1. Acknowledge electronic approval of minutes for April 17 minutes meeting

The senate had asked the guests to come at different times to minimize their time spent waiting. The first guest to arrive was Dr. Vachris, so the order of the agenda moved to VIIA, Faculty Review Committee Report (Wheeler and Vachris). The notes for that are included under that item.

When Connect goes online, faculty will need to change their Windows password to log into their desktop. CNU domain groups will be ported, and will continue to be maintained by their current owners. Galileo will continue to provide file sharing.  The agenda moved to VIA, report because the President's report was complete.

The next item in the president's report was the second chance memo. The second chance program is designed for students who have been asked to leave the university for poor academic performance. On their return, the university has a second chance program to provide support for them, but the practice and catalog are in conflict right now. The provost's office is trying to align the two, and asked for senate recommendations on that issue. There was a great deal of discussion on this. Senators had two main concerns. First, senators were concerned that newly returning students are required to attain a 2.5 every semester. That may be difficult returning for the first semester after leaving for poor academic performance; it is, in fact, a higher standard than we require for students to graduate. Maybe a more lenient initial GPA (working up to an overall GPA of 2.0) would increase the chances of success for these returning students. Second, the senate was concerned about the process. The Academic Status Committee, who has purview over this topic, is discussing the memo and has not completed their deliberations. Senators wanted to be able to look at the ASC's report before making a recommendation to the provost's office. Action: Wheeler/Lambert move that the second change catalog change be deferred until the senate has a chance to review the academic status committee report on this issue. Vote in Favor: Carlson, Mollick, Rahim, Xu, Lambert, Brunke, French, Frucot. Opposed: Guajardo. Abstain: Duskin, Filetti. Motion Passes.

Because Dr. Webb and Mr. McKay from ITServices had arrived, the senate deferred voting on the first issue (requiring a 2.5 GPA each semester) until after the report from ITServices. 

Senators Guajardo and Wheeler move to recommend that the provost's office examine the requirement for obtaining a 2.5 each semester for 4 semesters. Vote in Favor: Guajardo, Xu, Lambert, Brunke, Mollick Vote Against: Duskin, Carlson. Abstain: Filetti, Frucot. Motion passes.

1. ATAC (French) : Senator French reported on ATAC's activities this year interfacing with ITServices. Discussion focused on when the move to Blackboard 9 will occur as senators were eager to move to the new version. Senators also were eager to be able to access TurnItIn, especially because all English123 students are currently required to pay for its use. Senators Carlson and Filetti will find out the status of TurnItIn, and how it can be made accessible to faculty as soon as possible. They will report back to the faculty senate in August 2009.

1. Faculty Review Committee Report (Vachris): Dr. Wheeler reminded the senate that we had asked the Faculty Review Committee to make recommendation for what should be included in the dossier.  Dr. Vachris presented the FRC's report, then recommended that the chairs review the report to determine if it is compatible with what department review committees (DRCs) will require. The senate agreed that the report should go to the chairs, and the provost for his comments (e.g., although the FRC does not need to have individual articles be included, the provost might want them). The goal is to have each dossier be one binder, with a possible additional binder for those that need more information. Action: Senators Wheeler and Carlson move to refer this report to the chairs for comment and ask that the chairs return a response to the faculty senate by October 1. Vote In Favor: unanimous. Motion passes.

   After this discussion, the agenda moved to the president's report.

2. Assessment Committee (Brunke) Senator Brunke reported that committee members went through training, have evaluated academic= and administrative departments, and have asked that the grading sheet that they use be made available to those writing the reports. In response to a question, Senator Brunke said that grades as a result of last year's reports are forthcoming.

1. Handbook Changes (15, 16, 17, 18). Senators examined handbook changes. The main comment was that there are still references to the "College of Liberal Arts and Sciences" and the "Luter College of Business" that should be modified to reflect the new college structure. Action: With these recommended changes, Mollick/Duskin move to approve these changes as a group. Vote in Favor unanimous. Motion Passes.  Special Note: After discussing this with Carol Safko, she indicated that all references to the old college structure have been changed except two: In Section II_Committee on Intellectual Property and Section XVIII_ The Teacher Prep Council, the Dean is assigned responsibilities. Those handbook changes will need to be made next year after determining what the new dean's responsibilities are for these two committees.
2. Budget Advisory Nominations (cannot be LAMS, BCES, Psyc, Math, Phil): Senators nominated three faculty for this.
3. Committee on Intellectual Property Nominations (one for Copyrights, one for Patents. cannot be Math, Govt, AECF, Psyc, BCES, PCSE):  Senators nominated two faculty for copyrights and two for patents.

   Senator Guajardo reminded us that we had not voted on the first issue in the Second Chance memo, so the agenda returned there (under the President's Report). Discussion is included there.