2006-2007
FACULTY SENATE
California State University, Sacramento

MINUTES
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Foothill Suite, University Union
3:30 p.m.

Voting Members Present (+ indicates alternate):

Present: Anderegg, Student Services; Baird, Bilingual/Multicultural Education; Bikle, Criminal Justice; Bishop, Anthropology; Blumberg, Music; Bowie, Social Work; Bradley, Library; Brock, Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology; +Chambers, History; Cornwell, Geology; Datwyler, Biological Sciences; Davis O'Hara, FPC Chair (Child Development); Downs, Counselor Education; Fitzgerald, Senate Chair, Communication Studies; Flohr, Art; Gieger, English; Goff, Design; Gordon, Computer Science; Hamilton, Mathematics and Statistics; +Hansen, Civil Engineering; Hecsh, GEP/GRPC Chair (Teacher Education); Heedley, Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Huang, Teacher Education; Imamura, Kinesiology and Health Science; Ingram, Mathematics and Statistics; A. Jensen, Business Administration; C. Jensen, ASCSU Senator (Public Policy and Administration); Jones, Criminal Justice; Kellen-Yuen, Chemistry; Kornweibel, Emeritus Faculty (History); Krabacher, ASCSU Senator (Geography); +Lascher, Public Policy and Administration; Lustig, Government; Mahone, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; +Marbach, Mechanical Engineering; Masuyama, Foreign Languages; McCormick, Philosophy; McKeough, Physical Therapy; Nylund, Social Work; O'Hanlon, Speech Pathology and Audiology; Peigahi, Library; Pinch, Recreation and Leisure Studies; Siegel, History; Sobredo, Ethnic Studies; Taylor, Physics and Astronomy; Theodorides, Kinesiology and Health Science; +Toise, English; VanGaasbeck, Economics; +Wehr, Sociology; Wie, Family and Consumer Sciences; Williams, Communication Studies
Absent: Altmann, Nursing; Amata, CPC Chair (Library); Barrick, Learning Skills; Brazo, Theatre and Dance; Brentwood, Environmental Studies; Buckley, APC Chair and ASCSU Senator (Computer Science); Cameron-Wedding, Women's Studies; Corless, Business Administration; Halgas, Business Administration; Landerholm, Biological Sciences; Legorreta, Business Administration; McCurley, Student Services; Phillips, Temporary Faculty (English); Qin, Psychology; Sharp, Business Administration; Wall, Nursing; Wanket, Geography; vacant, Athletics; vacant, Humanities

 

ACTION ITEMS

FS 07-13A/Ex. AMEND SECTION 6.06.D OF THE UARTP POLICY - FACULTY REFERENDUM - CORRECTED COPY

Background: At its meeting of April 12, 2007, the Faculty Senate approved FS 07-13, Amend Section 6.06.D of the UARTP Policy - Faculty Referendum. However, in its approval the Senate also referred the motion back to the Executive Committee for non-substantive grammatical corrections. The corrected language and the original language of FS 07-13 can be found at Attachment A.

The Faculty Senate approves the corrected copy of FS 07-13, Amend Section 6.06.D of the UARTP Policy - Faculty Referendum and approves of sending the corrected language to faculty referendum.

Carried unanimously.

FS 07-30/Flr. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF APRIL 12, 2007

There was a motion to amend the minutes, omitting the repeated line in FS 07-28/Flr. "Referendum of No Confidence in President Alexander Gonzalez - Ballot Language" "I DO NOT APPROVE of the Resolution of No Confidence in President Alexander Gonzalez". The minutes were approved as amended.

Carried unanimously.

The following items received a first reading and will receive a second reading at the Faculty Senate meeting of May 3, 2007:

FS 07-23/Flr. Resolution for Protecting Academic Programs at CSUS
FS 07-24/Flr. Resolution Requiring the President to Report on Budgets and MPP’s

INFORMATION

  1. Faculty Senate's home page:  www.csus.edu/acse, or, from the CSUS home page, click on Faculty and Staff, then Faculty Senate.
  2. For new Senators:  "TOP TEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW AS A FACULTY SENATOR".
  3. Meeting procedures
  4. Schedule of Faculty Senate meetings:
  • May 1, 2007 (Tuesday) - Outstanding Teaching, University and Community Service, and Lifetime Achievement Award for Community Service reception
  • May 3, 2007 - Senate meets
  • May 10, 2007 - tentative

*    Requires Presidential approval.