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Tuesday, 19 April 2005   See Agenda   Meeting 2005-08

Roll call

Absent: Berkeley (Art & Theatre), Gwinn (ISOM), Howell (Economics & Finance), Hunt (Management & Marketing), Roer (Graduate School), Schmid (Philosophy & Religion), Simmons (Anthropology), Snowden (Budget Committee), Tse (HAHS)

Approval of minutes

March minutes were approved.

Special Order of the Day

The agenda was suspended for President-Elect Mark Spaulding to commend outgoing president Daniel Noland and outgoing secretary Richard Veit for their years of service to the Senate.

Individual reports

1. Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo reported, including the following:
• Wilmington played host to 50 members of the General Assembly, and we made many friends.
• We are gravely concerned about the devastating impact that proposed budget cuts would have on UNCW. What is being proposed would amount to a 6% cut in our funding and would also deny us flexibility in how the cuts are made. These cuts would, for example, mandate the loss of 12.2 unfilled faculty positions, which we now use to cover $1.25 million in operating expenses. They would also force us to cut 23 staff positions. We would lose additional millions in our appropriation and suffer many other reductions. Since we have already experienced $19 million in cuts in the past five years, we have no fat to pare and these new cuts would severely harm our teaching mission.
• Faculty, students, and parents are urged to contact legislators (contact information found at http://www.ncleg.net/) and write letters to newspapers urging the General Assembly to raise revenues to forestall dire consequences to the university.
   
2. Senate President Daniel Noland reported that he and President-Elect Spaulding will be meeting with the Chancellor, Provost, and Vice-Chancellor for Business Affairs to discuss the roll of Academic Affairs vis-a-vis the other divisions in university budgeting.
    
3. Faculty Assembly delegate Richard Veit reported that the Assembly adopted the policy document "Standards of Shared Governance on the 16 UNC Campuses." UNCW complies with all the standards except in two curricular matters: our college and school curriculum committees are not accountable to the faculty, and faculty do not have oversight over substantive changes to majors. He urged the Senate to bring us into compliance next year.

Committee reports

1. The following motions by the Academic Standards Committee carried:
    
   1. That the following revisions [deletions, additions] be made concerning the Purpose and Criteria for UNCW Honorary Degrees [Motion 2005-08-16; revise honorary degree document; carried]:
       
      1. Editorial change in "Purpose":
         1. Academic excellence in the individual's field of endeavor.
         2. Appreciation of time, energy, and financial resources spent in on behalf of the university and for its sake.
         3. Excellence in fields other than those which would normally be called academic, i.e., the contributions which have enhanced society and its quality of life.
             
      2. Changes to "Procedure" (Note that 6 is new and current items 6-7 become items 7-8.)

Procedures for nominating and evaluating candidates for honorary degrees

1. At the beginning of each semester the residing chair of the ASC will make a call for nominations in the Campus Communiqué, Seahawk, and UNCW Magazine. A call for nominations will also be made by the president of the Faculty Senate at the first Faculty Senate meeting of each semester. Nominations may be made at any time to the Academic Standards Committee or the Faculty Senate President by any member of the University community or by any academic department. Owing to institutional needs, it would be of benefit to have, at any given time, a number of nominees approved for receipt of honorary degrees.
5. ASC will recommend for or against approval of the nomination with a recommendation as to the degree to be awarded. A simple majority of ASC voting members present is necessary for approval. Such action will be noted on an honorary degree tracking form. If approved, the nomination will be recommended to the Senate at its next regularly scheduled meeting. Any nomination which fails to receive Academic Standards Committee endorsement but which is supported by two or more members of the Academic Standards Committee shall be reported to the Faculty Senate Steering Committee. The Steering Committee may either accept the report as information or, by majority vote of the entire committee, forward the nomination to the faculty Senate for consideration at its next meeting.
6. If a nomination is not supported by the Academic Standards Committee, the Chancellor may present support of the nomination to the Steering Committee and the Academic Standards Committee Chair. The Steering Committee may either accept the report as information or, by majority vote of the committee, forward the nomination to the Faculty Senate for consideration at its next meeting.
7. If the Faculty Senate approves the nomination, it the Senate President will be forwarded forward it, with accompanying documentation, to the Provost, who will then forward it to the Chancellor for recommendation to the Board of Trustees; if the Senate disapproves the nomination, it dies in the Senate. Approval or disapproval of the recommendation by the Senate shall be announced while the Senate is still in executive session and made known to the nominator and the Provost’s Office by the Senate President.

2. That the following revisions [deletions, additions] be made to the section "Requirements for a Double Major or a Double Degree" on page 75 of the 2004-2005 Undergraduate Catalog [Motion 2005-08-17; issue second diploma for second major; carried]:

   A student who returns to the university after the initial graduation to complete the requirements for a second major may have the additional major added to the official record upon written notification from the department chairperson that all departmental requirements have been met satisfactorily. A new or replacement diploma will not be issued reflecting only the new major and will be subject to the replacement diploma fee.

3. Information item: The Academic Standards Committee has posted a new web site with information on honorary degrees and the nomination process, as well as with forms for nominations. The site is people.uncw.edu/hermanr/asc/, and it is linked from the Senate home page.

2. The following motion by the University Curriculum Committee carried [Motion 2005-08-18; split Department of Art and Theatre; carried]:

That the Department of Art and Theatre be divided into two academic units: the "Department of Art and Art History" and the “Theatre Program.”

New Business

1. Steve Dworkin of Psychology offered the following motion for September consideration [Motion 2005-08-19; establish Veit Award; new business]:

   That, in recognition of the contributions to governance made by senator Richard Veit during his 19 years in the UNCW Faculty Senate, the Senate establish the Richard Veit Award for Contributions to Shared Governance and Academic Freedom, and that it be awarded from time to time by the Senate to faculty members and others who have made distinguished contributions in these areas.

Adjournment

Minutes by Richard Veit, Senate secretary