University of North Carolina at Asheville
                        FACULTY SENATE MEETING
                      Minutes, September 12, 1991
  
  Senate 
  Members:   A. Coyne, F. Davenport, L. Dorr, B. Greenawalt, 
             A. Hantz, G. Henderson, D. Lisnerski, C. McClary, 
             D. Mullen,  S. Obergfell, B. Sabo, D. Van Engelen, 
             L. Wilson

  Excused:   J. Rackham

   Absent:   M. Gillum, P. Nickless

  Visitors:  M. Fox (SGA), J. Garrett, D. Harmon, S. Klepper (Blue
             Banner), S. Schuman, B. Yearout 

   
       
   I.  Call to Order
       The 1991-92 Faculty Senate met on Thursday, September 12, 1991,
in Karpen Hall - room 005.  Alan Hantz, Chair, called the meeting to
order at 3:35 pm.

  II.  Minutes      
       Dr. Hantz presented the May 9, 1991 minutes for approval.  The
minutes were moved for approval (Lisnerski/Coyne).  The following
corrections were made:  page 2, delete the apostrophe from the word
"residents"; page 3, change the word "new" to "news".  The minutes
were approved as corrected.    
   
 III.  Administrative Report
       Chancellor Schuman's Comments
       - Dr. Roy Carroll - Heart Attack
       Dr. Schuman received word this afternoon that Dr. Roy Carroll
suffered a heart attack last night.  Dr. Carroll's office in Chapel
Hill reported that while his condition is serious, the prognosis is
optimistic.  Dr. Carroll's address will be sent to faculty through
campus mail. 
       - Priorities   
       Dr. Schuman reaffirmed his belief that UNCA is a sound and
vigorous place and not one that is in need of dramatic alteration. 
Three academic areas of particular importance to Dr. Schuman were:  
1) internationalization of the curriculum and instructional programs,
2) strengthening areas of distinction, such as the Undergraduate
Research program, and 3) emphasizing quality over quantity.  Dr.
Schuman motto was, "Do less and do it better."    
       Dr. Schuman affirmed his sense of a need to re-visit the campus
master plan created about six years ago and stressed the importance of
maintenance.  His top building priority is to bring the old and new
sections of the library into full use.  Dr. Schuman anticipates that
the UNC system will receive $14M for maintenance and repair.  Other
items of importance included a new residence hall and dining facility,
expanding the gym, finishing Karpen Hall, and moving forward on the
Center for Creative Retirement Conference Center.
       Dr. Larry Wilson has been appointed Chairman of the Athletics
Review Task Force.  
       Priority areas in student affairs include: 1) cultivating a
more diverse community in terms of the student body as well as the
faculty and staff; 2) building esprit in the sense of community
empowerment and bonding on the part of the student body, and 3)
working to make campus day care a reality.
       Dr. Schuman is awaiting guidelines on the General
Administration's interpretation of the new flexibility legislation.  
       Development and fund raising continues to be a top priority for
Dr. Schuman and he has spent a good deal of time making some
preliminary calls.  
       -  President Spangler's Gift
       President Spangler gave a generous gift of $125,000 to UNCA;
$115K from the C.D. Spangler Foundation and another $10K from
President Spangler personally.  The money will be used to create an
endowment for faculty development and instructional advancement.  
       Dr. Schuman welcomes responses or advice from faculty. 
      
       Administrative Report
       Dr. Larry Wilson, VCAA, gave the Administrative Report.
       -  Budget
       UNCA received a $440K reduction in this year's budget in
addition to an earlier reduction of $912K; consequently, UNCA's
reserve funds normally held until second semester have been reduced
from $480K to $40K.  
       -  Personnel
       Efforts are underway to fill personnel vacancies.  Due to
changes in the number of faculty members in August, more adjunct money
than anticipated is available for next semester.   
       -  Enrollment
       UNCA has a Fall enrollment of 2,580 FTE; Dr. Wilson believes
this figure will be safely within the 2,500 FTE target for the year
average.  
       There are 346 new Freshman this year which represents a slight
decrease compared to last year.  However, this class has increased
substantially in the traditional measures of quality.  The average
Freshman SAT score is 1,028 compared to 997 last year.  Two-thirds of
the new Freshman are in the top fifth of their class compared to less
than 60% last year.  
       UNCA has 276 new Transfers, down fifteen from last year.  This
decrease is a result of trying to match in-coming students' interest
and ability.  The average Transfer GPA is 2.68, up from about 2.2 last
year.  
       Retention of current students was less than expected based on
last spring's pre-registration.  There was a nine percent increase in
continuing students pre-registering last spring; this figure decreased
quite a bit but is still substantial in improvement.  An analysis of
this is still underway.  Retention of continuing Freshman increased by
one percent compared to a year ago.  This figure has increased each of
the last four years.    
       UNCA has 79 Honors students out of the 80 anticipated.  The 
average Honors SAT score is 1,130. 
       - Liberal Arts Mission
       On July 29, 1991, Chancellor Schuman sent a letter to Ernie
Boyer, President of the Carnegie Foundation, citing our case for
reclassification from Comprehensive I to Liberal Arts I or II.  This
was a follow up on action taken by the Faculty Senate last year.
       - New Freshman Trends
       Dr. Wilson circulated a graph of new Freshman trends developed
by Dr. Archer Gravely.               
     
  IV.  Executive Committee Report
       Dr. Hantz gave the Executive Committee Report.
       Dr. Hantz thanked Dr. Sabo for filling in for him at the
convocation.     
       Parking
       Dr. Hantz stated that a new resolution concerning parking will
be introduced during Old Business and postponed discussion until that
time.  
       Resolutions    
       Two resolutions passed by the Senate last year have
implications for this year.  These include a request for a report by
November 1991 from "appropriate administrators" on the results of
their study to convert UNCA's salary compensation for summer teaching
to a percentage basis of the nine month salary, as well as a report by
November from the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs regarding the
incorporation of the various principles of anti-discrimination into
the student grievance procedures.
       SACS  
       Dr. Hantz explained the Senate's involvement in the on-going
SACS accreditation process.  A copy of the documents to be reviewed
will be placed on reserve in Ramsey Library.  Discussions will take
place in executive committee meetings and they will make comments to
the UPC.  The UPC will communicate directly with Dr. Browning
regarding any concerns that are raised, either by the executive
committee or the planning council.  If there is something that the UPC
or the executive committee deems very serious then it can come to the
Senate.
       Graduate Center Funding
       Last year the Senate passed a resolution asking the Chancellor
to make resolution of the funding issue for the Graduate Center a
priority for 1990-91, specifically in relation to Western Carolina
University's contribution.  Dr. Gene McDowell requested a meeting with
Dr. Hantz and shared information with him freely about his operation.
       Other on-going issues
       Dr. Hantz listed the following areas where the Faculty Senate
will be working this year:  the APC will begin its review of general
education; the Planning Council will be involved in the departments'
self studies as well as the SACS accreditation work; the FWDC will be
very busy in an attempt to recommend committee changes for the
university.  UNCA currently has 25 committees and 15 task forces, with
more seats on these than there are faculty members by a factor of 1.5. 
As FWDC is only a three person committee, Dr. Hantz and Dr. Wilson
have both volunteered to make themselves available to work with the
committee.  
       Elections
       After reading the Senate Constitution, Dr. Hantz found that the
Constitution states that the executive committee is responsible for
carrying out elections.  Given FWDC's workload this year, it may be
necessary for the executive committee to resume these
responsibilities.  
       Academic Calendars
       Dr. Hantz received academic calendars for 1992-93 and 1993-94
from Dr. Tom Cochran.  Copies of the 1992-93 calendar were distributed
for perusal and comments.  The executive committee will review the
1992-93 calendar and bring it to the Senate as an executive committee
document.        
       Annual University Relations Advisory Committee Report
       Dr. Beverly Cutter-Modlin will present the annual University
Relations Advisory Committee report at the October Senate meeting.  
       Senate Documents
       Nearly all Senate documents from 1979 to the present are
available to faculty by way of VAX.  The user id is: SENATEDOC and the
password is MINUTES.  If you would like information on the Senate
document system please contact Sandra Gravely.  
       Executive Committee Meetings
       The Executive Committee will meet regularly on the last
Thursday of the month to prepare the agenda for the following Senate
meeting.  Please notify Dr. Hantz or Sandra Gravely by telephone or e-
mail with information for the meeting.  
       Spangler Gift
       The Executive Committee met to consider an appropriate response
to President Spangler's generous gift to the university and asked Dr.
Greenawalt to write a resolution of thanks.  Dr. Bruce Greenawalt
distributed Resolution #1 and moved approval of the document.  The
motion was seconded by Dr. Sabo.  Editorial changes were made to the
resolution.  Resolution #1 passed unanimously and became Senate
Document #0191F.
   
   V.  Academic Policies Committee Report
       Dr. Bill Sabo reported for the Academic Policies Committee.
       APC's first meeting is scheduled for September 19th.  Next week
APC members will receive a new agenda, two documents, and the schedule
for the General Education Review that will be undertaken this year,
along with the rules governing the review.       

  VI.  Institutional Development Committee Report
       Dr. Don Lisnerski reported for the Institutional Development
Committee.  
       The UPC plans to meet twice a month and will hold its first
meeting on September 20th.  Dr. Hantz stated that Education's Self
Study was distributed at the final UPC meeting last year and should be
included on IDC's agenda.

 VII.  Faculty Welfare and Development Committee
       Dr. Bruce Greenawalt gave the Faculty Welfare and Development
Committee Report.
       Committee Assignments
       The FWDC met with Vice Chancellor Wilson last August to work
out committee assignments based on last year's experience and input
from faculty who submitted their questionnaire.  Any faculty member
interested in learning of their committee assignments early should
contact Jackie Peterson as soon as possible.  
       Tenure
       Last year the Senate referred to FWDC the revisions in the
document suggested by the Tenure Committee.  In response to this
request, a public hearing and discussion on Tenure will take place
later this Fall.
       New Dental Plan
       A new dental plan which appears to be superior to last year's
plan is underway.  Linda Franklin will be holding meetings concerning
the plan in the near future. 
       Academic Appeals Election 
       The Academic Appeals Election will be held toward the end of
September.  The SGA should be selecting a faculty member as a
conciliator next week.  The faculty member will be one of four names
submitted by the Senate last Spring.
       Liability Insurance    
       Dr. Larry Wilson sent Dr. Greenawalt a memo on a change in
liability insurance carriers; Jefferson Life has been replaced by a
new carrier.  At the executive committee's request, Dr. Nancy Kauffman
has agreed to represent our faculty at a September 19th meeting in
Chapel Hill regarding insurance policy changes.  Ms. Linda Franklin
will also attend the meeting. 
       Faculty Handbook
       In response to a question from Dr. Lisnerski, Dr. Wilson stated
that Martha Marshall is in the process of updating the Faculty
Handbook.  
        
VIII.  Old Business
       Parking Resolution
       At Dr. Hantz's request, Dr. Sabo shared with the Senate the
status of the Senate parking document.  On April 11, 1991, the Senate
met and in Dr. Larry Wilson's absence, Dr. Lisa Friedenberg conveyed
to the Senate Dr. Wilson's interpretation of the Senate document.  The
document had been denied but, "the administration will develop a
schedule incorporating a graduated concept."  Over the course of the
summer, without any announcement, it simply became apparent that the
concept had not been incorporated.  
       In response to a question from Dr. Friedenberg, Dr. Wilson
responded with a memo to Drs. Friedenberg and Sabo explaining the
situation.  Essentially, the group considered the parking fee question
and decided not to use it for this year.  Two free parking lots would
be added at the extreme ends of campus.  It seemed to be the consensus
of the group that this concept would incorporate some of the variable
fee concept which the Senate had approved.  Dr. Sabo stated one of the
free parking lots is up hill all the way to campus and takes nearly
twenty minutes to walk.  It in no way reflects the variable fee
concept which the Senate approved.  Dr. Wilson's memo also discussed
contact with David Edwards, the legal staff at General Administration,
who basically said, "don't do it; stay away from it; it's trouble",
and gave an alternative suggestion as how to use the concept.  Dr.
Sabo stated that a lot of trouble had been taken to avoid doing
something which was appropriate and proper, which is why the
resolution was introduced last year.  
       In an effort to circumvent these problems Dr. Sabo presented a
new resolution, not based on salary, but creating a new category. 
Resolution #2 was then distributed for First Reading. 

  IX.  New Business 
       There was no New Business.

   X.  Adjournment
       Dr. Hantz adjourned the meeting at 4:30 pm.


Respectfully submitted by:  Sandra Gravely 
                            Bruce Greenawalt