MINUTES
UAF FACULTY SENATE MEETING #141
Monday, February 5, 2006
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Wood Center Conference Room C/D

I	Call to Order – Shirish Patil

Faculty Senate President Shirish Patil called the meeting to order at 1 p.m.

A.	Roll Call

Members Present:  
	Members Absent: 	
Allen, Jane 	Bret-Harte, Marion	
Anderson, Jodie	Burleson, Derick	
Bandopadhyay, S.	Dehn, Jonathan	
Berge, Anna	Kingsley, Ilana	
Brown, Liz	Zhang, Mingchu	
Cahill, Cathy		
Cascio, Julie		
Chowdhury, Ataur		
Collins, Jim		
Cooper, Christine (& Jaunelle Celaire)	Others Present: 	
Daku, Michael	Barnett, Tim	
Dandekar, Abhijit (Silke Schiewer)	Linda Hapsmith	
Davis, Mike	Hardy, Cindy	
Deters, Pamela	Horne, Naomi	
Freymueller, Jeff	Humphrey, Mike	
Genetti, Jon	Jones, Steve	
Iken, Katrin	Layral, Sheri	
Illingworth, Marjorie	Lindsey, Becky	
Konar, Brenda	Lower, Tim	
Lurman, Julie	Morrison, Joy	
Maxwell, David	Reichardt, Paul	
Newberry, Rainer		
Patil, Shirish		
Rickard, Anthony		
Roberts, Larry		
Rosenberg, Jonathan		
Sousa, Marsha		
Weber, Jane		
Wiechen, Heinz		
Zhou, Thomas		
Zhou, Wendy 		

Non-Voting Members Present:  
	Non-Voting Members Absent:	
Madsen, Eric - Dean, CEM	Gilkey, Sven - ASUAF	
Morrow, Phyllis - Dean, CLA	Francis-Chythlook, Oceana - GSO	
Stickel, Tim - Registrar	Illingworth, Ron - ACCFT	
Stepp, Jeff - Staff Council President 	United Academics-Adjunct - vacant	
Bult-Ito, Abel - UNAC		

B.	Approval of Minutes to Meeting #139 & 140

The minutes were approved as distributed.  

C.	Adoption of Agenda

The agenda was adopted as distributed. 

II	Status of Chancellor's Office Actions 
	A.	Motions Approved:
1.	Motion to require general studies students with 75 or more earned credits to declare a major prior to registration.
2.	Motion to amend the policy on Academic Disqualification.
3.	Motion to amend the minimum grade earned in all major and minor course work under the UAF General University Requirements.
4.	Motion to amend the Graduation with Honors policy.
5.	Motion to amend the Grade Point computation policy.
6.	Motion to amend the UAF Academic Honors policy.
7.	Motion to approve the deletion of the M.S. in Botany degree.
8.	Motion to approve the deletion of the M.S. in Zoology degree.
9.	Motion to approve a MFA/MA in Creative Writing and Literature degree program.
10.	Motion to approve the Unit Criteria for the Department of Foreign Language & Literature.
B.	Motions Pending:  none

III	Public Comments/Questions - none

IV	A.	President's Comments - Shirish Patil    

Shirish Patil provided an update on student success initiative at the statewide level.  Shirish has been working with Dave Veazey.  A draft plan is ready, however, it will continue to have changes as we move forward.  Currently the plan is being reviewed by faculty at each campus.  It will come to the Faculty Senate before it goes to the Systemwide Academic Council in mid to late March.    To follow up on the plan we will have Vince Tinto visit the UAF campus on March 27-28.  There will be several opportunities for faculty to interact with him during this visit.  Audio conferences with him are on going. (His website is:  http://suedweb.syr.edu/Faculty/Vtinto/index.html.) Dana Thomas, Pete Pinney, JoJo Ducharme and a number of faculty from UAA were online to give an update on where the campuses are headed.  Followed by this there will be a visit by George Kuh, who will be on campus August 15-16.  Pete H. will be on the Juneau campus sometime this spring.    

The VPAA search is well underway and four candidates will be invited for a site visit.  They are currently conducting reference and background checks.  Faculty forums will be held, with other sites on audio.  

Last fall Provost Reichardt asked Shirish to deal with a couple of issues:  Instructional Assessment and MAU Focus Areas.  Two ad hoc groups were appointed.  Shirish thanked members of the ad hoc committee on instructional assessment.  They have come up with some recommendations.  The question is--how best can UAF use the information?  Two perspectives:  promotion/tenure review and new instructor feedback.  The second work group looked at the MAU focus areas.  There was a document of the MAU focus areas that came from statewide to all campuses.  The ad hoc committee reviewed the document to see if it was accurate.  

Guaranteed tuition task force.  There are several challenges the task force is facing.  Since December the task force has met five times.  They are looking at two other institutions that have guaranteed tuition in place: Illinois State and Western Illinois University.  There is no institution that looks like the University of Alaska.  The task force is still working with Saichi Oba and will meet with the Coalition of Students.  

Guest speakers at the Senate meeting are Tim Barnett and Tim Lower from Student and Enrollment Services.  Later in the agenda will be Mike Humphrey and Naomi Horne and Becky Lindsey.

Jane asked about Vince Tinto and if his lectures will be audioconference.  Shirish indicated he will meet face to face with several faculty and there would be a forum for faculty that will be held by audio or videoconference.  

Shirish announced the Adult Learning Conference - "Innovations and Excellence in Teaching:  Celebrating the International Polar Year and the Adult Learner" to be held on February 28-March 2. Larry Roberts spoke briefly about the conference and invited faculty to attend any and all parts of the conference.   
Shirish announced that Abel Bult-Ito is the new United Academics representative to the Faculty Senate.  The new professional college dean representative is Eric Madsen.  

B.	President-elect's Report - Jon Genetti    

Jon Genetti spoke about the MAU focus areas and statewide responsibilities.  The document is targeted to the Board of Regents to help identify areas or specialties for each of the campus.  It is mainly a planning document and informational document for the Board of Regents.   

The Provost Council is having a retreat on Wednesday to discuss the academic development plan.  There is room for three or four more Faculty Senate representatives to attend.  

V	A.	Remarks by Chancellor Steve Jones Chancellor Jones provided an update on the Provost search.  They have narrowed the search to two finalist candidates who will visit campus later in the month.  The two candidates are Susan Henrichs and Dick Pratt.  (More information can be found on the Provost Search website at: http://www.uaf.edu/provost/provostsearch/provostsearch.html.)  

Chancellor Jones will travel to Juneau to attend the Board of Regents.  It will be very interesting to find out the feelings of the new Regents for the budget year ahead.  Budget talks range widely.  It will be interesting to hear what the thinking is in the various legislative offices and the sentiment the new regents bring to the table.  

Performance Based Budgeting allocations for FY08 are influenced by what the state budget looks like.  It's difficult right now to think about next year when the scenario ranges widely.  UAF received the performance-based allocations from statewide.  Last year it was $75,00 and this year it was increased to $800,000.  Of that, $560,000 will go to base and $240,000 to one time initiatives.  

The Chancellor was very impressed with the amount of time, the level of effort and commitment shown by faculty who served on the Promotion/Tenure committees.  He complemented the effort of committee members.  

There has been a leadership changes within the Cooperative Extension Service.  The Interim Director is Pete Pinney.  There will be a national search for a permanent director.  

Chancellor Jones gave another thank you to faculty, staff, students for enabling us to be ranked 5th in the country among small research universities by Academic Analytics and also the two top ten rankings for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences.

Ataur Chowdhury asked about the difference in the PBB levels from last year to this and what we did different.  The Chancellor would like to increase it each year.  We did a better job in telling our story.  We did a better job in convincing statewide administration that we were serious about it and we did a more effective job in helping them understand exactly what we were doing and why we were doing it.  The total pool was $2.1 million.   UAS received $250, 000 and UAA received $1.1 million.   Anchorage has increased their semester credit hours each year.  UAF has pulled 28 Anchorage students into our number in fall 2006.  Paul Reichardt indicated there was recent report on fall enrollments.  It would be a good document for the Faculty Senate to look at in detail to understand the actual enrollment profile.  Enrollment in off-road campus is up this year.  Fairbanks campus is low.  New graduate student enrollment is down.  The Chancellor reported that Susan Henrichs pointed out there is a strong correlation between the unemployment rate and student enrollment.

B.	Remarks by Provost P. Reichardt
Paul Reichardt reported on the search for a dean of CLA.  The closing date is February 15.  The committee is fine-tuning their interview questions.  

Paul has agreed to be the director of the UAF Vision Task Force.  This is a group of 55 individuals from both the university and outside the university who will look over the next six months at the UAF Strategic Plan and things that we have started on how to achieve the goals set out in that plan.  The task force will give advise to the Chancellor about thing that we should consider doing or not doing to achieve the outcomes of that plan.  The co-chairs of the six committees for each of the pathways met last week and talked about the direction that we want to talk.  Committee membership is finalized and preliminary work is underway for a two-day meeting in early March.  The committee will work until early summer to make recommendations.  Those recommendations will be worked into an overall recommendation by end of summer.  There will be a final meeting in September of the entire task force and a report presented to the Chancellor and ultimately to the Board of Regents. 

Institutional accreditation.  Paul distributed a copy of his letter commending faculty and staff who worked hard on the interim report.  We had an official action of "reaffirm accreditation".  UAF does not have to submit any more reports and no visits are required.  In 2011 UAF will have their comprehensive 10-year review.  This is great news and allows us to more forward instead of addressing deficiencies.  He is concerned that the institution not let accreditation sit until 2010 when we start the next self-study.  He pointed out two things that came out of the visit and evaluators comments are: 1) in order to meet the expectations on outcomes assessment, we have a ways to go.  By the time of the next review the expectation will be that every program in every university in the northwest will be doing outcomes assessment.  The second thing is, as an institution we need to pay attention to the financing of "academic infrastructure"--departmental supplies and services, travel budget for professional development, and instructional technology.  We need to make an effort to develop a new cadre of faculty and staff who are knowledgeable about accreditation issues.  We need to keep on top of accreditation standards.  VI	Guest Speakers

	A.	Tim Barnett, Vice Chancellor for Student & Enrollment Services

Tim Barnett gave a power point presentation on where Student and Enrollment Services is at, at this point related to the admission standard change.  There are eight sub-committees working.  Pete Pinney and Tim will do an analysis of the reports and the recommendations for changes.   Highlights of the slides are:  

ADMISSIONS
Data Driven Recruitment Process (working with PAIR)
Determine which students graduate
Focus recruitment on BA students
Email campaign (students who take SAT, ACT)
Track who reads and interact
Email campaign to date: 
220,000 email recipients
600+ started application process
Faculty involvement in recruitment
UA Scholars activities
Registration day
Visits to Anchorage and Fairbanks classroom
Articulation agreements
Streamline admission process
Privately funded scholarships; Set deadlines for applications
CAPP (Electronic Student Graduation Requirement Audit)  – allows faculty and students to check on how they are doing

STUDENT AFFAIRS
Northern Leadership Center – programs that will keep students involved in leadership 
Don’t cancel that class:  faculty out for conference can call career counseling, to schedule classroom presentations 
Early Warning System
Recruitment is an ongoing process--need to work hard at keeping them; baccalaureate intended retention rate is 75%, need to improve
Students need interaction with faculty (outside the classroom)

Ataur asked about percentage of students targeted from inside the state.  Tim indicated that 20% are from Alaska and 80% outside due to numbers people in the state.  Target states where we gotten students in the past.  Heinz asked about the overall cost for the email campaign.  Tim indicated that this is the first year for the program and they expect to have costs next year.  The cost is lower than sending bulk mail.  Shirish asked about the international student transcript evaluation.  They have contracted with a company to handle the international students transcript evaluation. There is a cost involved that the student is responsible for paying.  They have not seen any delays in the turn around time for the international evaluation.   

Joy asked about the recruitment effort in Anchorage.  Tim indicated there is a new admissions counselor in Anchorage who will be working with colleges/departments to have faculty visit schools. 

	B.	Tim Lower, Freshman & Transfer Services 
Tim Lower talked about the new Early Warning System.  It is a system that comprises of a number of things.   They would like to encourage referrals from faculty on students having difficulties.  They will take a student center approach.  Their goal is to get services for students depending on what their needs are.  They want to help students succeed.  This type of program has been successful at other institutions.  

Cindy Hardy asked about the types of issues and range of services.  Jane Weber asked faculty on the committee and if they knew about the Advising Center Early Warning service.  Linda Hapsmith stated that the Early Warning System was university-wide and culminated in the freshman progress reports.  Tim stated that the program reports might serve as another referral source.  Abel Bult-Ito asked whether students falling behind in his anatomy class should be referred to him.  Tim indicated that students having problems in one class might have problems in other classes or in the residence halls or other social related activities.  Pam Deters asked about student confidentiality.  Ataur indicated that many faculty were on the Early Warning System and they might want to look at the previous model.  Abel Bult-Ito suggests that Tim work closely with the Academic Advising Center.

VII	Governance Reports    

	A.	Staff Council - Jeff Stepp Jeff Stepp thanked Shirish for attending the New Staff Council Orientation and indicated that Shirish gave a good report on Faculty Senate issues.  Nomination for the Staff Recognition awards will open on Friday and close April 20.  

	B.	ASUAF -Sven Gilkey 
Sven Gilkey was in Juneau with the student delegation and was not available to give a report.  

C.	UACN – Abel Bult-Ito

Abel reported that United Academics will be holding a Representative Assembly meeting in Juneau and will be doing some lobbying on behalf of the faculty and the university.  Send any comments you would like to address to the legislature to him at ffab@uaf.edu.  

VIII	New Business  

A.	Motion to define academic credit for practicum, internship, or scholarly activity, submitted by the Curricular Affairs Committee 

Marsha Sousa indicated they were trying to help define the broad range of requirements for internships, practicum's, etc.  They have also added a line to clarify the time commitment expectations for students in lecture courses.  Margie expressed concerns from faculty in CTT and TM about the number of minutes for practicums.  She wondered if it could be divided into quarter credits.  Anna said that maybe a class with fewer hours doesn't fall within a practicum.  Marsha indicated they would not go back and look at existing courses.  Katrin Iken asked about definition of terms.  Marsha indicated there is overlap of terms.  They were trying for broad industry terminology.  The motion passed with 1 nay.  

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to define academic credit for practicum, internship, or scholarly activity as follows (2006-2007 UAF Catalog, page 221):  

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COURSE CREDITS

One credit represents satisfactory completion of 800 minutes of lecture or 1600 or 2400 minutes of laboratory (OR STUDIO OR OTHER SIMILAR ACTIVITY), whichever is appropriate. (IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT AN AVERAGE STUDENT WILL BE EXPECTED TO SPEND 1600 MINUTES OF STUDY AND PREPARATION OUTSIDE OF CLASS IN ORDER TO MEET THE LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THE UNIT OF CREDIT IN LECTURE.)  

THE FOLLOWING STANDARDS ESTABLISH THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR AN ACADEMIC UNIT OF CREDIT:  
	1.	800 MINUTES OF LECTURE (PLUS 1600 MINUTES OF STUDY)
	2.	1600 OR 2400 MINUTES OF LABORATORY (OR STUDIO OR 
OTHER SIMILAR ACTIVITY)
	3.	2400 - 4800 MINUTES OF SUPERVISED PRACTICUM
	4.	2400 - 8000 MINUTES OF INTERNSHIP (OR EXTERNSHIP, 
CLINICAL)
	5.	2400 - 4800 MINUTES OF SUPERVISED SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

Credit hours may not be divided, except one-half credit hours may be granted at the appropriate rate.  For short courses and classes of less than one semester in duration, course hours may not be compressed into fewer than three days per credit.  Any course compressed into fewer than six weeks must be approved by the college or school's curriculum council.  Furthermore, any core course compressed to less than six weeks must be approved by the core review committee.  

	Following the title of each course, the number of credits is listed for each semester.  Thus "3 credits" means three credits may be earned.  Credit may not be given more than once for a course unless a course has been designated as repeatable for credit.  Figures in parentheses at the end of course descriptions indicate the number of lecture; [[and]] laboratory; AND PRACTICUM, INTERNSHIP, OR SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY hours the class meets each week for one semester.  The first, lecture hours; the second, laboratory, AND THE THIRD PRACTICUM, INTERNSHIP OR SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY.  For example (2+3) indicates that a class has two hours of lecture and three of laboratory work each week.  A DESIGNATION (1 + 0 + 6) INDICATES THAT THE COURSE MEETS FOR ONE HOUR EACH WEEK OF LECTURE AND 6 HOURS EACH WEEK OF PRACTICUM, INTERNSHIP OR OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY.

	EFFECTIVE:  	Fall 2007

RATIONALE:  	With an increased number of programs requiring supervised work experiences prior to graduation, often to meet national standards, it has become important to establish some guidelines for awarding credit for these learning experiences outside of the traditional classroom.  The guidelines proposed are broad as is the terminology (internship, externship, scholarly activity) so they may encompass the variety of traditions and requirements in individual fields of study, as well as requirements of external accrediting agencies (NCATE, CAAHEP, etc.) 

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B.	Motion to amend the Residency Requirements for the Baccalaureate degree, submitted by Curricular Affairs Committee

Marsha stated that this motion makes it easier for students transferring within the UA system.  The motion passed unanimously.  

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend the Residency Requirements for the Baccalaureate degree (2006-2007 UAF Catalog, p. 112).  

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How to Earn a Baccalaureate Degree

General University Requirements (p. 112)

For a UAF bachelor's degree, you need at least 120 semester credits, including transfer credits.  Of these, 39 credits must be upper-division (300-level or above) OF WHICH 24 MUST BE UA RESIDENCE CREDITS AND 15 MUST BE UAF CREDITS.

At least 30 semester credits applicable to any baccalaureate degree must be earned at UAF.  Transfer students need to earn at least 24 upper-division semester credits at UA OF WHICH 15 MUST BE UAF CREDITS.  TRANSFER STUDENTS MUST EARN at least 12 semester credits in the major and at least 3 semester credits in the minor.  

Table 19.  General University Requirements for Baccalaureate Degrees 		
Minimum number of credits 	120 credits	
Credits earned at UAF (residence credit)	30 credits	
Upper-division credit (courses with numbers between 300 and 499)	39 credits total (some degrees require more); 24 of the 39 must be earned at UA AND 15 AT UAF	
Additional UAF credit that must be earned by transfer students	12 credits in the major; 3 credits in the minor	
Grade point average	2.0 cumulative and 2.0 in BOTH THE major and minor	
Minimum grades for major	No grade lower than C (2.0) in courses required for major	
Catalog year that can be used to determine requirements	May use any catalog in effect when enrolled as a degree-seeking student, regardless of major; seven-year limit on catalog year	
Second degree	24 credits beyond the first bachelor's degree and all requirements for the second degree must be met	

	EFFECTIVE:  	Fall 2007

RATIONALE:  	The purpose of the proposed change is to allow more flexibility for students transferring between MAUs of the University of Alaska.  

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C.	Motion to approved a Certificate in Power Generation, submitted by Curricular Affairs Committee 

Marsha indicated that the new certificate would complement the Process Technology degree.  This program comes out of a grant to meet industry needs.  The motion passed unanimously.  

MOTION:
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve a Certificate in Power Generation.  

	EFFECTIVE:  	Fall 2007 and/or
				Upon Board of Regents approval.

RATIONALE: 	See course proposals #126-129 and full program proposal #130 from the Fall 2006 review cycle on file in the Governance Office, 312 Signers' Hall.

Program is composed of general certificate requirements and 29 credits in PGEN, PRT and WMT courses for a total of 38 credits.  

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Statement of Proposed Program:  

The power generation program will help students develop entry-level skills needed in industrial and commercial electrical power generation and maintenance.  Courses combine the technical know-how and hands-on experience necessary to develop entry level workers in a variety of power generation and industrial fields. In the classroom students will become familiar with the operation and maintenance of the standard equipment encountered in the power generation industry. 

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IX	Guest Speakers

	A.	Wellness & the WIN Program - Mike Humphrey, UA Benefits  

Mike Humphrey gave a power point presentation about the university's wellness program and the new WIN program.  He touched on the employers health cost increases, health risks, and preventable claims cost.  Mike reviewed the actions taken by UA in 2005 and 2006, including the health risk assessment and telephonic coaching and the new WIN for Alaska program.  UA's objectives included establishing a culture of wellness at UA and decreasing UA's most prevalent health risks.  The WIN's program focus includes 1) increase awareness of health risks, 2) reduce the number of health risks, 3) increase participation of health behaviors, 4) provide a supportive environment for lifestyle changes, and 5) increase employee satisfaction and morale.  It is a statewide program in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau with monthly onsite seminars, events, and workshops.  

Ataur said that we need to focus more on prevention.  Supplementing the SRC membership fee as the rebate would be a good start.  Other recommendations include holding health fairs and paying for basic lab tests.  Joy seconded the remarks.  Heinz commented about the vending machines.  Mike said there were wonderful ideas and that it is a growing program and we need to spend dollars wisely.  Additional access to SRC comes up routinely.  

Mike was asked to speak about the retirement medical program.  There is concern about the overall state of the retirement plan.  As the State of Alaska and the University of Alaska move from defined benefit plan to defined contribution plan, there is no medical plan.  The defined contribution plan is based on how the stock market performs.  One of the holes of the ORP is access to health care upon retirement.  One thing they are looking at is how to restructure the ORP plan to have access to a health care upon retirement.  One group they are looking at is Emeriti, funded by the Melon Foundation.  One question is can we pass the IRS discrimination testing.  We provided Emeriti with information and they said yes we can pass the test.  Consultants are looking to see if there are other vendors.  They will continue discussions with Emeriti.  This program would be optional to current employees and for new employees it might be mandatory.  In order to accomplish this goal of having some kind of health care program, we might end up with an ORP Tier IV.  

	B.	Employee Giving - Naomi Horne & Becky Lindsey, UAF Development

Becky and Naomi talked about heading up an annual giving program at UAF.  The Office of Development wants to breathe new life into the program.  Their campaign includes sharing student success stories and other great happenings.  Becky thanked everyone who has already made donations.  Included in the annual giving program is the annual employee-giving program.  Naomi indicated they are hoping to start this new program this spring.  They are opening up the doors to learn what works.  A focus group will meet on Tuesday, February 20 in the Kayak Room at noon.  They are very interested in feedback.  They are also looking at models from other universities.  Shirish asked about designating funds to a department/program/scholarship.  For more information contact them at Becky.Lindsey@uaf.edu or Naomi.horne@uaf.edu.  

X	Committee Reports     
	A.	Curricular Affairs - Marsha Sousa A report was attached to the agenda.  Their next meeting is right after this meeting.  

	B.	Faculty Affairs - Sukumar BandopadhyayNo report was available.  The committee is discussing special circumstances for emeriti status.  They are looking for consistency in the process across the campus and across years.  
	C.	Unit Criteria - Debasmita Misra A report was attached to the agenda. 

	D.	Committee on the Status of Women - Jane WeberJane indicated the committee will hold their next meeting on February 13.  

	E.	Core Review - Michael Harris 
No report was available.

	F.	Curriculum Review - Rainer Newberry
No report given. 

	G.	Developmental Studies - Cindy Hardy 
The following report was distributed as a handout.  Cindy indicated they are looking at the Task Force reports and they will be forwarding a motion in support of the recommendations.   
Minutes of the Faculty Senate
Developmental Studies Committee
January 26, 2007

Attendees:  Victor Zinger, Cindy Hardy, Sue McHenry, Marji Illingworth, Joe Dupras, Nancy Ayagarak, Joe Mason, John Creed, Ron Illingworth, Jane Allen, Brian Rasley

Updates on Chancellor’s Taskforces: 
	
•	The committee reviewed the report of the Developmental Education Implementation Task Force to the Vice-Chancellor for Rural, Community and Native Education on Recommendations for Improving Developmental Education at UAF.  

We agreed with the recommendations of the task force and will draft a motion in support to the recommendations for the next Faculty Senate meeting.  Joe Dupras has agreed to draft this.
 
Our discussion focused on the following issues:

The report suggests that the Department of Developmental Education should systematically assess characteristics of developmental students to create baseline data to produce a working profile of successful and unsuccessful students by Spring 07.   Dana Thomas thinks he has a tool that could easily accomplish this.   In October, our committee suggested setting up such a survey; however, the committee now feels this is a task the Department should handle.  The committee supports the department in this.

	There is a strong statement in the report that a Learning Center should be part of Developmental Education.  This is supported by Dean, but currently without resources.  Further, the learning center concept described is designed for main campus but could benefit from and assist similar centers on rural campuses.  The committee is concerned about turf issues that may arise: e.g. would English Dept Writing Center or other existing centers be in competition for funding for this type of center?  The committee supports the department in asking for a commitment of resources in order to go forward.

	We discussed the recommendation that Department of Developmental Education faculty take the lead to more fully integrate developmental course design with that of subsequent baccalaureate core courses, in conjunction with the various departments at UAF, to improve the linkage between departments and student success.  Discussion on this topic has begun with English through the acting composition director.  Marjorie has also been working on this, creating a list of stated and unstated prerequisites for core classes.  As mandatory placement comes in, what do we expect students to come in and leave with?  How can we articulate with the English and Math Departments their expectations of students entering their classes?  Resolving this issue could have broad, statewide impact.  For example, school districts are also asking what is expected of students entering English 111.

Two other taskforces which impact Developmental Education—Retention and Mandatory Placement—are in the process of drafting their reports.  We anticipate that as the recommendations of all these reports are implemented, this committee will have plenty to do.

Items for discussion and action:

Committee name and role:   In response to a query from a member of the task force we again reviewed the role and title of this committee.  We agreed that the role of this committee could begin to diminish once the Department of Developmental Education matures.  However, we anticipate a need for a student success committee, which would be a logical evolution of the Developmental Studies Committee.  Ron raised a concern that developmental courses would not get adequate service from a standard review committee and that we should insist on retaining the curriculum review oversight we currently have.  This committee has the experience with and understanding of developmental coursework and thus has an interest in protecting the status of developmental courses.  We will continue to address how we can expand the focus/role of this committee.  

Survey of student needs and impediments to success:   We agreed that this is best done through the Department.

Days and times of Spring Semester meetings:
The meetings will be held 11:30-1 pm on the following Fridays:
	February 16
	March 9
	April 13
	(April 20 can be used for a backup date if needed.)

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	H.	Faculty Appeals & Oversight - Norm Swazo No report was available. 

	I.	Faculty Development, Assessment & Improvement - Larry Roberts 
A report was attached to the agenda.   Larry again talked about the upcoming conference.  

J.	Graduate Academic & Advisory Committee - Cathy Cahill 

 The committee will hold a meeting on February 6.  

XI	Members' Comments/Questions
Sheri stated that Faculty Senate election material has been distributed to the various deans.  Please work with them to identify faculty willing to run for election.  

XII	AdjournmentThe meeting was adjourned at 3:15 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.