2006-2007
FACULTY SENATE
California State University, Sacramento
MINUTES
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Foothill Suite, University Union
3:00 p.m.
Voting Members Present (+ indicates alternate):
| Present: | Altmann, Nursing; Amata, CPC Chair (Library); Anderegg, Student Services; Baird, Bilingual/Multicultural Education; Barrick, Learning Skills; +Bellon, Philosophy; Bikle, Criminal Justice; Bishop, Anthropology; Blumberg, Music; Bowie, Social Work; Brentwood, Environmental Studies; Buckley, APC Chair and ASCSU Senator (Computer Science); +Chambers, History; Dammel, Civil Engineering; Datwyler, Biological Sciences; Davis O'Hara, Child Development; Downs, Counselor Education; Escamilla, Physical Therapy; Flohr, Art; Gieger, English; Goff, Design; Gordon, Computer Science; Hamilton, Mathematics and Statistics; +Hammersley, Geology; Hecsh, Teacher Education; Heedley, Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Holl, Mechanical Engineering; Huang, Teacher Education; Imamura, Kinesiology and Health Science; Ingram, Mathematics and Statistics; A. Jensen, Business Administration; Jones, Criminal Justice; Kirlin, Public Policy and Administration; Krabacher, ASCSU Senator (Geography); Landerholm, Biological Sciences; Liu, Sociology; Lustig, Government; Masuyama, Foreign Languages; Matisons, Women's Studies; Melzer, English; Nylund, Social Work; O'Hanlon, Speech Pathology and Audiology; Peigahi, Library; Pinch, Recreation and Leisure Studies; Qin, Psychology; Sharp, Business Administration; Siegel, History; Siegler, FPC Chair (Economics); Sobredo, Ethnic Studies; Theodorides, Kinesiology and Health Science; VanGaasbeck, Economics; Wall, Nursing; Williams, Communication Studies |
| Absent: | Brock, Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology; Corless, Business Administration; Jacobs, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; Kuss, Library; Legorreta, Business Administration; McCurley, Student Services; Paradis, Chemistry; Phillips, Temporary Faculty (English); Sablynski, Business Administration; Taylor, Physics and Astronomy; Wie, Family and Consumer Sciences; vacant, Athletics; vacant, Humanities; vacant, Theatre and Dance |
The agenda was amended to move FS 06-151 to second reading and to be considered first. In addition, the agenda was amended to show a brief DVD of Fox 40 news report on the university's budget situation. The agenda was approved as amended.
ACTION ITEMS
| *FS 06-148/Ex. | committee appointments - university |
University Committee on Information Technology Accessibility (UCITA)
Bob Buckley, Academic Information Technology Committee Chair, 2009
Mark Stoner, Communication Studies, CTL Representative, 2009
Bin Zhang, Librarian, Library representative, 2009
Carried unanimously.
| *FS 06-149/CPC/Ex. | program change proposals |
The Faculty Senate recommends approval of the following program change proposals:
- Kinesiology and Health Science, New Option: Sports Psychology
- College of Education, Certificate in Adult Learning Disabilities Program
- College of Health and Human Services: Criminal Justice On Line Degree Completion
Copies of the proposals can be found at Attachment A.
Carried unanimously.
| FS 06-143/Flr. | APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF NOVEMBER 16, 2006 |
Carried unanimously.
| FS 06-150/Flr. | APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF NOVEMBER 30, 2006 |
Carried unanimously.
| FS 06-151/Ex. | recommendations REGARDING THE university budget task force |
The Faculty Senate of California State University, Sacramento recommends the following in regard to the composition and charge of the University Budget Task Force as specified in (FS 06-142 and FS 06-145)
Chris Castaneda, History
Karen Davis-O’Hara, Child Development (Senator)
Scott Farrand, Mathematics/Statistics
Tom Krabacher, Geography (Senate Executive Committee, ex officio non-voting member)
Laureen O’Hanlon, Speech Pathology and Audiology (Senator)
Steve Perez, Economics
James Sobredo, Ethnic Studies (Senate Vice Chair, Senate Executive Committee)
Non-faculty membership (as identified by the President and representing less than a majority)
III. Task Force Charge
The Faculty Senate expects the Budget Task Force to operate in a transparent and open manner with full disclosure of budgetary and accounting information necessary to provide accurate budget information to the Faculty and the University Community. Meetings should be open, and times and locations of meetings should be posted in advance.
The role of the University Budget Task Force should primarily be that of fact finding with the charge, at a minimum, including the following:
- Provide the University Community with a full, detailed and complete accounting of revenues and expenditures (e.g. administration and business affairs, all university expenses, mandatory benefit costs, etc.) over the past four academic years (2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, and 2005-06) and the projected budgets for the current 2006-07 academic year and the 2007-08 academic year. This should include an accounting of reserves and carry-over funds for the years noted above.
- Provide an assessment of whether a structural deficit exists in the University budget, and if so, of what magnitude.
- Identify the reasons for significant increases and decreases in line item allocations over the period specified above.
- Identify additional questions that need to be addressed.
- Provide interim reports to the Senate Executive Committee as appropriate.
- Provide a final report to the Senate by early in the Spring Semester 2007.
The following item will be considered at a future Senate meeting, due to a lack of a quorum.
| FS 06-146/Flr. | Allocations to Academic Programs Budgets |
INFORMATION
* Requires Presidential approval.