1:00 pm
Beck rooms
Agenda
1. Sign in for quorum
2. Call to order
3. Communications from Provost Robinson
i. Academic Integrity Policy – November 2015
4. Approval of agenda
5. Approval of the draft minutes of the November 13 meeting
6. Executive Committee report
a. Motion: The Faculty Senate accepts the Provost’s suggested amendment to the changes to the Human Resources Provisions in the Faculty Guide that were approved by the Senate in December 2014.
7. Reports of standing and special committees
a. Academic Facilities Committee report
b. Academic Policy Committee report
i. Motion Regarding SA/NA grades:
The APC endorses the creation of a new “N/SA” grade, defined as “no basis for grading/stopped attending,” to be added to the grading scheme to allow faculty members to indicate if a student stopped attending at some point during the semester but without completion of enough work to assign a semester grade. The previously approved “F/SA” (failure/stopped attending) and “NA” (never attended) grades remain unchanged. The Executive Committee and the administration shall work together to develop the catalog language for these grades. This change shall be effective starting fall 2015.
c. Compensation & Welfare Committee report
d. Faculty Guide and Bylaws Committee report
i. Motion: Second reading of the proposed changes to delete “at least” in Article 5.4 (b)
a. The University Rank and Tenure Committee shall consist of eleven (11) tenured faculty members holding the rank of professor. Each of the constituent schools of the university in which tenure is granted must be represented on the committee and at least three (3) of its members shall hold tenured rank in the College of Arts and Sciences, two (2) of its members shall hold tenured rank in the W. Paul Stillman School of Business, and two (2) of its members shall hold tenured rank in the College of Education and Human Services.
i. Rationale: With the School of Communication and the Arts, A&S, Stillman and Education would no longer have a possibility of more than the number of members noted.
e. Library Committee report
8. Committees with no reports
a. Admissions Committee
b. Calendar Committee
c. Core Curriculum Committee
d. Faculty Development Committee
e. Faculty Grievance Committee
f. Graduate Studies Committee
g. Instructional Technology Committee
h. Intellectual Property Task Force
i. Nominations, Elections, and Appointments Committee
j. Program Review Committee
k. University Completion Committee
9. Committee Motions
a. Executive Committee
i. Motion: The Faculty Senate accepts the Provost’s suggested amendment to the changes to the Human Resources Provisions in the Faculty Guide that were approved by the Senate in December 2014.
b. Academic Policy Committee
i. Motion Regarding SA/NA grades:
The APC endorses the creation of a new “N/SA” grade, defined as “no basis for grading/stopped attending,” to be added to the grading scheme to allow faculty members to indicate if a student stopped attending at some point during the semester but without completion of enough work to assign a semester grade. The previously approved “F/SA” (failure/stopped attending) and “NA” (never attended) grades remain unchanged. The Executive Committee and the administration shall work together to develop the catalog language for these grades. This change shall be effective starting fall 2015.
c. Faculty Guide and Bylaws Committee
i. Motion: Second reading of the proposed changes to delete “at least” in Article 5.4 (b)
a. The University Rank and Tenure Committee shall consist of eleven (11) tenured faculty members holding the rank of professor. Each of the constituent schools of the university in which tenure is granted must be represented on the committee and at least three (3) of its members shall hold tenured rank in the College of Arts and Sciences, two (2) of its members shall hold tenured rank in the W. Paul Stillman School of Business, and two (2) of its members shall hold tenured rank in the College of Education and Human Services.
i. Rationale: With the School of Communication and the Arts, A&S, Stillman and Education would no longer have a possibility of more than the number of members noted.
10. Old Business
11. New Business
12. Communications
13. Adjournment