2006-2007
FACULTY SENATE
California State University, Sacramento

MINUTES
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Ballroom III, 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; Bikle, Criminal Justice; Bishop, Anthropology; Blumberg, Music; +Botkin, Family and Consumer Sciences; Bowie, Social Work; Buckley, APC Chair and ASCSU Senator (Computer Science); +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; Hecsh, GEP/GRPC Chair (Teacher Education); Heedley, Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Imamura, Kinesiology and Health Science; Ingram, Mathematics and Statistics; A. Jensen, Business Administration; Kellen-Yuen, Chemistry; Kirlin, Public Policy and Administration; Krabacher, ASCSU Senator (Geography); Landerholm, Biological Sciences; Liu, Sociology; Lustig, Government; Mahone, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies; +Manahan, Environmental Studies; Masuyama, Foreign Languages; McCormick, Philosophy; McCurley, Student Services; McKeough, Physical Therapy; Melzer, English; O'Hanlon, Speech Pathology and Audiology; +O'Neill, Library; Peigahi, Library; Pinch, Recreation and Leisure Studies; Siegel, History; Sobredo, Ethnic Studies; Taylor, Physics and Astronomy; Theodorides, Kinesiology and Health Science; VanGaasbeck, Economics; Wanket, Geography; Williams, Communication Studies
Absent: Brazo, Theatre and Dance; Brock, Special Education, Rehabilitation and School Psychology; Cameron-Wedding, Women's Studies; Corless, Business Administration; Dammel, Civil Engineering; Halgas, Business Administration; Hamilton, Mathematics and Statistics; Holl, Mechanical Engineering; Huang, Teacher Education; Jones, Criminal Justice; Legorreta, Business Administration; Nylund, Social Work; Phillips, Temporary Faculty (English); Qin, Psychology; Sharp, Business Administration; Wall, Nursing; vacant, Athletics; vacant, Humanities

 

The agenda was amended to add the following motion: FS 07-15/Flr., General Faculty Meeting. The agenda was approved as amended.

ACTION ITEM

FS 07-15/Flr. GENERAL FACULTY MEETING

Background: Section 5 of the Constitution of the Faculty of California State University, Sacramento states: “General meetings of the faculty shall be called by the Chair of the Faculty Senate at the request of the President of the University, at the request of forty (40) percent of the members of the Faculty Senate, or upon submission to the Chair of the Faculty Senate of a written petition signed by ten (10) percent of the faculty eligible to vote in the elections of this organization. A general meeting of the faculty shall be convened by the Chair of the Faculty Senate within ten (10) instructional days of receiving such a request or petition. Such meetings shall be for the sole purpose of giving information and conducting a discussion. No action shall be taken or policy adopted by vote or otherwise at such meetings.”

The Faculty Senate calls for a general faculty meeting to discuss policy recommendations for action by the Senate in response to the Budget Task Force Report.

Carried unanimously.

FS 07-13A/Flr. MOTION TO POSTPONE FS 07-13

The Faculty Senate recommends postponing FS 07-13, Ex., Amend Section 6.06.D of the UARTP Policy - Faculty Referendum, until the April 5, 2007 Faculty Senate meeting.

There was a discussion of the Budget Task Force report.

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:
  • March 29, 2007 - no Senate meeting: spring recess
  • April 5, 2007 - 1st organizational meeting of the 2007-08 Senate, 3:00-3:30; 2006-07 Senate meets, 3:30-5:00
  • April 12, 2007- tentative
  • April 19, 2007 - 2nd organizational meeting of the 2007-08 Senate, 3:00-3:30; 2006-07 Senate meets, 3:30-5:00
  • May 1, 2007 (Tuesday) - Outstanding Teaching, University and Community Service, and Lifetime Achievement Award for Community Service reception
  • April 26, 2007 - tentative
  • May 3, 2007 - tentative
  • May 10, 2007 - tentative

*    Requires Presidential approval.