(to be considered for approval at 3:00 p

(Minutes to be considered for approval at the Senate meeting on February 8, 2000, 3:00 p.m.)

SENATE MINUTES

UM-ST. LOUIS

January 18, 2000

3:00 p.m. 126 J. C. Penney

Dr. Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi, Senate Chair, called the meeting to order at 3:04 p.m.

Minutes from the previous meeting (held December 7, 1999) were approved as submitted.

Report from the Senate Chair -- Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi

(Attachment 1)

Report from the Chancellor -- Chancellor Blanche Touhill

(Attachment 2)

Dr. Long asked Chancellor Touhill to comment on the Charter School situation. Chancellor Touhill said the last legislative session of the state of Missouri gave UMSL, Harris Stowe State College, St. Louis Community College and St. Louis Public Schools the legal right to grant a charter. UMSL worked in a consortium setting for several months with all of the institutions that were legally allowed to establish charters, to establish some kind of consensus about what the charter application should be and how one would be judged as to whether or not the charter would be granted. UMSL did grant a charter and the curriculum designee, Beacon, backed out. We then asked the school to choose another curriculum and on January 12 they submitted a curriculum, which is based on the Cahokia School Charter, which the campus is now reviewing. In the last 4-6 weeks UMSL received requests from 3 or 4 institutions to grant charters. The campus has said it is not going to examine or grant any more charters because of the financial costs. Chancellor Touhill said she has been told that the state legislature is reviewing the charter legislation and they might rewrite the current charter bill. Vice Chancellor Nelson concurred.

Report from Intercampus Faculty Council -- Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi

(Attachment 3)

Report from the Athletics Committee Chair -- Thomas Schnell

(Attachment 4)

Dr. Schnell introduced Ms. Dolan, the campus Athletic Director for the past 5 years. Dr. Schnell said UMSL is in the NCAA Division 2 and has 5 men's sports and 6 women's sports on campus. Dr. Schnell said the Chancellor's Athletics Committee reports directly to Chancellor Touhill and the committee reports annually to the Senate. Members of the Chancellor's Athletics Committee include: Tom Schnell, Gary Burger, Miles Patterson, Nancy Getchell, David Ganz, Josh Fair, Andrea Szurko and 1 alumni member. Mr. Schnell said that Athletics money comes from student fees, voted on by students. Other fees include user fees and rental fees.

Ms. Dolan said UMSL coaches have gone out to find scholar athletes to increase academic money or "Other Countable Aid". Dr. Martinich pointed out that UMSL has about 140 active student athletes and about 45 are getting financial aid. He said this means that about 100 students are coming here paying full tuition and the university is getting that money. Dr. Martinich said the university is finding some very good investments, especially when you see the GPA's and what they are majoring in, we are really bringing some good students to the campus.

Report from the Appointments, Tenure, and Promotion Committee -- Bruce Wilking

Dr. Wilking said the Senate ATP Committee has completed revisions to the campus Tenure and Promotion Guidelines and copies have been mailed to faculty. He said this mailing includes revised guidelines and a memo describing the changes made to the guidelines that were followed during the current academic year. Dr. Wilking said the ATP Committee hopes that over the next month faculty will discuss the proposed changes and open meetings are scheduled for Tuesday, January 25 at 2 p.m., Room 78 JCP and Monday, January 31, 2 p.m., Room 72 JCP.

Report from the Budget and Planning Committee -- Chancellor Blanche Touhill

(Attachment 5)

Report from the Computing Committee -- Fred Willman

(Attachment 6)

Report from the Physical Facilities and General Services Committee -- William Connett

(Attachment 7)

Mr. Bauer asked if similar sound concerns were raised for all new construction on campus such as classroom buildings. Dr. Connett said he did not believe the new classroom construction dealt with acoustic problems. He said for example the Physics department has had a number of problems with turbulence and this has had something to do with new planning, but he cannot say if it is the same for all construction on campus. Dr. Connett offered to pursue the matter. Dr. Martinich said that airport expansion issues brought forward studies about the sound problems in classrooms. Dr. Martinich asked if UMSL was going to ask for money to soundproof buildings because of the expansion. Chancellor Touhill said that we did make an attempt to get into the first wave of federal money but did not succeed, we hope to have an opportunity to apply in the second wave. Chancellor Touhill said that she anticipated their reply would be that the airport was here when we put the buildings up. Dr. Connett said the Missouri National Guard went from Phantoms to F-15s and this meant that the National Guard could take off vertically. Dr. Connett said that 5 years ago they would take off over the campus. He added that the sound restrictions on the newer airplanes are much more stringent.

Dr. Martinich said it was his understanding that runways would be rotated and planes would fly more directly over the airport. Dr. Schwartz said that they are not going to rotate the runways but there will be a new runway to the south.

Dr. Mushaben said the trees outside the entrance to the Social Science Tower are obstructing the entire sidewalk, and asked if they could be trimmed. Dr. Connett said that they would try to do something about this.

Dr. Tang-Martinez asked if there is any consideration being given to increasing the number of parking spaces for the science complex. She said there is still a problem with parking unless you get there before 9:00 a.m. Dr. Connett said that the Physical Facilities and General Services Committee is fully aware of the problem and will make a decision this spring. He added that until we finalize the entrance to the West Drive and get the drive to Lot Q going two ways a final decision would not be made. He explained that several years ago the Senate created a "special permit" parking option for Lot Q. He added that the number of valid permits is not under control, and there are more parking permits than parking spaces. Dr. Connett said neither Chief Roeseler nor anyone else is eager to decide which professors are issued permits.

A student senator asked if faculty and staff parking would increase in the area. Dr. Connett said that parking in the West Drive garage is not being revised. The committee is monitoring the usage of the West Drive garage to see if it is being utilized fully and how, but this does not change the amount of student spots in any of these locations.

Dr. Sauter asked if the committee had considered the visibility of the new stop sign on West Drive. Dr. Connett said the committee is aware of the problem, but the issue was first to get the West Drive open. Dr. Connett said the committee is afraid that when the drive is open to a heavy flow of traffic it will cause a speeding problem. Dr. Connett said the strategy is to reposition the stop sign so that when a large vehicle is parked there the sign can be seen.

Dr. Peck asked if UMSL was pushing Bi-State for reduced rates for faculty and staff on the MetroLink. Chancellor Touhill said the offer made by Bi-State was for students only but we did inquire about a year after it opened, and again they said students, not faculty and staff. Chancellor Touhill offered to inquire again.

Mr. Bauer reminded the Senate that they had previously decided what to do when faculty cannot find parking spaces.

Report from the Research Committee/Winter Panel -- Gordon Anderson

Dr. Anderson announced the following proposal deadlines:

Small Grants Competition -- Monday, January 24, at 5:00 p.m.

Research Award Competition -- Monday, February 7, at 5:00 p.m.

Preliminary nominations for the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creativity -- Wednesday, February 23.

Dr. Anderson also announced the Research Board deadline as Monday, February 21.

Report from the University Libraries Committee -- Harold Harris

(Attachment 8)

Dr. Barton requested that Dr. Harris send the information about interviews for Library Director candidates via e-mail.

Old Business

(See Agenda Attachment)

Dr. Zarucchi reconstructed the discussion from the December 7, 1999, Senate meeting and explained that Dr. Spaner had made a motion to form an Ad Hoc Committee, it was seconded. She said the Ad Hoc Committee purpose would be to consider the function of the current Appointments, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, that exists according to the Faculty Bylaws, and to perhaps consider whether or not that committee should carry out the same charge as it does presently in terms of reviewing dossiers. Dr. Zarucchi said that there was an amendment to this motion stating the composition of faculty members to include 7 unit representatives plus 3 at-large members (l at large member with a joint appointment) on the committee and that this amendment was approved. She said that no action was taken on the motion itself due to a quorum being called.

Dr. Spaner said that the current ATP Committee membership is restricted to full professors, and made a motion that rank on the Ad Hoc Committee be open to associate and full professors only, it was seconded.

Dr. Martinich made an amendment to the amendment, for clarification purposes, that states Ad Hoc Committee members would be tenured. The question was called on the amendment to the amendment regarding tenure, seconded and passed by voice vote.

Dr. Tang-Martinez asked for clarification on the original motion from December 7, 1999. Dr. Spaner said that he had proposed an amendment to the new Bylaws, but the amendment was voted down. Dr. Spaner then brought the motion of the Ad Hoc Committee to the Senate.

Dr. Zarucchi said that the discussion was back to the principal amendment which concerned having membership on the Ad Hoc Committee open to associate and full professors with tenure. Dr. Connett spoke against having associate professors on the Ad Hoc Committee. Dr. Connett said part of this is to deal with uniformity at all levels and they have no experience in the professorial promotion level. Dr. Mushaben spoke in favor of the motion because of the need for diversity. A voice vote was taken on the amendment to allow associate and full professors to serve on the Ad Hoc Committee; the voice vote was undeterminable. A hand count followed with 30 in favor, 24 against. The amendment to include associate and full professors with tenure was approved.

Dr. Zarucchi said that the discussion was back to the original motion to form an Ad Hoc Committee that would be composed of associate and full professors with tenure. Dr. Connett asked for clarification on the motion. Dr. Burkholder said the composition would be one member of either full or associate rank from each of the following: Humanities, Natural Sciences/Mathematics, Social Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Nursing, Optometry and three members elected at large including a faculty member with a joint appointment.

Dr. Connett spoke against forming this committee and said the current ATP Committee addresses the same issues. The only issue that needed to be looked at carefully is whether there is a problem that faculty with joint appointments have as they go through the tenure process. Dr. Connett added that this problem could be looked at by the current committee and reported to the Senate. Dr. Connett urged everyone to vote against the motion. Dr. Spaner said that one purpose of the original amendment to the new governance structure was to decentralize the ATP process from the campus and that is what he proposed for this Senate Ad Hoc Committee to investigate. He did not see the central point as being the issue of the joint appointment. Dr. Connett replied that the ATP Committee could speak about that also. Dr. Wilking said the ATP Committee did not specifically discuss the forming of an Ad Hoc Committee, but the committee did agree that they were not the right body on campus to talk about the possible elimination of the ATP Committee.

Mr. Stegeman called the question; it was seconded and passed. A voice vote followed by a hand vote on the motion to create an Ad Hoc Committee on Appointments, Tenure and Promotion was taken. The hand vote was 28 for, and 28 against. Dr. Long ruled that the motion failed.