Faculty Governance minutes 9/13/06

 

Present: Patricia Anderson, Bob Morrison, Purificación Martínez, John Cope, Mary Gilliland, Mark Jones, Edson Justiniano, Lisa Sutton and Mark Taggart

 

Guests: Lori Lee, George Bailey, Paul Zigas, Kristen Bonatz

 

Agenda Items

 

1. Chair Mark Taggart provided a welcome and explained the duties of the committee.  There was a brief discussion on implementation and consideration for Part XII, Part XIII, Appendix C, and Appendix D. Of these documents, only Appendix C has been implemented as of this date.

 

2. Election of officers.

Chair: Martínez

Vice-Chair: Justiniano

Secretary: Mary Gilliland (Fall semester) and Mark Jones (Spring semester)

[Note:  Mary Gilliland later requested that her name be removed from the role of secretary for fall semester.]

 

3. George Bailey (Philosophy) came to the committee to discuss concerns about Appendix C and Appendix D and to ask questions about revised Appendix D. The group focused on the attached list of concerns and agreed to focus on these issues in the next set of revisions to Appendix D and other documents. The group expressed their thanks to Professor Bailey for his review and discussion of these documents

 

4. Justiniano made the following motion and was seconded: Part XII and Part XIII be implemented as currently written. The motion was revised to eliminate Part XIII from it. In the discussion of the motion, Morrison spoke against the motion and urged the committee to use a uniform process across campus. The group posed a question to Zigas about policy implementation and timing. Zigas responded that interpretations of implementation are in the best interest of the institution and can be decided by the Chancellor in consultation with the Chair of the Faculty and the Faculty Governance Committee. The motion failed.

 

5. Anderson made the following motion and was seconded: that the Chair of the Faculty will write a memorandum to be distributed to faculty and administrators regarding issues of implementations. (Memo forthcoming and to be attached to minutes). Part XII and Part XIII would be implemented at a later time. Faculty members should be allowed to use Part XII format as long as it is requested by the faculty member. The motion passed.

 

5.  The meeting times for the committee will be every two weeks.  The committee chair will send out a list of meeting dates.

 

The meeting adjourned 4:50 pm.

 

Minutes recorded by Tricia Anderson