October 16th, 2018

ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING

MINUTES

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

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 campus community members to raise questions or make comments directed to Senate officers or to university administrators.  Please arrive promptly at 2:00 p.m.

ATTENDANCE:

Absences:

Guests:

CALL TO ORDER: 2:10 p.m.

1. Approval of the Agenda for October 16, 2018

• Approved as submitted @ 2:11pm

1. Approval of the Minutes for October 2, 2018

• Approved as submitted @ 2:11pm

1. Announcements from the Floor

• Faculty Retreat, 1/24/19, theme: Defining Social Justice, Making Missions Matter
  • Three formats for the retreat: affinity workshops, GIFTS, Workshops

1. Reports
   1. Chair

• Presidential Search timeline and CSU policy regarding search is on iLearn site
  • On campus meeting will be on February 5, 2019
  • Advisory committee is being constituted
  • Chair Gerber will be working with Provost Summit.
  • Campus must elect 2 faculty members to serve on the Advisory Committee
    • Call for nominations will go out soon
• Request for data by UCLA law students - clarification
  • Information without faculty names was released and limited
• iLearn docs
  • feedback and involvement requested
  • budget town halls are coming up
  • operational review of advising
  • ASCSU is working on Tenets of Shared Governance – open forum on iLearn.
• Campus Climate survey – encourage colleagues to participate

1. Standing Committees
   1. Student Affairs Committee

• Guests last week: Chair Gerber, Shamina Harris, Christina Sabee, Katon Dalton

1. Strategic Issues Committee

• Continuing on previously determined issues
• Identified key steps in reaching goals and assigned roles in the committee

1. Academic Policies Committee

• Met with CRAC, discussed discontinuance
• APC discussed calendar and online policies, and time blocks

1. Curriculum Review and Approval Committee

• Bringing 2 items today: guidelines on substantive vs. non-substantive and
• Guidelines on bulletin copy,

1. Faculty Affairs Committee

• Guest: Provost Summit
• Discussing college level review in RTP
• Issues around workload equity

1. Provost & VP for Academic Affairs

• Top of list: Academic Master Plan
• 12 working groups of 12 people each. Met last week to introduce them to the process.
• Graduation Initiative: symposium in San Diego this week
• BAC – looking at non-instructional budgets in the colleges, have been historically very unstable. Hope to make more stable and predictable
• Steering Committee has formed to talk about AT/IT and their future integration (25 member committee). They will meet to develop an RFP and access needs. Smaller group will be meeting develop a master plan for implementation.
• Ended 2:23pm

OLD BUSINESS

1. Recommendation from the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee - Certificate in Historical Research (Honors), second reading

• Sen. Stowers: Curriculum used instead of honors concentration, for students who are done with their major in History or other majors that would like to pursue historical research.
• Collins: supports and emphasizes it’s importance in application of research in all areas of study.
• Passed unanimously @ 2:34pm

NEW BUSINESS

1. Recommendation from the Academic Policies Committee – Revision of #S17-277, Standardized Time Blocks for use in Course Scheduling Policy, first reading

• Sen. Wilson: this modification addresses the exception process in particular. Attempts to reduce the workload by streamlining the exception process. One other discussion point was regarding the footnotes.
• Sen. Thomas: Seminar teaching works best in many milieus and the multiple exceptions with justifications lead to a concern regarding workload. Is there data that supports this 4pm footnote?
• Sen. Way: Academic Resources
• Sen. Bui: Grad College of Ed are also utilizing 1x per week for 3 hours
• Sen. Hulik: Design also utilizes 3-hour time blocks
• Sen. Platas: not necessarily a mandatory review as stated in the footnote
• Sen. Shapiro: Also Social Work uses the 3-hour time blocks, perhaps a survey or data collection needs to happen before we move forward.
• Discussion ended @ 2:46pm, policy goes back to APC

1. Recommendation from the Educational Policies Council – Proposed Discontinuance of the Bachelor of Arts in English: Concentration in Individual Major, first reading

• Changes in the major and current concentrations make this concentration redundant.
• Sen. Stec: Has slowed students down because of students
• Sen: Sinha: have the faculty been consulted
  • Sen. Stec: yes, it has been discussed thoroughly as part of a larger discussion about the curriculum as a whole
• Discussion closed @ 2:50, item going back to EPC

DISCUSSION ITEMS/PRESENTATIONS

1. Information Item from the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee - Definitions of Substantive vs. Non-Substantive Curricular Changes

• Sen. Stowers: A revision to the definitions and guidelines that were first determined by CRAC.  This clarifying the two paths for approval. One for substantive and one for non-substantive.  Achieve a balance between need for review by CRAC and senate and a speedy process. Several parameters are listed to guide departments and schools to determine the appropriate path of approval
• Sen. Wilczak: what is change of strategy or approach? What is change in title?
  • Sen. Stowers: change of approach would be from “mini-major” to something that might appeal to other majors on campus. Change of title created a lot of discussion in CRAC –
• Sen. Wilson: Support for CRAC and this document. This adds clarity
• Sen. Bui: Does this apply to course proposal? Or just curriculum proposal? And does the bulletin automatically change with approval.
  • Sen. Stowers: Curriculum proposal. Online forms should automatically update with new online forms
• Discussion closed @ 3:00pm, document returns to CRAC

1. Adjournment 3:00 pm