Good afternoon. I'd like to call the meeting to order. Welcome back everyone. We have an agenda today to adopt. That's the first thing on our agenda. I do want to request that we make one change in the agenda. If we could change the order of our speakers so that our guest speaker, Eric CAT, can speak before the Provost. We need approval for amending the there's a motion. Second. Seconded. All in favor? Thank you. Any opposed it being unanimous in every other respect. We have adopted the agenda. We need to approve our minutes from our February third meeting. These come to us from the secretary of the Executive Committee. All in favor of adopting the minutes? >> Anybody opposed or minutes are adopted for? >> We turn to our remarks from Nancy brick house. I'd like to introduce our guest today. One of our colleagues, john jab in English departments, suggested to me, we invite our new athletic director. And I remember being in the Senate when Bernard mirror began his term. And that was probably the only time I ever met him or song. And I thought it would be a good way for faculty to, to meet our athletic director. Eric CAT is coming to us from the Boston area. Eric joined us three months ago and is the director of intercollegiate athletics and Recreation Services. He's a native of a van Dover, Massachusetts and spent the last 14 years at Boston College, most recently as Senior Associate Athletic Director for business operations. Before that, for nine years, he was at Northeastern University where he served as Assistant Director of Athletics. Eric is a graduate of Providence College. I ask them to just come and talk a little bit about himself and what he envisions for his program. And then we can all ask some questions. And then Eric has to get off to a meeting. So let us welcome Eric CAT. >> Well, thank you. I didn't really think I would be staring at my own picture while I do this. You know, it's obviously been a very eventful first three months for me on the job and still get my bearings finding my way around campus. This is my first time and Gore also what I, every day I'm here, I'm more excited about our future and our potential than I was the day before. Obviously, there have been some things in the recent time that I wouldn't necessarily have plan for as I first got here, but it's certainly something that I think puts us in a great spot for the future. And I'm very, very excited about it. Over the course of my first couple of months here, I tried to reach out and get out as much as possible around campus and meet as many of the vice presidents and leaders of the university unfortunately, had to reschedule a number of meetings with some deans and some academic folk that I hope to get to in the next month or so with everything that's happened over the last month. To tell you a little bit about myself. I grew up in New England, went to graduate from Providence College for the last 13 years, I worked at Boston College with my last position being Senior Associate Athletic Director, where I oversaw the financial end of our department, both on the revenue-generating and expend side, as well as acting as a program administrator for five of our varsity programs, including our football program at bc. One of the things we were most proud of was, was the overall development of our student athletes. And, and by that I mean academically, socially, and athletically. And we really prided ourselves on the success, certainly the exposure that athletics gets, which is certainly sometimes ignoring it in terms of our role within the university structure is always focused on the athletic achievements. But we were at BC were very much as proud, if not more proud, of the success that we had off the field, both in the community in terms of community service and academically, we had, over my time there, I think we averaged about a 97% graduation rate. We had a number of just successes off the playing fields that we just had a great amount of success not only in the student athletes that we brought to campus, but the job that are coaches did in recruiting student athletes, we're going to be in a position to succeed there we had a very successful, what we call learning resources for student athletes, something that's equivalent to the Student Services Department that we have here. But I think a lot of times those areas getting an inordinate amount of credit for the academic success that our student athletes have. A lot of. The job really is our coaches jobs. And our coaches job, when they recruit, which is the lifeline of any of our athletic programs is a, is an indicator or is to attract the student athletes that are going to have indicators that they're going to succeed at the college level. And we're very proud of what we did there. And it's certainly a mindset and a vision that I'm going to look to. If it doesn't exist here, install it here. So I'd be happy to answer any questions. Certainly, I know people come from all different areas of the university and I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have of me. Yes, sir. >> John Morgan in physics. >> This may be phrased in somewhat obsolete terms, but for many years, Delaware had a lot of success in Division one double way. >> There's sometimes there's been discussion about should we try to move up to division one. >> And I for one, think that that probably would be stay wondering what your views. >> Yeah, I think right now, I mean, the, the landscape of college athletics has changed dramatically over the last five to six years. And one of the ironic points for me being at Boston College, we were at pretty much the very outset of this conference, realignment thing that's happened here. We moved from the biggies conference to the ACC in 2005. And that was really one of the first moves when ourselves, my aiming at Virginia Tech moved from beneath the ACC. I think what you're going to see the next real big step in conference realignment in this country is going to be those top four, perhaps five conferences really separate themselves from the rest of the pack. And that's going to be predominantly a result of the new playoff system that's recently been implemented, the television money, and the revenue that's generated from that playoff system. And quite frankly, the desire of those four, maybe five conferences not to share in that revenue there certainly generating it. They certainly are going to be averse to sharing it with everyone else. And I think when that happens, I think because of anti-trust laws and other legalities, I don't think that they will truly succeed from the NCAA, but they will, true, they will definitely separate themselves. And when that happens, I think there's going to be a tremendous reorganization of college football at that next level. And next level includes schools that are 1A at some of the lower conferences like the Mac and the Sunbelt and Conference USA. And some schools that are at the top of one double a, of which we certainly are. I don't know what that reorganization will be. It'll probably be at a reduced scholarship number than the 1A schools. It may very well be more, look a lot more like what one double a football is. I think that the schools that are really going to be in a tough spot, or the schools in those other 1A conferences, the MAC and Conference USA in the Sun Belt, who faced tremendous, tremendously difficult financial model and no additional revenue coming to it because those top revenue-generating conferences are going to prevent the share of that money. So I think they're going to be forced to really look at the financial model that they take part in and really reconsider their investment in something that has very strict limits on the revenue they can generate. >> As I was thinking not only of financial issues, also, I'd have to say going back over the last 30 years that I did here, one of the things I really like is that I've never even heard a rumor about pressure being put on faculty to give high grades to athletes, anything like that? >> There's nothing like my not right. >> Then there will be okay. >> Sometimes our student athletes get into trouble. It's serious trouble now off the team and out of the University. >> Unlike some other universities, keep people around. Well, criminal charges are pending, stuff like that. >> I just hope we don't ever try to compete with schools that do things like that. >> Are student athletes should be fully integrated in the student body at the university. I mean, one of the things that I really am not a big fan of here that is very different than where I come from. And part of it is just the market is I don't like how so many of the juniors and seniors, and I think this is the entire student body, not just student athletes. I'll live off campus. I mean, I what we had at Boston College, it granted, the market for rentals apartments in Boston is quite different than everybody. The entire student body was fighting for every available bed on campus. So there was more of a campus community was more condensed and you add a little bit more control, you know, from, from our standpoint. But you know, there's no question our student athletes should be integrated fully within, within the student body of the University. Period. Yes, sir. Thank you. >> Before you arrive, before your watch, the university disbanded manage track and cross country. >> Do you see especially with your financial guy, do you see any other UD sports? >> I certainly hope not. It's certainly not part of our plan. I think what we will do everything we can not to have to do that. I mean, nobody ever gets into the line of work that I get into to cut sports. I mean, it's, it's, it's averse to everything that we have, we hope to do and we want to create opportunities. That being said, obviously, you can only split of financial pi so many ways. And you want to make sure you are our administering a department, organizing a department with a vision that can produce the best experience for all of our student athletes. And at some point in time, the question there's always has to be addressed is with the fixed resources that you have. How many different ways can you split that to produce good experiences across the board? And that's an ongoing challenge. And that's a challenge everywhere. Bc, we had 31 sport program for 750 student athletes. And the one thing I noticed every morning when I drive to work here is just the land. I mean, we have space BC. We had so many shared facilities. We add our Rena Conti forum wasn't just the home place for our men's and women's basketball teams. It was for our men's and women's national championship hockey team. So we had so many shared facilities that puts so much strain on class scheduling practice, scheduling the full array of things here. Not only do we have the land and the space and the flexibility, virtually programs has its own facility. And obviously that's just a component of of having space, but it makes it a lot easier or it's a lot more amenable to the goal of providing a first-class experience. Because it's often tough when you have four or five spores that I have to share the same facility in terms of the scheduling practice. I mean, some had a practice at night and there was just no way around that. And that affects the experience that they have because one way or another it's going to affect their studies, whether it's class time or study time or whatnot. So that's the one thing here that provides so much more flexibility. But the finances are certainly the finances in every area of the university faces that same, that same struggle. >> Yes, I'm Howard University doing in terms of compliance with Title Nine. >> But from my understanding, one of the big, big reasons behind the drop off track when it happened was two, fully adhere with with title nine and the percentages of opportunities for men and women. So certainly, again, my goal is to do everything I can to make sure we don't have to go through that again. I know that was tough on a lot of people, first and foremost, the teams that had affected, but also a lot of alum's and interested group. So again, that's something that I'd avoid at all cost, knowing that it was done for a reason. And certainly we're at a position now where we do adhere to that. So as long as we keep those ratios of participant opportunities equal, same, then we're in good shape. >> This exists. Joe flashover yesterday and you the was absent in any major celebration. Are you planning anything? >> We will actually we have I'm going to put something up as a splash page on our, on our webpage Today. We're looking to actually do an ad in the newspaper down in the Baltimore area congratulating both him and poor geno Greg couscous, who gets overshadowed like you write about. Nobody even knows about him, but he's, he's a rookie with rabies as well. Yeah. The only person happier than Joe flack or today's is agent because he's due for a new contract. So yeah, we're obviously very proud of them. I've only spoken to both of them once, you know, obviously they were here before I was. But, you know, there are perfect examples. I mean, we're not, you know, one double a football isn't a place where everybody should come here thinking they're going to play in the NFL because it's so far-fetched and dream. It's a far-fetched dream at the 1A level. But there, there are two people who used it as opportunities to better themselves and develop themselves and make an opportunity make a career for themselves. But they are perfect models of what we're trying to do here. And certainly we're going to do we're trying to get him back for our spring game in on May fourth and hope to honor them then, but I have a feeling his public appearances may have skyrocketed after last night. >> Now, it's easy. >> No more questions. I hope you'll take that picture. >> I should say. >> I saw Eric at interviewed at the halftime into women's basketball game, was covered on television, Philadelphia. And he was claiming credit for Euglena. And maybe he'll, he'll be claiming credit for Joe. And a few years later they have electron. Joe was a student of mine almost. He was scheduled for my class and then he had good sense to go to the NFL for $12 million and I don't hold that against him. Eric, thank you for joining us. We have remarks from our Provost, Nancy briquettes picture. I'll explain that in a minute. That is on the agenda. >> So we are just back from a meeting with the Joint Finance Committee and I have to tell you, we could not have timed our presentation to the Joint Finance Committee better. They were in such a good mood. And of course, all they wanted to talk about was football and women's basketball. I'll take you pick bed anyway. So good afternoon. I just wanted to fill you in with some appointments that had been made. And I think we have some sensational news and I'm looking forward to sharing it with you. First of all, I want to say how much I have appreciated the opportunity serving as Interim Provost. We do have a new provost and has been named for the fall. You may have seen the EU daily announcement, but I will bore you with the details again. Domenico grass that has been named the next Provost of the University of Delaware effective August fifth tape. He is currently the vice president for research and Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Vermont. He worked with the Vermont faculty to build a university wide trans, trans disciplinary research initiatives that they called spires of excellence, which were used as a focus for future resource investments. Prior to this, Domenico served as Dean of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Vermont. He was the rosemary bread put Hewlett professor at Smith College rounding and the founding director of its picker engineering program. He served on the faculty at the University of Connecticut, including time as head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He's been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, a nato CMS Fellow, and an embed, an expert to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. He's currently the Editor in Chief of the environmental engineering science journal and has served as vice-chair of the EPA science advisory board. He's been President of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science professors. His research is in the area of contaminants in the environment. And he's authored more than a 100 journal articles and papers. So his impressive resume really speaks volumes about his talent and initiative. And we're really thrilled to have him join us here at the University of Delaware. We also have a new vice provost for graduate and professional education. This is a familiar face to most of you. He's been here many years. Jim Richards, he's noted really for his commitment to graduate education. He is the, he is a distinguished professor, Professor of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, and his appointment was made effective February. First, Jim was very crucial to the initiation of the biomes program, the graduate biomes program here at the University of Delaware. This is this interdisciplinary biomechanics and movement Science degree program has been a highly successful degree program and it's marked for its interdisciplinary nature. As vice provost for graduate and professional studies, Jam will work closely with deans, department chairs, and graduate program coordinators to continue enhancement of our graduate and professional programs. Joe has been a faculty member since 1980 and has held a variety of different leadership roles in the College of Health Sciences, including Chair of the Graduate Studies for exercise science. He's also been I PHP, is also a former president of this esteemed body. It's John Sawyer has accepted the position of Associate Provost for Institutional Research and Evaluation. Many of you will recognize this is actually the old Mike middle position and it has taken us a while to fill this position, but we really feel like we've made a good decision in terms of making this a faculty position. The nature of the job has changed considerably over the last, you know, 510 years. The nature of the way that we use data to drive organizational change. I think Aligns very well with John saw yours areas of expertise, and the fact that increasingly Institutional Research is involved in assessing outcomes for accreditation purposes, I think makes it important for this to become a faculty position. John saw yours actually, Professor of Business Administration. And he will be a key person. And olive our accreditation efforts. And in terms of helping the university mate the various compliance demands from federal and state government. John has been a member of the faculty since 1991 and was part formerly the Associate Provost for professional education and the office of graduate and professional education. I think John's expertise and his leadership skills will be a major asset to us as we began a new phase of strategic planning with a new, with the new provost. And finally, Ravi Armagan is the new director of the office of international students and scholars. Ravi is currently the Assistant Director for programming and communications and the Office for international students at scholars Michigan State University. And he will join us. It may won. Michigan State University has one of the largest global programs in the country. I very, very substantial operation there. So he brings tremendous expertise to this campus from his experience at Michigan State as we work toward increasing the globalization on campus by bringing more international students and scholars here to Delaware. I think this is a very, very important higher really thrilled to have him here. In my view, we've done a tremendous job in terms of sending students abroad and faculty abroad. We've done less good a job in terms of bringing people here and really making the campus a Global Campus. And a way that all of our students benefit from the diversity that comes with the, with bringing global students. Some scholars here, Robbie brings to this appointment extensive experience in the field. His dedication to international work is is paired with a detailed knowledge of US immigration regulations and legal standards. Is been affiliated, again, width the office of international students and scholars at Michigan State since 2003. And this row, who has worked to develop, implement, and promote immigration and acculturation resources for more than 7 thousand international students and scholars. So I'd like to extend my sincerest congratulations to these new appointments. I look forward to working with each of them as they continue to attract tremendous scholarship, research, and talent to the University of Delaware. Thank you. Questions? Questions, comments? Okay. On faculty Business. Thank you. >> Thank you. In the President's announcement, I try to keep you up to date on where proposals are and where they've been stalled into committees and then eventually make it onto our agenda. There are P and T documents out there that a number of departments have looked to revise. And I guess we sort of been stalled for last year to with the question about whether workload as provided for in the collective bargaining agreement has to be taken into account. In department P and T documents. Provost offices announced that they're willing to review individual department documents or college documents, as is the P and T committee. It may be that the departments my department decided we're going to wait and see what the fallout is, how the contract is negotiated with the workload is part of that or not and are just going to wait till that summer. But if your department has or your college issues that you want to change in a p and T document, you can submit those now in the Provost Office will be interpreting them as well as or proving them, and the P&T committee as well. I was also asked by the faculty Senate Committee on student and faculty honors to remind everyone that there are nominations for the Francis Allison award do by March first at the Dean's Office and the deans will pass those on. There is a webpage which I gave to link to my report will be posted on our web page for the Senate. You can find that link. Again, we're just look on university site. There is an issue. Academic calendars were previously approved by the Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Calendar, which was reconsidering the timing of classes in the hours of classes, I'm not quite sure where they came from. The registrar's office sent them to undergraduate studies. They approve this morning, Fred? >> Well, they were actually taken off the agenda because all but one was so there was only one which has been approved for 14-15. >> Okay. Well, yeah, the rest are your preferred view? I asked a coordinate. It has no precedent for this IS do you need to be on education because Andrew was on a committee to also approved the calendars. We all felt an executive committee, I think that this was not something that people said. It has to approve what they we started class 2018, so we can leave it to those two committees and when you approve them, I wasn't pressuring you to your domain. Now, there are revisions to our Handbook dealing with promotion and tenure that are purely corrections and revisions, references to committees that don't exist, to sections of the collective bargaining agreement that were changed 20 years ago. The 3.3.3 committee, which met for two years to try to revise all of our P and T documents to conform with what two sentences that were headed to the CBA. We never actually did that. What we did though since we were meeting is these kinds of provisions, those are now at the P and T committee, which of course has jurisdiction to approve those are not my prediction is they won't be problematic to anybody that really just changing things that are references to absolutely. Titles, those they promise will be discussed at the February something meeting and come on our agenda for March. That is required for the Senate to approve. Then there are the ten reform proposals of P and T that we've talked about last meeting, a couple of things. Those are also at the P&T committee that's clearly within their jurisdiction. Nothing would come before the Senate. We'd like to get those on the agenda for March. They could make it on the agenda for April. It may take another six months or a year. This is an ongoing struggle, but the goal is to get them done the agenda, once the executive committee approves them at a p and T, I don't think we need another open here. And we've had to open hearings on these same proposals. I'm not sure much would be accomplished. I'd like to get the Senate to debate these issues regardless of whether it makes it to the gender or not. I'm going to send you the memo for the next meeting that just the memo discussing we should do the following ten things. It's about a four-page memo. This was vetted by a number of groups, none of which will officially endorse it or anything like that. But the deans caucus has reviewed these. The provost's office has reviews these proposals. I'll leave it to them to announce whether they approve, but they seem to be supportive. The President has seen them. I won't say a word of what he thinks about him. He's basically staying out of this. And I sent a copy to the executive leadership of the AAUP. As a courtesy, It took a long time. Nancy and I thought we had reached an agreement about taking the language about workload out of the collective bargaining agreement. We seem not to have an agreement. Six months, a year later, we will leave that to the university and the AAUP to negotiate the CBA. And we'll just sort of sit back for another month and see what comes of that. This is a link to information on UD faculty that I presented last month. Professor Morgan asked me for some of that information, so I posted it. This all comes from institutional research. It's the information that deals with issues about how many see NTT faculty we have. What rank did they have? A lot of people might find that interesting. Remember, if this is the relevant figure that I said was interesting. Assistant professors, we have a 100 C and tt assistant professors and a 174 tenure track assistant professors. And there's a lot of confusion as to what's the standard for both tracks of faculty, whether it's the same. And whether they are called the same, frankly, assistant professors or whether it's assistant professors of research or clinical assistant professors. If you want to look at these numbers, you'll see is also 41 associate professors who were see NTT faculty. >> And we now have seven full professors. >> I remember when the first C NTT faculty member was promoted to full. These are just part of the proposals is to just ask these questions. How do we classify faculty? How do we judge them and evaluate them in a way that's fair to them and fair to the rest of the faculty. So if you want this data, the information I'm Martha, I'll give you a minute. After I gave you a link to this, there's also John Morgan asked if there's a breakdown of C and T, T, how they're distributed in colleges. And we do have that information as well. It's also by departments not particularly useful, but you will see that there's a great variation. There are some colleges like Asian earth and environment that have virtually no see NTT faculty. There's some departments, apparently physics and astronomy has no see NTT faculty. There's other departments like mine. A third of the fact that your CNTK, I'm not sure that really changes anything in terms of how we approach this question. Alright, so simply, there's a link there. It did turn out that the most controversial item is going to be the question of titles. And I know the P&T committee had an open hearing were that was the controversial issue. Whether faculty were associate see NTT faculty have a different title than those who were on a tenure track. I did want to point out though that the faculty handbook already provides the following. Section four says that basically the default rule for C and tt is to hire them as an instructor. And then it says they can also be hired as instructional, clinical, public service or research faculty. So that was already how we've been operating under the faculty handbook that people are hired to be instructional, meaning teaching for, for as an assistant professor. English department. They seem to all have PhDs in our assistant professors, my department, they don't have PhD, so their instructors. So really the the only thing we're asking is whether they should carry some title that designates that this particular faculty member as a research assistant professor, who can be promoted to a research associate professor because they're not teaching their only in a lab doing funded research. And another faculty member who might be teaching 404 was hired as an instructional associate professor, assistant professor, and can be promoted to associate instructional professor. And it gets to be complicated whether we really have to identify ourselves with all these titles. But the title seem to matter to a lot of people on both sides. Apparently, some assistant C and tt professors didn't like that mentioned. And so I realize this will be controversial and this is at the open hearing 23 years ago. What was discussed most I think to emphasize, I've asked to have a meeting with those people who two assistant professors went to the labor union to ask whether this was of grievance against the contract. It has nothing to do with the contract. We write the titles for faculty. That's the Faculty Senate, not me, but the faculty as a whole. But remind everybody, I want to remind them these are perspective changes only. And of course they're not adopted yet. >> We have to pass the Senate and we apply to the current assistant professors were asking when we hire research faculty as C and tt assistant professors, whether they should carry that as a title. Those who were hired as assistant professors are just going to carry the same title. So it's only perspective. Ok? The other thing is it still has to be fair to the new hires. When we change the rules, we we don't want to just stick it to the people who aren't here. I was part of the labor unions, the negotiating team when the administration came to us about nine years ago, asked if we would talk about the vesting period for retirement benefits for faculty, the feeling was Maxine comb thought it was a little too generous to give faculty who'd only been here 15 years, and we're 55 full vested benefits, they understand would have medical coverage for the rest of their lives. We thought about it. We didn't want to change the rules and make it harsher for the faculty who are coming after us. But we thought that was actually, was a little too generous. Who was actually even more generous for people who are 60. And basically it had a full career, DuPont and came here and got medical coverage by just being here. I think it was only five years. All right. So you can change the rules. The labor union objected to my proposal on the grounds that it was unfair to have two different kinds of rules for faculty that are here now and those who come later. But we do that all the time. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. The alternative would be to change the titles of people who are here. And I think that's more unfair. But anyway, we're going to bake this, not just this meeting, but next beating. Although Martha, please go ahead. >> It's a good question. >> I guess I'm on procedure. >> How can we so the tenant proposals will be outlined and then they'll beyond the March agenda as new business. And we'll talk about that on at the April meeting maybe. >> And we really want how else would we do it? >> Well, not in February. If I hear from P and T And I've heard visually that they example panel because you're on a committee and I'm told they're fairly similar. >> Proposals have been proposed before. >> All the interest, the actual resolution no longer I know I don't know what's going on. >> Right. But you were on a committee and I'm told that there's similar to what you guys approved two or three years ago. >> So then they went beyond new business. >> They'd be and they'd come up and they take the labor may take them a then he's committed to bringing on for September meeting. If that's how long it takes, we can't get it on our agenda until t is at a full chance to review it. And then I'm going to give them actual resolutions and let them look at those. >> And then it comes at an origin. >> People objected last year that they were hearing things on the floor of the Senate and they were very new to people who haven't heard about it. And that's because they were in the committees, but I I can't give them to the senate before they go to minutes. So I'm just trying to update people on what's out there and what's coming next month or two. But we're not going to actually formally vote on the resolution, probably not until April or May. And then there's the question whether there should be another open hearing. I don't I don't think we need a third open gearing your exact same proposals. >> But what we'll talk about updating you, the coordinating committee on education has digested the provost Task Force on online courses. >> They're making changes to what was submitted last time. They did have an open hearing. They they asked for a second open hearing. I think the executive committees fine with that. And later the spring, maybe we'll get revised policy for the handbook on online courses. There was a proposal that went to the rules committee dealing with how to amend the faculty handbook. I gave up. If you actually look at the faculty handbook, even the sections that are, are sections that deal with faculty. Most of it we have no control over in section four. Well, the mission statement at university, we can't change without the Board of Trustees. We can't change the constitution, which is article one. We can't change the bylaws. And if you actually look at section four, which has promotion and tenure, this things in there, like the university will close if there's inclement weather, we can't change that. >> There's a requirement in there. The faculty have office hours. >> I bet I could get 50% of you to vote in favor of doing away with office hours for students. But that's not our decision. We have no authority over those things. So I'm just going to back off and drop it. Here's the rule that's in the faculty handbook. The policies in the faculty handbook or official policies at the university or remain in effect until changed by the appropriate actions? I have no idea. What's the appropriate actions? We will approve anything dealing with promotion and tenure or curriculum, anything. If the administration wants to abolish office hours, we'll vote on it and approve it before it goes in the faculty handbook. But I don't think we can take the initiative and those kinds of policies. And so let's just do what we've been doing, which has not think about it too much. Future issues. Professor Morrison is chairing our ad hoc committee on R B B. We have met with Scott Douglas and we've met with Michael Jackson, who's our budget director. We're getting a little bit of knowledge about how the budget works and how our bb works. And we hope to have a report this spring. It may be premature, in which case Jim will just give us a a request for an extension of that report. I'm not sure where this is going, but we're hoping to explain to you how are BP has affected academics. That was the charge of the committee. Here's an issue that nobody else knows about. Two faculty came to me and asked me they were on a faculty search. Now, you know, there was a Dean search where search committee sign confidentiality agreements. I was on the provost search and I can't tell you anything about it because I signed a confidentiality agreement and I did that voluntarily because everything should be confidential on those kinds of searches to faculty came to me and said if we were honest faculty search and signed a confidentiality agreement and reveal that to you. With that, the breaching the confidentiality agreements, which I knew what they were getting at. The answer is depends on what you signed. It would not violate the provost search confidentiality agreement to reveal that there was such an agreement. So I took it that somebody used the same confidentiality agreement as far as anybody knows who's told me. >> We've never done that for faculty searches. >> It may be different for provost search or for Dean Search. Colleagues in that department can ask somebody on the search committee how many people applied for the position? Can't tell you. Why did you select those three candidates to come in? I can't tell you. There's no transparency at all on a faculty search. On the other hand, I thought about it and everything is confidential and a search committee, there's already a duty of confidentiality. You know, if you're on a P and T committee, you can't tell how other people in the room voted. If you're on a search committee and you hear that somebody in your field from Penn State applied for a job here, you can't call people back at Penn State and and reveal that. So it's not clear to me that there's anything wrong with confidentiality. It's the question of whether faculty should be forced as a precondition of serving on a faculty search committee to sign such an agreement? >> And here's the two problems. >> I thought if one is what if I was my big mouth reveal something now that the provost search that I shouldn't have revealed first I can tell you is a lawyer who signed an agreement that breached it. I would be liable for damages if I cause somebody damage to their reputation at their home university. So I have financial liability also. Is that some just cause for firing me? You can be fired even if you have tenure for doing things that are violation a university policies, i'll do it intentionally until you something about the search for the provost, is that grounds for firing me? >> I don't know. >> Faculty want to be in a position to serving on a committee where you have financial liability or you could lose tenure if you open your mouth in violation of confidentiality agreement. On the other hand, I don't think it's necessarily wrong. So I asked the welfare and privileges committee to see if they can investigate. Is that a common practice at universities as had ever been done here before, and make a recommendation to us as to whether that's a policy we should condemn. Approve Linda >> School of education who seem to depend on what is supposed to be kept secret. If faculty are actually evaluating in bullying on aids, I should think they would have a right to know something about. Hope. >> You're totally right. I mean, if it's a question, who will whereby this confidential. But how many implied that Yayoi agreement covers anything that was learned in discussed in the committee. Well, we're not looking for general discussion now because it's going to be on the agenda when welfare and privileges gives us a recommendation. Professor Morgan, just 1 of information. >> This issue of confidentiality came up with. My department was searching for a department chair in year 2 thousand, and we had a chair of the search committee who wanted to have a highly confidential search where we faculty within the department would not know who applied unless they were on the shortlist for interviews. Some of our faculty were upset by that and we went to Leon Campbell, who the contract maintenance officer, and he observed that he hadn't negotiated something with appropriate administrators, I believe was Maxine coal, which said that in all searches for faculty or searches for chairs, that there would be a statement that would say the all the application materials will be shared with the department faculty. >> That would mean the whole material, the names, the letters of reference, the CV's, everything would be shared with all the department faculty. >> And if that policy has ever been rescinded, I don't know by whom. >> And it seems to me to be a good policy for doing faculty searches. >> I understand that when you're looking at a really high level administrators like provost's or deans, perhaps you may need to have a higher level of confidentiality, but I just can't see any reason if you're trying to search for assistant professor Why that the identity of other people in the pool should be kept a secret. And one of the issues that Leon Campbell addressed was diversity, right? >> How do you know whether there are not qualified minority candidates who didn't make it onto a shortlist. There's a lot of issues and that's why we'll wait for welfare privileges to give us a report and if we pass a policy, I don't think that Clearly the provost's office and the office of vice president of administration didn't change any policies. I think this I'm not looking to embarrass anybody. I think it was a chair dean who just thought it was a good idea if they did it for the search committees, for the Provost and Dean. Learner must be a good policy. So let's try it for faculty searches. And I'm afraid that people don't know about it because maybe it's been done before and nobody reveal that because they signed a confidentiality agreement. So that that argument can be used in reverse. Also confidentiality agreements. The Committee on student life submitted a policy dealing with medical amnesty that went into effect last spring in May. And that committee is a special committee. Its charge basically gives them a good deal of discretion to make student Policy, Student Conduct, without bringing it back to the Senate. They're supposed to just report back to us what are major changes in policy. And then we decide the executive committee whether to bring it to the senate. Professor Galileo and probably nobody else in the Senate web read the webpage and notice this new policy, and we never heard of it. And so good policy. Mark ourselves gave us information about the policy as a father of a of a college student male who went to the hospital for over indulgence and alcohol. That's the policy is you're not going to be turned in. We want to encourage students to take their roommate who was drunk too much beer to go to the hospital. And then you won't be, That's the amnesty side of it. So it's a great policy. We except the policy, but we've just asked student life to give us a report at the end of the year because I don't know what other policies they might have adopted that weren't on your daily. So we don't know about him. And it all standing committees are supposed to report at the end of the year. And Karen would ask us by March 15th to give us a written report of the activities of the committee. Now, some companies, we know exactly what undergraduate studies in graduate studies has approved because it comes right to us and we approve it on the floor and Coordinating Committee as well. Any other committees that don't report to the Senate executive committee on a regular basis. We just ask that you prepare short, could be one paragraph just telling us that we didn't do anything this year, but let us know what new policies have been adopted in other committees. I did want to report that the Committee on student life has informed me and Catherine go go Lin's Goldman's committee has told us that the student code of conduct has been amended to provide that it is a violation if you post online course notes and material taken from your classes? >> I got curious. >> I just wanted to do a Google search and found a number of other sites that are doing the same thing of the two that we knew about. I came across this site, loco a0 x2. There are 500 exams from professors and courses at the University of Delaware posted online. I joined. I have to contribute an exam to get to see somebody else's exam. I was going to contribute my exam with all the wrong answers, C, and then I'd have to do a new exam. >> Though amazing, they're all spread out in different departments. >> I took a look at some of them. This is our young lady. Some of them are so great intelligence that they post their pictures and their names, and their majors and all the exams that they've stolen from class and posted. So I hope the Office of Student Conduct can track down some of these people. These are real people. Winner though is this miss the Lena brr. She has posted 520 exams herself in one year. I asked Jeff Palmer to see if we could track her down. She is not a student. >> Some of those exams come from Morehouse College. >> We contacted Morehouse. They do not have anyone registered. And it made me think there may be students here that aren't our students who are just coming into large lecture halls and taking exams and picking up whatever you get paid for this and posting them online. I'm told Jeff thinks she's not a real person. So I've been having an online relationship with a woman who doesn't exist. I was disappointed that she may not be real, but who is it? Then somebody's coming to our class is the only thing I can think of. And it was pointed out to me, this is already a violation of Student Conduct to take exams, but we know the fraternities do it here though they're bold enough to posted online and we can track them down. Question is, do we want to bother? Maybe the better thing is for faculty to get the word and implement enough control so that exams don't float out at the door. I know that's hard. >> If there's 300 people in a class, what was it that way? >> I was horrified, but fascinating. A0 x2, a look below his organic chemistry. I don't know who teaches organic chemistry, but watch out. There's many versions of Spanish tool to all your exams are on there. Maybe it doesn't matter. We had a question about is there a policy or should there be a policy on students having three or more exams and one day there is no official policy. I'm told the registrar tries to avoid scheduling students with three or more finals in one day. And then if they can't adjust that, that's when the students come to us. The thing is, students always tell you it's an official policy. You have to let me take a makeup and it's not that's the only thing here. Executive Student Life. And the executive committee considered whether we should formulate a policy, and we decided to just leave it as it is. So the rule is they try to avoid it if a student asks you and told you they have three finals on one day, if you can cooperate, fine. Otherwise, push them off to the other guy. Let them give you final. Alright, I now we get to our consent agenda for those that are new to the Senate. These are all on the consent agenda items that you should have looked over. All members of the Senate should at least take a quick look. I have no competence to decide if the music department should require this course for three credits, and that went for two or vice versa. But we are supposed to give a last look. These had been vetted by the Undergraduate Studies Committee and the Graduate Studies and the Coordinating Committee and the Executive Committee. We hope somebody has picked up if there's an addition mistake, adding AP credits for a major, if not somebody from the Senate we hope will pointed out Does anybody have any one of these items to pull off the agenda to discuss hearing? No one mentioned any items will vote on consent agenda as a group, all in favor of adopting the Consent Agenda. Any and opposition, it was a unanimous vote. Now the rest of our regular agenda a resolutions, These are more important changes like a new PhD program, a change in a major, the name of up departments, changing these actually go to the board of trustees. I've been at the meetings. I can tell you they look these lists over for about four seconds and then they approve it automatically. But we shouldn't do that. These have also been vetted in the undergraduate studies and the graduate studies in coordinating committee will go through them one at a time. If anybody wants an explanation. We have the chairs of both committees here. Andrew and Fred are here to explain any of the proposed changes. Resolution a renames a program and updates the policy statement for the MS and organizational effectiveness development and change. >> A discussion Andrew, above a senator, but with others with extra Komodo, this should be taken out. >> It was not the original resolutions. >> Organizational development and change. >> There should be no quarrel between the second, whereas it's actually correct, and the next one, which God degree. >> All right. So we're voting on his resolution without that comment. I don't tell anyone we change that. We'll be corrected. Questions? >> While I was in favor of approving the chain, anybody object being unanimous. >> Graduate studies, organizational effectiveness, development, unchanged. Is this different? >> Minus one. There's MBA with MS, right? >> A lot of these you'll notice are the same, but once a similar program in the same department, I assume same issues would arise. Any objections? Everyone in favor? One opposed. This vote being also a unanimous, We have a new degree, an MS, in international business. All the appropriate approvals have been obtain. >> Are there any questions on this for Andrew? >> Just say recommends instead of approves and the resolve at the faculty senate recommends, right? >> Because we don't have really divorce Trustees approves, right? >> They will approve it if we could. >> We'd recommend that you just give see, did I I'm sorry. >> I did. This is the NBA MS in international business. This is the one that has the same same problem. We're not going to pull these for next week, but Karen, we can make that change. Who's in favor of recommending these changes? Anybody oppose these kingdoms? That was also a unanimous here back to the one we talked about him as an International Business DNS or any questions? >> Detachments approvals requirements? >> No questions. >> Those in favor of the recommendation, not approval. Is it changing the name of Health Studies major to Health Sciences? >> In forums I think with their usage and their profession questions Cathy could answer. >> The question is asked what this change was to reflect the common usage and prevent those in favor of recommending adoption. Reimpose passes. F is the new major in entrepreneurship. Questions on this Coordinating Committee had some comments and questions for the people that submitted this learn in college. >> I was Australian outbidding. >> Yes. >> The answer should be part of that document today, so it's been amended. >> Questions, those in favor of recommending the new program, new major opposed. No. G. We have a new honors degree, a BA degree in public policy. Questions on this, everything was properly submitted when B here those in favor of recommending improves hearing, Yeah. We'll change them all from improved. Quite correct. We don't make the final approval. And our last one is certain changes to the faculty handbook. This one we have to make some changes to the resolution is phi. Basically, this is a reference to the faculty handbook descriptions of the Office of the Provost, the officers that were obsolete. These were corrected by Leigh van de direction changes. Whoever wants to claim credit in the Provost Office providing more accurate descriptions at the last minute, fairly rear and pointed out that we left one of the positions out. So there is one additional office. Where's the additional point? This is a new one. I believe that's the new one. We simply added a new paragraph with a new officer. That technically violates the Galileo rule, which was adopted by the senate two years ago, we can waive the Galileo rule. And so we don't have to bring this up next month if more than three-fifths of the Senate to make a motion to amend this hybrid of that what we passed in and now we're asking halls and this isn't really a policy, so I would argue that doesn't, you know, doesn't even apply. Okay. We therefore point out that one additional position and the provost's office has been added. >> Charlie, to be clear what I was recommending. >> Not that's not the right version. >> So to be clear why I was recommending was 40 years ago, wouldn't graduate studies and research was split woman from one vice provost to sell and suggested in addition to Vice Provost for research, there should be vice provost for graduate and professional education. >> Okay. >> So that's Karen had that language this morning, but I don't think that's one-year-old. >> No. You're right. >> Here's the proposed addition of this one right here. >> But you should at least favorite a second to read them. >> And that's and I'm alarmed, it's just pointed out the vice provost for the library should also be listed here. >> That was a change that would've made around the same time, I think those of us that were corrected copy on the provost's website that I asked you to submit that for next month in four seconds. Any questions for the provost's office about this new position being described? If not, we're going to follow whatever procedures appropriate to amend the faculty handbook, which seems to be a majority in favor for adopting these changes. This we do approve, not just recommend anybody against this description. That passes unanimously as well. No unfinished business and new business. In response to a question last meeting about senators Morgan's suggesting we are asking whether we've heard from President Harker about the resolution that passed asking for more open search for the provost. The executive committee voted five to one not to send a letter to President President Harker. I had a personal conversation and he knows about it and he's well aware of it. But we decided not to send a special letter reminding you that we pass this resolution and now introduction of new business. Anybody has anything that they wish to raise? >> Amy Johnson, nursing? I'd like to just make a suggestion just because it seems like the announcements at the beginning of this meeting, lots of very, very long time. If we can at least have a condensed version of a maybe ten minutes or reverse the agenda and do that. Agenda through and then put the announcements of the different app works for other people. It just it seems like it was 45 minutes of announcements. >> It's not really six o'clock. >> Them now, I know that, but we didn't start it on the agenda until five to five. >> I don't know if I'm the only one that feels this way. >> I just would like to do the business. >> Going to follow that suggestion. >> I like the announcements myself because I know more about what's going on. >> But you see, I had complaints. Well, we heard complaints last year that things were coming on the agenda and nobody knew about. >> Well, I agree with that. >> It just it needs to be shortened a little bit as our agenda gets longer and longer. Because this next couple of months we're going to have the 06:00 PM meeting. >> We won't be in binding any guests. >> The provost to give comments there come, she was sure. Are we expecting something back from the gen ed or we had a speaker a while ago that said they were working on some carrots. I are we going to stir something coming back on that this year? >> That's a Committee of the Senate. >> She's gave her report already and that was a long report. >> And I can certainly as fair enough. She's going to give us a follow why thought her report was that you were working on coming out of the can modernizing it or bring it up today and try to improve faculty buy in to it. And I just wondered if all we send her an email and see if she's cuter. >> Professor Gordon, thank you. I have two items. >> I think I can be brief on them. >> One is the when we approved the lengthening of the class periods in winter session so that the winter session, it's could be short, this past January, who was it planned for? Next January. Also, there was a provision for review of the effect of this a year from now into the spring of 2014, I would like to suggest. >> And since many of the people who teach in winter session do so only on a temporary basis. >> And they may not be here a year from now. >> It'll be a good idea for the coordinating committee on education to solicit input in the next month or two for those people who did have concerns about the short winter session, rather than waiting a year from now to try to gather that information. >> The other concern I have is that sometimes it seems we are debating important issues on the floor of the senate where we only have a week's advanced notice of. >> And sometimes that week is the week of spring break when many faculty are away. >> And I'm we'd like to make a suggestion that when Senate Committees are developing new policies that are going to affect many faculty, that it would be helpful if they could post a draft of their policy on a Senate website and invite comment in much the way that, the same, same way that the Federal Government invites public comment before promulgated new regulation, generally at the open hearing. >> That's what happened with online courses. >> Well, yeah, for things like that. >> But but I'm trying to suggest is that you don't need to hold the open here. >> Right. Which is very cumbersome. >> If the committee would just post a draft of say, send an email out to all the senators saying we have a new policy draft here. >> If you have any concerns, feel free to send an email message to the cheered. >> May leave it open like that for a couple of weeks and it would reduce the need to have open hearings in the future. >> We'll pick that up. Any other business? It's meaning is on Monday, March fourth, you have emotion into your second bit on favor. Yes. We are now adjourned.
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