Draft to be approved 4/18/12
The Metropolitan State College of Denver
Faculty Senate
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
3:20pm – 4:50pm
Tivoli 320 A, B & C
MINUTES
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Attendees: Akrabova,
Aubrey, Balogh, Bisio, Capps, Church, Davinroy, Davis, Delaney, DelCastillo,
DeMuro, Denn, Drake, Duburguet, Elkins,
Ethier, Evans, Flemon, Forgash, Fustos, Gibson, Giordano, Glatz, Grevstad,
Gurka, Hallam, Hancock, Hasley, Hathorn, Hernandez-Julian, Hill, Holloway, Hutto,
Izurieta, Jackson, Jacobs, Johnson, Karris, Kent, King, Kleinfeld, Klimek, Komodore,
Kottenstette, Kuhlmann, Lamb, London, Louden, Lubinski, MacDonald, Malpass, Matthews,
McKenzie, Meloche, Odell, Ortiz, Preuhs, Pytlinski, Reimer, Rengers, Reyes, Ropp, Rother, Rucki, Sahami, Saxe, Schatz, Sidelko,
Snozek, Sundeen, Weber, Worster, Yeh, Zhang Guests: Ball, Huff, Gaither, Potter, Thobani
I.
Call to Order
II.
Approval of 3/14 and 3/28 Meeting’s Minutes (at Senate Website), VOTES.
Mar 14 Meeting minutes
Vote was called.
Mar 14 meeting minutes were approved
with a vote of 46:1.
Mar 28 Meeting minutes
Vote was called.
Mar 28 meeting minutes were approved
with a vote of 37:2.
III.
Announcements/Updates
- Faculty Marshals are needed
for the May 13th Commencement at 9:00 a.m. Please contact President
Sahami or Brooke Dilling.
- Faculty Evaluation Taskforce will
hold its third Forum on Thursday, 4/5 from noon-1pm in Room PL 140. There will an all-faculty vote on
the handbook changes from the Provost’s Office.
- There are several upcoming All-Faculty annual votes run by Senator
Hutto, Elections Committee, for FACT representative, Faculty Trustee, any
proposed constitutional changes, seats for committee chairs, officers, caucus
chairs as well as Senate officer
elections being held on May 2nd.
IV.
Committee Report: - FS Curriculum Committee – Sen. R. Hernandez-Julian
Senator Hernandez gave his
report.
Report to Metropolitan
State College of Denver Faculty Senate
Faculty Senate Curriculum
Committee
April 4, 2012
Unless otherwise noted, packets
are approved unanimously.
-LAS 1112-106 Music Education
Program modifications for
General Studies Approved unanimously, subject to minor
revision.
-LAS 1112-112 ENG 3523
Approved unanimously, subject
to minor revision.
-LAS 1112-113 CHE General
Studies Language
Program modifications for
General Studies Approved unanimously.
-LAS 1112-114 CAS Archiving
Approved unanimously.
-LAS 1112-116 CS 3600
Approved unanimously.
-SPS 1112-19 Aviation General
Studies Language
Program modifications for
General Studies Approved unanimously.
-SPS 1112-20 Human Performance
General Studies Language
Program modifications for
General Studies Approved unanimously.
-SPS 1112-21 HPL
Approved unanimously, subject
to minor revision.
-SPS 1112-22 Archiving of
Gerontology certificate
Approved unanimously.
-SPS 1112-25 SED 4440 and TEDM
6800
Approved unanimously, subject
to minor revisions.
Multiculural Designation
approved:
ENG 3240
Discussion was called by President
Sahami.
Curriculum approved unanimously by the Faculty Senate Curriculum
Committee is automatically approved by the Senate unless there is a question
posed by a Senator on the Senate floor.
President Sahami accepted the report on behalf of
the Senate.
V.
PRESENTATION and DISCUSSION and
VOTE New General Studies Catalog Language– Sen. R. Hernandez-Julian and
Sen. N. Grevstad http://www.mscd.edu/senate/assets/pdf/2012/0314&2812/General_Studies_Program_Mar_12__DRAFT_for_catalog.pdf
Senator Grevstad reminded the Senate
of the changes needed to update the college catalog to correspond to new General
Studies program changes. Senator Hernandez explained the
rationale of the modified motion that had been changed due to faculty feedback
and the friendly amendment by Senator MacDonald.
Discussion was called.
Senator Fustos, Computer
Information Systems, asked about the three General Studies criteria and discussed
a way that students might circumvent the requirements.
Senator Louden, Theatre,
commented that he did not believe the new system is fair regarding AP testing
and the completion of SLOs.
Senator Klimek, History, asked
about limiting registration and the impact to financial aid.
Senator Worster, Music,
reminded the Senate that this is the book-end of the process started by the
Senate and he had once spoken for his department in objecting to the completion
time line but now they fully supported these updates.
President Sahami asked about
the rationale for restricting a student signing up for a missing class and
nothing else and how that would hinder the goal of moving a student along and
help their completion time.
Motion 1 was spoken into the
record by Senator Hernandez to adopt the proposed General Studies catalog language
and the 45 credit timeline change.
Vote was called.
Motion was approved with a vote
of 53:9.
Senator Hernandez gave the
alternative scenario if the Senate does not come to a positive vote on the next
upcoming motion.
Vote was called.
Motion was approved with a vote
of 53:9.
PRESENTATION, DISCUSSION and VOTE: Revision to Purple Book Section VI – Sen. Rey Hernandez-Julian and Sen. N.
Grevstad (http://www.mscd.edu/senate/assets/pdf/2012/040412/PurpleBookSectionVI.pdf)
Senator Grevstad presented an
overview of the update to Section VI of the Purple Book. This is coming from
the Purple Book Committee but these revisions have been vetted by both the
Curriculum and General Studies Committees. There were six main categories of changes
to update the Purple Book to conform to the new General Studies program.
Senator Hernandez spoke the
motion into the record for the Senate to approve the new Section VI of the
Purple Book and the minor changes needed to align the General Studies language
to the new General Studies Program.
Discussion was called.
Senator Gurker, Math and
Computer Science, asked about the use of the Multicultural designation on page
6, #7 and she asked the difference between multicultural and diversity.
Senator Pytlinski, Art, asked
about the option of the global diversity requirement and the ability to ‘double
dip’ and taking a course in their major and meet the requirement.
Senator Worster, Music, checked
the May 2010 vote and clarified that the Global Diversity is also a General
Studies course was there.
Senator Hernandez spoke the Motion
into the record to accept the proposed Section IV of the Purple Book as well as
additional minor changes to align the Purple Book to the new General Studies
program.
Vote was called.
Motion was approved with a vote
of 51:4.
VI.
SECOND READING of MOTION 3,4, DISCUSSION
and VOTE: Changes to the Faculty
Senate Membership to better represent the Faculty of College – Faculty Senate
Membership Task Force, Sen. K. Sahami (http://www.mscd.edu/senate/assets/pdf/motions/2012/FSMTFModECMotions2%200-031412.pdf
President Sahami introduced the
motions to expand the Senate membership.
Secretary Ortiz gave the second
readings into the record of Motion #3, Para 1.X
MOTION
#3: Motion to modify ARTICLE IV, Section 1 of the Constitution of the
Metropolitan State College of Denver Faculty Senate with the following addition
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1.X One (1) Category II Faculty member
shall be elected by Category II Faculty to serve as the Category II Senator
At-Large, if they meet other eligibility requirements.
And,
Motion #4, Para 1.X:
MOTION
#4 Motion to modify ARTICLE IV, Section 1 of the Constitution of the
Metropolitan State College of Denver Faculty Senate with the following addition
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1.X Three (3) Affiliate Faculty Members
shall be elected by the Affiliate Faculty: One (1) from LAS, one (1) from SPS
and one (1) from SCoB, to serve as the Affiliate Faculty Senators.
President Sahami invited any
committee members who would like to discuss the rationale of the Senate needing
wider representation to speak before the general discussion was called.
Senator Hill, Sociology and
Anthropology, reminded the Senate that Affiliate faculty were the first faculty
that many enrolling students meet when making decisions on their majors and
Affiliates should be allowed to have a position in the Faculty Senate.
Discussion was called. No
discussion.
These are Bylaws changes and Constitutional
changes that will require a 2/3rd majority from the Senate before it
goes the full Faculty for a vote.
Motion III to accept Category
II faculty into the Senate.
Vote was called.
Motion III passed with a vote
of 51:10.
Motion IV to accept Affiliate
faculty into the Senate.
Vote was called.
Motion IV was approved with a
vote of 54:8.
VII.
PRESENTATION and DISCUSSION: Revision to Handbook Regarding Emeritus Status
and Post Tenure Review – Faculty
Evaluation Task Force, Provost V. Golich, E. Ball, C. Odell, M. Potter, K.
Sahami
Dr. Eric Ball outlined the last
of the Committee’s work on Post Tenure Review and Emeritus status will now be
listed indefinitely in Metro’s online catalog and the decision to go on a
case-by-case basis to requests by Emeritus faculty to retain email and rights
to software.
Dr. Ball also pointed out that
in the changes to Sec V in the Handbook language regarding departmental guidelines that suggested that
the Provost had the final say that received a fair bit of pushback. The Provost
agreed to a committee consisting of department chairs who will have a say in
that decision, not one individual.
President Sahami asked if there
were any other members of the committee who wished to comment.
Discussion was called.
This is an informational item and
the vote will be coming through the Provost’s Office as an All-Faculty vote.
Senator Kent, Anthropology, asked
what opportunities would exist for debate and discussion. He then expressed his concern about:
decisions on Emeritus not being a totally administrative decision; and,
post-tenure review for senior faculty occurring every five years is burdensome and
should be stretched out to ten years but he would agree to eight.
Senator Worster, Music,
commented that two tenured faculty member positions were on these committees
and he suggested that language be included that if no qualified faculty
senators can be found, that general faculty will be allowed to serve.
President Sahami asked Senators
to encourage faculty to attend the forum or send comments to any member to the
committee.
Dr. Ball asked Senators to
encourage department faculty to take a look at Section V.
President Sahami spoke to the 5th
motion of reducing the membership was pulled at the last meeting.
VIII. Adjournment
The Senate was adjourned.
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