Academic SenateWorking notes, links, materials

All spring semester meetings start at 1:30 pm in DW 1001.

Agenda and Blog                         : https://blogs.iu.edu/senate/
Constitution and Committees: https://academics.iusb.edu/academic-senate/index.html
Senate 2018-19 Documents   : https://iu.box.com/v/senate
Senate Archives                          : http://institutionalmemory.iu.edu/aim/handle/10333/3376

1. Call to order
2. [3 Minutes] Approval of February 2019 Senate Meeting Minutes [LINK]
3. [5 Minutes] Constitution Updates – Steven Gerencser [LINK]
4. [2 Minutes] Voting Updates – Elected Committee, General Education Motions 2a through 2d – Vincci Kwong
5. [3 Minutes] Standing Committees – Qualtrics Survey – Raman Adaikkalavan
6. [15 Minutes] Senate PTR Committee – Peter Bushnell and David Blouin
   • Approval of PTR Guidelines Template [LINK]
7. [10 Minutes] Teaching Excellence Pathway – Raman Adaikkalavan [LINK]
8. [10 Minutes] Budget Committee Updates – Susan Thomas and Maryann Oake
9. [30 Minutes] General Education Motions 2e and 2f – Lyle Zynda
   • Discussion and send to vote : Motion 2e [LINK]
   • Discussion : Motion 2f [LINK]
   • General Education Task Force public IU Box: https://iu.app.box.com/v/getf
10. [6 Minutes] UFC Updates – Elaine Roth and Raman Adaikkalavan
11. [4 Minutes] President’s remarks – Raman Adaikkalavan
12. [2 Minutes] Announcements and motion to adjourn

All spring semester meetings start at 1:30 pm in DW 1001.

Agenda and Blog                         : https://blogs.iu.edu/senate/
Constitution and Committees: https://academics.iusb.edu/academic-senate/index.html
Senate 2018-19 Documents   : https://iu.box.com/v/senate
Senate Archives                          : http://institutionalmemory.iu.edu/aim/handle/10333/3376

1. Call to order
2. [3 Minutes] Approval of November 2018 Senate Meeting Minutes [LINK]
3. [5 Minutes] Constitution Updates Introduced in November – Steven Gerencser [LINK]
4. [2 Minutes] Voting Updates – General Education Motions 1c and 1d – Vincci Kwong
5. [8 Minutes] General Education Assessment – Elaine Roth and Kristyn Quimby
6. [7 Minutes] Senate Library Affairs Committee – Andrea Meluch and Craig Finlay
   • Library Open Access Policy [LINK]
7. [15 Minutes] Interim Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs – Linda Chen
   • Distinguished Teaching Award
   • Faculty Lines
8. [5 Minutes] Updates on Carnegie Engaged Campus Task Force – Gail McGuire
9. [35 Minutes] Discussion and Send to Vote: General Education Motions 1e and 1f – Lyle Zynda
   • MOTION 1e: Enhanced Student Experience [LINK]
   • MOTION 1f: Information Literacy [LINK]
   • Background for Motions 1e and 1f [LINK]
   • AAC&U High-Impact Practices [LINK]
   • General Education Task Force public IU Box: https://iu.app.box.com/v/getf
10. [5 Minutes] UFC updates – Elaine Roth and Raman Adaikkalavan
11. [3 Minutes] President’s remarks
12. [2 Minutes] Announcements and motion to adjourn

All fall semester meetings start at 10:00 am in DW 1001.

Agenda and Blog                             : https://blogs.iu.edu/senate/
Constitution and Committees    : https://academics.iusb.edu/academic-senate/index.html
File Attachments                             : https://iu.box.com/v/senate

1. Call to order
2. [3 minutes] Approval of September 2018 Minutes [LINK]
3. Moment of Silence
4. [5 minutes] SGA President Kevin G. Schascheck II
5. [3 minutes] Voting Results – Constitutional Updates and General Education Motion 1a
6. [5 minutes] Co-Directors of General Education – Assessment Plan and Timeline
7. [10 minutes] Chancellor’s Cabinet – Enrollment and ESSA Program Updates
8. [30 minutes] General Education taskforce – High Credit Hours Programs
   • Files and Handouts provided by the academic units and the task force are posted [LINK]
9. [20 minutes] General Education taskforce – Motion 1b “Common Core”
   • General Education Task force public IU Box: https://iu.app.box.com/v/getf
   • “The four Common Core areas Literary and Intellectual Traditions, the Natural World, Human Behavior and Social Institutions, and Art, Aesthetics, and Creativity, shall be retained in our General Education program, and be regarded as fixed according to their current definitions, as approved originally by the Academic Senate in 2003.”*
     • *This motion shall not be understood to preclude changes in implementation, such as adopting specific SLOs and assessment procedures (so long as these are consistent with the current definitions), or changing the names of these requirements; nor should they be understood to imply these are the only requirements our Gen Ed curriculum will have, or that other current requirements will not also be retained in a future vote; nor should it be understood to imply that any course that now meets these requirements shall continue to do so, e.g., if that course is found no longer to meet the agreed-upon SLOs for the requirement it purports to meet.
     • The definitions of these four Common Core courses originally adopted in 2003 can be found at [LINK]
10. [9 minutes] Motion 1c “Contemporary Social Values”
11. [3 minutes] President’s remarks
12. [2 minutes] Announcements and motion to adjourn

All fall semester meetings start at 10:00 am in DW 1001.

1. Call to order
2. [5 minutes] Approval of April 2018 Minutes [LINK]
   • a. These minutes have the Senate PTR Committee Reappointment Dossier guidelines which will become policy if not amended today. [LINK]
   • b. These minutes have the Senate Athletics Committee’s approval of Women’s Soccer team starting 2019. [LINK].
3. [2 minutes] Welcome; Introduce the current executive committee
4. [1 minute] Senate Members – Introduction of Associate Faculty Voting Members for 2018-19 – Vincci Kwong
   • [TBA]
5. [2 minutes] Senate Committees
   • Updates on committee assignments – call for volunteers – email Vincci Kwong <vkwong@iusb.edu>
     • Required: R&D (1 – EDUC); CDC (2 – ARTS/B&E/LIB);
     • Optional: Academic Affairs (1); Curriculum (2); Faculty welfare (1);
6. [15 minutes] Special Election
   • PTR Committee (Current members: CLAS, LIB, CHS)
     • Nomination – 1 PTR Committee Tenured Faculty – 2 year term
       • Kwadwo Okrah (Prof, Teacher Education, Education) – Interim Appointment
     • Nominations – 1 PTR Committee Tenure-Probationary Non-Voting – 1 year term
       • Joseph A. Campbell (Asst Prof, Counseling and Human Services, Education)
       • Young Suk Lee (Asst Prof, Integrated New Media, ARTS)
   • Faculty Misconduct Committee – 1 Alternate Member – 2 year term (Current Members: ARTS, CLAS, CHS, EDUC, LIB)
     • Nomination – Alex Meisami (Asso Prof, Finance, B&E)
   • Senate Executive Committee – 1 At-large member; 1 year term; (Current Members: ARTS, CLAS, LIB)
     • Nomination – Mallory Edmondson (Clinical Asst Prof, Dental Educ, CHS)
7. [5 minutes] Constitution Revisions and Updates – Steven Gerencser
   • Discussion and Voting on the Constitution Updates introduced in April 2018 Senate Meeting. [LINK]
8. [1 minute] Center For Excellence in Research and Scholarship (CERES) – Josh Wells
   • Brief report of activities for CERES, a call for faculty to enroll in the IU Experts and Pivot databases, and an invitation to the first CERES skills workshop on October 8, 5-9 pm, Wiekamp 1265. [LINK]
   • https://news.iu.edu/iu-experts
   • https://research.iu.edu/collaborate.shtml
9. [2 minutes] General Education Co-Directors Video Introduction. [LINK]
10. [7 minutes] Carnegie Engaged Campus Application and Carnegie Engaged Campus Task Force – Elizabeth Bennion
    • “The Carnegie Engaged Campus Task Force would like to remind deans and chairs to complete the community engagement survey by Oct 1st that they received in August. These data will be critical for a successful application for the Carnegie Engaged Campus Classification.  Task force member Elizabeth Bennion will be present to answer any questions that faculty or administrators have about the survey, or other aspects of the task force’s work.”
11. [3 minutes]  Ad Hoc Committee on Campus-Supported Childcare – April Lidinsky and Susan Cress
    • Acknowledgement of Committee’s work. Updates on timeline, space conversations, business plan (with partners) in progress. Take questions.
12. [5 minutes] Student Engagement Roster – Doug McMillen and Michelle Rosemond
    • Importance of the SER for student retention and how it is being used on campus to help students
13. [5 minutes] Interim Chancellor Jann Joseph
14. [5 minutes] Interim EVCAA Linda Chen
15. [20 minutes] General Education taskforce – Cathy Borshuk, Jennifer Muniz, and Julie Elliott
    • Agenda [LINK]
16. [3 minutes] President’s remarks
17. [2 minutes] Announcements and motion to adjourn

All spring semester meetings start at 1:30 pm in DW 1001. 

1. Call to order.
2. Approval of minutes for February and March.
3. Chancellor Allison’s remarks. The Chancellor has requested an opportunity to speak for about ten minutes on strengthening shared governance.
4. Floor will be opened for nominations for Vice President of the Senate for next year, due to a resignation. The Executive Committee brings the nomination of Vincci Kwong. Election will be held at the close of nominations.
5. General Education. Voting to formally establish the position of Director of General Education, in hopes that Academic Affairs can call for applications almost immediately, with a goal of having the new director in place as soon as July 1. Due to a change of plans in Academic Affairs, a new draft is not yet available. In light of section V.3.A.3 of the Constitution, we have before us the proposal from the March meeting, then, and a vote: For the establishment of a new position of Director of General Education, to be held by a member of the faculty, with revisions to the General Education Task Force’s March position description to be carried out by Academic Affairs and the Executive Committee working in consultation with the Senate’s General Education Committee.
6. General Education Task Force. The Task Force has requested about ten minutes to review the work they have carried out over the last two years and their plans for completing the work in the fall semester.*
7. Athletics Committee. Women’s soccer.
8. Childcare center update.
9. Moving the Senate’s Constitution online, continued. The new section of constitutional updates will be briefly presented, leading to a vote in September.
10. PTR Committee on their new proposed guidelines.
11. Carnegie Initiative. Internship stipends, a process for designating community-engaged courses, and the Bender Joy of Teaching series.
12. Standing committees of the Senate for 2018-19–nominations as of April 19, 2018.
13. President’s report: Timeline for the Chancellor search and call for nominations for the search committee.
14. Announcements.
15. Motion to adjourn.

*To be explicit: there will be no extended discussion of particular elements of the general education proposals that are now on the table–the Task Force has asked for this agenda item instead.