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Faculty Senate Minutes

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

President Lynne Snowden called the meeting to order at 2:35 pm.

Roll Call

Absent: Adams (Nursing), Baker (Budget), Bennett (HPER), Buttino (Commun. Studies), Cavanaugh (Provost), Dodd (Biology), Earney (Acct.), Elikai (Acct.), Evans (Soc. & Anthro.), Galbraith (Mgt.), Hall (Finan. Aid), Hayes (Education), Howe (Mgt. & Mktg.), Jones (Chemistry), McNamee (Soc. & Anthro.), Parish (Bookstore), Parnell (Library), Sizemore (Evaluation), Walker (Admissions), White (Creative Writing)

Approval of Minutes

The November minutes were approved, with the correction noted that the growth colloquium of Nov 17 was co-sponsored by the Division of Public Service and Extended Education.

Special Order of the Day

1. Lynne Snowden was elected President-elect of the Faculty Senate for 2000-2001 by acclamation.

2. The Senate went into executive session for consideration of an Honorary Degree nomination.

Individual Reports

1. Chancellor Leutze

·    This may well be a difficult year to obtain funding for capital projects (such as the School of Education building), given the financial obligations caused by the hurricane and outstanding legal judgments affecting state government. As a result of current revenue and capital funding expectations, the projected growth of UNCW for 2008 has been revised downward from 12,500 to 11,000.

·    Applications are up 10% over last year at this time. It appears the average SAT score will be over 1100. One downside of this positive development is its negative effect on the UNCW effort to recruit African American students. Though UNCW is very successful compared to other UNC system schools in retaining and graduating African American students, it is difficult for UNCW and other UNC schools to compete for African American students with 1100+ SAT scores. Private schools offer much better scholarship packages. Overall minority student enrollment, including Latino and Asian students, has increased, but African American enrollment is lagging behind university goals.

·    The Chancellor is opposed to a tuition increase to raise faculty salaries, believing that the appropriation for such increases should come from the state legislature, and that such increases create an unnecessary conflict of interest for faculty with students. If there is a tuition increase, the UNCW administration intends to use the larger share of the funds generated to raise scholarships and address the issue of compacted salaries for lower-paid employees. The Chancellor is also concerned to find a way to improve faculty benefits. 

2.  President Snowden

·     Offered thanks to the Administration for listening to Faculty concerns and to the Steering Committee for their efforts.

·    Noted that very few human things last a thousand years, but that some universities number among them, and urged the faculty to join in a resolution to work together to make UNCW a place that will endure until the next millennium.

3.   Faculty Delegate Ken Gurganus

·    James B. Milliken, Vice President for Public Affairs and University Advancement of GA, suggested to the Faculty Assembly that the single advocate system of approaching the legislature was no longer sufficient. What was now needed was a distributive advocacy system. Interested faculty should volunteer their services in approaching legislative members to their campus legislative liason (at UNCW: Mark Lanier, special assistant to the chancellor).

·    Reported on a resolution passed by the Faculty Assembly concerning faculty expectations for fair, just, and effective faculty dispute resolution procedures, including the following statement: “The governing board [board of trustees] and president [chancellor] should, on questions of faculty status, as in other matters where the faculty has primary responsibilities, concur with the faculty judgment except in rare instances and for compelling reasons which should be communicated in detail.”

·    Presented details of the UNC faculty salary study, which are to be presented to the legislature. These showed that the UNCW average salary of $52,797 placed it in 4^th place among the six comprehensive UNC system schools without engineering programs. This compares to the AAUP average salary of $56,083, and to the average salary of Peer institutions of $57,577. The Chancellor noted that the Peer institution salary projections were adjusted several times by GA, and that the most likely legislative outcome would be oriented to the AAUP standard, rather than the higher Peer institution standards.

Committee Reports

1. The following motion from the Academic Standards Committee was passed (Motion 95-4-10):

That the Graduation Residency Requirement, as found on page 70 of the 1999-2000 UNCW Undergraduate Catalogue, be changed from this:

"The final 30 semester hours of course credit, including the final 15 semester hours in the major, must be completed at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington." 

     to this:

"The final 30 semester hours of course credit, including the final 15 semester hours in the major, must be completed through coursework offered by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington." 

      An amendment to change the 30 hour requirement to 31 failed.

2.   The following motion from the Steering Committee of the Senate was passed (Motion 00-4-5):

That the membership section of the Senate Bylaws be changed from this:

I. Membership

A. Qualifications

1. To be eligible to serve in the Senate as an elected representative one must be a full-time faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 

2. The chancellor shall be an ex officio voting member of the Senate. The chief academic officer and the dean of each college or school shall be ex officio non-voting members of the Faculty Senate. Chairpersons of Senate committees who are not elected senators shall be ex officio non-voting members of the Senate.

       to this:

I. Membership

A. Qualifications

1. To be eligible to serve in the Senate as an elected representative one must be a full-time faculty member of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 

2. The chancellor shall be an ex officio voting member of the Senate. The chief academic officer and the dean of each college or school shall be ex officio non-voting members of the Faculty Senate. 

3. The chair of each standing Senate committee, or another committee member elected by the committee, shall be ex officio a voting member of the Senate. A faculty member may serve simultaneously as a departmental senator and as a committee senator but shall be limited to one vote.

3.   The following motion from the University Curriculum Committee was passed (Motion 00-5-7):

    That the following courses be designated as Basic Studies courses:  

• In Language: ITN 202 Intermediate Italian II (3). Application of the language in composition, conversation and readings.

• In Fine Arts: CRW 201 Introduction to Creative Writing (3). Includes lectures, workshops, readings, and writing exercises in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

• In Fine Arts: FNA 101 Cultures of the World Through Music and Dance (3). Includes participation in dance and musical experiences.

Old Business

        None.

New Business

        Motion 00-4-6 was withdrawn, in light of the recent Administration decision to allow faculty to receive reimbursements for flights they book themselves. 

Announcements

1. The University Holiday Party, hosted by Chancellor James Leutze and Margaret Gates, will be held at the Madeline Suite of Wagoner Hall, Thursday, December 16, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

2. There will be an Intercultural Week, Feb 14-20, including daytime and evening programs, culminating with an Intercultural Festival day, Feb 20. Departments or organizations who are interested in sponsoring events should contact Heather Smith at 962-7009 (smith@uncwil.edu).

The meeting was adjourned at 3:50 p.m.