MINUTES
UAF FACULTY SENATE MEETING #123
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2004
Wood Center Carol Brown Ballroom

I	The meeting was called to order by President Pinney at 1:00 p.m.

	A.	ROLL CALL 
	
	Members Present:		Members Absent:
	Allen, J.				Barnhardt, C.
	Berman, G.   			Kupries, M.
	Box, M.   				Luick, B.
	Bult-Ito, A.  			Ma, Z.
	Cysewski, S.   			Nakaneczny, M.
	Davis, M.      			Roberts, L.
	Dinstel, R. (M. He'bert)   	Zhang, S.
	Erickson, K.  (L. Wallace) 	
	Gradinger, R. 			
	Hannigan, M. 			OTHERS PRESENT:
	Haugen, L.   			Ayagarak, N. 
	Herman, S.      			Comstock, S. 
	Leguard, J.  			Duffy, L. 
	Leiner, R. 				Genetti, J. 
	McBeath, J.  			Layer, P. 
	McCarthy, P. 			Layral, S.
	McRoy, P.				Lind, M.
	Newberry, R. (C. Cahill)  	Martin, W.
	Odess, D. 				Mulder, C. 
	Patil, S.  (S. Khataniar)  	Newman, G. 
	Pinney, P.				Perkins, R. 
	Reynolds, J. 			Reichardt, P.
	Schneider, W. 			Reynolds, D.
	Shur, Y. 				Seifert, R. 
	Smith, J.   				Schamel, D. 
	Weber, J.				Trubacz, J. 
	Wisen, C. 				
	Zilberkant, E.			

	NON-VOTING MEMBERS PRESENT:
	Steadman, J.  - President-Elect, UAFSC
	Stickel, T.  - University Registrar

	NON-VOTING MEMBERS ABSENT:
	Walker, T.  - President, ASUAF
	Graduate Student, GSO
	Joseph, B.  - Dean, CRA
	Collins, J. - Dean, CSEM

	B.	The minutes to Meeting #122 (April 5, 2004) were 
		unavailable for approval.  

	C.	The agenda was approved as distributed via e-mail.

II	Status of Chancellor's Office Actions
	A.	Motions approved: 
		1.	Motion to amend the Faculty Senate Section 3, 
			(Article V, Committee, Standing) of the Bylaws 
			to establish a "Unit Criteria Committee."  
		2.	Motion to approve the Unit Criteria for the 
			Science and Engineering units of CSEM.
	B.	Motions pending:  
		1.	Motion on classified research policy.

III	Public Comments/Questions - 

Robert Perkins spoke on behalf of the motion lowering the required project credits to 3 credits for the MS degree with project.  

Doug Reynolds also spoke on behalf of the 3 credits for master's degrees with project.  

Sarah Comstock spoke about the success of the Nanook SpringFest.  They held 15-20 different events throughout the weekend.  Served about 2600 people, including faculty, staff, and students.  One of the two major events included the SpringFest service projects which generated over 120 hours of volunteer service for different United Way agencies.  Another successful event to counteract the binge drinking was a program where 276 students pledged to stay sober.  About 220 completed it.  There was a major decrease in underage drinking.  They feel it was a big success and are pleased with the number of students that were served and the number of faculty and staff involved.  

Rich Seifert spoke about his letter to faculty concerning the book "The College Hill Chronicles--How the University of Alaska Came of Age" by Neil Davis.  To quote from his letter.  "The reason I feel so evangelical about this book, is that it has the same sort of value as does Dan O'Neill's book, the "Firecracker Boys."  It is of such importance because of the depth and insight it contains for those of us who have inherited the mission and responsibility of making this university what it is, and will become.  The history Davis reveals is so enriching and detailed, that it is incumbent upon us as faculty members to know it well.  The rewards for this are, to me, invaluable and beyond measure.  So much of it we couldn't imagine or know without his telling.  As an alumnus, a researcher for many years, and now a faculty member, it was fulfilling in so many unforeseen ways.  The book adds immeasurably to my grasp of just how difficult and fantastic it was to build and maintain a nascent university in the far north, without statehood, without a deep constituency, without a history, with hardly any budget.  We are part of a very unique and compelling history, which Neil Davis has made available to us.   The book is available from the University Press.   I encourage you to take some time to know this book.  The University you are creating, and students you serve, will be correspondingly enriched.  The book and its contents are the important message.  Thank you, Dr. T. Neil Davis, for the finest of gifts to all of us."

IV	Governance Reports

	A.	President's Comments - Pete Pinney

Pete Pinney congratulated the Nanook Springfest committee in making that a well attended event.  He challenges the faculty to become more involved.  

The 2004-2005 Catalog is out in new format.  As you do advising, please familiarize yourself with the new format.  Faculty will be able to access information about advisees through their own UAOnline with advisor status.  

Faculty Senate will be looking forward to will be a systematic review of courses.  This will be a review of how courses may have changed over time.  

Today there will be a small fix for the grade appeal policy.  The Senate will also form an ad hoc committee including administration to look unresolved inconsistencies--timelines for appeals and student conduct.  The hope is that this committee will create a more comprehensive policy that can be adopted next year.  

Pete Pinney presented some final gifts to Chancellor Lind including some 3x5 cards to start his own book and a copy of the latest Elderhostel catalog.  

	B.	President-Elect 's Comments - Abel Bult-Ito

Abel Bult-Ito indicated that the last Faculty Senate newsletter for this academic year had been distributed and is also available online.  He also made a presentation to the Chancellor.

	C.	Staff Council - Josh Steadman

Josh Steadman, Staff Council President-Elect, invited all senate members to the staff appreciation day and ice cream social on May 14th.  They will be giving the awards for the outstanding staff council member and will be holding the drawing for the Staff Council raffle which benefits the Carolyn Sampson Memorial Scholarship.  

Josh thanked everyone who helped at the UAF Day at North Pole.  He also  thanked everyone working on the Performance Based Budgeting.  UAF looks good in the effort to comment on the budgeting process at statewide.  

Staff Council concerns they have been working on include changes from exempt to non-exempt status; the five day internal recruiting policy; and the probation period for current UA employees who are promoted

	D.	ASUAF - Thom Walker

Thom Walker was not available to give a report.  

	E.	Faculty Liaison - Eva Kopacz

Eva Kopacz indicated a couple of items of focus at statewide that include the legislature and the budget.  Reviews have been done for the ACAS task force.  The final report is available on their web site.   Subcommittees are now taking the recommendations and prioritizing the top three or four that will become the emphasis for implementation in each of the areas addressed such as IT, business council, etc.  The Academic Freedom policy has passed through all three MAU's and will be forwarded to the Board.  

President Hamilton had indicated that he would be hiring an Academic Vice President.  At this point it is on hold.  The Faculty Liaison position will be discontinued.  Eva thanked everyone for allowing her to participate in the meetings.   Pete Pinney thanked Eva for keeping the Senate informed about what was coming out of the statewide administration.  

	F.	Budget Liaison - Craig Wisen

Craig Wisen indicated the budget liaison report was built upon Abel's report from last year that examines whether administrative expenditures for UAF have grown disproportionately relative to other expenditure categories.   There are seven tables as handouts.  They included job class codes, annualized percentage growth rate in EEO job codes, salary, annual allocation of FTE's by job class codes, total expenditures by BOR structure, amount expended growth rate, total expenditures.  This data looks at UAF only and is not a comparison with other universities.  Joe Trubacz indicated that the increase in Plant and Utilities is due to the new buildings, much of it on the research side.  Financial/support services also included student services as well as administrative services not just in the financial area.  These broad categories are not designed to look at administrative growth.  These categories are for EEO purposes.  Looking at whether or not an administrative expenditure is spent on faculty or statewide function is hard to disentangle from the grid.  Joe Trubacz indicated that they looked at each dean's office.  Each one has a different story.  While the budget has increased, the FTE have only slightly increased. 

V.	Comments from Chancellor, Marshall Lind - 

Chancellor Lind stated that he has finished reviewing all the promotion and tenure files.  There are some excellent files.  It was pleasant to see the accomplishments of our faculty members.  

The Chancellor had some discussion with Abel and Pete on the five outcomes measures.  We agreed that the numbers should be modified from the original proposal.  We should be reducing some of those targets.  We will be looking at the high demand job areas.  We should have figures that are realistic goals for us in terms of retention, enrollment, amount of research money, and the ratio of general fund to overall university revenues.  

On the budget--still waiting to see what takes place in Juneau.  The Chancellor is optimistic that we will come out with the Governor's 5% increase plus some help with the PERS/TERS effort.  

On the classified research policy, Chancellor Lind checked with statewide to see where that is.  That has moved to a statewide regulation.  It will probably be drafted by the end of June.  The actual discussion will begin when faculty return in the fall.  There will be a number of sessions that will be held with the draft of the proposal.  You will have an opportunity to express your views.  Mike Hostina is working on it and the Chancellor anticipates that the process will work.  

Chancellor Lind had lunch with the outstanding student employees.  He asked them about their experience at UAF.  Without exception the comments regarding the quality of teaching and quality of faculty stood out in each case.   

Chancellor Lind very much enjoyed his relationship with this body.  He thanked the Senate for they support.  He has a great deal of respect for the work they have done.  Disagreements have always been handled with good humor and respect for one another.  Communications has never broken down.  

Peter McRoy asked if the statewide policy on classified research would include proprietary research.  The Chancellor did not think so.  Abel thanked the chancellor for not vetoing the UAF policy.  He also thanked the Provost and Joe Trubacz for meeting with them about the targets and taking the recommendations by the faculty seriously.  

	Comments from Provost, Paul Reichardt -

Paul Reichardt reported on two issues that SAC has been dealing with.  They have committed themselves over the summer to look at Board of Regent's Policy X which is the academic policies and come up with suggested modifications which will be submitted to the Faculty Alliance in the fall.  They have received from Pete the work the Alliance has done on the common grade policy.  There are several parts of the academic policy that have to be reworked.  

There have been requests over the last couple years for a common schedule across the UA system.  Conceptual it's a great idea; however, there are some real practical obstacles.  What SAC has done is ask the Student Services group to look at common dates for registration for each of the three MAU's and the withdrawal dates that are tied to tuition refunds.  

Paul Reichardt spoke about the handout on the Academic Development Plan.  The Deans and Directors have been on a list of actions and developments that have been taking place over the last three years that are consistent with our Academic Development Plan.  These demonstrate that we do have a lot of activity focused on those areas we have selected for development.  

VI	Consent Agenda

	A.	Motion to approve the list of the 2003-2004 degree candidates, submitted by Administrative Committee 

The motion was approved with the adoption of the agenda.  

	B.	Resolution of Recognition for F. Stuart "Terry" Chapin, submitted by Faculty Affairs 

The resolution was approved with the adoption of the agenda.  

	C.	Resolution of Recognition for Wendy Ehnert, submitted by Faculty Affairs 

The resolution was approved with the adoption of the agenda.  

	D.	Resolution of Recognition for C. Peter McRoy as Outstanding Senator of the Year, submitted by Administrative Committee 

The resolution was approved with the adoption of the agenda.  

	E.	Resolution of Recognition for Jane Weber as Outstanding Senator of the Year, submitted by Administrative Committee 

The resolution was approved with the adoption of the agenda.  

	F.	Resolution of Appreciation for Marshall Lind, submitted by Administrative Committee 

The resolution was approved with the adoption of the agenda.  

	G.	Resolution of Appreciation for Pete Pinney, submitted by Administrative Committee 

The resolution was approved with the adoption of the agenda.  

VII	New Business

	A.	Motion to amend the "UAF Advanced Placement Credit" for Foreign Languages to incorporate Alaska Native Languages, submitted by Curricular Affairs 

Bill Schneider spoke about the motion and indicated that it adds Alaska Native Languages in the same status as other languages for "bonus credit."  The motion passed unanimously.  

MOTION:  
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend the "UAF Advanced Placement Credit" for Foreign Languages to incorporate Alaska Native Languages (p. 16 of the 2003-2004 catalog).  

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UAF Advanced Placement Credit

Foreign Language/ALASKA NATIVE LANGUAGE

After completing the course in which you were placed (above 101) and earning a B grade or higher, you may ask to receive [["bonus"]] credit for the two immediately preceding prerequisite courses, if any.  However, credit cannot be awarded for such courses if university credit has already been granted for them (for example, through College Board Advanced Placement national tests or credit transfer from another college).  [[Bonus]] Credit will not be awarded for special topics courses, individual study courses, literature or culture courses, CONVERSATION COURSES, OR ANY COURSE TAUGHT IN ENGLISH.  

	EFFECTIVE:  	Fall 2004

RATIONALE:  	Alaska Native Languages may be used to fulfill the Foreign/Alaska Native languages option in the B.A. , as part of the "Perspectives on the Human Condition" in the Baccalaureate Core, and they may also be used to fulfill the Humanities and Social Science requirement in the A.A.S.  This brings the Advance Placement Credit in line with other degree requirements which include Alaska Native Languages as a language option.  

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	B.	Motion to amend the policy on Stacked and Cross-listed courses, submitted by Curricular Affairs and Graduate Academic & Advisory Committee 

Christa Mulder indicated this motion clarifies wording of the current policy on stacked and cross-listed courses.  The motion passed unanimously.  

MOTION: 
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend the policy on Stacked and Cross-listed Courses (p. 181, 2003-2004 UAF Catalog and UAF Faculty Senate Academic Course and Degree Procedures Manual). 

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Stacked and Cross-listed Courses

[[The same course is sometimes offered by more than one discipline.  Such offerings are referred to as "cross-listed" courses]] SOME COURSES ARE OFFERED BY AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM (SUCH AS "WOMEN'S STUDIES) WITH A SPECIFIC DISCIPLINARY CONTENT (E.G., HISTORY).  SOME COURSES CONTAINING INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTENT ARE SPONSORED BY SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS (E.G. THEATER/ART/MUSIC 200X).  BOTH TYPES OF COURSES ARE 'CROSS-LISTED' and are designated in the class listings by "cross-listed with _____". 
	Courses are [[also]] sometimes offered simultaneously at different levels (100/200 or 400/600, for example) with higher level credit requiring additional effort and possibly higher order prerequisites from the student.  Such courses are referred to as "Stacked" courses and are designated in the class listings by "Stacked with ____".  In the case of 400/600 level stacked courses, graduate standing or permission of the instructor is required for graduate enrollment and a higher level of effort and performance is required on the part of students earning graduate credit.
	Courses simultaneously stacked and cross-listed [[will be]] ARE designated in the class listing as "stacked with ___ and cross-listed with ___."
	FOR ALL STACKED COURSES, [[In all cases,]] the course syllabus (not the catalog) must stipulate the course content and requirements for each level [[and/or discipline]].  The catalog should indicate [[if there is a difference in content.]] THE DIFFERENCE IN PREREQUISITES FOR EACH LEVEL.

EFFECTIVE:  	Fall 2004

RATIONALE:  	This wording clarifies the cross-listing/stacked course descriptions and removes the contradiction between paragraphs 1 ('the same course') and 4 ('difference in content').

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	C.	Motion to approve a change in the residency requirements for military personnel pursuing an AA/AAS approved* program as part of the ServiceMembers Opportunity College (SOC), submitted by Curricular Affairs 

Wanda Martin indicated that UAF has been a member of SOC network for a number of years.  However, we are in jeopardy of remaining a member primarily due to the fact that we have not had sufficient number of student to formalize an agreement with SOC.  The reason was because UAF's resident requirement was so similar to what is required for all students.  Service members did not feel they needed to formalize it by putting together an agreement.  They did find that UAA only requires 3 credits and it wasn't an incentive for their military members to participate in a SOC agreement with UAF.  Remaining a SOC member institution it allows us to continue our presence on Ft. Wainwright.  It will allow us continue and further expand any of our military offerings for Ft. Greeley and Anderson.  The motion passed unanimously.

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve a change in the residency requirements for military personnel (and dependents) pursuing an AA/AAS approved* program as part of the ServiceMembers Opportunity College (SOC) from 15 credits to 6 credits. 

(*NOTE: Current approved AAS degree programs are:  Applied Accounting, Airframe & Powerplant and Culinary Arts)

	EFFECTIVE:  	Upon approval by the Board of Regents

RATIONALE: 	UAF is listed as a ServiceMembers Opportunity College (SOC) institution.  The ability to continue this relationship is dependent upon the participation displayed by agreements signed by the military personnel with UAF.  There has not been an incentive to prepare this documentation with the existing policy--typically military personnel can meet the residency requirement during their service time and have not felt the need to formalize the process.  However, the lack of such agreements has jeopardized the continuation for UAF in this network.  By having an incentive, similar to UAA's, and more feasibly formalizing electronically the SOC agreement, UAF stands to maintain status and gain a greater working relationship with the military units in the Fairbanks community.

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	D.	Motion to adopt regulations for course syllabi, submitted by Curricular Affairs 

Susan Herman spoke about the motion.  Discussion about creating a common format for syllabi was brought to the Curricular Affairs Committee on the basis that many of our syllabi vary considerably in terms of quality and detail.  The issue they addressed was of academic freedom.  It is very important that each of us be able to teach what we want to teach, the way we believe we ought to teach it, with our own methodology and with our own approach.  However, there are many adjunct and new faculty that need guidance in creating a good syllabus.  Now with the major emphasis we have on assessing student outcomes, it is very important to know what to measure.  If a statement of learning goals is not included in the syllabus it becomes very complicated to measure whether or not we have achieved those goals.  We would like to make sure that all syllabi are easily recognized and understood by all students.  Along with the academic freedom to create our own syllabi comes the responsibility to do a careful, well thought out job--an adequate representation of what we are doing and why we are doing it and the opportunity for the student to understand what is involved in the course.  So they have created 11 categories that a syllabus should cover.  

Christa Mulder indicated that the Graduate Academic & Advisory Committee felt that this motion was too detailed and unnecessary for graduate level courses.  She asked for an amendment to insert "undergraduate" to the motion.  Abel Bult-Ito supported this requirement for graduate courses as well.  Christa indicated that the committee felt that many of the items would be TBA.  Lee Haugen spoke about the information that is needed for syllabi and supported the need for this information on graduate syllabus as well.  Rolf Gradinger stated that the major problem is this should be guidelines not regulations.  Dan Odess stated that this is a contract with the students and should list all basic expectations.  Michele He'bert indicated this was a way of assisting faculty in developing a good assessment tool.  The amendment to add "undergraduate" which would limit the motion to undergraduate syllabi failed by a vote of 9 yes and 15 nay.

Jane Weber stated that we should add other things to item #10 to include information for the statewide cross-regional courses.  Bill Schneider suggested that his be a friendly amendment to the motion.  There was no objection.  She also asked if this is effective Fall 2004 how it was going to be advertised.  This led to a discussion of deans reviewing syllabi.  Joy Morrison is also available with lots of resources and help to develop a syllabus.

Mark Box has been involved for many years in the CLA academic council and has been frustrated with badly thought out course proposals.  However, he feels the whole proposal is a bad idea.  Comments from his department include concern about enforcement. Syllabi already include many of these items, and we don't need micro-management--it should be left in the hands of the designer.  Mark Box indicated that students will not read this lengthy document.  He urged the Senate to vote it down.  

Jennifer Reynolds proposed an amendment to change the word regulation to guidelines.  She felt that it was unnecessarily rigid.  Michelle He'bert spoke against the amendment.  Roseann Leiner spoke about the content of #10 and 11 and felt that these were not as relevant to off-campus sites and guidelines would be better.  Jane Allen spoke in support of the motion.   The amendment failed by a vote of 11 yes to 14 nays.  

Susan Herman indicated that it would be helpful to change #10 to say "specify your willingness to work with student support services."  Further discussion let to changing that to deleting the paragraph and replacing it with "describe student support services (local and/or regional) appropriate to the course."  The amendment passed with 1 nay and 2 abstentions.  The main motion as amended passed with 16 yes and 8 nays.  

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to adopt regulations for course syllabi as follows:  

"Syllabus Requirements for all UAF courses"

During the first week of class, instructors will distribute a course syllabus.  Although modifications may be made throughout the semester, this document will contain the following information (as applicable to the discipline):

1. Course information: title, number, credits, prerequisites, location, meeting time.

2. Instructor (and if applicable, Teaching Assistant) information: name, office location, office hours, telephone, email.

3. Course readings/materials: course textbook, author, publisher. Supplementary readings (indicate whether required or recommended) and any supplies required. 

4. Course description: content of the course and how it fits into the broader curriculum; expected proficiencies required to undertake the course, if applicable.  May include, and must be consistent with, catalog course description.

5. Course Goals (more general) and Student Learning Outcomes (provide examples)

6. Instructional methods: describe the teaching techniques (e.g.: lecture, case study, small group discussion, private instruction, studio instruction, values clarification, games, journal writing, use of Blackboard, audio/video conferencing, etc.).

7. Course calendar: a schedule (daily or weekly major topics or assignments). You may call the outline Tentative or Work in progress to allow for modifications during the semester.

8. Course policies: specify course rules, including your policies on attendance, tardiness, class participation, make-up exams, and plagiarism/academic integrity. 

9. Evaluation: specify how students will be evaluated, what factors will be included, their relative value, and how they will be tabulated into grades (on a curve, absolute scores, etc.)

10. Support Services:  [[specify your openness to working with the Writing Center(8th floor, Gruening, 474-5314) and the Math Lab (305 Chapman), both of which provide excellent advice, tutoring and assistance; and/or Office of Student Support Services (508 Gruening, 474-6844).  Also describe departmental and College support services.]] Describe student support services (local and/or regional) appropriate to the course.

11.  Disabilities Services:  The Office of Disability Services implements the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and insures that UAF students have equal access to the campus and course materials.  State that you will work with the Office of Disabilities Services (203 WHIT, 474-7043) to provide reasonable accommodation to students with disabilities.  

EFFECTIVE:  	Fall 2004

RATIONALE: 	The quality and content of syllabi vary tremendously across UAF.  This legislation will both provide a guide to what needs to be in a syllabus and require instructors to provide them.

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	E.	Motion to amend the Graduate Full or Part-time Status/Study Load policy, submitted by Graduate Academic & Advisory Committee 

Christa Mulder indicated this motion parallel the undergraduate limits to number of credits a student may take.  Students wanting to take more than 20 credits will need additional signatures.  The motion passed unanimously.

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend the Graduate Full or Part-time Status/Study Load policy (p. 40, 2003-2004 Catalog) as follows:  

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FULL OR PART-TIME STATUS/STUDY LOAD

As a graduate student if you're registered for nine or more semester credits, with three or more at the 600 level, you are classified as a full-time student (audited credits are not counted toward workload).  You may enroll in up to [[18 ]] 14 credits per semester without special permission.  To enroll in 15-19 credits [[or more, you need a 3.0 cumulative grade point average]], YOU MUST BE IN GOOD STANDING AND YOU MUST OBTAIN an overload approval from your advisor and department [[head]] CHAIR.  ENROLLMENT IN 20 OR MORE GRADUATE CREDITS WILL BE ALLOWED ONLY IN EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND REQUIRES GOOD STANDING AND OVERLOAD APPROVAL FROM YOUR ADVISOR, DEPARTMENT CHAIR, AND DEAN, AND THE DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL.

	EFFECTIVE:  	Fall 2004

RATIONALE:  	This proposes new wording on limits to number of credits/semester.  This would replace the first paragraph under "FULL OR PART-TIME STATUS/STUDY LOAD" on p. 40 of the current catalog. The limit of 14 credits is calculated by using the ratio to full-time credit load for the undergraduate limit of 18: 18/12 = 3/2.  Multiplying this ratio by the full-time graduate load gives 3/2 X 9 = 27/2 = 13.5, and rounding up gives 14.

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	F.	Motion to amend the Graduate Degree Requirements for the Master of Arts with Project and the Master of Science with Project, submitted by Graduate Academic & Advisory Committee 

Christa Mulder indicated this motion was the same motion brought before the Senate last semester.  There are currently 10 department out of compliance that list in their degree requirements that they need a minimum of 3 credits when university regulations say 6 credits for a project.  These degrees tend to be more along the lines of professional degrees.  Six departments out of the 10 departments had a strong desire to keep their requirements at 3 credits.  Two departments indicated they would either change the credit requirement or drop the project option.  Cathy Cahill read a statement from Rainer Newberry against the Master of Science degree with project being reduced to 3 credits.  Doug Reynolds indicated that other science programs can keep their requirements at 6 credits; they would like the flexibility to offer this program by distance delivery to Anchorage. Abel Bult-Ito spoke in favor of keeping the requirements for the M.S. at 6 credits.  Yuri Shur spoke about the various science programs that require different amounts of project credits and felt that this would not be a problem.  Abel proposed an amendment to strike the M.S. with project from this motion.  Dan Odess spoke against the amendment.  He doesn't see the motion as being restrictive for department to require 6 or more credits for projects.  Susan Herman spoke about the quality of the projects and the learning that takes place whether the project is 3 credits or 6 credits.  A 3 credit project would allow a student to take another course.  Why not offer a range of possibilities that are program dependent so that students can have a quality experience that meets that specific programs needs.  The amendment failed with a vote of 4 yes and 2 abstentions.  The motion passed with a majority vote.  

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend the Graduate Degree Requirements for the Master of Arts with Project and the Master of Science with Project (p. 47 of the 2003-2004 Catalog) as follows:

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Master of Arts – with Project
	a.	Successfully complete at least 30 credits of course work 
		including at least [[six]] THREE credits of project work 
		(698).

Master of Science – with Project
	a.	Successfully complete at least 30 credits of course work 
		including at least [[six]] THREE credits of project work 
		(698).

	EFFECTIVE:  	Fall 2004

	RATIONALE:  	The purpose of the project is to provide 
		students with a "capstone experience" that differs from 
		a standard class in the level of independent work required.  
		At least nine departments or programs (including Physics, 
		Resource and Applied Economics, and the proposed 
		program in Community Psychology) consider three credits 
		sufficient to provide such an experience, especially for 
		projects that are practical in nature.  It is the type of 
		work rather than the number of credits that distinguishes 
		the project from a standard class.  The current 6-credit 
		requirement reduces the flexibility of the student in 
		taking other recommended or required courses.  This 
		amendment will allow the programs that currently list 3-6 
		credits among their requirements to keep these 
		requirements while not affecting programs wishing to 
		maintain a 6-credit minimum.

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	G.	Motion to amend the "Appeals Policy for Academic Decisions Other Than Assignment of Grades", submitted by Faculty Appeals and Oversight 

Paul Layer stated that this change requires the faculty committee that came up with the original decision to review the recommendation during the informal review process.  The motion passed unanimously.  

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend the "Appeals Policy for Academic Decisions Other Than Assignment of Grades" to require that the faculty members who rendered the decision (faculty committee or department chair) review their decision during the informal review process.

EFFECTIVE:  	Immediately

RATIONALE:  	The intent of the Informal review process is for the Provost to request that the original committee or department chair review their academic decision (as is done in grade appeals) to make sure that the decision was not made in error.  The intent was not that one faculty member (e.g. a department chair) could override the findings of another group of faculty (such as a comprehensive examination committee) without consultation.  This amendment calls for the faculty members who rendered the original decision to revisit that decision to determine if it was made in error, or if the decision stands.  The student may then proceed with the formal appeals process.

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	H.	Motion to approve the Unit Criteria for the Department of Anthropology, submitted by Ad Hoc Committee on Unit Criteria 

Dan Odess indicated this unit criteria has been a long time coming and encouraged the Senate to pass the motion.  The motion passed unanimously.

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve the Unit Criteria for the Department of Anthropology.  

	EFFECTIVE:  	Immediately
				Upon Chancellor Approval

	RATIONALE:  	The committee assessed the unit criteria 
		submitted by the Department of Anthropology.  With some 
		changes, agreed upon by the school representative the 
		unit criteria were found to be consistent with UAF 
		guidelines.

	(See Agenda Attachment #15 for a copy of the unit criteria.)

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	I. 	Motion to approve the Unit Criteria for Mathematics, submitted by Ad Hoc Committee on Unit Criteria 

Dan Odess indicated that these unit criteria are even better.  The motion passed unanimously.

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve the Unit Criteria for the Department of Mathematics.  

	EFFECTIVE:  	Immediately
				Upon Chancellor Approval

	RATIONALE:  	The committee assessed the unit criteria 
		submitted by the Department of Mathematics.  With some 
		changes, agreed upon by the school representative the 
		unit criteria were found to be consistent with UAF 
		guidelines.

	(See Agenda Attachment #16 for a copy of the unit criteria.)

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	J.	Motion to amend the UAF "Regulations for the Appointment and Evaluation of Faculty" (Blue Book), submitted by Ad Hoc Committee on Unit Criteria 

Dan Odess indicated that over the course of looking at many unit criteria there are a couple of items that keep coming up.  This motion is designed to address them.  Under the current "Blue Book" editing proposals or serving as a peer review person for articles has been counted as scholarly activity rather than professional service.  This motion would shift that into the service category.   Adding a Professional Service category would bring the "Blue Book" into line with the way things are happening at the university.  Professional Services is currently reported on annual workloads and activities forms.  The motion passed unanimously.  

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend the UAF "Regulation for the Appointment and Evaluation of Faculty" as follows:

CAPS - Addition
[[   ]] - Deletion

Pg. 6
2. Components of Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity

[[f. Editing or refereeing articles or proposals for professional journals or organizations.]]

Pg. 8.
Insert after category 2. University Service but before 3. Evaluation of Service

3. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

A.	EDITING OR REFEREEING ARTICLES OR PROPOSALS FOR PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS OR ORGANIZATIONS;

B.	ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS;

C.	ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN DISCIPLINE-ORIENTED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS;

D.	COMMITTEE CHAIR OR OFFICER OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS;

E.	ORGANIZER, SESSION ORGANIZER, OR MODERATOR FOR PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS;

F.	SERVICE ON A NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL REVIEW PANEL OR COMMITTEE.

	EFFECTIVE:   	Immediately

RATIONALE:   	The University, through the UAF Faculty Senate, may change or amend these regulations and procedures from time to time and will provide adequate notice in making changes and amendments.

	The UAF Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Unit Criteria has found aspects of the UAF document "Faculty Appointment and Evaluation Policies" unclear, inconsistent with current University practice, and of less than optimal utility.

	There is currently inconsistency in how the Blue Book breaks down the category of Service and how it is treated in our annual reporting for the University. In the "Blue Book", Service consists of two parts: Public Service and University Service. In our annual reports, we must also indicate activities that constitute Professional Service. We believe it is appropriate to modify the "Blue Book" to reflect the way we are required to report our activities under the heading of Service so that all three types of service are included. Doing so will streamline the process of preparing a tenure or promotion file and allow faculty to more precisely categorize our activities in the evaluation process.

	Under the current guidelines, activities such as reviewing grant proposals for funding agencies, serving as a referee for peer-reviewed journals, and serving as editor of a journal are categorized as research and creative activity.  Discussions with faculty members at UAF and other institutions clearly indicate that these activities are more appropriately categorized under Professional Service. We propose to change such activities from being counted as Research and Creative Activities to examples of Professional Service. Activities such as authoring an edited book will continue to be counted as research and creative activities.

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VIII	Annual Committee Reports 

	A.	Curricular Affairs - R. Newberry

The following report was distributed as a handout. 

Annual Report of the Curricular Affairs Committee (CAC), 2003-2004

Submitted by Rainer Newberry, Chair.
Members: Carol Barnhardt, Jeannette Smith, Stephen Cysewski, Susan Herman, Bill Schneider, Yuri Shur, Eduard Zilberkant, Mario Kupries, and Mike Hannigan 
Ex-officio: Timothy Stickel, Gayle Gregory, Wanda Martin, Phyllis Morrow (sometimes Susan Blalock, when she wasn’t busy being in charge of P.E.)

1.	Proposed Programs reviewed.  Passed on to Senate, which approved them all.
a.	Social Studies Undergraduate Major.  
b.	Leadership & Civic Engagement Minor 
c.	Child Development & family studies major
d.	Yu'pik Certificate & AAS

2.	Motions sent to the Faculty Senate
a.	Language to clarify requirements for excused absences especially with regards to military personal and student athletes.  Worked on this with the Faculty Oversight committee.  Approved by the Senate.
b.	Motion to modify honors calculation to use grades from all UA units.  Approved by Senate
c.	Motion to global replace 'Academic Bankruptcy' with 'Fresh Start'.  Approved by Senate.
d.	Motion to remove 'All campus Day' from the Academic Calendar.  Approved by Senate.  Overruled by Provost (but nicely), who instead proposed working to make this a better experience for all.  The event was subsequently re-named 'Nanook Springfest' and one emphasis was the non-consumption of alcohol.  Success and (or) future of this presumably up for review next year.
e.	Elimination of Business Option from BT degree, which leaves it pretty gutless.  Passed by Senate.  The big challenge: finding something reasonable to replace it with.  Implicit (explicit?) deadline of a year or it gets axed threat conveyed to Stephen Cysewski.  Language crafted for the catalog to get us through this year.  
f.	"Bonus Credit" for foreign languages to include Alaska Native language.  Sent to Senate.
g.	Motion to change residency requirement for military personal in some 2-year programs.  Sent to Senate, will ultimately need BOR approval.
h.	Syllabus clarification/minimum requirements.    We spent most of the academic year working on/debating about this one.  (1) can we REQUIRE faculty to put out syllabi of some minimum standards?  After a 3 month delay to think about it, the essence of the 3-page response from General Council: "probably".   (2) Coordinating with Joy Morrison of faculty Development to make sure we proposed reasonable stuff (3) Coordinating with disabilities services, to make sure they’re happy.  (4) several rounds of suggestions and changes, including examples for all the non-obvious required parts.  (5) Questions of "where to from here?" largely answered by "heck, let's send it on to the senate".  And so we did.   

3.  Other actions
a.	Approval of numerous transfer equivalencies for national/state certified programs (e.g., Peridontal care).  Basically a rubber stamp.
b.	Recommendations for Academic Calendar.  Pretty scary that our dinky committee would largely decide when school stops/starts.  Lots of discussion, some germane.  Biggest issue, put aside: to what extent should students (gasp!) have a say in the academic calendar?  Some forum to at least discuss the issue was suggested.  Maybe next year.

ISSUES TO BE CARRIED OVER TO 2004-2005

a.	Syllabus minimum requirements most likely needs some work before acceptable to the Senate.  We’ll see.
b.	Nanook Springfest (AKA All Campus Day).  Did it work?  Does it work?  Should it continue?  Need to keep tabs on this.
c.	"Replacement" for Business option in B.T.  Somebody is supposed to be working on that and will need to be reminded and (or) the product reviewed.
d.	Looming issue:  who has the final say on courses offered by CDE--the departments that created the courses or CDE?   Some concerns over what happens to courses that CDE offers and how they’re offered and how they change with time may lead to legislation (jointly with Core committee?) designating some oversight by departments.
e.	Residency requirements:  motion to change them for military personal brings up the whole issue of 'transparency' between UA units, in particular the BS/BA requirement for 24 upper division credits AT UAF.  Will presumably start the process to attempt to change this next year.

Things should start rolling sooner next year than they did this year as I will not be as clueless next September about what this committee does and can work on.   And Abel will make sure I leave the prayers out of the minutes.

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	B.	Faculty Affairs - P. McRoy

Peter McRoy spoke about the presentation by the Students for Academic Freedom and the need for faculty to keep an eye open for this to come forward as an issue.  

The following committee report was submitted as an addition to the minutes.  

2003-2004 Annual Report of the Faculty Affairs Committee
Committee Members and Affiliation:
Mark Box, CLA 
Joan Braddock, CSEM (Ex-Officio)
Karen Erickson, CLA
Joan Leguard, CLA
Bret Luick, CES
Jennifer McBeath, SALARM
Peter McRoy, SFOS (Chair)
Dan Odess, CLA
Shirish Patil, SME
Craig Wisen, SOM

The charge to the Faculty Affairs Committee is to "review issues dealing with faculty prerogative and recommend policy changes to the Faculty Senate. Issues of prerogative include academic freedom, faculty ethics, research and creative activity, and legislative and fiscal issues that may impact faculty concerns at the university."  Over the past academic year the committee dealt with the following issues and promulgated the appropriate motions:

1.	Classified Research 
A policy dealing with classified and proprietary research has been an agenda item for the committee for the past several years. The 02-03 Faculty Senate approved a revised motion concerning classified and proprietary research which was vetoed by the chancellor.  This action required the formation of a new committee to reconcile the differences between the senate and the administration.  The Reconciliation Committee consisted of 3 representatives each from faculty (M. Box, R. Collins and P. McRoy) and administration (T. DeLaca, R. Smith and M. Hostina).  The committee met twice but the discussions resulted in an impasse leading Faculty Affairs to prepare a new revised motion on classified and proprietary research for senate consideration.  The motion was sent to the senate where it passed and then to the chancellor.  The chancellor has decided to take no action on the motion so it will become UAF policy.  However the statewide administration is preparing a set of university-wide regulations that will supersede the UAF policy.

2.	UAF Budget process
Through the efforts of Craig Wisen, the senate budget liaison, Faculty Affairs extended the work on the budget process begun by Abel Bult in the previous year.  A separate report will be made to the senate.  The report compares the growth of the UAF budget by job category (Regents classification) and by unit (colleges, schools, institutes, departments and administration units). This provides a valuable picture of how the university is changing and must be a continuing effort of the Faculty Affairs Committee.

3.	Resolution on Parking Practices 
For many years the university has had a policy requiring payment and processing of parking violation tickets prior to registration for classes which constitutes a de facto course registration prerequisite. The UAF catalog gives no indication that registration for classes requires that all parking tickets, irrespective of whether they are overdue or not, need to have been paid for and processed by Parking Services as a prerequisite for class registration.  

This issue was reviewed in November and a resolution seeking change was sent to the Faculty Senate. The resolution was returned to Faculty Affairs with a rebuttal from parking management.  However the issues that prompted the first resolution continued so the resolution to end the practice was again sent to the senate (passed).

4.	Bookstore
Faculty Affairs met with members of the University Bookstore staff to discuss issues raised by faculty concerning the timely availability of books for classes, the number of books ordered and procedures for changes in book orders.  The meeting identified several steps in the process where faculty could be kept informed of the progress of orders and any changes.  The committee recommended that the bookstore staff review and revise its procedures.

5.	Intellectual Property/Faculty Rights
A proposal exists to form a committee to deal with issues of research ethics, data ownership and intellectual property rights but no action has yet been taken.  The topic was discussed as an information item in FA meetings several times during the year.  Faculty Affairs should pursue this next semester to instigate the formation of the committee and insure adequate faculty representation.

6.	Faculty Opinion Survey
Faculty Affairs discussed the results of the survey circulated to faculty over the summer break.  The survey identified several areas that concern faculty.  The committee investigated how the university would use the results from the survey

7.	Spousal Hiring Policy
The 02/03 Senate in its final meeting sent the draft policy back to Faculty Affairs for further work.  The purpose of the policy was to establish a program to accommodate dual career couples seeking academic position at UAF.  After some discussion in committee we decided that the OEO issues would preclude such a policy and the issue was dropped.
 
8.	Emeritus status
Upon request of the provost, the committee again discussed the procedures for awarding emeritus status to retiring faculty.  In 2002 Faculty Affairs submitted a motion (passed) that changed UAF regulations to be consistent with Regents Policy and Regulations. Committee members expressed diverse views on how and when emeritus status should be awarded but took no action on the issue.

9.	Recognition
Faculty Affairs prepared a resolution recognizing Lathrop High School science teacher Wendy Ehnert for her national award as one of the outstanding science teachers of the year.  The committee also prepared a resolution recognizing the appointment of Terry Chapin to the National Academy of Sciences.

10.	Future Issues
In the final meeting of the academic year the committee also discussed the presentation by the "Students for Academic Freedom" representative that was given to the senate in April during public comments.   Additional information about this new group indicates a very different agenda from the one suggested by its title. Faculty Affairs recommends that the new FA committee stay aware of the activities of this group since it has the potential to have a large impact on faculty activities.

Submitted by C.P. McRoy
3 May 2004

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	C.	Graduate Academic & Advisory Committee – C. Mulder

A report was attached to the agenda. 

	D.	Core Review - D. Schamel

A report was attached to the agenda. 

	E.	Curriculum Review - W. Schneider

The following report was distributed as a handout. 

Final report, Curriculum Review 2003-2004

The Curriculum Review committee has completed its review of courses submitted for review. In the Fall semester there were 129 requests and in the Spring semester there were 54. In most cases, the committee was able to easily approve the requests since they had been through extensive review at the department, school, and college levels.

The perspective we were able to bring to the review process centered more on larger questions such as, "If this course is dropped, then how do students get this type of information" or, in the case of new programs, "How can we be sure that this program will have the financial support it will need to continue and if it doesn't get the support then what will the impact be on students." In most cases if we were not able to actually resolve our questions, we were able to raise the issue with the department representatives who came to talk with us. This often led to a resolution and may have been helpful to the representatives, exposing them to the concerns of a campus-wide committee. For instance, in one case we questioned a policy statement by a department that would limit access to upper division classes to departmental majors and we were able to get them to agree to an amendment that would permit an instructor to approve admitting qualified students at the instructor's discretion.

Over the course of the year, we requested representatives from 12 departments to come and explain their requests and we were very pleased that 11 departments responded. In most cases, the representatives were able to clarify the issue and we were able to work out an approval for their request.

It may be helpful to note some of the issues that have come up over the year that influence the academic program we offer at UAF.

1) A healthy academic environment needs to offer new courses and programs as societal and industrial needs require.  In the present state financial environment, there is very little flexibility in the university budget to add new offerings. For instance, in evaluating the proposed Early Childhood Program, the committee recognized the value and need for this program but questions were raised about administrative support and a subsequent committee raised the question of student support after the enabling grant period ends. This type of problem can't be resolved without state funding. We mention it here as an observation about budgetary constraints and how they impact program development.

2) We noted that accreditation is a strong driving force that influences course offerings and that it must be balanced against the particular needs of our students. In several cases, our committee noted that it seemed like the argument offered for course changes was too strongly influenced by accreditation dictates.

3) One of the justifications offered for course changes was faculty turn over and the need for the curriculum to reflect the faculty's expertise. We hope that the turn over rate is used as an opportunity to build program in a well thought out direction and not just to excuse the dropping of courses in a particular area.

4) In those cases where there is a course that impacts other departments, there is a call for review by the impacted department but no sign off required to show they have reviewed the proposed change.  This can be done simply.

5) Some committee members were concerned about what appears to be fewer opportunities for students to get course instruction on the ethical issues that impact their particular discipline.

6) The course procedures manual should show curriculum council's deadlines.  Posting this will help.

Best wishes to next year's Curriculum Review committee

William Schneider, Chair, Curriculum Review

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	F.	Developmental Studies - J. Weber

A report was attached to the agenda. 

	G.	Faculty Appeals & Oversight - P. Layer

A report was attached to the agenda. 

	H.	Faculty Development, Assessment & Improvement – P. McCarthy

A report was attached to the agenda. 

	I.	Ad Hoc Committee on Unit Criteria - 

A report was attached to the agenda. 

X	Members' Comments/Questions

Pete Pinney indicated that the next candidate for Chancellor will be available at a number of open forums tomorrow.  Paul Layer indicated there needs to be more faculty involved in these open forums.  

Dan Odess indicated the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences will be held here May19-23.  In the second week of June the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilization will also hold their meeting in Fairbanks.  

Tim Stickel made an announcement about commencement on Sunday.  

XI	Announcements of Award Recipients    

	A.	Announcement of the Outstanding Senator of the Year Award 

	B.	Announcement of Usibelli Awards 

	C.	Announcement of Emeriti Faculty Awards 

	D.	Presentation of Resolution of Appreciation for Pete Pinney 

Abel Bult-Ito made a presentation of the Resolution of Appreciation for Pete Pinney.  

XII	Adjournment of the 2003-2004 Faculty Senate

	The 2003-2004 Faculty Senate was adjourned at 3:10 p.m.

XIII	2004-2005 Faculty Senate Members Take Their Seats

Abel Bult-Ito called the meeting of the 2004-2005 Faculty Senate to order at 3:25 p.m.

	A.	Roll Call of 2004-2005 Members

	ROLL CALL:
	
	Members Present:		Members Absent:
	Allen, J.				Bailey, S.
	Anahita, S.    			Barnhardt, C.
	Ayagarak, N.    			Erickson, K. 
	Barry, R. 				Iken, K.
	Boone, R. 				Nakaneczny, M.
	Bult-Ito, A.  			Newberry, R.
	Cahill, C. 				Reynolds, J.
	Cysewski, S.   			Roberts, L.
	Davis, M.      			Thompson, J. 
	Genetti, J.    			Wies, R. 
	Gray, P. 				
	Hannigan, M. 			
	Haugen, L.   			
	Herman, S.      			OTHERS PRESENT:  
	He'bert, M.    			Caufield, R. 
	Kawula, J.    			Foster, A. 
	Konar, B. (P. McRoy) 		Kaspari, P. 
	Leguard, J.  			Layral, S. 
	Patil, S.  (S. Khataniar)  	Lind, M. 
	Pinney, P.				Mulder, C.
	Prakash, A. 			Reichardt, P. 
	Shur, Y. 				Stickel, T. 
	Smith, J.   			
	Tannehill, L. (D. Moses)  
	Weber, J.			
	Wisen, C. 			
	Zhang, M. ( D. Misra)	

	B	President's Remarks - Abel Bult-Ito

Abel Bult-Ito welcomed the new members and thanked them for serving on the Faculty Senate.  Abel would like to pursue three goals next year.  One is to strengthen shared governance not only at UAF but also at the UA statewide level.  Communication with statewide has not been great and we will continue to work on that and get them to understand and respect shared governance.  The next mission is to break in the new chancellor.  Abel will do his best to enhance the communication between the new chancellor and the faculty so that the transition to new leadership will be as smooth as possible.  The third goal is to clarify language on elections especially for president-elect.  This is a task that will be assigned to Faculty Affairs Committee.  

	C.	President-elect remarks - Michael Hannigan

Michael Hannigan looked at the requirements for the job and he is still willing to serve.  He is looking forward to working with the Faculty Senate.   

Abel is also looking forward to working with Michael.  It will be interesting because Michael is in Nome.  This will add a new dimension to these meetings.  It will be very exciting.  He is also happy that Pete Pinney is still on the Senate.   Pete will continue on the Faculty Alliance.  

Pete Pinney indicated that the Chancellor has agreed to upgrade the audio equipment and we are working on that purchase.  He has also agreed to support faculty governance with some additional travel funds.  

XIV.	New Senate Business

A.	Motion to endorse 2004-2005 committee membership, submitted by Administrative Committee 

Abel Bult-Ito introduced the motion.  We still need a few members on the Unit Criteria Committee.  The motion passed unanimously.  

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to endorse the 2004-2005 committee membership as attached.

	EFFECTIVE:  	Immediately

	RATIONALE:  	New Senate members' preference for 
		committee selection were reviewed and weighted 
		against membership distribution from schools and 
		colleges.

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	B.	Motion to approve the 2004-2005 UAF Faculty Senate meeting calendar, submitted by Administrative Committee 

Abel Bult-Ito stated that this calendar follows what we have done in the past few years meeting on Mondays at 1:00 p.m.  Patty Gray said that this falls during her class time and would mean that she could not attend.  She asked about possibilities of changing the meeting times.  Patty asked that faculty be informed of the meeting times prior to running for the Faculty Senate.  The motion passed with one nay and one abstention.  

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to adopt the following calendar for its 2004-2005 meetings.

	EFFECTIVE:   	Immediately

	RATIONALE:  	Meetings have to be scheduled and the Wood 
		Center Carol Brown Ballroom reserved well in advance.

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				UAF FACULTY SENATE
					2004-2005
				  Calendar of Meetings

Mtg. # 	Date   		Day    	Time    	Type

124     	9/20/04     	Monday	1:00 p.m.	audioconference

125     	11/1/04     	Monday	1:00 p.m.	face-to-face 

126     	12/13/04   	Monday	1:00 p.m.	audioconference

127     	2/7/05		Monday	1:00 p.m.	audioconference

128   	3/7/05		Monday	1:00 p.m.	face-to-face

129    	4/4/05		Monday	1:00 p.m.	audioconference

130   	5/2/05		Monday	1:00 p.m.	face-to-face

Location:  Wood Center Carol Brown Ballroom 

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	C.	Motion to authorize the Administrative Committee to act on behalf of the Senate during the summer months, submitted by Administrative Committee 

Abel Bult-Ito indicated that this is a standard motion that authorizes the Administrative Committee to act on behalf of the Senate during the summer months.  The Administrative Committee consists of the President and President-Elect and the conveners/chairs of the standing and permanent committees.  The motion passed unanimously.  

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to authorize the Administrative Committee to act on behalf of the Senate on all matters within its purview which may arise until the Senate resumes deliberations in the Fall of 2004.  Senators will be kept informed of the Administrative Committee's meetings and will be encouraged to attend and participate in these meetings.

	EFFECTIVE:   	May 3, 2004

	RATIONALE: 	This motion will allow the Administrative 
		Committee to act on behalf of the Senate so that 
		necessary work can be accomplished and will also allow 
		Senators their rights to participate in the governance 
		process.

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A Reception  & Presentation of Awards will be at 4:00 p.m.

XV	Adjournment

	The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m.

	Tapes of this Faculty Senate meeting are in the Governance 
	Office, 312 Signers' Hall if anyone wishes to listen to the 
	complete tapes. 

	Submitted by Sheri Layral, Faculty Senate Secretary.