Faculty Senate. Agenda and minutes of the meeting of January 26, 2004. -- Faculty Senate Meetings, 2003-2004, v.17

Agenda: (Informal statements and proposals) -- (President's report) -- (Committee reports): A. Rules Committee / Will Klunder -- (Old business): A. General Education Task Force update / Jackie Snyder -- (New business): A. Performance Agreements update / Ron Kopita & Donna Hawley

Attachments: Potential Agenda Item for the Faculty Senate: Using both plus/minus grades AND straight grades

Minutes: Summary of action: 1. Accepted the following committee appointments: Library: Robert Glassman (replacement for E. Bernstorf) - appt. ends 2005; Undergraduate Research - Harold Popp (replacement for C. Loveland) - appt. ends 2005; University Curriculum - William Richardson (replacement for D. Eichhorn) - appt. ends 2004 -- University Committee appointments: Library Appeals -- Joanne Levine (full), Tomasz Hrycak & Andrew Trechak (alternates); NCAA Self Study -- Steering Committee: John Conlee, Sub-Comm. - Governance & Commitment to Rules, William Vanderburgh, - Academic Integrity, Judy Johnson, on Fiscal Integrity, Cindy Claycomb & on Equity, Welfare & Sportsmanship, Stephen Hathaway -- 2. Accepted the Resolution from Senator Klunder -" the Faculty Senate of Wichita State University request that the use of Social Security numbers in their entirety do not appear on any Wichita State University correspondence or documents, including pay statements" -- 3. Accepted the following resolution: "The faculty of the University request that the 30 Hour rule be terminated as soon as possible" -- (Informal statements and proposals): A. Announcement that the AAUP Higher Education Day will be February 10 / Senator Roussel -- B. Request for Senate to revisit the plus/minus grading system and circulated information / Senator Brooks -- C. Announcement that Senator Gill-Hopple had left the University and said Nursing would submit a replacement name to the Rules Committee / Senator Riordan -- D. Announcement that Senator Herzog resigned from the Senate and from Executive Committee / President Behrman -- E. Concern about the use of Social Security numbers being printed on pay information / Senator Klunder -- F. Watkins Lecture for Physics speaker, Dr. Maria Spiropulu from Fermilab, will present 1/26/04 and 1/27/04 -- (President's report): A. Election for the two Senator At Large: Nominations due February 2 -- B. Data collected for the purpose of Senate elections shows a decrease in faculty -- C. Concerns about the "30 Hour Rule" -- D. DRAFT of the BOR Faculty Morale survey -- E. Supplemental Merit Pay Task Force has been formed but a representative is needed from LAS Social Sciences -- F. Academic Honesty Policy -- (Committee report): A. Rules Committee: See summary of action -- (New business): A. Performance Agreements update / Ron Kopita and Donna Hawley