REGULAR MEETING OF THE
Meeting Minutes
104
Gore Hall
I.
Adoption of the Agenda
Approved
II.
Approval of the Minutes: November
5, 2007
Approved
III. Remarks:
Provost
Dan Rich. The
Historical Overview of Strategic Financial University Indicators. The
University is a state-assisted private governing institution. In fiscal year (FY) 2007, the operating
budget was $654 million, up from $617 million in FY 2006. The dollar amounts are actual dollars not
adjusted for inflation. The revenue from
tuition and fees was $282 million in FY 2007 and $271 million in FY 2006. The state appropriation to the University in
FY 2007 was $123 million and $116 million in FY 2006. The state appropriation represents a small,
but still critically important, percentage of the operating budget, about 19%
in FY 2007. The percentage was about 30%
several decades ago. Contracts and grants
contributed $130 million in FY 2007 and $124 million in FY 2006 to the
operating budget. The endowment balance in
2007 was $1.4 billion; the return on investments and gifts were $78 million in
FY2007. During FY 2007, $333 million was spent on instruction, compared to $316
million in FY 2006. There is a growing difference
between tuition paid by nonresidents compared to residents, currently about
$10,000. Approximately 61% of the financial aid awarded is from William Ford
direct loans.
IV.
Announcements:
Senate President Alan Fox. A Residence
Life council is being formed and will produce a report that will be sent to the
Faculty Senate Student Life Committee, chaired by Matt Robinson. The report
will go to the Executive Committee then to the entire Faculty Senate. Resident Life programs will never be mandatory,
and resident assistants will not conduct private interviews. Copies of the
interviews conducted earlier are to be locked up until a time that they can be
destroyed. Until a new complete program is
developed, the Student Life Committee will run the program. It will be informal and focus on citizenship.
It is important for faculty to “step up”
to participate in the program.
The February meeting of the Faculty Senate will be
V.
Items For Information
A. Revision of
B. Request to add a specialization in Disability
Services Leadership and Management (attachment)
(attachment1)
(attachment2)
VI.
Consent Agenda
A. Announcements for Challenge
1.
Recommendation from the Committee on
Graduate Studies (Charles Mason, Chair) with the concurrence of the
Coordinating Committee on Education (Amy Johnson, Chair) and the Executive
Committee (Alan Fox, Chair) for the revision of Clinical Nurse Specialist
Concentration for MS in Nursing (checklist
attachment) (policy)
Approved.
B. Resolutions
1.
Recommendation from the Committee on
Graduate Studies (Charles Mason, Chair) with the concurrence of the
Coordinating Committee on Education (Amy Johnson, Chair) and the Executive
Committee (Alan Fox, Chair) for the request to add a new Master of Science in Bioresources Engineering (attachment)
(attachment)
(attachment)
Whereas,
in 2001, the Bioresources Engineering Department
underwent an academic program review. In preparing the self
study report there was discussion at several department meetings on graduate
education. The academic program review team cited the lack of a graduate
program as one of the weaknesses of the Department, and
Whereas,
several of the faculty members have joint appointments in the
Whereas,
it was decided that the
Department needed to create opportunities for the new faculty members that have
been hired since 2001 to advise and utilize graduate students in their
research. The only satisfactory way to do this is to develop an MS
program in Bioresources Engineering. A new
water resources engineering faculty member has been hired and there will be
three additional faculty members retiring within the next four to seven years.
The MS program will help in recruiting new faculty, be it therefore
Resolved,
that the Faculty Senate recommends that this degree be established in the
Department of Bioresources Engineering provisionally
for five years.
Approved
2.
Recommendation from the Committee on
Graduate Studies (Charles Mason, Chair) with the concurrence of the
Coordinating Committee on Education (Amy Johnson, Chair) and the Executive
Committee (Alan Fox, Chair) for the request to grant permanent approval of the
Master of Science in Information Systems and Technology Management from the
College of Business and Economics (attachment
1) (attachment
2)
Whereas,
on March 3, 2002 the Master of Science in Information Systems and Technology
Management was granted provisional status, and
Whereas,
there were no significant concerns expressed in the self study and by the
individual reviewers, and
Whereas,
there are currently 30 students in various stages of completing the MS plus
another 10 students who are working on dual degrees,
and,
Whereas,
students are obtaining jobs in public accounting firms, and with consulting
firms in management and administrative positions, and
Whereas,
resources are not a problem as they have gained 4 tenure-track faculty members
during this time which has put the program in excellent shape to handle the MS
in IS&TM, be it therefore
Resolved,
that the Faculty Senate recommends that the Master of Science in Information
Systems and Technology Management be granted permanent status.
Approved
VI. Regular Agenda
A.
Old Business: None
B.
New Business:
Confirmation of Appointments
1.
Pat Barber, member of the Faculty
Senate Committee on Retired, Retiring and Emeriti Faculty
2.
James
Swasey, member of the Faculty Senate Committee on
Retired, Retiring and Emeriti Faculty
3.
Robert Taggart, chair of the Faculty
Senate Committee on Retired, Retiring and Emeriti Faculty
Approved
VII.
Introduction of New Business
Such items as may come before the Senate. (No motion
introduced under new business, except a motion to refer to committee, shall be
acted upon until the next meeting of the Senate.)
Academic calendar question, what imput can faculty
have? Determined by administraton.
Dan Rich
Adjourned
Submitted by Donald Lehman