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Faculty Senate Minutes
11 February 1998
Senate Members in Attendance:
| Phil Sell | Bob Hirnle | Patricia Haggerty | Alicja Janovich | Jack Harton |
| Moria Fulton | Helen Burn | Barbara Hunter | Michael Allen | Ruth Windhover |
| Keith Paton | Angi Caster | Michael Grubiak |
I. Call to Order 2:35pm
II. Approval of Minutes
approved, with a spelling change for Ruth Windhover’s name. Sorry about that.
III. Agenda Review
approved, with the addition of Michael Grubiak discussing the revised Student Rights and Responsibilities policy.
IV. Reports
A. Chair - Bob Hirnle:
passed out Senate resolutions from past meetings that need acting
on.
Reported on an addendum to the academic withdraw and standards policies - the addendum being that a student must be removed from suspended status before being allowed to graduate.
Reported on the CO2020 task force recommendations concerning the college’s general education requirements, and the Instructional Cabinet response to the recommendations. The Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee is reviewing all this and is planning to hold a March faculty forum on a proposed diversity/globalism requirement.
B. President
no report
C. Senators-at-Large:
Ruth Windhover has resigned from the Rights and Responsibilities
committee because of a potential conflict of interest with her
duties as HCEA president.
D. HCEA - Ruth Windover:
WEA will be sponsoring a rally in Olympia on Monday, Feb. 16th
concerning pay equity.
E. FACTC:
no report.
F. ASHCC:
Kirk Elliott, the ASHCC vice-president of legislation, is
coordinating a committee to revise its bylaws. Also, ASHCC will
be coordinating a trip on the 25th to Olympia for the
state academic achievement presentations to Paul Gehardt and
Bettina Cassad.
Students are voting concerning criteria for choosing student speakers at graduation.
A plan is being worked on to provide a free phone in the Student Union for local calls.
VI. Action Items
A list of passed resolutions, not including the addendum concerning not allowing students on suspension to graduate, will be sent to the Council on Councils.
A follow-up will be done to see where in the Council of Councils is the resolution concerning time limits for student requests for changing grades.
The issue of residency requirements was tabled.
VII. Discussion Items
A. The Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee is working on the CO2020 recommendations and the Instructional Cabinet response. This committee is comprised of Tim Morrison - chair; Bob Hirnle; Robin Buchan; Diana Bender; Jack Harton; and Gina Erickson. A brief history of this issue was given by Jack Harton, who was on the CO2020 task force. Bob Hirnle stated that the curriculum committee will probably end up making recommendations to the Faculty Senate concerning general education requirements.
B. Michael Grubiak discussed the Student Rights and Responsibilities Code. The committee working on the revisions to this follows a process in which the committee passes revisions on to the college for consideration. These revisions go to the state Attorney General’s office for checking, then to the President’s office for approval. The Attorney General’s office then codifies the revisions for the Washington Administrative Code; an open hearing is held, and then the proposed revisions go before the Board of Trustees. In carrying out this process, Michael Grubiak has reviewed the student codes at four universities that have legal departments to review what they have done. This matter was proposed as an action item for the next Faculty Senate meeting.
Adjourned 3:59pm
Jack Harton, Faculty Senate Secretary.