University of Southern Maine Faculty Senate

Meeting of February 2, 2007 (2 - 4 p.m., 1 Payson-Smith)

 

MINUTES

 

Present:

 

Officers: D. Lynn (chair), N. Bouzrara (secretary);

 

 Ex officio: D. Malhotra, R. Pattenaude, M. Rodgers, J. Wood

 

Voting members : J. Andonian, H. Amoroso, Jr., N. Artz (J. Gutmann attending), K. Ashley, G. Caffentzis, R. Chen, S. Chinn, B. Clary, E. Collom, E. Eagan, B. Edmonds, L. Elliott, M. Hamilton, C. Hammer,  V. Hart, J. Irish, R. Kuesch, D. Lambert, T. MacDonald, F. Pavri, E. Raimon, C. Suscavage, D. Thompson,T. Wagner, S. Waldrep, H. Fred Walker, A. Whitmore

 

Absent:

 

Ex officio: P. Pitegoff, B. Shaffer, Z. VanZandt, B.L. Whitford,  J. Wright

 

Voting members:

 

Voting members : J. Brunette, L. Cole, D. Gilbert,   M. Vazquez Jacobus, P. Johnson,  L. Miller, C. Ostis, W. Phillips, S. Pollock, R. Swartz, V. Tarbell, L. Turesky, T. Ward, E. Wiley

 

 

Summary:

 

 

Present

Absent

Voting members

27

14

 

4

5

Total

31

19

 

 

2:00                1.  Call to order by Chair Dahlia Lynn

 

2:03                2.    Introductions

 

2:04                3.  Approval of minutes of December 1, 2006.

Notes approved unanimously via voce.

 

2:04                4. Reports ( minutes)

a.      President Richard Pattenaude (4 minutes)

 

Items reported by President Pattenaude include:

-          improved enorllments

-          work on retention

-          academic peer advisors (Send people to the Academic Advising office if interested.)

-          hiring slush is getting softer.. of 65 positions, 30 passed through

-          Chancellor search (update, process)

 

Questions included those by:

 

-          Senator MacDonald about overcoming a perceived favoritism by the new Chancellor for one campus after what happened the last time the Chancellor left USM for Bangor.

 

-      Senator Clary about empirical data and new initiatives.

 

-      Senator Irish about what happens if President Pattenaude does not become Chancellor.

 

 

2:08                            b. Provost Joseph Wood (17 minutes)

 

Comments by Provost Wood included:

 

-          the opening of the exhibit at the Glickman Library

 

-          the Governance Document  which includes a brief phrase on the evaluation process for the Associate Deans. (The Deans put together guidelines. ) Standardization of terminology such as director (the administrator responsible of a school inside a college, but not a department), chair (for departments, in the case of LAC.. faculty chair, not dept. chair), and coordinator (fot other positions).

 

-          group to develop formal process for distinguished professorships

 

-          approval of next calendar coming up soon

 

-          2 doctoral recepients expected in May 07 (Muskie, Biomed)

 

-          Strategic Plan .. parts to be resurrected… extracting best ideas from 3-5 year action plan.. input to the Provost.

 

-          learning communities for the Green people

 

-          reports across units to come

 

Questions included those by:

 

- Senator Eagan on whether the Faculty Senate approved learning communities (yes).

 

2: 25                           c. Chair Dahlia Lynn (15 minutes)

           

-          standing committee on Academic Freedom

 

-          Ad Hoc committee on revisions to the Constitution to be convened by Senator P. Johnson, tentative language having been proposed  by Senator Hamilton and Provost Wood, University Forum in early March, ballot vote for all faculty

 

-          Town Meeting on research at USM – April 13. Compressed video for Gorham and LAC

 

-          Term expirations coming up .. elections. Contact Vice-chair Parchman about willingness to stand for re-election.  Senators to be seated in May.

                                   

-          Technology Grant process starting ..

                                                H. Fred Walker to chair the committee.

 

2:40                            d. Board of Trustees Representative Fred H. Walker

 

-          January 22, 2006. Comments included  5 Associate degress being eliminated from Augusta, appointments of Dick Campbell as CFO at USM, Bill Foster as Dean of Muskie. Next meeting to be March 18-19. Full report is posted on the Faculty Senate site.

 

e.  No Student Body Report.

 

f.  No Classified Staff Report

                                   

g.  No Part-time  Staff Report

 

h.  No Professional Staff Report

 

2:47                5.  No Old Business. 

 

2:47                6.  New Business

             

            Technology Committee Report .. to be posted on web page

4 meetings in Fall 06, 20 questions to Bob Hansen, committee then met with him, open forums to be held by May 1

 

Program Review Committee Report

Vice-Chair Parchman reported on 2 items.. (1) recommend the approval of the BS in Athletic Training and (2) forward the Ph.D. in Nursing without comment.

 

                   Search Procedure Assessment  Report

K. Roberts reported on the system-wide committee on how to make searches better. Distribution of 2 documents.

                       

                   Faculty Survey on LibQUAL  Report   

D. Nutty asked for faculty involvement in the LibQUAL survey on resources, facilties, perceptions, expectations.

                       

            3:38    Meeting adjourned.

           

Respectfully submitted,

 

Nancy Erickson Bouzrara,

Recording Secretary, Faculty Senate