MINUTES SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY SENATE May 1, 2001 and May 3, 2001 Hepner Hall 221
Members Present: Academic Senate: Boddy, Rushall, [Absent: Strom, Warschauer] Administrators: Weber, Marlin, Kitchen, Cobb for Byxbee, Feinberg for Cobble, Scott Arts and Letters: Aguado, Aitken, Benkov, Donahue, Farber, Genovese, Grajeda-Higley for Griswold, Huckle, Johns, Kish, Kornfeld, Ortiz, Quandahl, Rogers, Barbone for Rosenstein, Toombs, Wheeler, Zimmerman [Absent: Herman, McClish] Associated Students: Rollingson, Mahinan, Williams Business Administration: Block, Ely, Haddad, Raafat, Vik, Wright California Faculty Association: Atterton for Schulze Education: Allen, Mora, Phillip, Strom, Thompson [Absent: Morey, Saba] Emeritus Faculty: Marosz Engineering: Pierucci, Ponce [Absent: Kline, Szeto] Health and Human Services: Alcaraz, Samimi [Absent: Guitierrez-Clellon, Hofherr, Shapiro, Yu] Imperial Valley Campus: Padmanabhan, Sabath Lecturer Faculty: DuBois, Fulcomer, Kitchen, Shackelford Library: Dintrone, Perkins, Wilson Professional Studies and Fine Arts: Broom, Borden, Carlson, Caves, Dionisopoulos, Kern, Nakamura, Lamke, Oth, Pearl, Roberts, Sparrow [Absent: Broom, Murphy, Wilson] Sciences: Berta, Atkins-Kaplan, Berry, Boninsegni, Castillo, Frey, Hornbeck, Krisans, Marshall, Papin, Roeder, Short, Torikachvili [Absent: Langlais] Staff: Cademy, Mungie, Nichols, Velhuysen University Services: Hayes 1. Agenda (Wright) MSP Wright, Short. Approved Agenda with corrections for May 1 and May 3, 2001. 2. Minutes (Wright) MSP Wright, Short. Approved Minutes of April 3, 2001. 3. Announcements (Huckle)
• In correspondence from President Weber (3/27/2001) the following Senate actions from the April 2, 2001 Senate meeting were approved Academic Policy & Planning’s Draft WASC Proposal, Curriculum’s 7th Report, and the Instructional Technology Committee’s Acceptable Computing Use Policy.
• New and Returning Senators were welcomed to the Senate. The 2001-2002 Senate Roster is now available on the Senate website at http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/senate/senate.html and will be distributed to all Senators this summer. Ron Williams was welcomed as the new AS President.
• A reception honoring Emeritus Faculty co-sponsored by the Senate, Aztec Shops, the President’s Office, and the SDSU Retirement Association will be held in the Faculty Staff Club immediately following the Senate meeting.
• Appreciation and gifts were presented to Senators Berry, Carlson, Marshall, Orth, Thompson, and Exec Asst Barbara Hartung for their service to the Senate.
• Appreciation and gifts were presented to Vice Chair Short for his service to the Senate and to his dedication to shared governance at SDSU.
MSP Genovese, Wright. The following Senate resolution was adopted to honor Chair Huckle for her service to the Senate and for her dedication to shared governance at SDSU. Appreciation and gifts were also presented.
A RESOLUTION
Whereas, Patricia Huckle, Professor and former Chair of Women’s Studies, former Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, and former Dean of the North County Campus, has been granted the ultimate title and privileges of Emerita; and Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 2 San Diego State University Senate
Whereas, Professor Huckle in three years of service as Chair of the Senate, San Diego State University, has gained distinction within and beyond the University for her frank opinions, forthright leadership, and wry but patient good humor; and
Whereas, Chair Huckle knows first hand the meaning of shifting tides, even keel, holding course, and safe harbor; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Senate, San Diego State University, extend its gratitude, congratulations, and hearty wishes for fair winds and following seas to colleague, leader, and friend Patricia Huckle.
• Provost Marlin presented Chair Huckle with a picture of the Freeway Sign with the inscription “Pat Huckle, Troublemaker.”
• Thanks was expressed by Chair Huckle to all for the good wishes and mementos.
4. University Administration (Marlin)
• Today is the deadline for the enrollment deposits. The pool of students we are recruiting seeks out diversity and academic quality. We have invited and recruited more students to campus this year than we have at any other point in time. Our largest even information day, “Future Aztecs Day,” saw approximately 5,000 people on campus--students and families. We anticipate there will be a slight over-enrollment in the Fall semester.
• US News & World Report recently listed the best graduate programs in the USA. SDSU’s Entrepreneur Program in the College of Business was ranked 26th in the nation; the PhD in Clinical Psychology was ranked 53rd; and the Masters in Public Affairs was ranked 83rd.
• An Inventory of Retention Activities was distributed at the meeting, grouped under Academic Support, Remedial Activities, Tutoring, Advising and Counseling, Bridge and Orientation Programs, and Professional Development. Retention activities at SDSU also require faculty-student interaction. Without faculty interest in students, it is unlikely that any amount of formalized retention activity will be successful.
• Our Faculty-Student Mentoring Program has been awarded one of the seven national Retention Excellence Awards. Thanks is extended to the director who deserves a great deal of credit for this honor.
• Barbara Hartung, Executive Assistant to the President, has announced her upcoming retirement at the end of this summer. Professor Hartung has been a part of SDSU since she entered as a student in 1952. 4.1 President Weber
• In my meetings with faculty, the following concerns were brought forward--Year-Round Operations, increased demands on faculty/staff time, California’s energy crisis, budget concerns, and off campus instruction. The discussions were well-informed and the concerns identified were appropriate and helpful. My own concerns are as follows:
• Budget. Our energy deficit for next year is presently anticipated to be $4.6M. That number is aggressively being worked down. We are trying to reserve enough money against this deficit that we will be able to keep our lights on and pay our bills. I appreciate all of your conservation efforts; they have made a noticeable difference and will be critical next year.
• New Faculty Hiring. The ongoing SDSU budget discussion suggests that our first priority is funding course sections. I don’t see that as being in jeopardy. Some requests are in jeopardy, and I am particularly concerned about new faculty hiring. In 1999-2000 we added $600K to the base budget for tenure/tenure-track hiring; this year we allocated $850K. We are searching for over 92 colleagues. We had agreed in our 1998-99 budget discussions to try to commit $1.5M to additional tenured/tenure-track hiring over a period of three years. We were actually able to invest $1.94M. Academic Affairs has a request before the Cabinet Budget Committee to invest another $850K for next year.
• Shared Governance. We are trying to move our budgets toward transparency. Toward that end we have been conducting regular meetings with the Senate leadership, reviewing the budget requests that VPs have sent forward, and being briefed with regard to anticipated available resources. I am encouraged by the academic planning efforts that have taken place. We have to have a clear understanding as to where disciplines are headed and how new positions will be used. I am pleased about the Master Planning facilities process that you have been involved in. Enrollment Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 3 San Diego State University Senate
planning has been facilitated by the Principles to Guide Impaction that were designed and approved by the Senate. We have made so much progress with regard to planning that what was previously seen as a weakness in our last WASC review has now proven to be the emphasis of our next WASC review.
• Enrollment Management. We had some surprises last Fall regarding our show rate and have taken pains to adjust for that for Fall 2001. We are doing three things: Growing the size of the student body, preserving the University, and increasing the level of preparation. The students that we admitted for the Fall in 1995 had a GPA of 3.07; students we admit for Fall 2001 will have GPAs of 3.56. The Fall 1995 average SAT score was 963; the Fall 2001 average SAT score is 1091. 4.2 Student Records (Dir Gajoli) MP The Senate approved all graduation candidates, subject to completion of requirements. In accordance with Senate policy, the list of candidates for graduation in May and August 2001 with baccalaureate degrees has been distributed. Lists of candidates for advanced degrees as approved by the Graduate Council have also been distributed. Each faculty member has been given the opportunity to approve or disapprove the candidates by ballot; a total of eighteen ballots were received. A list of late applicants was distributed at the meeting and is available in the Senate office. 4.3 Foundation (GM Foundation Sladek)
• We are working with faculty on several projects, including workshops, a faculty mentoring program called PHP - Professor Helping Professor, Visit A Project, Monthly Press Releases, and others. We received over $100M in grants and we are already on a pace to outstrip that record.
• Assoc Director Bloom distributed packets (available in the Senate office) outlining plans for the Redevelopment Project about which he gave a presentation discussing the Mixed Use Project, Hotel/Conference Center, Theater/Lecture Hall, and the Alvarado Development area. The RPAG Committee is discussing a science center and faculty office space. RPAG meets once a month. Senators were invited to attend these meetings. Minutes of the meetings can be found on the Senate Website.
• The Foundation sent out a survey to faculty, staff and students regarding redevelopment and results will be posted shortly. Discussion :
Senator Johns: Will there be faculty subsidized Housing? Chair Huckle: There is a bill before the California Legislature that would support low-cost home loans for faculty, if passed. 5. Committee Reports 5.1 Senate Executive Committee (Short) MP Senate Calendar for 2001-2002.
Senate Executive Committee: Aug 28, 2001, Sep 25 2001, Oct 23 2001, Nov 20, 2001 Jan 29, 2002, Feb 26, 2002, Mar 26, 2002, Apr 23, 2002
Senate: Sep 11 2001, Oct 9 2001, Nov 6 2001, Dec 4 2001; Feb 12 2001, Mar 12 2001, Apr 9 2001, May 7 2001 Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 4 San Diego State University Senate
• The SDSU Planning Framework Summary was included in the Agenda. • As a point of personal privilege, Vice Chair Short thanked Chair Huckle for her leadership. He indicated it had been a pleasure to work with her saying, “She has been a fantastic Senate Chair.” He also thanked Secretary Wright for providing the officers with common sense ideas and Jackie Bleecker, Administrative Coordinator, for her attention to thousands of details.
• A list of outstanding referrals was included in the Agenda and can be found on the website at http://www- rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/senate/committees/index.html.
5.2 Academic Policy and Planning (Kornfeld) MP The Senate approved the following response to the CSU Academic Senate resolution on the Ed.D. The response shall be forwarded to the CSU Academic Senate, the Chancellor, and all other Senates in the CSU. The fight for an EdD will be long and difficult. There are many opponents including the UC’s and independent universities around the State. Some of our Master’s degrees currently being offered in applied areas at SDSU are in danger now because of accrediting institutions are demanding a PhD rather than a Master’s degree.
The Resolution
We support the idea of seeking authorization from the California legislature for the CSU to develop and offer an independent Ed.D. We also urge that this resolution be broadened to include other independent applied doctoral degrees. MP The Senate approved AP&P and the UCC’s revision to the Policy File IV-E-7. (This new policy will also replace the existing language in the SDSU Undergraduate Curriculum Guide p. 15.) Undergraduate Course Requirements
1.0 Regardless of the length of the term, Short-term all courses shall meet certain conditions to ensure lasting learning.
2.0 All Short-term courses shall not only meet the required number of hours but shall also offer students an opportunity to prepare, to study, and to cogitate for the required hours, as stated in the General Catalog.
2.1 A unit of credit hour represents 50 minutes of lecture or recitation combined with two hours of preparation per week throughout one semester of 15 weeks. Two hours of activity (as in Exercise and Nutritional Sciences) or three hours of laboratory (as in Physics) are considered equivalent to one hour of lecture.
3.0 A course offered in a term of less than 15 weeks shall contain the same contact hours, preparation time, content, and requirements as the same course offered over a 15-week semester.
4.0 The approval of the department or program and of the college dean shall be required to schedule all short-term or weekend courses.
4.1 Departments or programs shall not schedule a one-unit course over a time span of less than four consecutive calendar days. 5.3 Academic Resources & Planning (Shackelford)
• We have $8M for enrollment growth funding. The number for the projected deficit for the utilities that President Weber gave was $4.6M. He mentioned that we were continuing to reduce that. We have a projected $2.9M deficit from this year’s budget. We have reduced natural gas consumption by approximately 32%. Electricity is down 12%. In building the 2001/02 budget we had to ask what assumptions do you put in for conservation efforts so as to reduce the amount of money you have to take out of other things. Rather than dedicating a huge amount of money to the utilities, the best strategy is to under fund so the pressure for conservation remains. The President laid out a scenario that after we took out funding for utilities, we would only have enough funding left for needed course sections. That is a scenario we wanted to avoid. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 5 San Diego State University Senate
MF The Senate did not approve AR&P recommendations that the Senate reaffirm its previous actions, recommending that provision of adequate funding for needed courses sections should be the University’s first budgetary priority. And, AR&P’s recommendation that the University’s second budgetary priority for 2001/02 should be funding the commitments of the second year of the Multi-Year Budget Plan (extension of the Compact for University Discussion
Senator Boddy: If the budget for 2001/02 is along the line of the last two budget years, this is a no brainer. If 2001-2002 is not only reduced significantly as well as affected detrimentally by energy, we may be looking at a whole new set of conditions. The motion mentions adequate funding for “needed course sections.” Needed from whose point of view? The Chancellor’s? The second part of the resolution means essentially that all of the commitments become second priority. That could be a number of things, including tenure track hiring. We are, in effect, giving the President a statement of carrying these out independent of the level of the budget that we receive. Why do we need to go in that direction? Senator Shackelford: “Needed course sections” has been the language that we have used in our budget meetings. It has relied upon the accuracy and integrity of Ethan Singer and his office. Secondly, we will be going into the Cabinet Budget Committee this summer. Normally AR&P goes to CBC with recommendations. Not knowing the specifics, a generalized statement is brought forward. We could change the wording so that it is an encouragement to the Senate leadership. Chair Huckle: Because the Chair and Vice Chair have been sitting in the review process, I suggest you vote down this motion and move another motion of general support. The second part of this motion is not helpful in terms of my participation in the budget deliberations MSP Kornfeld, Zimmerman. The Senate reaffirms its previous commitment to providing adequate funding for needed courses sections for existing students as the University’s first budget priority. And the Senate reaffirms its dual commitment to the principles and goals of a multi-year budget and the rebuilding of the tenure track faculty.
MP The recommendation from AR&P that the Campus Fee Advisory Committee (CFAC) support a fee to mitigate the impact of the utility deficit on the quality of academic programs.
5.4 Curriculum (Papin) • The Eighth Information Report, 2000-2001, was presented including existing courses as distance education courses. 5.5 Campus Development Committee (Wilson)
MP The Senate approved the following criteria for the relocation of the statue of Montezuma:
1. Maximize visibility of the statue to students, faculty, staff and guests of the University.
2. Find a site that complements the statue, particularly with regard to scale.
3. Ensure the safety and security of the statue given its value as a work of art.
4. Ensure the appropriateness of the site with respect to campus traditions, the aesthetic value of the statue and the historical importance of the artist, Donal Hord.
5. Consider the cost of the relocation.
6. Provide the statue a place of prominence to achieve the recognition it deserves, recognizing the symbolic importance of the statue to faculty and alumni of earlier generations.
7. Prefer a site at which the statue might be illuminated at night.
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5.6 Constitution & Bylaws (Genovese)
No report.
5.7 Committees and Elections (Zimmerman)
MSP The following officers were elected to the Senate 2001-2002: Chair Bonnie Zimmerman (A&L), elected by acclamation; Vice Chair Patrick Papin (Sciences), elected by acclamation; Secretary Penny Wright (Business), elected by acclamation.
• The following members-at-large were elected to the Senate Executive Committee 2001-2002: Gene Lamke (PSFA), Isidro Ortiz (A&L), Fred Hornbeck (Sciences).
• Judith Zyskind (Sciences) was elected representative to the Foundation Board 2001-2002. MSP The following representatives were elected to the Foundation Redevelopment Advisory Group: Leon Rosenstein (A&L), Fred Hornbeck (Sciences), elected by acclamation.
• Committee on Committees & Elections Members for 2001-2002. The following Senators were elected by their college representatives to the Senate to serve on the CC&E Committee: A&L: McClish, (need one more member); Business: Raafat; Education: Mora; Engineering: Ponce; H&HS: Samimi; IVC: Padmanbhan; Library: C.Dintrone; PSFA: Murphy (need one more member); Sciences: Atkins-Kaplan, Castillo. MP Approval of the following appointments to committees, with terms to end as noted:
Faculty Member Pool for Administrative Review (one year): Douglas Stow, A&L; Linda Holler, A&L; Fred Raafat, Bus Admin; Russell Block, Bus Admin; Brock Allen, Education’ Jay Harris, Engineering; Albert Chang, HHS; Sergio Elizando, IVC; Frank Medieros, IVC; Michael Perkins, Library; C. Anne Turhollow, Library; Jesse Dixon, PSFA; James Sallis, Sciences.
Academic Policy & Planning: Eve Kornfeld, A&L (2002); Randolph Philipp, Education (2002); Mike Peddecord, HHS (2004)
Academic Resources & Planning: Mark Thayer, A&L, replacing Harry McDean (2003); Michael Seitz, HHS (2004); Gene Lamke, PSFA (2004)
Constitution & Bylaws: Nick Genovese, A&L (2004)
Intercollegiate Athletic Authority: Mark Wheeler (2004); Russell Block (2004)
International Programs Council: Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, A&L (2004); Laura Hall, Education (2004); Govindarajalu Krishnamoorthy (2004); Martha McPhail, Library (2004); Annalisa Berta, Sciences (2004)
Personnel: Bill Rogers, A&L (2004); Elena Yu, HHS (2004)
Research Council: Brock Allen, Education (2004); Louise Hofherr, HHS (2004); Mark Kern, PSFA (2004)
Undergraduate Curriculum: Arlette Baljon, Sciences, replacing Patrick Papin (2001)
MP At the request of the Vice President for Research, the Committee on Committees and Elections moved approval of the appointment of Patricia Wahl, HHS, to the University Copyrights and Patents committee.
MP The Committee on Committees and Elections moved approval of the following appointments to committee chair for 2001-2002: Academic Policy & Planning: Eve Kornfeld; Academic Resources & Planning: Gordon Shackelford; Faculty Honors & Awards: Sherry Little; Personnel :Bill Rogers; Undergraduate Curriculum: Patricia Dintrone Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 7 San Diego State University Senate
5.8 Diversity, Equity & Outreach (Donahue)
MF The Senate did not approve the recommendation that a University-wide review of our impaction policies and procedures be conducted as soon as it is practical to do so.
DEO has always been promoting access and interests of persons who suffer from racial, ethnic, physical and other discrimination. We have been monitoring our practices in impaction. One third of African Americans were denied admission to SDSU. This is an inequity. We have also been required to admit local students.
Discussion
Senator Dintrone: If it turns out a hidden agenda is to remove impaction, then we get back to the last 1980’s overcrowding. We should see how this affects diversity but not support the idea that we are doing away with impaction.
Senator Boddy: In the Policy File, Section II-B, 8.0: Principles to Guide Impaction and Enrollment Management Practices., it states that “the Senate Academic Policy & Planning Committee shall review the last year's outcomes as well as any enrollment management changes proposed by the administration, and shall bring its own recommendations before the Senate annually.
MSP Zimmerman, Cademy. Academic Policy & Planning review our impaction policies, procedures, and outcomes and report to the Senate by the December 2001 meeting.
5.9 Faculty Honors & Awards (Little) MP The Senate approved emeritus status upon retirement to the following faculty: Douglas Cargille, Librarian, 7/1/01, 23 years; James A. Clapp, Professor, Pub. Admin. & Urban Studies, 6/1/01, 33 years; Louis R. Franzini, Professor, Psychology, 6/1/01, 32 years; Larry J. Shaw, Professor, Teacher Education, 8/26/01, 33 years; Ita Sheres, Professor, English, 6/30/01, 30 years. E. Percil Stanford, Professor, University Center on Aging (Social Work), 6/1/01, 28 years; Gordon M. Thompson, Associate Dean for Education, 5/1/01, 32 years. 5.10 Library (McGivern)
MP The Senate endorsed the principle of increasing the library acquisition budget to the level of support common to other Universities of similar rank and size and to consider serious planning for bringing parity to the library acquisitions budget within the next three years. [Passed Unanimously.]
• The reasoning for this request is rooted in our success over the past 15 years to increase the role of scholarship and research. We have recruited a number of senior faculty to this institution to establish research programs, and we have been rather generous with release time and some seed money for faculty to pursue scholarly endeavors. Library acquisitions are needed to support the ongoing academic efforts. Many of our research grant proposals are not being funded because the Library does not have the necessary materials. We asked Dean Dowell to gather comparative information of other institutions involving three criteria: no medical schools, state institution and a minimum of 15K students. Our budgetary problem turns out to be quite real and unusually severe relative to other institutions. The average library acquisition budget for the other institutions is $5.1M/year. Our average in 1998 was $2.8M including a $700K one-time increase.
5.11 General Education (Banks)
• The GE Committee is assessing the GE program. To begin with we are looking at the goals and objectives for GE.
• 5.12 Graduate Council (Feinberg for Cobble)
No report. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 8 San Diego State University Senate
5.13 Personnel (Rogers)
MP The Senate endorsed the following statement from the Personnel Committee: Given that the Teacher/Scholar Model is indispensable in achieving SDSU’s goal of providing quality education for its students, it must be maintained in all aspects of Year-Round Operation. During state-supported summer terms, however they are ultimately configured, the same levels of financial and other support for faculty research must be in place as during the other terms. As efforts are made to “assist students in making more rapid progress toward earning their degrees” (CSU Mandate, 12/6/00), quality education at SDSU must remain predicated on having faculty actively engaged in furthering the understanding and knowledge in their respective fields and receiving the kinds of support necessary to sustain high levels of professional engagement.
• The Personnel Committee, while continuing to monitor the issues raised regarding Work Load and Compensation in the context of YRO, does not feel it has sufficient information to make recommendations in this area that is subject to negotiations between CSU and CFA.
5.14 Research Council (Feinberg for Cobble) No report. 5.15 Staff Affairs (Cademy)
No report.
5.16 Student Affairs (Hayes)
MP The Senate approved the following Alcohol Abuse and Illegal Drugs Policy to include a friendly amendment (underscored ) offered by Senator Cademy. This replaces PF VII-A-9 and VII-A-10:
VII-A-9 Alcohol Abuse and Illegal Drugs
The University shall facilitate the prevention, assessment, early intervention and treatment of problems arising from alcohol abuse and the use of illegal drugs, and it shall enforce with appropriate disciplinary actions University policy and applicable local, state, and federal law.
1.0 Prohibitions and Restrictions
1.1 The unlawful possession, use, distribution, or manufacture of alcohol or illegal drugs on the campus or during University-sponsored activities shall be prohibited.
1.2 Except for alcohol in student rooms where a resident is of legal drinking age, all residence halls shall be free of alcohol and illegal drugs. Students who are 21 years of age or older may possess in their rooms a limited amount of alcoholic beverages for personal consumption (excluding hard liquor).
1.3 The University shall restrict the serving of alcohol to authorized facilities that carefully monitor and supervise the use of alcohol.
2.0 Enforcement and Sanctions
2.1 Persons who violate alcohol or drug policies shall, in addition to any legal consequences, be subject to individual disciplinary sanctions up to and including suspension and expulsion from the University. Organizations that violate alcohol or drug policies shall be subject to loss of campus status, funding, and other forms of support up to and including suspension or permanent expulsion from the University. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 9 San Diego State University Senate
2.2 When circumstances are compelling and the student is under 21 years of age, parents or guardians may be notified. Compelling circumstances include the following:
• Significant disruption of the campus community • Harassment • Vandalism • Disorderly conduct • Obstructing a University official • Violent behavior, which includes threatening others or representing a danger to oneself • Alcohol poisoning or drug overdose • Repeated serious episodes of intoxication or being under the influence • Drug dealing • Driving while under the influence
2.3 University offices such as Judicial Procedures, University Police, The Center for Fraternity and Sorority Life, Office of Student Life and Development, Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, and Housing and Residential Life which are charged with the responsibility for enforcing alcohol and drug policies and imposing sanctions for violations shall be adequately supported to carry out their responsibilities.
3.0 Prevention and Treatment 3.1 The University shall provide substance-free housing options for specific programs to encourage healthy lifestyles that are free of alcohol and illegal drugs and that require residents, regardless of age, to commit to meeting community standards. 3.2 The University shall develop and support effective prevention, assessment, early intervention, and treatment programs for alcohol and illegal drug use. These programs shall be available to students through Counseling & Psychological Services and Student Health Services, and to staff and faculty through programs supported by the Center for Human Resources.
3.3 The University shall periodically evaluate the impact of interventions to reduce alcohol and illegal drug abuse and to mitigate the negative personal and interpersonal consequences thereof.
3.4 The University shall inform students of campus policies and sanctions for the abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs through such channels and forums as the following: • Orientation programs • New member education programs • Residential life handbooks • SDSU Website • Greek Guidelines • Residence hall meetings • Recruitment activities • Statement of Student Rights and Responsibility Within the rules of applicable state and federal laws and regulations, the University shall also communicate to students and organizations instances when sanctions are invoked.
4.0 The University shall not enter into new contracts that provide for the advertising of alcoholic beverages.
Discussion
Senator Cademy: In the initial draft that came forth, section 4.0 was in here. Staff members feel strongly that this should be included, that we give our students mixed messages on campus.
AS VP Ext Aff Mahinan: Would this eliminate Monty’s Pub? Chair Huckle: Not if it is run by an auxiliary.
Senator Wright: The committee feels exactly the way Senator Cademy feels. We originally prepared the policy with a statement regarding eliminating the use of alcohol advertising on campus. We changed the policy so as to better assure that it would be supported by the Administration. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 10 San Diego State University Senate
Senator Rogers: I oppose the amendment for that reason. This raises all kinds of issues that need to be explored in depth. There are many students who are of drinking age.
Senator Kornfeld: Had the committee looked into this? Senator Wright: Yes. We feel that this issue needs to be looked at and approached in a way that will be supported by the entire campus. Some contracts have a long life. The current policy is basically a policy about how to cater. We thought it was important to change the policy and update it. It doesn’t mean we oppose Senator Cademy’s amendment. We are going with what we think we can do right now and will pursue other issues at a later time.
Senator Zimmerman: We should pass this as written and have the committee continue to explore strengthening the policy so that eventually we may at least ban advertisements. But are you saying we are locked into contracts?
Senator Hayes: The timing was not right. We wanted to discuss this with the sponsors.
VP Kitchen: The President is not opposed to this but would like to have further dialogue and explore this further with those companies.
Professor Long: We came up with what we thought was a contemporary alcohol policy. This policy gives us the opportunity to discourage certain behaviors that we’ve seen this year, a near-death alcohol incident, sexual assaults, binge drinking, multiple hospital trips. The fact that the marketing piece is not in there does not put us back where we were before.
Senator Cademy: I agree that the policy as written is wonderful. However, it’s the Senate’s job to provide its wisdom.
Senator Hayes (in consultation with Senator Wright and Professor Long): After careful consideration of the arguments, we will accept the amendment as a friendly amendment. (The body agreed to accept the amendment as a friendly amendment.)
5.17 Undergraduate Council (Scott)
No report.
5.18 Other Committees
5.18.1 Off-Campus Sites (Zimmerman)
MP The Senate approved the Off-Campus Centers Committee’s recommendation that the administration in consultation with colleges and departments begin to identify academic programs appropriate to be offered at existing off- campus centers. The committee recognizes that this process needs to be undertaken as part of an overall planning process for the main campus, YRO, and off-campus centers.
Discussion:
Senator Kornfeld: If a department decided to move off campus, would that go through the Senate committees for approval? Senator Zimmerman: I don’t know. We are not recommending that programs, departments or colleges move to an off-campus center. We are talking about programs at the centers that are similar or different from existing programs. Chair Huckle: They would go through a normal curriculum process.
Senator Zimmerman: Currently we are offering courses with excess demand at National City and we are starting with the same philosophy at Miramar. If, indeed, we are going to be going to as many as 3,000 FTEs in the next ten years, we can’t do that exclusively through excess demand. Some serious discussions have to begin happening at the departmental level about what kind of use could be made of Off-Campus Centers. That has to happen in the departments and in the colleges and not in the Off-Campus Site Committee. Decisions such as offering complete majors or having resident faculty clearly must go through AP&P and Personnel. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 11 San Diego State University Senate
• The Committee recommends that the planning process for off-campus centers begin with consideration of questions such as the following:
1. What programs would you expand or develop were space available at off campus centers? 2. What research opportunities would you pursue were space available at an off-campus center? 3. Would your department choose to grow if additional tenure-track hiring were available in conjunction with off- campus centers? 4. What innovative new programs would you like to develop appropriate to existing off-campus centers? 5. How could off-campus centers enhance your connections with the community through partnerships and community-service learning? 6. Do you want to offer your major at an off-campus center? Are there specific emphases within the major that would be most viable there? 7. If your department or program were expected to accommodate a substantial increase in enrollment, what would you need to accommodate that growth at off-campus centers? 8. What lower-division, upper-division, and graduate curricula and programming would you want to offer at off- campus centers? 6. Academic Senate (Boddy, Rushall)
No report. 7. Associated Students (Mahinan)
• AS continues to forward names to the Governor for Student Trustee. • Dates of upcoming events: Aztec Achievement Awards, May 3, 2001; Retention Conference, May 11, 2001. 8. California Faculty Association (Schulze)
• Susan Meisenhelder was re-elected CFA President 9. Old Business
9.1 The Advisory Group to reconsider logos, mascots, and other representations of Aztec Culture. (Ortiz)
• The committee discussed removal of the human representation but the reality is we cannot control depictions or usage. A better investment of time would be to find alternatives. We could follow the model of the University of Delaware and attempt to honor the warrior spirit. The Commission on Civil Rights advocates the elimination of use of humans in logos and mascots. Many institutions, including Stanford and The University of Miami have followed this advice.
10. New Business MSP Kornfeld, Farber. The Senate approved the following resolution by a vote of 27 to 25.
RESOLUTION OF NO CONFIDENCE IN CHANCELLOR CHARLES B. REED
WHEREAS, Chancellor Charles B. Reed has exerted steady pressure toward unwarranted standardization and centralization in the CSU, as witness his efforts to standardize lower-division major requirements, and to do so in a way that circumvents the privileges and responsibilities of campus senates and curriculum committees;
WHEREAS, Chancellor Reed’s disregard for campus autonomy and shared governance has been made distressingly evident to San Diego State University faculty and administration by his withdrawal of prior approval of SDSU’s carefully planned campus impaction plan; and
WHEREAS, Chancellor Reed has not only failed to alleviate the faculty workload problem, but has in fact aggravated it by insisting that faculty continually engage in complex, time-consuming accountability procedures without dedicated resources from the Chancellor’s office; and Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 12 San Diego State University Senate
WHEREAS, In place of striving to raise the overall salaries of faculty to the levels of comparative institutions much less to meet California’s exorbitant costs of living, Chancellor Reed has inflicted on the CSU faculty a cumbersome, bureaucratic “merit” pay process that at best diverts still more faculty time, generates invidious divisiveness, and increases administrative control; and
WHEREAS, Chancellor Reed has persistently suggested distance learning and, in particular, online learning as a major solution to the problems presented by “Tidal Wave II,” with apparent disregard of the increased resources demanded by serious, high-quality distance education; and
WHEREAS, From Cornerstones through his repeated demands for quantitative assessment, Chancellor Reed has consistently flattened and reduced the faculty’s multidimensional, creative responsibilities as teachers and scholars; and
WHEREAS, Chancellor Reed has demonstrated little understanding of or appreciation for the traditions of scholarship, intellectual vitality, and creative thought that provide the foundation for any university worthy of the name; and
WHEREAS, In contrast to Richard C. Atkinson, President of the University of California, who has acknowledged that the three academic traditions of freedom of speech, shared governance, and academic excellence are “the bedrock on which the University of California is built,” Chancellor Reed persists in drawing his inspiration from the corporate world, in citing corporate executives as his models, and in turning to his “business partners” to identify “best practices” to be put in place throughout the CSU; and
WHEREAS, Chancellor Reed has squandered millions of dollars to construct a Central Management System that will increase gratuitous and uninformed interference in the affairs of the campuses; and
WHEREAS, While extraordinary increases in energy costs threaten to plunge the CSU into another budget crisis, Chancellor Reed has persisted in funding such questionable ventures as the Central Management System and converting campuses from quarter to semester systems; and
WHEREAS, Disregarding the conclusions of a neutral fact-finding report, Chancellor Reed has imposed a collective bargaining settlement on the CSU faculty for the second consecutive year—an action unprecedented in California public sector labor relations; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the San Diego State University Senate express its lack of confidence in Chancellor Charles B. Reed; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the San Diego State University Senate transmit this resolution to the President of San Diego State University, the Chancellor of the California State University, the Board of Trustees of the California State University, the Governor of California, the Speaker of the California Assembly, the President pro tem of the California Senate, all California State University campus Senates, the California State University Academic Senate, the Associated Students of San Diego State University, and the California State Student Association.
Senator Kornfeld: I would like to address three questions: Why this? Why us? Why now? I remember sitting in the Senate when Senators Whitney and DuFault described the process by which the Chancellor was hired and his lack of academic credentials. Then we watched as he delivered Cornerstones to us, with its centralizing tendencies and its reductionist impulses. We responded with the leadership of our Chair and Vice Chair, intelligently and patiently. We thought maybe he could be educated in our values. We thought implementation of Cornerstones took almost no cognizance of our values and our vision. Then we watched as collective bargaining, always tense, became, under Reed, a blood sport. The Chancellor didn’t care who got bloodied, even the prestige of the CSU, and he publicly denigrated the faculty. This fed the public sense that university professors and especially CSU professors, don’t work hard enough. Every measure, every step the Chancellor took thereafter fed that perception, rather than leading the public to a heightened awareness of what we do. As we watched Accountability I, II, and III come through, we saw that this reductionist vision of education, this low aspiration for the students of the CSU, and this flattening of the faculty’s role as teachers and scholars continued. And we were pressed to provide numerical data over and over again. At SDSU we had a special perspective. We saw a long process in which the Senate participated carefully and conscientiously in the planning Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 13 San Diego State University Senate
for campus impaction that had received approval from the central administration. This decision was overturned. The withdrawal of that approval was blatant disregard of campus autonomy and shared governance. Why this resolution? We have witnessed a complete disregard of our values, a lack of academic vision for the CSU, a disregard of shared governance and campus autonomy, a reduction of our roles. The leadership that we need in times of budgetary crisis, perhaps impending, and a need for faculty involvement in shared governance and hiring the next generation of faculty, is not present in this Chancellor. Why us? Why don’t we wait until others say what we know to be true? There have been four other resolutions from other campuses, much narrower than this. SFSU gave us a narrow resolution asking their administration not to use assessment and accountability data to compare faculty there or at other institutions. The nervousness about the use of assessment was recognized on that campus. Other campuses have put forth resolutions on collective bargaining. Ours goes deeper and is much broader. Perhaps we should say it this way because we do have a special perspective of having been treated to a full range of the Chancellor’s disdain in shared governance and campus autonomy last year. Or maybe we should do it now because there is a need for leadership for the other Senates in the CSU, to broaden their perspective. Or maybe we should say it because we were asked a direct question by the Vice Chair of the Trustees, Dee Dee Myers, “Is he really any worse than any other Chancellor? Faculty always dislike the Chancellor, don’t they?” Senator Farber answered her and said he’d been here since the 60s and this is the worst it has ever been while the rest of us did not speak. We ought to speak. Because it is worse and because we have an opportunity to show the Trustees and to tell them clearly, at this moment when they have received a few resolutions from other campuses, when they are reviewing the Chancellor and receiving faculty comments around the state which they may disregard as interesting comments, that a Senate known for its moderation, not the tool of the CFA or any other body, believes and is willing to state that Chancellor Reed is inept and does not have its confidence. A month ago, Harold Goldwhite told us that he thought these Trustees were different. I don’t know if he’s right, but if he is we have a moment in which we can and should speak. We are relatively calm right now. We are not engaged in a pitched battle with the Chancellor over enrollment management as we were a year ago, or over budgets as we may be in a year. This is a good time in which to register this kind of resolution. If we were in pitched battle and sent forth a resolution of no confidence, it would be taken as just another sign of lack of interest, our inability to rise above our local interests. The opportunity to speak now, in relative calm, might allow us to provide leadership across the State, might allow the Trustees to hear us. Not as interested parties but as a moderate and independent Senate. Why now? We were asked; we are calm. We can speak with deliberation and moderation. I don’t know the Chancellor personally. Those who do tell me that he is vindictive, retaliatory and that he will punish us if we speak. He will punish us by withdrawing buildings or other things that we need to do our jobs well; he will punish administrators; that he is a tyrant and will act as one. This may be so, but it has always seemed to me that some of the saddest moments in history are when tyrants are appeased by well-meaning, sensible, moderate people. Courage, mes amis. Let us speak the truth. We have no confidence in Chancellor Reed. MSF Torikachvili, Sen Pro Tem Atterton. The Senate move into Faculty Session. We need to excuse administrators from this discussion because they serve at the pleasure of the President, who serves at the pleasure of the Chancellor; and they might have a conflict of interest on this issue. Discussion
Senator Boddy: Senator Torikachvili thinks it is up to this body to protect administrators from the conflict. This motion is directed at the Chancellor; it is not directed locally. The main motion correctly talks about shared governance on this campus, yet this motion starts off intentionally with an attack on shared governance on this campus. It essentially says on this issue, your other voices are not worth hearing. Those are the voices of our administrative, student and staff colleagues. There is no way one can parse those out nor should they. On June 29, 1992, after a meeting by all of the faculty, the Senate carried out a vote of no-confidence on President Thomas B. Day. At that vote, the Senate did not move into a faculty session. In December 7, 1993 the Senate voted on the recision of the restructuring document. A recision vote takes two-thirds. We correctly took and won that vote with two-thirds. We respected the integrity of all our colleagues. I urge the body to defeat this motion. We are talking about a very serious issue, the unity of this campus in terms of its impact on the system. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 14 San Diego State University Senate
MSF Boddy, Johns. The Senate defeated the motion to postpone the main motion of no confidence indefinitely by a vote of 23 to 25. Do we have confidence in the Chancellor? No. We have been in conflict with the administration on almost a continuous basis. Is this resolution timed strategically? The Senator said this was a calm period, there is no other agenda, and they will take this at face value. What world are we living in? This motion came out of a motion from Stanislaus related to collective bargaining. A vote of no confidence should be a well-timed part of building a united front for the express purpose of removing an administrative officer. How we build that front should involve wide-ranging discussions about strategic implications prior to that vote. Those discussions have not taken place. Does this resolution make the case effectively? The Senator makes a very good case, but that is not the resolution before you. A resolution of no confidence needs to make the case to the person they address. This is addressed to the Governor, Legislature, and Trustees. It doesn’t mean that all those parties have to agree but should be consistent with what they believe they reliably know. This resolution does address some key issues but does so on a level that will carry little weight, or its specific claims provide a limited and refutable picture. I do not refute the conflicts that we have had with the Chancellor. We cannot support this resolution because it is not part of a coherent strategy. At the same time, we cannot vote this resolution down. The correct vote is the vote to postpone. Discussion
Senator Farber: I am against the motion to postpone. It is a disservice to say to Senator Kornfeld that her argument is based solely on the fact that this happens to be a period of calm. We had three motions coming from SFSU, CSULA and Fresno regarding collective bargaining, then we had three motions coming from Stanislaus, San Bernadino and Pomona on no confidence, based on collective bargaining issues. SDSU is in precisely the right place to take this further. We are in danger of narrowly reducing this struggle to collective bargaining issues. It is very easy to forget our historical situation. We are defending SDSU, the CSU, the definition of the university. We have an enormous burden placed on us. There has been some momentum building, and we are now in the position to broaden the debate. We heard from another senator on another CSU campus that he was hesitant about a no confidence motion but that if in fact we pass one he could see to it that they could do it. Our audience is broad. It is not just the Board of Trustees and the Governor. We are speaking to our community, to our colleagues at all the other campuses. Part of what we are saying to the CSU system is no confidence, but we have to address the broader academic issues. Our first whereas is precisely right regarding standardization. If the Chancellor says we’re going to kill your first-born, then we say could you just kill one out of every three, we often don’t see that as evidence that the Chancellor is out to get our first-born. It is not just a matter of working carefully and cautiously to try to improve initiatives from the Chancellor’s office. They keep coming. They are working longer and harder hours than we are trying to change the CSU. This is not a matter of catharsis; I am not doing this to vent. I didn’t spend six hours reading speeches by Chancellor Reed and by Atkinson and comparing and studying them to vent. I did it because we have to work very hard to defend the University, or we won’t have one. Senator Boddy: The purpose of the motion is basically to state that the evaluation and the determination of no confidence needs to be done in a strategic fashion. It is not strategic to say we have to do it no matter where other people go. We have to do it when other colleagues recognize your arguments and form alliances going forward. We need to do that in such a way as to win some Trustees over or neutralize them. We are simply not addressing issues here in this resolution. The evidence given in the first resolution is recognizably false. If we are going to make good arguments, we should not buttress them by false statements. The parties have not spent the time to look at the timing of setting up a strategy to win over the CSU. We can do a much better job and should postpone this. Senator Farber: The first whereas in our motion is precisely right. It represents an effort regarding the regional articulation plan and standardization of lower division requirements on campuses. Senator Kornfeld: Senator Boddy told you that Senators Farber and Kornfeld haven’t worked hard enough. Senator Farber has worked very hard trying to contact Senates around the CSU. Regarding contacting the A&L faculty, we spoke to the SEC two weeks ago to let them know we were going to write this resolution. Senator Boddy didn’t offer any recommendations but another Senator came to see me and suggested that this could be very dangerous. I felt we ought to consult with the faculty. We sent out email to the faculty and staff of A&L since I am a representative of that college, and we did say that unless a large majority asked us to go forward we would not. We did not want to endanger people for no reason. The faculty urged us to go forward. I also copied the SEC so they would know what was going on and so they could contact faculty in other college if they wished to. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 15 San Diego State University Senate
11. Minutes, Reports, Agendas Minutes were received from Academic Policy & Planning (3/8/01); Personnel (3/22/01); Undergraduate Council (2/12/01).
Committee Annual Reports are attached below and can be found on the Senate website.
12. Adjourned at 4: 38 (May 3, 2001)
Respectfully submitted:
Penny Wright Jackie Bleecker Senate Secretary Administrative Secretary
Committee 2000-2001 Annual Reports
Reports were received from the following committees: Academic Policy & Planning, Aztec Shops Advisory Board, Committees & Elections, Communications Authority, Faculty Honors & Awards, Graduate Council, Research Council, Staff Affairs, and Undergraduate Council
Academic Policy & Planning (Eve Kornfeld, Chair)
Between May 2000 and April 2001, AP&P:
1. Approved a calendar for academic year 2001-2002.
2. Approved a Linguistics Minor to be offered under the existing Linguistics Program at the Imperial Valley Campus.
3. Approved a North America Emphasis to be offered under the existing International Business degree at the Imperial Valley Campus.
4. Endorsed the request of faculty in the program in Computational Science to negotiate a joint Ph.D. in Computational Science with Claremont Graduate University.
5. Considered the Initial Program Impaction Plan (5/16/00) as an enrollment management strategy for the university, and found that the Initial Program Impaction Plan accorded with the Senate’s Principles on Impaction and with SDSU Policy.
6. Established a standing subcommittee on Year Round Operations, to include representatives from AR&P, Personnel, Admissions and Records, Associated Students, and the Graduate and Undergraduate Divisions.
7. Approved a new Bachelor of Science degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management.
8. Approved a new Statement of Professional Responsibility for the SDSU Policy File (III-A-6).
9. Approved deletion of the undergraduate Operations Management Major in the Information and Decision Systems Department of the College of Business.
10. Approved a new Master of Science degree in Gerontology in the College of Health and Human Services.
11. Approved a new Ph.D. degree in Computational Science between SDSU and Claremont Graduate School.
12. Revised and approved a supplementary set of Campus Accountability Goals required by the Chancellor.
13. Clarified the process of campus accountability reporting.
14. Approved the request of the SDSU PEP [Emergency Preparedness] team for evacuation drill dates in the week of September 24, 2001 and April 22, 2002. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 16 San Diego State University Senate
15. Formulated a response to the CSU Academic Senate’s Draft Report, “The CSU at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Achieving the Highest Levels of Quality and Meeting the Needs of California.” 16. Approved the recommendation of the YRO subcommittee to revise the Academic Calendar for 2001-2.
17. Approved a draft Institutional Proposal for WASC accreditation developed by AP&P’s WASC subcommittee.
18. Revised the SDSU policy on undergraduate short-term courses.
19. Drafted a response to the CSU Academic Senate’s resolution on the Ed.D.
20. Elected Eve Kornfeld to serve as chair for 2001-2.
SDSU Bookstore Advisory Committee (Aztec Shops Advisory Committee) (Gretchen N. Vik, Chair)
The Aztec Shops Advisory Committee for the Campus Store met several times this year to discuss issues facing the Campus Store.
MAKING BOOKS AVAILABLE TO ALL STUDENTS THE FIRST CLASS DAY We continue to discuss making faculty more aware of book prices and how to get book orders early enough to have required texts made available to students on the first day of class, which helps reduce prices. Multi-section courses for which part- timers are hired late cause problems because books ordered by other instructors may sell out due to the added enrollment in the new courses using the same books.
Since all faculty were notified last year by the Provost to get a copy of their booklist to the Bookstore, regardless of where they order their books, we hope service to students on scholarship and other reimbursement programs has improved.
COSTAS LYRINTZIS LIBRARY BOOK AWARD We continued the annual (since 1997) $1000 award to the library for purchase of books primarily used by undergraduate students (or in the case of Education, by graduate students). We request titles from deans and department chairs early each fall semester; Doug Cargille and the library acquisitions office check the list to be sure these titles are not already in the library; they are then ordered after consultation with the committee chair. Professor Lyrintzis was a former chair of the Campus Store Advisory Committee.
SERVING STUDENTS AND FACULTY BETTER We are publicizing committee membership regularly both by Email and through other campus channels so that faculty, staff, and students can bring us their concerns about the Campus Store. Comments sent to committee members are discussed in meetings to help The Campus Store improve service where possible.
Because it proved an efficient and popular method, the on-line book list service is being expanded so that more groups of students can order books on-line and pick them up at the Store.
We are monitoring on-line text delivery systems to see how to serve students and faculty best as technology changes.
We look forward to another productive year next year.
Committee on Committees & Elections (Chair: Bonnie Zimmerman)
During the 2000-2001 academic year, the Committee on Committees and Elections accomplished the following: 1. Recommended to the Senate committee chairs in December and in May, in consultation with committees and Senate officers.
2. Recommended to the Senate faculty to serve on Senate committees.
3. Recommended to the Senate faculty to serve on campus committees with Senate representation.
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4. Recommended to the Senate faculty to fill vacancies that arose outside the normal December, April, and May turnovers.
5. On behalf of the Staff Affairs Committee, recommended to the Senate staff members to serve on various committees.
6. Consulted with the Graduate Dean's office, the Deans of Colleges, the Senate officers, committee chairs, and other appropriate individuals when recommending appointments.
7. Conducted elections for Senators and Senate Officers.
8. Re-distributed the updated Committee Service Interest Form as well as the updated 4-page description of committees with Senate representation to all faculty, to be used in helping CC&E identify faculty to fill vacancies on committees.
9. Worked with the secretary to the Senate to distribute the Committee Interest Form on-line.
10. Revised language for the Policy File to change the term of the Committee on Committees and Elections from April- April to May-May.
The Communications Authority Board
CAB has met six times during the 2000/01 academic year. Substantive issues addressed during these meetings have included:
(1) Daily Aztec display and classified advertising policy revisions re: alcohol and adult-oriented businesses.
(2) KCR budget improvements via cost-cutting and fund-raising efforts.
(3) Selection of The Daily Aztec’s editor-in-chief and KCR’s general manager for 2001/02.
The Committee on Off-Campus Centers addressed the following issues and tasks in 2000-2001:
• Recommended to Senate a strategy for developing off-campus centers in cooperation with community colleges, while continuing to identify the main campus as the heart of the university;
• Recommended expansion of the National City Higher Education Center;
• Recommended a cautious approach to the proposed center at Otay Mesa, with a considerable scaling down in size;
• Developed a program proposal for Otay Mesa with five curricular areas appropriate to the location;
• Advised the administration on the development of a new center at Miramar College to begin course offerings in Fall 2001;
• Developed a set of academic goals for off-campus centers to include:
• admission standards identical to those of the main campus significant faculty, student, and staff involvement in planning; • faculty control over curriculum, programs, and scheduling through departments and colleges; • faculty profile similar to that of faculty teaching equivalent curricula at the main campus; • a teaching faculty connected closely to the main campus in terms of governance, personnel actions, and flow of information; • clear lines of communication with and access to responsible persons; • opportunities for faculty and students to conduct research; • access to resources at either the center or main campus necessary to foster teaching effectiveness and sustain professional growth; • assessment of student learning outcomes against identified performance standards; • appropriate levels of student services, including advising and mentoring, to enhance student learning, personal development, retention and graduation; • programs and curricula specific to the needs of local communities as appropriate. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 18 San Diego State University Senate
• Developed a set of financial principles for off-campus centers, to include:
• financing of off-campus centers (both facilities and instruction) must be planned with due attention to the needs of both the centers and the main campus; • off-campus centers should be funded from marginal cost FTES increases associated with the Center’s FTES growth or from special Chancellor’s Office funding, e.g., lease space funds; • centers that offer high-cost degree programs, such as those with scientific and technical curricula, may not be able to be funded through marginal costs alone; • adequate funds must be provided for planning and start-up costs beyond capital construction. • SDSU must retain the right to offer lower-division courses where it deems it appropriate for budgetary and/or programmatic considerations.
• Presented its conclusions and reports at the Master Planning meetings in November 2000 and April 2001;
• Presented recommendations for specific programmatic planning to commence in 2001-2002.
Faculty Honors & Awards (Chair: Sherry Little)
During the Fall semester, the Faculty Honors and Awards Committee selected Professor James R. Beatty, Information and Decision Systems, College of Business Administration, as the recipient of the 2000-01 SDSU Senate Excellence in Teaching Award. Professor Beatty was recognized at the December 5 Senate meeting and honored with a reception immediately after the meeting. The cash award from Aztec Shops was increased this year to $1000 for the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award.
During the Spring semester, the Committee recommended and President Weber approved the following for the Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to the University, 2001-02:
Isidro Ortiz, Arts and Letters Chee Chow, Business Administration Fred McFarlane, Education Mirat Gurol, Engineering Maria Zuniga, Health and Human Services Nancy Livingston, Imperial Valley Campus Martha McPhail, Library Thomas McKenzie, Professional Studies and Fine Arts Donald Short, Sciences
The Committee also recommended that the Senate approve retiring faculty for Emeritus status. The Senate approved the faculty so recommended.
The Committee also formed an ad hoc committee to advise the Office of Faculty Affairs about the selections for the Wang Award and to help in developing documentation for support of the recommendations.
The Committee recommends that in Fall 2001, the procedures and criteria for the Alumni Awards as described in the Policy File be amended.
Graduate Council (Chair: James Cobble)
Chair: VP James Cobble Staff Coordinator: Associate VP Janis Andersen
The Council has had five meetings this year and will hold its final meeting of the year on May 10.
Graduate Enrollment Report:
The Graduate and Research Affairs Division prepared an extensive analysis of graduate education enrollment patterns and trends, and, based on this analysis, offered recommendations for campus consideration in moving SDSU towards its stated and shared goals in graduate education. The Council discussed the report briefly, and then delegated a more detailed review to Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 19 San Diego State University Senate a sub-committee of half of the Council and three representatives from a former Council committee on graduate enrollment. Based on the recommendations from the sub-committee, the report was modified and approved by the Council. The report is now being discussed campus wide.
Distance Education:
At the first Council meeting last fall the Senate policy on the review of distance education courses was discussed. Representatives from the College of Business shared their efforts to experiment with a core course in the MBA as web based courses with seven students. The entire Council discussed issues related to distance education that the presentation evoked. At the December meeting, the Council, meeting as a whole, discussed issues relating to distance graduate programs. The Curriculum Committee offered a form for the review of graduate level courses, but later withdrew their recommendation to use the form due to the confusion that two curricular forms would place on faculty, particularly those teaching 500-level courses. Instead, the undergraduate and the graduate curriculum committees agreed to meet in the Fall of 2001 to craft a joint form based on the experiences of this year and the graduate suggestions for modification.
During late March the Curriculum Committee began to receive 500-level distance courses for their review. The Committee has reviewed all 500-level courses, and has recommended their approval as 500-level courses. In fact, the Curriculum Committee was impressed with the quality of the courses and the instructional excellence exhibited in the overall pedagogical approach. There were 5 courses in Educational Technology, one in Teacher Education, and one in Women's Studies. These courses are being recommended to the Senate for approval at its May meeting with the concurrence of the Council through a mail ballot. At the May Council meeting, the entire Council will examine a sample of the 500-level courses and be able to reaffirm or deny the mail ballot results. This timing was necessary to comply with the deadline to complete the review of undergraduate courses by the end of this year.
All departments have been asked to submit their 600-level and above distance courses for review. The Curriculum Committee has begun to examine some of these. That review task will be completed next fall along with criteria for programs that operate as distance based programs.
Curriculum:
SDSU requested and received permission to begin a new master's degree in Writing and Rhetoric. We forwarded a new master's degree in Gerontology to the Chancellor's office for review following a full campus review process. We received permission to negotiate two new doctoral programs: Computational Science and Evolutionary Biology. Computational Science has passed the full campus review process and is at the Chancellor's office for the off campus review. The program is with Claremont Graduate University. Evolutionary Biology is with Berkeley, and will likely complete the campus process early next Fall.
The Council approved over 70 new graduate courses, took curricular actions on at least an additional 120 courses, approved 20 changes in program, some of them quite substantial including a new specialization in Public Health, new credential programs, and a new certificate program in Math and Science Education.
Policy:
The Council extensively discussed the GRE requirement and its implementation. The decision was to move to enforce the requirement for the submission of the score by the end of the first semester and to be cautious, but deliberate, in moving towards making it a universal entrance requirement for all students allowing substitution of other appropriate standardized options. It will be a necessary piece of information in considering a petition for admission based on a below required GPA. The issue will be addressed next Spring after we examine the numbers of students a policy change would effect. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 20 San Diego State University Senate
Research Council (James Cobble, Chair)
The University Research Council serves as the faculty policy-making body responsible for promoting, encouraging, and publicizing the research activities of the university. As in previous years, much of the work of the council was carried out in the regular meetings of its standing and ad hoc committees. General meetings of the council focus on information sharing, planning, and action on formal motions and proposals.
• Animal Subjects Committee:
Professor Ann de Peyster of the Graduate School of Public Health continued to chair the UASC through 2000- 2001. Alexandra Bakarich, D.V.M., continued to serve as the campus veterinarian. Kent Osborne, D.V.M.., former SDSU campus veterinarian now serving as backup veterinarian for SDSU, also participated in several important committee activities at the chair's request.
During the summer of 2000, the UASC investigated a serious mist netting accident in which birds perished unnecessarily. The accident involved an SDSU adjunct faculty principal investigator (PI), and the UASC's investigation concluded that inadequate oversight of this field project by the PI was the proximate cause of the bird deaths. The investigation concluded with submission of appropriate follow-up letters and other required documentation to federal authorities and others involved. Alerted to several problems that should be avoided in the future, the UASC expects no further ramifications of this particular incident at this time. The PI has not requested either renewal of adjunct status or of the Animal Protocol Form covering that fieldwork.
During the rest of the year, the UASC continued to fulfill its primary responsibilities for review of research protocols involving animal subjects, training of investigators, inspection and review of the animal program and all institutional animal use facilities where research is being conducted, and enforcement of all other applicable animal care and use guidelines, including the development and updating of written policies and procedures for SDSU. Responding to an acute need for dedicated administrative and clerical support for the UASC, the College of Sciences allocated a portion of Dean's office clerical staff time (Ms. Anita Armstrong) to supporting the UASC and created a new 100% time administrative staff position for the Office of Laboratory Animal Care (OLAC). The latter position was filled in October 2000, by Ms. Johanna Zeigler. Her primary responsibility is management of vivarium animal care, but she also assists the UASC as needed. Together the UASC and OLAC undertook a number of significant improvements after addition of new administrative and clerical staff, which, in turn, relieved animal care personnel to attend exclusively to their primary responsibility of maintaining optimal vivarium conditions.
Some of the more noteworthy accomplishments of 2000-2001 include finalizing and formally adopting a new written policy document describing the most important administrative activities of the UASC; changing the way animal protocols are reviewed by the UASC to promote more thorough reviews by committee members; implementing a new ACCESS database protocol management system; offering several campus-wide training sessions in December and April that were attended by approximately 150 animal researchers (the majority of them students); adding a new health and safety training component PIs; initiating an electronic PI training course using 'Blackboard' to facilitate periodic re-training for investigators; and posting key items to the UASC's new Web site to promote greater accessibility and standardization of UASC communications with investigators. Removing administrative burden from full time animal care (OLAC) personnel also enabled a general upgrading of standards for sanitation in the campus vivaria this year and completion and implementation of additional written SOPs to guide animal care personnel. A thorough analysis and some increases in the animal per diem fee schedule in addition to the regular annual increase were also accomplished by the UASC chair working with staff of the Office of Laboratory Animal Care (OLAC). The UASC continues to identify other areas warranting improvement in the SDSU animal care program to meet the ongoing challenge of responding to new guidelines and standards for institutions using animals in research, instruction and testing activities. Some interest continues in eventually seeking accreditation for SDSU’s animal care and use program from the Association for the Assessment of Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC); however, pursuing this was a low priority for the UASC in 2000-2001 with all of the improvements the committee undertook during the year. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 21 San Diego State University Senate
• Copyrights and Patents Committee :
Professor Stephen Roeder continued to serve as the Chair of the University Copyrights and Patents Committee during the 2000-2001 Academic Year. The Committee serves as the primary information resource for faculty and students concerned with issues related to patent and copyright law and related university policy. During 2000-2001 the Committee received, evaluated and made recommendations to the Vice President for Research on11 new intellectual property disclosures submitted by faculty and other members of the SDSU Community:
Patent Disclosures: (Total 7) Michael Breindl, Ph.D.: “Green Mice” – Transgenic Mice Expressi on the Green Fluorescent Protein Gene Under the Control of the A 1(I) Collagen Promoter in Mesoderm-Derived Cells and Connective Tissues.
Alex Burgin, Ph.D.: An Invention Relating to Creating Some Unique Synthetic Oligonucletides That Allow You To Use Huma n Topoisomerase for Splicing Genes.
Terry Carrilio, Ph.D. and William Ganger: (This is a Copyright and a Patent) “On the Go” Integrated Management Information System and Quality Management Program.
Roger Davis, Ph.D.: Transgenic Mice that are Protected from Ethrogenic Heart Disease.
Douglas B. Grotjahn, Ph.D.: Highly Selective Catalysts for Addition of O-H and N-H Bonds to Unsaturated Hydrocarbons
Mauro Pierucci, Ph.D.: Slow Signal
Anca Segall, Ph.D.: Screen for Inhibitors and Peptide Inhibitors of Tyrosine Recombinases
Copyright Disclosures: (Total 4) Jessica Barlow And Rukiya Mohamedali: Phonetic Transcription: A Practical Supplement ( CD ROM )
Jessica Barlow And Rukiya Mohamedali: Assessment and Treatment of Phonological Disorders (Video)
Terry Carrilio, Ph.D. and William Ganger: (This is a Copyright and a Patent) “On the Go” Integrated Management Information System and Quality Management Program.
Kathleen B. Jones, Ph.D.: Women’s Rights, Women’s Struggles in South Africa Today.
3. Faculty Grants Committee:
During 2000-2001, Professor Arthur Getis served as the chair of the Faculty Grants-In-Aid Committee. This year the committee received 44 applications for two categories of awards: Grants-in-Aid with funding levels up to $8,000 with a minimum of $5,000 going to support a student assistant and regular awards with a maximum funding level of $4000. The total amount available for this year’s grant competition was $100,000; an increase of $10,000 in support Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 22 San Diego State University Senate
for this program over 1999-2000. In this year’s competition, the committee recommended funding for 19 proposals, ranging from $2800 to $8000.
4. Committee on Protection of Human Subjects : Professor Richard C. Reed of the School of Nursing continues his service as Chair of the CPHS for the 2000- 2001 Academic Year. Camille Nebeker, Research Services Coordinator, provides operational oversight and administrative support and services for the CPHS in addition to serving as a member of this Committee. The Committee composition includes twelve voting members (two unaffiliated community members). The Committee reviewed 795 new and ongoing protocols for calendar year 2000. The total represents a consistent annual increase of nearly 5%. It is expected that the number of review actions will continue to increase by at least five percent annually to accommodate increased campus research activity and additional regulatory requirements that influence review procedures. New protocols represent 52% of all review activity with amendments and continuing review of ongoing protocols representing 48% of reviews conducted. It is estimated that human subjects are involved in approximately 25% of the total ($105 million) extramural funding received by the SDSU campus. Compliance Analyst/Educator: In response to renewed emphasis by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) on the need for oversight of ongoing projects, a Regulatory Compliance Analyst/Educator position was added to support
human subjects research activities conducted under the Multiple Project Assurance of SDSU. Gayle Simon, MPH was hired to fill this position in September 2000. Ms. Simon is involved in the design, delivery and ongoing oversight of an IRB regulatory compliance monitoring and education program targeting the SDSU community involved in the conduct of human subjects research. In addition, Ms. Simon is actively involved in general IRB operations and routinely provides assistance to investigators on protocol development and review procedures. Regulatory and Procedural Information Access: Improving investigator access to information related to regulatory policy and issues that pertain to research involving human subjects is a priority. ß The CPHS web site (gra.sdsu.edu/cphs/) is continually updated and offers links to numerous regulatory resources, application materials, guidance, and review status updates. ß A newsletter is distributed semiannually to faculty and graduate students. ß In support of the CPHS, the Division of Research Administration offers ongoing training for the SDSU research community. Lectures focus on issues relevant to human subjects protections to include, for example, ethical conduct (principles/practices), compliance with federal regulations and institutional/investigator responsibilities. ß Time-sensitive information is provided to the research community via email through the SDSU announcements. National Institutes of Health - Policy: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) requires (effective 6/00) education on the protection of human research participants for all investigators and key personnel involved on NIH applications for grants or proposals for contracts or receiving new or non-competing awards for research involving human subjects. Human Subjects Tutorial: The SDSU/CPHS offers an Internet-based tutorial that complies with the NIH training requirement. Content addresses ethical issues relevant to human subjects protections including, for example, informed consent, confidentiality, identifying and managing risks, subject involvement, and investigator responsibilities. This tutorial is available to all SDSU research investigators and their staff. Standard Operating Procedures - Update: Procedures have been approved or are under review by the CPHS specific to confidentiality of CPHS documents, CPHS access to research facilities and records, incentive payments to researchers (i.e., finder's fee); guidelines for conducting Internet research and review requirements in keeping with federal regulations. Continuing Review Program: In compliance with regulations, the CPHS has revised procedures to conduct continuing review of approved protocols. Continuing review involves, at a minimum, the review of a report submitted by the investigator at intervals determined by the CPHS (not less than once per year). Continuing review may also involve a site visit by a CPHS representative to the research facility. The goal of the site visit is to assess whether the protocol is being carried out as approved by the CPHS.
Staff Affairs Annual Report to the University Senate (Jane Vidal, Chair)
I. Staff members placed on various University Committees:
The Staff Affairs Committee was successful in placing 6 staff members on various University Committees during the past year. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 23 San Diego State University Senate
II. Reporting Policy
The Staff Affairs Committee is establishing a more consistent policy regarding staff reports to the Staff Affairs Committee regarding their respective committee’s business.
III. Staff Affairs Report on YRO Reported by SDSU Staff members between March 20 and April 12, 2001.
There was a general consensus from all staff reporting that YRO (Year Round Operations) will have a significant effect on staff in their efforts to provide and maintain a full range of support services throughout the year. The details below are arranged by the areas that the staff are assigned.
Of particular importance for all staff YRO presents a problem about viable vacation scheduling. Many staff members avoid taking vacation during the fall or spring semesters due to their responsibilities in their respective departments. They are going to have to take vacation sometime—problem is when.
Technical and Computer Support Certain kinds of work such as computing system upgrades (upgrading computer labs, upgrading smart classrooms); are typically done at times that minimize interference with classes such as summer and winter.
Many staff in areas that maintain computer labs expressed concern about when the computer labs would be able to handle major upgrades and maintenance. Because we are now year-round, perhaps closing down labs on a rotation would allow this to be done without disrupting all service. Furthermore, as many have commented, reliance on student assistants has been minimal during summers past. Now with YRO, concern has been expressed from a variety of areas including computing, department offices, and the library that this dependence may need to extend to summer more than in the past. A question was: can 987 funds be expanded to include summer to provide for student assistants?
Registrar, Advising & Evaluations, and Student Life & Development (formerly Student Resource Center) Many staff work in areas that have always been extremely busy during the summer months without YRO, e.g. Advising and Evaluations, Office of Student Life and Development, Office of the Registrar, to name a few. YRO will significantly change how these areas maintain services with more students to serve in the summer months than in the past.
Academic Dean’s Office Staff members in an academic Dean’s office expressed concerns that with the increase in summer enrollment, and the fact that SDSU staff are now responsible for running summer session as opposed to Extended Studies, they are impacted in terms of increased responsibilities compared to years past. Staff are also now responsible for ATF’s (Academic Transaction Forms) for summer faculty, this was previously handled in Extended Studies. Much of this responsibility is now being shifted to the academic departments. Furthermore, one staff member in an academic department suggested that the processing of ATF’s could be done more efficiently if they were computerized (this applies to a number of forms used throughout the university—e.g. STFs).
Academic Departments Staff in academic departments expressed concern that reports for Assigned Time, Supervision, FAD, Evaluations, Assessment, Accountability, and FTE analysis and the inputting of classes will change with YRO. Also if summer becomes a full-fledged semester, it will impact many departmental responsibilities typically done during the summer months such as preparing for new faculty arrivals (making sure offices are cleared, phones are set up and computers installed). Academic staff expressed concern that summer is the time that some departments recruit, test and/or audition students as well as advise incoming fall students.
Furthermore, the census and degree reports to the Chancellor’s Office must now include separate reports for each of the summer terms. Each must be run separately. Summer census reports will run continuously for the entire summer. In addition end-of-term for summer will coincide with the beginning of the fall semester. End-of-term reports for summer will be running at the same time normally reserved for the pre-census work for the fall term.
Lab Technicians in Sciences Staff are responsible for maintaining the equipment, preparing all needed materials (media, cultures and supplies) for several lab classes. Summer is the time they use to clean up from the pervious semester, prepare for the coming semester and perform other duties such as creating new experiments and rewriting procedures and writing lab manuals. Concern was Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 24 San Diego State University Senate expressed that without the development of new experiments, classes will become out-of-date. Without proper equipment maintenance, breakdowns and other problems will likely increase.
College of Extended Studies College of Extended Studies staff expressed that with summer session being handled by main campus, they are having to develop new programs to offset lost revenue from the former summer and winter session programs that they previously ran. Furthermore, they are currently responsible for scheduling rooms for this summer session 2001, next year this responsibility will rest with the colleges.
Public Safety Public Safety anticipates more activity with more students on campus during the summer.
Career Services In the office of Career Services summer has been the time for their staff to plan and revise their programs for fall/spring. The anticipated increased student traffic in the summer will limit their ability to make necessary improvements/changes to their programs.
Grounds Grounds staff expressed that summer is the time when renovation projects (redoing lawns, replanting, rebuilding, and major landscaping) is done. Much of the work done in the summer is considered noisy construction and is deliberately postponed to summer when the impact of such work will not disrupt classes. They are responsible for renovating lawns, fertilizing and using herbicides. They do this when student traffic is low. Grounds employs student assistants who are responsible for trash pick-up and mowing. Typically student employment declines over the summer months (although with increased student enrollment in summer, this may change.) If student traffic increases in the summer, they see this as a problem with maintaining grounds.
The maintenance of the athletic fields requires that the turf be re-established on an annual basis due to the increased usage of the fields. Normally this is done during the summer months when the activity levels are lower. This process takes some time and will be compromised with greater usage in summer. The impact of YRO and our current activity on these fields is too high and results in poor turf quality and questionable if not dangerous playing conditions. A suggestion was made that an artificial turf field in the new PG 620 field would help to mitigate the problem.
Custodial staff Summer is the period when deep cleaning in our facilities is accomplished to minimize the impact on classes such as waxing/stripping floors as well as painting and other types of general maintenance. Custodial staff expressed concerns about YRO that impacted them as early as last summer with state supported classes. They were not notified of the locations of classes in session. This became critical when the morning crew came in to strip and wax floors one morning, stripped the floors only to find that a class was scheduled in the same room. The biggest concern is that there will be no time to do the kinds of deep cleaning typically done during summer months.
Trolley Construction The most disruptive construction for the Trolley project is scheduled for the summer (over the next several years).
Miscellaneous concerns from various staff across campus Many areas have more limited hours and staffing in the summer months. If summer enrollment increases, there will be a need to extend hours of operation in those areas, e.g. Computer Labs, Library hours, academic departments, Aztec Center, etc. Furthermore, these kinds of areas rely heavily on student assistants for staffing labs and Help Desks and offices.
This is the first report of an on-going investigation by the Staff Affairs Committee on the impact of YRO on staff across campus. This is not the only report or the last report from this committee to the Senate.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Chair: Patrick Papin)
• Reviewed all new undergraduate curricula and changes in curricula from all colleges and IVC. All committee action and committee meeting minutes were reported to the Senate as defined within the Policy File. • The Committee reviewed 260 course proposals as compared to 190 course proposals last year. • The Committee reviewed 86 program change proposals as compared to 65 proposals for program changes last year. • The Committee reviewed one new BS program in Hospitality and Tourism Management and one new certificate program in Mathematics. Minutes – May 1 & May 3, 2001 Page 25 San Diego State University Senate
• The Undergraduate Topics Subcommittee, reviewed proposals for special topics courses, General Studies courses, and credit extension courses. The Topics Subcommittee reviewed 73 regular and extension topics proposals. • Established procedures and regulations derived from the SDSU policy on Distance Education. • Reviewed 22 distance education proposals. • Reviewed the existing undergraduate catalog for possible changes. • Reviewed the SDSU Curriculum Guide for improvement. • Reviewed and made recommendations to AP&P regarding the offering of short-term courses. The Senate at the May 2001 meeting will review this collaborative policy. • Started working on revision to the IVC curricular processing procedure. • Has recommended to Committee on Committees and Elections that Patricia Dintrone, from the College of Business Administration, serve as UCC Chair effective June 1, 2001.