General Faculty Meeting
Meeting Minutes
104 Gore Hall
I. President David Roselle convened the meeting at
II. Professor Richard L. (Dick) Venezky was memorialized by Roberta Golinkoff..
Professor Venezky was a faculty member in the
III. Remarks - Dr. Roselle
A. At the start of the school year, 144 students were housed beyond capacity; however, triple-residency of rooms has subsided as the year has progressed.
B. Endowed professorships at the
last month. This has been a priority of the capital campaign since 1990. The 100th named professorship has been sponsored by Kathleen and David Hollowell and will support a professor involved in secondary school mathematics education. A recipient has not yet been designated. The target has been to have one-quarter of all full professors as named professors. With 360 full professors currently at UD, this goal has been reached.
C. The total for matched faculty gifts for the Center for the Arts has exceeded $4 million.
D. Short video clips were shown featuring faculty that are now named professors. These clips can be viewed on the UD website as “Windows on the Green”. Featured faculty were Debra Morris, Jim Richards, Don Sparks and Leland Ware.
E. Donations necessary to sponsor named professors start at $350,000, endowed chairs cost $1 million and a fully supported named professor is $3 million.
IV. The meeting adjourned at
Submitted,
Faculty Senate Secretary
Faculty Senate Meeting
Members absent: T. Deliberty, T. Hardie, K. Rogers,
D. Seckel
Members excused: J.
Firestone, Carolyn Manning, Eric Rise, I. Vogel, L.
Ware
I. A. The meeting was convened at
He noted a change in the meeting agenda. A presentation by Executive Vice President David Hollowell replaced the scheduled presentation by Provost Dan Rich.
B. The amended agenda was approved unanimously.
II. The meeting minutes of
III. Remarks by David Hollowell on campus construction projects.
A. Completed projects: Mechanical Hall (now a gallery), Early Learning Center, Otis Smith Laboratory in Lewes, Darden Bistro at Vita Nova, North Green (new pipes), South Green (paving), Morris Library (basement level) and the Pencader Complex (courts).
B. Projects in progress: Pencader Residence Hall Complex, Center for the Arts (parking garage scheduled to open in December), Marriott Courtyard Hotel (scheduled to open November 8), Foreign Languages building, Mitchell Hall, and Webb farm (sheep barn).
C. Projects in planning: Brown Laboratory,
IV. Announcements by Charles Boncelet.
A. Grade inflation: An ad hoc Committee on Grade Inflation will be reconvening in several weeks to examine what the next step should be with regard to grade inflation at UD. Consideration will be given to those interesting in joining the committee.
B. Undergraduate Studies Committee: The busiest committee in the Faculty Senate is still seeking a chair.
C. Multicultural requirement: The Undergraduate Studies Committee (USC) has been charged to review the multicultural requirement. Due to lack of a USC chair, no actions have been taken in review of this program and its courses. There is a deadline of 15 November for submission of documentation for all courses that wish to be considered as a multicultural requirement. This deadline will stand; if an instructor cannot make this deadline, the documentation can be submitted after November 15 for probable consideration.
D. President Boncelet requested a change Faculty Senate procedures regarding a call to question during a debate. Although not allowed by Roberts’ Rules, an additional brief time period is requested prior to closing debate to allow all parties brief discussion. This added flexibility is desired to allow proper discussion of debatable issues.
V. Consent Agenda.
A. Announcements for challenge - none.
B. Resolutions - none.
VI. Regular Agenda.
A. Old business - none.
. B. New business - none.
VII. Introduction of New Business - none.
The meeting adjourned at
Submitted,
Faculty Senate Secretary