FACULTY SENATE
FULL MINUTES OF 16 NOVEMBER 1999
The third regular meeting of the 1999-2000
Faculty Senate was held on Tuesday, 16
November 1999, in the Mendenhall Student
Center, room #244.
Agenda Item I. Call to Order
Chair Brenda Killingsworth called the meeting
to order at 2:10 p.m.
Agenda Item II. Approval of Minutes
The minutes of 5 October 1999, were approved
as distributed.
Agenda Item III. Special Order of the Day
A. Roll Call
Senators absent were: Summers (Biology),
Gares (Geography), Barnes (Health and Human
Performance), Metzger (Medicine),
Mustafa (Medicine), Cox (Medicine), Engel
(Medicine), and Meredith (Medicine).
Alternates present were Foote for Scott
(Acadamic Library Services).
B. Announcements
Chair Killingsworth reviewed announcements as
distributed at the meeting. The UNC Faculty
Assembly meeting will be held on
Friday, November 19, 1999 in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina.
C. Richard Eakin, Chancellor
Richard Eakin, Chancellor, explained that he
would not be making a report on Employment
Categories of all Faculty since data
are not available until December. He will
include that information in a later report.
He announced that Wednesday, December
8, 1999, is a Blood Drive on campus. All
senators and faculty were urged to
participate. Further, he announced that SACS
has approved the alternative model for self-
study developed by SACS campus leaders and
steering committee. SACS contact
person Jack Allen will visit campus on
January 24, 2000. Chancellor Eakin announced
that over $500,000 was donated for
flood relief for students, faculty, and staff
who were affected by the flood.
Approximately $170,000 was given out
immediately following the flood in $100 cash
payments during Phase I. During Phase II,
based on careful review of applications and
considering individual needs, could provide
assistance as high as $2,000 per individual.
Chancellor Eakin commented on the
involvement of other institutions from other
states in their assistance to our campus
community. Further, facilities on all UNC
campuses are "on hold" for repairs, growth,
etc. Renovation and repairs funds have been
withheld for all campuses until the
state determines how it will meet flood
expenses. On the ECU campus, withholding
this money will mean that summer projects
upcoming for 2000 will likely not be
completed since they will not be able to be
put out for bids. The Chancellor announced
that Eva Klein and Associates had completed a
review of organizational environment on ECU
campus, conducted during Summer
1999, focusing on how the Chancellor spends
his time in order to free him for more
external duties, including fund-raising. Two
critical results from this review are the
creation of a new Executive Vice Chancellor,
Richard Brown, who is also the Vice
Chancellor for Business and Finance. Klein
recommended having a single person who would
deal with strategic operational
responsibilities on campus. Richard Brown is
uniquely situated to accomplish that task; he
will coordinate a wide variety of non-
academic areas. Secondly, staff concerns
will be addressed on an interim basis by Bob
Thompson, working as a chief of staff
for the chancellor. Eakin has already
implemented this new plan and expects the
reorganizational structure to be beneficial
to the campus. Eakin reassured faculty that
the three academic vice chancellors will
continue to report directly to the
Chancellor.No questions were posed to the
chancellor.
D. Vice Chancellor's Report
Richard Ringeisen, Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs, presented his report. He
announced several changes in personnel in
his office. Henry Peel has been selected as
Wachovia Chair of Educational Leadership in
the School of Education and has left
the office of Academic Affairs. Gary Lowe,
formerly Dean of the School of Social Work
and Criminal Justice, will serve as
Interim Associate Vice Chancellor . A
national search has begun for that position.
Caroline Ayers has chosen to retire from the
university and from her position in the
VCAA's office. Interim Associate Vice
Chancelor Rita Reaves will fill the position
vacated by Caroline Ayers. Another recent
appointment is the appointment of Scott
Thomson for the Merit Scholarship
position, originated through the work of Jo
Allen. Joe Gaddis, formerly of Continuing
Studies, will complete the work of budget
priorities, previously held by Gray Hall who
has taken a faculty position in the School of
Education. Rosina Chia is currently
working on planning efforts in the VCAA
office.
Vice Chancellor Feldbush reported on the ECU
Outreach Network. There will be a larger
need for long-term coordination of
flood relief efforts, with long-term planning
for how flood relief will be conducted in
eastern North Carolina. Al Delia of the
Regional Development Center estimates that $6
billion spending could return eastern North
Carolina only to its same position at
the time of 1980. There will be four
components of the flood relief efforts:
recurring budget to buy off faculty time to
allow faculty to be involved in planning and
implementing with assistance, including other
UNC faculty as needed; establishing a fund
of money to provide challenge or matching
grants, focused on putting together teams of
grant writers; combining venture
capital funds to be strictly used in eastern
North Carolina to help restore 50,000 jobs
lost in our area; and creating a virtuarium,
a state of the art planning tool, to plan and
to model what would happen if a particular
action were to occur.Schneider (Business)
asked Feldbush to make predictions regarding
congressional funding for flood relief.
Feldbush replied that all flood relief funds
are still "locked up," but projected the area
would receive $2 billion of the requested $6
billion.
E. Approval of the Fall 1999 Graduation
Roster, including honors program graduates
Shea (Human Environmental Sciences), moved
the approval of the Fall 1999 Graduation
Roster, including honors program
graduates, subject to completion of degree
requirements. The motion passed. RESOLUTION
#99-25
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. University Curriculum Committee
Professor Caroline Ayers presented the report
of the University Curriculum Committee in the
absence of the Chair of the University
Curriculum Committee. There was no
discussion and the curriculum matters were
approved as presented.
RESOLUTION #99-26. The Faculty Senate
congratulated Professor Ayers on her
retirement.
Agenda Item VI. New Business
There being no further business to come
before the Faculty Senate at this time, the
meeting adjourned at 2:40 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Patricia J. Anderson
Secretary Pro Tem and Parliamentarian
