Minutes of the Faculty Senate<\/b><\/p>\n
Regular meeting held in Reynolds 205<\/b><\/p>\n
November 17, 2022<\/b><\/p>\n
Present: Senators Oden, Petty, Pfannenstiel, T. Schroeder, Tucker, , White, Fanning, Paulson, Overholser, Nelson, Samples, Logan, Djiguimde, Valenzuela, Coppersmith, Hudgens, Schneiderwind, Almotairi<\/span><\/p>\n Ex-officio and guests: David Lanoue, Donna Allen, Deborah Wilson,\u00a0 Gerald Plumlee, Karen Landry, Robin Sronce, Connie Wilson, Vanda McLelland, Vanda McLellan, Sheryl Edwards (left at 4:15pm), Deborah Wilson, Jesse Filbrun<\/span><\/p>\n Call to order: 3:40 pm<\/span><\/p>\n Reading of Proxies: Pfannenstiel proxy for White starting at 4:20pm<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Minutes from October 20, 2022 were approved (motion \u2013 Fanning, second \u2013 Samples)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Report from the Faculty Senate Handbook Committee (Senator Djiguimde)<\/span><\/p>\n Senator Djiguimde provided a report (Attachment One) regarding elections to standing committees in the University. The Faculty Assembly will be asked to vote on the measure in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Report from the Faculty Senate Budget Committee (Senator Tucker)<\/span><\/p>\n Senator Tucker shared that the budget forum with the administration in October went very well. He thanked Provost Lanoue and VP of Finance Shawana Reed for the presentation.\u00a0 Provost Lanoue mentioned at this time a one-time payment of 1,200 will be provided for all full-time SAU employees.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Report from the Faculty Senate Parking, Facilities and Grounds Committee (Senator Hudgens)<\/span><\/p>\n Senator Hudgens did not have a report for the committee.<\/span><\/p>\n Report from the Ad Hoc Committee on NC Grades (Senator Coppersmith)<\/span><\/p>\n Senator Coppersmith referenced the NC policy recommendations noted on the handout (Attachment Two).\u00a0 The committee met October 26<\/span>th <\/span>and recommend not continuing the NC policy created in response to the pandemic. The committee recommended continuing use of the NC policy that exists in the Faculty Handbook and encouraging faculty to use the WN option as necessary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Provost Lanoue completed a data analysis regarding past use of the NC grade during the pandemic and found the NC policy created during the pandemic had no significant effect on student retention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Report from Ad Hoc Committee on Student Evaluations (Senator Schroeder)<\/span><\/p>\n Senator Schroeder shared the original evaluation and a draft copy of revised version of the evaluation (Attachment Three). He shared several changes including; the evaluation draft is now broken into live\/online versions, the number of questions have been lessened, and neutral response options have been taken out. Additional changes might include changing the evaluation modality and providing data in an Excel sheet for faculty data analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n Schroeder asked Senators to send in recommendations for revising the evaluation.\u00a0 Guest Filbrun discussed the option for faculty to proctor each other\u2019s student evaluations. Senator Fanning requested the Student Government Association be asked to provide feedback on the revised evaluation.\u00a0 General Counsel Giles recommended keeping the evaluation short and noted the earliest option for implementation of the revised evaluations would be Fall 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n Provost Lanoue asked the Committee to consider whether multiple forms e.g. for online and in-person, are necessary and suggested one evaluation would allow for all measurements to be the same regardless of modality.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Senator Tucker shared his suggested revisions to the evaluation (Attachment Four) with those present.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n General Education Committee<\/span><\/p>\n Senator Schneiderwind reported the Committee met recently and there is an ongoing discussion regarding data collected over the last 5 years and if that data accurately reflects student success.<\/span><\/p>\n Academic Integrity Committee<\/span><\/p>\n Senator Schroeder reported the Committee recently met to review one case, the Dean\u2019s decision was upheld.<\/span><\/p>\n Online Education Committee\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n President Oden reported that two working groups were created to produce guidelines for regular and substantive student interactions (RSI) and create an accessible syllabus template that meets accessibility standards\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Research Committee<\/span><\/p>\n Guest Filbrun reported the Research Committee reviewed 15 applications for the first cycle of funding.\u00a0 Most applications were funded and there is approximately $10,000 left for future funding cycles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Faculty Appeals Committee\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Senator Nelson noted the committee has not met.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n General Counsel Giles stated the SAU now (October 1<\/span>st<\/span>) have contraceptives on the health plan.<\/span><\/p>\n President Oden reminded those present that meetings are open for guests to attend, they just cannot vote or bring a motion up for consideration of a vote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Provost Lanoue reported that the Social Work program has been reaccredited. He clarified that the signatures the HLC visiting team collected during their visit were an HLC requirement, and were not shared withnor required by SAU.\u00a0 Lanoue shared his thanks to the leadership team; Jennifer Rowsam, Brian Logan, Kim Bloss, and Gerald Plumlee and the staff\/faculty who were involved in the visit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Lanoue reported the HLC team will send their report for errors of fact back in one month and after SAU returns the report they can expect a final response to come later on in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n Questions for the Administration<\/b><\/p>\n President Oden thanked everyone for their involvement in the HLC visit and reminded everyone to send Senator Schroeder their corrections\/notes regarding student evaluations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Adjournment at 4:50pm Senator Schroeder gave the first motion, Nelson seconded the motion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Attachment One<\/b><\/p>\n Faculty Senate Handbook Committee Report:\u00a0 Nov 17, 2022<\/b><\/p>\n Committee Members:\u00a0 Senators Jennifer Logan, Clinton Petty, Mamadou Djiguimde, Scott White.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This committee report is offered as only a report at this time, not as a motion to approve changes to the faculty handbook. \u00a0 We intend to bring these proposed changes as a motion to the senate at a future regular meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Handbook Committee of the SAU Faculty Senate met on November 10<\/span>th<\/span> to consider the clarification of information regarding elections in the section:\u00a0 Standing Committees of the University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Language to be deleted is in <\/span>bold-strike-out.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Language to be added is <\/span>indented and in bold underline<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Standing Committees of the University<\/b><\/p>\n The Faculty Senate will provide a list of committee openings to the dean of each college no later than the day of the opening General Faculty meeting for the fall semester. Each college will <\/span>have ten (10) days to<\/b> conduct elections for all committee openings and will forward all election results to the Faculty Senate by the 2<\/span>nd<\/span> Friday after the first day of class of the fall semester. Unless otherwise noted, election is for staggered two-year terms with half of the committee membership elected each year.<\/span><\/p>\n Elections shall be conducted in an open and inclusive nomination process followed by a college faculty vote within the guidelines provided by Robert\u2019s Rules of Order (Newly Revised).\u00a0 The dean of each college (or designee) shall be in charge of the college elections under the supervision of the Faculty Senate Committee on Committees.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Following is a description of the mission and membership profile of each standing committee.<\/span><\/p>\n Attachment Two<\/b><\/p>\n 2022-2023 SAU Faculty Senate<\/span><\/p>\n ad-hoc committee on the exceptional NC grade policy<\/span><\/p>\n Wednesday October 26, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Committee Members:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Jennifer Logan<\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Keith Pfannenstiel<\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Kurt Coppersmith<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Scott White<\/span><\/p>\n ————————————————————————————————————<\/span><\/p>\n This ad-hoc committee intends to report the following at the Nov 17, 2022, meeting of the SAU Faculty Senate<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Recommend the following to the Academic VPAA\/Provost:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Attachment Three<\/b><\/p>\n Face to Face Course Evaluation Questions<\/b><\/p>\n Student Questions<\/b><\/p>\n Assessment Questions<\/b><\/p>\n What are one or two changes that can be made to assigned work and\/or exams that will make this course better? (open response)<\/b><\/p>\n Teaching\/Instruction Questions<\/b><\/p>\n What was the best aspect of this course? (open response)<\/b><\/p>\n What are one or two things that the instructor can do to improve the instruction in this course? (open response)<\/b><\/p>\n What are one or two things that the instructor does well that you would like for them to know? (open response)<\/b><\/p>\n Online Course Evaluation Questions<\/b><\/p>\n Student Questions<\/b><\/p>\n Assessment Questions<\/b><\/p>\n What are one or two changes that can be made to assigned work and\/or exams that will make this course better? (open response)<\/b><\/p>\n Teaching\/Instruction Questions<\/b><\/p>\n What are one or two things that the instructor can do to improve the instruction in this course? (open response)<\/b><\/p>\n What are one or two things that the instructor does well that you would like for them to know? (open response)<\/b><\/p>\n Course Design Questions<\/b><\/p>\n What was the best aspect of this course? (open response)<\/b><\/p>\n What technical problems did you encounter during the course? Please explain. (open response)<\/b><\/p>\n Attachment Four<\/b><\/p>\n Provided by Senate VP Abe Tucker\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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Course Evaluation Questions<\/span><\/h1>\n
Assessment Questions<\/span><\/h1>\n
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