The University Of North Carolina At Asheville
                     Faculty Senate Minutes
                        January 31, 1978


The Faculty Senate met Thursday, January 31, 1978, at 3:30 p.m.
in RL1 of the Library with Dr. Cole, Second Vice Chairman,
presiding.  

Members present:  Dr. Andrade, Mr. Bernhardt, Dr. Boland, 
Dr. Bruce, Dr. Cole, Dr. Farzanegan, Dr. Gillum, Dr. Howard, 
Dr. O'Donnell, Dr. Perry, Dr. Riggs, Dr. Shoaf, Dr. Squibb, 
Dr. Stern, Dr. Walker, Dr. Wilson.  

Visitors present:  Mrs. Cadle, Dr. Hart, Dr. Otti, Dr. Scism, Dr.
Seitz.  



Dr. Cole stated that Dr. Browning was serving jury duty and that
since Dr. Walker was chairman of APC and had quite a bit of
business to present to the Senate he had asked Dr. Cole to
preside over the meeting.

Dr. Cole asked for any corrections to the December 8 Senate
minutes.  Dr. Wilson said Dr. Stevens had contacted him with
regard to a change.  The first page, last paragraph, sixth line,
the sentence beginning "Each Department would design and
administer its own evaluation...." should be changed to read
"Each department would design and administer its own evaluation,
the results of which could be kept on file by the department and
the individual.  The procedure would be on file in the
department, in the library, and with a third party."  The minutes
were approved as corrected.

Next on the agenda was a report from the Academic Policies
Committee.  Dr. Walker distributed copies of APC Documents 2, 3,
5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.  He then moved adoption of APC Document #2, a
catalog change on page 62 of the current catalog dealing with
Pre-Medical, Dental and Law programs.  Dr. Perry seconded the
motion.  Dr. Walker said this document was discussed briefly at
the last meeting but due to the lack of time it was felt action
should be deferred until the document could be discussed more in
detail.  He said no changes had been made to the document.

Dr. Otti said that the sense of the discussion at the last
meeting was that the inclusion of the phrase "...degree program
at another school in the United States..." might imply that
foreign schools would not be considered.  She said there was an
increasing probability that more and more students would have to
go to foreign schools and this might discourage them.  She felt a
sentence should be added as follows:  "Work done at professional
schools outside the United States may be approved on an
individual basis by the Degree Programs Committee."  Dr. Riggs
said this was discussed in APC and it was felt that a statement
of this nature should be kept in the Registrar's office but it
would not be necessary to have it stated in the catalog.  After
further discussion Dr. Bruce called the question and the motion
passed unanimously.

Dr. Walker moved adoption of APC Document #3 dealing with
curriculum changes in the Management Department.  Dr. Boland
seconded the motion.  Dr. Walker said this document was also
discussed at the last Senate meeting and action was deferred due
to lack of time.  He said these changes were studied very
carefully in APC and were also discussed with Dr. Hart.  The
question was called and the motion passed unanimously.

Dr. Walker moved adoption of APC #5, the deletion and addition of
a course in the biology curriculum.  The motion, seconded by Dr.
Andrade, passed unanimously.  

Dr. Walker moved adoption of APC Document #6, the addition of a
course in the Economics Department.  Dr. Howard seconded the
motion.  Dr. O'Donnell explained that this course had been needed
for some time but staffing problems had prevented adding the
course.  The question was called and the motion passed
unanimously.

Dr. Walker moved adoption of APC Document #7, changes in the
Political Science curriculum.  Dr. Shoaf seconded the motion. 
Dr. Scism pointed out a change which needed to be made in the
course description for Political Science 105.  The following
sentence should be added as the last sentence of the description: 
"Students will participate in simulation games which replicate
these issues and problems in a laboratory setting."  Also, with
reference to the deletion of Program C, the joint Political
Science-Philosophy major, this program should be deleted from the
Philosophy section of the catalog.  Dr. Scism said several of the
changes were made because of two faculty members leaving and his
joining the department and also because some of the courses had
not been offered for some time.  He said the changes had been
discussed with Mrs. Cadle and that she had made suggestions which
he felt would be advantageous to the students.  The question was
called and the motion passed unanimously.

Dr. Walker moved adoption of APC Document #8, changes from the
Department of Education.  The motion, seconded by Dr. Boland,
passed unanimously.

Dr. Walker moved adoption of APC Document #9, changes in the Art
Curriculum.  Mr. Bernhardt seconded the motion.  Dr. Walker asked
Mrs. Cadle to speak to these changes.

Mrs. Cadle said the Art Department was offering a complete major
at night.  The reason for adding the lab courses was because
courses taught at night on a semester basis need to meet a longer
period of time due to the amount of time it takes to set up for
the class and to clean up afterwards.  These lab courses would
only be offered at night for night students and only in
conjunction with the basic courses.  Dr. Cole asked if a
statement to this effect would be put in the catalog and also if
the APC was in reasonable agreement with this document.  Dr.
Riggs said a statement would be put in the schedule concerning
the lab courses.  Dr. Walker stated that APC was in agreement,
that it seemed a fairly reasonable way to get at something that
needed to be done.  Dr. Cole then asked if these courses would be
required of night students.  Dr. Riggs said they would be.  Mrs.
Cadle said the reason for changing the numbers of the painting
and ceramics courses was so the numbering sequence would be more
in order.  The question was called and the motion passed
unanimously.

Dr. Cole reported for the Institutional Development Committee. 
He said this committee would be meeting to discuss non-tenured
track reappointments of the appropriate faculty members in its
advisory role to the Vice Chancellor.  He said this would be
confidential.

Dr. Cole called on Dr. Wilson for a report from the Faculty
Welfare Committee.

Dr. Wilson said a memo would be sent out soon listing two items: 
(1) the Board of Trustees has approved the TIAA-CREF tax
sheltered annuity plan.  Any interested person should contact
John Neuse in the Business Office,  (2) the Board of Governors
has purchased liability insurance for state employees.  Mr. Pott
has distributed inserts for the Policies and Procedures Manual
(kept in all departments) concerning the insurance and faculty
should check the Manual if they are interested in this.  

Dr. Wilson said the Faculty Welfare Committee had not met
extensively this year and progress on the Faculty Handbook has
been slow.  However, he felt this work would move more rapidly
from now on.

Dr. Wilson distributed a proposal from the Faculty Welfare
Committee concerning the status of faculty ranked as lecturers,
visiting, adjunct, research, etc., and on one-year special
appointments.  There are several faculty members with this
special status and these people are not allowed to participate in
the Faculty Senate, voting, etc.  They are excluded in the Senate
Constitution.  Dr. Wilson said this proposed amendment to the
Constitution would revise the definition of faculty as stated in
the current constitution.  Any amendment to the Constitution
requires a 30 day notice before it can be voted on.

There was lengthy discussion concerning the proposal.  The length
of the special appointments would be one obvious problem since
Senators are elected in April and most of the special
appointments would end in May.  Dr.  Riggs pointed out that a
faculty member could only hold the rank of "visiting" for two
years but lecturers could be appointed for from one to five years
and he said he did not know if a distinction could be made.  Dr.
Wilson said the Faculty Welfare Committee's main concern was for
faculty who had been here for a number of years on a special
appointment.  It was also pointed out that Senators were elected
for a two-year period but that the Constitution speaks to the 
matter of filling vacancies.

Dr. Wilson moved that the proposed amendment be presented to the
faculty for a vote at least 30 days after they received it.  Dr.
Bruce seconded the motion.

There was further discussion as to how Senate ballots were
prepared with regard to faculty on one-year appointments, the
fact that there probably would be a greater use made of these
categories in the future, and the wording of the proposal.  Dr.
Farzanegan felt the words "multi-year" should be inserted in the
first sentence of the third paragraph of the proposed amendment
making it read "Membership in the faculty will also include
persons holding special multi-year appointments to faculty
status..."   Dr. Walker suggested adding a statement to the third
paragraph as follows:  "This provision dos not apply to such
faculty during their initial one-year appointment."  After
further discussion, Dr. Squibb moved to amend the proposal as
follows:  in the second line of the third paragraph change the
phrase "at least the equivalent of a 50% load" to read "teaching
a full-time load."  Also, in the sixth line the phrase "at least
50% equivalent teaching responsibility" to read "who carry in a
given academic year a full-time teaching responsibility."  Dr.
Perry seconded the motion.  Dr. Squibb said he felt that people
who are considered faculty should be teaching full-time.  Also,
he said, with regard to faculty voting or being elected to the
Senate during their first initial appointment, it takes a while
to get to know the University and what is going on, and he felt
there should be a one-year trial period for special appointments. 
Dr. Wilson asked Dr. Riggs to speak as to how the part-time
faculty were contracted.  Dr. Riggs said that most of them were
contracted for a course at a time for a term at a time.  Over the
course of a year some of these people do teach the equivalent of
a 50% load or more.

Dr. Shoaf moved to table the proposal until the February Senate
meeting.  The motion, seconded by Dr. Farzanegan, passed with two
opposing votes.

Dr. Cole asked for further business.

Dr. Riggs said Dr. Browning had asked him to comment on a couple
of matters.  First, the question has been raised as to who
decides when to cancel or postpone classes because of snow.  He
said that when the Chancellor was in town the decision was made
by him.  When the Chancellor is out of town Dr. Riggs said the
decision was left up to him.  As for evening classes, there is
consultation with WCU and usually the same decision is made for
both institutions.

The other matter had to do with the faculty workload study for
the university system.  Dr. Riggs distributed a copy of a revised
draft for faculty activity survey.  Dr. Riggs said comments and
suggestions made by various campuses had been incorporated into
this version and that there would be a pilot run done at a few
institutions.  He said he and Dr. Browning would be attending
another meeting on March 8 to get results of the pilot study and
this questionnaire.  Dr. Riggs asked the Senate to study the
draft questionnaire and if anyone had any questions or
suggestions to please contact him or Dr. Browning.

Dr. Boland said he realized that Dr. Walker, as chairman of APC,
was very busy, but he wondered if, in the future, APC Documents
could be distributed earlier, perhaps a couple of days before the
Senate meetings, in order to have more time to study the changes. 
He said he felt it was difficult to do an adequate job of
evaluating the changes on such short notice.

Dr. Bruce asked if there was a report from the Search Committee. 
Dr. Perry said that he and Dr. Trullinger would be leaving on
Wednesday, February 1, to visit two of the candidates.  He said
they hoped to make recommendations to the Chancellor some time
the next week.

The next Senate meeting was set for Tuesday, February 21, at 3:30
pm in RL1.

The meeting adjourned at 5:10 pm.

APPROVED:  Jack Wilson                     Jacquelyn Peterson
           Faculty Senate Secretary        Secretary