THE MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
Fresno, California 93740-8023
Office of the Academic Senate
FAX: 278-5745
Telephone: 278-2743
(EC-5)
September 30, 2013
Members Present:
Lynn Williams (Chair), Kevin Ayotte (Vice-Chair),
Diane Blair (University-wide), President Joseph
Castro, Kiranjit Dhanjan (ASI), Interim Provost
Andrew Hoff, Thomas Holyoke (At-large),
Michael Jenkins (At-large), Loretta Kensinger
(State-wide), Rebecca Raya-Fernandez (At-large)
Visitors:
Venita Baker, Michael Caldwell (AVP Faculty
Affairs)
The meeting was called to order at 3:05 p.m. by Chair Williams in
HML 2108.
1.
Agenda.
MSC to approve the Agenda.
2.
Minutes of 9/23/13.
MSC to approve the minutes of 9/23/13.
3.
Communications and Announcements.
A.
Traffic Concerns
President Castro stated that he spoke with Vice President
Matson (Administration) re: the traffic concerns discussed
at the 9/23/13 Executive Committee meeting. VP Matson
offered to speak with the Executive Committee whenever
desired. Provost Hoff stated that he also spoke with VP
Matson to identify specific traffic concerns.
B.
Vice President for Student Affairs Search.
President Castro announced that the search committee has
been finalized and the search is now underway.
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C.
University Lecture Series.
President Castro stated that, as part of an ongoing effort to
build community among faculty, he has discussed with
Provost Hoff the prospect of developing a university-wide
lecture series.
D.
Work-Life Balance Task Force
Provost Hoff requested suggestions from the Executive
Committee re: the best way to identify faculty interested in
assisting this effort. He initially thought 4 faculty would be
ideal but he will consider increasing that to 6 faculty.
Senator Kensinger (State-wide) suggested considering that
various issues will look different to women and men, to
tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty, to faculty with
families and those who are single. Representational
diversity will be needed to ensure the program and
offerings are relevant to the breadth of faculty life
experience.
Senator Holyoke (At-large) stated that for faculty heavily
involved in research, making receipt of assigned-time
simpler will be an important issue to include. Provost Hoff
acknowledged that this issue has been identified by his
office too; he has been discussing with deans options for
continuing to provide, and potentially expanding, assignedtime for research.
Senator Kensinger stated that faculty representatives on
the task force should be selected by the Senate. Provost
Hoff stated that he will be prepared to present a charge for
the task force at the next Senate meeting. The Executive
Committee will send a university-wide call afterward to
solicit nominations.
E.
Café Academy.
Interim Provost Hoff announced that dates have been set
as October 8, November 7, and December 3 for the fall
2013 semester, meeting from 4-6pm in the old Vintage
Room restaurant.
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F.
Associated Students Representative
Kiranjit Dhanjan introduced herself as the new student
delegate to the Senate Executive Committee.
Senator Kensinger asked if ASI had adopted positions with
“defense” and “security” in the titles. Ms. Dhanjan stated
she was not certain of the specific position titles.
G.
Faculty Representatives to the Search Committee for
Director of University Health & Psychological Services
(UHPS).
Vice Chair Ayotte reported that Miguel A. Perez
(Department of Public Health) and Peggy Trueblood
(Physical Therapy) were identified to Vice President Oliaro
(Student Affairs) as Faculty Representatives to the Director
of UHPS Search Committee.
Vice Chair Ayotte stated that two individuals, Deborah
Young (Management) and Kristi Eastin (Modern & Classical
Languages & Literatures) received more votes than
Professor Trueblood but both were ineligible under APM
320. Faculty representatives must be tenured faculty but
Professor Young is a Lecturer and Professor Eastin is an
Assistant Professor.
4.
Executive Session.
The committee entered Executive Session at 3:31 and returned
to regular session at 3:50.
A. University Student Union (USU) Board Representative
Because no nominations were received for the position of
faculty representative to the USU Board, Vice Chair Ayotte
will email the following faculty who have recently expressed
interest in other service positions to solicit selfnominations: Monique Bell, Kristi Eastin, Lizhong Hao,
Ignacio Hernandez, and Deborah Young.
B. Electronic WPAF Ad Hoc Committee
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The Executive Committee recommended the following
faculty members be appointed to the WPAF Ad Hoc
Committee:
Bradley Hyatt (Construction Management)
Elisa Jamgochian (Literacy, Early, Bilingual, and Special
Education)
Sergio La Porta (Armenian Studies)
Zoulikha Mouffak (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Scott Sailor (Kinesiology)
Richard Wanjema (Art & Design)
The meeting was adjourned at 3:52 p.m.
The next meeting of the Expanded Executive Committee will be
announced.
An Agenda will be distributed prior to the meeting.
Submitted by:
Kevin J. Ayotte
Vice-Chair
Academic Senate
Approved by:
Lynn Williams
Chair
Academic Senate