EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
2002-2003 FACULTY SENATE
The organizational meeting of the 2002-2003 Faculty Senate will be held on Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 2:10 p.m. in the Mendenhall Student Center Great Room.
This meeting is for newly elected Faculty Senators and those
Senators whose terms did not expire in 2002.
I. Call to Order
II. Roll Call
III. Report of Committees
A. Nominating Committee for Faculty Officers, Mark Taggart
Election of Faculty Officers (attachment 1).
B. Committee on Committees, Henry Ferrell
Election of Academic, Administrative, Appellate,
Board of Trustees, Student Life, and Student Union
Committee Members (attachment 2).
C. Election of Members to the Committee on Committees (attachment 3).
D. Election of Members to the Agenda Committee.
Faculty elected to serve on these committees will be notified
over the Summer of the upcoming Fall organizational committee meeting dates. Please do not hesitate to call the Faculty Senate office at 328-6537 if you have any questions.
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Faculty Senate Agenda
April 30, 2002
Attachment 1.
NOMINATING COMMITTEE FOR FACULTY OFFICERS REPORT
ELECTION OF FACULTY OFFICERS
Candidate for Chair of the Faculty
Bob Morrison, Department of Chemistry
The Faculty Senate and its committees play a very important role in the governance of the university. It is our collective responsibility as Senators and Senate committee members to seek the information needed to make informed recommendations on the key academic issues. In order to be effective, our recommendations must be based on sound information and good judgment, and must be made in a timely manner. The committees have been operating under a new structure this year, and I believe they’ve been operating efficiently. We may need to make some slight adjustment in charges next year as we evaluate their effectiveness. Some of the issues we’ll face during the coming year include the effect of budget cuts on academic programs. This will be especially important because the Office of the President has indicated that in some cases we may need to make vertical cuts. We’ll continue our discussion of faculty roles and rewards as it relates to the community of scholars and to the scholarship of engagement and the scholarship of teaching. The Office of the President is preparing to implement the recommendations on fixed-term faculty issues that have been recently approved by the Board of Governors. We’ll need to make some adjustments in our Faculty Manual when implementation procedures are forwarded to campuses. Other issues that need attention are grievance procedures, benefits, technology issues, and academic issues that seem to suddenly appear as the university seeks to explore new initiatives. I have been honored to serve as the Chair of the Faculty the past two years. If re-elected I will continue to do my best to help coordinate the activities of our committees to bring key issues before the Senate for debate and resolution. I’ve been proud of the way the faculty senators have taken the high road in debating complex issues, and look forward to such debates in the coming year.
Candidates for Vice Chair of the Faculty
Rick Niswander, School of Business
I have been at ECU since 1993 (I was a late bloomer in academia, not seeking my Ph.D. until I was 39). Since I’ve been here, two particular items have impressed me. First, I have been impressed with the reasoned discourse between and among members of the ECU community. Although reasonable people can – and do – differ, I am proud that our differences have not created chasms across which we have to shout. Second, I have been impressed with our system of shared governance – a system that not only looks good on paper, but also works in practice. Neither our discourse nor our shared governance work perfectly, but they are the envy of our sister colleges and universities. In the coming years the ECU community will be faced with numerous challenges. First among them is the shrinking state budget and its impact on our people and programs. I know that my background as a CPA, my chairmanship of the Senate’s University Budget Committee, and my knowledge of government accounting have and will serve the faculty well when dealing with budgetary matters. Another challenge stems from the first: budgetary constraints are likely to place strains on reasoned discourse and shared governance. Our discourse and governance have been shaped by the hard work of those who have gone before us. I am not interested in moving backwards. I am committed to working forcefully, yet constructively, for the faculty and for the university community.
Biographically, I am an Associate Professor of Accounting and have served the faculty in many capacities including Faculty Senator, chair of the University Budget Committee and the Teaching Grants Committee, a member of the Agenda Committee, the Nominations Committee, the Academic Awards Committee, two University-wide teaching awards committees, the Chancellor’s Task Force on Campus Resource Allocation, the search committee for the Provost/VCAA, and as an internal reviewer of the graduate programs in Economics and Psychology. If elected as Vice-Chair, I would be proud to serve the faculty in meeting the challenges we face.
Catherine Rigsby, Department of Geology
I have been at ECU since 1993 and am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology, working hard toward promotion to full professor. My research in sedimentology focuses on global climate
change. For the past five years, I have been working on the history of climate change in the tropics by studying river and lake sediments on the high plateau of the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes and, more recently, lake sediments from tropical islands. My work examines tropical climate change over the ~40,000 years of Earth history and, for the more recent times (the last 10,000 years), includes investigations of the relationship between climate change and human land-use. I am a firm believer in shared governance and have served on the Research Creative Activity Grants Committee, the Faculty Information Technology Committee, the University Curriculum Committee, the IRCC Charge Committee, the Coastal Resources Management Admissions Committee, and numerous unit/departmental committees. I am currently a second term Faculty Senator.
Candidates for Secretary of the Faculty
John Cope, Department of Psychology
I have been at ECU since the early 80s and as an Industrial Psychologist (specializing in the area of organizational development) it has been delightful to watch and participate in the evolution of ECU as it becomes a major player in a State with a lot of academic muscle. I believe strongly, in the concept of shared-governance and I deeply wish to be a part of this process. I am completely convinced that faculty involvement is absolutely vital to all aspects of institutional development, especially given the current financial woes. That involvement needs to be careful, deliberate and heavily tied to the core goals of the faculty. Specifically, I hope to accomplish two goals: 1) Work with the Chair of the Faculty in guiding and developing policy consistent with the goals of the University, and 2) proceed in a way that expands the principles of shared governance by building cooperative bridges between the administration and the faculty.
I am currently a professor in the Department of Psychology and serve as the Director of the Graduate General program. I am a second term Senator and have served previously as a Senate Alternate (15 years). I have just been elected to serve on the Faculty Assembly, beginning this Fall. I have also served on the Admission and Recruitment Committee (currently chair), the Agenda Committee, the Citation Appeals Committee, the Educational Policies and Planning Committee, the Enrollment Management Council, and the Parking and Traffic Committee.
The current State financial problems will make the coming year very difficult, and will require tight partnership with all administrative entities in order for our institution to continue to move forward. This is the time for strong faculty guidance, and if elected to Secretary of the Faculty, I will try to provide this level of leadership. Thank you for your consideration.
Mark Taggart, School of Music
Our mission statement informs us that the motto of East Carolina University is “Service”, meaning, “to serve.” Our desires to meet the educational needs will be challenged by the continuing budget shortfalls that we are currently facing. Our faculty must provide a strong, unified front, opposing any measures that would imperil our commitment to the achievement of excellence.
I have been on the faculty of ECU since 1985, where I teach music composition in the School of Music. I have served on the Faculty Senate for fourteen of the years I’ve been here. I have also served on the Research and Creative Activities Grants Committee, including a two-year stint as chair. I was also chair of the Committee on Committees for two years, and continue to be a member of that committee. I am also currently secretary of the Faculty Governance Committee.
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Faculty Senate Agenda
April 30, 2002
Attachment 2.
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES REPORT
Nominees for Academic, Administrative, Appellate, Board of Trustees, Student Life,
and Student Union Committee Members
Service on an academic committee is limited to election to two consecutive 3-year terms
with ineligibility for reelection to the same committee for at least one year.
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES
(3 year terms unless otherwise noted)
Academic Awards
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Linda Wolfe Anthropology
2005 Hanna Jubran Art
2005 Tope Bello Business
Others on the committee:
2003 Jeffrey Phipps Theatre and Dance
2003 Ellen Arnold English
2004 Rose Allen Allied Health Sciences
2004 Charles Boklage Medicine
Academic Standards
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Catherine Rigsby Geology
2005 Charles Hodson Medicine
Others on the committee:
2003 John Tilley History
2003 Jim Decker Health and Human Performance
2003 Richard Bamberg Allied Health Sciences
2004 Nancy House Art
2004 M.S. Ravi Mathematics
Admission and Retention Policies
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Jan Tovey English
2005 Gary I. Levine Medicine
Others on the committee:
2003 Dawn Clark Theate and Dance
2003 John Cope Psychology
2003 Michael Duffy Art
2004 Pam Mitchell Political Science
2004 Pamela Burton Academic Library Services
Calendar
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 John Crammer Computer Science
2005 Jean Hiebert Academic Library Services
Others on the committee:
2003 Robert Caprio Theatre and Dance
2003 Charles Calhoun History
2004 Stephen Dock Foreign Languages
2004 Ginger Woodard Human Environmental Science
2004 Patricia Myers Business
Continuing and Career Education
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Gary Marc Trube Allied Health Sciences
2005 Thomas M. Louis Medicine
2005 Jessica Christie Art
Others on the committee:
2003 Christopher Carolan Mathematics
2003 Nellie Droes Nursing
2004 Cal Christian Business
2004 Leslie Pagliari Industry and Technology
Educational Policies and Planning
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 John K Davis Medicine
2005 Richard Mauger Geology
Others on the committee:
2003 George Bailey Philosophy
2003 James O. Smith Business
2003 Amy Carr-Richardson Music
2004 David Dennard History
2004 Michael Brown Psychology
Faculty Governance
(Members can not be elected concurrently to an appellate committee.)
Term Nominees
2005 James Holloway Business
2005 Mary Glascoff Health Education
Others on the committee:
2003 Jim Joyce Physics
2003 Paul Hartley Art
2003 Linda Allred Psychology
2004 Mark Taggart Music
2004 Marti Engelke Nursing
Faculty Information Technology
(at least 6 of whom are from academic units that are
bona fideusers of the University computation facilities)
Term Nominees
2005 Karl Wuensch Psychology
2005 Philip Rothman Economics
Others on the committee:
2003 Tibor Hortobagyi Health and Human Performance
2003 Samuel Atkinson Medicine
2003 Jonathan Probber Human Environmental Science
2004 James Wirth Computer Science
2004 Rebecca Benfield Nursing
Faculty Welfare
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Phil Lumsford Industry and Technology
2005 David Lawrence Geology
2005 Paul Spence Medicine
Others on the committee:
2003 John Bradley Business
2003 Marieke Van Willigen Sociology
2004 Tracy Carpenter-Aeby Social Work and Criminal Justice
2004 Parm Hawk Education
Libraries
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Salman Abdulali Mathematics
2005 Thomas H Allen Communications
Others on the committee:
2003 Tom Raedeke Health and Human Performance
2003 Gay Wilentz English
2004 Marianna Walker Allied Health Sciences
2004 John Stevens Foreign Languages
2004 Ann Schreier Nursing
Research/Creative Activity Grants
(The membership of the committee shall serve according to their disciplinary expertise. Ideally this would include seven members from the College of Arts and Sciences, with at least two each from Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Sciences/Math, and seven members from the Professional Schools and other academic units, with no more than one from each professional school. Each member shall have demonstrated accomplishment in scholarship, research, or creative activity, as evidenced by data submitted for each person nominated by the Committee on Committees or from the floor of the Faculty Senate.)
Term Nominees
2005 Seodial Deana English
2005 Britton Theurer Music
2005 John Collins Philosophy
2005 Jane Painter Allied Health Sciences
2005 Carol Brown Education
2005 Steve Estes Health and Human Performance
2005 Roger Russell Health Sciences Library
Others on the committee:
2003 Randall Parker Economics
2003 Bonnie Mani Political Science
2003 Punam Madhok Art
2003 Jim Chandler Human Environmental Science
2003 Tom McConnell Biology
2003 Randy Daniel Anthropology
2004 Yu (Frank) Yang Chemistry
Student Academic Appellate
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Janice Neil Nursing
2005 Michael Schinasi Foreign Language
Others on the committee:
2003 Jonathan Wacker Music
2003 Janice Lewis Academic Library Services
2003 Pat Dunn Health and Human Performances
2004 George Williams Education
2004 Tom Durham Psychology
Student Scholarships, Fellowships, and Financial Aid
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Cynthia B Green Art
2005 Karen Sullivan Allied Health Sciences
2005 John Reisch Business
Others on the committee:
2003 Paul Spence Medicine
2003 Nancy Shires Academic Library Services
2004 James McKernan Education
2004 Elizabeth Sharpe Social Work and Criminal Justice
Teaching Grants
(The membership of the committee shall serve according to their disciplinary expertise. Ideally this would include six members from the College of Arts and Sciences, with at least two each from Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Sciences/Math, and six members from the Professional Schools and other academic units, with no more than one from each professional school. )
Term Nominees
2005 Sharon M Ballard Human Environmental Sciences
2005 Natalie Stewart Theatre and Dance
2005 Robin Webb-Corbett Nursing
Others on the committee:
2003 Karen Mulcahy Geography
2003 David Pravica Mathematics
2003 Randy Joyner Education
2003 Lessi Bass Social Work
2003 Ed Schumacher Economics
2004 Sherralyn Cox Medicine
2004 Tim Gavin Health and Human Performance
2004 Anthony Capehart Biology
2004 Margaret Bauer English
University Budget
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Henry Ferrell History
2005 Art Rodriguez Chemistry
Others on the committee:
2003 Rick Niswander Business
2003 Bob Hanrahan Medicine
2003 Katie Walsh Health and Human Performance
2004 Linda Mayne Nursing
2004 Patricia Clark Theatre and Dance
Unit Code Screening
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Ken MacLeod Business
2005 Richard Pozzuto Social Work and Criminal Justice
Others on the committee:
2003 Ralph Scott Academic Library Services
2003 Greg Lapicki Physics
2003 Kyle Summers Biology
2004 Jen-Jar Lin Medicine
2004 Garris Conner Nursing
University Curriculum
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Ron Graziani Art
2005 Elizabeth Smith Academic Library Services
2005 Timothy D Hudson Mathematics
2005 Linda Godbold Computer Sciences
Others on the committee:
2003 Dale Knickerbocker Foreign Languages
2003 David Batie Industry and Technology
2003 Thomas Skalko Health and Human Performance
ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES
(3 year terms unless otherwise noted)
Service on an administrative committee is limited to election to two consecutive 3-year terms with ineligibility for reelection to the same committee for at least one year.
Citation Appeals
(1 year term)
Term Nominees
2003 Thomas H. Allen Communication and Broadcasting
2003 Randy Joyner Educational Leadership
2003 Jane Painter Allied Health Sciences
2003 David Bjorkman Chemistry
Faculty and Staff Benefits
(no specifications)
Term Nominee
2005 Beth Winstead Academic Library Services
Others on the committee:
2003 Monica Hough Allied Health Sciences
2004 Cynthia Bickley-Green Art
Parking and Transportation
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Gil Leebrick Art
2005 Catherine Rigsby Geology
Others on the committee:
2003 David Bjorkman Chemistry
2004 John Bradley Business
Research Ethics Review
(no specifications)
Term Nominee
2005 Charles Hodson Medicine
Others on the committee:
2003 Nancy Stephenson Nursing
2004 Laura McArthur Human Environmental Science
University Athletic
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Linda Godbold Communications and Broadcasting
2005 John Reisch Accounting
Others on the committee:
2003 Paul Alston Allied Health Sciences
2004 Alta Andrews Nursing
2004 Dennis Chestnut Psychology
University Award
(1 year term)
Term Nominee
2003 Michael Schinasi Foreign Language
BOARD OF TRUSTEES COMMITTEE
(3 year terms)
Honorary Degrees, Awards, and Distinctions
(no specifications)
Term Nominees
2005 Seodial Deena English
2005 Andrew Stewart Allied Health Sciences
Others on the Committee:
2003 Linda Allred Psychology
2003 Tom Raedeke Health and Human Performance
2004 Nancy Shires Academic Library Services
STUDENT LIFE COMMITTEE
(3 year terms)
Academic Integrity
(no specifications)
Term Nominee
2005 Richard Pozzuto Social Work and Criminal Justice
Others on the committee:
2003 Christine Hutchins English
2003 Bryna Coonin Academic Library Services
2004 Saeed Dar Medicine
2003 Said Said Mathematics Alternate
2003 Anne Dickerson Allied Health Sciences Alternate
2004 Susan Gardner Academic Library Services Alternate
2004 Britton Theurer Music Alternate
APPELLATE COMMITTEES
(3 year terms unless otherwise noted)
Due Process
(full-time, permanently tenured voting faculty member holding no administrative title and
members can not be elected concurrently to the Faculty Governance Committee.)
Term Nominees
2005 Britton Theurer Music
2005 Greg Lapicki Physics
2005 Thomas Allen Communication and Broadcasting Alternate
Others on the committee:
2003 Ralph Scott Academic Library Services
2003 Dan Schisler Business
2004 Rick Taylor English
2003 Patricia Anderson Education Alternate
2003 James O Smith Business Alternate
2004 Dorothea Handron Nursing Alternate
2004 Jeanette Dolezal Medicine Alternate
Faculty Grievance
(8 members and 2 alternates, each of whom is a full-time voting faculty member without administrative appointment, with representation from each professorial rank and members can not be elected concurrently to the Faculty Governance Committee.)
Term Nominees
2005 Cathy Hall Psychology
2005 Myra Brown Allied Health Sciences
2005 Chris Ulfers Music
2004 Michael Schinasi Foreign Language Alternate
2005 Hanna Jubran Art Alternate
Others on the committee:
2003 Donald Fletcher Medicine
2003 Christine Hutchins English
2003 Joe Ciechalski Education
2004 Gene Hughes Business
2004 Bertus Ferreira Social Work and Criminal Justice
Grievance Board
(permanently tenured voting faculty member holding no administrative title;
members of the board whose terms have expired are ineligible for membership
on the board for a period of three years after the expiration of their terms;
members can not be elected concurrently to the Faculty Governance Committee.)
Term Nominees
2005 Marcella Ruiz-Fuenes Foreign Language
2005 Andrew Stuart Allied Health Sciences
2005 Patricia Anderson Education
2005 Tinsley Yarbrough Political Science
2005 Alexandra Shlapentokh Math Alternate
2005 Mary Kirkpatrick Nursing Alternate
Others on the committee:
2003 Charles Hodson Medicine
2003 Dennis Chestnut Psychology
2003 Richard Bloch Medicine
2003 Susan McCammon Psychology Alternate
2003 Terri Woods Geology Alternate
2003 Ken Wilburn History Alternate
Hearing
(full-time, permanently tenured voting faculty member holding no administrative title and
members can not be elected concurrently to the Faculty Governance Committee.)
Term Nominees
2005 Belinda Lee Nursing
2005 Art Rodriguez Chemistry
2005 Jack Karns Business Alternate
2005 Boni Boswell Health and Human Performance Alternate
Others on the committee:
2003 Pat Dunn Health and Human Performance
2004 Timothy Hudson Mathematics
2004 Saeed Dar Medicine
2003 Beth Winstead Academic Library Services Alternate
2003 Stephen Willis Medicine Alternate
2004 George Williams Education Alternate
Reconsideration
(full-time, permanently tenured voting faculty member holding no administrative title and
members can not be elected concurrently to the Faculty Governance Committee.)
Term Nominees
2005 Paul Gemperline Chemistry
2005 Marie Farr English
2005 Donald Neal Geology Alternate
2005 Linda Mooney Sociology Alternate
Others on the committee:
2003 Monica Hough Allied Health Sciences
2004 James McKernan Education
2004 Sylvia Brown Nursing
2003 Samuel Atkinson Medicine Alternate
2003 Punam Madhok Art Alternate
2004 Nancy Shires Academic Library Services Alternate
STUDENT UNION COMMITTEES
(no specifications, 1 year terms)
Barefoot
Term Nominees
2003 Carolyn Willis Academic Library Services
2003 Roger Russell Health Sciences Library
Cultural Awareness
Term Nominees
2003 Mario Rey Music
2003 Sharon Ballard Human Environmental Sciences
Films
Term Nominees
2003 Karen Sullivan Allied Health Sciences
2003 Ralph Scott Academic Library Services
Marketing
Term Nominees
2003 Elizabeth Smith Academic Library Services
2003 Clark Nall Academic Library Services
Popular Entertainment
Term Nominee
2003 Britton Theurer Music
Spectrum
Term Nominees
2003 David Bjorkman Chemistry
2003 Ronda L. Spence Medicine
Visual Arts
Term Nominees
2003 Hanna Jubran Art
2003 Gil Leebrick Art
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Faculty Senate Agenda
April 30, 2002
Attachment 3.
ELECTION OF COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES MEMBERS
(no specifications, 2 year terms)
Terms expiring:
2002 Donald Neal Geology
2002 Mark Taggart Music
2002 Gene Tranbarger Nursing
Others on the committee:
2003 Richard Miller Philosophy
2003 Ralph Scott Academic Library Services
2003 Henry Ferrell History
ELECTION OF AGENDA COMMITTEE MEMBERS
(no specifications, 1 year terms)
Terms expiring:
2002 Rick Niswander Business
2002 John Cope Psychology
2002 David Pravica Mathematics
2002 Mark Taggart Music
2002 Purificacion Martinez Foreign Languages
