the draft minutes of the May 4 meeting

6. Executive Committee report

a. Resolution to create an Intellectual Property Task Force

The Executive Committee moves that a  task force be appointed to explore issues of intellectual property and policy.  The Executive Committee will accept nominations and make appointments to the committee.

b. Motion to make the chair of the Graduate Studies Committee ex officio Senate Representative on the Graduate Policy Advisory Board

The executive committee moves that the chair of the Graduate Studies Committee should serve as the Senate Representative on the Graduate Policy Advisory Board.

7. Reports of standing and special committees

a. Academic Facilities Committee report

b. Academic Policy Committee report

c. Admissions Committee report

d. Compensation & Welfare Committee report

e. Core Curriculum Committee report

I. Motion to approve the following University Core Proficiencies Transfer Policy:

f. Faculty Development Committee report

g. Faculty Guide & Bylaws Committee report

I. First reading of changes to Article 10.1a (re: Selection of Chairpersons)

Motion : Department chairpersons are elected by majority vote of all full time tenured faculty members, tenure track faculty members, and faculty associates who will be continuing employment at the university in the subsequent year.

This replaces: Department chairpersons are elected by majority vote of the full time tenured faculty members of the department, the probationary faculty members in their second year who have been renewed for the following academic year, and faculty associates in their third year of faculty service.

II. Motion to change the Resolution of Dec. 2, 2011 regarding the clinical line in the College of Nursing

The Faculty Guide Committee continues to believe that there is no need for a faculty associate line in nursing if the clinical line is approved. The Faculty Guide Committee suggests this compromise on the language of the resolution of Dec. 2, 2011:

Motion: To change the Resolution of Dec. 2, 2011 to read as follows:

Clinical faculty in the College of Nursing who hold a rank of Faculty Associate or Senior Faculty Associate will immediately be given the opportunity to transfer to the appropriate equivalent clinical faculty line upon final adoption of the clinical faculty line. These faculty members will retain their current contract status when transferring from Faculty Associate or Senior Faculty Associate to clinical track faculty.

h. Graduate Studies Committee report

i. Library Committee report (Updated report received during the June-September recess)

j. Program Review Committee report

a. Motion to approve Dr. Ellen Mandel as the chair of the Program Review Committee

8. Committees with no reports

a. Calendar Committee

b. Grievance Committee

c. Instructional Technology Committee

d. Nominations, Elections, & Appointments Committee

e. Senate Representative of the Graduate Policy Advisory Board

9. Committee motions

a. Core Curriculum Committee

I. Motion to approve the following University Core Proficiencies Transfer Policy:

b. Executive Committee

I. Resolution to create an Intellectual Property Task Force

The Executive Committee moves that a  task force be appointed to explore issues of intellectual property and policy.  The Executive Committee will accept nominations and make appointments to the committee.

II. Motion to make the chair of the Graduate Studies Committee ex officio Senate Representative on the Graduate Policy Advisory Board

The executive committee moves that the chair of the Graduate Studies Committee should serve as the Senate Representative on the Graduate Policy Advisory Board.

c. Faculty Guide and Bylaws Committee

I. First reading of changes to Article 10.1a (re: Selection of Chairpersons)

Motion : Department chairpersons are elected by majority vote of all full time tenured faculty members, tenure track faculty members, and faculty associates who will be continuing employment at the university in the subsequent year.

This replaces: Department chairpersons are elected by majority vote of the full time tenured faculty members of the department, the probationary faculty members in their second year who have been renewed for the following academic year, and faculty associates in their third year of faculty service.

II. Motion to change the Resolution of Dec. 2, 2011 regarding the clinical line in the College of Nursing

The Faculty Guide Committee continues to believe that there is no need for a faculty associate line in nursing if the clinical line is approved. The Faculty Guide Committee suggests this compromise on the language of the resolution of Dec. 2, 2011:

Motion: To change the Resolution of Dec. 2, 2011 to read as follows:

Clinical faculty in the College of Nursing who hold a rank of Faculty Associate or Senior Faculty Associate will immediately be given the opportunity to transfer to the appropriate equivalent clinical faculty line upon final adoption of the clinical faculty line. These faculty members will retain their current contract status when transferring from Faculty Associate or Senior Faculty Associate to clinical track faculty.

d. Program Review Committee

I. Motion to approve Dr. Ellen Mandel as the chair of the Program Review Committee

10. Old Business

a. Motion to enter the changes to Bylaw 19 into Faculty Senate Bylaws

11. New Business

a. Election of the Senate Representative to the Graduate Policy Advisory Board

b. Resolution on the creation of a Liberal Arts Task Force

Whereas discussions in the academy over the past few years have increasingly raised concerns about the strength of Liberal Arts education in American colleges and universities,

Whereas the recent discussion over the revised Stillman School of Business core’s general electives raised questions about the state of Liberal Arts education at Seton Hall University specifically,

And whereas the quality and strength of Liberal Arts education at Seton Hall University should be an ongoing concern for all who teach and study here,

Be it resolved that the Faculty Senate requests that the Provost create a Task Force, to consist of an Associate Dean for Academics from each school and college, the chair of the EPC of each school and college (or a designated representative), the members of the Senate Executive Committee, the Chair of the Academic Policy Committee, and the Chair of the University Core Committee to begin discussions about the state of the Liberal Arts at Seton Hall University.

12. Communications

13. Adjournment