College Senate Bulletin

Bulletin No. 3
September 23, 2003

Minutes of Senate Meeting on September 16, 2003

Announcements
Call for Nominations
Committee on Nominations
Faculty Personnel Committee
University Faculty Senator
Fall 2003 College Senate Meeting Schedule
Department Senators Named
Parliamentarian Named
Updated Senate Membership
Alphabetical Listing
Standing Committee Membership

Minutes of the Senate Meeting, September 16, 2003

Attending: D. Anderson, C. Annala, P. Barber, J. Bearden, D. Bicket, E. Bock, J. Boiani, S. Bosch, S. Brainard, L. Chatterton, R. Coloccia, J. Cope, K. Cunningham, C. Dahl, E. Dance, K. Davies, A. Eisenberg, S. Enam, M. Esch, T. Everett, C. Faulkner, W. Freed, C. Freeman, C. Geiger, E. Gillin, J. Giordano, B. Gohlman, D. Gordon, G. Gouvernet, D. Granger, K. Hannam, R. Hartman, G. Hartvigsen, T. Hon, H. Hoops, J. Hyman, S. Iyer, C. Jadlos, A, Jassawalla, D. Johnson, C. Klima, A. Kline, S. Landes, M. Levis, M. Lima, M. Lynch, D. McPherson, D. Metz, H. Myers, B. Nash, O. Nicodemi, D. Norris, K. O'Neill, B. Owens, R. Pretzer, J. Principe, E. Putman, C. Rowley, E. Savellos, S. Schwartz, A. Sheldon, A. Shenoy, A. Stanley, M. Stolee, D. Sullivan, M. Sutherland, Y. Tamura, J. Tang, B. Tartick, C. Truglia, A. Weibel, C. Woidat, R. Young, C. Youssef, T. Zollo

 

GUESTS: P. Schacht, L. Wrubel, L. Sancillio, S. Burwood

Call to Order

Adoption of the Agenda: adopted

Approval of the Minutes of the Previous Meetings

p. 6-15, Senate Bulletin 1: approved

Senate Reports

President Christopher Dahl: Five items to report. 1. College has begun the search process for new provost. Many members of the College community met with search consultant Dr. Ted Marchese last week. Committee is preparing ad copy for posting in appropriate papers. There will also be a web page for the search, available to the college community. Grateful to people on the search committee: Liz Dance and Cindy McCafferty, the student reps; and R. Herzman (chair), B. Bonfiglio, S. Burwood, J. Zook, D. Marozas, M. Blood, W. Pogozelski. 2. President’s Taskforce on Faculty Roles, Rewards and Evaluations. This year will be chaired by Mary Ellen Zuckerman, co-chair Dave Geiger. Joseph Bulsys has also been appointed to commission. 3. Strategic planning group, appointed in consultation with Senate Executive Committee, will be working on 7^th goal for physical facilities. Current membership of planning committee: C. Freeman, T. Bazzett, R. Hatheway, N Schiavetti, C. Faulkner, P. Schacht, E. Wallace, K Clark, J. Rogers, a student appointee to be determined by SA, and the three vice presidents and interim provost. T. Greenfield will be taking notes. Dahl is chair for this year, temporarily replacing Provost. 4. Budget: disappointing but not disastrous. Received $250,000 more than budget of 1 year ago, but doesn’t mean much b/c of contractual employee costs, which are $500,000-750,000. Haven’t allocated the 250K yet. College has restricted searches and expenditures to maintain curriculum and college. There is a limit to how much we can do that, but we are managing as well as we can. 5. Prof. Jeffrey Milem of University of Maryland College Park will be giving president’s first lecture on diversity Oct. 20, on positive educational outcomes of diversity. Hope to be annual tradition.

Provost David Gordon: Announcements: The taskforce on Faculty Roles and Rewards is in its 2^nd year. This year they plan to involve campus community in discussion. Reps from task force will attend dept. meetings to talk to depts., then have cluster meetings to talk in larger groups. 2. American Democracy Project: joint endeavor of New York Times and Association of American State Colleges and Universities to promote student civic engagement. Last week had first discussion meeting with those interested to generate ideas. Another mtg. this Thursday, Sept. 18 in President’s conference room at 12:45. If interested please attend. Attendance will not commit you to further participation

Chair Charlie Freeman: Welcome new senators. Thank those who volunteered to be chairs of subcommittees. Thanks to C. Faulkner for being Senate secretary. Update on fall elections for Faculty Personnel Committee, Nominations Committee, and for University Faculty Senator. Thanks Ed Pogozelski for taking nominations, he needs corrections to nominations by Sept. 22 at noon. Senate web page: www.geneseo.edu/~senate. Web page has Senate bulletins archived, Constitution, awards, link to University Faculty Senate. Finally, please announce name and dept. when speaking on senate floor!

Practice with clickers (aka PRS) with Gregg Hartvigsen. Pressing 1=aye, 2=nay 3=abstain. Press power button first. May have to press more than once. Note numbers on back—yellow boxes on screen will fill up with numbers on back of PRS. Once you press button you can’t change vote.

Gregg: no one knows your number—handed out at random.

Gregg will handle electronic voting

Vice Chair Gregg Hartvigsen: Excellence Committee nominations due Friday Sept. 19^th at 5:00.

Treasurer Errol Putman: Senate Fund has $1,293.43. Richard Roark Award principle is $1,972.02, and endowment income is $397.29. In charge of bereavements—let him know if someone needs card or gift.

University Senator William Gohlman: Next meeting Oct 23-24 in Oswego. No agenda yet.

Central Council Liz Dance: Elections at end of this month for first year students and student rep to college council. Elections will be on-line. No referendum this year. Looking into participating in immigrant workers’ freedom ride. If any one knows of possible sources of funding for this contact sasa@geneseo.edu

Reports of the Standing Committees of the Senate

Undergraduate Curricula Cyndy Klima: 1^st mtg will be in Welles 111 on Sept. 23 at 4:00. Deadline for proposals for changes is Oct. 1 to dean’s office. URL for proposals: www.geneseo.edu/~doc/ucc/senators. When you fill out proposals in back on bottom, note that every proposal must include a guide syllabus that specifies learning outcomes and must be labeled intended learning outcomes.

Undergraduate Policies Harold Hoops: no report

Graduate Academic Affairs Dale Metz: no report

Student Affairs Michael Lynch: First meeting is next week. Will tackle old business on student health and safety, but will also develop new agenda.

Faculty Affairs Rosanne Hartman: first mtg. Sept. 30 in Milne 208 at 4:00

Old Business

Statement on Community and Diversity, see bulletin 2, p. 24.

Motion to accept: so moved. Background: first reading approved at final mtg. of senate. Minor edits since then. Open floor for discussion:

President Dahl: entrusted with editing it over the summer. Tried to keep wording but to clarify, particularly 5^th paragraph. Thanks to Ed Gillin and Paul Schacht for their suggestions. Thinks “vigorous exchange of ideas” makes more clear why diversity important to life of college. Diversity contributes to intellectual vitality of community.

Motion carries

 

New Business

None

Adjournment

Calls for Nominations for Faculty Personnel Committee, Nominations Committee, and University Faculty Senator

The Committee on Nominations has sent a list of all faculty who are willing and eligible to serve on the Faculty Personnel Committee to the Department Chairs. Departments must select 4 people from this list and send the names to Ed Pogozelski, or any other member of the nominations committee, by Wednesday, October 1, 2003. Three members of the Faculty Personnel Committee will be elected to two-year terms beginning December 1^st (please note that the previous bulletins erroneously stated that four members would be elected). These positions are currently held by Becky Glass, Don Marozas, and Harold Hoops. Gary Towsley, Dan Strang, Celia Easton, and Jeffrey Over (taking over for Dave Geiger) are the continuing members of the Faculty Personnel Committee.

Nominations are being accepted for three positions on the Committee on Nominations. Terms for the positions currently held by Anne Eisenberg , Ed Pogozelski, and Kathryn Rommel-Esham will begin December 1^st and last for two years. Nominations can be sent to any of the current nominations committee members: Anne Eisenberg, Rachel Hall, Edward Pogozelski, Kathryn Rommel-Esham, Melissa Sutherland, or Jasmine Tang.

The Committee on Nominations is also soliciting nominations for University Faculty Senator. Bill Gohlman's term as UFS expires on May 31, 2004. Terms for this position last 3 years. Nominations for this position can be sent to the nominations committee members.

 

Fall 2003 College Senate Meeting Schedule

October 7 (Preceded by the All College Meeting at which the Committee on Nominations will report.)
November 4
December 2

Department Senator Named

The second department senators for Foreign Languages has been named. Gerard Gouvernet will serve on the Graduate Academic Affairs committee.

Parliamentarian Named

Thanks to Joseph Remy (student), who will serve as the Senate Parliamentarian this year 2003-2004.

Updated Senate Membership

Below is an alphabetical listing of the senate membership as of September 23, 2003. The only senators that haven't been named yet are the graduate student senators. After the alphabetical listing of senators is a list of the senate membership sorted by committee.

 

Name	Position	Committee	Term	Term
			Begins	Ends
Anderson, Douglas	Dept Senator - Art	Policy	2003	2005
Annala, Chris	Dept Senator - School Of Business	SAC	2003	2005
Bailey, Susan	Dean of the College	Ex Officio	N/A	N/A
Barber, Patricia	Dept Senator - School Of Education	GOV	2003	2005
Bazzett, Terry	Past Chair - Psychology	Executive	2003	2004
Bearden, James	At Large over - Sociology	FAC	2002	2004
Bicket, Douglas	Dept Senator - Communication	FAC	2003	2005
Bock, Emilie	Undergrad Student	SAC	2003	2004
Boiani, James	At Large over - Chemistry	GOV	2003	2005
Bonfiglio, Robert	VP Student Life	Ex Officio	N/A	N/A
Bosch, Sid	Dept Senator - Biology	UCC	2003	2005
Brainard, Sue Ann	Dept Senator - Library	UCC	2003	2004
Caren, William	VP Enrollment Services	Ex Officio	N/A	N/A
Chatterton, Lauren	Undergrad Student	Policy	2003	2004
Coloccia, Enrico	Admin Sen - Academic Affairs	Policy	2003	2004
Cope, Joseph	Dept Senator - History	UCC	2002	2004
Cunningham, Karla	Dept Senator - Political Science	Policy	2003	2005
Dahl, Christopher	President	Executive	N/A	N/A
Dalton-Ferris, Kim	Admin Sen - Admin & Finance	GCC	2002	2004
Dance, Liz	Undergrad Student	Executive	2003	2004
Davies, Kimberly	Dept Senator - Library	SAC	2003	2005
Eisenberg, Anne	Dept Senator - Sociology	Policy	2002	2004
Enam, Sanjar	Undergrad Student	SAC	2003	2004
Esch, Mariel	Undergrad Student	FAC	2003	2004
Everett, Ted	Dept Senator - Philosophy	FAC	2003	2005
Faulkner, Carol	Secretary	Executive	2003	2004
Freed, Walter	Dept Senator - English	SAC	2002	2004
Freeman, Charlie	Chair - Physics	Executive	2003	2004
Geiger, H. Cristina	At Large under - Chemistry	SAC	2002	2004
Gillin, Ed	At Large over - English	Policy	2003	2005
Giordano, Janine	Undergrad Student	UCC	2003	2004
Gohlman, Bill	University Faculty Senator	Executive	2001	2004
Gordon, Dave	Provost	Executive	N/A	N/A
Gouvernet, Gerard	Dept Senator - Foreign Languages	GAC	2003	2005
Granger, David	At Large under - School of Education	Policy	2003	2005
Hannam, Kristina	At Large under - Biology	FAC	2003	2005
Hartman, Rosanne	At Large over - Communication	FAC - Chair	2003	2005
Hartvigsen, Gregg	Vice Chair - Biology	Executive	2003	2004
Hatton, Art	VP College Advancement	Ex Officio	N/A	N/A
Holthaus, Roxanne	Admin Sen - Student Services	SAC	2002	2004
Hon, Tze-Ki	Dept Senator - History	FAC	2003	2005
Hoops, Harold	At Large over - Biology	Policy - Chair	2003	2005
Hursh, Kathleen	Dept Senator - School Of Education	UCC	2003	2005
Hyman, Josh	Undergrad Student	SAC	2003	2004
Iyer, Savitri	At Large over - Physics	Policy	2003	2005
Jadlos, Christopher	Admin Sen - Admin & Finance	Policy	2003	2005
Jassawalla, Avan	Dept Senator - School Of Business	GCC	2003	2005
Johnson, David	Dept Senator - Chemistry	FAC	2002	2004
Kirkwood, James	Dept Senator - School Of Performing Arts	GCC	2003	2005
Kirsh, Steve	Dept Senator - Psychology	GCC	2003	2005
Klima, Cynthia	At Large over - Foreign Languages	UCC-Chair	2002	2004
Kline, Anna	Admin Sen - At Large	UCC	2002	2004
Landes, Sonja	At Large over - Library	GCC	2003	2005
Levis, Maria	Undergrad Student	UCC	2003	2004
Levison, Ken	VP Administration and Finance	Ex Officio	N/A	N/A
Lima, Maria	Dept Senator - English	Policy	2003	2005
Lynch, Michael	Dept Senator - Psychology	SAC-Chair	2002	2004
McPherson, Duane	Dept Senator - Biology	SAC	2003	2005
Metz, Dale	Dept Senator - Communicative Disorders & Scienc	GCC - chair	2003	2005
Myers, Helen	At Large under - School of Performing Arts	FAC	2003	2005
Nash, Brian	Undergrad Student	SAC	2003	2004
Nicodemi, Olympia	At Large over - Mathematics	UCC	2003	2005
Norris, Darrell	Dept Senator - Geography	UCC	2002	2004
O'Neill, Katie	Undergrad Student	UCC	2003	2004
Over, D. Jeffrey	At Large over - Geology	Policy	2002	2004
Owens, Bob	Dept Senator - Communicative Disorders & Scienc	UCC	2003	2005
Pretzer, Ronald	Admin Sen - College Advancement	FAC	2002	2004
Principe, Jenn	Undergrad Student	SAC	2003	2004
Putman, Errol	Treasurer - School of Education	Executive	2003	2004
Remy, Joseph	Non voting member - Parliamentarian	N/A	2003	2004
Rowley, Cristina	Dept Senator - Foreign Languages	SAC	2003	2005
Savellos, Elias	At Large over - Philosophy	FAC	2002	2004
Schwartz, Sherry	Dept Senator - School Of Education	Policy	2003	2005
Sheldon, Amy	Dept Senator - Geological Sciences	Policy	2003	2005
Shenoy, Aarti	Undergrad Student	Policy	2003	2004
Stanley, Amy	Dept Senator - School Of Performing Arts	UCC	2003	2005
Stolee, Margaret	At Large over - History/Dean's Office	GOV	2002	2004
Sullivan, Denise	Admin Sen - Academic Affairs	UCC	2003	2005
Sutherland, Melissa	Dept Senator - Mathematics	GCC	2002	2004
Tamura, Yuichi	Dept Senator - Sociology	Policy	2003	2005
Tang, Jasmine	At Large under - Foreign Languages	SAC	2002	2004
Tartick, Bridget	Dept Senator - Physics	FAC	2003	2004
Towsley, Gary	Dept Senator - Mathematics	UCC	2003	2005
Truglia, Craig	Undergrad Student	Policy	2003	2004
VanRemmen, Joseph	Admin Sen - Student Services	SAC	2003	2005
Weibel, Anneliese	Dept Senator - School Of Performing Arts	UCC	2003	2005
Woidat, Caroline	Dept Senator - English	FAC	2003	2005
Young, Richard	At Large over - Geology	FAC	2002	2004
Youssef, Christina	Undergrad Student	FAC	2003	2004
Zhao, Zhiming	Dept Senator - Anthropology	UCC	2003	2005
Zoller, Lacey	Undergrad Student	SAC	2003	2004
Zollo, Theresa	Dept Senator - Computer Science	SAC	2002	2004
	Graduate Student		2003	2004
	Graduate Student		2003	2004
	Graduate Student		2003	2004

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Klima, Cynthia	At Large over - Foreign Languages	UCC-Chair
Bosch, Sid	Dept Senator - Biology	UCC
Brainard, Sue Ann	Dept Senator - Library	UCC
Cope, Joseph	Dept Senator - History	UCC
Giordano, Janine	Undergrad Student	UCC
Hursh, Kathleen	Dept Senator - School Of Education	UCC
Kline, Anna	Admin Sen - At Large	UCC
Levis, Maria	Undergrad Student	UCC
Nicodemi, Olympia	At Large over - Mathematics	UCC
Norris, Darrell	Dept Senator - Geography	UCC
O'Neill, Katie	Undergrad Student	UCC
Owens, Bob	Dept Senator - Communicative Disorders & Scienc	UCC
Stanley, Amy	Dept Senator - School Of Performing Arts	UCC
Sullivan, Denise	Admin Sen - Academic Affairs	UCC
Towsley, Gary	Dept Senator - Mathematics	UCC
Weibel, Anneliese	Dept Senator - School Of Performing Arts	UCC
Zhao, Zhiming	Dept Senator - Anthropology	UCC

Student Affairs Committee

Lynch, Michael	Dept Senator - Psychology	SAC-Chair
Annala, Chris	Dept Senator - School Of Business	SAC
Bock, Emilie	Undergrad Student	SAC
Davies, Kimberly	Dept Senator - Library	SAC
Enam, Sanjar	Undergrad Student	SAC
Freed, Walter	Dept Senator - English	SAC
Geiger, H. Cristina	At Large under - Chemistry	SAC
Holthaus, Roxanne	Admin Sen - Student Services	SAC
Hyman, Josh	Undergrad Student	SAC
McPherson, Duane	Dept Senator - Biology	SAC
Nash, Brian	Undergrad Student	SAC
Principe, Jenn	Undergrad Student	SAC
Rowley, Cristina	Dept Senator - Foreign Languages	SAC
Tang, Jasmine	At Large under - Foreign Languages	SAC
VanRemmen, Joseph	Admin Sen - Student Services	SAC
Zoller, Lacey	Undergrad Student	SAC
Zollo, Theresa	Dept Senator - Computer Science	SAC

Policy Committee

Hoops, Harold	At Large over - Biology	Policy - Chair
Anderson, Douglas	Dept Senator - Art	Policy
Chatterton, Lauren	Undergrad Student	Policy
Coloccia, Enrico	Admin Sen - Academic Affairs	Policy
Cunningham, Karla	Dept Senator - Political Science	Policy
Eisenberg, Anne	Dept Senator - Sociology	Policy
Gillin, Ed	At Large over - English	Policy
Granger, David	At Large under - School of Education	Policy
Iyer, Savitri	At Large over - Physics	Policy
Jadlos, Christopher	Admin Sen - Admin & Finance	Policy
Lima, Maria	Dept Senator - English	Policy
Over, D. Jeffrey	At Large over - Geology	Policy
Schwartz, Sherry	Dept Senator - School Of Education	Policy
Sheldon, Amy	Dept Senator - Geological Sciences	Policy
Shenoy, Aarti	Undergrad Student	Policy
Tamura, Yuichi	Dept Senator - Sociology	Policy
Truglia, Craig	Undergrad Student	Policy

Graduate Academic Affairs Committee

Metz, Dale	Dept Senator - Communicative Disorders & Scienc	GCC - chair
Dalton-Ferris, Kim	Admin Sen - Admin & Finance	GCC
Gouvernet, Gerard	Dept Senator - Foreign Languages	GCC
Jassawalla, Avan	Dept Senator - School Of Business	GCC
Kirkwood, James	Dept Senator - School Of Performing Arts	GCC
Kirsh, Steve	Dept Senator - Psychology	GCC
Landes, Sonja	At Large over - Library	GCC
Sutherland, Melissa	Dept Senator - Mathematics	GCC

Faculty Affairs Committee

Hartman, Rosanne	At Large over - Communication	FAC - Chair
Bearden, James	At Large over - Sociology	FAC
Bicket, Douglas	Dept Senator - Communication	FAC
Esch, Mariel	Undergrad Student	FAC
Everett, Ted	Dept Senator - Philosophy	FAC
Hannam, Kristina	At Large under - Biology	FAC
Hon, Tze-Ki	Dept Senator - History	FAC
Johnson, David	Dept Senator - Chemistry	FAC
Myers, Helen	At Large under - School of Performing Arts	FAC
Pretzer, Ronald	Admin Sen - College Advancement	FAC
Savellos, Elias	At Large over - Philosophy	FAC
Tartick, Bridget	Dept Senator - Physics	FAC
Woidat, Caroline	Dept Senator - English	FAC
Young, Richard	At Large over - Geology	FAC
Youssef, Christina	Undergrad Student	FAC

Senators on Governance Committee*

Barber, Patricia	Dept Senator - School Of Education	GOV
Boiani, James	At Large over - Chemistry	GOV
Stolee, Margaret	At Large over - History/Dean's Office	GOV

*Membership on Governance Committee is not restricted to Senators, but Senators on the Governance Committee do not need to serve on one of the Senate standing committees.