EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

2007-2008 FACULTY SENATE


The fifth regular meeting of the 2007/2008 Faculty Senate will be held on

Tuesday, January 29, 2008, at 2:10 p.m. in the Mendenhall Student Center, Great Room.

 

AGENDA

  I.           Call to Order

 

II.                      Approval of Minutes

 

December 4, 2007                       

 

III.           Special Order of the Day

 

A.    Roll Call

 

B.    Announcements

 

C.    Steve Ballard, Chancellor

Report on Faculty Employment, to include a longitudinal profile of faculty tenure status and tenure status of permanent and temporary faculty (by unit).

 

Link to Report of the Task Force on Fixed-Term Appointments (9-06)

 

D.        Marilyn Sheerer, Interim Provost for Academic and Student Affairs

 

E.         Elizabeth Layman, Member of UNC Tomorrow Commission

Link to Final Report on UNC Tomorrow Commission (12-07)

 

F.     Pat Dunn, Mayor of Greenville

 

G.    Catherine Rigsby, Faculty Assembly Delegate

        Report on January 18, 2008, Faculty Assembly Meeting

 

H.    Mark Taggart, Chair of the Faculty

 

I.      Question Period

 

 IV.         Unfinished Business

 

V.                   Report of Committees

A.         Committee on Committees, Tom Caron

Nominees for two delegates and two alternates to the UNC Faculty Assembly (attachment).

 

B.    Educational Policies and Planning Committee, Dale Knickerbocker
1.   R
equest to establish photography as an area of concentration within the Master
     of Fine Arts degree, School of Art and Design

        2.  Notice of Intent to Plan Bachelor of Science in Applied Atmospheric Science and
     Bachelor of Science in Geographic Information Science and Technology,
     Department of Geography

        3.   Notice of Intent to Plan Master of Science in Security Studies, Department of
     Political Science

        4.  Certificate title change - Department of English, Graduate Certificate in Multicultural

              Literature to Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literature

5.  Degree program title change – Department of Pharmacology to Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

6.  Degree program title change - Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Management of Recreation Facilities and Services (MRFS) to Recreation and Park Management (RPM)

 

C.    University Curriculum Committee, Janice Neil

Curriculum matters contained in the minutes of the November 8, 2007 and December 13, 2007, Committee meetings.          


D.    Unit Code Screening Committee, Garris Conner

1.      Proposed new Department of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Unit Code of Operation.

2.      Proposed revised College of Nursing’s Unit Code of Operation.

 

 

      VI.      New Business

 

 


Faculty Senate Agenda

January 29, 2008

Attachment  1.   

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES REPORT

Nominees to the UNC Faculty Assembly

 

Need two Delegates and two Alternates

 

Nominees for 2011 terms

Andrew Morehead, Chemistry

Hunt McKinnon, Interior Design and Merchandising

Mark Taggart, Music

Ralph Scott, Academic Library Services 

 

Faculty Assembly
     Delegates

Academic Unit

Term

Office Location

Tele #

Mark Taggart*

Music  (Chair of the Faculty)

2008

Fletcher 366

328-4278

Brenda Killingsworth

Business

2008

Bate 3134

328-6235

John Cope

Psychology

2008

Rawl 110

328-6497

Ken Wilson

Sociology

2009

Brewster A-418

328-4897

Catherine Rigsby

Geology

2010

Graham 203

328-4297

 

*Chair of the Faculty terms begin and end with term in office.

 

Faculty Assembly
     Alternates

Academic Unit

Term

Office Location

Tele #

Ralph Scott

Academic Library Services

2008

Joyner 4106

328-0265

Elizabeth Hodge

Education

2008

Bate 2314

328-6175

Andrew Morehead

Chemistry

2009

Science & Tech 564

328-9798

Linda Wolfe

Anthropology

2010

Flanagan 224

328-9453

Connie Ciesielski

Technology and Computer Science

2010

Rawl 336

328-4139