10. The
general good and welfare of the University
11. Adjournment
B. Abbott,
P. Agness, R. Bean, L. Beineke, E. Blakemore, S. Blythe, W. Branson,
G. Bullion,
C. Carlson, C. Chauhan, M. Codispoti, N. Cothern, D. Erbach, C. Erickson,
L. Fox,
R. Friedman, P. Goodmann, J. Grant, T. Grove,
S. Hannah, L. Hess, P. Iadicola,
S. Isiorho, A. Karim, L. Kuznar, L. Lin, M. Lipman, L. Meyer, M. Montesino,
G. Mourad,
A. Mustafa, M.
Myers, E. Neal, M. Nusbaumer, D. Oberstar, A. Perez, J. Purse-Wiedenhoeft,
D. Ross, J. Tankel, J. Toole, L. Vartanian,
G. Voland, M. Wartell, N. Younis
J. Brennan,
D. Goodman, J. Knight, Z. Liang, D. Marshall,
H. Samavati, G. Schmelzle
Attachments:
“Amendment to the
Bylaws: Composition of Subcommittee
on Athletics” (SD 03-5)
“Approval of replacement
member of the Professional Development Subcommittee” (SD 03-6)
“Report from Question
Time: S. Hannah” (SR No.
03-8)
Faculty Member Present: S. Sarratore
Visitors Present: S. Alderman, K. Casey, R. Kostrubanic,
P. McLaughlin, K. Stockman
Acta
1. Call
to order: R. Hess called
the meeting to order at 12:14 p.m.
2. Approval of the minutes
of October 20, 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. Indiana University:
M. Nusbaumer: All of the Indiana University faculty
should have received a self-nomination form for the Indiana University
Board of Review. Those need to be submitted to me by the end
of this Friday. I have gotten
some, but if you are interested, please make sure I get that by Friday.
I would
like to express some concerns. As
some of you are aware, Purdue West Lafayette is currently in the process
of evaluating Chancellor Wartell’s performance. I must say, however, that I have little confidence
in the process for a variety of reasons:
1. I find the committee responsible for doing
so to be West Lafayette-administrator top heavy.
2. I find faculty representation to be sparse.
3. I find the ability of the faculty to vote people
on that committee to be non-existent.
4. I find failure to allow for wide-spread faculty
input. Any faculty that have
input into that evaluation should be given the opportunity to do so.
5. Questionnaires were sent only to select folks.
6. They are not anonymous evaluations.
b. Purdue University:
E. Blakemore: There was a letter that went out to all faculty from President Jischke saying
who was on the committee to evaluate Chancellor Wartell. All faculty were invited
in that letter to make comments to members of the committee, so that
is one comment that I have.
The committee
is not West Lafayette-administrator top heavy. There
are four people on the committee. One
of them is the Vice President for Financial Affairs at West Lafayette, another
is an associate provost at West Lafayette. The third is Dean James Jones, a dean on this
campus; and the fourth is me, and I am the speaker of the Purdue faculty. That is all I have to say at the moment. Everyone was invited to give comment if they
wished to do so.
Senator
David Erbach and I attended the Purdue Intercampus Faculty Council
last week. For those of you
who do not know, and I did not know before I went, this is the body
that consists of two representatives from all of the Purdue campuses: two from West Lafayette, two from Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis, two from Indiana University-Purdue University
Fort Wayne, two from North Central, and two from Calumet. They are faculty members, and the concerns
brought up at that gathering are about issues that would be related
to Purdue faculty campuswide. There
are two things that I want to raise as a result of that meeting. One,
of which I was not aware although Steve Sarratore informed
me that he was aware, is that there is now an online Purdue course
repository. As a department chair, if I needed to find
out whether a particular course existed in the Purdue system, I had
to look through reams of paper to determine what those courses were
and what numbers were free if we wanted to propose a new course. All
of this information is now online. I
will give Jacqui the URL as well as the set of links to get there,
but it is pretty easy if you go to the Purdue main page. You go to “Academics.” Near the top of the “Academics” page there
is something called “course information” and, when you get to that
page it says “system-wide course information.” You can look at courses that exist at any campus
or all campuses as well as course descriptions. So that is something I wanted to make you aware
of, and I for one am thrilled
to see that it exists. Now I
can throw away those 50 pages that are sitting in a pile somewhere.
The other
thing I wanted to bring up is that I discovered, and I probably knew
this in the back of my mind somewhere, that the Fort
Wayne campus has a seat on the West
Lafayette campus but, at least in more than
the last decade, no one has ever filled that seat. Jacqui
was able to find for me that in 1991 the Purdue Committee on Institutional
Affairs passed a resolution that this campus would not fill that seat. Lowell Beineke’s recollection
is that that was to declare our independence or something of that nature. That resolution from Purdue Committee on Institutional
Affairs was passed by this Senate in 1991. Now, 12 years later, I wonder if it might be
time to reconsider that issue. I
will bring it to the Purdue Committee on Institutional Affairs to see
whether it would be of benefit for us to have a representative on the
West Lafayette Senate. I looked
at a few of their recent minutes. A
lot of the things that take place at those meetings are relevant predominantly
to the West Lafayette campus,
but there is the issue of faculty having some input on the benefits
package. So far as I know, faculty
on this campus do not really have input on the benefits package
and, if we could have that opportunity, maybe it would be worth at
least sending somebody to the meetings. I
will be bringing that up to the Purdue Committee on Institutional Affairs.
S. Sarratore: Although
I don’t have speaking privileges, (Presiding Officer granted speaking
privileges) I would just comment that the web site she refers to, as
well as a similar one for IU courses, I have just added to a curriculum
development web site on the Academic Affairs web page. It
can now be found there, so there is a direct link to it from there.
R. Hess: Would you both indicate how to get to the West
Lafayette site and how to get to the Curriculum
Development site, and we will get them in the minutes?
(The
following are the URLs for both sites per E. Blakemore and S. Sarratore):
http://www.purdue.edu/Purdue/Course-Info/index.html (Purdue
– WL)
http://www.ipfw.edu/vcaa/curricdevelop (IPFW
Curriculum Development. This
site may also be reached from the OAA web page. This
Curriculum Development site includes all policies, forms, and information
relevant to new course and/or program development at IPFW. There are also links to the Purdue and IU master
course lists.)
M. Wartell: In discussion
with Steve Hollander and Mike Downs about the issue that was brought
up about representation, the concerns in the 1991 resolution as I remember
their discussion, related to the lack of proportional representation. That is why that was done.
E. Blakemore: One of the names that was on
that resolution was Wayne Unsell’s. I have asked him to let me know what exactly
he recalled regarding the details of doing it that way but, by the
time I left my office, he had not yet replied.
5. Report
of the Presiding Officer (Senate Reference No. 03-3) – R. Hess:
I want
to apologize for getting started late. As
you know, sometimes the technology fails you. You
can anticipate next time that the technology will work, and we will
have what we did not have this time as a result of this snafu.
My official
report is Senate Reference No. 03-3, for your consideration. I would like to move now to “Committee reports
requiring action.”
6. Committee
reports requiring action:
a. Student Affairs Committee (SD 03-5) – S. Isiorho:
S. Isiorho moved to approve SD 03-5 (Amendment to the Bylaws: Composition
of Subcommittee on Athletics). Seconded.
Motion
to approve SD 03-5 passed on a voice vote.
b. Executive Committee (SD 03-6) – J. Grant:
J. Grant
moved to approve SD 03-6 (Approval of replacement member of the
Professional Development Subcommittee). Seconded.
Motion
to approve SD 03-6 passed on a voice vote.
7. Question
Time (SR No. 03-4):
Q: In reference
to Senate Document SD 96-4 which states the following:
"That it be the policy of Indiana University-Purdue University that all administrative personnel who hold
academic rank be expected, as a condition of their appointment, to be responsible for the teaching of one
class per year in the department in which they have academic affiliation."
and
"The Academic Officers Committee (AOC) fully endorses the notion that administrators who hold faculty
rank should teach. This support is demonstrated by the teaching record and teaching plans of the current
members of AOC. Further, we endorse the continued hiring of administrators who believe that teaching is
an important function of all faculty members."
Could
you provide the Senate with a report delineating the number of administrators
above departmental chairs who have academic “rank” and the number
of courses each has taught in the past two years?
Michael Nusbaumer
A: S. Hannah: I
will provide a report to put in the minutes. Roughly, the pattern is most of us teach either
once a year or once every other year – something to that effect. For someone who does this, I will say it is
hard, and I always worry that my students are the ones who suffer when
I do not go to class as well prepared as I should because my other
responsibilities have diverted me. Now,
my students have awarded me with very good evaluations and say nice
things about my course, which I appreciate very much, but I will tell
you from personal experience, I worry that I am not bringing the same
effort and attention to it that I should because I have other responsibilities. I
teach on Monday nights only, so I have all day Sunday to get ready,
but something inevitably happens, and I think that the other administrators
who teach can tell the same story. So,
while it is a noble goal, and we do try, you are going to see everyone
on this list teaches at least once every other year or so. It
is hard. We want to do the kind
of job that you folks do -- yes, we are committed to it, and I value
the time that I spend, but it is difficult. You
will see this report in the minutes.
R. Hess: A copy of the report is to be attached to the
minutes, and it is with the secretary.
P. Iadicola: I have a question regarding the summary of
the pattern. Can I draw from
the information that you are providing what proportion of administrators
who hold academic rank are in compliance with SD 96-4? Your
statement at this current time basically leads me to believe that only
about half of the administrators are in compliance, or maybe even less
than that, if compliance means teaching one class per academic year.
S.
Hannah: You may draw that conclusion.
P. Iadicola: I
may draw that conclusion – which conclusion is that?
S. Hannah: A few of us teach every single semester every
single year. Others of us, like
me, teach every other year. So
I am not in compliance.
P. Iadicola: So
it would be fair to say that at least half …
S.
Hannah: You can count the numbers. I did not count them.
P. Iadicola: If I look
at that information, will I know what proportion of administrators
are in compliance and which are not?
S.
Hannah: Yes, you will.
P. Iadicola: Okay.
8. New
business: There was no
new business.
9. Committee
reports “for information only”:
a. Executive Committee (Senate Reference No.
03-5) – J. Grant:
SR No. 03-5
(Items under Consideration by Senate Committees and Subcommittees)
was presented for information only.
b. Executive Committee (Senate Reference No.
03-6) – J. Grant:
SR
No. 03-6 (Student Advising on IPFW Campus) was presented for information
only.
c. Executive Committee (Senate Reference No.
03-7) – J. Grant:
SR
No. 03-7 (Mandatory Screen Saver Policy) was presented for information
only.
10. The
general good and welfare of the University:
P. Iadicola: This coming
Monday from 12:00 – 1:30 in Kettler 117, the Departments of Anthropology, History and
Sociology are sponsoring a forum. Hopefully
this will be one in a series. The
forum is on Conversation on the American Empire, and the first one
is going to be about the history. In
light of the increasing cost of our overseas domain, cost in terms
of military bases now occupying more than 70 countries, cost in terms
of human lives, and cost in our monopolization of weapons of mass destruction
and increasing that, it is important that the Fort Wayne community,
including the campus community, have a discussion about the nature
of our system and the increase in cost to that as well as benefits. This
is one in a series. I have fliers
and Jacqui has fliers. If you
would like to take one and put them someplace in your office area,
it would be nice; or you can distribute them to other faculty who may
be interested. I also have copies here if you are coming this
way.
R.
Hess: Is the forum to be each
Monday in sequence throughout November?
P. Iadicola: We
have not yet set a date for the next one.
R.
Hess: This coming Monday at noon? Room number?
P. Iadicola: Yes, Kettler 117.
L. Kuznar: Who
are the participating faculty?
P. Iadicola: Right now,
the chair of the anthropology program, Alan Sandstrom;
Bernd Fischer, chair of History; Glen Gendzel is
giving the first one on the history; and I am.
R. Hess: I would like to share with you an item under
good and welfare, briefly. At
the end of the introduction last time of our Sergeant-at-Arms, he came
to my office and he wanted to have a serious discussion as to how to
handle you people. I sat down, and he said, “What happens if people
get rowdy?” I said, “Well, you
know, it’s all right – we’ll try to handle it. We’ll
tolerate it.” Then he said,
“Well, what if it persists?” I
said, “Well, I’ll try to handle it with humor.” He
looked at me kind of skeptically, and I said, “Oh, well, then I’ll
turn to the staff.” Josué,
do you want to show them? (Josué showed the staff with its raccoon head.) As a backup, we will have a cell phone to call
the University Police.
J. Purse-Wiedenhoeft: This
is just an invitation because I don’t see all of you often. December 5, we open our last show in the Theatre
Department for this semester – Suddenly
Last Summer by Tennessee Williams. I
am playing one of the leads. This
is one of the times that I am out there working with my students and
doing the acting side of things. If
you are available, come and see the show.
11. The
meeting adjourned at 12:35 p.m.
Jacqueline
J. Petersen
Secretary
of the Faculty