2007-2008
FACULTY SENATE
California State University, Sacramento

MINUTES
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Foothill Suite, University Union
3:00 p.m.

Voting Members Present (+ indicates alternate):

Present:

Amata, CPC Chair (Library); Anderegg, Student Services; Barrena, Biological Sciences; Bikle, Criminal Justice; Bishop, Anthropology; Blumberg, Music; Bowie, Social Work; Bradley, Library; Brock, Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology; Buckley, APC Chair and ASCSU Senator (Computer Science); Dammel, Civil Engineering; Biological Sciences; Ecklund, Counselor Education; Evans, Geology; Flohr, Art; Gibbs, Design; Goetze, Nursing; Goff, FPC Chair (Library); Gordon, Computer Science; Heckathorn, English; Hecsh, GEP/GRPC Chair (Teacher Education); Heedley, Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Holl, Mechanical Engineering; Hyson, Family and Consumer Sciences; A. Jensen, Business Administration; Jordan, Learning Skills; Kirlin, Public Policy and Administration; Kornweibel, Emeritus Faculty (History); Krabacher, ASCSU Senator (Geography); Lagos, History; Datwyler, Lilly, Teacher Education; Liu, Sociology; Lu, Mathematics and Statistics; Lustig, Government; Maguire, Criminal Justice; Mahone, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; McCormick, Philosophy; McCurley, Student Services; Melzer, English; Miller, ASCSU Senator (Communication Studies); Nylund, Social Work; O'Hanlon, Speech Pathology and Audiology; Peigahi, Library; Rodriguez, Teacher Education; Siegel, History; Sobredo, Ethnic Studies; Stiles, Humanities; Taylor, Physics and Astronomy; Theodorides, Kinesiology and Health Science; VanGaasbeck, Economics; Wanket, Geography; Williams, Communication Studies; Woodward, Kinesiology and Health Science

Absent:

Altmann, Nursing; Baker, Chemistry; Bayne, Theatre and Dance; Berta-Avila, Bilingual/Multicultural Education; Datwyler, Biological Sciences; Escamilla, Physical Therapy; Hembree, Child Development; Ingram, Mathematics and Statistics; Kelley, Foreign Languages; Legorreta, Business Administration; Pinch, Recreation and Leisure Studies; Qin, Psychology; Sharp, Business Administration; vacant, Temporary Faculty; vacant, Athletics; vacant, Business Administration; vacant, Business Administration; vacant, Environmental Studies; vacant, Women's Studies

The agenda was amended by adding FS 07-64/Flr. “Request for Convocation - 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Speech: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence” as a first reading item. In addition, the Faculty Senate referred the matter of the electronic version of the catalog to the Academic Policies Committee. The agenda was approved as amended.

ACTION ITEMS

*FS 07-56/Ex.

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT – UNIVERSITY

 

Student Academic Development Committee

Candace Gregory-Abbott, 2008

 

Carried unanimously.

 

*FS 07-57/Ex.

UNIVERSITY ARTP POLICY – minor correction of amendment to section 6.06.d

 

The Faculty Senate recommends insertion of a comma between “unit” and “to serve”, as shown as follows:

 

D.     Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Representative (AA/EOR) 

 

1.     ELECTION, STATUS, SERVICE: SEARCH COMMITTEE CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OR EQUIVALENT UNIT CHAIR AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY REPRESENTATIVE

 

A.    Each department or equivalent unit shall elect an AA/EOR from among its tenured faculty and its probationary faculty, if permitted by the department or equivalent unit, to serve as a voting member of the search committee.  If the department or equivalent unit engages in multiple searches, each search committee may have the same elected AA/EOR or another elected AA/EOR. 

 

Carried unanimously.

 

FS 07-58/Ex.

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT – SENATE

 

Curriculum Policies Committee
Lois Boulgarides, At-large, 2010

 

Carried unanimously.

 

 

FS 07-59/Flr.

PARLIAMENTARIAN

 

Thomas Krabacher, Professor of Geography, shall serve as parliamentarian for the 2007-2008 Faculty Senate.

 

Carried unanimously.

 

FS 07-60/Flr.

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

 

Carried unanimously.

 

FS 07-61A/Flr.

WAIVER OF FIRST READING OF FS 07-61/EX.

 

The Faculty Senate waives the first reading of FS 07-61/Ex. “Report, General Education Program Review”.

 

Carried.

 

FS 07-61/Ex.

REPORT, GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM REVIEW

The Faculty Senate receives the “Sacramento State General Education Program Self-Study” and expresses appreciation to the review team for their dedication, time and contribution.

Carried.

FS 07-64/Flr.

REQUEST FOR CONVOCATION - 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING’S SPEECH: BEYOND VIETNAM -- A TIME TO BREAK SILENCE”

 

The Faculty Senate requests that the President declare a University Convocation on October 16, 2007 from 12:15-1:45, 2:15-3:45 and from 6:30-9:00 to enable students to attend panel discussions relating to Dr. Martin Luther King's speech titled: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence and to attend the evening keynote speeches.

 

Background/Rationale: October 16, 2007 has been set aside to honor and celebrate the occasion of the Reverend Martin Luther King's visit to the Sacramento campus some 40 years ago, and it would be appropriate for Faculty Senate to formally support the event and encourage students and faculty to participate in planned activities. The topics to be addressed in the panel presentations are  appropriate for a convocation  and so important that faculty should be allowed (though not required) to cancel classes and that students who wish to attend, but are enrolled in classes that are not dismissed, should not be penalized for doing so. A description of the panel presentations is provided at the following hyperlink: www.csus.edu/union/mlk. The policy on Convocations can be found at: http://www.csus.edu/umanual/acad/umc02650.htm.

Carried.

The following items received a first reading and will receive a second reading at the next Faculty Senate meeting:

FS 07-62/Ex.

SENATE FLOOR PROCEDURES, AMENDMENT OF

FS 07-63/Flr.

PROPOSED BRITISH BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL, RESOLUTION ON THE

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. Senate meeting schedule:

·       October 11, 2007 – Senate meets

·       October 18, 2007 – no meeting

·       October 25, 2007 – Senate meets

·       November 1, 2007 – tentative

·     November 8, 2007 – tentative

·     November 15, 2007 – tentative

·     November 22, 2007 – Happy Thanksgiving

·     November 29, 2007 – tentative

·     December 6, 2007 – tentative

·     December 13, 2007 - tentative

 

 

* Requires Presidential approval.