I. At
II. Roll Call: Senators present: Charles
Anderson, Kit Andrews, Roy Bennett, Bob Brownbridge, Mary Bucy, Keller Coker,
Claire Ferraris, Kristina Frankerberger, Maria Fung, Karen Haberman, Jessica
Henderson, Sriram Khe, Mark Perlman, Emily Plec, John Rector, Bill Schoenfeld,
Julia Smith, Diane Tarter, Bob Turner, Curt Yehnert, Zenon Zygmont
Ex-Officio
Members: WOU President Conn, ASWOU President Rebekah Wilcox
III. Minutes from last meeting were approved
at
IV. Reports of the Presidents
A. President
of Faculty Senate
The
Faculty Senate President Janeanne Rockwell-Kincanon reported that she had contacted Gretchen Schuette to try to schedule the meeting of Faculty
Senate with her. Due to prior engagements, this meeting will not be possible
until the first week of the summer session. A tentative time was set for
B. President of WOU
President
Conn introduced Cheryl Gaston, the new Director of Public Relations. He also
proceeded to congratulate the Senators for a successful year. President Conn
also announced that a new Staff Senate is being formed and elections for
senators are being held. This would allow ASWOU to proceed with the Shared
Communication concept. Finally, he congratulated the WOU Chamber Singers for
their wonderful performance at Carnegie Hall in NYC.
C. President
of ASWOU
The
ASWOU president Rebekah Wilcox announced that the President Elect of ASWOU is
Ben Sappington after a round of very successful elections.
V.
Consideration of Old Business
A. Report from
Ad-hoc Committee on Faculty Searches
The chair of this committee
Kit Andrews presented a set of problems encountered during searches this
academic year. Among these problems were: interference in formulating job
descriptions, late authorization of positions, no uniform set of committee
procedures, no date-stamping of received materials, HR withholding certain
files, in some cases cumbersome travel authorization.
The set of recommendations
included: early decisions on searches (as early as summer), faculty search
committee's ability to decide on all supporting materials for initial job
advertisement, applications to be sent directly to search committees (unless
requested otherwise and excluding EEO information), respect by the
administration of the ranking of the candidates, resources to attend and
interview at national conferences, incorporation of a standard procedure for
special accommodations during campus visits, a set of guidelines clearly
distinguishing appropriate and inappropriate areas of questions and suggestions
offered to job candidates.
It was decided that this
document will be circulated in the divisions and Faculty Senate will act on it
during the July meeting.
B. Committee Adjustments
The Faculty Senate secretary
distributed a summary of the reports of the various Senate sub-committees. The
Writing Intensive Committee and the ARC were mentioned as possible candidates
for adjustment. It was suggested that perhaps the WIC can begin evaluating
proposals for courses that have a Diversity designation, in an attempt to
alleviate some of the burden of the Curriculum Committee. Senators were
encouraged to bring the discussion to their academic units, and to come up with
suggestions for action during the July meeting.
VI. New
Business
A. Nomination
and Election of Officers
Keller Coker (Creative Arts)
was elected President for 2004-05. John Rector (Social Sciences) is the
new Vice President, and Karen Haberman (Natural Sciences & Math) is the
incoming secretary. At-large members (2) of the Executive Committee have
yet to be named.
VII. Reports
of IFS
IFS Senator Bob Turner
reported on an ORP Coalition meeting in
IX. A motion to adjourn
was approved at