Faculty Senate Minutes

February 1, 2017

3:10-4:30 pm

Sub 235

 

Membership

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Babcock, Michael – Chair

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Wilmer, Franke – Chair-Elect

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Adams, Dean – AR/Art

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Anderson, Christina- AR/FilmPhoto

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Anderson, Ryan- EN/ChemEngr

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Arnold, Shannon- AG/Ed

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Austin, Eric – LS/PolSci

 

Belasco, Eric-Ag/AgEcon

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Berry, Michael- EN/CivilEng

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Bolte, Jason-AR/Music

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Brown, William-Business

 

Burrows, Mary – ExtensionCampus

 

Conrad, Maire- AR/Arch

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Dratz, Ed- LS/Chem

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Creel, Scott- LS/Ecology

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Eggert, Norm – Emeritus

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Ewing, Stephanie- AG/LRES

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Greenwood, Mark- LS/Math

 

Haggerty, Julia – LS/Earth

 

Herman, Matthew- LS/NAS

 

Hostetler, Jeff- Gallatin College

 

Hughes, Thomas-LS/CellBio

 

Jha, Prashanta-AG/RC

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Koltz, Rebecca-EHHD/HD

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Larson, Robb-EN/MIE

 

Lu, Chaofu-AG/PSPP

 

Lucas, Dan-ExtensionOffCampus

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Brody, M-EHHD/Ed

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Martin, James-LS/MLL

 

Merzdorf, Christa- LS/CellBio

 

Mosely, Jeff-AG/ARS

 

Rebane, Aleks- LS/Physics

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Reidy, Michael- LS/History

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Becker, James – EN/ECE

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Running, Alice – CON

 

Smith, Jessi-LS/Psychology

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Sterman, Leila-Library

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Thomas, Amy-LS/English

 

Wiedenheft, Blake-AG/Micro

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Yamaguchi, Tomoni- LS/Soc

 

 

 

 

 

Alternates

 

Adams, Edward-EN/Civil

 

Amendola, Roberta- EN/MIE

 

Babbitt, Randy-LS/Physics

 

Becker, James – EN/ECE

 

Bennett, Robert – LS/English

 

Black, Laura – Business

 

Dlakic, Mensur- AG/Micro

 

Ellis, Colter – LS/ Soc

 

Engel, Rick – AG/LRES

 

Gannon, Paul – EN/ChBE

 

Geyer, Lukas – LS/ Math

 

Karczewska, Zuzanna- AR/Arch

 

Kevane, Bridget – LS/MLL

 

LeCain, Tim – LS/History

 

Liu, Jian-yi- LS/Earth

 

Olson, Bret- AG/ARS

 

Perry, Dustin- AG/AgEd

 

Ricciardelli, Lucia- AR/FilmPhoto

 

Rogers-Stanton, Christine- ED/Ed

 

Shanahan, Elizabeth – LS/PolSci

 

Stock, Wendy-AG/AgEcon

 

Wathen, Cristen- EHHD/HHD

 

Yost, Laurel- AR/Music

 

Young, Scott- Library

 

Zimpel, James- AR/Art

 

 

 

 

 

Other Participants in Attendance

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Bob Mokwa - Provost

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Larry Carucci – Faculty Affairs

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Steve Kirchhoff- CLS/English

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I.    Call to Order

II.   Approval of the January 18th, 2017: Approved

III.  Announcements

President Cruzado will join us on March 1st

IV.  Updates from CPC and Graduate Council

Course approved by Steering on January 31st, 2017

•       BMKT 406: Advertising Campaign Development

•       CSCI 108: Joy and Beauty of Data

Course approved by CPC*
•       CULA 102: Intro to Culinary Arts

•       CULA 103: Professional Chef I

•       CULA 105: Food Safety Sanitation

•       CULA 250: Hospitality Supervision and Customer Service

•       ENSC 210: Role of Plants in the Environment

•       ENSC 466: Chemical Ecology

•       HTR 107: Intro to Hospitality Management

•       HTR 201: Hotel Management and Operations (will be edited)

•       HTR 220: Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry

•       ITS 140: Introduction to Networking and Cabling,

•       ITS 142: Intro to IP Routing

•       ITS 164: Networking Fundamentals

*These courses will be acted on by FS steering or discussed at our next FS meeting.

V.  Faculty Senate response to President Trump Executive Order
·         Background: Chair Babcock

·         Move to have a discussion about a Faculty Senate Statement: Michael Reidy, moved, Bill Brown, seconded. Approved.

·         DRAFT Statement – Chair-Elect Wilmer

·         Friendly Amendments:

o   line 26: replace “any” with a thorough review

o   line 20: replace arbitrarily with in a discriminatory manner, change arbitrary with discriminator

o   line 20: “while using power to discriminate”

o   Moved to approve: Michael Reidy, second Lela Sterman, approved

o   line 32 “That we as members of the faculty senate…

o   Moved to approve: Robb Larson, Michael Reidy seconded, one opposed, approved

o   line 32: While faculties include diverse voices, we as….. change uncompromising to without compromise.

o   line 32: While faculty include diverse voices

o   Move to leave lines 32, 33, 34 as is. Leal Sterman moved, Eric Austin, seconded. One opposed, one abstention. Approved

o   line 14: removed scholars and students replace with those. Dean Adams moved, Michael Reidy, seconded, approved.

o   line 5 remove senate. Robb Larson moved, Michael Reidy seconded, approved.

o   line 11 remove from those counties…. Add and from… Moved by Scott Creel, Jason Bolte, seconded. Approved

o   Amy Thomas moved to pass the amended document, second by Michael Reidy, passed.

VI.  Public comment:
                Steve Kirchhoff asked Faculty Senate to place on the agenda the question if the Koch Foundation grant                                document and its possible imposing on academic freedom.

VII.  Adjournment
 

Spring 2017 Faculty Senate meeting schedule – please mark your calendars!

A.      Feb 22nd

B.      March 1st

C.      March 22nd

D.      April 5th

E.       April 19th

F.       May 3rd

 

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