EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

2007-2008 FACULTY SENATE

 

The first regular meeting of the 2007-2008 Faculty Senate will be held on Tuesday, September 11, 2007, at 2:10 in the Mendenhall Student Center Great Room. 

 

FULL AGENDA

 

  I.           Call to Order

 

 II.           Approval of Minutes

               April 17, 2007, and April 24, 2007, minutes

 

III.           Special Order of the Day

A.     Roll Call

 

B.     Announcements

 

C.     Steve Ballard, Chancellor

 

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

 

E.     Terry Holland, Director of Athletics

 

F.      Mark Taggart, Chair of the Faculty

 

G.     Brenda Killingsworth, Chair of the UNC Faculty Assembly         

         Proposed changes to the UNC Faculty Assembly Charter (attachment 1)

 

H.     Question Period

 

 IV.         Unfinished Business

A.    Major Frank Knight

Physical improvements made to campus over the summer to aid in campus safety.

 

B.    Edson Justiniano, Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Yardley Research Group Report

Final Draft of the Yardley Group’s Report on the Assessments in Support of Graduate
Education and Research

              

V.                   Report of Committees

A.     Committee on Committees, Tom Caron

         Nominees for one Regular and one Alternate Member to the Hearing Committee (attachment 2)

B.     Educational Policies and Planning Committee, Dale Knickerbocker

Proposed Requests to Change School of Nursing and School of Allied Health Sciences designations to Colleges.

 

               C.     Unit Code Screening, Garris Conner

                        Proposed Revision to the School of Medicine’s Unit Code of Operations (attachment 3).

 

VI.          New Business

 

Faculty Senate Agenda

September 11, 2007

Attachment  1.

 

 

Proposed Changes to the UNC Faculty Assembly CharTER

 

The changes basically move from a number cut-off system for defining the number of delegates, to a percentage cut-off.  It doesn't affect the balance of delegates, it just makes it more permanent as we won't have to continually go back and change the cut-off limits, as our faculties continue to grow.

 

 

CHARTER OF THE FACULTY ASSEMBLY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

  1. OBJECTIVES AND FUNCTIONS
    1. The Faculty Assembly of the University of North Carolina shall gather and exchange information on behalf of the faculties of the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina.
    2. The Assembly shall, through appropriate channels, advise the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina, the General Assembly, and other governmental agencies and officers on matters of university-wide importance.
    3. The Assembly shall advise and communicate with the President of the University of North Carolina with regard to the interests of the faculties and other matters of university-wide importance.
  2. ORGANIZATION AND RELATIONSHIP
    1. Representation in the Assembly shall be apportioned among the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina with regard to the number of full-time faculty and professional staff members in the service of each institution. Each institution having not more than 300 full-time faculty and professional staff members shall choose two delegates; each institution having from 301 to 600 full-time faculty and professional staff members shall choose three delegates; each institution having 601 to 900 full-time faculty and professional staff members shall choose four delegates; and each institution having more than 900 full-time faculty and professional staff members shall choose five delegates. At any time that the number of full-time faculty and professional staff members of an institution changes so as to entitle it to a larger or smaller number of delegates under the foregoing formula, the number of its delegates forthwith shall be changed accordingly. Every delegate to the Assembly shall be a full-time faculty or professional staff member of the institution he seeks to represent. The manner of selection of delegates shall be determined by the faculties of the respective institutions consistent with their institutional practices. Terms and rotation of delegates shall be specified in the bylaws.
    2. The Assembly shall have a Chairman and other such officers, who shall be chosen in such manner and for such terms, as the Assembly may provide its bylaws.
    3. Each institutional delegation to the Assembly shall make available to the faculty of its institution the official minutes of the proceedings of the Assembly, together with the written report of the delegation.

  3. OPERATIONS
    1. The Assembly shall adopt its own bylaws.
    2. The bylaws of the Assembly shall provide for regular, stated meetings of the Assembly, which shall be held at various locations.
    3. Special meetings of the Assembly may be called by the President of The University of North Carolina, by the officers of the Assembly, or by members of the Assembly, in accordance with procedures to be established in the bylaws of the Assembly.
    4. Records of the activities of the Assembly shall be kept and transmitted to the appropriate successor officers of the Assembly.
      Released time shall be made available to the officers of the Assembly, subject to the approval of the President of The University of North Carolina.
    5. The Assembly shall be provided by The University of North Carolina with necessary secretarial assistance and other related services and resources.
    6. The members of the Assembly shall be reimbursed by The University of North Carolina for expenses incurred in attending meetings of the Assembly.
  4. RATIFICATION AND AMENDMENT OF THE CHARTER
    1. This Charter shall be transmitted to the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina for ratification or rejection by the faculty of each institution in accordance with the processes of that institution. The Charter shall become effective upon its ratification by two-thirds of the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina. The institutions whose faculties ratify the Charter shall become participating institutions and shall send delegations to the Assembly.
    2. An amendment to the Charter may be introduced in the Assembly by any member of the Assembly; and if approved by a majority of the authorized membership of the Assembly, it shall be transmitted to the participating institutions of the Assembly for ratification by the faculty of each institution in accordance with the processes of that institution. An amendment shall become effective upon its ratification by two-thirds of the participating institutions of the Assembly.

The foregoing Proposed Charter of the Faculty Assembly of the University of North Carolina was adopted unanimously by the University Faculty Assembly, representing all 16 public institutions of higher education in North Carolina, meeting in Greensboro on April 15, 1972.


Faculty Senate Agenda

September 11, 2007

Attachment  2.

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES REPORT

Nominees for the Hearing Committee

 

Need one Regular and one Alternate Member

 

Nominees

Linda Mooney (Sociology) moved up to regular member with 2009 term

Sandy Triebenbacher (Child Development and Family Relations) as alternate member with 2008 term

Cathy Hall (Psychology) as alternate member with 2009 term

 

                                          2007/2008 HEARING APPELLATE COMMITTEE  

REGULAR MEMBERS (with vote)

Name

Academic Area

Term

Office Location

Tele #

Maury York

Academic Library Svcs

2008

Joyner 3300

328-0252

Claudio Sibata

Medicine

2008

L. Jenkins 172 A

744-3712

open

 

2009

 

 

Dana Espinosa

Health & Human Performance

2010

Minges 171A

328-7386

Mohammed Tabrizi

Technology and Computer Science

2010

Science &  Technology C110

328-9691

 ALTERNATE MEMBERS (with vote)

Name

Academic Area

Term

Office Location

Tele #

open

 

2008

 

 

Yong Wang

Geography

2008

Brewster A 223

328-1043

Linda Mooney

Sociology

2009

Brewster A-409

328-6137

Libby Knott

Education

2009

Ragsdale 227

328-6825

Bob Bernhardt

Mathematics

2010

Old Cafeteria 2313

328-2129




Faculty Senate Agenda

September 11, 2007

Attachment  3.

 

UNIT CODE SCREENING COMMITTEE REPORT

Proposed Revision to the School of Medicine Unit Code of Operation

(noted in bold print)

 

 

MEMORANDUM

 

 

TO:                  Dr. Garris Conner, Chair

                        ECU Unit Code Screening Committee

 

FROM:            Phyllis N. Horns, RN, DSN, FAAN

                        Interim Dean, Brody School of Medicine

 

SUBJECT:     Governance Code Amendment

 

DATE:            August 15, 2007

 

Pursuant to the amendment process codified in the Brody School of Medicine Governance Code, the faculty of the School considered the proposal to amend the Code with the addition of a new academic department, the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences. The amendment process was initiated in March 2007 and concluded in June 2007 with an affirmative vote of the tenured faculty of the School.

 

The revision to the Code is the insertion of the words “Cardiovascular Sciences” on page 9, line 349, under the heading of Clinical Sciences.

 

I am writing to you today with a request for timely and efficient consideration of this unit code amendment by the Unit Code Screening Committee. That will help me facilitate the creation of this new department. With the recommendation for approval from the Committee, the Faculty Senate could vote on this revision at its September 2007 meeting.

 

Thank you for your consideration. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you have any difficulty with this.