Faculty Senate
Meeting
Attendees: Georges Belfort,
Original Minutes from 3/27/2002
Agenda
Welcome to new Vice-President of the Faculty Senate
Approval of the Minutes from the 2/20 and 3/5 Faculty Senate Meetings
Reports of the Faculty Senate Standing Committees –
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee (FSXC) has requested the chairs of the standing committees to consult with their groups about impacts and strategies for moving forward under the new policy. These reports as well as reports from Senators representing their constituencies and guests at the FS will be developed into a white paper summarizing faculty response and potential strategies for moving ahead. The white paper will be prepared by the General Meeting of the Faculty Senate on April 10.
Planning and Resources Committee – Ralph Noble
Curriculum Committee - Mary Anne Staniszewski
Nominations Committee - Peter Persans
Promotion and Tenure Committee - Don Drew & Al Wallace
New policy on Sexual Harassment
Welcome
to new Vice-President of the Faculty Senate
President Caporael brought the meeting to order at
Approval of the Minutes from the 2/20 and 3/5 Faculty Senate Meetings
The minutes of the February 20, and March 5, meetings of the Faculty Senate were approved with minor corrections.
Reports
of the Faculty Senate Standing Committees
President Caporael announced that the Executive Committee asked the chairs of the standing committees to submit recommendations for a white paper on the Administration's policies.
Planning
and Resource Committee
The Planning and Resource Committee will prepare the report.
The Curriculum Committee unanimously endorsed the goal of improving graduate education, but argued that the transition plan needed to be modified. (Full report) They also recommend, after review by the Executive Committee, that an amendment to the constitution regarding representation from the IT program on the Curriculum Committee be submitted for Faculty approval (Amendment handout).
Peter Persans, new chair of the Nominations Committee, listed the various open positions.
Promotion
and Tenure Committee
The Promotion and Tenure Committee had no information to present. President Caporael announced that Al Wallace would chair a committee to revise the Faculty Handbook.
The Hartford Committee reported its concern over hiring and promotion of clinical faculty. The committee requested a discussion of these topics at the next Faculty Senate meeting on April 24th.
New
Policy on Sexual Harassment
A lengthy discussion ensued regarding revising the existing Sexual Harassment policy. Other than grammatical errors, its ambiguity was cited, as well as its seeming lack of enforceability. Although motion to accept the document with the grammatical changes was proposed, and a second, it was decided to table the discussion until the next meeting of the Faculty Senate.
The role of Faculty Senate in policy development and implementation for the Institute was discussed. Concern was expressed that faculty have had little input into recent decisions by the Administration.
The meeting was adjourned at