Faculty Association Minutes

February, 6th 2007

Signed in as present:

Sean Kelley (President), Lee Hester (secretary), A.K. Lamar, John Bruce, Sharon Brickman, L. Crumb, Craig D. Elder, Vicki Ferguson, Susan Bussey, Erik Guzik, John K. Johnson, Alan Todd, Linda McElroy, Sean MacDonald, Ingrid Shafer, Tina Winn, Dan Hanson, Kevin Crow, Daisy Wan, Peter Thomas, Jeanne Mather, Charles F. Dorman, Mike Mather, Darryel Reigh, Shawyi Kao, Chan-Yu-King, Annick Bellemain, Kelly Brown, Brenda Brown, Jan Hanson, Tim Sullivan, Steve Weber, Jennifer McMahon

 

  1. Called to order by President Kelley at approximately 11am
  2. Minutes of last meeting approved (Shafer/?)
  3. Curriculum Changes (presented at the beginning due to volume)

a.       Following Business and Social Sciences changes to be considered

                                                               i.      Add Political Geography of the Modern World, GEOG 3__3.

                                                             ii.      Allow students Pursuing Social Studies Certification to fulfill their Geography requirement by passing GEOG 3__3 (in “i” above) with a “C” or higher.

                                                            iii.      Eliminate History 2233 and History 2243

                                                           iv.      Allow students pursuing Social Studies certification the option of meeting their foreign language competency requirement in History by passing DFED 2113 (American Sign Language II).

b.      Motion to approve i-iii above (Winn/McElroy) approved 30/0/4

c.       Following changes presented by Dr. Crow (Note that some are duplicative of those already presented and passed above)

                                                               i.      Eliminate History 2233 and History 2243

                                                             ii.      Change in existing course (replacing two survey World Civilization courses with three World Civilization courses) – Replace Hist 1113 and Hist 1123 with Ancient Civilizations, Medieval and Early Modern Civilizations, and Modern Civilization courses.

                                                            iii.      Add the following courses: HIST 4__3 Classical Greece, HIST 4__3 Roman Republic, HIST 3__3 The Hellenistic World and Early Christianity, HIST 3__3 Russian History.

                                                           iv.      Add Political Geography of the Modern World and allow students pursuing Social Studies certification to fulfill their Geography requirement by passing GEOG3__3 with a “C” or higher.

                                                             v.      Add a foreign language competency requirement for history majors.

                                                           vi.      Allow students pursuing Social Studies certification the option of meeting their foreign language competency requirement in History by passing DFED 2113 (American Sign Language II).

                                                          vii.      Require 36 hours of History courses for History majors and increasing the number of non-History credits that a student may count toward a History B.A. to 9 with the approval of the academic advisor.

                                                        viii.      Require students majoring in History to maintain a minimum grade point average of 2.5 in History courses (including courses that majors are allowed to substitute for History courses).

d.      Dr. Winn began a motion to approve 3.a.iv. above, but Dr. Crow stated that he needed to pass 3.c.v. of his list before this could happen, so Dr. Winn withdrew the motion.

e.       Motion to take Dr. Crow’s changes in the order he presented them (Crow/Dorman) approved 19/2/11.

f.        It is noted that Dr. Crow’s 1st change (3.c.i. above) cropping two history courses has already been passed by Dr. Winn’s motion concerning 3.a.i-iii, specifically number iii, as well as Crow’s 4th change (3.c.iv. above) specifically by the passage of 3.a.i. and 3.a.ii. above collectively.

g.       Motion to approve Dr. Crow’s 2nd change (3.c.ii. above) (Osborn/Shafer) approved 33/0/2

h.       Motion to approve Dr. Crow’s 3rd change (3.c.iii. above) (Warden/Osborn) approved 28/1/2

i.         Other changes tabled until next time.

  1. Committee reports

a.       Faculty Handbook.  Mike Mather discussed the need to change the process for addressing the hiring of faculty with tenure.

  1. Old Business: None
  2. New Business

a.       Discussion of how to handle outstanding graduates for the Summer, since we now have no Summer graduation and some departments have no outstanding graduates for the Summer anyway.

                                                               i.      Motion to put Summer graduates in the same pool as Spring graduates for consideration as outstanding graduates. (Reigh/?) Approved 21/5/1

b.      Dr. Eloy Chavez presented as new Dean of Student Services. He proposed several ideas for bringing faculty and students together more including:

                                                               i.      Lunch hour symposia for critical dialogues.

                                                             ii.      “Final Lecture” series

                                                            iii.      Faculty sponsors for residence hall floors, et cetera.

  1. Announcements

a.       Harr/Johnson Valentine Chocolate Party 17th 1830-2100

  1. Adjourned 12:05pm without objection

 

 

Lee Hester

Faculty Association Secretary