Minutes
Called to Order
The meeting of the
faculty senate was called to order at 5:15 p.m. in the Continuing
Education Building. John Mattox, Faculty Senate Chair
presiding, Dianne White-Oyler, Secretary, recorded the
proceedings for the meeting until the new secretary was elected.
Blanche Radford-Curry, Vice Chair.
Roll Call
The following
senators were in attendance: Aghajanian, A; Autrey, D; Barlow, M;
Barringer-Brown, C; Bell, J; Brooks, J; Chan, A; Darnell, M; Davis,
G; Dilday, C; Ellis, R; Gill, S; Goins, S; Han, S; Hackley, L;
Hernandez-Hinek, S; Kassem, A; Johnson, O; Jones, C; Klomegah, R;
Martin, S; Mattox, J; Mongkuo, M; Nickolov, R; Okhomina, D; Orban,
M; Orban, M; O’Shea, M; Peacock, J; Radford-Curry, B; Swinford, D;
Taylor, A; Trong, D; Wang, D; White-Oyler, D; Williams, T;
Wilson-Jones, L; Wood, P.
Excused Absences:
Akbay, C, Han, S, Okojie, R.
Guests: Minster
Eronomy Smith-Mohamed
Senators were reminded to sign the roll call.
Absent: Akbay, C.,
Barlow, M., J; Breitzer; Caston, M.; Frobish, T; Hackett, M;
Han, S; Heastie, S; Miah, F; Montoya, D; Okojie, R; Small, H;
Adoption of the
Agenda
The agenda was adopted as amended.
Adoption of Minutes
Call Meeting August 23, 2007
Chancellor’s Remarks
After his second and third full month, he has accomplished a list
of things, but also had
to add to President Bowles’ list some new items that are more
problematic.
Private housing—has improved to 99.9 percent occupied
Nursing is now on the right track. Some of those in the upper
division were not well
screened and did not have all of the pre-requisites. If we do not
address this properly it
will cripple them in the future. The HESI was misused; it is an
evaluative tool.
The problem with Banner came from trying to implement it without all
of the pieces in
place.
In fiscal affairs, the university has a deficit of $3.9 million.
This correlates to the PACE
initiative. The funds saved will be used in house in University
College—to help
freshman retention. Increasing passing rates are critical to the
university.
He held the check for the project that would have given cell phones
to students.
Managers are being required to attend an Ethics Workshop.
Pass rates are critical to FSU. We are not graduating enough
students. We need to
double graduation rates for four year students to 15.4 percent, five
year students to 27
percent, and six year rate of 50 percent. There will be a committee
to raise admission
standards drawing a line at 800 SAT score. If we had had such a
score last year we
would have denied access to 1300 students which would have lost $8.1
in revenues and
would have reduced 15 faculty positions. We are trying to implement
provisions so that
we don’t go through financial exigency and retrenchment.
Election of
Secretary
Dr. Mattox then
conducted the elections for Secretary. On the ballot for Secretary
was Dr. Charletta Barringer-Brown. There was a call for nominations
from the floor and seeing none, Dr. John Mattox called for a motion
to close the nomination and Dr. Akbar Aghajania seconded the motion.
Dr. Barringer-Brown was voted Secretary by acclamation.
Provost, Dr. Bell
responded to a question posed regarding the merging of
school/college of Arts and Sciences. She stated the schools were
being merged due to the size of the university. We are a small
university and there is no need for two separate schools to exist at
this time.
Outgoing
Secretary, Dr. Dianne White-Oyler expressed need for more
representation on Faculty Senate standing committees to strengthen
ideas for changes in policy.
Faculty Senate
Chair, Dr. John Mattox described updates to the Faculty Senate
website.
Secretary Elect,
Dr. Charletta Barringer-Brown mentioned that input is needed from
senators to ensure correct information pertaining to department
representation and faculty senator activities displayed.
Faculty Senate
Chair, Dr. John Mattox also discussed issue of Faculty Senator
expectations for attendance would reviewed for our next meeting.
Provost Dr.
Juliette Bell mentioned that the Members at Large election would be
held on October 15, 2007.
Chancellor Lloyd
Hackley mentioned Executive Committee will meet on October 25, 2007
for a retreat
Chancellor Dr.
Lloyd Hackley answered a general question regarding average student
SAT scores by Dr. Soni Martin. The chancellor briefly discussed the
declining numbers of African Americans attending HBCUs. The pool for
viable candidates has become smaller. The pool for higher achieving
students has decreased due to more students now receiving larger
scholarship awards from Predominately White Institutions (PWI). Dr.
Hackley described current activities to enhance student learning and
the measurement of outcomes assessment by the assessment
coordinators in each of the areas.
Chancellor Dr.
Lloyd Hackley also responded to a question regarding designation of
Smart Classrooms. There has been a need expressed across campus.
Other issues included security and location. Review of technology is
needed to assess current utilization of resources.
The meeting
adjourned at 6:05PM.
Dr. Dianne
White Oyler, Outgoing Secretary to Faculty Senate recorded minutes
until secretary election
Minutes continued
and recorded Dr. Charletta Barringer-Brown
Secretary Elect to
Faculty Senate
