Minutes: October 4th, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING

MINUTES

TUESDAY, October 4,

2011

SEVEN HILLS

CONFERENCE CENTER, NOB HILL ROOM

2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

 

OPEN FLOOR PERIOD:  2:00 -

2:10 p.m.

The Open Floor Period

provides an informal opportunity for faculty members to raise questions or make

comments directed to Senate officers or to university administrators.  Please arrive promptly at 2:00 p.m.

CALL TO ORDER: 2:10 p.m.

 

With a quorum being present, then meeting

was called to order.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Annoucements

were made.

AGENDA ITEM #1—Approval of the Minutes for September 20, 2011

The Minutes were Approved.

 

AGENDA ITEM #2—Approval of the Agenda for October 4, 2011

Senator Hanley motioned for

the inclusion of a new Item #5: Reports from CFA Chapter President Dariotis and

extend subsequent Items by fifteen minutes. The vote was called. The motion

carried. Senator Salama motioned that the Item #8 (Recommendation from the

Faculty Affairs Committee:  Proposed

Revisions to the Policy on Department Chairs and Equivalent Unit Directors,

#S00-145) become the new Item #7. The vote was called. The motion carried.  The vote was called to Approve the Agenda as amended. The motion carried.

 

AGENDA ITEM #3—Chair’s Report

The Academic Senate heard a

report from Chair Vaughn on key steps to improve Academic Senate meetings.

 

AGENDA ITEM #4—Statewide (CSU) Senators Andrea Boyle, Martin

Linder, and Darlene Yee-Melichar will answer questions on CSU Academic Senate

Issues

Please review the Power Point presentation from the September 20 Senate

Plenary. Statewide Academic Senators Andrea Boyle, Martin Linder, and

Darlene Yee-Melichar answered questions from the Academic Senate on CSU

Academic Senate Issues related to the Power Point presentation given during the

September 20 plenary. The following questions were raised:

 

a. Of the points brought

to the floor, which do you find most important for our campus?

            i.

The following responses were given:

                              1.

Campus visits by candidates for President.

                              2.

Triggers in the state budget.

                              3.

What our students need to learn.

                              4.

We need to be pro-active and look to shared governance

for leadership.

                              5.

Educational principles for online education and those to which faculty should

                              adhere.

                              6.

Transfer student legislation.

           

AGENDA ITEM #5—Update from CFA President Dariotis

The Academic Senate heard

a report from CFA President Dariotis. The following points were discussed:

current contract negotiations and associated concerns, November actions

surrounding bargaining, the development of more effective communications

avenues, the nature and status of CFA Constitution revisions (e.g., draft

available in early spring), and concerted action on November 17, 2011 with CSU

East Bay and CSU Dominguez Hills. The following questions

were asked by Academic Senators:

           

1.     Is

it possible to have an update on the Constitution revisions?

2.     Are

CFA meetings closed to members?

3.     Why

is the SF State President not being met with? This is a time

honored tradition.

4.     What

is your strategy for addressing the concerns of the SF State campus community?

a.    

CFA President Dariotis responded as follows:

                                                                                           

i.     Emphasis

is being placed on openness.

                                                                                         

ii.     Meetings

with the President must avoid the appreance of collusion.

                                                                                        

iii.     Memebers

are excluded from meetings only during debate.

 

AGENDA ITEM #6—Discussion

Item:  Task Force Report on

Curriculum—Time Certain no later than 2:30p.m.

Please review the Final Report of the

Task Force to Review Curriculum posted on both the Senate and iLearn Websites

The Item was discussed. The following concerns and

questions were raised:

 

1. It is vital to pay
   
   attention to the components of the Task Force Reports (e.g., policies
   
   related to transfer students, General Education (G.E.), discontenuance and
   
   suspension of programs, and the implications these changes will hold for
   
   the current policies that are in place. 
2. It behooves us to invite
   
   the Task Force members to discuss the report and the aspects of campus
   
   resources upon which these decisions made, what are the next steps, what
   
   resources are available, and who will be in charge of such changes.
3. Does UPAC still exist and
   
   what it the status of committee now?
4. What is the status of
   
   these reports? Was there ever a vision for these Task Force Reports?
5. The Task Force Reports
   
   will give targets to the Deans and GE concerns are contigent upon  BRC
   
   progress.
6. How will consistency in
   
   General Education be addressed?
7. Where do we go from here
   
   in this process? Is there an order that will be followed as we move
   
   forward? What kind of conclusion can be reached regarding G.E.?
8. There is a need for an
   
   overall policy on curriculum. CRAC would be willing to address the need
   
   for a comprehensive curriculum development policy. It would be an
   
   important contribution to the campus for a
   
   overall policy.

 

 

 

 

 

AGENDA ITEM #7—Recommendation from the Faculty Affairs

Committee:  Proposed Revisions to

the Policy on Department Chairs and Equivalent Unit Directors,

#S00-145—Time Certain no later than 4:00p.m.

Senator Salama moved and

explained the Item. The Item was discussed in First Reading and suggestions for

revision were given. The Item will return at a future Academic Senate meeting.

 

AGENDA ITEM #8—Senate Elections for a temporary appointment on

the Board of Appeals and Review (BoAR)

Nominees: Courtney Donovan

Nominations may be taken from the floor.

An election was held.

Senator Courtney Donovan (Department of Geography and Human Environmental

Studies) was elected by acclamation.

 

AGENDA ITEM #9—Recommendation from the Executive Committee:  Proposed Resolution in Support of

Principles of Shared Governance in Reorganization—Time Certain no later

than 3:15p.m.

Senator Hanley moved and

explained the Item.  The Item was

discussed in First Reading and suggestions for revisions were given. The Item

will return at a future Academic Senate meeting.

 

AGENDA ITEM #10—Adjournment—no later than 5:00p.m. 

The Academic Senate

adjourned at 

3:38p.m.