Minutes: September 26th, 2006

ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING

MINUTES

Tuesday,
September 26, 2006

Meeting Attendance:

Adisa Thomas, Karimah

Fung, Robert

Robertson, Bruce

Angelo, Albert

Gaglio, Connie Marie

Rothman, Barry

Avani, Nathan

Gemello, John

Saffold, Penny

Axler, Sheldon

Gonzales, Dan

Shapiro, Jerald

Bartscher, Patricia

Gonzalez, Marty

Smith, Alastair

Behrooz, Maziar

Jaimes Guerrero, AJ

Steier, Saul

Bollapragada, Ramesh

Jolivette, Andrew

Stowers, Genie

Boyle, Andrea

Kohn, Jim

Suzuki, Dean

Chattopadhyay, Sudip

Kysh, Judith

Todorov, Jassen

Chelberg, Gene

Levine, Josh

Trautman, Ray

Daley, Yvonne

Levy, Eileen

Ulasewicz, Connie

Danner, Don

Li, Wen-Chao

Van Cleave, Kendra

Dariotis, Wei Ming

Linder, Martin

Velez, Pauline

Davis, Harvey (Skip)

Luna, Debra

Whalen, Shawn

DuVal, Derethia

McCracken, Bridget

Williams, Robert

Fehrman, Kenneth

Meredith, David

Yang, Nini

Fielden, Ned

Minami, Masahiko

Yee, Darlene

Morishita, Leroy

Zwillinger, Lesley

Absences: Chao, David (abs); Corrigan, Robert (exc); Fowler, Maire (abs);

(exc); Klingenberg,
Larry; (leave); (exc); Liou, Shy-Shenq; Van Dam, Mary Ann (exc)

Guests: Linda Buckley; Ann Hallum; Nancy Hayes; Don
Taylor; Gail Whitaker; Caran

Colvin; Eric Hayashi;
Lisa White; David Hemphill; Jacob Perea; Shawn Janwright

CALLED TO ORDER:
2:15 p.m.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Chair Meredith:

·
Announced that
Professor Linda Ellis was unable to attend today's meeting. Her presentation will be agendized for
a future meeting.

·
Clarified that the
exclusion of agenda items notated as being in 1st or 2nd
reading was an oversight on the part of the Chair. Senators can expect this notation to return in future
agendas. He further clarified the
meaning of “consent” as used on the agenda. Consent denotes that an agenda item is expected to be approved
without dissent, not that the item comes from the standing committee with a
unanimous vote. In order to
alleviate any future confusion, consent will only be used on the agenda when an
item is expected to be approved without dissent and items which are passed
unanimously in committee shall be introduced as such by the standing committee
chair.

·
Announced that
Professor Bernard Wong has resigned from the University Promotions Committee
due to his FERP status. The
elections committee has confirmed that Professor Nancy Reist will be his
replacement.

·
Announced that the
Academic Senate CSU is seeking nominations for the position of CSU Faculty
Trustee. Contact the Senate office
for more information

·
Announced that the
Environmental Studies Program proposal has been revised and is expected to be
heard at the next Academic Senate meeting.

AGENDA ITEM #1-Approval of the Agenda for September 26, 2006

Senator Boyle moved to amend the agenda by reordering items in the
following way:

Agenda item 3—Proposed educational doctorate program;

Agenda item 4—Proposed revisions to the retention, Tenure and
promotions policies—to be heard no later than 3:15 p.m.;

Agenda item 5—Report from AVP Linda Buckley—to be heard no later than
3:45 p.m.; and

Agenda item 6—Proposed BA in mathematics with three concentrations—to
be heard no later than 3:55 p.m.

The motion was seconded.

The motion passed with dissent.

The agenda, as amended, was approved unanimously.

AGENDA ITEM #2-Approval of the Minutes for the meeting on
September 12, 2006

The minutes were approved unanimously.

AGENDA ITEM #3-Recommendation from the Curriculum Review and
Approval Committee and Graduate Council:
Proposed Educational Doctorate Program

Levy, Fehrman m/s/p

CRAC Chair Levy introduced the proposal along with Associate Dean
Lisa White to speak to the item.

Senator Williams moved to hear the proposal in 2nd
reading. The motion was seconded
by Senator Fehrman.

The motion to hear the proposal in 2nd reading was
approved.

Senator Levine moved to amend the proposal by inserting the phrase
“and the arts.” At the end of the sentence on page 12, lines 24-25; and to
insert the phrase “and arts” on page 12, lines 56-57 in front of the word
“education”. The motion was
seconded by Senator Ulasewicz.

The amendment was approved with opposition.

Senator Williams moved to call the question. The motion was seconded.

The motion to call the question failed.

Senator Stowers moved to extend debate by 30 minutes. The motion was
seconded by Senator Ulasewicz.

The motion to extend debate by 30 minutes was approved with
opposition.

Senator Levy moved to return the proposal to committee. The motion was seconded by Senator
Ulasewicz.

Senators Levy and Ulasewicz withdrew their motion.

Senator Chelberg moved to amend the proposal by inserting the word
“disability” immediately following the phrase “race, class and gender” whenever
the phrase appears in the document.
The motion was seconded by Senator Stowers.

Senator Dariotis moved to amend the amendment by inserting the word
“sexuality” immediately in front of the word “disability”. The motion was seconded by Senator
Steier.

Senators Dariotis and Steier withdrew the amendment to the amendment.

the original amendment was approved without dissent.

Senator Ulasewicz moved to amend the proposal by inserting the phrase
“the arts” immediately following the phrase “mathematics, science” and
immediately in front of the phrase “and literacy” whenever the phrase appears
in the document. Senator Steier
seconded the motion.

The motion was approved with dissent.

Senator Behrooz moved to call the question. The motion was seconded by Senator Whalen.

The motion to call the question was approved with dissent.

The proposal for the educational doctorate program was approved with
dissent.

Chair Meredith moved, without objection, to AVP Linda Buckley’s
report.

AGENDA ITEM #4-Information Item: Handbook for the Sixth Cycle
of Academic Program Review, Linda Buckley, AVP Academic Assessment and
Educational Effectiveness

Chair Meredith introduced AVP Buckley who provided an overview of the
handbook for the 6th cycle of academic program review.

AGENDA ITEM #5 ADJOURNED-3:57 p.m.

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