THE MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(AMENDED)
OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
Fresno, California 93740-8023
Office of the Academic Senate
FAX: 278-5745
Telephone: 278-2743
(EC-9)
October 29, 2012
Members Present:
Lynn Williams (Chair), Jacinta Amaral (Statewide), Kevin Ayotte (Vice-Chair), Provost William
Covino, Michael Jenkins (At-large), Arthur
Montejano (ASI), Melanie Ram (At-large)
Excused Absent:
Gena Gechter (University-wide), O. Harald
Schweizer (At-large)
Absent:
Provost William Covino, President John Welty
Visitors:
Venita Baker, Grace Liu (Office of Research and
Sponsored Programs [ORSP]), Tom McClanahan
(ORSP), Eugene Zumwalt
The meeting was called to order at 3:06 p.m. by Chair Williams in
HML 2108.
1.
Agenda.
MSC to approve the Agenda.
2.
Minutes of 10/22/12.
MSC to approve the Minutes of 10/22/12.
3.
Communications and Announcements.
A.
Textbook Order deadline October 31.
Provost Covino stated that a reminder should be sent to
faculty re: the October 31 deadline for spring 2013
textbook orders. Vice Chair Ayotte will distribute the draft
email offered by Associate Provost Caldwell.
4.
Campus Planning Committee (CPC) Membership and
Subcommittee Elimination. Second Reading continued.
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Senator Amaral (State-wide) stated that language should be
included in the future work of the CPC to ensure that faculty
representatives report about the CPC’s activities to maximize the
effects of consultation between faculty and administration.
Provost Covino suggested including language in appointment
letters for the two faculty members nominated by the Senate
Chair stipulatingthe expectation of regular reports on CPC
activities at Senate meetings.
Senator Amaral stated that she hopes the intent of the Peace
Garden and the university’s arboretum status are maintained
absent subcommittees dedicated to those issues.
Discussion ensued re: the inclusion of language stipulating a
requirement that faculty representatives report back to the
constituency from which they were elected be included in all
appointment letters from the Senate office.
Senator Ram (At-large) stated that the CPC should utilize the
faculty expertise available on campus re: the arboretum,
monuments, etc. as those issues arise, and this may best be
done by maintaining the subcommittees.
Item will return on the next Agenda of the Executive Committee
for continued Second Reading.
5.
Policy on Dual-listed and Co-scheduled Courses. Second
Reading.
Dean Sharon Brown-Welty (Graduate Studies) presented the
rationale for the policy.
Senator Ram thanked Dean Brown-Welty and the University
Graduate Committee for incorporating the Executive
Committee’s recommendations from the first reading into the
latest revision. Discussion ensued re: the percentage of duallisted / co-scheduled courses that graduate students should be
allowed to count toward their degree programs.
MSC to place the Policy on Dual-listed and Co-scheduled
Courses on the next Agenda of the Academic Senate.
6.
Intellectual Property Policy. Second Reading.
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Grace Liu and Tom McClanahan (Office of Research and
Sponsored Programs) presented the rational for revisions to the
policy. The main change is to the manner in which the policy
addressed the use of extraordinary resources so that, absent an
alternative agreement, the university’s equity interest for
recovering extraordinary resource expenditures is presumed to
be a 50% share of the net proceeds, with the other 50% assigned
to the faculty member.
Senator Ram asked about the reason for the different language
between sections II.A.2.c. and II.B.2.c.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:01 p.m.
The next meeting of the 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