APRIL 10, 1986 Faculty Senate Meeting 1985 - 1986 I. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Coyne at 3:35 in RL1. Present: Coyne, Sweeney, Combs, Uldricks, Ruiz, Larson, Downes, and Bennett. Excused: Betts, Farzanegan, Grams, Henderson, Hollingsworth, Kormanik, & Shoaf. Vistors: L. Dorr, Rackham, Cooke, Howard, Cadle, Stern, Cochran, Brown, Seitz, J. Dorr, McConkey, & Marshall. II. Dr. Brown presented the Master Plan to the Senate with tentative changes and proposals along with a summary of legislative fund- ing needs. Afterwards he answered questions. He stated if anyone has suggestions to make to do so soon. The senate thanked Dr. Brown for presenting the tentative changes of the Master Plan. He also stated parking for faculty in faculty and student parking will be implemented in the next couple of days. III. The Administrative Report was presented by Dr. Dorr. A. He mentioned last week's "Blue Banner" article on the new pornographic law in the state. No changes are needed except in extent I.D.'s are required for certain movies. B. In regards to merit awards being made July lst, he will be involved in the review of recommendations of the chairman on the basis of faculty records but not involved in the final decisions made. IV. Dr. Rackham accepted the invitation to attend the Faculty Senate meeting and said hello in regards to his up-coming role as acting Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He stated he was looking forward to working with everyone and acknowledged the excellent job Dr. Dorr has accomplished since coming to UNC-A. V. All of the various documents (Documents No. 32 - 41) submitted to the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor have been approved except for the following exceptions: A. Senate Doc. #35: Physical Education requirement. Restore title to Health Promotion and Physical Education. This was made a retro-active editorial correction to the document. The records were amended retro-actively. B. Dr. Dorr only acknowledged the Senate resolution requiring a 9-hour teaching load because it is only a Senate resolut- ion. VI. Dr. Coyne stated only 8 senate members out of 15 were present. There must be at least 9 elected members present to have a quorum according to the constitution. He proposed to meet at another time to take action on the documents before the senate. He suggested the senate take this time to discuss the documents but only for discussion purposes. Everyone agreed. A. Executive Document #2: Tenure and Promotion. The Commit- tee of Tenured Faculty produced a document attempting to state what is expected for tenure and promotion, a statement for senate consideration that endorses this document. The UNC-A Faculty Senate recommends this document as guidelines used consistently for making recommendations for tenure and promotion. A suggestion was made to adopt it as a continuing document. Comments and other suggestions were made. B. Executive Document #3: Faculty Handbook. Dr. Browning has been acting as editor this year attempting to bring the handbook up-to-date. He suggested it be up-dated more often and there should be an editor of the handbook selected by the faculty (elected by the Faculty Senate) for a two-year term. Dr. Browning was mentioned for this position. Comments and suggestions were made. Executive Committee Document #3 is a suggestion. VII. The Academic Policies Committee gave a report on the general education arts course. The arts course will roughly compare to the humanities' model course. A. It will not be implemented until next year. B. Would like to pass it this year so concrete plans can be formed when it becomes a legislative reality. C. It's not finished in a sense of it's fullest details. D. No problems are seen with the course. E. People in the arts should work together this summer on this. F. Will use people from other disciplines to help with courses in order to draw upon their experience and resources. May use guest lecturers. Comments and suggestions were made. VIII Institutional Development Committee Report. They met last Tuesday. Their task was to divide $100,000. among three areas budget wise: 160, 171, & 180 ( student affairs, finance, physical planning, university planning, etc.) XIV. The Faculty Welfare Committee asked that the Faculty Development Program not be placed on the agenda today since the entire committee was going to be out-of-town. X. Elections were postponed. XI. On the agenda for the May meeting is the election of faculty representatives to the search committee for the next Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Also this will be the Organization meeting of the new senate. Everyone should be thinking about who to vote for. XII. A special meeting was set for April 24th to continue this business and probably the Masters of Liberal Studies Program from the Academic Policies Committee so that it can go down to Chapel Hill this summer. XIII The Senate expires on the 25th of April so business cannot be deferred beyond this at all. XIV. Also add to the agenda the proposal on the number of hours in majors and cognotes the departments can require for graduation. XV. No new business. XVI. Adjourned at 4:45.