FACULTY SENATE MINUTES
FEBRUARY 22, 2007
Present: Bandy, Bolter, Boniecki, Bradley, Bratton, Christman, Frederickson, Glenn (for Esteban), Horton, Johnson, Lance, Lichtenstein, McCullough, Mehta, Mosley, Parrack, Powers, Satterfield, Seifert ,Thiher, Wilmes, Ujah, Young
Absent: Holden, Hirrel , Wiedmaier
President Bolter called the meeting to order at 12:45.
Approval of Minutes
On a motion by Frederickson with a second by Horton the minutes of the January 25, 2007 meeting were approved unanimously.
President’s Report
A document entitled “High School-Based Concurrent Courses: Instructor and Course Approval Sequence” has been received from the Provost’s office. President Bolter assigned the review of this document to Faculty Affairs I with the charge that the committee examine the suggested procedures from the perspective of assuring faculty input. That is, the uses of the phrase “academic department” in the document may allow all approvals to be done by a departmental chair with no faculty input.
A revised form for the conversion of existing courses to electronic delivery has been received from the Provost’s office. President Bolter assigned the review of this form to Faculty Affairs II with the charge to the committee to assure proper level of faculty input.
A survey on faculty salary adjustments at the time of promotion has been received from the Provost’s office. Parrack, in his role as chair of the Salary Review Committee, pointed out that the average reported increase for the promotion associate professor was $2,437 compared to UCA’s raise of $3,500 and that the average reported increase for the promotion from associate professor to professor was $3,934 compared to UCA’s raise of $5,000.
Committee Reports
Mosley moved and Christman seconded a suspension of the rules for the purpose of appointments to the Public Art Committee. Motion passed unanimously. Powers moved and Lance seconded a motion to appoint Shauna Meador as the FAC representative and Nancy Reese as the at-large representative. Motion passed unanimously.
Faculty Affairs I had no report.
Parrack moved approval and Mosley seconded a motion presented from Faculty Affairs II that would make former winners of a Faculty Excellence Award once again eligible for the award after a ten-year waiting period. The motion was approved unanimously.
Academic Affairs had no report.
Announcements and
Concerns
President Bolter announced that she hasn’t heard from IT regarding on-line voting for at-large elections which are March 2. She alerted the current at-large senators to be prepared to serve as poll workers in the Library that day.
Mehta questioned the status of the standardization of clickers, an issue that the Senate had passed to the Technology Committee. Powers stated that the committee is “looking at it” and might have a recommendation by its next meeting.
Johnson raised a concern regarding the distribution of summer school profits from 2006.
Bradley raised a concern regarding the 5% increase in the salary allocation which is being proposed for 2007-2008 in light of the document that was presented in the last meeting showing that UCA is apparently scheduled to receive an 18% increase in funding from the state. Horton and Mosley voiced their agreement with Bradley. Johnson then added that the standard for library funding is 4.5% of the Education and General (E&G) appropriation but Torreyson is funded at 2.8%. Lichtenstein commented that the Provost has committed to make up some of this difference.
Lichtenstein raised a concern regarding salaries for 12-month, non-administrative faculty members.
Parrack commented that the change in the dates of UCA’s Spring Break hadn’t been well publicized. Bolter responded that she was under the impression that we now had a 3-year calendar which had been approved by the Board of Trustees.
Senate adjourned at 1:10 following a motion by Christman.