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Illinois State UniversityISU ReD: Research and eDataAcademic Senate Minutes Academic SenateSpring 3-28-1973Senate Meeting March 28, 1973Academic SenateIllinois State UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/senateminutesPart of the Higher Education Administration CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Academic Senate at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion inAcademic Senate Minutes by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact ISUReD@ilstu.edu.Recommended CitationSenate, Academic, "Senate Meeting March 28, 1973" (1973). Academic Senate Minutes. Paper 159.http://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/senateminutes/159ACADEMIC SENATE MINUTES March 28, 1973 Vol. IV, No. 12 Contents Approval of Minutes Administrator's Remarks A New Academic Evaluation System for Illinois State University Proposed By-Law.Amendment on Absenteeism Appointments to SCE RB Committee Reports Communications Meetings of the Academic Senate are open to members of the University Community. Persons attending the meetings may participate in discussion with the consent of the Senate. Persons desiring to bring items to the attention of the Senate may do so by contacting any member of the Senate. IV, 95 IV, 96 Academic Senate Minutes March 28, 1973 Vol. IV, No. 12 CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Chairman Edwards at 7:02 p. m. in Stevenson 401. The Chairman ruled that the Senate was a continuing body and that the senators elected at the election of March 28 would be seated at the next regular meeting. The Chairman, ruling as the Chair, stated that the present Senate was a legally constituted body and asked for any challenges to his ruling in order to clarify the situation. Mr. Plummer asked for a pOint of clarification on the By-Laws. The ChaLrman responded that the By-Laws were silent on when a given senator takes office. There was no challenge to the Chair's ruling that this was a duly constituted Senate. A roll call was taken, and a quorum was declared. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Two sets of minutes were presented for approval. The minutes of the regular meeting on March 14, 1973 were to be approved first. Mr. Madore asked for several corrections or additions to be made. On page 46, Mr. Madore asked that the sentence "Mr. Madore explained the rationale for the substitute motion" be changed to read "Mr. Madore explained in the rationale for the substitute motion that all attempts to have the questions posed by the substitute motion answered failed and that no other option seemed appropriate." On page 46, line 22, Mr. Madore asked that the sentence "Mr. Mohr stated that the Chairman of the Elementary Education Student Board had been invited to testify" be changed by adding "before the Academic Affairs Committee." On page 48, under the Faculty Affairs Committee Report, Mr. Madore requested that line two be changed to read "Committee would wekome any suggested procedures for the recognition of". A motion (Mr. Kagy, Mr. Snavely) to approve the minutes as corrected passed. The minutes of the special meeting on March 21, 1973 were approved with the following corrections: "Mis s Vowell" should read "Ms. Vowell"; for motion IV, 83 the seconder of the motion should be Mr. Sullivan, not Mr. Sutherland. A motion (Mr. Snavely, Mr. McGuckin) to approve the minutes as corrected passed. ADMINISTRATOR'S REMARKS Dean Budig presented a letter to the Senate which he had distributed to the Executive Committee. (See Appendix) Dean Budig distributed copies of his remarks to the Senate and stated that he would be pleased to respond to any questions from the Senate. Mr. Koch asked for a definition of the difference between a school and a college. Dean Budig responded that the trend was toward using school for the professional areas such as business and education. In answer to further questions, Dean Budig stated that the new structure was really not new. He reminded the Senate that the Senate did not vote to abolish collegiate structure; therefore, the establishment of schools was in keeping with the original IV, 97 ) IV, 98 IV, 99 58 structure. Dean Budig stated that he felt there was a real danger of absorbing the academic planning functions centrally and that these functions must be im-plemented at the school or collegiate level. He stated that there must be cur-riculum committees established at the various levels to give the best consideration rather than centralizing the entire academic planning function. ACTION ITEMS --OLD BUSINESS--A NEW ACADEMIC EVALUATION SYSTEM FOR ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY - - ------Mr. Baker opened with a discussion of where we are and where we should go next. He noted that no change had been made in the overall grading system at Illinois State University or the way the grade pOint average is computed but that studies were needed immediately of other items which had been brought to the Senate. We changed the pass/fail option to a C level and voted on a new withdrawal policy. Mr. Baker moved (Mr. Baker, Mr. Mohr) the following resolution be adopted: "Be it resolved that resolutions 4, 5, and 6 be referred back to the Academic Standards Committee and the Academic Affairs Committee for further study." Mr. Baker stated that the Committee could not come up with an appropriate designation for incompletes and that the Committee felt that there was a need for further study on this matter. Mr. Baker stated that the academic bankruptcy resolution was no longer relevant in light of the withdrawal policy that was adopted at the previous meeting. The option to withdraw from courses without penalty up to two weeks before the end of the course seems to make the bankruptcy policy somewhat irrelevant. Mr. Baker stated that other resolutions that had been offered by the students had not been considered by either the Academic Standards Committee or the Academic Affairs Committee and he felt that it would not be appropriate for these to be taken up as ~<.! hoc recommenda-tions which had not been studied for their ramifications and effects. He called for a restoration of faith in the committee system. The motion to return the items to committee passed on a voice vote. Negative votes were recorded for Mr. Sullivan, Miss Bickel, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Hathway, Mr. Sonderman. Abstentions were recorded for Mr. McGuckin and Mr. Pierce. --NEW BUSINESS--PROPOSED BY -LAW AMENDMENT ON ABSENTEEISM At the last regular meeting a By-Law Amendment on Absenteeism was presented. Mr. Hathway moved that the proposed amendment be accepted with one change--"summer vacation"should be changed to read "summer terms. " The motion (Mr. Hathway, Mr. Sullivan) to accept the proposed amendment as amended was passed unanimously with no abstentions. APPOINTMENTS TO SCERB Mr. Hathway reported on appOintments to SCERB. He explained the responsibility of the Senate and the President in nominating and selecting SCERB committee members. (See Appendix) A motion (Mr. Hathway, Ms. Vowell) that the names of Ruth Freyberger and Joyce Morton be submitted to the President as nominees to SCERB, one of whom to be appointed by the President passed unanimously. 59 IV, 100 COMMITTEE REPORTS Academic Affairs - Mr. Mohr reported for the Academic Affairs Committee. He stated that Mr. Hill had investigated the forensics reduction. Mr. Mohr reported that it is a problem of allocation of personnel. He stated that the Committee thought that it was an internal administrative matter within the department. He stated that the Committee was generally favorable to the continuation of this highly visible and highly successful program. Mr. Mohr reported that they would report their findings to the new Academic Affairs Committee for its continued investigation if so desired. Rules - Mr. Hathwayreported that the current Committee will continue to prepare the screening reports for committee assignments which will be pre-sented to the new Executive Committee. Ad Hoc Committee on New Senator Orie~tation - Mr. Roderick asked all holdover senators to reserve next Wednesday night for an orientation meeting with the new senators. He stated that further notification will be sent to the senators. COMMUNICATIONS Mr. Hicklin reported that the JUAC would be soon giving a report on academic freedom and tenure to the Board of Regents and that the Board of Higher Education Faculty Advisory Committee would be considering on Fri day a proposal for Lincoln State University. He welcomed any input on these two topics from members of the Senate. Mr. Adelman, Student Representative to the Student Advisory Committee to the Board of Higher Educatiotl, repGrted that the Student Advisory Committee was meeting with Governor Walker about the budgetary situation on Friday and was going to be asking him at that time for student and faculty input on the selection of the new director of the Board of Higher Education. A motion to adjourn (Mr. Rich, Mr. Reynolds) passed unanimously. The meeting adjourned at 8:00 p. m. For the Academic Senate, Charles R. 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'----\----t--I -----~--~--~~--.-----~-----+------.T_-----t_----~------+_----~~ Ii St-e-f-fu-;------~-P----~~-------+-----~-----+-----~~----4------+------+1~1~---r-~--f r--=B=ud=~=--______ ~~P~--~-r--------"r___----~----_+------1------~---~----__4I~i _____ ~-+ __ Berlo A i ' - -r I ==p_n_s_on ___ --'-__ A ___ ~_l__ ___ __.J.__--;--_ ____L_ ____ _L_ ____ L! ---I'----__ --l'---_____ IJI~- ==-=-~ ...... /--Ii-==. ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY VICE PRESIDENT DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY Members of the Academic Senate: FOUNDED IN 1857 BLOOMINGTON·NORMAL 61761 March 28, 1973 PHONE 309/438-2261 After ten months of study, consultation and experience a it is my best judgment that the professional academic areas of Illinois State University should carry School designations. Specifically, the areas of Applied Science and Technology, I3usiness, Education and Fine Arts should be so identified. My proposal would be totally consistent with the position of the Task Force on Adminis-trative Organization in that: 1. There would be no Assistant or Assoctate DGans within the School proposal; 2. There would be no supporting bureaucracy, such as Administrative Assistants , within the scheme; 3. The Deans would concern themselves primurily with matters of academic planning and review, professional staff development and University-wide assignments. My position is predicated upon the importance of external visability for the professional areas, especially at a time when we are competing for quality students who most generally have designs on professional careers. There is dire need for an atmosphere of professional comradery which the Deans must foster through spirited discussion on program options, growth and development. Without it, Illinois State University will not be a professionally rewarding institution with which to be associated. Further, it is my belief that Deans of professional Schools should be located with their areas of principal academic concern. A central office location, such as Hovey, serves to limit their effL:ctivcness in crucial associations with [acuIty, students and the departments. Implementation of this proposal, effective July 1, 1973, would improve the critically important flow of information on the campus. At this point I have not had adequate opportunity to explore the issue of Arts and Sciences. Such collegiate structures are under intense review at a number of universities, and perhaps we can benefit from their findings before taking action. Meanwhile, Arts and Sciences should con -tinue to function under Dean Shuman in the same manner as the professional Schools. It should be pointed out that my conclusions have been discussed thoroughly with Professor Hubbard who believes they honor the intent and integrity of his committee 's report on administrative organization. Respectfully, '/' ~ n y-t /1 {J2 u ' B u .).Jj ) ) ) ) ) To: Academic Senate From: Rules Committee Re: Proposed amendment to Senate By-Laws Be it resolved that the Academic Senate By-Laws be amended by deleting the present Article IV, Section 4, and replacing it by: 4. 4 Vacancies and Absences ----- oj ..., - ... .--.-(a) An elected Academic Senator absent, without notification, from three (3) regular Senate meetings, exclusive of summer terms, shall be considered to have vacated his seat. (b) Notification before one week after the scheduled meeting shall constitute an e~ceEted aE§~.s~ The elected Senator shall contact the Senate Office in person, by telephone or in writing. (c) All vacancies shall be certified by the Senate. No vacancy shall be certified without a reasonable attempt to contact the Senator in question. (d) Certified vacancies shall be replaced by the Senate candidate who received the next highest number of votes in the preceding election from the constituency that elected the Senator unable to serve, pro-vided that the replacement is otherwise eligible to serve on the Senate, as such eligibility is determined by the University Constitution and the election procedures of the constituency whose Senate seat is vacated. The replacement shall serve until the next Academic Senate election, at which time the constituency involved shall elect someone for the remainder of the unexpired term. (e) In the event the Academic Senate finds the above method of replacement to be impractical, the Academic Senate may of its own motion or upon request of the student body officers' or student representatives of the constituency from which the vacancy occurs, call special elections to fill vacancies. (f) Persons on sabbaticals or other leaves of absence shall be deemed to have vacated their seats. Be it further moved that this amendment be effective as of April I, 1973. TO: Academic Senate March 28, 1973 FROM: Rules Committee RE: Membership of SCERB The procedure that we are following is to submit as many names as twice the number of vacancies. There is one faculty vacancy on SCERB for a full three-year term. There are six faculty vacancies on the University Hearing Panel, four two-year terms and ' two orie-year terms. There are three student vacancies on SCERB and eight off-campus student vacancies on the Hearing Panel. The Rules Committee is recommending the submission of the names of Ruth Freyberger and Joyce Morton for SCERI3, and the names of Edward Waage, James Scrimgeour, Fay 130wren, Joseph Natale, Gary Erisman, Walter Vernon, Frederick Kroeger, and Valerie Wilford for the University Hearing Panel. We would wish to submit four more faculty names for consideration for membership on the Hearing Panel. If the Senators would make an effort to publicize these vacancies among their colleagues, they could then submit more names to the Rules Committee. Student nominations are unavailable at this time. It is the desire of the Rules Committee to forward these names to the President for his consideration at this time and add further names for the Hearing Panel in April. It is the President's responsibility to select the members as outlined in the Handbook, RHpl 

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