FACULTY SENATE
FULL MINUTES OF MARCH 20,
2007
The seventh
regular meeting of the 2006-2007
Agenda Item
I. Call to Order
Mark Taggart
(Music), Chair of the Faculty, called the meeting to order at 2:10 p.m.
Agenda
Item II. Approval of Minutes
Reisch (Business)
requested and received two revisions to the distributed minutes of February 20, 2007.
In
Section II.A. Roll Call, “Bradley for Reisch” should read “Bradley for
Christian” and
In
Section I. I.Question period, “Bradley (Business)
noted that after 5 p.m. available A spots close to the Bate Building were hard
to find” should read: “Reisch (Business) noted that after 5 p.m. available ‘A’
spots in the central East Campus area were hard to find, and stated that he
would like the Parking and Traffic Policy Committee to consider reserving
several spaces for ‘A’ stickers 24 hours per day in several ‘A’ lots.”
The minutes of February 20, 2007, were approved as revised.
Agenda Item
III. Special Order of the Day
A. Roll Call
Senators
absent were: Professors Rastatter (Allied Health Sciences), Kim (Art and
Design), Brown (Education), Tovey and Deena (English), Hall (Music), Smith and
Coddington (Technology and Computer Science), Parker (Theatre and Dance),
Chancellor Ballard, Rigsby (Geology/Past Chair of the Faculty), and Cope
(Psychology/ Faculty Assembly Delegate).
Alternates
present were: Professors Boklage for Fletcher (Medicine) and Kirkpatrick for
Eason (Nursing).
B. Announcements
1. The
annual Teaching Awards Ceremony
is scheduled for Tuesday, April 24, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. in the
Mendenhall Student Center Great Room. A
reception will follow immediately afterwards.
Faculty awarded for their teaching achievements will be recognized at
this event and all faculty are welcome to attend.
2. There will be a Faculty Officers’
Candidate Forum on Thursday, April 19, 2006, from 2:10 – 4:00 p.m. in 105 Rawl.
All faculty are invited to attend and discuss issues of importance with
the various faculty officer candidates.
3. The
Chancellor has approved the following resolution from the January 30, 2007,
Faculty Senate meeting:
07-01 Revised Part XII. Personnel Action Dossier of
the ECU Faculty Manual
The
Chancellor has approved the following resolutions from the February 20, 2007,
Faculty Senate meeting:
07-02 Commendation for Catherine Rigsby, Past Chair of the Faculty
07-05 Revised College of Health
and Human Performance Unit Code of Operation and Department
of Geology Unit Code of Operation.
07-06 Curriculum matters contained
in the minutes of the December
14, 2006, January
11, 2007, January
25, 2007, and February
8, 2007, University Curriculum Committee meetings.
07-07 Revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part XIII. Promotion and Tenure Timeline.
Chancellor Ballard noted that he has not addressed the
status of Resolutions 07-03 and 07-04 because both need further review by other
offices before he can respond. He expects the reviews to be completed in the
near term, and will respond to the Chair of the Faculty as soon as the reviews
are received and time permits.
07-03 Revisions to the ECU Undergraduate Catalog, Section 5.
Academic Regulations, relating to Grade Points and Grade Point Average, Grade
Replacement Policy, Warning and Probation, and Special Readmission (Forgiveness) Policy.
07-04 Revisions to the ECU Faculty Manual, Part VI.I.J. Salary
Policies.
4. Academic Committee Chairs are reminded that Committee
Annual Reports
are due in the Faculty Senate office by Tuesday, May 1, 2007.
5. Faculty
members are reminded that April 1 Chancellor Ballard will call for candidates
for the prestigious 2007/2008 Oliver Max Gardner award. A copy of
the University’s nomination procedures is available at: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/fsonline/customcf/committee/aa/maxgardneraward.htm
6. On March 5th, the Chancellor's Executive Council
approved the Smoking Task Force’s recommendation to move smoking 25 feet away
from all ECU facilities. This meets the criteria set forth by Faculty
Senate resolution #04-36 dated December 7, 2004. The Health Education and
Promotion grant will provide banners in April to help promote this change
before students leave for the summer. Implementation will begin over the
summer with full implementation by August 1. Smoking urns will be moved
away from the buildings and signage installed. Smoking shelters will not
be installed since this would be encouraging an unhealthy behavior and not a
good use of limited state funds.
The Health Science Campus will continue with their current
smoking policy utilizing designated smoking areas. Bill Koch, Chair of
the Smoking Task Force and Director of Environmental Health & Safety, will
work with building administrators to identify designated areas or better
locations for the urns as requested. For example, Bill worked with the
Student Recreation Center to move their urns 50 feet from the building due to
wind currents and building pressurization that push/pull smoke into the
building.
Although the task force is still working on changing the law
in North Carolina through our work with UNC General Administration, the group
wanted to move forward with the part of the initiative that is not affected by
this law and has been approved by all key groups - Faculty Senate, SGA, Staff
Senate and now Chancellor's Executive Council. The task force will work
with the Chancellor's staff and others to inform and educate the campus
community about this change. The NC House has passed a bill to prohibit
smoking in all state buildings.
7. There is no longer a curriculum
submission deadline for inclusion in the official ECU catalog. Faculty are
reminded that the official ECU catalog is now the online catalog. The
University Curriculum Committee will continue to meet through April 2007 to
address curriculum matters. Please direct any questions to
Professor Janice Neil, Chair of the University Curriculum Committee at cuc@ecu.edu.
C. Chancellor's
Report
Chancellor Steve
Ballard was unfortunately ill on the day of this meeting, so Provost Smith
provided information on his behalf to the body.
Provost
Smith provided a brief overview of the draft University’s
Strategic Plan. Smith stated that, during their Founders Day visit to ECU,
state legislators, former Gov. Jim Hunt, and other distinguished guests were
very impressed by former students’ testimonials. He strongly urged faculty to
attend spring graduation ceremonies, challenging them to meet the 25%
attendance goal. He informed the Senate that candidates for the position of
Vice Chancellor of Economic Development are making their campus visits, that
the Nominating Committee for the Government Affairs search is close to bringing
finalists for campus visits, that the 4th of 5 candidates for the
Dean of the
(Anthropology
and Chair of the Academic Standards Committee), Peter Kragel (Associate Vice
Chancellor for Health Sciences), Virginia Hardy (Interim Assistant to the Chancellor
for Diversity) and
Margie
Gallagher (Associate Dean for the College of Human Ecology).
Zoller (Art and Design) asked why the Performing Arts were
included with Athletics in the Strategic Directions. Provost Smith stated he
did not know, except that perhaps they both had to do with entertainment.
Zoller pointed out that the programs have different goals, needs, and funding
sources. Zoller then asked why the new Performing Arts Center was not to be
called the
D. Provost’s Report
Provost Jim
Smith provided the following information prior to the meeting.
(1)
Last month Senator Tovey (English) questioned me about the organization of
Academic Affairs (http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/fsonline/customcf/fsminute/307aaorganizationalchart.pdf)
and whether the PACE study would affect it. My answer was a somewhat
uninformative, so today I want you to know that best practices reviews will
occur in the ten academic affairs offices on a staggered timeframe over the
next three years of the integrated planning process. Financial aid and
the Center for Faculty Excellence reviews are to some extent already underway.
Most of these reviews will involve external professional as well as internal
faculty participation and the goal is to verify our “index of best practices,”
confirm appropriate level of staffing and support, and determine the next steps
to ensure that we are in the best shape possible going forward. The
involved offices are: financial aid; center for faculty excellence; the honors
program; the writing program; international affairs; admissions; service
learning; professional advising; the office of the registrar; and continuing
studies. This calendar is consistent with medium and long range PACE
evaluations, so there may indeed be efficiency changes as a result of these
national best practices reviews.
(2)
The integrated planning process in the colleges and major schools is
moving along in tandem with the final development of the ECU strategic
framework
(http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/fsonline/customcf/fsminute/307integratedplan.htm).
The recently approved format for the integrated plans of the colleges and major
schools will be used to express the drafts of these plans. These drafts will be
due April 15 and will be shared with the Trustees at the April 19-20 Trustee
meeting. Further work on these plans will culminate next October 15 when
a three-year plan (2007-08; 2008-09; 2009-2010) quite probably will be set in
place at all unit levels. These plans will form the basis for each unit
annual report and will be forwarded (with applicable revisions) an extra year
each year so as to preserve an on-going, three-year integrated plan. I
believe this will continue effectively a planning tradition at ECU that started
in 1987 and will raise it to an integrated level allowing even better linkage
to budget allocations, facilities master planning, and overall University
development.
(3)
Now that the 2007-08 budget year is drawing close, the prospects for a Child
Care Center at ECU should be re-focused. The Faculty Senate endorsed the
October 9, 2006 report from a small task force chaired by Bruce Flye and whose
work was dedicated to this question. I am now re-charging that group with a new
chair and a few new members to follow-up on that report, pursue the request for
information (RFI) mentioned in that report, give consideration to local
opportunities regarding child care, and render further recommendations on
options and related costs to the Senate and to me by November 20, 2007.
While this topic was #8 on the faculty survey conducted by Ken Wilson last
year, it is an important topic, especially for our younger faculty and staff
and valuable as a recruiting tool. We should make every effort to evaluate
the feasibility of this project as a serious candidate in our list of
institutional priorities.
(4) I
understand there are questions about the process for arriving at deans’ salary
increments in Academic Affairs. I am pleased to summarize that process.
The concepts and principles are the same as for faculty: merit, equity, and
market. Each of these concepts produces the following principles,
respectively: reward good work; seek fairness of allocation both internally and
externally; and, compete nationally to retain excellent people. Last
year, we had a merit pool of 6% of the base, the faculty had an additional pool
drawn from the campus-based tuition increase, and GA continued the quest to
raise our salary levels to the 80%ile of our peers. Each continuing
dean in Academic Affairs qualified under the 6% merit criterion. Since I
believe deans should be performing at a level comparable to the top third of
faculty performance (or we have the wrong officer!), I set aside a pool
comparable to the CBTI portion for faculty in order to address the GA goal
regarding external equity (80%-ile of peers). I qualified this goal
slightly because we had just acquired a new group of peers and the 80%-ile was
higher than in previous years. Therefore, I set that bar at the 70%-ile
level. To implement this criterion, we calculated each dean’s previous
salary and compared it to the CUPA-data median for public doctoral institutions
and also to the 70%-ile level for our current peers. We then calculated
the difference between each of those and the current salary, selected the
higher difference and fractionalized “the equity pool” as a function of each
dean’s difference. Thirdly, two deans were recruited as potential
candidates at prestigious institutions and market increments were added to
facilitate retaining them at ECU. We were successful in those two
endeavors. I believe this method sets an objective (because
nationally-referenced) basis within which to make judgments about the
performance of these important officers. I am always open to suggestions
that would make this process better, i. e., accurate and fair. This
process produced increments last summer ranging from 7.67% to 13.25%.
(5) Administrative
searches currently underway:
(a) The
candidates for the deanship of the College of Education are currently visiting
campus, with the 4th of 5 with us at the beginning of this
week. I intend to bring the top candidates, presuming we have those on
this round, back for a second visit. This national search is supported by
the work of the Hollander Group.
(b) the
internal search for the associate vice chancellor for academic programs will
get underway within a week or so. The Senate officers and I agreed that
such a search could track an “Appendix L” search in terms of the proportion of
search committee members with ten committee members in all. Thus, six
search committee members (listed below) have been confirmed. I will
appoint an additional four members and a chair and we will be underway
soon. Faculty members are:
--Mark
Taggart, Music & Chair of the Faculty
--Jim
Decker, HHP & Faculty Senator
--Dale
Knickerbocker, FL&L and Chair of the EPP Committee
--Janice
Neil, Nursing and Chair of the University Curriculum Committee
--Wendy
Sharer, English and Chair of the Admission and Retention Policies Committee
--Linda
Wolfe, Anthropology and Chair of the Academic Standards Committee
There were
no questions posed to Provost Smith at this time.
E. Chair of the Faculty’s Report
Chair Mark Taggart
reminded Senators that last month, Chancellor Ballard raised
concern over ECU’s low diversity ratio in Fall, 2006. Taggart stated that he had appreciated
hearing from faculty members regarding the Chancellor’s report, and especially
appreciated hearing from those who pointed out the progress ECU has made in
diversity hires in the past few years. Taggart also noted that he appreciated
hearing Professor Niswander’s report to the Chancellor’s Cabinet, bolstering
the arguments that faculty have made that we are improving in this area. Niswander had pointed out that there was a
33% increase in the proportion of minority faculty hired at ECU from
200-2006. So ECU has made significant
strides in this effort.
The question Taggart then asked was:
are we doing enough? Rather than
continuing to take our time informing each other that things are better, could
we now turn our efforts to come up with concrete strategies for further
improvement? Taggart stated the ECU has
strong faculty with a depth of remarkable diversity of talents, ages,
interests, disciplines, fame and fortune.
If we were to individually and collectively turn those talents to coming
up with concrete strategies to increase our diversity in such areas of race and
ethnic backgrounds we could become even stronger. Noting that he thinks that our efforts to
bolster diversity are consistent with our motto to serve our region.
Chair Taggart stated that these past few weeks have provided
an ample opportunity to explore the origins of our university, from Governor
Thomas Jarvis’ prophetic comment of “we can never begin to calculate the value
it will be to North Carolina,” to Mary Schulken’s column in the Charlotte Observer which commended the
University’s accomplishments by proclaiming: “You
can't swing a baseball bat in eastern North Carolina without hitting someone
who attended East Carolina, or something connected to it.” Schulken points out that we’ve served a
region, geographically spread out, “chipping away” at our high rates of
poverty, unemployment and illness. But
we should reach out more. As the population of our region and state becomes more diverse, we must be prepared for
this by employing best practices to increase faculty diversity. We should develop recruitment strategies. Taggart
stated that he was committed to bringing (and maintaining) more diversity on
our campus. And that he believed that
this commitment is in perfect alignment with our motto.
Taggart stated that we have served our region
well in our first one hundred years and that he was confident that we will
continue to do so. Our motto tells me that we must and a more diverse faculty body
will give us the strength to meet our challenges and to serve our changing
region in the next one hundred years.
There were
no questions posed to Chair Taggart at this time.
F. Spring 2005 Graduation Roster
Glascoff
(Health and Human Performance) moved the approval of the Spring 2007 Graduation
Roster, including honors program graduates, subject to the completion of degree
requirements. The graduation roster was
approved as presented. RESOLUTION #07-08
G. President, Student Government
Association
SGA
President Cole Jones was unable to attend the meeting, so the SGA Speaker of
the Congress, Jon Massachi discussed various issues of importance to students.
Mr. Massachi first noted that SGA elections were coming up soon, and that any
faculty enrolled in courses are eligible to vote. He thanked Professor Taggart
for working with SGA to improve communications between the two bodies, and the
Senate for passing the smoking resolution. He invited any Senators with
questions or concerns about SGA to e-mail him at SGAspeaker@ecu.edu.
Mr.
Massachi noted that SGA had endorsed on 2-26-07 a resolution against implementing
a plus/minus grading scale. The
resolution read as follows:
WHEREAS, it is difficult enough to
make distinctions in grades with the current system. With even finer
distinctions and grade points available through the plus/minus grading system,
the problem associated with assigning grades and perhaps misclassifying
students is likely to be further exacerbated and,
WHEREAS, The plus/minus grading
system divides the A grade into two parts, A and A-, effectively reducing the
number of students obtaining a GPA of 4.0 since there is not a corresponding A+
with a 4.3 to balance out the A- with a 3.7 and,
WHEREAS, there could be an increased
number of students on academic probation. At ECU good academic standing
requires an overall C or 2.0 for undergraduate students. With the adoption of
the plus/minus grading system, some undergraduate who are at the C and B
borderline respectively could be earning a C- and B- respectively and,
WHEREAS, there have been many
studies by different universities showing that the plus/minus grading scale
would affect mostly student with above a 3.5 GPA and students that were close
to or on academic probation and,
WHEREAS, employers understand the
current standard grading scale when choosing applicants for jobs and ECU is
preparing students for tomorrow’s highly competitive job market and,
WHEREAS, current students should be
grandfathered in under the old system,
BE IT RESOLVED, the SGA Congress of
ECU does not support the implementation of a plus/minus grading scale as
written out by the Faculty Senate.
Jones
(Criminal Justice) remarked that the Senate had acted in haste, and that he
himself still had questions about the policy. Long (History) pointed out that
the Recruitment and Retention Committee had been working on it since 2003 and
thoroughly researched its implementation, use, and effects at other
institutions; that the issue has been under discussion for 20 years, that the
Senate had actually recommended such a policy once before but the Chancellor
turned it down, that a copy of the committee’s recommendation had been
available online, and that SGA had a representative on the committee. He stated
that he did not understand how this could be considered acting in haste, or how
SGA could consider itself not to have been involved, and asked Mr. Massacchi
what he thought the Senate should have done to involve them adequately.
Massacchi replied that they he realized that the student representatives should
have participated in the creation of such a policy.
H. Question Period
Faculty
are encouraged to participate in the Question Period of the
Sprague (Physics) asked Vice
Chancellor Mageean about the status of graduate student applications, stating
that in his department they have yet to see any, and other programs are already
sending out acceptance letters, putting us at a disadvantage and endangering an
entire recruiting year. Vice Chancellor Mageean responded that they are
basically “stuck in Banner”.
Dean of Graduate Studies Pellicane
explained that Banner has several problems, including that whereas previously
two screens were necessary to input application information, twelve are now
needed; there is no mechanism for printing; it is not possible to securely take
credit card number, making portfolios incomplete due to non-payment. Furthermore,
while applications are up 25%, fee income is down $15,000. Data must now be
entered by hand into the old and new systems, and they have hired all the staff
for which they physically have space to deal with the backlog in both systems,
and he doesn’t see any short term solutions. Rose (Nursing) asked if it was
possible to get applications physically?
Dean Pellicane replied yes, and invited faculty within programs to do
so.
Decker (Health and Human
Performance) affirmed
that the problem is not the Graduate Studies staff, who are doing all that is
possible in the situation.
Provost Smith commented that the
same problem exists at the Undergraduate level, that Don Joyner is working hard
to resolve the situation, but that it is foreseeable that there will be a drop
in enrollment of 500 students at that level as well as 500 graduate students, with
obvious funding repercussions.
Grimes (Music) commented that it
seems ECU was asking for such trouble when it contracted a firm with
proprietary software, and suggested we remember that when we reconsider Blackboard.
Vice Chancellor Mageean stated that there are only two providers of such
software, Banner and People Soft (also proprietary), and she knows of cases in
which the implementation of People Soft was as problematic as our Banner
experience.
Agenda Item
IV. Unfinished Business
There was
no unfinished business to come before the Faculty Senate at this time.
Agenda
Item V. Report of Committees
A. Calendar
Committee
Shanan
Gibson (Business), Vice Chair of the Committee, first presented the proposed Summer
2008 – Spring 2009 University Calendar. Wilson (Sociology) asked if it was seen as
going against the calendar if he gave a take-home final exam. Professor Gibson stated no, as long as the
class met on the last day to discuss either the exam or course content.
Following a brief discussion, the Summer 2008 – Spring 2009 University
Calendar was approved as presented. RESOLUTION
#07-09
Professor
Gibson then explained the rationale for the unofficial informational faculty
calendar being presented for information only.
She stated that it is in response to requests by new faculty for a source of information for
only the dates most important to them: e.g., promotion/tenure dates, annual
evaluation due dates, etc. She welcomed input as to content and distribution
venues.
Glascoff
(Health and Human Performance) asked how the committee wished to receive
information. Professor Gibson responded that it could be sent to her or Cal
Christian.
Niswander
(Business) stated that he thought this was a good idea, but that it would be
essential to keep it updated. Gibson then noted that it would contain Faculty Manual dates and
deadlines, but not those of units.
B. Educational Policies and Planning Committee
Dale Knickerbocker (Foreign Languages and
Literatures), Chair of the Committee, presented for information only, a list of
actions taken by the committee and forwarded to the Chancellor for his
consideration. Those included: 1) School of Health and Human
Performance, Recreation and Leisure Studies (RCLS) proposal for a new
concentration for the Management of Recreation Facilities and Services (MRFS),
2) School of Health and Human Performance, Exercise and Sports Science (EXSS) Master of Arts (MA) designation be changed to a Master of
Science (MS) degree, 3) School of Allied Health Sciences, Health
Services and Information Management (HSIM) proposal to establish a health
informatics minor and 4) School of Medicine proposal to change name of
Department of Biochemistry to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
There
were no questions posed to Professor Knickerbocker following his report.
C. Unit Code Screening Committee
Garris
Conner (Nursing), Chair of the Committee, presented the revised School
of Nursing Unit Code of Operation. Bode
(Medicine) asked if there were any significant changes to the unit code. Conner responded no, that it has been revised
to reflect changes in organizational and reporting structures, and to clean up
a few procedures that were not functioning smoothly in the revision implemented
three years ago. Following a brief discussion, the revised School of Nursing Unit Code of
Operation was approved as presented. RESOLUTION
#07-10
D. University Budget Committee
Cal
Christian (Business), Chair of the Committee, presented a brief overview of
online education. Information distributed included a Distance
Education Profile and an Analysis
of Change from 2004-05 to 2005-06.
Provost
Smith referenced a
report entitled “Redefining Undergraduate Education for the 21st
Century” which is available online at:
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/fsonline/customcf/fsminute/307redefining.pdf.
Provost
Smith summarized what the changes would mean to ECU. The Provost remarked that
last year when representatives from GA visited, Erskine Bowles was so impressed
that he invited Elmer Poe to give a presentation on how distance education is
done at ECU. He also noted that of the 50% increase in faculty, 75% of that
growth came from distance education, yet students frequently reported they felt
they had more contact with their instructors, not less.
Elmer Poe reported on the future of
Distance Education. With respect to infrastructure implications, he stated that
2700 sections of 6000 total will have a Blackboard(Bb) shell, internally hosted
by ITCS, generated for them automatically in Banner beginning in fall. He
reported an up time of 99% for Bb. He informed the body that synchronous Centra
1100 events, to complement Bb, will soon be available from within Bb itself,
and that ECU had negotiated an unlimited license with Centra hosted on an .asp
model until the full ramifications of the Banner platform are known. He noted
that a state study is underway comparing Bb with other available systems to
determine the best overall educational tool. President Bowles ha launched a
statewide initiative provisionally titled “UNC Portal” listing all distance
education programs in state, which should be online in May. It is also hoped
that it will eventually make transfer of credit easier. There is no feeling it
will be statewide distance education university, but will continue to be done
through each institutions. It is specially targeted to help military, community
college, and continuing education students. Finally, he said that preliminary
discussions are being held about the possibility of ECU hosting Bb courses for
other UNC institutions—a centralization of hosting—but that at present they are
just exploratory in nature.
Levine
(Medicine) asked if anyone thought that future distance education courses would
be taught by faculty actually not residing in
Boklage (Medicine) asked if every distance education is
required to have a face-to-face component? Niswander (Business) answered no,
that from an instructional standpoint there is no reason. He also pointed out
that it depends upon how each college or unit defines its expectations of
faculty. Provost Smith added that these questions are being incorporated into
strategic planning
E. University Curriculum Committee
David Long (History), a member of the Committee, presented
the curriculum matters contained in the minutes of the February
22, 2007, and March
8, 2007, meetings. There was no discussion and the curriculum matters were
approved as presented. RESOLUTION #07-11
Agenda Item
VI. New Business
Long
(History) presented a resolution
commending the ECU Women’s Basketball Team.
He stated that this resolution was drafted to commend the East
Carolina University women’s basketball team on their highly successful
2006-2007 basketball season and their victory in the Conference USA tournament
resulting in an appearance by an ECU basketball team for the first time in 25
years
He then offered an amendment to his resolution, deleting the sixth whereas
that read:
WHEREAS, due to their very difficult early
season schedule and the bruising setbacks suffered playing teams from schools
that have had long records of success in women’s basketball, and the fact that
in such situations it is nearly unavoidable for a team consisting of as many
young players as are featured by the Lady Pirates, this team found itself at
several points, once during the Christmas holidays and again on the occasion of
the February 1st loss to UAB which brought their record to nine wins
and thirteen losses, at a low ebb when they might very easily have lost their
spirit and confidence in the goals of this team; and
and
replacing it with:
WHEREAS, due to that very difficult early season schedule, and losses
to a number of teams with long records of success in women's basketball, the
youthful Lady Pirates faced what could have been a very demoralizing situation;
and
WHEREAS, at several points during the season, once during the December holidays
and again after the February 1st loss to UAB which brought their record to 9
wins and 13 losses, this team experienced moments of frustration and
disappointment that would have effectively ended the season for many teams of
comparable age and experience; and
There was no
objection.
Long then
moved to delete the Be It Further Resolved that read:
BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED, that it
is the sense of this
There was
no objection.
Long then offered
two editorial changes: 1) change the words “will be advancing” to “advanced” in
the 2nd whereas and 2) change the phrase “Pirates have not lost
another game” with Pirates did not lose another game”. These editorial revisions were approved as
presented.
Following
brief discussion, the proposed commendation for the ECU Women’s Basketball Team
was approved as revised. RESOLUTION 07-12
The meeting
adjourned at 3:50 p.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
Dale
Knickerbocker Lori
Lee
Secretary
of the Faculty Administrative Officer
Department
of Foreign Languages and Literatures
FACULTY
SENATE RESOLUTIONS APPROVED AT THE MARCH 20, 2007, MEETING
07-08 Spring 2007 Graduation Roster, including honors program graduates,
subject to the completion of degree requirements.
Disposition:
Chancellor, Board of Trustees
07-09 Summer 2008 –
Spring 2009 University Calendar.
Disposition:
Chancellor
07-10 Revised School
of Nursing Unit Code of Operation.
Disposition:
Chancellor
07-11 Curriculum matters contained in the minutes of
the February
22, 2007, and March
8, 2007, meetings
Disposition:
Chancellor
07-12 Resolution commending the ECU Women’s Basketball Team
that read as follows:
WHEREAS, the East Carolina University women’s
basketball team won the Conference-USA tournament with an impressive 79-70
victory over Rice University after having been behind by as many as twelve
points in the second half; and
WHEREAS, the East Carolina University Lady Pirates advanced
to compete in the NCAA postseason tournament for the first time in twenty-five
years; and
WHEREAS, the tournament championship featured the young
women of this basketball team and their dedicated coaches winning three games
in three days, including a very hard fought game on Saturday evening against a
second-seeded University of Alabama-Birmingham team that had earlier in the
season defeated ECU in Greenville and then danced on the Pirate logo; and
WHEREAS, since that February 1st
loss to UAB the Lady Pirates did not lose another game, compiling a ten game
winning streak that included a win over Conference USA regular season champion
Tulane University at Minges Coliseum on February 18 by a 76-68 score; and
WHEREAS, that February win streak led the
Lady Pirates to a third place finish in Conference USA regular season
competition, in spite of a very tough early season schedule that saw them
lose four of their first five games; and
WHEREAS, due to that very difficult early season schedule, and losses
to a number of teams with long records of success in women's basketball, the
youthful Lady Pirates faced what could have been a very demoralizing situation;
and
WHEREAS, at several points during the season, once during the December holidays
and again after the February 1st loss to UAB which brought their record to 9
wins and 13 losses, this team experienced moments of frustration and
disappointment that would have effectively ended the season for many teams of
comparable age and experience; and
WHEREAS, even with their impressive seven game
winning streak to finish the regular season, the Lady Pirates entered the
Conference USA tournament on March 1st, knowing they would have to
win the tournament in order to make it into the NCAA tournament; and
WHEREAS, fully realizing what those pressures
meant, and how long it had been since an ECU team had played in the NCAA
tournament, the players and coaches of this sophomore-dominated team trusted in
one another and in their common goal, and for seventy–two hours and through
three grueling games performed in a manner that made the citizens of Greenville
and Pirates everywhere proud of them and of this university.
THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, That Head
Coach Sharon Baldwin-Tener, Assistant Coaches Chrissy Roberts, Melissa Kolbe,
and Samantha Young, and Director of Basketball Operations Bett Shelby, plus all
the players, managers, and trainers of the Lady Pirates basketball team, be
extended the heartfelt thanks and congratulations of this
BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED, that this
Disposition:
Chancellor