October 3, 2000, 10:00, Room 260B
Present:
Martha Groom, Dan Jacoby, Carole Kuboto, Jack Meszaros, Kelvin Sung, Susanne Sikman
Guests:
Cherry Banks, Bruce Burgett, Jane Decker, Jeanne Heuving, Ray Lou, Norm Rose, Alan Wood
Cross Enrollment in Classes
Ray Lou reported that the process to allow cross enrollment between our institution and some of the community colleges will need further work. There has been a very good response from Shoreline, Bellevue and Cascadia Community Colleges. Edmonds has not been contacted as yet.
Academic Integrity
Copies of the documents on academic integrity for faculty and students were distributed to the Executive Council members who were asked to distribute them to their programs. Patti Bellecy has additional copies if needed.
Chapter 24
Members were reminded that last year's GFO developed guidelines to help programs handle two new parts of Chapter 24 of the Faculty Code-those procedures dealing with competitive offers and review of full professors. Copies of the memoranda sent to the faculty and program directors were distributed to the Executive Council. Work will continue this year on the third part: objectives setting and review.
Tri-Campus Legislation
There are four main changes in the legislation proposed to the Faculty Code:
1. It provides voting representation for the Bothell and Tacoma faculty organizations on the Senate Executive Committee.
2. It provides proportional voting for all faculty in the Faculty Senate.
3. It creates a new Senate council to deal specifically with issues among the campuses.
4. It provides the faculty at Bothell and Tacoma a special option to have class B legislation reconsidered.
Norm Rose gave some background on how the Faculty Senate functions and how councils are appointed. He pointed out that if UWB is to be an independent unit, we will have to keep our handbook up-to-date at all times, which hasn't been done in the past.
In regard to the next step in this process, Cherry Banks said it was her understanding that faculty from all three campus needed to vote on the legislation.
Cherry Banks suggested having this topic as the major agenda item for the next GFO meeting and invite Mary Coney, and Brad Holt, Chair, and Vice Chair of the Faculty Senate, and also Ron Crawford and Richard Stackman, Chair and Vice Chair of the University of Washington, Tacoma Faculty Assembly. The Executive Council will generate a list of questions to present at the GFO meeting for discussion. Brad Holt's memorandum explaining the changes to Chapter 24 will be distributed to the faculty prior to the meeting. Accordingly, the EC will discuss the issue at its next meeting and list questions for which answers should be sought at the next GFO meeting.
After initial discussion at the October GFO meeting and final discussion at the November meeting, a paper ballot will be conducted.
Minutes submitted by Patti Bellecy
