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