Nursing Faculty Meeting

Agenda Topic

1. Approval of minutes, 11/29/2005

2. Updates

3. Student Recruitment

4. Student Evaluation of Course Instrument

5. Other

6. Regents Professor Announcement

7. Next Meeting

Minutes

1. Motion was made by Dr. J. Hamilton to approve the minutes as written. Seconded by Dr. B. Nutter. Motion carried unanimously.

2. Dr. Mueller shared updates from the January Senate Executive Committee Meeting with Dr. Lotven on the following:

A. Faculty Evaluation of Dean

The instrument sent forward by the Senate in Spring 2005 is being updated and revised.

B. Faculty Performance Evaluation

The instrument sent forward by the Senate in November is still being revised by the Deans.

C. Faculty Grievance

The draft document approved by the Senate on November 29, 2005 was submitted to Dr. Lotven.

D. Faculty Development (Sabbatical Leave)

The Provost is in favor of designing a proposal. Gene Mueller, chair, Michael Perri, and Bosede Aworuwa were appointed to the committee to draft a proposal.

E. Post Tenure Review Rule

The Rule approved by Faculty in September was sent to the System Office earlier this semester.

F. Spring Course Evaluation

Course evaluations will be completed in early March just as last spring. Senate members voiced concern that a course could not adequately and accurately be evaluated by the students at midterm.

Senators requested that the Provost be asked to reevaluate the time-frame for spring course evaluation by students.

G. Downward Expansion

Optimistically the new time-line is for lower division courses to be initially offered in Fall 2009.

3. The Provost suggested that everyone at the University participate in recruitment of new students. Dr. Mueller reminded faculty that a counting year begins with Summer I 2006 enrollment and continues through Spring 2007.

Senators suggested that there may be a need for better coordination of course offering times between colleges to allow students to take more SCH while coming to campus only 2 days/week

4. A motion was made by Dr. P. Worrell to approve the document as presented (See attached). Seconded by Dr. K. Levintova.

An amendment motion to split item #6 of the evaluation into two separate items “Class sessions were organized” and “Class sessions were flexible to meet educational needs” was made by Dr. G. Bugh and seconded by Dr. T. Jordan. The motion was defeated with the vote as follows:

For-6; Against-17, Abstain-1.

A second amendment motion to delete item #6 from the evaluation form was made by Dr. T. Wagy and seconded by Dr. C. McDonald. The motion was defeated with the vote as follows: For-6; Against-13, Abstain-6.

The original motion carried with 22 in Favor, 1 Against, and 2 Abstentions.

5. The Faculty Senate recommends that office hours be defined as follows: Each faculty member will post four (4) hours/week that are scheduled

immediately prior to and/or following classes and that these hours must be kept except for exceptional circumstances. A motion was made by Dr. D. Kern

and seconded by Dr. T. Jordan to accept the recommendation. The motion carried with 19 in Favor, 1 Against, and 5 Abstentions.

Dr. L. Walker presented the following documents : Southern Association of College and Schools Requirements for Quality Enhancement Plan and QEP Goals and Initiatives. The QEP leadership initiative will be sent with the SACs documents in the next few days. She stated that her understanding is that each college will design a leadership course and begin offering it in the Fall 2006 semester. Dr. T. Fowler, a member of the Leadership Initiative Committee, presented information about the committee.

6. Dr. Mueller announced that Dr. Doris Davis has been named a Regent’s Professor by the A&M System. The Senate unanimously congratulated Dr. Davis for her achievement.

7. March 24, 2006 at 9:30 am in Room 141N