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st1:date Year="2004" Day="1" Month="11">Monday November 1, 2004

Present:  Claire Cross, Marny Rivera, Peter Wu, Jean Maxwell, Terry Longshore, Jon Harbaugh, Lee Ayers, Alena Ruggerio, Dale Vidmar, Connie Anderson, Mark Siders, Kemble Yates, John Whitesitt, John Richards, Dan Rubenson,  Randy Johnson (ASSOU), Wilkins-O'Reilly Zinn, Cody Bustamante, Sandra Holstein, Sarah Ann Hones, Mara Affre, Parvaneh Scoggin, Kathy McNeill.

Guests: Ron Bolstad, Mike Corcoran, Paul Steinle, John Sollinger, Emily Miller-Francisco, Mada Morgan, Dianne Brimmer, Cynthia Beckwith, Barbara Scott, Jessie Foster.

1. Approve minutes from 10/18/04 meeting (4:05)

Motioned by Siders, Seconded by Ayers – Approved.

2. Announcements (4:05)

Jon Harbaugh - U.S. Marine Band – free ticket for tonight’s performance is available.

Terry Longshore - Concert in Music Building tonight – Siskiyou Saxophone Quartet.

3. President Zinser and Provost Potter - Both Drs. Zinser and Potter regret that they had to attend to other university business today that was unavoidable, and will report to the Senate at the next meeting.

4. AC Report from the Faculty Senate Vice Chair (4:10-4:15)

Yates – Discussion centered on scholarship, teaching and related issues – draft plan was put forward by Provost Potter.  Plan will be presented to full Senate possibly at next meeting.  It is likely that a task force be appointed to study and bring forward recommendations.  It is unrealistic that this will be completed this academic year.  Concern was expressed about those who are seeking promotion and tenure this year.

5. Student Senate Report - Randy Johnson (4:15-4:20)

The Student Senate is barely beginning their work due to the loss of so many Senators from last year.  Currently there are five sitting Senators, a full Senate includes twenty positions.  ASSOU will be working to fill positions during the next two weeks.

6. University Planning Committee Report - Chris Sackett (4:20-4:30)

The UPC is defined under 1.226(b) of the SOU Bylaws.  Chris reviewed responsibilities of the Committee.  Role has varied over the years and founding of the AAAC last year caused another review of the committee’s responsibilities.  This year the committee will meet monthly and focus on the budget as well as capital construction.  Representation on the committee is from the campus as a whole.  Ruggerio – what is status of affordable faculty housing in Ashland?  No new information at this time, although that is on the list of desirable projects.  Top three capital construction projects are the joint RCC/SOU Medford facility, planning money for the Science addition, and Theatre Arts addition.  McNeill – What is being done to mitigate enrollment declines and assist students?   Three year enrollment management plan and budget plan are underway.  Additional efforts are going toward fundraising for scholarships.  Bolstad added that a lot was identified on Roca St. for faculty housing, but it is also earmarked for the Arboretum.  Both projects are still ideas at this point.  Johnson – What is being done to eliminate wasteful use of resources on campus (e.g. lights on in front of Library all day)?  Bolstad responded that lights are still being worked on as part of the construction project.

Action Items

* No action items scheduled for today.

Discussion Items

7. IFS Information - Marny Rivera (4:30-4:45)

Marny reported on the role of the Interinstitutional Faculty Senate.  SOU is allotted two representatives based on the size of our school.  Laura Jones had to resign, so there is a  two year position open.  Purpose of the IFS is to give OUS faculty a voice in higher education issues in Oregon.  Meetings rotate to various campuses on an every other month schedule.  Time commitment is from Friday to Sunday.  Meetings include presentations from the Chancellor and other Higher Education advisors as well as various Senators and Representatives.   Yates observed that the IFS President gets to report at the OUS Board Meetings.  Anyone interested in volunteering for the open position should contact Marny Rivera or Jon Harbaugh.

Oct. 22 IFS Meeting – Rivera reported that Peter Gilkey presented the OUS General Ed. Model.  His notes are available at IFS Web Site.  Impetus for the model is largely political.  The model is supposed to facilitate transfers between universities and community colleges.  There is a meeting on Nov. 19 to gather additional comments.  SOU would have some problems if the model were implemented tomorrow particularly since our General Education is in the process of being revised.  No answers right now as to how some issues will be resolved.  Corcoran is part of another group that will be meeting Nov. 18 and taking proposals to the Nov. 19 summit meeting.

8. Faculty Senate Membership Report (Constitution Committee) - Mark Siders

Thoughts about HRAC report (review the HRAC section of the attached 10-18-04 minutes) - Jon Harbaugh  (these two agenda items were combined)

Siders contacted Provost’s office to find out if Senate representation is in alignment with the SOU Bylaws and found out that we are not in compliance.  See handout.  Some areas have too many representatives, some too few.  Provost’s plan is the second part of the handout.  McNeil asked why if we are combining two groups  would representation decrease?  If we were following our bylaws, administrative faculty should have five Senators.  Whitesitt – Suggested that we must decide if we are going to be a University Senate as opposed to a Faculty Senate.  Harbaugh – Senate needs to revisist the HRAC issues.  Siders – one proposal would be to have no Administrative Faculty.  If we are called a “Faculty Senate” wouldn’t that be logical?  Yates – Perhaps we could limit some committees to faculty only depending on the role of the committee.  Ayers – Schools and Departments are also in the process of changing as part of reorganization efforts.  Whitesitt –Opinion of AC members last year was unanimously in favor of keeping Administrative seats on the Senate.  This format has worked well for a long time.  Harbaugh – This seems to support the argument for changing the name of the Senate to University Senate.   We need to make some serious changes in the Bylaws.  Was there thought given to this by the HRAC?  Scott – The administrators are not suggesting changing the nature of the Senate.  That idea came from Provost Potter who has seen that structure at other institutions.  Ayers – Suggested taking this idea to the AC for further discussion and bring back recommendations to the Senate.

9. CREAC Update - John Sollinger (5:00-5:15)

See handout.  Summarized  CREAC activities.  Working on Goals, the Freshman Experience, and making changes to upper division classes to eliminate the current bottleneck for Synthesis and Application classes.  Hope to fully implement by 2006-07.  There is so much work to be done that CREAC has generated sub-committees who are tackling  tasks that they identified  Over thirty people are now involved in doing the work.  No matter what design we have it should be well researched and informed.  Vidmar – CTL Director seems to have big assignment with assessment piece of the plan.  Sollinger – Yes, they had pinned hopes and dreams on that person, but now the Assessment subcommittee is trying to figure out how that can happen without the Director being hired.  Try to do small steps. Yates - Could one course satisfy all 3 and come out of the same school…yes and yes.  Need to discuss more.  Curriculum Committee will review and determine which will be accepted under which.  Rivera – How does this interface with GETM?  Sollinger - Deal with it later.  Scoggin - Question on timeline – Gen Ed. Schema approved?  What do we do to get to the next step?  When we bring to Senate for approval?   Need to bring changes forward to get into the catalog.  Sollinger - Will work with Core Curriculum and Curriculum Committees to make sure deadlines are met.  Anyone interested in volunteering to be on CREAC should contact Sollinger since several people will be leaving the committee in the near future.

Adjournment (5:30)

Respectfully submitted by Connie Anderson

Secretary du jour