Minutes of the

Fifth Regular Meeting of the Twenty-Third Senate

Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

January 12, 2004

12:00 P.M., Kettler G46

 

Agenda

 

 1.    Call to order

 2.    Approval of the minutes of December 8, 2003

 3.    Acceptance of the agenda – J. Grant

 4.    Reports of the Speakers of the Faculties

        a.  Purdue University – E. Blakemore

        b.  Indiana University – M. Nusbaumer

 5.    Report of the Presiding Officer (Senate Reference No. 03-15) – R. Hess

 6.    Committee reports requiring action

        a.  University Resources Policy Committee (Senate Document SD 03-8) – G. Bullion

        b.  Executive Committee (Senate Document SD 03-9) – J. Grant

        c.  Faculty Affairs Committee (Senate Document SD 03-10) – D. Oberstar

        d.  Faculty Affairs Committee (Senate Document SD 03-11) – D. Oberstar

 7.    New business

 8.    Committee reports “for information only”

        a.  Executive Committee (Senate Reference No. 03-16) – J. Grant

        b.  University Resources Policy Committee (Senate Reference No. 03-17) – G. Bullion

 9.    The general good and welfare of the University

10.   Adjournment

 

Presiding Officer:  R. Hess

Parliamentarian:  D. Turnipseed

Sergeant-at-Arms:  J. Njock Libii

Secretary:  J. Petersen

 

Senate Members Present:

B. Abbott, P. Agness, L. Beineke, E. Blakemore, S. Blythe, W. Branson, J. Brennan, G. Bullion, C. Chauhan, M. Codispoti, N. Cothern, D. Erbach, C. Erickson, L. Fox, R. Friedman, P. Goodmann, J. Grant, S. Hannah, L. Hess, J. Knight, M. Lipman, L. Meyer, M. Montesino, G. Mourad, A. Mustafa, M. Myers, E. Neal, M. Nusbaumer, D. Oberstar, J. Purse-Wiedenhoeft, D. Ross, H. Samavati, J. Tankel, J. Toole, L. Vartanian, G. Voland, M. Wartell, N. Younis

 

Senate Members Absent:

R. Bean, C. Carlson, D. Goodman, T. Grove, P. Iadicola, S. Isiorho, A. Karim, L. Kuznar, Z. Liang, L. Lin, D. Marshall, A. Perez, G. Schmelzle

 

Attachments:

“Amendment to the Bylaws:  Composition of University Resources Policy Committee” (SD 03-8)

“Approval of replacement member of the Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee” (SD 03-9)

“Proposed amendment to SD 88-13 (Procedures for Promotion and Tenure)” (SD 03-10)

“Procedures for Promotion and Tenure” (SD 88-13)

“Proposed amendment to SD 88-25 (Criteria for Tenure and Promotion)” (SD 03-11)

“Criteria for Tenure and Promotion” (SD 88-25)

Faculty Members Present:  J. Clausen, S. Sarratore, J. Wellington

 

Visitors Present:  S. Alderman, J. Dahl, R. Kostrubanic, P. McLaughlin, K.Stockman

 

 

Acta

 

1.     Call to order:  R. Hess called the meeting to order at 12:04 p.m.

 

2.     Approval of the minutes of December 8, 2003:  The minutes were approved as distributed.

 

3.     Acceptance of the agenda:

 

        J. Grant moved to approve the agenda as distributed.

 

        The agenda was approved as distributed.

 

4.     Reports of the Speakers of the Faculties:

 

        a.  Purdue University:

 

E. Blakemore:  I would like to bring everyone’s attention to a survey that has gone out in campus mail to all faculty regarding a seat on the West Lafayette faculty Senate.  I received back approximately 40 of those surveys, quite a bit fewer than the number of faculty who exist.  If we get only a small response rate, we will have no way of knowing whether people care about the issue.  The survey is very short – it has only two questions, and one of them is “Do you care about this issue?”  What we need is for people to complete the survey and send it back to me.  Tell your department chair to ask colleagues to fill it out.  If someone does not have it, I would be glad to give a replacement.  I would really like to have a good response rate so we can actually tell what people do think about this issue.

 

        b.  Indiana University:

 

M. Nusbaumer:  Very shortly the Indiana University faculty will be receiving a notice to nominate themselves for the election of the Indiana University Speaker.  My term is up at the end of this year.  I will not be running for reelection, so I encourage the Indiana University faculty to submit their names.

 

5.     Report of the Presiding Officer (Senate Reference No. 03-15) – R. Hess:

 

My report is contained in Senate Reference No. 03-15.  I would like to make one comment, and that is at the end of this year and the beginning of 2004, we have had highs and lows in terms of emotional responses.  The high was the recognition of Chancellor Wartell as one of the “Persons of the Year 2003” by the Journal-Gazette.  If you missed that, it was a very flattering account.  He got to share it with the two other presidents of institutions of higher learning.  I think we all share in it in part simply because it recognized the impact and the importance of higher education in northeastern Indiana, and the leadership which has been provided.  We have prospered this past year; let’s flourish in the near future and the long term.

 

We have had two deaths amongst our community.  I am sure you will hear more about those in terms of memorial resolutions coming to the Senate in the near future.  That is the sad part of it.

 

We get to face a new semester – that is always good.

 

6.     Committee reports requiring action:

 

        a.  University Resources Policy Committee (SD 03-8) – G. Bullion:

 

G. Bullion moved to approve SD 03-8 (Amendment to the Bylaws:  Composition of University Resources Policy Committee).

 

            Motion to approve SD 03-8 passed on a voice vote.

 

        b.  Executive Committee (SD 03-9) – J. Grant:

 

J. Grant moved to approve SD 03-9 (Approval of replacement member of the Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee).

 

            Motion to approve SD 03-9 passed on a voice vote.

 

        c.  Faculty Affairs Committee (SD 03-10) – D. Oberstar:

 

D. Oberstar moved to approve SD 03-10 (Proposed amendment to SD 88-13 [Procedures for Promotion and Tenure]).

 

            Motion to approve SD 03-10 passed on a voice vote.

 

        d.  Faculty Affairs Committee (SD 03-11) – D. Oberstar:

 

D. Oberstar moved to approve SD 03-11 (Proposed amendment to SD 88-25 [Criteria for Tenure and Promotion])

 

            Motion to approve SD 03-11 passed on a voice vote.

 

7.     New business:  There was no new business.

 

8.     Committee reports “for information only”:

 

        a.  Executive Committee (Senate Reference No. 03-16) – J. Grant:

 

SR No. 03-16 (Items under Consideration by Senate Committees and Subcommittees) was presented for information only.

 

        b.  University Resources Policy Committee (Senate Reference No. 03-17) – G. Bullion:

 

SR No. 03-17 (Concerns regarding the IPFW mandatory screen saver policy) was presented for information only.

 

 9.    The general good and welfare of the University:

 

S. Hannah:  By now most of you have heard of the American Democracy Project.  A number of you sit on that steering committee.  The goal is to do what we can to prepare our students to be active, engaged, and committed citizens.  As part of that we are participating in a pilot project with The New York Times.  As of today, there are 200 copies of The New York Times being delivered to campus every day, free of charge.  Leave some for your students.  The stack up here is down to one.  I am thrilled.  If 200 is not enough, we will find more money – it is 35 cents a copy – and do more in concert with Student Government.  This is a wonderful opportunity, and it was so much fun to walk through and see students reading The New York Times.  The point is to pick it up, read it, and find out what is going on in the world.  I encourage you to make your students aware of it and, perhaps where it is appropriate, assign something that they might use it for.  The Library is also looking for ways to make electronic copies more easily available, but there is nothing quite like the newsprint.  Thank you very much.

 

        D. Oberstar:  Where are they located?

 

S. Hannah:  They are located in five different places.  I have one more rack, so I will put it in one more place, probably down here.  They are located on the main floor of Kettler as you come in, the lobby of Classroom-Medical Building, Helmke Library, Engineering and Technology Building, and Walb Union.  They are blue racks with The New York Times logo on the top of it.

 

        E. Blakemore:  May I suggest Neff Hall as your other location?

 

        S. Hannah:  Where in Neff?

 

        E. Blakemore:  By the main entrance, where The Communicator is located.

 

S. Hannah:  If they start being gone by 10:00 a.m. (they are delivered at 5:00 a.m. every morning) then we will try to get more.  That would make me very happy.

 

M. Wartell:  As it is the beginning of the semester, it is worth commenting on enrollments.  Presently credit hours are up 2 %.  The final number will be calculated this Friday evening.  2% is about where we expected to be.  Headcount is up about .5%, so the difference between full-time and part-time students is widening.  We are getting more full-time students.

 

The student housing project is proceeding at a good pace.  They are working on the insides now, so you are not going to see much happening on the outside, although I know that the concrete and mortar work is being done on the two major signs for the area.

 

Planning for the music building is continuing, and the architect is moving into the design phase, so that project is proceeding.

 

There has been an architect chosen now for the medical education building, and I imagine that we will hear more about that in the future.

 

W. Branson:  The Northeast Indiana Innovation Center is on track, and we will probably break ground in May or June.

 

M. Wartell:  We are off to a great start this semester, and I think everything is going fairly smoothly.

 

10.   The meeting adjourned at 12:35 p.m.

 

                                                                                                Jacqueline J. Petersen

                                                                                                Secretary of the Faculty