2009-2010 FACULTY SENATE
California State University, Sacramento

MINUTES
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Foothill Suite

Present:

Barrena, Biological Sciences; Berg, Sociology; Berta-Avila, Bilingual/Multicultural Education; Blanton, Speech Pathology and Audiology; Blumberg, Music; Boulgarides, Temporary Faculty (Kinesiology and Health Science); Buckley, APC Chair and ASCSU Senator (Computer Science); Burke, History; Chavez, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; Choi, Business Administration; Cohen, History; Collins, Student Services; Cuevas, ASI; Cunningham, Family and Consumer Sciences; +Davis-O’Hara, Child Development; Deegan, Temporary Faculty (Family and Consumer Science); W. Dillon, Government; Elstob, Foreign Languages; Fanetti, English; Fell, Civil Engineering; +Flohr, Art; Gardner, Business Administration; Gherman, Chemistry; Gieger, English Gonzales, Special Education, Rehabilitation, School Psychology, and Deaf Studies; Hammersley, Geology; Hamilton, Mathematics and Statistics; Heedley, Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Ingram, Mathematics and Statistics; Kelly, Social Work; Koegel, Communication Studies; Lang, CPC Chair (Economics); +Leach, Public Policy and Administration; Li, Business Administration; Liu, Business Administration; McCormick, Philosophy; Miller, GSPC Chair and ASCSU Senator (Communication Studies); Parsh, Nursing; Peigahi, Library; Sheppard, Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration; Siegler, FPC Chair (Economics); Smith, Communication Studies; +Sprott, Mechanical Engineering; Sullivan, Anthropology; Taylor, Physics and Astronomy; Theodorides, Kinesiology and Health Science; Wanket, Geography

Absent:

Altmann, Nursing; Chang, Computer Science; Croisdale, Criminal Justice; Diaz, Kinesiology and Health Science; Dixon, Temporary Faculty (Music); Dubois, Humanities; Gibbs, Design; Hecsh, GEP/GRPC Chair (Teacher Education); Henderson, Counselor Education; Ishiura, Temporary Faculty (Child Development); Katz, Learning Skills; Lin, Business Administration; Loeza, Teacher Education; McCurley, Student Services; McKeough, Physical Therapy; Panneton, Criminal Justice; Penrod, Psychology; Perez, Economics; Russell, Social Work; Sobredo, Ethnic Studies; Stevens, Environmental Studies; vacant, Theatre and Dance; vacant, Athletics; vacant, Women's Studies

 

The agenda was amended by adding the following as a first reading item: receipt and entry of letters to the Faculty Senate by Professor Scott Farrand, Mathematics and Professor Sylvia Navari, Social Work into the Faculty Senate minutes. The agenda was approved as amended.

 

FS 10-13/Ex.

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT – SENATE

 

Graduate Studies Policies Committee

Sheri Hembree, At-large, 2011

 

Carried unanimously.

 

FS 10-12/Flr.

MINUTES OF FEBRUARY 11, 2010

 

Carried unanimously.

 

FS 10-11/GSPC/Flr.

APPLICATION OF A POINT SYSTEM TO CRITERIA FOR REDUCTION OR SUSPENSION OF GRADUATE AND POST-BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS

 

Resolved:  That the Faculty Senate recognizes that the formula/process based on the 1991 document “Instructional Program Priorities; Academic Planning, Resource Allocation and Enrollment Management” adopted on December 17th, 2009 and set forth in recommendation 5 of FS 09-83/GSPC/Ex. has not produced a generally satisfactory result at this point and further decision-making should not be based on the “point system” that resulted from that recommendation.

 

At the same time the Senate reaffirms its previous endorsement of the need of FTES reduction in the 2010-2011 AY set forth in FS 09-72A adopted on November 19th, 2009, as well as reaffirming recommendations 1 and 2 of FS 09-83/GSPC/Ex. adopted on December 17th, 2009.

 

The Senate therefore recommends:

 

  1. that the Provost and the Dean of Graduate Studies determine the graduate FTES targets, by college, for the 2010-2011 academic year;

 

  1. that these targets be determined based on the following:

 

·       the graduate 2009-2010 Academic Year FTES totals at the time of the Spring 2010 semester census date and their distribution across colleges, and

·       the necessary reduction in FTES number for each college, pro-rated based on that distribution and as a fraction of the total FTES reduction necessary for the campus to achieve the graduate FTES reduction recommended in FS 09-72A;

 

  1. that the initial reductions be increased marginally and temporarily to allow the Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies to retain a small FTES allowance centrally to accommodate problems as they might occur (higher than anticipated returning students, increased course load averages, etc.) while avoiding later reductions in already determined college FTES targets;

 

  1. that any of the FTES allowance described in 3 that are not necessary to accommodate such problems be equitably distributed across colleges in a manner consistent with the original determination of college graduate FTES targets no later than Spring 2011;

 

  1. that each College Dean, in consultation with the college faculty through the regularly established and customarily used means of consultation in that college for purposes of resource and target allocations, and having heard feedback from the respective programs, and taking into account enrollment trends and the impact of spring 2010 enrollment suspensions, recommend to the Provost and the Dean of Graduate Studies the allocation of graduate admissions among the several graduate programs in the college with an indication of any reductions (if necessary) to meet the college’s graduate FTES target; in so doing, colleges should consider such factors as whether reduction in size might lead to: 1) a de-facto program elimination of a small and vulnerable program that is currently operating at a minimal sustainable level, or to a lesser extent 2) an increase in costs per student without a decrease in overall program costs (i.e., the cost/benefit outcome is made worse);

 

  1. that in so much as comparisons between graduate programs might be necessary to achieve the individual program allocations described in 5, such comparisons would employ the qualitative criteria recommended in FS 09-83;

 

  1. that each College Dean provide the Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies with a rationale for the individual reductions in graduate admissions to the programs in the college, if reductions are necessary to meet graduate FTES targets;

 

  1. that the Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies make final determinations of admissions allocations by College and programs, based on the recommendations and rationale provided by the College Deans;

 

  1. that the Provost publish the final decisions and rationale simultaneously and widely to the campus and community by the appropriate means;

 

  1. that this recommendation pertain only to graduate FTES targets and graduate program admissions for the 2010-2011 year unless extended by separate Faculty Senate action.

 

Carried.

 

FS 10-04/FPC/Ex.

RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE POLICY

 

The Faculty Senate recommends adoption of the following:

 

With respect to tests, examinations, graded assignments, deadlines or class participation that may have a significant impact on grading, instructors shall reasonably accommodate students’ planned absence(s) for religious observance(s). Students shall notify their instructor(s) by the end of the open add deadline (adds without petition) when seeking a reasonable accommodation for requirements published in the course syllabus. For requirements announced after the open add deadline, they shall notify their instructor(s) by the end of the class period following the announcement.

 

Background information can be found in the January 28, 2010 Faculty Senate Agenda, Attachment C.

 

Carried.

 

The following received a first reading and will receive a second reading at the Faculty Senate on February 25, 2010:

FS 10-09/Ex.

BY-LAWS: BACKFILL FOR SENATE CHAIR

FS 10-10/Ex.

BY-LAWS: STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIR TERM LIMITS

FS 10-14/Flr.

LETTERS FROM PROFESSORS SCOTT FARRAND AND SYLVIA NAVARI, RECEIPT AND ENTRY INTO THE FACULTY SENATE MINUTES

 

THE NEXT FACULTY SENATE MEETING: FEBRUARY 25, 2010

 

SENATE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS FOR SPRING:

 

·       March 11, 2010

·       March 25, 2010

·       April 8, 2010

·       April 22, 2010

·       Tuesday, April 27, 2010 (Outstanding Faculty Awards)

·       April 29, 2010

·       May 6, 2010

·       May 13, 2010

·       May 20, 2010