2011-2012 FACULTY SENATE
California State University, Sacramento

AGENDA
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Foothill Suite, Union
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

 

OPEN FORUM

 

CONSENT ACTION

 

FS 11/12-41/Ex.

COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT – SENATE

 

Curriculum Policies Committee

Dian Baker, At-large, 2012

 

REGULAR AGENDA

 

FS 11/12-42/Flr.

MINUTES OF OCTOBER 27, 2011

 

FS 11/12-38/Flr.

NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF CHAIR, CURRICULUM POLICIES COMMITTEE

Background: Article II, Section F of the By-laws of the Faculty Senate state, in part, “ . . . A vacancy in the voting membership of the Executive Committee shall be filled by nomination and election at the first meeting of the Faculty Senate after the vacancy occurs. The nominee elected shall have received more votes than any candidate not elected. . . If the office of Chair of a Standing Committee becomes vacant, the office shall be executed by the Vice Chair of the Standing Committee until the Faculty Senate shall elect a successor as provided in Article II, Sections D.3 and E.3 of these By-laws (http://www.csus.edu/acse/bylaws.htm). The Vice Chair executing the office of Chair under this provision shall not serve as a voting member of the Executive Committee.” Kath Pinch will resign as Chair of the Curriculum Policies Committee, as she will be on sabbatical in Spring 2012.

Nominations of candidates for Chair of each Standing Committees may be made by a senator from the floor; by the current membership of the Standing Committee; or by a petition signed by ten (10) or more full-time faculty members and filed with the Faculty Senate office before the first meeting of the new Faculty Senate.

The candidates for Chair of each Standing Committees shall submit a one page description of qualifications and intentions to the Faculty Senate office for inclusion with the agenda for the election meeting.

Please download and print the attached ballot and bring it to the meeting.

FS 11/12-43/Flr.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM PRIORITIES, ELECTION OF

 

Click on the nominees’ names for candidate statements. Please download and print the attached ballot and bring it to the meeting.

 

COLLEGE-BASED NOMINEES

COLLEGE

NOMINEE

DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM

NOMINATION SOURCE

Arts and Letters

Jackie Donath

Humanities and Religious Studies

other than self or Academic Council

Business Administration

Jai Joon Lee

 

other than self or Academic

Education

 

 

 

Engineering and Computer Science

Sue Holl

Mechanical Engineering

Academic Council

 

Ramzi Mahmood

Civil Engineering

Academic Council

 

Anne-Louise Radimsky

Computer Science

other than self or Academic Council

Health and Human Services

Sue Escobar

Criminal Justice

self-nominated

 

Michael Wright

Kinesiology and Health Science

other than self or Academic Council

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Susan Crawford

Chemistry

Academic Council

 

Chris Taylor

Physics and Astronomy

other than self or Academic Council

Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies

Marya Endriga

Psychology

self-nominated

 

Raghuraman S. Trichur

Anthropology

self-nominated

 

SENATE-BASED NOMINEES

COLLEGE

NOMINEE

DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM

Arts and Letters

Carolyn Gibbs

Design

Education

Jana Noel

Teacher Education

 

FIRST READING

 

FS 11/12-44/APC/EX.

STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES, REVISIONS TO

 

The Faculty Senate recommends revising the “Student Rights and Responsibilities” policy as outlined at Attachment A.

 

SECOND READING

 

FS 11/12-31/FPC/EX.

FACULTY RESPONSIBILITIES TO STUDENTS IN THE INSTRUCTIONAL ENVIRONMENT

 

The Faculty Senate recommends adoption of the “Faculty Responsibilities to Students in the Instructional Environment” policy as shown in the October 6, 2011 Faculty Senate Agenda Attachment C.

 

Note: The appendix can be found in the October 6, 2011 Faculty Senate Agenda Attachment C-1.

 

BACKGROUND

 

April 27, 2011 - President Gonzalez requested the formation of an ad hoc committee, to be drawn from the Faculty Senate Executive Committee and led by the Provost. The committee’s purpose was to develop draft policy language on faculty rights and responsibilities regarding the delivery of instruction to our students, to be “grounded in our current University Policy documents”

 

An Ad Hoc Committee was formed and met three times over the summer. The Committee incorporated material from three currently existing documents into the proposed policy.

-          “Statement on Faculty Responsibilities and Professional Ethics” (effective 1994, updated 2011) http://www.csus.edu/umanual/hr/HRS-0117.html

-          “Student Rights and Responsibilities” (effective 1999) http://www.csus.edu/umanual/student/UMS16500.htm

-          AAUP Statement on “Freedom and Responsibility” (published 2006)

 

August 30, 2011 - Executive Committee referred the document to FPC.

 

FPC discussed the Ad Hoc Committee’s document throughout September. Notes from the table top discussions at the August 24 Faculty Senate meeting were incorporated into the discussion.

 

September 27, 2011 – FPC referred the proposed policy to Executive Committee, which unanimously voted to place the proposed policy on the Senate agenda and then voted unanimously to endorse the policy.

 

 

SENATE FALL SCHEDULE:

 

(1st and 3rd Thursdays, 3:00-5:00, Foothill Suite, Union, unless notified otherwise)

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 – Livingston Lecture

November 3, 2011 – Senate meets

November 10, 2011 – tentative

November 17, 2011 – Senate meets

November 24, 2011 – Thanksgiving break

December 1, 2011 – Senate meets

December 8, 2011 – tentative

December 15, 2011 – Senate meets