ࡱ>    g bjbj:: 7tXv\Xv\xn n 82r*"5r7r7r7r7r7r7rtrw7r7rLr5r5r.y^HUe N`@!rbr0raTw$wUewUe 7r7rrwn > :  MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE FACULTY SENATE OCTOBER 16, 2019 PRESENT: M. Adams, D. Allenswroth-Davies, T. Arndt, J. Augherman, c. c. Bowen, W. Bowen, B. Cavender, B. Conti, L. Deering, A. Dixit, G. Dyer, B. Ekelman, D. Elkins, D. Forte, V. C. Gallagher, J. Ganning, Z. Gao, J. Gatica, D. Geier, S. Gingerich, J. Goodell, M. Jackson-McCabe, M. Kalafatis, J. Kilbane, S. Koc, R. Krebs, a. Kumar, M. Kwiatkowski, S. Lazarus, M. Lee, J. Marino, W. Matcham, K. McIntyre, B. Mikelbank, K. Neill, G. Pettey, T. Porter, R. Raimer, B. Richards, A. Slifkin, A. F. Smith, J. R. Tighe, A. Vandenbogert, J. Visocky-OGrady. R. Deike, E. Grigore, D. Lodwick, E. McKinney, H. Sands, J. Sawicki, N. Sridhar, O. Wahdan, M. Wells, J. Zhu. C. Heyward, M. Thrash. Eulogies Associate Professor Mareyjoyce Green (Sociology and Director of Womens Comprehensive Program) Professor Emeritus Dr. William Morgan delivered the Eulogy for Mareyjoyce Green Professor Mareyjoyce Green died peacefully on September 13, 2019 at the age of 91. Professor Green, known to almost all as Mareyjoyce, joined Cleveland State in 1966 as an Instructor in the Department of Sociology. She retired in 2009 as Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Womens Comprehensive Program. Many of us believe her to be the best known and most impactful of 㽶ֱ sociologists. Mareyjoyce excelled in public sociology, using the sociological perspective for meaningful community engagement more than for research and writing. Her strong professional reputation was based on her service leadership, both to her profession and the community. The thrust of her engagement was inspired by her passionate mission to make successful degree earners of the hundreds of students she counselled in her Womens Comprehensive Program. As a member of 㽶ֱs first generation of faculty, this joint passion for her service activity and her students remains a leading example of how we strengthen our educational mission with service and community engagement activity. At her funeral perhaps the most significant and certainly the most poignant of her memorabilia on display was a large stack of Professor Greens student evaluations, testimonials of her success and their gratitude for her belief in them. This bond with her students can be explained in part by her own life challenges. Although she never ever talked about herself, we learned from her adult children that her own childhood was spent on a small family farm in the backwoods of East Texas, together with her seven brothers and sisters. Their home had no electricity or running water, but a passion for education. Along with being an excellent farm hand, specializing in weeding, Mareyjoyce graduated from high school at age 15, and then four years later, in 1947, from nearby Wiley College. Wiley College was the first HBCU west of the Mississippi and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Mareyjoyce Bowie majored in sociology and education and also met her future husband, Charles Green. Her late husband was one of Clevelands first African American CPAs, worked many years for the Internal Revenue Service, and later managed a church credit union. When the Greens arrived in Cleveland in the early 1950s looking for work, Mareyjoyce successfully auditioned at Karamu House, where she performed modern dance for a period of time. Soon however, she returned to sociology and received a Masters degree from Western Reserve University in 1960. After some initial adjunct appointments at Tri-C and Kent, followed by a three-year term as head of sociology for the new Ohio State extension campus in Lakewood, she joined fledgling 㽶ֱ in its third year in 1966. In 1978 she developed and became director of the Womens Comprehensive Center, a position she held until her retirement. The program targeted reentry women, those whose educational careers had been interrupted after high school or a short period of college because of various other life responsibilities. She recruited these students to 㽶ֱ and became their supercoach, always telling them they would succeed and providing critical advice to make that happen. She and colleague Roberta Steinbacher also successfully applied for a county grant for 㽶ֱ that provided scholarships for women students on family assistance. All women in the Comprehensive Program took her famous capstone seminar, Women in Corporate America. This was a learn by observation experience in which each student shadowed a leader in each of the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Mareyjoyce served two years, from 1990-1992, as Interim Vice President for Minority Affairs. This was a troubled time in 㽶ֱs history, and although she was ambivalent about accepting an assignment many of her minority colleagues urged her not to take, her success in healing these wounds was vital for continuing the universitys commitment to equity and diversity. Outside the university Mareyjoyce always was much in demand for her service leadership. For her profession of sociology she was President of the Association of Black Sociologists; Vice President, Sociologists for Women in Society; Chair, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association and Co-Chair of its Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology; Treasurer of the North Central Sociological Association and Chair of its Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities. She also held elected offices in the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Local community service included Vice President, Federation for Community Planning; member of the Desegregation Commission for School Monitoring and Community Relations, and numerous Board memberships, including the League of Women Voters, the YWCA, the Center for Families and Children, Goodwill Industries, St. Anns Foundation, League Park Center, and Women Space, among others. The significance of her contributions to these causes and groups is measured in the many awards, honors, and citations she received over the years. Her final contribution to the Sociology Department was to co-chair the organizing committee for a dinner lecture series honoring Dr. Butler Jones, the departments highly respected former chair. This annual event was attended by sociology faculty and students from across Northeastern Ohio, by our university president and several Board members, and by distinguished community leaders. Mareyjoyce recruited the eminent sociologists who spoke at this event, and even persuaded each to waive their customary speaking fee. The endowment that resulted from this venture now supports fully paid speakers as well as student scholarships. Mareyjoyce is survived by several generations of her large and high-achieving extended family, and most immediately by her beloved daughter Janet and son Wallace. Mareyjoyce as a warm human being will be sorely missed, but her legacy will surely be a lasting one for 㽶ֱ. Senate President William Bowen asked for a moment of silence in memory of our colleague Professor Mareyjoyce Green. Dr. William Morgan mentioned that Mareyjoyce Green never really ever thought much about her own career or self and she forgot to apply for Emeritus status. He thought that it would be appropriate for Faculty Senate to consider whether it wanted to make a motion to recommend Emerita status for Mareyjoyce Green to President Sands for action by the Board of Trustees. He added that it might be meaningful to her family. Again, it is a small thing and her legacy is certainly a strong one regardless of what she might do with that little position. Associate Professor Sonia Leib Abels (Social Work) Professor Cathleen Lewandowski delivered the Eulogy for Sonia Leib Abels SoniaLeibAbels was born April 28, 1929 and died September 24, 2019. She received her MSW from the University of Illinois, at the Chicago Circle campus. Formerly an Associate Professor, she served on the full-time faculty in the Department of Social Work from 1970-1987. During her tenure, 㽶ֱ developed one of the nations first Council on Social Work Education-accredited BSW programs, in 1974. She was also active in 㽶ֱs First College. Prior to joining the 㽶ֱ faculty, SoniaAbelswas a Visiting Professor at Haciteppe University, in Ankara, Turkey; Vytatus Magnus University, in Kaunas, Lithuania; and Walla Walla College, in Washington. After leaving 㽶ֱ for California in 1987, she served as a Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California. A statement released by the family reads: A civil rights activist who helped integrate Chicago schools,Soniawas part of the founding cadre of professors at First College at 㽶ֱ and then a field study advisor at USC. She helped to establish a school of Social Work in Vilnius, Lithuania after the fall of the USSR. She developed an annual conference on the impact of religious fundamentalism in social work, as well as a symposium on the success of Truth and Reconciliation Hearings in South Africa at the end of apartheid.Soniawent on to create the journal Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping with her husband Paul, to assist in recognizing the power of healing through stories. After creating the multidisciplinary journal, Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, ProfessorAbelsserved as its Founding Editor beginning in1974 until 1999. She continued to serve on the Executive Board of the journal until 2012. Long committed to the struggle for social justice, ProfessorAbelsserved as co-editor of the Reflections Journals Special Issue on Social Justice published in 2010. ProfessorAbelswas editor of two books in a narrative series:Spirituality in Social Work Practice(2000) andEthics in Social Work Practice(2001), both published by Love Publishing. In 2001 she co-authored the book Understanding Narrative Therapy: A Guidebook for the Social Workerpublished by Springer publications. Sonia Abels research focus was social connections and social capital. She developed a social work ethics database, sponsored by California State University, Los Angeles, and the National Association of Social Workers, California chapter. She was also a longstanding member and frequent attendee of the conferences of the International Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups. She is survived by her husband, PaulAbels, daughters Barbara (Steve), Beth (James), Abby (Edward) O'Neill, and six grandchildren: Jonah, Jacob, Gus, Hanan, Jack, and Dayo. She certainly has left an enduring legacy. Dr. Bowen asked for a moment of silence in memory of our colleague Professor Sonia Leib Abels. II. Approval of the Agenda for the October 16, 2019 Meeting Dr. Bowen requested two revisions to agenda for the October 16th meeting. First, due to President Sands schedule he asked that the Presidents report immediately follow his report. Second, the Graduate Student Association will not be reporting today so he asked to remove that report from the Agenda. The amended Agenda was unanimously approved by voice vote. Approval of the Meeting Minutes of May 1, 2019 Dr. Bowen reported that the May 1, 2019 Minutes have not yet been completed. Approval of the Meeting Minutes of September 11, 2019 Senate President William Bowen asked for a motion to approve the Minutes of the September 11, 2019 meeting. It was moved, seconded, and the Minutes of the September 11, 2019 meeting unanimously approved by voice vote. V. Report of the Faculty Senate President Dr. Bowen expressed his appreciation to President Sands for the Faculty Senate reception at the University House on September 11. It was enjoyable and fruitful, even without electricity. It is good for us to get out of our silos and get to know each other socially outside of the normal routines of campus life. Dr. Bowen stated that while on the subject of getting to know each other, I must say to anyone considering making a bid for the position of Faculty Senate President next year, it is in several ways one of the best jobs on campus. One of the most satisfying aspects is that you get to know a fairly large number of the terrific faculty members and staff members and administrators around the university. That is one of the real rewards of the job. Second, Dr. Bowen expressed appreciation for Tim Long who will be leaving 㽶ֱ next month after 17 years of service. We own him a debt of gratitude. He has shown himself to be trustworthy, forthright, cooperative and open-minded in working for years with the Faculty Senate Budget and Finance Committee, among many other things. I got to know Tim fairly well when we worked together in 2009 on what we called then the Fenn College Financial Stability Task Force. He is a real asset and he will be seriously missed around here. This month we started having our Higher Learning Commission Accreditation prep meetings. The HLCs idea is that responsibility for assuring the quality of our educational programming rests within our university. What we as a university will do is produce evidence to the HLC that we have the capacity to assure our own quality programming. This will involve review of (1) our mission, (2) our integrity, ethics and responsible conduct, (3) the quality, resources and support for teaching and learning, (4) the evaluation and improvement of our teaching and learning, and (5) our resources for planning, performance improvement, and leadership. . Dr. Bowen commented that the Faculty Senate President's role in the HLC visit is in the group responsible for institutional integrity, ethics and responsible conduct. This is particularly relevant given that some students have been subcontracting their term papers, exams and other coursework to off-campus vendors, especially in online courses. The University should not tolerate such threats to the academic integrity of our institution. If we allow students to get away with cheating, then we're implicitly teaching them that cheating is okay. The Admissions and Standards Committee has been advising and working with the Provosts Office on this. Recently they met to discuss revisions to the student code of conduct. To my knowledge, the Committee is firm in their view that it is the right and responsibility of the faculty member to assign grades; and the Provost's office has agreed to this. The Faculty Senate has the duty and responsibility to initiate the educational and academic policies of the University and to adopt rules to effectuate those policies. Any questions about how we respond to this as a matter of University policy is clearly within the domain of our responsibilities and duties. If anyone has questions or concerns about the way this is being dealt with on campus, they have every right and responsibility to raise them. The appropriate committee from which to get answers or to hear any related concerns is the Admissions and Standards Committee. Dr. Bowen said that at his urging the Ohio Faculty Council has also started to have conversations about the academic integrity of the states institutions of higher learning in terms of these contract course cheating experiences and what faculty members can do to protect our institutions against the threats that they pose. It is important to remind ourselves and our students every chance we get that although our students may have been told since they were young that getting a college degree means success, the real value proposition that we have to offer to them is in the improvements in their knowledge and skills and abilities that they get and acquire in the classroom. Cheating may be useful in some cases for the purpose of getting a degree but it is a recipe for failure in life whether it is in the classroom or in the larger picture. The 㽶ֱ Board of Trustees held a "Board Engagement Session" on "Say Yes to Education." The meeting on September 19th included presentations by three leaders in advancing and funding the Say Yes effort here in Cleveland: Dr. Eric Gordon, CEO for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District; Lee Friedman, CEO for College Now Greater Cleveland; and David Abbott, Executive Director of the George Gund Foundation. Say Yes is a nonprofit organization that advocates for the goal of every public school student not only graduating high school, but doing so with the support to attain, afford and complete a postsecondary education. At the heart of it is an incentive for a college scholarship. The Cleveland Say Yes is aiming to create a college-going culture in the Cleveland Metropolitan Schools. If all goes according to hopes and plans, we will have a lot more Say Yes students at 㽶ֱ before too long. Increases in the number of CMSD students will create opportunities and challenges. There is talent in every population waiting for opportunities to be fully realized. The involvement of "Say Yes to Education" students stands to enrich the discourse on campus and make us a better and stronger institution. 㽶ֱ has a critical commitment to be a community that is open and inclusive to all segments of the city, region, nation and the world. It is especially important to highlight this commitment at a time so full of isolating rhetoric and ostracizing and actions not only here in Ohio, but in the United States and the entire world. The prevalence of these inhospitable trends to free intellectual inquiry and dissent stand in direct opposition to the vital teaching and learning environment we seek to create and maintain on the 㽶ֱ campus. For us to create and maintain such an environment requires not only for us to remain open to free flowing discourse, and to accept strong disagreement and even at times divergent perspectives, but also to keep an unwavering commitment to broad inclusion and mutual respect. Say Yes to Education provides the faculty in our university community with a marvelous opportunity to transmit our knowledge to those who otherwise might not have the opportunities to acquire much academic knowledge at all to walk the talk of this place, if you will -- and we are excited and hope for the very best future and success for that program. Dr. Bowen announced an exciting lecture series that will be jointly sponsored by Faculty Senate and the President's Office. The President's office will be bringing to campus a series of high profile speakers to talk about various themes, perhaps once per semester for the next few years. It was agreed to start with a national level speaker on helping low income students to succeed. VI. Report of the President of the University President Harlan Sands offered a thank you to all and said he would do this every time he appears before the Senate. I do it with the students because I truly believe that we work for you, we work with you, and we need you to be partners and it is the essence of who we are at a university and those things really matter everything from student recruitment, to student retention, to student graduation, to alumni engagement. It has been a great start to another semester. President Sands spoke with some people a little bit before the meeting today. He had been walking the campus as he usually does. He walked into a classroom on his way to todays Senate meeting. He didnt think that the professor was thrilled, but after he realized it was going to be okay, he asked the students if they were enjoying the class and they said, Yes, but he is very hard can you help us out? President Sands declined, saying that was not his purview. President Sands noted that he would like to make a couple of comments on our commitment to Say Yes. There will be more engagement sessions with our Board of Trustees. It is our role also to educate our Trustees who come in six/seven times a year to review what is happening on campus, to give their guidance, to give their support, to question the things that we are doing which is what a good healthy Board does but, these engagement sessions, to put community leaders in front of them, to put some of the experts and you will be part of that too - in front of them, to get them up to speed on the critical priorities that we have and what we are doing and the progress we are making is important instead of just presenting to them canned presentations. It is important for us to update them but it is critical that we engage them because the more they are engaged, the more they can go out into the community and represent us. With regard to Dr. Bowens commitment to Say Yes, the President complimented Dr. Bowens explanation of its importance. This is going to take all of us as we see more of a student flow from CMSD high schools. At this point, President Sands introduced Randall Deike, our new Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Success. We have talked about bringing the whole student life cycle management, the student life cycle path together so that Dr. Deike can bring his expertise to the table. One challenge is going to be how to make sure these students are prepared for the rigors of 㽶ֱ. We have already been thinking about ways to do that and a lot of things they will be talking about involve what to do with these students before they get here the things we know that work so he looks forward to everyones partnership. President Sands commended the Faculty Senate. He noted that it is a really poignant and important tradition to recognize those that have served and have passed on. He has been at several universities and never seen this done. It is something that everyone should be very proud of and appreciate those - Bill Morgan and Kathleen and the others that are here we have some members of the retired faculty that came to listen to the eulogies. This is a really meaningful tradition and he wanted to compliment the Faculty Senate on that. President Sands mentioned that at each Senate meeting, he would like to give a sense at every meeting of what he has been up to since the last meeting because it is important that people understand what he does on behalf of everyone and the students. Dr. Bowen and he met on September 11th with the Board. He noted that Dr. Bowen did a great job talking about the Board meeting so he wont give more details on that. We have the Distinguished Alumni Awards. He asked if anyone had a chance to come to the Distinguished Alumni Awards event. He noted that a couple of the faculty and a couple of the student leaders were there. It is a positive event when we recognize our alums that have gone on and achieved great things in the world. He would like to go ahead and have a faculty table next year so we can get more faculty to attend this event because it is important. He noted that we also dedicated new locker rooms for the mens and womens swim teams. That doesnt sound like a big deal but the fact that our alums of our swimming program raised $200,000 to redo the locker rooms in the natatorium says a lot about how our graduates feel and their willingness to give back. Homecoming week was successful and fun with a parade and numerous student alumni activities. Next year we will encourage our band to recruit some more members so he doesnt have to play clarinet and they keep asking him because he used to play clarinet but he is trying to avoid joining the marching band. We did something called goat yoga which he promised he will never do but it does exist and it did happen enough said. It was a privilege and a pleasure to also speak on behalf of our faculty and staff to welcome Dr. Henry Lewis Gates, who spoke on campus. If you dont know who Dr. Gates is, he is a Harvard professor and one of the foremost experts on the history of the African American experience in the United States from about the time of the Civil War to the 1930s. He has almost finished writing a new book titled, Stoney the Road, about reconstruction and something called redemption when the southern leaders who lost their positions of influence during reconstruction reasserted it which ended up giving us a lot of Jim Crow laws and many steps backward from what happened in the ten years after the Civil War. Dr Gates appearance was part of something called project 400 which marks the 400th anniversary of slaves first being brought to North America in 1619. President Sands urged everyone to look for events that are around the project 400 theme. We celebrated the dedication of the Bernie Moreno sales center and we are now starting to get more and more of our students that are interested in getting in education in how to sell. For those of us that no matter what we do have really not thought of that as an academic kind of staple, it is one of those soft skills that our students benefit from and it is going to be very popular. It is also going to help us recruit new students who want to have that experience as part of a wider academic experience. President Sands turned to a more sobering subject, one which is a high priority for him and which he wanted to share with everyone, student safety. It is one of the things at the top of the list that keeps him up at night. So this week we brought in to 㽶ֱ the leadership from FEMA and the Texas A&M National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center. We have begun a training cycle on how to respond in critical incidence. It was well received. It gave the leadership team and the folks that are responsible for our buildings and getting folks safe in a crisis important training. President Sands asked for everyones support. We will be doing some live training on campus. We have done a lot of desk tops but as an ex-military person, we really dont know how it is going to go until you practice. So we are going to practice. It is probably going to cause folks some alarm because we are going to act as if it is a live drill so he asked for everyones help. We will probably be doing that sometime in the spring. President Sands noted that Dr. Bowen had mentioned the presidential speaker series and he will get more on that for everyone. It is going to be thematic. It is a nice time to do it because we are entering a presidential election cycle so he is sure we will have a speaker or two that will be able to tap into the interest in the election. On a related safety issue, President Sands said that he was proud on behalf of everybody to stand with Governor Mike DeWine a couple of weeks ago as he announced the new plan to address gun violence and introduce a bill into the Ohio Legislature. Out of the fourteen university presidents, three showed up to stand behind the Governor. He noted that he was proud to be one of them and there was a very detailed presentation about the bill from the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor and Senate leadership was also present. The mayor of Dayton was also there. Another person who spoke was a young woman who survived the Cincinnati shooting in 2018. This women was shot twelve times and survived. She is a walking miracle to be shot twelve times and not have a major organ hit. She spoke passionately and was very moving. He is considering inviting her to campus. People from both sides of the aisle the bill doesnt make folks on the left completely happy; the bill doesnt make folks on the right completely but he was very proud to be an Ohioan and see some bipartisan legislation. President Sands reported that he continues to visit local high schools as a leader of our team to recruit students. He was at Eastlake North High School which graduates about 300 students each year. Twenty-nine graduates from Eastlake North High School are attending 㽶ֱ this fall. That is a high school that fifteen years ago, we would not have seen that kind of flow. What we are doing is making a difference; our product is out there. We probably had a hundred students in the room some of which had already committed to 㽶ֱ and he walked out of there and committed that we would send a bus to take the students that were interested in seeing our campus to campus. These trips are important and numerous faculty members have joined him and he encourages our faculty to participate. President Sands reported on the Inter University Councils retreat in September. The fourteen state university presidents agreed on a lot of things and also had the opportunity to share experiences. There were several items he advocated for. One was looking at the SSI formula so that we can get appropriate credit for students that we are training here. We know that the students we take, some of the ones Dr. Bowen talked about, require additional resources whether it be additional training for professors, additional classes for students. The formula has some weighting in it to factor in the fact that we are taking more at risk students but it is not weighted highly enough. The formula in his opinion is a little skewed toward the traditional four-year student that go to some of our flagship institutions. It is an uphill climb but people will hear more about it. There is also going to be a push because there is some language in the budget that was just passed to add a workforce component to the formula meaning that they want to measure how many students graduate and stay in Ohio which actually is going to help Cleveland State because 80%-85% of our students do stay in Northeast Ohio when they graduate so that is also going to be looked at. President Sands reported on the Capital Budget process. We have a biennial process here at 㽶ֱ and, on the off-years, we dont approve a budget. The State goes into the bond market and borrows money and we get a share so we can go ahead and invest in the things that are critical to us. We have been meeting as a team and discussing what we are going to ask for and what our share is going to be. In closing, President Sands talked about our goals and priorities for this coming year. One of the things that happened at the Board meeting, the Board set goals and objectives for the year. He noted that he is not going to go through all of them but he wanted everyone to know that they are very consistent with the strategic priorities weve set for the institution. Develop and begin implementation of a new strategic enrollment and student success plan. Advance fundraising and donor steward-ship efforts. We had a really good fundraising month last month we got a $1.2 million gift from a couple of prominent Clevelanders to invest in a property management program in the School of Business. He has another couple of big prospects coming up. Establish new financial reporting and accountability plan. Lead the university planning for HLC accreditation. Work on a campus master plan which is going to work hand-in-hand with our strategic enrollment plan as we grow the campus. Continue conversations and progress on our strategic implementation plan. Now that we have developed these priorities, we actually have to build an action plan to get these things moving. Everyone will hear more about that from him and the Provost in the coming months. Senator Zhiqiang Gao referred to student safety on campus. Some of his student were assaulted when they got off the RTA bus. Now there are crimes in the center of the university. His students approached the 㽶ֱ police. He asked what can be done to make it safer. President Sands responded that we need to find out more about this. Evidently additional assault crimes are happening on campus. Obviously our ability to do what we do is affected by any kind of students that get into trouble and have safety concerns on our campus. After the meeting, he will find out more about this and will talk to the 㽶ֱ Police Chief. Dr. Gao reported that drones are flying around buildings. People on bicycles come here and rob our students. People are afraid to walk around campus. Maybe we can have drones flying over campus and use bicycles around campus that might help. A night audit needs to be done. Also, cameras help. These could continuously monitor. I also think that lighting can help. We need to look at our inventory and where they are. President Sands responded that we can look into drones but he also thinks there are a couple of friends of campus safety. One is lighting. We need to do a night audit. Weve talked about doing a night audit and we do one once per year but he hasnt seen the results of the last one. Second, which still works pretty well is cameras. We really do need to take a look at our inventory and see where cameras are. People that are looking to commit these crimes, they are generally aware of light, activity and cameras. Senator Russell Raimer stated that we have the ALICE training that helps, but what frustrates him is that you see so many students walking through campus with ear buds in and playing with their cell phones and have no awareness of their surroundings. President Sands asked, What do we do about that? He commented that we have faculty and administrators who do that too. How do we police smokers on our campus? He reported that he just read about a university that created a whole smoke free zone in a downtown area. How do you police that? The police dont want to write tickets for smokers so this is challenging. Senator Rosie Tighe commented that as an urban center, we address these things in terms of how the built environment can make our campus safer. She really thinks that so much of this has to do with lighting but also having more people around, having more activities. So many of our classes are at night so making sure of food availability, making sure they are open during those evening classes and just encouraging more students to be around and aware. She added that she doesnt think that additional surveillances is necessary or even warranted if we can make some of those changes to the structures in the built environment of campus that can address some of those goals. President Sands noted that the other piece of that is to have our police officers on foot patrol walking the buildings instead of being in cars. It is something that we talked about and we need to follow up constantly and make sure that there is a certain amount of that shift we do have bicycle officers around and we do have a couple on horses as well. But to get those folks walking the campus, walking the buildings, the presence helps but nothing helps as much as activity and lighting. VII. University Curriculum Committee Dr. Carole Heyward, chair of the University Curriculum Committee, presented the committees proposals. Vote: Certificate Program in Digital Content Production (Report No. 6, 2019-2020) Proposal to create an undergraduate certificate in digital content production in the School of Communication. This a 13 credit (5 courses) certificate. It will equip students from all majors with knowledge and skills required to become effective and engaged communicators in digital spaces. Prerequisite is COM 225 Media writing or any WAC course with a B- or better There being no questions, the proposal was unanimously approved by voice vote. Minor in Digital Content Production (Report No. 7, 2019-2020) The second related proposal is for an undergraduate minor in digital content production from the School of Communication. This is a 19 credit minor that will equip students from all majors with knowledge and skills required to be effective and engaged communicators in todays digital environment. Prerequisite is COM 225 Media writing or any WAC course with a B- or better. There being no questions, the proposal was unanimously approved by voice vote. Information only: Computer and Information Sciences, Computer Science (CS) Track, MCIS (Report No. 8, 2019-2020) Professor Heyward stated that we have a proposal from the Computer and Information Science Computer Science Track to add two courses as electives to the Computer Science Track CIS 545 Architecture and Operating Systems and CIS 550 Introduction to Algorithms. This proposal also seeks to require students who pursue a non-thesis track to take at least two 600 level elective courses. Faculty Senate received the informational item. VIII. University Faculty Affairs Committee Professor Joanne Goodell, chair of the University Faculty Affairs Committee, presented the committees proposals. She noted that all proposal are not Greenbook changes, but all First Readings. UFAC Syllabus Statement OIE Religious Accommodation Guidelines and Senate Missed Class Policy (First Reading) (Report 9, 2019-2020) Dr. Goodell stated that the first proposal is modifications to the Religious Accommodation Guidelines that is posted to the Faculty Senate web page. As some may know, the Office of Institutional Equity had proposed and placed on their web site some new guidelines that cover a large range of situations for both faculty and staff and the Senate requested that UFAC provide a statement for the syllabus. In reviewing all of the verbiage on the OIE web site and thinking about how many statements we have on our syllabi for various things, UFAC was unanimously in favor of making this very short and to the point. So the statement on the very last page of the two-page document is short and to the point for the syllabus recommendation. Recommendation for syllabus Requests for religious accommodations should be made at the beginning of the semester (within the first two weeks). The request should be made using the Absence Authorization Form located on the Faculty Senate Webpage and the University Compliance webpage, and must include dates, reasons, duration of absence. In addition, UFAC realized there are other things on the Faculty Senate web site that pertain to this. One of them is the Missed Class Policies. UFAC is proposing that this be changed to Guidelines and this is actually on the Senate web page and has been there for a number of years. UFAC proposes to correct a few minor typos and other things to be changed and the addition of one statement on the second page of that document included in todays meeting packet directing the students to please go to the Office of Institutional Equitys web site for more information about the Religious Accommodations Policies. Further information about religious accommodations may be found on the website of the Office for Institutional Equity. Dr. Goodell noted that nothing else was changed on that. UFAC also wanted to change the wording of Chairperson to include School Director now that we have many schools so this is part of the process of cleaning up the Greenbook as we go. Someone had asked her, Please, can we just do it all at once. She noted that this would not work. This is a very complex process to clean up everything all at once. UFAC does things on an as needed basis and so they are cleaning up that wording by adding School Director to Chairperson and adding School to Department as well. Finally, the form that was attached was also made a stand-alone document so both documents will be available on the web site. Students and faculty can download those and faculty then can pass out any of the forms that are needed by students to request this accommodation at the beginning of the semester. She noted that the procedures remain the same. Again, she noted that the proposal is to make changes to the name and addition of a statement and a syllabus statement. This is not a Greenbook change but is just for a vote. Dr. Bowen stated that we have some proposals for changes to the Religious Accommodations and Missed Class Guidelines. Senator Stephen Gingerich asked if Dr. Goodrich was referring people to the Class Absence and Authorization form. He pointed out that is the sub-title to the form. The main title of the form is University-Authorized Activities and Religious Accommodation. He noted that people could potentially be confused because the main title of the form does not match the document. Dr. Goodell responded that that is how it was so it stayed as it was. Professor Gingerich commented, Make sure that people know that this works for religious holidays. Senator Joanna Ganning stated that she is not sure. What is a reasonable religious accommodation? What is a holiday and what is a religion? Is there an officer or person who knows about what is a holiday and what is a religion? She said that she is not qualified to decide. Senator David Elkins asked, How does one go determining what is university authorized? This suggests it is university authorized. Is there a process by where someone applies for university authorization to have a holiday or something along those lines? If so, what is it? Dr. Goodell replied that this refers to things that are on the university calendar in terms of university authorized events. That also applies to students seeking class absences for sporting team events as well. So that same form is used for that request. Provost Jianping Zhu mentioned sporting teams. Those are considered as a university authorized activity but are already included. It is not really about the holidays. It is about things like trips going abroad a sports team competition without the institution. Professor Elkins mentioned religious holidays. Dr. Goodell responded that the religious holiday item was discussed in UFAC and it is not an easy question to answer. A student would have to provide appropriate documentation if you were suspicious in any way and OIE is really the place where that would land. We certainly are not going to post every religions religious holidays on our web site or anything of that nature. If you feel that a student is abusing the religious accommodation policy then you are encouraged to discuss it with OIE. Professor Elkins asked if this is separate from religious holidays. Dr. Goodell replied that this is the religious holiday exception. If a student were to Dr. Elkins noted that it says university-authorized. Dr. Goodrich responded that this is the form that has been used all the while long for missed classes. Dr. Stephen Gingerich said that this was something that was dealt with when he was chair of UFAC. He noted that the first thing to say is that there was a lot of concern about adjudication of what accommodations are reasonable and OIE is the place where those kinds of discussions should take place because they have an understanding of the legal obligations of the faculty members. If there is a limit to their ability to help on that, that is where you would talk to your chair or to even the Deans Office if there is some disagreement about that. That is actually part of the guidelines that Senate passed last spring. He would recommend the form. The form becomes the same form for both religious accommodations and for university sponsored activities. The form should be first of all, this is the form and second of all, you could break it down into university authorized activities and religious accommodations. These are two recognized types of accommodations that we make. For other things, things where your personality might come into play, if somebody is looking for an accommodation for something that is not official, they dont officially have a disability accommodation, then you dont have any obligation to accommodate them. But then we all have different ideas about that and we talk to our colleagues then. This is more or less what we talked about in the committee. The form is now the official form for religious accommodations and for university sponsored events. Other thinks just dont fall into this category. Dr. Tighe said that she is on UFAC and we did wrestle with a lot of this and to put some of the anxiety to rest. These are absences that are schedulde ahead of time that the students should be able to know about. If you miss class because of your religion you should probably know when those holidays are happening earlier in the semester which gives faculty time, if needed, to contact OIE to figure out if it is legit or not. This does not apply to last minute or after the holiday saying, Oh I missed class because of this holiday. All of this is precipitated on the idea that students must get permission ahead of time and that form is submitted ahead of time. Senator Karen McIntyre said that while she agreed to keeping the syllabus statement brief, she was wondering if we should at least refer to OIE in the statement somewhere since they are going to be responsible for helping the students with the accommodations process. Someone had mentioned about submitting documentation and she believes, if she read the policy correctly, that they cannot be questioned about practices or required to submit documentation it is on the top of page 2 within the Faculty Senate policy. I dont believe that we are even allowed to really ask them or collect anything. Dr. Goodell replied if we put that on the form, she doesnt really want to add anything to the syllabus statement because that would have to go with the form and find the form and if we put that statement to please contact OIE, she doesnt know why OIE would be involved other than if there were a dispute between the faculty member and the student. This is really between the faculty member and a student. If a student requests the absence in advance and if the faculty member refuses then the student would contact OIE. Senator Brian Mikelbank offered a few observations. One is just to have consistent timing in the guidelines. On page 2, it says that the student should submit the form as soon as possible. Then on the OIE side, it says in the first two weeks or with reasonable advance notice. Then on page 3 of the guidelines it says as early as possible and then by the end of the third week and then in the actual form it says by the end of the first week. Dr. Goodell replied that UFAC did not actually read to that level of detail on the timing issue in that form obviously. That has actually been posted on our web site for a couple of year. Dr. Bowen asked Dr. Mikelbank if he could turn that in with his notes on it. Dr. Mikelbank said yes. Dr. Mikelbank noted that on the second comment on page 4 it talks about the appeals process but that is within the section for just the university-sponsored activities and it actually refers to the religious part in the university part so maybe the appeal should either be section C, since it refers to both parts, or the appeal process that is for the religious process should go in that section. Again, the appeals section is on page 4. Dr. Goodell asked if Dr. Mikelbank was suggesting we just say, appeals for religious accommodations and appeals for other class absence. Dr. Mikelbank noted that that section occurs within part B of the whole document which is just the university-sponsored activities. So the appeal process for the religious holidays is actually within the section for university-sponsored activities. Dr. Goodell noted that that should be moved up to part A. Dr. Mikelbanks last comment concerned the religious statement. He wondered if that should be broader to include both of these types of excused absences both the religious ones and the university-sponsored activity ones instead of just the religious ones. Dr. Goodell replied that the religious activity one is new and Senate requested UFAC to provide a syllabus statement about the religious accommodations not about every other kind of accommodation. Faculty have already either put them in their syllabus statement or not so she doesnt know about that one. Senator James Marino thought that in terms of faculty members adjudicating, if we have individual faculty members adjudicating, what is a religion and what is a holiday, we are going to invite lawsuits to the university. The students have first amendment rights that are not up to us to adjudicate. He believes the proper scope for faculty adjudication is on the appropriate accommodation. What is the replacement if you missed the class? It should not be that a student gets a form and goes to three professors, two out of three of whom accept that there is such a holiday and one of them who does not. That is a way to bring the first amendment lawyers and will be damaging to student/faculty relations. We should really suggest that the fault should be acceptance and if we have doubts, we shouldnt be making policy for the one scoff law of the century who attempts to invent a holiday and/or religion. Dr. Goodell asked Professor Marino what he is suggesting. Professor Marino stated that he is proposing that we take away the adjudication that faculty would adjudicate what is a religion and what is a proper holiday. Dr. Goodell asked if that is in the document. Dr. Bowen suggested that this proposal be taken back to UFAC. Dr. Goodell asked Professor Marino to please tell her where it is if he finds that in the document. Senator Fred Smith stated that he understands what is supposed to happen to this form for university authorized activities but he is not sure what is supposed to happen for religious absences. So the student comes to a faculty member with this form, then what happens? Dr. Goodell responded, That is a good question. She has never had one and she doesnt know. Dr. McIntyre noted that she had a student bring her one within the first week of class to all of our faculty members in our program, gave us all the dates for the semester that she knew that she would be absent due to religious holidays, made arrangements in advance to make up the work turn in assignments early or get notes from classmates and it wasnt a big deal. What she was trying to say earlier with the OIE, her struggle is a little bit with thinking through this based on what Dr. Goodell was saying. In terms with disabilities, we have the Office of Disability Services to help us with determining things. The hardest thing with this is she feels it is kind of upon us as faculty to kind of make that determination and that is why she was thinking, perhaps incorrectly, about OIE and their role and she guesses from reading it again, their role is more just for adjudication if there is an issue but her concern is that we are being kind of asked to do a little bit of determination of things. Dr. Bowen asked for a motion to send the proposed Missed Class Guidelines for University-Authorized Activities and Religious Accommodation back to committee. Dr. Marino moved and Senator Beth Ekelman seconded the motion, and the proposal with one nay was referred back to the University Faculty Affairs Committee. Dr. Goodell stated that Senate should expect this proposal on the next meeting agenda. Proposed Revisions to 3344-13-03 Graduation, Convocation and Assembly Committee (First Reading) (Report No. 20, 2019-2020) Dr. Goodell next presented the proposed revisions to the Graduation, Convocation and Assembly Committee. She was not quite sure of the genesis of this. It came through from last year. She asked Dr. Gingerich to give an overview of where it came from because she knows it went back and forth between Dr. Gingerich and the Provost. There were changes at the Board level as to why the Board is dealing with the honorary degrees and that required a shift in our policies. Dr. Gingerich responded that what Dr. Goodell stated is basically what happened. The Provost asked UFAC to think about how the Honorary Degree Committee would work together with the current committee that exists in the Bylaws. So UFAC went back and forth to figure out the makeup of the Honorary Degree Committee and agreed and then these changes correspond to the ways in which the Bylaws will have to be changed in order to accommodate the new committee. Dr. Goodell noted that UFAC made an additional modification to include a member from the School of Nursing that was not previously included. The School of Nursing became a stand-alone school in 2009. So a member of the School of Nursing was included. The other schools did not change. Cleaning up the Bylaws takes a really long time. The functions of the committee then would include to recommend three faculty members, one of them being the chairperson of the Graduation, Convocation and Assembly Committee and one student to serve on the Honorary Degree Committee. They will then be working with the Board members and the alumni and a couple of other representatives from the university to work on those honorary degree recipient nominations and also to encourage faculty to nominate candidates as well. That was necessary to strike out those other options within the first point and the rest of it stays the same. The proposed revision is a first reading. Proposed Revisions to 3344-16-07 Full-time Faculty Retirement Policy (First Reading) (Report No. 11, 2019-2020) Dr. Goodell presented the last item of the University Faculty Affairs Committee, the Full-time Faculty Retirement Policy. Again this is cleaning up of some changes that were made in the employment conditions or the employment categories of full-time faculty to include non-tenure track faculty so the word tenured is being removed and replaced with full-time faculty in (A). In point (B), UFAC discussed with the university administration that the eight semester credit hours of teaching was a hangover from when we mostly had four credit classes and UFAC requested that it be changed to nine semester credit hours of teaching so that a faculty member could teach up to three classes. Increasing that commitment on the Universitys part, the Provost was supportive of that idea. On page 2 the wording was changed to full-time faculty members who have emeritus status. So a full-time faculty member who has emeritus status and the emeritus status is then defined in a separate part of the Personnel Policies at 㽶ֱ. So the ten years of service is also not necessary because someone would have to have ten years of service under the Emeritus Faculty Policy. So those other two items in parts F and G are just to update that to make them consistent with extending these privileges of emeritus status to all retiring faculty who have more than ten years of service. Senator Jennifer Visocky-OGrady asked Dr. Goodell if she could make a clarification. Would everybody who retires automatically become emeritus? Dr. Goodell replied no, there is a process for being appointed as emeritus. Dr. Visocky-OGrady asked that in sections F and G we remove and have emeritus this was relevant after Mareyjoyce Greens reflections today that she never bothered to apply for it. She knows some retired Art Department faculty who are not the best paperwork filers who would still like access to their Viking Card, parking, library and recreation privileges. It seems like the idea of being inclusive and including both tenure-track and lecturer in the retirement, adding the emeritus kind of only awards people who fill out paperwork more often. Senator Gary Dyer stated that his argument in favor of and have emeritus status is that it is supposed to rule out someone who for example were to apply for emeritus status and not get it or be stripped of emeritus status. He is bearing in mind at least one well known case of a distinguished scholar at Berkley who was stripped of emeritus status for wrong doing. So, there is an argument in favor of attaching it to the possession of emeritus status. Dr. Dyer was disappointed to hear from Bill Morgan about Mareyjoyce Green and maybe it is something where in the sense when there are retiring faculty, chairs really need to make sure that they do apply for the emeritus status. If they have earned the emeritus status, they ought to apply for it and we need to be aggressive about that. There is an argument in favor of having the privilege attached to possession of emeritus status if that helps. Dr. Visocky-OGrady commented that we might just want to look into how many people actually apply for it before we put it into the rule book. Dr. Goodell responded that UFAC will look at it. She commented that having been on the Board for three years, a large number of faculty do apply for emeritus status that come across the Board approvals. Dr. Bowen stated that a large number of faculty do but he has no idea about the proportions or the percentages. Dr. Goodell stated that UFAC will find out how many faculty apply for emeritus status and bring that back to the second reading at the next Senate meeting. IX. Report of the Provost and Chief Academic Officer Provost Jianping Zhu started his report with an item that is a follow-up to what Dr. Bowen mentioned in his report and that is academic misconduct. Accreditation comes up once every ten years and our next site visit is in Spring 2021. We need to take this seriously. We need to work on our responses to all five criteria, one of those being ethical behavior and university quality. Dr. Zhu wanted to reiterate what we are doing now to actually combat academic misconduct, specifically, contract cheating meaning students hire a 3rd party to do their work. Over the summer the University Administration worked with the Admissions and Standards Committee in developing strategy to deal with the cheating cases identified over the summer. For the fall, it was decided that a proactive stance might be the better way to go rather than dealing with hundreds of students after the fact, after the classes finished and grades were turned in. Their logging patterns were looked at trying to revert the grades. Within the first month, we looked at the logging patterns of the students and looked at the suspicious patterns and then notified the students that we are monitoring logging patterns. If you are traveling, dont worry about it. If you were logging from overseas be prepared that we may ask for evidence when you travel overseas. For those who actually are doing the cheating, we indicated that we are going to follow up and discipline action will be applied as appropriate. It is hoped that this will deter students from continuing doing that Dr. Zhu thanked the many faculty who have been working very actively in terms of dealing with that. He is also pleased to let everyone know that we are working with Blackboard. Hopefully, they will be able to build in the capacity where for your classes you will be able to see where the student logging initiated with the physical location named. This will help getting more faculty involved in combating the academic misconduct. Dr. Zhu stated that we need the support of everyone to continue our efforts to curtail and reduce the student cheating. Cheating is done in multiple ways and this is only one way of cheating. We need to be on the lookout and vigilant about all forms of academic misconduct. Dr. Zhu said that at the last Steering Committee meeting there was discussion about minor programs and certificate programs; about how a list of programs spontaneously come from the faculty at the department level and then move through the college level, Faculty Senate review, and final approval. There is a need to ask why we are doing that and what is the purpose of setting up certificate programs or minor programs? It should not be that just one faculty or two faculty feel interested in this particular area who want to put in some certificates or a minor just to add options for our students. Provost Zhu shared some basic data. He looked at the current list of 68 active certificates and found that one third of them didnt offer a single certificate over the last three-year period. Looking at the three-year period to see how many certificates have been earned, twenty-one of them didnt offer any. The next twenty-one offered anywhere between one to four certificates over a three-year period, so that is basically one certificate per year. The last third did offer five or more certificates over a three-year period. From extensive discussions with faculty colleagues, administrative leadership team members and students on why we are doing this, there seems to be three major purposes. One is really to offer multiple better choices and options for our students. Our undergraduate curriculum typically takes 120 credits to earn a bachelors degree. If you look at the required work, general education accounts for about one third of that 30 to 40 credits. Major requirements take about anywhere between 30 to 40 credits. So that is only two-thirds. Another forty credits or so usually are electives. Many times students take them without a specific aim. So one argument for certificates and minors is to design your way that on top of a student major, the student could add to their skills portfolio some specific training with specific skills whether that leads to marketability, leads to immediate jobs, or long-term transferable skills that will prepare students for tomorrows job that has not yet been created. This is a good argument. Still, when reviewing certificate and minors programs we need to think does this program, does this certificate serve that purpose? The second reason he sees is to create new programs that will draw students who otherwise would not come to 㽶ֱ. There are areas that are changing very fast and degrees take a long time to establish. It requires HRC approval and State approval. With certificates, we have much more control and we can establish them much more quickly that could bring students who otherwise would not come to 㽶ֱ. That is another good purpose. The third purpose is that there has been recent discussion started about four or five years ago called stackable credentials. He had a recent conversation with Dr. Dieke about stackable credentials for degree programs. More and more companies are now interested in hiring students, not necessarily having a traditional baccalaureate degree that takes 120 credit, but they may be interested in hiring students with a specific set of skills. At the graduate level this is true as well. In the long term, it will be ideal to design our degree programs as stackable credentials where, for example, for a masters degree, it is actually three certificates. A student can take that in sequence and if they get the job after certification, great. The employer may be willing to pay for the second certificate and the third one which may in the end lead to an academic degree. If that is the purpose, it requires all faculty to take a closer look at our current curriculum for each specific degree and think about how we can restructure that to offer it in a stackable credential fashion. With that three, that should cover most often need for specific certificate and minor degrees. Some years ago, Business started the efforts. They were trying to structure their Masters for Business Analytics as three certificates basically. If a student earns the first one, he/she can earn a certificate and then continue efforts to earn a second one. By the time you have your third certificate then you can have your Masters degree. That is a direction that has a lot of potential in terms of meeting the business and workforce needs. Dr. .Zhu asked if there are any additional purposes that anyone sees that should be included in the list. Dr Zhu wanted to bring this issue to everyones attention and see if this is a part of the faculty shared governance in terms of curriculum approval, and in terms of establishing new minor and certificate programs. As we continue creating new certificate programs Provost Zhu asked faculty to please take a really good look at your curriculum and see if there is a need that fits into any one of those purposes. He wants everyone to be mindful in reviewing and approving the programs moving forward and to work with the University Curriculum Committee to see how we can actually make the reviews more focused. He urged all colleagues on the University Curriculum Committee when doing reviews, to keep those purposes in mind and how do those fit our university strategic priorities. He noted that he is open to discussion. Finally, Provost Zhu shared good news with Senate. In todays environment, there was a budget challenge here, budget cuts and we feared we had to tighten our belt. There was discussion over the summer about the academic server that some faculty have been using. The Senate Academic Technology Committee recommended decommissioning the server. This caused some concern and many faculty spoke up about the need for a faculty oriented academic server at which faculty could create their own web sites using whatever format and not necessarily following the department or university template. He had met with faculty members who expressed the concern and who actually used the server during the last three-year period. There was discussion that we do need to invest in providing a modern server for our faculty. He stated that we hear you. Now he wanted to share the news with everyone. We will invest resources and work with IS&T to create a new web based more modern faculty academic server that can be used to put your class material, share your research efforts with researchers world-wide and host the website in the format that faculty like. He wanted everyone to realize that the university thinks faculty improvement and faculty professional development and the resources for faculty as a top priority. Just like outlined in the strategic priorities, number seven is to enhance the overall infrastructure of the university including the physical infrastructure as well as the environment for our staff or faculty to do their job. A university can only be as good as the faculty we have and as strong as the staff support we have so that will be a top priority and continue to invest in faculty resources. IS&T will be working with our faculty to phase out the existing server. Keeping the old server was not really an option. It is simply too old. Other than that, the security breach is a big concern. We do need to phase out and decommission the old server but we will create a new server and invest resources to provide an academic server for all of our faculty. X. Report of the Student Government Association (Report No. 12, 3019-2020) SGA President Omar Wahdan said that the last time he was at Senate, he reported that SGA had 15-17 members. During the past month, they recruited a lot of members and filled their cabinet and now he is proud to say that SGA is 40 members strong, 30 being senators. The 30 senators split up into twelve projects including a meditation day, volunteer fairs, electronic collection drive, and many different types of benefits that would basically be better for 㽶ֱ and the student experience. Mr. Wahdan said that collectively Student Government will continue to advocate for the students of 㽶ֱ and to work on projects that will benefit the student experience. Mr. Wahdan mentioned at the last meeting of the executive board that SGA had a proposal for a multi-faith space/meditation space on campus. The proposal when finished will be forwarded to Student Life. SGA also has a proposal for a digital makers space which is a need on every campus. He noted that many high schools, Tri-C and surrounding colleges have such things and there is clearly a need for it at 㽶ֱ . XI. Open Question Time Dr. Tighe commented that she has some concerns about the Provosts discussion on stacked credentials. Education is more than just providing skills and she worries about seeing students getting these stacked credentials without things like ethics or understanding the history of their programs and things like that. She just wanted us to think carefully about what a degree means and while she thinks that certificates have their place, she has a lot of concerns about the stacking of credentials for that reason. XII. New Business Dr. Ekelman commented that she has a hard time hearing in this room. She asked if anybody else is having trouble. The acoustics are so bad, she wondered if there is another room. Dr. Bowen said that President Sands told him that microphones in this room are being upgraded. He noted that we have the hardest time getting rooms on campus. Ms. Lunder starts at the beginning of summer to find places. We get moved around from place to place and there are complaints with hearing and with the sound no matter where we meet. So he picked the Moot Court just so we have a consistent place. We reserved this space for the year. Professor Dyer asked if the acoustics are worse in here than some of the other places we have met. Dr. Bowen said that it is a real issue. Unless there is a solution for it An unidentified senator asked if facilities can turn off the HVAC for the two hours that we are in this room. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 4:50 P.M. 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