Subject to changes and
approval at the November 25, 2003 meeting.
Academic Senate Meeting
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Banquet Room-Administration
Building
http://senate.csuci.edu/AY2003/minutes/senate/minutes10-28-03.htm
-Kathleen Kaiser, Faculty
Trustee, CSU Board of Trustees
-Robert Cherny, Chair, Academic Senate CSU
- Senate
Executive:
- SR 05-03
Kindergarten-University Bond Act Resolution - Second Reading
- SR 06-03
Resolution on Supplemental Reporting Language - Second Reading
- Faculty Development Advisory Committee
-Food Committee
Attendance: Virgil Adams, Mary Adler, Simone Aloisio, Gary Berg, AJ Bieszczad, Robert Bleicher, Merilyn Buchanan, Rainer Buschmann, Renny Christopher, Cathy Claiborne, William Cordeiro, Beatrice de Oca, Maria Denney, Jesse Elliott, Nathaniel Emerson, Scott Frisch, Jorge Garcia, Jeanne Grier, Ivona Grzegorczyk, Phil Hampton, Carol Holder, Nian-Sheng Huang, Antonio Jimenez-Jimenez, Joan Karp, Jacquelyn Kilpatrick, Jill Leafstedt, Steve Lefevre, Ted Lucas, Dennis Muraoka, Joan Peters, Paul Rivera, Ira Schoenwald, Peter Smith, Steve Stratton, Sarah Toner, Ashish Vaidya, Kevin Volkan, Amy Wallace, Ching-Hua Wang, Bill Wolfe.
Chair Renny Christopher called the meeting to order at 1:09 p.m.
Hampton motioned to approve and
Muraoka seconded; minutes were approved.
Karp motioned to approve, seconded by Hampton; minutes were approved.
-Volkan expressed a concern over the safety of the pull down screens located in the classrooms indicating that one, located in room 1441, had fallen off.
-Adler questioned the status of additional parking spaces on the Westside of the campus.
-The president has three priorities for this year:
1. First priority will be to complete the educational effectiveness report and submit it to WASC by the July deadline.
2. Second priority will be across the board assessment by all divisions. Each division on campus will need to develop measurable objectives and self analysis procedures.
3. Third priority is to develop the academic plan, the Enrollment Management committee is already meeting to discuss this plan and future enrollment predictions. The Committee meetings are held every Thursday in the Administration building and everyone is invited to attend.
-A task force of a whole has been meeting to develop the five-year academic plan. Everyone is invited to attend these meetings. As a result of the last meeting, questions have been brought up regarding the type of graduates we want to produce: What do we want our students to know or be able to do when they graduate? This campus has the unique opportunity at this time to stop what we are doing, evaluate and make changes if necessary.
Renny Christopher reported the following:
-Muraoka has completed the Speakers Bureau list.
-Muraoka and Barbara Thorpe have also completed the Academic Master Calendar.
-The executive senate committee will be restructuring the numbering system currently being used to number resolutions and policies passed by the Senate.
-Regarding old Intent to Raise Questions: Grzegorczyk indicated that she was aware that WTU’s were allowed to be carried over from year to year on other campuses.Hampton raised the issue of the “S factor” and the lack of an established policy addressing the issue. Christopher will call a meeting to discuss this specific subject at a later time.
-Kathleen Kaiser, Faculty Trustee, CSU Board of Trustees, gave an overview of her role on the Board, indicating that she was the only faculty trustee. She invited everyone to attend the Board meetings which are open to the public and encouraged suggestions on how provide education to students who may not be able to continue attending school if tuition fees continue to rise.
-Robert Cherny, Chair, Academic Senate CSU, gave an
overview of the Academic Senate of the CSU and its forty year history. He
reported on the Statewide Senate Budget Analysis task force he sits on and some
of the tactics and strategies they have discussed to deal with the increased
number of students expected to attend the University in the next decade.
-Muraoka
asked Trustee Kaiser if the Board was sensitive to the needs of a new campus
relative to the needs of the more established campuses. Trustee Kaiser
recommended inviting more Trustees to visit the campus so that they may see
first hand the needs of a new campus.
-Senate
Executive
-SR 05-03 Kindergarten-University
Bond Act Resolution-
Second Reading.
-Motion passed.
-SR 06-03 Resolution of Supplemental Report Language-
Second Reading.
-Motion
passed unanimously.
-Faculty Development Advisory Committee
-Hampton and Buchanan are co-chairs of this committee and are currently developing faculty development project proposals. There is a maximum of $3,000 available per grant; the policy will be sent out within a week and the deadline for proposal submission is 12/15. Recommendations will be forwarded to the Dean who will make the final decision.
-Campus Food Committee-Volkan requested that everyone fill out the on-line survey that was sent earlier in the week. The foremost concern for the committee, at this time, is establishing food services for the freshman that will be living on campus beginning next Fall 2004. Current plans include the Avante Guard catering truck expanding its services in what used to be the ballet studio.
- Vaidya reminded everyone that there were two international conference opportunities available to faculty, the applications are located on the website and they are both due before 12/3/03.
- Hampton reminded everyone about George Morten’s reception in honor of his administrator of the year award.
- Lefevre invited everyone to the Center for General Education and Interdisciplinary Learning meeting, scheduled for 12/12/03, at noon.
11. Adjournment: 2:38 p.m.