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March 18, 1999

Chairman	Vice Chairman	Executive Secretary	Parliamentarian
President H. C. Bailey	Vice-Pres. L. Benjamin	Dr. David Boyd	Dr. Robert Hull

Minutes of the March 18, 1999 Faculty Senate Meeting
(NO-ATTACHMENT VERSION)*

The Valdosta State University Faculty Senate meeting convened at 3:30 p.m. in Powell Hall Auditorium.
Members present were: President and Chair - Hugh C. Bailey; Vice President, Academic Affairs - L. Benjamin; Executive Secretary - D. Boyd; Parliamentarian - R. Hull ; Ex-officio Senators - J. Brignati(absent), K. Ferrell(absent), L. Milbrandt, T. Dasher, K. Stanley, F.D. Toth(absent), M.A. Reichenbach(absent), E. Clark, G. Gaumond(proxy S. Crawford), P. Cleveland(absent); College of the Arts: V. Pennington, C. Edwards, M. Harbin, T.Harding(absent), D. Farwell(absent), J. Wheeler; College of Arts and Sciences; S. Goel(proxy A. Lazari), J. Hiers(proxy B.Brown), D. Bogyo, S. Childs(absent), B. Derrick, L. Hanes, M. Hardin, A. Lazari, B. Bergstrom, D. Boyd, B. Brown, J. Elza, B. Evans(absent), T. Meyers(proxy R. Vodde), V. Soady(absent), B. Adler, H. Harper(absent), S. Seyfarth(proxy B. Adler); College of Business Administration: A. Reddy(absent), H. Ray(absent), F. Ware, M. Holland; College of Education: C. Backes, J. D. Thomerson, R. McClung, M. Garber(absent), B. Gerber, F. Smith, J. Hummel, P. Anderson, S. Andrews(absent), T. Root, A. Gibbs, E. Gillis(absent), K. Wells, R. Hull, M. Venn; College of Nursing: D. Ebron, D. Roush; Division of Social Work: R. Vodde; Division of Learning Support :J. Wilkinson ; Odum Library: S. Crawford; Pres. Of SGA: Jay Golden(absent) Guests: Tom Archibald, Louis Levy

1. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Bailey and D. Boyd identified proxies.
2. The minutes of the February 18, 1999 Faculty Senate meeting minutes were approved with the correction being made to change A. Lazari's statement to page 8 (last paragraph) of the minutes to "A. Lazari stated that how the students are to be notified and what dates would be changed were not important were not pertinent to the motion."
3. Unfinished Business
   There was no unfinished business.
4. New Business

   1. Report of the Academic Committee
      L Benjamin reported on the February 8th meeting of the Academic Committee, which included revisions to courses and as well as the addition of courses to the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, and the College of the Arts. The minutes were approved.
   2. Report from the Committee on Committees
      S. Crawford reported on the March 4th meeting of the Committee on Committees. At this meeting, the text for the Grievance Ballot and the form used to request Standing Committee assignments were reviewed. Since that time, both of these documents have been distributed to all faculty members. She announced that the deadline for returning the Grievance Ballot is March 26th and April 5th is the deadline to have requests for Standing Committee assignments considered by the Committee. The Committee will be able to complete the Senate roster by the May 20th deadline by meeting twice in April, on the 8th and the 29th.
      D. Bogyo suggested that faculty members be notified, possibly by e-mail, of the inclusion of the Grievance Committee ballot on the back of the other form sent to them. S. Crawford said that she would do this.
   3. Report from the Institutional Planning Committee
      V. Pennington presented a copy of the Strategic Goals for Valdosta State University, which was included in the agenda as Attachment #2. She gave a brief history of the process of developing this document. She stated that, in 1995 a five-year plan for the University was put together, listing 22 goals. Then, in 1996, a process of developing a mission statement for the University was taken through the Senate as well as mission statements for each of the units. In 1997, the 22 goals had been put into a grouping of four different categories and were reworded, producing 14 required goals for each unit in the University to address along with optional goals the units could address. Later in 1997 the action plans from the units were reviewed using the goals and the Institutional Planning Committee was charged with conducting a survey of problems and clarification of goals in preparation for the SACS accreditation visit in the year 2000. As the committee looked through the action plans, some problems seemed to appear fairly often. One of these problems was repetition of goals—the four different areas had sometimes repeated the goals in different ways, which caused confusion for the units that were writing for the goals. Another major problem was that the goals, written as they were did not apply appropriately to Student Services or the Academic Support units as well as they did to the academic units. There were several goals that these units were unable to form action plans for because they didn't seem to be consistent with their missions. There were also some goals that were no longer relevant. One of the goals, for example, was to convert to the semester system. V. Pennington stated that this was the fourth year of the original five year plan and the 22 goals that were written into the Strategic Plan in 1995 and it is the second year of the goal process that all of the units had to turn in in 1998. The Institutional Planning Committee was charged with coming up with a list of goals that answered some of the problems, clarified them, took care of some of the overlap and ambiguity that were in the goals before. V. Pennington explained that the version of the Strategic Goals presented before the Senate today was made up of eight strategic goals that the Committee felt applied to all of the units in the University including Academic Support areas and staff areas as well as the academic areas. Under each goal, the Committee added ways in which the goals might be met by the units. Under each explanation the Committee listed the goals from the five-year and university goals that apply to each explanation. V. Pennington stated that if this plan was approved by the Senate, it would go into the planning process for next year so that the University will have a full cycle of having worked with these goals as part of the Strategic Plan.
      J. Elza asked how the Master Planning sessions were going. V. Pennington reported that the Master Planning process was mainly concerning itself with the physical facilities and that the work being done on it was actually being done separately from the work done on the Strategic Goals. She asked Dr. Bailey to elaborate on the Master Plan. Dr. Bailey stated that there was recently a meeting of four hours or so with six or seven Board of Regents' members present. He reminded the Senate that this plan was the Board of Regents' plan and not the University's. He stated that he hoped the Regents' would take our ideas, but he is aware that they will make revisions on the Plan. Dr. Bailey stated that the architect had been meeting with the Institutional Planning Committee, the Plan was going as well as expected, and he hoped to have a Plan to go to the Board of Regents' in June of this year. He wanted to thank V. Pennington and the Institutional Planning Committee for their work on this Herculean task and stated that he thought they had done a fine job.
      J. Elza stated that there was an emphasis in the goals on the environment. She stated that she assumed this would including building on campus as well and that these standards would be applied to the Master Plan just as they would be applied to anything else on campus.
      V. Pennington stated that the Committee hoped that would be the case, but that the Senate was being asked to approve the goals to be put into place for planning for next year. She stated the Committee included the goals concerning the environment, because that was a statement that it wanted to make.
      Dr. Bailey stated that V. Hennessy who is now the number two person in the facilities area, wanted less specificity. He stated that she asked for four or five options of locations for buildings as opposed to one site. Dr. Bailey stated that his concern was that the goals be sufficiently broad so that when decisions were made five years from now, that if it isn't included in the document, the University would have difficulty getting answers.
      B. Derrick asked if Dr. Bailey was speaking of the planning document for the physical resources instead of the Strategic Goals. Dr. Bailey answered in the affirmative. B. Derrick stated that the Senate may want to come back to the document after taking action on the Strategic Goals and stated that she thought J. Brignati had promised the Senate that the Master Plan would be coming to the Senate before it went to the Board of Regents for final approval. She was concerned that the Senate was running short of time if the Master Plan was to be reviewed and meet Dr. Bailey's goal. Dr. Bailey stated that he was not aware of such a commitment and that faculty members were members of the Master Plan committee. B. Derrick stated that the Senate may want to take care of the Strategic Goals set before them and come back to the discussion of the Master Plan. Dr. Bailey agreed. L. Milbrandt made the motion that, under Strategic Goal #1 that "creative and" be added after the word "written". He stated that much of what the University was about is the production of new ideas and products. He stated that the University emphasizes undergraduate research and there is opportunity for faculty research including creative and other kinds of research that speak to creative thinking. He stated that, when one generates a hypothesis in a research project, it is certainly a creative act that leads the way to further involvement with that research. He stated that many ways, the University demonstrates, in many ways, that it is involved in creative thinking. He stated that he sees this as a cognitive behavior that is different from critical thinking and that critical thinking is analytical and depends upon the application of the criteria. He stated that creative thinking is generative and synthetic and that there is a distinction to be made. Dr. Bailey asked L. Milbrandt to restate his motion to add the words "critical and" after the word "written" in the first Strategic Goal.
      J. Hummel stated that the literature on creative thinking was not limited to analytical development of ideas or applications. He stated that there were tried and true approaches to critical thinking, including Bloom's Taxonomy, which stated that the synthesis level was one of the higher levels of critical thinking and it would include creative research and creative endeavors of all sorts. He stated that he thought that, although he did not disagree with L. Milbrandt, he believed that it would be redundant to include critical and creative thinking in the document because critical thickening included creative thinking as well. L. Milbrandt stated that it depended on what set of literature and reference list one referred to because people that write in the field of creativity would subsume critical thinking under creativity. In order to allow them both to live in some sort of equity, he suggested the inclusion of his amendment in the document. There being no further discussion on the matter, the Senate voted and L. Milbrandt's motion passed. The amended goal reads:

      1. To Provide a Quality Education
      Provide a comprehensive quality curriculum in all of its degree programs in order to meet the needs of students in this region. Included in this curriculum is a core curriculum and major requirements for the development of oral, written, creative and critical thinking, and computational skills; understanding of various societies; ethical awareness; knowledge of the physical universe; and appreciation of different forms of artistic expression.
      Assess student learning in order to improve programs. (UG I.A.1 and I.A.6; FYG 3 and 13)

      R. Vodde posed the question if, under Strategic Goal number 5, there needed to be something added about the systematic evaluation of the attainment of goals. V. Pennington stated that she thought the Committee was trying to keep the document as simple and as all-inclusive as possible. She agreed that this evaluation should be considered, but she was not sure it should be included as part of the goals of the actual plan. She thought that this evaluation would be part of the processes of the action planning rather than the articles. L. Benjamin stated that R. Vodde's point was interesting and he was wondering about Strategic Goal number 8 himself. He asked that this goal be changed to read:

      8. To Make an Institutional Commitment to Act
      All units and individuals at Valdosta State University shall seek to turn these goals into accomplishments using our individual and collective talents to move the University forward into continuous improvement and effective assessments to continuously improve the University.

      There being no further discussion, the motion passed.
      The document Strategic Goals for Valdosta State University was approved as amended.
      B. Derrick raised the question about the presentation to the Faculty Senate of the Master Plan, as promised by J. Brignati. She reminded the Senate that all major policies were to be presented to the Faculty Senate and wanted to be assured that the Master Plan would, indeed be coming before the Senate before it was sent to the Board of Regents. Dr. Bailey stated that he was not sure that this would happen. He stated that representatives from the faculty, the student body, alumni, and the staff were on the Master Planning Committee as well. He stated that if the Master Plan were brought before the Senate, it would have to be brought before all of those groups, as well. He stated that if J. Brignati made the statement that the Master Plan would be brought before the Senate, he spoke out of turn and he was incorrect.
      J. Elza asked if it would be possible to have a copy of the Master Plan placed in the library. Dr. Bailey stated absolutely and reminded the Senate that there were open meetings concerning this document and that people were invited to attend. C. Fergusen stated that a copy of the Plan was in the SACS room at the Graduate School and that anyone was invited to read the document there. Dr. Bailey assured the Senate that this was neither his nor the administration's document, that many ideas had come into play and the document had been modified along the way. He stated that if there were questions or concerns about the document, he was sure the committee would be willing to discuss the concerns and make any changes. He stated that since this process had been going on for many months, to try to change the document at the end would create difficulties.

   4. Report from the Faculty Affairs Committee
      B. Brown reported that the Faculty Affairs Committee would meet March 19th at 1:00 PM in the Education Center.
   5. Report from the Faculty Grievance Committee
      B. Derrick stated that there was no report from the Grievance Committee.
   6. Report from the Senate Executive Secretary -

      1. Summer 1999 Schedule-D. Boyd reported that, through voting by paper ballot by campus mail, the Senate approved the following adjustment to the Summer 1999 schedule as suggested by the Academic Scheduling and Procedure Committee: Classes will be held June 18, 1999 (Friday) and June 25, 1999 (Friday). The June class days will replace the July 1, 1999 (Thursday) and July 5, 1999 (Monday) class days. June 18, 1999 will replace the Thursday courses and June 25, 1999 will replace the Monday courses. This motion passed by a vote of 47 in favor to 2 opposed.
      2. Nominating Committee Report
         Election of Executive Secretary of the Faculty Senate/Election of Senators for the Committee on Committees-K. Wells rose to remind the Senate of the fine job D. Boyd had been doing as Executive Secretary and urged senators to keep this in mind when voting. (K. Wells was also listed as a candidate on the ballot.) After voting, the ballots were given to D. Roush and M. Holland for tabulation. D. Boyd was elected for another term as Executive Secretary and J. Hummel (College of Education), A. Lazari (College of Arts and Sciences) and D. Thomas (Social Work/Library) were elected to the Committee on Committees.
      3. The Intellectual Property Policy- This document was accepted and passed at the May 1998 Faculty Senate meeting. The document was then sent to the University Board of Regent's attorney, Ms. Corliss Cummings, for review. Editorial changes were suggested and were made by the Educational Policies subcommittee, there having been no substantive changes made in the document. B. Derrick asked if someone from the Committee would go through the document and point out the editorial changes. J. Eastman explained that the document came out of the Graduate School as an interim policy in February of 1997. In Fall of 1997, an Intellectual Property Policy Committee was formed. The Committee reviewed the policy, which was then brought before the Educational Policies Committee and passed by the Senate in May of 1998 after being discussed in great detail. The policy presented today (included herein as Attachment # 1.) contains minor editorial changes. She stated that nothing in the amended policy changed the spirit of the document as approved by the Senate originally. B. Derrick asked if the document presented before the Senate was the original document with the changes added in bold italics or struck. J. Eastman answered in the affirmative. R. Hull questioned the use of the phrase "electronic equipment" on page three of the document under the heading University Assisted Individual Effort. He asked if a faculty member came into a University building to work on a text, that when they were done with the text, it would belong to the University. J. Eastman stated that other phrases in the document state that if resources other than office or library resources are used significantly, then the text would not be considered intellectual property of the University. Also, research work would not be included in this classification. Only extraordinary use of the resources would constitute the text being considered the intellectual property of the University. K. Stanley called the question. The motion was voted upon and the approval of the document carried. D. Boyd thanked the Committee for their hard work on this document.
      4. The Policy and Procedures on Scholarly Misconduct was remanded back to the Faculty Development and Research Committee for further modification.
      5. A request to establish a formal title for the moderator(s) of VSUFAC was remanded to the Committee on Committees. Additionally, policies are to be recommended for the appointment and term of service of those in this position.
      6. A request to consider changing the GPA requirement for being placed on the Dean's List was remanded to the Academic Honors and Scholarships Committee. This item had been remanded to the Academic Committee in February, but the sense of that committee was that another committee would better handle this item.
      7. A request to develop guidelines for appropriate recognition of the effort expended in developing on-line and/or distance learning courses was remanded to the Educational Policies Committee.
      8. Reports from the Standing Committees

         1. Report of the Faculty Development and Research Committee - Rusty McClung- reported on the status of the Faculty Development fund and the Graduate School Faculty Research fund. He stated that the Committee has also produced a final draft of a Misconduct Policy for the University, which will be brought before the Senate at the April meeting. D. Bogyo asked if there were still funds available for faculty development. R. McClung answered in the affirmative, and he stated that requests needed to be made for these funds before June 1. (This document is included herein as Attachment # 2.)
         2. Report of Library Affairs Committee - Richard Vodde gave the annual report of the Library Affairs Committee by listing the charge of the committee, its yearly goals, and an assessment of the completion of goals for the committee. The entire report in furnished herein as Attachment # 3.
         3. Report of Minority and Diversity Affairs Committee - Patty Anderson reported on the goals of the Minority and Diversity Affairs Committee which included the review and recommendation of policies and procedures pertinent to ethnic, religious, and gender minorities and quality support of programs for students with special needs. (The report is furnished herein as Attachment # 4).
         4. Report of Student Activities Committee - Bob Evans- This report was rescheduled for the April Faculty Senate meeting.
         5. Report of Student Services Committee - Viki Soady – This report was rescheduled for the April Faculty Senate meeting.
5. General Discussion
   D. Boyd reminded the Senate that items to be considered at the April Faculty Senate meeting should be received by March 25th. He also pointed out the E-Mail Notice sent out to faculty members by Tom Archibald concerning the migration from Banner 2.x to Banner 3.x as directed by the Board of Regents. This migration would require the Banner system to be accessed in a "view only" mode during this process. (The notice is included herein as Attachment # 5).

   D. Bogyo questioned the status of the proposed changes in the sick leave policy from 2 for 1 to 1 for 1. Dr. Bailey stated that he would try to speak with Tim Golden the following weekend. He stated that the Governor recommended this change, and it was t thought that it would pass, but he has not seen a mark-up on it. He stated that he thought it was very important to make this change.

6. Adjournment
   Dr. Bailey stated that J. Brignati asked him to thank the Senate for voting to add the days to the Summer 1999 Session. He stated that it would mean an addition of $400,000 each fiscal for the University. Dr. Bailey expressed his thanks as well. There being no further discussion, the meeting adjourned at 4:22 PM.