September 5, 2012 MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the Academic Senate FROM: Kevin Ayotte, Vice Chair Academic Senate RE: Academic Senate Agenda – September 10, 2012 There is a meeting of the Academic Senate scheduled for Monday, Septebmer 10, 2012 at 4:00 p.m., in the Library Auditorium, Room #2206. ~(APM) Attachments are on the Academic Senate Website~ http://www.fresnostate.edu/academics/senate/senatedocuments AGENDA 1. Approval of the Agenda. 2. Approval of the Minutes of 5/7/12. 3. Senate Photo-Table Mountain Reading Room. 4. Communications and Announcements. 5. Expanded Executive Committee Report. 6. Executive Committee Membership. 7. Installation of New Senators. 8. Senate Overview. 9. Potential Changes to APM 322a (Guide to creating a departmental policy on assessment of teaching effectiveness). 10. APM 327 Policy on Promotion–Personnel CommitteeSecond Reading. 11. APM 206 Policy on Technology–Mediated Courses and Programs–Academic Policy & Planning Committee. 12. APM 243 Policies and Procedures for Student Academic Petitions Committee–Academic Policy and Planning Committee. 13. Posthumous Degree Policy-Student Affairs Committee. 14. APM 361 Policy on Faculty Leaves of AbsenceAllocation of Sabbatical Leaves-Personnel Committee. 15. CGE Senator Appointments-Scott Moore, Professor & Senior Director, Division of Continuing and Global Education. 16. APM 306 (Policy on Full-time Temporary Faculty), APM 302 (Policy and Procedures for Full-time Temporary Faculty Including Emergency Academic Senate Meeting September 10, 2012 Page 2 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Temporary Appointments), and APM 307 (Policy on Part-time Temporary Faculty)–Personnel Committee. Policy on Graduate Faculty Groups for Doctoral Programs–Revised–Graduate Committee. APM 399 Interim Policy on Emerita and Emeritus Status-Personnel Committee. Computer Policy–Student Affairs Committee. Policy on the Procedures and Guidelines for the Periodic Review of Academic Programs (APM 220) – Academic Policy & Planning Committee. New Business. SENATORS WHO WISH TO MAKE AMENDMENTS, ADDITIONS, OR DELETIONS TO DOCUMENTS BEING DISCUSSED ON THE ACADEMIC SENATE AGENDA SHOULD PLEASE MAKE CHANGES IN WRITING. 2 Academic Senate Meeting September 10, 2012 Page 3 4. Installation of New & Re-elected Senators. This page contains the list of newly elected Department Senators, Re-elected Department Senators, and Department Vacancies. NEW SENATOR Magdalena Gilewicz English Annette Levi, Non-voting Agricultural Business Cristina Herrera Chicano & Latin American Studies Margaret Gonsoulin Sociology John Karr Music Van Nee Van Vleck Economics Vacancies – Aerospace Studies, Communication (non-voting), Nursing, Plant Science. THE INSTALLATION OF SENATORS IS THE OFFICIAL BEGINNING OF THEIR TERMS IN OFFICE. UPON INSTALLATION OF NEW SENATORS, OUTGOING SENATORS WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO VOTE. 3