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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES

– Approved 4/22/2010

April 1, 2010

University Hall, Room 277

Members Present : Chong, Frehlich, Hellenbrand, Lien, Matos (Chair), Spector, Stepanek,

Wolfbauer (Recording Secretary)

Members Absent: Bendavid, Broussard, Dungey, Swerkes

Guests : C. Rawitch, D. Schwartz

President Matos called the meeting to order at 1:03 p.m.

Approval of Minutes

MSP to approve the Minutes of February 25, 2010 and March 4, 2010 (both sets as revised).

Announcements

2. a. Matos reported that the recently approved resolution, “Flexible, Forward-Looking

Enrollment Planning for Individual CSU Campus,” was sent to the Academic Senate of the CSU, the Chancellor, the CSU campus Senate Chairs, the Board of Trustees, and the

CSU, Northridge Associated Students President on Tuesday, March 30 th . b. Stepanek volunteered to attend the CSU Senate Chairs meeting on April 8, 2010 as

Matos is not able to attend. c. Matos asked the SEC members to begin thinking about faculty members to serve on the

General Education Council. Nominations will be taken at the next SEC meeting on

April 22 nd

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Policy Item – Educational Policies Committee

Diane Schwartz, Member of EPC

Cynthia Rawitch, Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Studies

2nd Reading – Major and Minor Policy

Schwartz said that the changes recommended by SEC during their last meeting on March 4 have been made to the policy statement. Further discussion and more suggestions were made by SEC. It was requested that a clean copy of the policy, as it will appear in the catalog, be added to the end of the document and that the sections be listed in a logical sequence.

MSP to forward to the Senate, with suggested changes, for a first reading.

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Election Results: Faculty Officers, Statewide Academic Senators,

Senators-at-Large and Standing Committee representatives

Faculty Officers

Faculty President (2 year term): Steven Stepanek, Computer Science

Vice President of the Faculty (1 year term): Cheryl Spector, English

Secretary of the Faculty (1 year term): Sandra Chong, Elementary Education

CSU Academic Senator (3 year term): Jennifer Matos, Biology

CSU Academic Senator (2 year term): Sandra Chong, Elementary Education

Senators-at-Large (six Senators, 2 year terms):

Amy Levin, Social Work; Magnhild Lien, Mathematics; Michael Neubauer, Mathematics;

Diane Schwartz, Computer Science; David Wakefield, Child and Adolescent Development;

Veda Ward, Recreation and Tourism Management

Academic Technology Committee (1 member):

Mary Schaffer, Cinema & Television Arts

Educational Equity Committee (3 members):

Amy Denissen, Sociology

Ana Sanchez-Munoz, Chicano/a Studies

Dianah Wynter, Cinema & Television Arts

Educational Policies Committee (2 members):

Lawrence Becker, Political Science

Paula DiMarco, Art

Educational Resources Committee (2 members):

Michael Barrett, Library

Barry Cleveland, Theatre

Graduate Studies Committee (3 members):

Leilani Hall, English

Bruno Osorno, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Merril Simon, Educational Psychology and Counseling

Library Committee (1 member):

Lindsay Hansen, Library

Learning Resource Advisory Committee (1 member):

Jill Razani, Psychology

2010-2011 Senate Calendar Approval

Link to approved calendar: http://www.csun.edu/senate/SEC/senatecalendar2010-11.pdf

The SEC reviewed a draft version of the 2010-11 Senate calendar. Wolfbauer mentioned that this proposed calendar is very similar to the 2009-10 Senate calendar and that it takes into consideration next year’s CSU Statewide Academic Senate meetings and CSU Senate

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Chairs meetings. Stepanek pointed out that the calendars for the CSU Statewide Academic

Senate and the Board of Trustees are still tentative and will not be approved until May; so it is possible that minor changes may need to be made. Spector mentioned that Freshman

Convocation is on September 2, so we may wish to consider an early adjournment.

MSP to approve the 2010-2011 Senate calendar as presented.

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Review of Standing Committee Minutes

Academic Technology (On 11/10, ATC and ERC held a joint meeting. A resolution was introduced regarding implementing guidelines on technology impacting instruction; 12/4 – the resolution was voted against; 11/10, 12/4 – no policies)

Educational Policies Committee (2/10, 2/24 – no policies; Departments are continuing to reclassify courses with S-factor units to other categories such as C-10 and C-15. Four Cfactor reclassifications have been submitted by the Theatre department; the reclassification will increase the class size, accommodating a greater number of students.

Extended Learning (10/21 – no policies; there was discussion on changing the committee’s

charge. Discussion may continue on this topic at future meetings; A proposal for a new

Certificate of Advanced Professional Development for Speech-Language Pathology

Assistant Licensure was brought forward. It will go through the normal approval process.)

Educational Resources (11/10 - see the Academic Technology report above)

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Provost’s Report – Harry Hellenbrand

Provost Hellenbrand mentioned the following:

1. We are expecting a 5-7 percent cut next year; however, we have planned for a deeper cut. The 5-7 percent cut expectation is based on the assumptions that we’d receive the general fund dollars, the 10% enrollment cut mandate is enforced, and the federal stimulus money that we received this year will be replaced by state dollars next year.

2. The Deans were told that they can finalize scheduling for Fall 2010. Plans are in place if we have to deal with a worst case scenario; we have enough money in reserves as we have planned for a deeper budget cut. We anticipate a good summer with profits that will carry over to next year. $2 million dollars in federal stimulus funds will be moved into the departments; it will be used to save part-time faculty jobs and buy flexibility for fall.

3. We will start the process for hiring between 30-50 new faculty members to begin in

2011-12. New positions are allocated based on either new FTE, SFRs by College, and/or national averages.

Other Business

1. Membership on 2010-2011 Senate Executive Committee – According to the Faculty

Bylaws, the senior Statewide Academic Senator serves on SEC. Elections for the 2010-

2011 SEC committee will take place at the May 13 th Senate meeting. SEC discussed membership given that we have some overlapping positions.

2. Men’s Basketball – Matos read from an article in U.S. New & World Report which mentions CSUN’s low graduation rate of its men’s basketball players. A suggestion was

4 made for Matos and other faculty members to meet with Tom McCarron, Rick Mazzuto and President Koester to get an update on this issue and to see what can be done to address this concern. Frehlich volunteered to participate in this meeting; other faculty members suggested include Michael Neubauer and Veda Ward.

3. Late Spring Breaks – Spector expressed her concern about spring break falling so late in the semester this year and in future academic calendars; she felt that it was not good pedagogically for our students and it should occur closer to the middle of the semester.

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Set Agenda for April 15, 2010 Senate Meeting

● Spring 2010 Election Results

● Major and Minor Policy (EPC)

● Senate Reports

Meeting adjourned at 2:53 p.m.

Submitted by: Heidi Wolfbauer, Recording Secretary

Sandra Chong, Secretary of the Faculty

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