Minutes
Faculty Senate Meeting #57
February 8, 1984
The Faculty Senata met on Wednesday, February 8, 1984, in room 6, Hol with President William J. Mayer-Oakes presiding. Senators present were Ad
McLaughlin, Maynard, ODerhelman, Pearson, Sasser, Shine, Sosebee, Sparkman,
Sullivan, Teske, Twymal, Urban, Va labhan, Welton, Williams, Wright, Wunder en Hall cik,
Anderson, Berlin, Burnatt, Chonko, Coulter, Cummings, Davis, Dixon, Dvorace k, Elbow,
V. Freeman, R. Freeman, Gettel, Goes, Gott, Graves, Havens, Hudson, Khan, M cKown,
Strauss, and yla present. Senator Richardson was a sent because of University business. Se nator6
Eissinger and Mehta were absent beCause of illness. Senators Ayoub, Bloome
Burkhardt, and Hickers p n were absent.
Bubany,
Guests included J phn R. Darling, Vice President for Academic Affairs; Professors
Brian Murphy and Ed Ch2slak, Department of Range and Wildlife; Professor Ka-y Mathis,
Agricultural Economics; Preston Lelais, University News & Publications; John Murray,
Parliamentarian; Pat Graves, The LUbbock Avalanche Journal; Laura Tetreault, rep6rter and Liz Reyna, lab rep p rter, both prom the University Daily.
SUMMARY OF BUSINESS CONDUCTED
At its February 8, 1984, meeting the Faculty Senate:
1.
heard a report from the Nominating Committee,
2.
elected Dr. Joe Adamcik, Arts 0 Sciences, Vice President te serve the remainder of the academic year,
3.
heard a report from the Agenda Committee and approved five committee relorts
4.
approved the final report of the ad hoc committee "to develop viable po licy recommendations on external funding",
5.
discussed Senator Wright's study priorities for the Senate
6.
heard a report on the Spring meeting of Conference of Facu lty
Organizations
7.
heard a report on a meeting of representatives from the Faculty Senate
President Cavazos.
and
Mayer-Oakes, President, cal1e4 the meeting to order at 3:45 p.m. and recognized guests present.
I.
CONSIDERATION OF PIE MINUTES 0'
THE JANUARY 11, 1984 MEETING
The motion to app:ave the minOtes of the January 11, 1984 meeting as (1stributed passed.
II. REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COMMTTEE
Cummings, reportiag for the c mmittee, presented the following slate of names and moved Senate approval.
For Vice P esident to complete the 1983-84 academi c year -
Gary Elbow, Arts & Sciances; Neale Pearson, Arts & Sciences. For President for the 1984-85 academic yaar - Evelyn Davis, College of Home Economics; C. Reei Ricbardson,
College of Agricultural Sciences.
For Vice President for 1984-85 - Murray Havel*, Arts

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Report of the Nominating Committee continued and Sciences; Ernest Snllivan, Arts & Sciences. For Secretary - 1984-85 lizabeth
Sasser, College of Engineering; Heory Wright, College of Agricultural Scien les.
A motion by Obertallman to conSider at this meeting as a separate matte I the nominations for Vice President to Complete the 1983-84 term of office passe t.
Nominations from the f_oor were opened for that office. Elbow nominated Zy and Shine nominated Adamcik. A motion to close nominations from the floor
Senators Berlin and Wi_liams were appointed to tabulate the election ballot
Joe Adamcik from Arts i Sciences was elected.
a assed.
The floor was the-a opened for additional nominations for President, Vi and Secretary for the academic year 1984-85. No additional nominations wer any of the three positions. In accordance with the operating policy of the
Senate, the election oE 1984-85 officers will be held at the March 1984 mee e President, made for
Faculty ing.
III. REPORT OF AGENDA 30MMITTEE
Coulter, speaking for the Agenda Committee, said that the final report of the five senate study committees studying assigned topics from the "24 issues" resented to the Senate in 1982 3y President Cavazos have been received in the Facult office. Circulated wi:h the agenda of this meeting was a brief summary sta
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7ement from each of these committees. On the advice of the five committee chairs, Coul 7er and the agenda committee recommended that these five reports be approved by the Faculty
Senate and forwarded t p President Cavazos.
Wunder initiated discussion of the report of the Academic Programs Committee and after some discussion moved to amend that Committee's report by adding to the committee's list of rezommendations that the pass/fail option be abolished for the
University-wide general education requirements. After more discussion, Wunder's motion passed.
Referring to Senate Study Committee "C" report, Twyman moved that recommendation number one be amended as follows: There is a clear need to expand greatly :urrent access to computing eqoipment. This amendment substitutes the word greatly for the words perhaps even double. Twyman's motion passed unanimously.
After a very brief discussion Senate Study Committee "D" report was ap?roved
as submitted.
Oberhelman moved the previous question. The motion passed. The motic approve this group of five reports and forward them to President Cavazos pr,
A to ssed.
Coulter then movEd that the Senate approve and forward to the Presidett the
1982-83 Faculty Develcpment Committee's study and report on "Innovative Course
Delivery". This moticn passed.

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IV. FINAL REPORT OF AD HOC COMMITTEE "TO DEVELOP VIABLE POLICY RECOMMENDAT=ONS ON
EXTERNAL FUND [NC"
Williams, committae chair, referred to the report which was circulated with the agenda of the meeting and moved that the report be approved and forwarded to the
President for incorporation into the operating and procedures manual of the University.
Williams motion passed.
. "STUDY PRIORITIES" FOR THE SENATE
Senator Wright distributed at the January Senate meeting a prepared li t of proposed study priorit:_es which in his opinion are of concern to the facult and the operations at Texas Tech.
At this time Senators questioned Wright about wh ch of the issues he considers top priority and what responsedoeshe expect from the a ministration. After some d:_scussion President Mayer-Oakes said that according t the
Bylaws, Section 9 of the Faculty Senate this matter is now ready to be refe red to study committees of the Faculty Senate for their study and recommendations o be brought back to the Senate at the March meeting.
VI. OTHER BUSINESS
Mayer-Oakes repor:ed on the recent Spring meeting of the Council on Faculty
Governance held in Aus:in and attended by he and Secretary Coulter. Secretary
Coulter gave a brief report of the activity and goals of the organization.
Mayer-Oakes repor:ed on the discussions of the "informal advisory group to the
Senate presidetat" whiea has met onJour occasions. This group, composed of the chairs of the eight standing committees of the Senate, met recently with President
Cavazos. Some topics )f discussion at that time were the capital fund campLign;
JHB 19, a Constitutional amendment ! which will come up for vote in November; and faculty concerns.
Havens asked Dr. Darling if he was in a position to comment on the act :_on of the
Board of Regents in rejecting the proposed new tenure policy for the Univer sity.
Darling said that he had no comment - that nothing further has been done "the report of the Board's subcommittee is a matter of public information and the matte r hag been referred to the Office of the President and that's where it now rests."
The meeting was aljourned at 5:03 p.m.
Murray W.
oulter, Secretary
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COUNCIL .OF FACUL TY GOVERNANCE ORGANIZATIONS
PRESS RELEASE: (Adapt and Use With Local Media)
Faculty Senates and Oouncils at T
Council of Faculty Governance Organiza tions (CoFGO) have seiked the initiativ and launched a campaign to improve higher education in Texas. The campaign is a grass-roots movement to improve the quality of education on ea ch campus of the Texa state college an university system. This type of local movement d iffers from other recent state-wide edu ttional efforts which have been iritiated by t he Governor's Office nd administered t rough state agencies.
Faculty members from 24 instituti ons met over the wee end (Jan. 20-21) i formulate their plans for this moveme t. Their approach i local and volunta on performance in higher Education, a push for reform in elementary and sec
White to include the qual = ty of highe topic which has been somewhat overlooke
Council also call education among his other educational
Austin to y, and focuses in the present i on governor
)ncerns.
Without waiting for these concer
Council members are designing program tutions. Suggestions were developed performance; 2) Improving internal co meaningful opportunities 'or faculty s to receive attention at the state—ley to increase academic excellence at the n: 1) Raising academic standards and im munication and understanding of purpose evelopment; and 4) Improving faculty mo n
, hoWever, r local instiroving student
3) Providing ale.
Recognizing that faculty governa tion at any level, these "eadert will campus administrators for help in re tions will be coordinated by the Coun
The Council will assist the local org nating Board, the Governo 's Office, faculty and administrativ! groups.
ce organizations /cannot single-handedly be looking for the support of their col ching their objective. The effort of 1 il, which is a federation of campus fac nizations in making their needs known t nd the state legislature as well as oth improve educaeagues and al organizalty groups.
the Coordistate-wide
Dr. Peter Bishop is ,he newly el
Organizations and is cooriinating thi
Human Sciences at the Unifersity of H nothing new in this facul ,y movement.
has always been primarily the respons this responsibility by fo:using on co of higher education in Teas." cted President of the Council of Facult effort. Dr. Bishop, an Associate Prof uston - Clear Lake City, says that ther
"The academic quality of colleges and bility of the faculty. We are merely c crete, achievable actions to improve th
Governance ssor of is really niversities rrying out quality
The Council will be )ublishing a semi-annual report on progress made by institutions for the next two years. The first such report is due in Novembe .
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Other officers assisting Bishop n this effort and elected at the meetin are
Dr. Phil Holcomb, Associate Professor of English, Angelo State University, Co rdinator in Western Region; Dr. Bill Pinney, Issociate Professor of Systems Analysis, T-Arlington,
Coordinator in the Northeast Region; Dr. Donald Coers, Associate Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, Coor inator in East Region; and Dr. Reeves P rry,T
Professor of Chemistry at Southwest 1exas State University, Coordinator in th Sou h/
Central Region.