February 14, 2018

Faculty Senate Minutes
February  14, 2018 (Tentative)
Chair, Kevin Hall
Acting Secretary, Kathy Lehman

Attendance (A-absent; otherwise, present)

Faculty Senate Officers and Senators

OFFICERS  Kevin Hall
 Kathleen Lehman		  Fran Hagstrom
 Tom Jensen		  Robert Brady  A-Linda Jones  A-John Pijanowski
COLLEGE OR SCHOOL          
School of Architecture  A-Frank Jacobus        
School of Law  A-Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile        
Library  A-Stephanie Pierce        
Walton College  A-Rajiv Sabherwal  John Delery  Vern Richardson  Jennifer Kish-Gephart  
College of Engineering  Paneer Selvam   A-Manuel Rossetti   Justin Chimka  Kevin Hall  
Bumpers College  A-Ioannis E. Tzanetakis  Kate Shoulders   Bruce Ahrendsen  Navam Hettiarachchy  A-Don Edgar
College of EDHP  Chris Goering  A-Kaitlin Gallagher  A-Kristin Higgins  A-Stephanie Lusk  Lisa Bowers 
Fulbright College  Anna Zajicek 
 A-Hope Christiansen 
 Myria Allen 
 William Quinn		  James Gigantino
 Fred Spiegel 
 A-Ravi Barabote
 Calvin White 		  Weston Wilkerson 
 Shauna Morimoto
 Dennis Brewer 
 Denise Beike 		  A-Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam 
 Stephen Caldwell
 A-James Lampinen		  A-Matt McIntosh 
 A-Kathy Comfort 
 A-Michael Landman 
At-Large Members  Cheryl Murphy
 Luti Salisbury
 Tom Jensen		  Kelly Hammond
 Deborah Korth
 Karen Sebold 		  David Gay
 A-Michelle Gray		  Norm Dennis
 Neil Allison		  Timothy Kral
 Don Johnson
Non-Voting Senators in Administration        
A-Joe Steinmetz 
Kathy Van Laningham
Kim Needy
Lynda Coon		  A-Jim Coleman 
 A-Don Judges
 A-Matthew Waller
 Melissa Harwood Rom 		  Ro DiBrezzo
 A-Charles Robinson 
 Michael Miller
 Julie Cromer		  
 A-Lona Robertson
 A-John English
 John Fagg		  Terry Martin
 A-Peter MacKeith
 Stacey Leeds		  A-Suzanne McCray
 A-Todd Shields
 Carolyn Henderson Allen 

I.  Call to Order:  Chair, Kevin Hall

II. Roll Call

III. Approval of Agenda

Norm  Dennis made a motion to remove the proposed revisions to policy 1405.12 under New Business, C. APT Committee.  Motion passed.

Agenda approved as amended.

IV. Approval of Minutes of January 17, 2018

The minutes of January 17, 2018 were approved.

V.  Reports

A. Terry Martin - Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

  • The Provost is currently traveling and is sorry to miss today's meeting
  • The budget process for FY19 is continuing and is still under review
  • The Provost would like to express his appreciation to the Non-Tenure Track Task Force and the group's work in drafting policies regarding NTT titles and appointments
  • Announcement to attend the General Education Core Curriculum Committee Town Halls - SCEN 302, February 15 and February 21, both at 3:00
  • Update on the guiding priorities - Metrics for the priorities have been developed and work is being done to gather currently existing data to have something to measure our progress against
  • The Provost continues to hold meetings with departments across campus; he would like to eventually talk to all departments
  • Charles Small Presented on the Athletic Department (Powerpoint)
    • The Athletic Department stresses focusing on graduation and eligibility will take care of itself; they also celebrate academic personal bests
    • Demographics of Student Athletes - majority white; 23% African American; 21+different countries represented (49 International Students)
    • Majors:  COEHP:  40%; Fulbright 29%; Walton 22%
    • Growth in performance has been reflected in the student-athlete's GPAs and number of graduates
    • Past fall cumulative GPA, 3.25
    • 17 of 19 teams above 3.0
    • Led the SEC in the number of football student athletes on the honor roll (GPA of 3.0 or above)
    • The Jones Family Student-Athlete Success Center has helped set the culture of high academic standards and expectations
    • Athletics has been working with COEHP and Fulbright the past few years to bring advisors to the athletes; this partnership won the Model Practices award for 2017
    • iBelieve is a pilot program focused specifically on closing the gap of graduation rates of African American males.

B.  Faculty Senate Chair - Kevin Hall

  • Echoed what VP Martin said about General Education Core Curriculum Committee town halls and encouraged faculty to attend.
  • Several committees continue to be busy with the charges they have been given:  
    • Teaching Council - measuring effective teaching
    • Academic Standards - proposals on today's agenda
    • APT - looking at several different documents and proposals including the ones today from the NTT task force and more will be coming up soon
    • Regarding proposed changes to BOT policy 4051:  the latest revision emailed out earlier today.  Looking for comments.  System President Don Bobbitt is hoping to have proposed changes presented and voted on at the next BOT meeting on March 28-29.  Kevin met with other leadership from state universities and the UA system on January 18 in Little Rock.  He was personally encouraged by efforts to address the faculty's concerns in the newst revised document.  He urges faculty to read it and send comments to feedback@sys.uark.edu or to him kdhall@uark.edu and he will pass those along.

VI.  Announcements

The Spring meeting of the Campus Faculty will be held on Thursday, April 12 at 3:30 p.m. in Giffels Auditorium.  Yvette Murphy-Erby will be our guest speak.

VII. Old Business

There was no old business

VIII. New Business

A.   Recommendations from Academic Standards - Julie Trivitt 

Presented a proposal for the definition of a credit hour which is consistent with the federal defintion; allows for self-paced and distance classes.  The same ratio for in or out of class time would apply for shorter terms than the usual Fall and Spring semesters.  No stipulations for lecture vs. tests vs. activities for face-to-face class time.  The request for a defintion came from the accreditation visit which required us to have a campus definition for credit hours.  To this point, there is no consideration of maxiumum for ratio for lecture vs. out of class.

Policy for additional undergraduate degrees presented.  Allows students to complete degrees at the same time without needing 30 additional hours after the first set of hours earned for the first degree.  Just need to meet the requirements of both degrees (not 150 for a second degree), sould be as low as 120 for two degrees (not to be confused with double, triple majors, etc.)

Credit Hours

Degree Recommendations

B.  Recommendations for changes to the Academic Integrity Policy - Josh Youngblood

  • Proposed a change to an existing policy of re-submitting one's own work in a second class or in another offering of a class
  • Add a level one violation regarding lying.

Recommendations

C. APT Committee - Norm Dennis

  • Lecturer - short term, not promotable
  • Instructor - generally appointments of a year at a time, promotable
  • Adjunct - unpaid - we currently use this title incorrectly across campus
  • Clinical - clinic-like setting, multi-year appointments possible
  • Teaching - to replace "clinical" when teaching is more appropriate, multi-year appointments possible
  • Research - duties are research-focused, multi-year apopintmnets possible
  • Professor of Practice - means to have people with extensive experience join the faculty, multi-year appointment possible
  • Visiting - puttling limits on how long they are "visiting"
  • Trying to give guidelines across colleges and departments to work within

Academic Policy 1435.50 

D.  Consent Agenda:  The following items are referred by the University Course and Programs Committee and/or the Graduate Council for review and action by the Faculty Senate at its meeting scheduled February 14, 2018:

1.   Course Change proposals – including undergraduate and graduate classes approved by the University Course and Programs Committee on January 26, 2018, 2017 and the Graduate Council on January 18, 2018:  (pdf_report).

2.   Undergraduate Program Change Proposals approved by the University Course and Programs Committee on January 26, 2018:  (pdf_report).

a.   Proposed undergraduate program change for the College of Education and Health Professions, Department of Curriculum and Instruction – EGEDBA – English Education, Bachelor of Arts in Teaching (2a_egedba­_reportfeb142018, 2a_egedbat_newlicensure_ltrofintent.pdf, 2a_prof_educ_prog_proposal_egeduabat).

b.   Proposed undergraduate program change for the College of Education and Health Professions, Department of Curriculum and Instruction – SSEDBA – Social Studies Education, Bachelor of Arts in Teaching (2b_ssedba_reportfeb142018, 2b_seedbat_newlicensure_ltrofintent, 2b_ssedbat_newlicensure_proposal).

c.   Proposed undergraduate program change for the College of Engineering, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering – BENGBS – Biological Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering (2c_bengbs_reportfeb142018).

d.   Proposed undergraduate program change for the College of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering – CHEGBS – Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (2d_chegbs_reportfeb142018).

e.   Proposed undergraduate program change for the College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering – CSCEBA – Computer Science Bachelor of Arts (2e_csceba_reportfeb142018).

3.   Graduate Program Change Proposals approved by the University Course and Programs Committee on December 15, 2017 and the Graduate Council on January 18, 2018:

a.   Proposed graduate program change for the Department of Electrical Engineering ELEGMS – Electrical Engineering, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (3a_elegms_reportfeb142018).

b.   Proposed graduate program change for the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation –HSESPH-PDGY – Health, Sport & Exercise Science Kinesiology Pedagogy Concentration (3b_hsesph-pdgy_reportfeb142018).

c.   Proposed graduate program change for the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation –PHEDME –Physical Education (3c_phedme_reportfeb142018).

 4.   Informational item:

New Administrative Unit approved – Blockchain Center of Excellence (BCoE), Department of Information Systems, Walton College of Business (4_bcoe_newadminunit_ltrofnotif, 4_bcoe_newadminunit_proposal).

All items of the consent agenda passed.

IX.  Adjournment

The meeting adjourned at 4:37 p.m.