Academic Senate: Minutes 3/16/2010

I.     Call to order and announcements 4:06 pm

II.    Roll call

Present : Brian Adams, Robin Anderson, Susan Baillet, Genevieve Brassard, Barbara Breen, Alyssa Schmidt-Carr, Susan Decker, Aziz Inan, Todd Easton, Jill Hoddick, Larry Larsen, Laura McLary, Kathleen McManus, OP, Nick McRee, Hilary Merk, Stephanie Michel, Samantha Riofta,  Br. Donald Stabrowski, CSC, Diane Vines, Karen Ward, Joanne Warner. Absent: Rev. E. William Beauchamp, CSC, Elise Moentmann, Hans Nordstrom, Fr. Stephen Rowan, Jacquie Van Hoomissen, Jackie Waggoner

III.  Invocation: Larry Larsen

IV.  Minutes from meeting from 16 February 2010 approved

V.   Standing Committee Reports:

   a.   Executive Committee, Dr. Larry Larsen

      1.   discussion on next year’s Academic Senate cf. committee chairships

   b.   Committee on Committees, Dr. Elise Moentmann

      1.   no report

   c.   Committee on Rank & Tenure, Dr. Jill Hoddick

      1.   continuing with the work of the committee

   d.   Committee on Teaching & Scholarship, Dr. Nick McRee

      1.   spring Butines have been allocated and recipients notified

      2.   teaching and scholarship files submitted and under review

      3.   on portal upcoming announcement on calls for presentations at faculty development day

      4.   keynote speaker for faculty development day will be Dr. Marlene Moore

   e.   Committee on Faculty Welfare, Dr. Susan Baillet

      1.   low op Kaiser will go up about 8%

      2.   increase in costs across the board

      3.   Jim Kuffner negotiated lower increases than Kaiser suggested. The changes will be presented soon to faculty.

   f.    Committee on Curriculum & Academic Regulations, Dr. Brian Adams

      1.   meeting

      2.   new meeting on 23 March, new business

VI.  Presidential Advisory Committees:

   a.   Committee on Student Media, Dr. Jackie Waggoner       

      1.   no report

   b.   Committee on Athletics, Dr. Jacquie van Hoomissen

      1.   no report

   c.   Committee on Health and Safety, Dr. Hans Nordstrom

      1.   meeting tomorrow morning

   d.   Committee on Information Technology, Dr. Karen Ward

      1.   has met and is wrapping up reports

      2.   committee is working on presentation for faculty development day with regard to technology available in classroom

      3.   plans for summer institute to provide space and support for faculty to develop teaching modules with new technology, more details available later

   e.   Committee on Sustainability, Stephanie Michel

      1.   committee met, meeting tomorrow

      2.   getting ready for water conference (26-28 March)

VII. Other Reports:

   a.   Fr. William Beauchamp: no report; Fr. Beauchamp is in Salzburg

   b.   Dean’s Meeting (Br. Donald Stabrowski)

      1.   several meetings

      2.   ongoing topics:

         a)   trying to discern patterns of internships, because there are 5-6 models, but they are not well understood.  Working on compiling a booklet to describe each; if given for credit then there must be a significant amount of classroom contact, which must be documented.

         b)   will follow up on this at the next dean’s meeting

         c)   glimpse of new program neuro-education program in School of Education, will go to CAR, enhancement to MAT program, beyond the BA

         d)   Kathryn Young chosen as this year’s valedictorian (biology, Spanish major)

         e)   separate graduate student commencement will take place this year at 1:00 on Saturday, 1 May, which will include a speaker

         f)    single retirement ceremony on 9 April (Friday) Mulcrone, Doyle, Ackley, Snow; begin in BC with program at 3:30 pm, president offering new board room for the reception

         g)   A reception for Marlene Moore will be held during finals week

      3.   meeting tomorrow to follow up on internships

   c.   ASUP

      1.   elections have taken place

      2.   budget will be presented next week

      3.   resolution passed to allow 2% of budget for a major event

      4.   senior gift at $5,500 for a scholarship for an incoming student

VIII.       New Business:

   a.   Committee on Curriculum and Academic Regulations

      1.   points of information

         a)   School of Nursing will allow Alterative Entry Master’s students to apply to doctorate program in nursing

         b)   Math Department is revising BS in math to allow for more flexibility to take courses in other disciplines

         c)   University core skills need to be updated, as they are not currently measureable

      2.   proposal to make changes to the university core (Dr. Norah Martin)

         a)   elimination of technology literacy in a core skill

         b)   already outdated once it was introduced

         c)   research from AACU: technology literacy not among core skills at other institutions, though other core skills are consistent with core skills at peer institutions

         d)   move to discuss and second

            (1) also looking at change of core goals, which currently can not be assessed because they are not linked learning outcomes

            (2) now there is a mission statement for the core, now five course goals instead of seven, each attached to learning outcomes

         e)   move to approve, all approve

      3.   proposal to eliminate the Life Sciences degree (Dr. Katie O’Reilly)

         a)   change in Life Sciences to BA in biology

         b)   allows more flexibility, dropped to 27 upper-division BIO from 36

         c)   allows more embedding of labs (now requiring 3 labs)

         d)   move to voice vote, all in favor

      4.   proposal to introduce a Executive Global MBA degree program (Dr. Jon Down and Chuck Bauer)

         a)   partnership with universities in Milan and Taiwan

         b)   meetings already taken place at both locations

         c)   for execs in global companies (new constituency)

         d)   each module: ten-day on-site with faculty, then back to home base for online, interactive work; finish with 10-day module, repeated with four different modules, finish at home base

         e)   Milan: one of three top poly-techs in Europe (since 1896)

         f)    Taiwan: number 2 ranked university in Kaohsiung, Taiwan ( I-Shou University) , sent students here in the past

         g)   discussion

            (1) How many students are anticipated?

                     (a)   first module in Taiwan in fall with at least 15 students, with growth to max of 30 students

                     (b)   middle-range program, 50,000 Euros about $100,000 actual cost; project related to students own businesses, i.e. creating new lines of business

                     (c)    goal to get equal thirds from each of participant schools, opportunity to network

            (2) Are there commitments from businesses?

                     (a)   already visited with many companies, but nothing concrete yet: Nike, Intel, Microsoft, Costco (NW), Parker-Hanlin; Nestle, ST Microelectronics, IBM Euro, Vodophone, on 25 March meeting in Rome with president of Enel; Asia Panasonic, Samsung, A-Data, Fujitsu, NEC

            (3) Will the PSOB be developing new curriculum, or are courses available here?

                     (a)   some modification of current courses, still working out details of six-week online module, e.g., learning best practices as the program develops

                     (b)   still covers primary topics in MBA program but with more cultural information for the other programs

                     (c)    expecting 80% of content to be already what faculty in PSOB teach

                     (d)   future leaders in companies will be students, needs to be fast-track, current + lots of companies visits and guest speakers: immersion and experiential 25%, 75% academic

            (4) learning objectives

                     (a)   global leadership and management across the three major business cultures of the world: Asia, Europe, and America

                     (b)   entrepreneurship

                     (c)    innovation and technology management

                     (d)   ethics and social responsibility

             (5) all three schools have appropriate level of accreditation

             (6) What is the next step after approval?

                     (a)   Must be approved by all three universities, e.g. admission standards, etc.

                     (b)   29 March meeting in Milan to set schedule to complete approval process, must go through their faculty senate, then approval by government in Rome, probably completed this spring

            (7) will not be offered if the 15 students minimum is not met

      h)   move to voice vote, all approve

IX.  Announcements:

   a.   EC meeting 6 April, issues for discussion to Larry Larsen

X.   Adjournment: 4:49

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