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Contact Rakin Hall 426 Indiana State University 812.237.3007 E-mail Faculty Senate Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM University Faculty Senate Faculty Affairs Committee INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY December 3, 2008 FAC#17 Approved January 1, 2009 December 3,2008 Indiana State University Faculty Senate 2007-08 Present: Linda Sperry, Nancy McEntire, Robert Guell, Dale O’Neal, Richard Kjonaas, Arthur Halpern, Susan Hoffman, Barbara Skinner, Bob English, Dorothy Carole Yaw, Absent: Karen Evans Meeting was called to order by chair Linda Sperry at 2:24 p.m. Agenda: 1. Approval of Minutes of November19, 2008. Approved with revisions (7-0-0). 2. Report from Liaison to Academic Affairs (English) a. Dr. English related that his office had received several calls about dates for final exams for students. Discussion ensued. b. The question was asked, “What should be done with faculty who go against the handbook year after year?” There was discussion concerning this. 3. Report from Liaison to Executive Committee (Halpern) a. The Faculty Senate approved and passed: online course evaluation and the four days a week summer sessions. b. The Executive Committee discussed the hiring freeze ( must have second approval of the provost/president on searches), the budget, and a retention task force. c. Academic Affairs is to eliminate $1.8 million in cuts in next year’s budget. 4. Report from the Special Purpose Faculty Advocate (Hoffman) a. CEP faculty are reluctant to speak with S. Hoffman. She did read a list of concerns of the CEP faculty. Some of their schedules have been reduced. Job security appears to be an issue. b. The position of Assistant Director of CEP programs has been developed with a salary of $46,000 per year. The person who was hired only has an A.A. degree, which has led to a degree of dissatisfaction among the instructors. Could there be some inconvenience pay of $100 per year given to each CEP faculty member? 5. Report from Chair (Sperry) a. L. Sperry reported that Faculty Affairs Committee Members met on November 24, 2009 to make faculty nominations for Faculty Award Committees including the Caleb Mills Teaching Award Committee, Theodore Dreiser Award, and the Service Award Selection Committees. The nominations were forwarded to Virgil Sheets. 6. Old Business a. Charge #1 – Make recommendations regarding possible changes in faculty governance structure and rules regarding 1) reduction in size of senate, 2) reduction in size of standing committees, 3) change in numbers required for quorum, 4) acceptance of electronic elections and/or balloting (Guell, O’Neal, Yaw). R. Guell submitted the recommendation from the Subcommittee as follows: i. Faculty Senate and Faculty Committee Obligation Recommendation: Faculty Senate Size was recommended to be reduced from 40 to 34. ii. The formal motion is to substitute the number 34 for the number 40 everywhere it appears in Article III Section I. Membership. Faculty Representatives: There shall be 40 elected faculty members. They shall be apportioned among the colleges of the University in this fashion: the total number of voting faculty in the University shall be divided by 40; this number, rounded off to the next higher whole number, shall be the “election unit”. Each college shall have as many representatives as it has complete election units of voting faculty provided that every such college is to have at least one (1) representative. The remaining seats, up to the total of 40, shall be apportioned to the colleges with the largest fractional remainders of voting faculty, lot being resorted to if equal fractional remainders make this necessary. This calculation shall be made before each annual election. iii. Rationale: The Tenured-Tenure Track Faculty of Indiana State University have been reduced by 15% in the course of the last decade. A 15% reduction in Senators will restore the 12-to-1 faculty-to-Senate ratio prevalent in 1998. iv. The number of meeting bodies per year has been decreased from 1125 to 935 in the recommendation. No recommendations were made in regard to Quorum or electronic voting. The motion was made by R. Kjonaas and seconded by R. Guell to accept the recommendation. The motion was amended to add the Arts Endowment Committee to the document: Reduce from nine to seven members. Motion carried 6-0-0. 7. New Business a. Charge #7 – Review the CONHHP Constitution and RPT Policy for compliance with the University Handbook. i. D. O’Neal made a motion to approve the CONHHP Constitution and Promotion, Retention and Tenure Policy and to conduct an electronic vote of FAC Members to approve the document. L. Sperry seconded the motion. Meeting was adjourned at 3:38 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Dorothy Carole Yaw, Secretary 200 North Seventh Street, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA 47809-9989 Copyright © 2009 by Indiana State University. 1-800-GO-TO-ISU | 1-800-468-6478