IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY

FACULTY SENATE MEETING

AGENDA 

Monday, October 17, 2005, 4:00 pm

Faculty Senate Conference Room 128, Red Hill Building

I.          Preliminaries

A.     Attendance

B.     Faculty Senate Minutes of October 3, 2005

II.         Open Forum – Dr. Adamcik regarding faculty workload policy

III.       Announcements & Reports

A.     Chair 

1.  Continued work on structural changes

2.  SBOE Presidential Advisory Committee update

3.  Faculty Club update

4.  Tuition reductions for dependents update

5.  Accommodation policies – student’s ideology or belief system

6.  The call for Honorary Degrees has gone out.  The deadline is November 18, 2005. 

IV.       Consent Calendar

A.  Faculty Appointments to Councils

                  1.  Academic Standards Council (meets last Wednesday at 4:00)

a.    College of Education

       2.  Campus Planning Council (meets last Wednesday at 11:00)

a.   College of Education

       3.   Faculty Professional Policies Council (meets third Tuesday at 8:00)

a.   College of Business

 4.   Research Coordinating Council (Thurs once a month 3:00-5:00)

a.   College of Arts & Sciences– natural science

b.   College of Business

c.   College of Education

                    5.  Faculty Senate Task Force for January terms –

(Tyler Telford, Kevin Schroeder – student reps)

 6.  Judicial Board – three-year term (Thurs @ 3:30, twice a month)

7.  Ad hoc committee - Foundation Board/Faculty Senate –

8.  Athletics Advisory Board – replacement for recently appointed Beverly Ray (one-year appointment) - nomination for Jack Newsome

            B.  Faculty Senate representatives to councils

1.   Academic Standards

2.   College of Technology Faculty

3.   Cultural Affairs

4.   Faculty Professional Policies

5.   Research Coordinating

C.  Emeritus Status

1.  Ms. Kathy Priddy

2.  Mr. Robert Jenkins

D.  Minutes of Councils

1.  Council for Teaching & Learning

a.   Minutes of April 25, 2005

b.   Minutes of May 2, 2005

·         Change to bylaws

2.  College of Technology Faculty Council

a.   Minutes of January 27, 2005

b.   Minutes of February 3, 2005

·         Proposed Sabbatical Leave Policy for COT

c.       Minutes of February 24, 2005

3.  Research Coordinating Council

a.   Minutes of November 18, 2004

·         NOI – ISU Biomedical Research Institute (approved by SBOE on June 16, 2005)

b.   Minutes of April 21, 2005

·         Proposed guidelines for promotion and tenure for research faculty

4.       Academic Standards Council Minutes of September 7, 2005

5.       Campus Planning Council Minutes of April 29, 2005

V.        Unfinished Business

            A.  Reinstating Faculty Senate Budget Council

VI.       New Business

A.     Goals for 2005-2006

VII.      Adjournment