Senate
Reference No. 02-31
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Faculty
FROM: Jane Grant, Chair
Senate Executive Committee
DATE:
SUBJ: End-of-the-Year Committee Reports
Attached are brief
reports from Senate committees and subcommittees of their activities and
actions for the past year. Also attached
is the annual report from the NCAA Faculty Representative.
Chairs:
Academic Advising Subcommittee (D. Neitzel,
M. Slaubaugh)
Academic Computing and Information Technology Advisory
Subcommittee
(M.
Kimble)
Subcommittee on Athletics (D. Young)
Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee (G. Bullion)
Calendar Subcommittee (J. Haw)
Continuing Education Advisory Subcommittee (D. Marshall)
Curriculum Review Subcommittee (C. Lawton)
Developmental Studies Subcommittee (D. Townsend)
Distance Education Subcommittee (D. Marshall)
Educational Policy Committee (L. Hite)
Faculty Affairs Committee (E. Blakemore)
General Education Subcommittee (B. Parke)
Grade Appeals Subcommittee (L. DeFonso)
Graduate
Subcommittee (D. Turnipseed)
Honors Program Council (B. Lundy)
International Studies Program Advisory Subcommittee (M. Montesino)
Library Subcommittee (D. Oberstar)
Nominations and Elections Committee (R. Friedman)
Professional Development Subcommittee (J. Moore)
Student Affairs Committee (L. Fox)
University Resources Policy Committee (J. Brennan)
NCAA
Faculty Representative (E. Blumenthal)
TO: The Senate
FROM: Academic Advising Subcommittee
DATE:
SUBJ: Annual Report, 2002-03
No report received.
Academic Advising
Subcommittee:
John Berry Bongsu Kang
Justin Busch AnnMarie
LeBlanc
Laurie Corbin Susan Modlin
Julie Fellers-Hook Max Montesino
Larry
James Haddock Douglas Neitzel, Co-Chair
Alison Hoff Koichiro
Otani
Michael Slaubaugh, Co-Chair
Academic Computing and
Information Technology Advisory Subcommittee
Below is a summary of major
activities of ACITAS during AY 02/03:
The committee supported the
addition of fixed presentation stations for high use classrooms according to a
report filed in April through LRC.
ACITAS presented this document to the ITPC at its November meeting. Funding was approved for completion of the
project.
ACITAS reviewed the classroom
management software known as NetOps and recommends
its use on campus.
WebCT-Vista has been previewed and is supported by
ACITAS. CELT will be doing the training
during the Spring semester so that faculty will be up
and running by Fall 2003.
Marge Kimble, Chair ACITAS
Members:
|
Tiffin Adkins, 2002-04 Harold Broberg,
2000-03 |
Robert Kostrubanic
(ex officio, nonvoting) Linda Meyer, 2000-03 |
To: The
Senate
From: Subcommittee
on Athletics
Date:
Subj: Annual
Report, 2002-03
The Subcommittee on Athletics worked in two major areas
this year: 1) developing a substance abuse education, testing and counseling
process for student athletes and 2) developing an initial investigatory policy
response to initial allegations of possible NCAA violations. The Subcommittee is also meeting later this
month to review the possible addition of adding golf as new sport for both men
and women.
Respectfully submitted,
David M. Young, Chair
Subcommittee on Athletics
Kenneth Balthaser David Oberstar
Elliott Blumenthal Mark
Pope
Moses Dupre John
Robinson
Patricia Farrell David
Young, Chair
Kelley Hartley Justin
Busch (student)
Bernie Lohmuller Kim McDonald
TO: The Senate
FROM: Budgetary Affairs Subcommittee
DATE:
SUBJ: Annual Report, 2002-03
See Senate Reference No.
02-32, attached to the April agenda.
Budgetary Affairs
Subcommittee:
Kenneth Balthaser Thomas Guthrie
Elaine Blakemore Peter Iadicola
George Bullion, Chair Kim McDonald
Brian
TO: The Senate
FROM: Calendar Subcommittee
James Haw, Chair
DATE:
SUBJ: End-of-Year
Report
During the 2002-2003 academic
year, the Calendar Subcommittee adopted and forwarded
to the Senate through the Educational Policy Committee four documents:
Committee Members: Hosni
Abu-Mulaweh, Shirley Champion, James Haw (Chair),
Prasad Bingi, Judith Lemire,
Patrick McLaughlin, Julie Nothnagel, Amy Silvestri, Susan Skekloff.
To: Fort Wayne Senate
From: Dennis Marshall, Chair
Continuing Education Advisory
Subcommittee
Subject: Annual Report, 2002-03
Date:
The
committee had no business this year.
Continuing
Education Advisory Subcommittee (6 Faculty & 1 Administrator)
Kenneth Balthaser,
Harold Broberg, Margit Codispoti, Marcia Dixson, Solomon
Isiorho, Dennis Marshall (Chair), Deborah Conklin.
TO: The
Senate
FROM: Carol
Lawton, Chair, Curriculum Review Subcommittee
DATE:
SUBJ: End
of Year Report
The Curriculum
Review Subcommittee reviewed three proposals: Revised Education Degree Programs
(
Members:
Codispoti, Margit
Duchovic, R.
Guthrie, Thomas
Hickey, M. Gail
Lawton, Carol
Mansour-Cole, Dina
Moore, James
Narang, Ramesh
Oberstar, David
Resch, Barbara
Salmon, Becky
Sarratore, Steve
To: Fort Wayne Senate
From: Douglas Townsend, Chair
Developmental Studies
Subcommittee
Date:
Subject: Annual Report, 2002-03
1. Collected data on the success of
students in developmental courses.
2. Studied
report (ca. 1984) that recommended a “Transitional Semester” for students who
placed into developmental courses in two of the three areas (math, English and
reading).
Developmental
Studies Subcommittee members:
Rachelle Darabi, Kate Freeland, James Haw, Kim McDonald, Mark Myers,
Douglas Townsend (Chair), Dianna Zook.
To: Fort Wayne Senate
From: Dennis Marshall, Chair
Distance Education
Subcommittee
Subject: Annual Report, 2002-03
Date:
The committee had
no business this year.
Distance
Education Subcommittee (7
Faculty & 5 Administrators)
Harold Broberg, George Bullion, Tony Cardenas, Deborah Conklin,
Jack Dahl, John Fitzgerald, Linda Hite, Mary Lehto,
Dennis Marshall (Chair), Linda Meyer, Mark Myers, Ramesh
Narang.
EPC Activities and Actions
for 2002-03:
Committee Members: B. Abbott, H. Broberg, S. Hannah, L. Hite
(chair), P. McLaughlin, D. Oberstar, J. Purse-Wiedenhoeft, G. Schmelzle
This year, the Educational
Policy Committee addressed the following:
Revision to Senate Bylaws
regarding Academic Advising Subcommittee membership (Bylaws 5.3.3.12.1)
Revision to DS 98-22
regarding Assessment Council
Amendments to Senate
Documents SD 00-11 and 01-10 for Calendar Subcommittee
Proposed Academic Calendar
for 2005-06
Amendment to the Bylaws
regarding composition of the Calendar Subcommittee
EPC discussed the following:
IPFW becoming a “partnership
school” with
Assignment of final course
grades when students have not attended class
Electronic grade submission
Late withdrawal policy for
personal circumstances
Ivy Tech transfer policy
Plus/minus grade options
To: Fort
Wayne Senate
From: Elaine
Blakemore, Chair
Faculty
Affairs Committee
Subject: Annual
Report, 2002-03
Date:
During the 2002-2003 academic year the Senate
Faculty Affairs Committee considered these items
· Brief discussion of the procedures for extra merit increments.
·
Criteria
for promotion and tenure for librarians (Passed and sent to Senate on
· Procedures for promotion and tenure for librarians (Eventually pulled by the library)
·
Continuing lecturers: their roles; procedures
for their appointment and reappointment; and their status as members of the
voting faculty. (Sent to Senate for information on
· Ways to document excellence in teaching for promotion and tenure. (Released as OAA document)
· The UCLA Higher Education Research Institute Study: implications of the findings for faculty. (Released as OAA document)
· Criteria for promotion and tenure in Departments of ECTS and CAET. (Comments sent to departments.)
·
·
Changes to SD 88-13 regarding minority reports
and candidate response. (Passed and sent to Senate for action on
· Issues related to promotion and tenure (minority reports, recusing oneself when co-author, department chair service on P&T above department level, dossier length, quoting from reviewers and student comments, having an area of excellence and speaking to each area of excellence, grace period for cases not quite ready, and counting things in multiple areas). Several changes to be incorporated into OAA P&T Dossier Format Guidelines – OAA memo 99-1 (The Brown document)
· Note that procedures for Upward Feedback are to be reviewed by the Faculty Affairs Committee in the 2003-04 academic year.
Elaine Blakemore
Chair
Faculty Affairs Committee
Elaine Blakemore, 2000-03,
Chair David
Oberstar, 2001-04
Margit Codispoti, 2002-03 Nash Younis, 2002-03
Susan Hannah (ex officio)
General
Education Subcommittee
Final Report
Academic Term 2002-2003
Following are the primary
activities of the General Education Subcommittee during the Fall 2002- Spring
2003 academic terms.
PHYS 127 – Accepted
ENGR 120 - Accepted
ENGR 101/ETCS 101 – Denied & Returned for possible revision
2. Reviewed Health Sciences request for waiver - Denied
Sent back to department for
further documentation re: the manner in which proposed substitute courses meet
intent of General Education and how the content corresponds to courses being waived.
3. Heard reports from General Education Assessment and Diversity committees.
Committee Members: Kenneth
Bordens, John Brennan, Sue Mau, Kimberly McDonald, Beverly Parke (Chair),
Steven Sarratore, Thomas Stucky,
Roberta Tierney
Submitted by: Beverly N. Parke, Ph.D.
Chair
MEMORANDUM
TO: The
Senate
FROM: Grade Appeals Subcommittee
DATE:
RE: End of year report for 2002-2003
Committee members: K. Balthaser, C.
Champion, M. Codispoti, N. Cothern,
L. DeFonso (Chair), D. Oberstar, A. Rassuli, M. Sherr, A. Ushenko
TO: The Senate
FROM: Graduate Subcommittee
David Turnipseed,
Chair
DATE:
SUBJ: Annual Report, 2002-03
During the 2002-03 academic year, the Graduate Subcommittee discussed the appropriate
use of graduate students as teachers and the need for resources to support
graduate education.
Graduate Subcommittee:
Marla Baden Steven Sarratore (ex officio)
Jane Grant Carol
Sternberger
Peter Iadicola Thomas Stucky
AnnMarie LeBlanc Joy
Turnheim
Richard Hess David Turnipseed, Chair
Mark Myers W.
Frank Paladino Nash Younis
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Senate
FROM: Brenda Lundy, Chair, Honors Program Council
DATE:
SUBJ:
End-of-the Year Honors
Program Council Report
Council Members:
Melanie Bookout, Ryan
Brown (student), Larry Haber, Richard Hess, Gail
Hickey,
Jennifer Huntley (student), Brenda Lundy (Chair),
David Maloney, Dina Mansour-Cole (Director) Hedayeh Samavati, Steven Sarratore
Status Council
Activities and Actions
Draft to be Completed by Director Began Process of
Strategic Planning
Outlined a framework for the plan.
Revised “program review questions” to guide process.
Completed
2 student focus groups
Completed
1 honors faculty discussion
Need to Bring to Senate Revised
Developed
new program goals to facilitate assessment
Discussed
assessment techniques to address each program goal and program review question
Still to Complete
this Year H
Option Course evaluation form
Program
Events: Hosted one Honors Program event
(Eligibility
Reception), have 2 more Honors Program events this semester
Revised
Honors directors job description and drafted
announcement that was distributed by the VCAA’s
office
Still to Complete
this Year Interview
and recommend a director
Council will
hear 2 Honors Project Presentations for possible approval
To: Fort
Wayne Senate
From: Michael
Nusbaumer, Chair
IU
Committee on Institutional Affairs
Subject: Annual
Report, 2002-2003
Date:
The
IU Committee on Institutional Affairs solicited nominations and conducted the elections
of the Faculty Board of Review and the representatives to the Indiana
University University Faculty Council.
John
Brennan, 2001-03 Solomon
Isiorho, 2002-05
Margit Codispoti, 2001-03 Michael Nusbaumer, 2002-04, Chair
John Hrehov, 2002-03
From: International Studies Program Advisory Subcommittee
Max U. Montesino,
Chair
Subject: End-of-the-Year Report
Date: March 27, 2003
This
year, our committee worked to support the activities of the Advisor for
International Students at the Office of Multicultural Services. We were periodically informed about the
activities of the Advisor in support of the important group of international students
pursuing their careers at IPFW. It included the new system for tracking foreign
students instituted by the INS, as well as helping the International Student
Organization on campus. The next
activity planed is the International Student Banquet. It will take place in mid
April. For next academic year, the
Subcommittee needs to work in recruiting the student representation to the
Subcommittee.
TO: The Senate
FROM: Library Subcommittee
DATE:
SUBJ: End-of-year report
·
A chart showing
the critically low funding of IPFW’s library in
comparison to that of the other libraries in the IU system (other than
·
The subcommittee
forwarded a resolution on information literacy to the University Resources
Policy Committee. URPC has not met to
consider that document as of yet.
·
The subcommittee
will consider special needs requests at its meeting the first week of April.
Members: A. Crismore, S. Hartman,
L. Hite, B. Kim, C. Kracher, G. Miller, K. Murphey,
D.
Oberstar, J. Violette (ex-officio)
To: The
Senate
From: Nominations
and Elections Committee
Margit Codispoti
Ron Friedman, Chair
Dennis Marshall
Lesa Vartanian
Date:
Re: Committee
Report
1. The committee addressed questions
regarding the composition of the Honors Program Council.
2. The committee conducted elections for
Speaker of the Purdue University Faculty and Presiding Officer of the Faculty.
Elaine Blakemore and Richard Hess, respectively, were elected for these
positions.
3. The committee counted ballots for the
Amendment to the Constitution of the IPFW Faculty (Senate Document 02-5). The
amendment passed.
4. The committee has been accepting names
of nominees for Senate committees and subcommittees. Elections will be
conducted later in the spring semester.
Nominations and Elections:
Margit Codispoti
Ron Friedman
Dennis Marshall
Lesa Vartanian
To: Fort
Wayne Senate
From: James
Moore, Chair
Professional
Development Subcommittee
Subject: Annual
Report, 2002-03
Date:
1. Reviewed
international travel request