MINUTES -
The Faculty Senat • met on Wed
Room of the Universit Center with
present were Adamcik, youb, Bloom
K. Davis, Dixon, Dvor ek, Gettel,
erhelman, 0
Lee, Mehta, Newcomb,
Strauss, Sullivan, Te e, Thornhil
',Alright. Senators And son, Blair,
Wicker were absent be use of Univ
to illness and Senato Cravens was
Senators Freeman and cKown were a
Vernon McGuire,
Parliamentarian.
Guests included
of academic affairs a
and administration; P
University Daily; Pau
David Barnett and Jim
President Davis
guests.
. CONSIDERATION OF
ACULTY SENATE MEETING #66
esday, January 16, 1985, at 3:30 p.m. i the Senate
Evelyn Davis, President, presiding. Se tors
airy,
r, Burnett, Carlile, Collins, Coulter,
Khan,
Gipson, Goss, Gott, Havens, Higdon, Keh
ens, Rude, Sasser, Shine, Sparkman, Ste e,
, Vallabhan, Whitsitt, Williams, Wilson and
Eissinger, Richardson, Stockton, Welton and
rsity business. Senator Ford was absen due
absent because of illness in his family
sent.
ssociate Pro fessor, Speech Communications, served as
arling and C. Len Ainsworth, from the o fice
r. Eugene E. Payne from the office of f nance
e,
University News and Publications; Rick
Avalanche Journal;Barbara Williams, Cha el 28;
oble, Stud nt Senate, and Neale Pearson, Political cience.
ailed the in eting to order at 3:35 p.m. and recogniz
HE MINUTES
Davis asked for orrections
minutes approved as d stributed.
F THE DECEMBER 12, 1984 MEETING
o the minutes, hearing none, she declare
the
II. REPORT ON FINANC AL EXIGENCY PLAN BY DR. DARLING
Plan was drafted
via Dr. Darling on 3/
Faculty Senate to wor
that would eventually
general faculty for a
Regents would make fi
by 6/1/85.
ure & Privilege Committee and sent to Dr Cavazos
arling mentioned that the President want
the
rling and Dr. Campbell to come up with a policy
ademic Council. Then the policy would g to the
referendum vote. The President and the oard of
A FinancialExigency Policy needs to be n place
Several responses
has waited for a full
Jacquelin Collins, sa
Financial Exigency Po
spend a lot of time o
was to redo the tenur
Financial Exigency P1
President Evelyn Davi
Exigency Plan.
e senators. Dr. Sullivan asked why the
t an Exigency Policy. Dr. Darling did n
ould have some assurance that our effort
taken in good faith by the President bef
3 Dr. Collins said that the first order
n Newcomb supported Collins by saying th
ked up by the tenure policy. Dr. Sasser
azos for a response to the proposed Fina
dministration
t respond.
on a
re we
f business
t the
asked that
cial
III. COMMITTEE REPORT
A. Committee A The commit
Faculty Se
next meeti
et, so they had no report. Higdon direc ed the
t to be sure that this committee meets b fore our
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Committee Reports continued B. Academic Programs Committee - Dixon
No report
C. ad hoc Committee on Campus and Community Relations - Collins
Collins submitted a written report concerning his conversation with 3ee Zeeck
on Insight She said that nbthing had been carried to her as of Jani.ary 10, 1985.
Further, she sEid anything now would be history.
Bee Zeeck suggested that I sight report on Faculty Senate activitie0 routinely.
She was willing to change e deadlines for submitting material to nsight
for publlication in order to accommodate the Faculty Senate meetin dates.
A Faculty Senate response o the Board of Regents' statement on 0ct6: er 18, 1984,
has been written. A copy f the statement is in Jacquelin Collins' hands
and the Faculty Senate vot d without opposition for him to carry this to
Bee Zeeck.
Collins moved that Insight cover our Faculty Senate meetings. After some
discussion the motion carr ed with 28 yes votes and 5 no votes.
D. —
ad hoc Committee on Univer
Sullivan mentioned a vane
recruiting of :faculty and
of faculty and students, r
universities in Texas. Th
university admLnistration
ity Status and Progress - Sullivan
y of activities that this committee wouU look at -tudents at TTU with an emphasis on qualiiy, retention
search funding, endowments and how we cotipare to other
s information will serve as a data base for the
nd Faculty Senate.
E. Committee on Committees - ehta
This committee submitted tltie following nominations:
Nomination Committee for Faculty Senate Officers for 1985-86
Murray Coulter, Arts & Sciences; Kishor C. Mehta, College of
Engineering and Evelyn Davis, Home Economics
Faculty Seaate Tenure nd Privilege Committee
Jacquelin Colli s, Arts & Sciences; James Graves, Agrici4Aure;
Nina Ronshausen Education; Joe Adamcik, Arts & Sciences; and
a fifth nominee is still considering the invitation.
Acceptance of these nominees passed without opposition.
F. Budget Study Committee - Mhta
This committee has not met because there has not been an apparent red. Now,
there appears to be need f r a meeting and to elect a chairperson. The committee
is scheduled to meet on January 22, 1985.
One item that the committee will look at is the change in faculty laries over
the past 4 to 5 years rel tive to other universities.
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Committee reports continued
E. Executive Committee - Davis nd Wright
Davis mentioned that we had eceived letters of support from Tyler a • West
Texas State concerning the t nure crisis at TTU. We now have letter from
more than half et the state niversities in Texas.
meeting with President Cavazos. On Ja
Davis gave an overview of t
1985, Davis saie that she t ught it a positive sign that we had a m
scheduled with Ir. Cavazos. She also thought it a positive sign thai
willing to disctss the fina cial exigency problem with the Faculty S
However, she saw very littl change in his attitude toward the facul
ary 14,
ting
he was
ate.
.
Davis compared the discussi n last summer (July 16, 1984) on tenure th the
exchanges at thL last meeti g on the Financial Exigency policy. Dur g the
summer meeting, Davis stres ed the importance of faculty ratificatio of any
tenure policy pTior to Boar of Regents approval. When she told him 97
percent of the faculty surv z yed had indicated the need for faculty r tification
of a policy, Dr Cavazos re ponded by saying the question should not ave been
on the questionnaire. At t e last meeting he agreed to a non-bindi vote by
the faculty on a financial xigency policy.
Wright reported on the general content of the meeting with Dr. Cavaz
Substantive comments were as follows:
1. Dr. Cavazos addressed the Financial Exigency Plan in the pre ence
of Dr. Darling. He said, "We are going to have to spell it out. I would
like you (the Faculty Senate) to work with Dr. Darling and Dr. C pbell
to come up with a policy that would eventaully go to the Academi Council,
then to the general faculty for a non-binding referendum, then t the
President End Board of Regents." He stressed that this work nee s to be
completed ly June.
2. The President expressed a deep concern to advance TTU in th face of
forthcoming budget cuts.
3. PresidEnt Cavazos discussed his proposal for a "University istem
at TTU" that would be presented to the Board of Regents and ult ately
sent to the Texas Legislature for approval.
4. In response to a question on how to retain our best graduat faculty,
Dr. Cavazos stressed the importance of improving TTU's building and
purchasing new equipment for laboratories. Monies from Proposit on II
will help to meet these objectives.
5. At the end of our meeting, he asked for our advice on reorg nization and
said, "Let s begin anew."
6. The Faculty Senate officers will meet with Dr. Cavazos agai
10:30 a.m. on January 31.
IV. FINANCIAL STATE 0 7 THE UNIVERSITY - PAYNE
A. "I am more discouraged about the outlook for universities than eve before.
The legislature passed a large tax bill last summer for public school, high ays and
he
prisons. Most of those legislatures who voted on that bill are not back, interpretation by the legislature is that the people of Texas do not want a tax
inccrease. This year's legislature is dominated by Republicans, and they a e very
conservative."
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Financial State of the University b
Dr. Payne continued ow what is happening. We are being ask
B. "Our communities need to
a 27% cut from our 1984-85 bud et, not the budget that we proposed."
reasonable way -Chet we can abs rb a 27% cut. We will have fewer class
larger classes, library acqui itions cut, deteriorated buildings, and
to take
ere is no
C. There is a 1.0 billion shc rtfall for this coming bienniem and that
raised to 1.2 or L.3 billion t his spring.
ay be
ections,
and on.
D. Our problem ir funding fo higher education is a long-term problemt We
other
need a larger tax base if we ant to have a stron university compared
additional
raised
from
4
1/8
to
5%,
it
would
rais
states. If our sEles tax wer
front
of a
State
leadership
is
not
about
to
get
i
1.7 billion dollars each year.
sentatives
will
have
to
plead
with
legislative
repr
tax bill. The gereral public
to raise our taxes before they will consider the idea.
E. Our"friends" Eay, "Don't v, orry, we are going to take care of you."
they mean is that we will redu ce your cut to 10%.
But what
F. Without a strcng universit y system in Texas, untold billions of t
will be lost becaLse fewer ind ustires will want to come to Texas. Inte
trends in industry are tied tc quality of higher education.
revenue
ational
G. Tuition would need to incr ease tenfold the present fee to cover th shortfall
in higher education. This is not possible in the near future. Moreov r, it is
not politically practical to t hink of eliminating any universities.
The meeting adjourned at 5:14 p.m.
Henry A. Wright,
Faculty Senate
re:ary