Minutes of the
Sixth Regular Meeting of the Twenty-Eighth Senate
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
February 9, 2009
12:00 P.M., Kettler G46
Agenda
1. Call to order
2. Approval of the minutes of January 12, 2009
3. Acceptance of the agenda – B. Abbott
4. Reports of the Speakers of the Faculties
a. Indiana University – M. Nusbaumer
b. Purdue University – N. Younis
5. Report of the Presiding Officer – S. Davis
6. Committee reports requiring action
a. Educational Policy Committee (Senate Document SD 08-6) – G. Moss
b. Executive Committee (Senate Document SD 08-7) – B. Abbott
7. New business
Executive Committee (Senate Document SD 08-8) – B. Abbott
8. Committee reports “for information only”
a. Faculty Affairs Committee (Senate Reference No. 08-15) – K. McDonald
b. Curriculum Review Subcommittee (Senate Reference No. 08-16) – A. Livschiz
9. The general good and welfare of the University
10. Adjournment*
*The meeting will adjourn or recess by 1:15 p.m.
Presiding Officer: S. Davis
Parliamentarian: A. Downs
Sergeant-at-Arms: G. Steffen
Secretary: J. Petersen
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Attachments:
“Academic Calendar, 2011-2012” (SD 08-6)
“Approval of replacement member of the General Education Subcommittee” (SD 08-7)
“Approval of replacement member of the Educational Policy Committee” (SD 08-8)
Senate Members Present:
B. Abbott, N. Adilov, A. Argast, S. Ashur, S. Beckman, S. Blythe, W. Branson, J. Burg,
D. Charlesworth, J. Dalby, S. Dhawale, P. Dragnev, B. Dupen, C. Erickson, E. Foley,
R. Friedman, J. Garrison, J. Grant, T. Grove, I. Hack, P. Iadicola, J. Jackson, M. Lipman,
D. Liu, G. McClellan, K. McDonald, L. Meyer, G. Moss, G. Mourad, K. Moustafa, T. Parker, K. Pollock, D. Redett, M. Ridgeway, J. Summers, R. Sutter, C. Thompson, J. Toole,
W. Utesch, M. Walsh, G. Wang, M. Wartell, M. Wolf, N. Younis
Senate Members Absent:
R. Elaver, W. McKinney, D. Moore, D. Mueller, M. Nusbaumer, T. Prickett, L. Roberts,
A. Ushenko, G. Voland
Faculty Members Present: O. Chang, L. Finke, A. Livschiz, G. Miller
Visitors Present: J. Dahl, M. Franke, R. Kostrubanic, K. Soderland (Journal Gazette)
Acta
1. Call to order: S. Davis called the meeting to order at 12:03 p.m.
Chancellor Wartell presented Presiding Officer, Stanley Davis, with a gavel which was made by Gary Travis.
2. Approval of the minutes of January 12, 2009: The minutes were approved as distributed.
3. Acceptance of the agenda:
B. Abbott 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: No report as he was absent.
b. Purdue University:
N. Younis: Good afternoon, colleagues. I would like to thank those senators and colleagues across the campus who value service and who are willing to serve. Their dedication and passion for faculty governance is something we all ought to aspire to if we believe in faculty governance.
On January 12, the Nominations and Elections Committee sought nominations for election of the Purdue Faculty Speaker that was due by January 20. I have not received the ballot for this election. Therefore, I assume (hopefully I am wrong) that there were no nominations or fewer nominees than were needed to have an election. If that is the case, I am disappointed by the lack of willingness of my colleagues to serve as the Purdue Faculty Speaker. I hope that the vacancies for the faculty speakers will be filled by electing willing volunteers in the future.
Thank you.
5. Report of the Presiding Officer – S. Davis:
S. Davis: Thanks to Judith Garrison who put those grade distribution data on the administrative archives at the Library. What we have on there is grade distribution done for the semester, budgeted salary lines, and the extra merit compensation at the end of the year, if there were any. There will be a gap this year because Purdue University would not approve those.
Speaking privileges have been given to Professor Ann Livschiz regarding Senate Reference No. 08-16.
We still have three or four committees we have not heard from with regard to the various committee structures. Jacqui Petersen just sent out another e-mail to the committees asking for any changes as the Executive Committee is getting ready to look over the committee structures. If you could even just send something back to her, if you are on one of these committees, that there are no changes, that would be appropriate. We just want everyone to be accounted for.
Next month, remember the Senate meeting is the Monday following spring break.
Senator Walsh has our election results.
M. Walsh: In reference to Senator Younis’s points, we did in fact get a single nominee for Purdue Speaker who then withdrew. We will be sending out nomination forms for that again this week, and hopefully we will get multiple applicants.
For the Presiding Officer, we received three nomination forms, two of which were properly signed, and all of which were for the same person. Therefore, I am pleased to announce that Stanley Davis is the Presiding Officer for 2009-2010.
S. Davis: I do want to back up what Senator Younis said. There is so much service to be done, and there are a lot of people willing to do it, but there are a lot of people who are not. We have people that just got tenured. I think it is time we see some associate professors coming into the campus leadership positions, both formal and informal system. Let’s show the enthusiasm to be faculty leaders.
6. Committee reports requiring action:
a. Educational Policy Committee (Senate Document SD 08-6) – G. Moss:
G. Moss moved to approve Senate Document SD 08-6 (Academic Calendar 2011-2012).
Motion to approve passed on a voice vote.
b. Executive Committee (Senate Document SD 08-7) – B. Abbott:
B. Abbott moved to approve Senate Document SD 08-7 (Approval of replacement member of the General Education Subcommittee).
Motion to approve passed on a voice vote.
7. New business:
a. Executive Committee (Senate Document SD 08-8) – B. Abbott:
B. Abbott moved to approve Senate Document SD 08-8 (Approval of replacement member of the Educational Policy Committee).
Motion to approve passed on a voice vote.
b. P. Iadicola moved to approve Senate Document SD 08-2 (Proposal for defending Departmental Faculty Rights of Discussion and Recommendation for Departmental Curriculum).
Motion was pronounced out of order as Senate Reference No. 08-15, which addresses results from the Faculty Affairs Committee with regard to Senate Document SD 08-2, had not yet been addressed in the agenda.
8. Committee reports “for information only”:
a. Faculty Affairs Committee (Senate Reference No. 08-15) – K. McDonald:
Senate Reference No. 08-15 (Re: Senate Document SD 08-2) was presented for information only.
Discussion ensued as to the results submitted by the Faculty Affairs Committee.
b. Curriculum Review Subcommittee (Senate Reference No. 08-16) – A. Livschiz:
Senate Reference No. 08-16 (Proposal for the Advanced Manufacturing Management Certificate) was presented for information only.
9. The general good and welfare of the University:
P. Iadicola: It has been brought to me to raise some questions about the smell that is coming from the basement locker rooms at the Gates Center. I am wondering if, for the good and welfare of the athletes, as well as those few faculty who use the facility that the smell coming from that basement be looked into to discover the source and maybe remedy the situation. It has been going on now for at least a month.
A. Argast: Over the Christmas holiday, my family and I had the chance to travel up to Port Huron, Michigan to see our beloved Komets play the hated Ice Hawks. While I was there, we were given game notes. In the game notes, it points out that the official hotel of the Komets is the Fort Wayne Holiday Inn. I have seen our hotel referred to as everything but the IPFW Holiday Inn. It seems like we are losing advertising locally, and up there were numerous Fort Wayne fans. What is disturbing to me is that if you showed your Ice Hawks ticket, if they were coming down here, you could get a standard room for $69 at the Fort Wayne Holiday Inn. I had occasion to pay for a room for a visitor coming on campus to interview for a job. I did not get that room for $69. The university paid $233 with tax for two nights. Why is it that we do not get a discount to use our very own IPFW hotel when the Ice Hawk fans come here, they get a discount?
W. Branson: The official name is the Holiday Inn at IPFW and the Coliseum. We cannot always control what other people call it. I have heard it called a variety of names. Actually this morning when I was driving here, on the radio I heard it called the Holiday Inn at the Coliseum. It was not the correct name. I am not sure how they arrived at that discounted room rate for official IPFW business. You will find it is not necessarily the best rate, but it is a guaranteed rate, so you can always get that rate for rooms over there. The government rate is lower than the IPFW rate, but that is only for a certain number of rooms. If those rooms are sold out, the government rate goes away. So they gave us a pretty good rate that is about $90.
A. Argast: My only response to that is maybe if we can get the word out, this is an advertising opportunity that is being advertised in places as far away as upstate Michigan. We lose opportunity when we do that. As far as the rate, I can only tell you that we had three guests come through for job interviews, and we paid the full rate on every one. I specifically requested and asked about that and was told that there was no discount. I do not know what was available, but it is a little painful when people from where the Ice Hawks play get a better rate than we do.
J. Dahl: Vice Chancellor Branson, does the rate have to be requested by phone at the front desk?
W. Branson: You are supposed to be able to tell them you qualify for that rate, and they give it to you.
J. Dahl: Not by automated reservation system.
W. Branson: I do not believe it is on the website.
A. Argast: Our secretary called over and made reservations.
W. Branson: I will find out what is going on – that should not happen.
M. Wolf: I was at the Indiana University Faculty Council meeting and they have a draft document that is near ready for voting on the guidelines for tenure and promotion for all Indiana University campuses. I will send a copy on because it still remains open for comments for faculty affairs committees and any Indiana University department. It has been considered in depth, so it is not now time to question much of it. It does also raise a couple of issues from what is in here concerning what passed last year, especially when we consider promotion to full professor. From what I understand from my senator and from others was that the suggestion was that a lot of the clarification for change last year came from above, that is, Indiana and Purdue Universities. This document does not reflect that as far as membership on committees. Indeed, they only need one-third of the members to be of the rank to which a person is aspiring for professor or librarian. It does not fit our document now. I roughly looked at Arts and Sciences and found that four departments right now could have a departmental committee made up of full professors. Four others could, if they did not have people serving on any other committee in the university. Seven departments had no ability to have anybody sit on a departmental committee for a full professor. I think we should revisit those rules considering what will likely be passed. I will leave that for comment.
S. Davis: Would you send that to Jacqui Petersen, and she will get it distributed to the senators?
M. Wolf: I saw the discussion from the last Senate meeting about the faculty locker room. I would like to know a little bit more. I know this is a minor issue, but it is no longer really the faculty locker room. It is now the coaches’ locker room, and the visiting officials’ locker room. You cannot get a permanent locker now, so those of us with permanent lockers are in with students. Showering with students is not comfortable, especially in the era of camera phones. I do not want capital spent on a locker room when we could have a child care center or something, but there are issues, beyond smell, that should be addressed. I think Judy Tillapaugh is probably the hardest-working person on this campus, and it is not to suggest anything poor about anything, but I think it is a general concern I think we should think about in the future.
K. McDonald: I just wanted to say that we had candidates over there (Holiday Inn at IPFW and the Coliseum) last week, and it was really nice. They have a great facility to showcase. I think it will help, as we bring candidates in for recruiting, and it is also very convenient. From that perspective, I am really happy we have the Holiday Inn at IPFW.
10. The meeting adjourned at 12:40 p.m.
Jacqueline J. Petersen
Secretary of the Faculty