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Faculty Senate Minutes

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

President Noland called the meeting to order at 2:30 p.m.

Roll Call

Absent: Byington (Fac Wel Cmte), Errante (Admis. Cmte.), Garris (IS), Gowan (IS), Howe (Mgt.), Huntsman (Budget Cmte), Galbraith (Fin Aid Cmte), Gerard (Adv Cmte), Kiddle (Research Cmte), Leutze (Chancellor), McLaurin (UCC), Roer (Grad Sch), Shay (IT Cmte),  Sizemore (Eval. Cmte.), Spears (St Affs Cmte), Tyndall (ITSD)

Approval of Minutes

The April minutes were approved. 

Special Order of the Day 

The Senate elected new officers: Vice-President, Mark Spaulding; Secretary: Tom Schmid; Members of the Steering Committee: Denise DiPuccio, Richard Olsen, Steven Dworkin, Richard Veit.

Individual Reports 

1. Provost Hosier

• Reported on enrollment, other matters: freshmen 1646; transfers 989, total 9834, total grad students 925 (close to 10% goal), total 10,759. Increase of +89 over projections. SAT ave. 1106, 3.63 HSGPA (up from 3.42). Rentention rate very high 84%, yield also very high 50+%. 23 new faculty this fall, +39 since last fall.
• Said that he was "faculty-centered" and would meet regularly with his faculty advisory committee to work on faculty concerns
• Reported that the budget process looks better now than just a few weeks ago: -2.39% (rather than -3%), with a number of important programs, such as financial aid and enrollment increase $ very likely to be fully funded
• Noted there are several matters of local concern with the budget, including adjustments related to the $650,000 from the campus tuition increase, raising tenure track salaries to $40,000 minimum, funding technology and learning communities, etc. 
• Said he recognizes the problem with increased class sizes, and that he intends to publicize the budget process, so that faculty will see clearly the choices that are involved.

2. President of the Senate Noland

• Welcomed new members to the Senate and welcomed back returning members
• Reported that he, Hathia Hayes, Richard Dillaman and Earl Sheridan are on the BOG Chancellor Search Committee, and that he believes it has an excellent chair, Larry Dagenhart, who will run an effective and open process. 
• Announced Chancellor Search Open Forums, both on Monday, Sep 23, from 12-2, and from 5-7, in the Warwick Center. 
• Reported on several upcoming deadlines relating to the Catalogue:
  • Sep 15: departments sent their portion to see if changes need to be made
  • Nov 3: materials due back to Academic Affairs for keying
  • mid-Jan: text sent to printer
  • mid-late Feb: galley proofs back to campus
  • mid-Mar: page proofs back to campus

Committee Reports

1. The Faculty Senate Steering Committee offered the following amended motion in support of the UNC Board of Governors Educational Planning Committee's Resolution on Academic Freedom, which passed (03-1-1)

   The UNCW Faculty Senate endorses the Resolution on Academic Freedom passed unanimously by the Board of Governors Educational Planning Committee, and it urges the full board to adopt the resolution at its September 13, 2002 meeting. (Motion 03-1-1).

    

2. The Faculty Senate Steering Committee offered the following motion, which was returned to the committee to review in the light of several issues raised in discussion (03-1-2):

   The UNCW Faculty Senate asks the UNCW Chancellor Search Committee to seek the following qualities in their candidates for Chancellor:

   A commitment to scholarly values and the diverse missions of a public comprehensive university;

   Academic scholarship and teaching credentials, or professional credentials, that are tenurable at the level of full professor;

   Outstanding leadership qualities, including:

   • Successful leadership in higher education or professional administration
   • Personal integrity, intellectual curiosity, compassion, resilience and energy
   • Commitment to shared governance with faculty, staff and students 
   • Collaborative leadership style that emphasizes openness and fairness
   • Demonstrated ability to secure funding from government and private sources;

   A commitment to equal employment opportunity and non-discriminatory practices. (Motion 03-1-2; returned to committee).

   Among the issues that were raised were:

   • Should the opening sentence include "with special emphasis on teaching"?
   • Should "professional credentials" be included in the second sentence, and what are the implications of "are tenurable"?
   • Should "collegiality" be included in the second bullet?
   • Should "compassion" be dropped from the second bullet?
   • Should the fifth bullet call for "major" funding, and add "for scholarship and the UNCW endowment"?
   • Should "demonstrated" be added to the final sentence?
   • Should we add another statement, "Continued commitment to UNCW's role in serving the needs of the SE North Carolina region, as well as the nation and the world"?

    

3. In the process of discussing motion 03-1-2, the following motion was made from the floor and passed (Motion 03-1-3):

   The Faculty Senate endorses an open search that ensures the opportunity of each finalist in the Chancellor Search to meet with the Faculty and incorporate input from the Faculty (Motion 03-1-3).

Old Business

New Business

Announcements

After the meeting is adjourned, President Noland will give a brief orientation on Senate procedures to new members.