The fourth regular meeting of the 2004/2005 Faculty Senate will be held on

Tuesday, December 7, 2004, at 2:10 p.m. in the Mendenhall Student Center, Great Room.

FULL AGENDA

  I.           Call to Order

II.                      Approval of Minutes

               November 9, 2004            

III.           Special Order of the Day

A.    Roll Call

B.    Announcements

C.    Steve Ballard, Chancellor

D.        Jim Smith, Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

E.    Catherine Rigsby, Chair of the Faculty

F.     Dee Dee Glascoff and Mark Sprague

        Visit with Brad Wilson, Board of Governors’ Chairman

G.    George Harrell, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Operations

H.    Question Period

 IV.         Unfinished Business

V.                   Report of Committees

A.    University Curriculum Committee, Tim Hudson

Curriculum matters contained in the minutes of the November 11, 2004, Committee meeting.           

B.    Agenda Committee, Mark Sprague 

Proposed 2005-2006 Faculty Senate and Agenda Committee meeting dates                       

(attachment 1).

C.       Educational Policies and Planning Committee, Charles Hodson

1.      Notification of Intent to Plan a MS in Construction Management (for information only).

2.      Approval of request to merge two coded units (formerly School of Industry and Technology and Department of Computer Science) with the newly drafted College of Technology and Computer Science unit code. 

      VI.      New Business

                 Proposed Resolution on Smoking, Bob Morrison (attachment 2).

Attachment  1.   

AGENDA COMMITTEE REPORT

Proposed 2005-2006 Faculty Senate and Agenda Committee Meeting Dates

Fall 2005 University Calendar                  Spring 2006 University Calendar

Agenda Committee will meet:         Faculty Senate will meet:

Attachment  2.   

NEW BUSINESS

Proposed Resolution on Smoking

Whereas,       Cigarette smoke contains over 4,700 chemicals, over 200 poisons, and over 50 human carcinogens; and

Whereas,       The Environmental Protection Agency has classified environmental tobacco smoke as a “Group A” Carcinogen – a substance known to cause cancer in humans; and

Whereas,       In 2004 there will be about 173,770 new cases of lung cancer in the United States: 93,110 among men and 80,660 among women.

Whereas,       In 2004 about 160,440 people will die of this disease: 91,930 men and 68,510 women; and

Whereas,       Lung cancer kills more people than breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer combined; and

Whereas,       More than 20,000 nonsmokers, predominantly female, are diagnosed with Lung Cancer in the United States every year; and

Whereas,       Secondhand smoke is the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States; and

Whereas,       The five-year survival rate for someone diagnosed with Lung Cancer is 15%; and

Whereas,       Exposure to the hazards of environmental tobacco smoke can be prevented by appropriate smoking regulations.

Therefore Be it Resolved that East Carolina University adopt a campus-wide nonsmoking policy similar to a nonsmoking policy recently adopted at the Brody School of Medicine¹.  This policy would prohibit smoking in high traffic areas including entrances to buildings, all stairwells, stairs, stairwell landings, elevator landings, and partially enclosed corridors outside of classrooms such as those in the new Science and Technology building.  Such areas should have no-smoking signs, and faculty, staff and students should be made aware of nonsmoking policies.

Be it Further Resolved that the university designate smoking areas well away from high traffic areas with signage that states “designated smoking area”.  

¹ http://www.ecu.edu/grouppractice/policymanual/administrative/a23_smokefree.pdf.