Faculty Senate Meeting
January 31, 2018
SUB 233
3:10-4:30

 

Name                                                                        Position                    Represents             √#

Babcock, Michael                                                    Member                   Chair                         √

Richards, Abigail                                                     Member                   Chair-elect              √

Anderson, Christina Z.                                           Member                   AR/Film and Photography         √

Anderson, Ryan                                                       Member                   EN/Chem Engr        √

Austin, Eric                                                               Member                   LS/Political Science    √

Belasco, Eric                                                            Member                   AG/Ag Econ             √

Bolte, Jason                                                              Member                   AR/Music                 √

Dana, Susan                                                             Member                   Business                   √

Brody, Michael                                                        Member                   ED/Education          √

Mukhopadhyay, Jaya                                             Member                   AR/Architecture    √

Gedeon, Tomas                                                       Member                   LS/Math Sciences  √

Izurieta, Clemente                                                  Member                   EN/Computer Science               √

Larson, Robb                                                            Member                   EN/Mech & Ind Engr   √

Yeoman, Carl                                                           Member                   AG/Animal Range  √

Meyer, James                                                          Member                   LS/History & Phil    √

Running, Alice                                                         Member                   Nursing/On Campus   √

Smith, Jessi                                                              Member                   LS/Psychology        √

Sterman, Leila                                                         Member                   Library                     √

Thomas, Amy                                                           Member                   LS/English                √

Yamaguchi, Tomomi                                               Member                   LS/Sociology & Anthropology   √

Becker, James                                                          Alternate                 ECE                           

Black, Laura                                                             Alternate                Business

Dunbar, Ed                                                               Alternate                 HHD/Health & Hum Dev

 

Also present:
Bridget Kevane
Director, Office  of Sustainability – Kristin Blackler
Director, Office of Research Compliance - Kirk Lubick
Kelly Beiswanger
Brendan Mumey
Provost Mokwa

 

  • Call to Order – 3:10
  • Approval of the minutes – passed
  • New Courses and Programs- Chair-Elect Richards – Issues/Concerns to Abbie. If none, will move them forward to steering
    • Course Changes:
      • BIOE 421: Yellowstone Wildlife Ecology
        • Changing from face to face to “blended”
      • CULA 103: Professional Chef I
        • +1 credit to align with CCN
      • HSTR 130D: Latin American History
        • Eliminating recitation
      • SFBS 346: Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems Summer Field Course
        • Added pre-requisites
  • New courses- –any concerns to Abbie or Mike
    • CULA 157: Pantry and Garde Manger
    • CULA 247: Bar and Beverage Management
    • CULA 255: Montana Meats and Charcuterie
    • CULA 298: Internship
    • GEO 428: Field Methods
    • EELE 467: SoC FPGAs I : Hardware-Software Codesign
    • EELE 468: SoC FPGAs II: Application Specific Computing
  • New Program –
    • Minor in Sustainability Studies
      • Administered by Liberal Studies
      • Open and accessible to students in any major
      • Explore 3 pillars of sustainability
        • Economic
        • Environmental
        • Social
      • 21 credits required with 9 of these unique to minor
    • Questions addressed to Bridget Kevane and Kristin Blackler
      • Major in Sustainability doesn’t have much of an overlap with the proposed minor
      • This will come back to FS for vote next time
      • Concerns to Abbie or Michael
  • Process and Perspectives: January 24th DH/Dean retreat- Chair Babcock
    • Abbie and Michael attended. Talk by VP R&ED about Center Processes
      • Center and Institute Process-
        • Questions regarding regulation/oversite of money coming in as donations/gifts
  • Workload Policy- Chair Babcock –
    • Draft- created taskforce in 2016
      • Make recommendations to be used to come up with policy draft
      • New Faculty Handbook took precedence – accepted June 2017
      • Workload Policy –
        • Units develop own plans
        • Specific types of assignments and distribution of % of effort
      • Workload Plan Guidelines
      • Questions - -
        • Discussion ensued about workload and if the numbers reflect reality.
        • Way to survey percentages from department to department that would be accurate?
        • Seems to be disconnect between reality and expectations
        • Expectations of hours in work week needs to be communicated. Then they could assign percentages to those hours
        • How do we deliver our teaching mission based on the ‘inequity’ of workloads across departments? How do we address them?
        • Any discussion about where administration falls into the percentages? How does it get managed since it’s not one of the three percentages?
        • Concerns/questions should be sent to Michael or Abbie. Take it to JAGS, discuss and report back. Policy will be presented paragraph by paragraph for review.
        • Provost Mokwa thanked Chair Babcock for FS feedback and reminded them that these are very preliminary drafts. Not being rushed through.
        • Hierarchy of documents – Will become part of the Faculty Handbook
      • Public Comment
        • None
        • Adjourned at 4:17

A downloadable PDF of this information can be found here.