THE PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTH CENTRAL SENA TE
R E P O R T F R O M W E S T L A F A Y E T T E
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This report covers to four meetings:
University Senate Faculty Affairs Committee
University Senate
University Senate Faculty Affairs Committee
Purdue University Calumet Senate
Official minutes
4 February 2013
18 February 2013
4 March 2013
6 March 2013
Purdue University Senate
2012/2013 Faculty Affairs Committee
Minutes
Fourth Meeting, Monday, 4 February, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Room 119, Hovde Hall
Present: Charlene Sullivan, Janusz Duzinkiewicz, Alan Beck, David Kemmerer, Phil Rawles, Stuart Bolton,
Yuewern Yih, David Sanders, Levon Esters
Advisors: Alysa C. Rollock, Mark J.T. Smith, Beverly Davenport Sypher
Absent: Not recorded
I. Call to Order
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Professor Charlene Sullivan, Chair, called the meeting to order at 2:33 p.m.
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The January meeting minutes were accepted.
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The agenda for the current meeting was accepted.
II. Subcommittee Reports
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Censure and Dismissal Procedures.
Beverly Davenport Sypher reported no pending cases. Morry Levy has a special committee looking at the
C&D process and how it has played out in recent cases. Levy’s committee is not a formal committee of the
Senate and will bring to the Steering Committee a proposal to have a formal review of B-48.
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Faculty Compensation and Benefits.
Don Buskirk reported that at the last meeting of FCBC, the committee was introduced to the new benefits director. In February, a couple of speakers from benefits met with the committee to explain their initiatives.
Several members of FCBC are serving on the new Strategic Healthcare Committee
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University Grade Appeals
David Kemmerer reported that 2 Engineering Students had a chance to appeal a grade decision to the
University Grade Appeals Committee and failed to do so in a timely way.
II. Old Business
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Clinical Faculty Appointment and Promotion Policy
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The proposed policy has been vetted through vice chancellors, and department visits are ongoing. Some of the issues that have been raised in these discussions are:
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Initial appointment for a clinical professor is up to 3 yrs vs 2 years. The subsequent contract may be for up to five years.
 Colleges that haven’t had clinical faculty are entertaining the idea of creating such positions. An example is the College of Engineering which will call clinical faculty Professors of Practice. Sypher reiterated that the policy allows schools and colleges to call persons in clinical positions what they think best represents the responsibilities of the position – various working titles are possible, but all are classified as clinical faculty.
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Certain departments have waivers on the limit on the number of clinical positions they may have relative to the total tenure track plus clinical faculty. There is a 10% university limit and there is still room to grow.
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SHHS comments – “clinical instructor” ( page 6 in the document) does not have a place in this document.
Should be in a different document as real clinical lines will be restricted if clinical instructors are included as clinical faculty. Why does Purdue have the classification of clinical instructor? Kemmerer will get more clarification.
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Another comment – appears clinical instructors are teaching from SA’s visit. Would diminish what a clinical faculty member is. Fear this will take away from the overall number of true clinical faculty.

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Other concerns about the document are the lack of sabbaticals for clinical positions and lack of participation in the promotion for other faculty.
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SHHS - Feel the tenure-track faculty aren’t qualified to evaluate the clinical faculty for purposes of promotion.
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Janusz D – IUPUI said they are under IU rules., IPFW said fine, but cap at 20% would be a concern for
Calumet and PNC. Fear that with all the different kinds of non-tenure track there is a possibility that it will submerge the number of tenure-track faculty. The question was asked concerning the existence of a document that says there has to be at least a certain number of tenured faculty? It was suggested that the limit on clinical and continuous term lecturers be lowered to 15% from the current 20% of the faculty.
 The Clinical Policy is perceived to be an attack on tenure but it shouldn’t be. The policy was intended for the schools that need and use clinical faculty. Purdue has these practices already in place. The Clinical
Policy is designed to give guidance. There is a perception that the clinical faculty positions are less prestigious and perhaps on the same level as limited and continuous term lecturers. The new policy helps to elevate and define the clinical faculty.
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It was suggested that it would be helpful for faculty to have a listing of all kinds of faculty and whether considered faculty or staff.
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On-Line Course Evaluation System
Sullivan indicated that the subcommittee has narrowed its focus to three issues: student response rates, the content of a portfolio for teaching effectiveness, and the guidelines provided for the evaluation of teaching that are contained in Senate Document 97-9. Sullivan indicated that the subcommittee is working with the Task Force on Promotion and Tenure as it reviews the processes used for the Evaluation of
Teaching Excellence.
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COACHE Survey
B.Davenport reported that the Deans had been asked in their annual budget review meeting to indicate how they planned to use the survey results. Department heads had been asked to describe how they were using the data to make improvements in their departmental processes.
III. New Business
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Summer Pay Policy
The Comptroller’s Office is studying the summer pay policy and requested that a faculty member from
FAC work on the task force. Phil Rawles has indicated that he would work with the taskforce.
V. Announcements/Items of Interest
Alysa Rollock
Open access policy –The Senate approved a recommendation in November 2011 that PU adopt a policy that advances and supports deposit to the Purdue e-Pubs digital repository all scholar articles published by Purdue faculty. Rollock asked the FAC to consider the next step for acting on the Senate recommendation. The
Libraries has been working on a draft policy. Rollock asked: do we want a policy? Policies don’t suggest, they obligate. Do we want to obligate to deposit work into accessible system or create support and encouragement?
No conclusion was identified.
Academic Freedom – B-50 covers terms and conditions of employment of Faculty Members at Purdue. Rollock proposed that FAC consider the content of B-50 and identify ways to break it up and clarify issues such as
Academic Freedom. The question will be further developed at the next meeting of the FAC.
Mark Smith
Dual degree, joint degree policy – allow us to have degrees with other institutions. We’ll have a very small, select number of these currently.
Beverly Davenport Sypher
Reported that there is a pilot program with 3 departments on campus using Digital Measures, She will report to the committee as the program makes progress.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:01 pm.
The Next meeting of the Faculty Affairs Committee will be March 4, 2013 in HOVDE 119 at 2:30.
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UNIVERSITY SENATE
Fifth Meeting, Monday, 18 February 2013, 2:30 p.m.
Room 302, Stewart Center
Professor J. Paul Robinson (absent) 1. Call to order - 2:33 pm
2. Approval of Minutes of 28 January 2013 – approved unanimously
3. Acceptance of Agenda – approved unanimously
Professor David Williams, Vice Chair
4. Remarks by the President President Mitch Daniels
There is rightful concern about the way the Whistleblower Hotline was launched. The hotline is an 800 number administered by an outside clerical service. No specific incident prompted the hotline’s sudden appearance.
Gina DelSanto is the President’s new Chief of Staff. DelSanto had a distinguished academic career at Indiana
Univeristy, Middlebury and Butler. She served as Associate Provost of Butler College and most recently was #2 in the
Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
5. Remarks of the Chairperson Professor J. Paul Robinson (absent)
Professor David Williams, Vice Chair
This is an exciting phase for Purdue: we have a new President enthusiastic for shared governance. Together we should take advantage of this opportunity. Daniel’s seminal Open Letter offers the promise of the Senate exerting more influence. There will be innovative change.
6. Résumé of Items Under Consideration For Information by Various Standing Committees Professor James S. Lenhert
“This is the representative body of the faculty.”
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Steering Committee - Good change, bad change, great traditions. The Committee looks at documents to see if there would be too much discussion at the Senate. If so, documents sent back to committee.
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Advisory Committee - No agenda, no minutes, what is said stays in the room.
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Nominating Committee - Call for nominee for Senate Vice Chair.
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Educational Policy Committee - Students services, add/drop, graduation, scholastic deficiency.
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Faculty Affairs Committee - On-line course evaluation, clinical faculty, COACHE, promotion/tenure/merit.
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Student Affairs Committee - Student Conduct Code.
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University Resources Committee Budget, BIER.
7. Question Time All questions were addressed to President Daniels.
Prof. Sullivan: What is the process from whistleblowing?
Daniels: Defers to Alysa Rollock: hotline is totally anonymous with a special number.
Prof. Rodriguez : The old paper evaluation system was much more clear; the on-line system is highly unreliable.
Daniels: The observation is noted.
Prof. Decarlo: Salary in part should be merit based.
Daniels: Excellence and student success are central. We need to decide what data should be collected. As a statement of economy, I have cut my salary. Performance does matter. I have put part of my own pay at risk. Part will be performance based. This should be an example for other administrators. What constitutes excellence?
Prof. Decarlo: Students have their own wills. They can chose to party. We cannot force them to study.
Daniel: I remember what they did.
8. Senate Document 12:3 Change to Academic Regulations and For Action
Procedures on Scholastic Records - Duplicate Diplomas Professor Harold P. Kirkwood
Voted on at previous meeting. Procedures clarified. No discussion.
9. Presentation by the Director of the Student Success Office For Information
Director Jared Tippets
Dr. Brent Drake Assistant Vice Provost and Director, Enrollment Management Analysis and Reporting
Foundations of Excellence powerpoint. Available at http://www.purdue.edu/senate/meetings.cfm
Excerpts:
FOE is…
• a comprehensive self ‐ study focused on student success
• a common philosophy guiding our focus on student success
• an affirmation of what is working well and a charge to assess programs and measure success
• a call to move beyond retention to a focus on academic success and degree completion
• providing ALL students with the same opportunities to succeed
• an initiative that is owned by everyone on campus
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Recommendations
First Year Philosophy Statement
• Broadly promote the First ‐ year Philosophy statement across campus to ensure that all faculty, staff, and students operate under its guiding values and principles.
Progress
‐ Endorsement from Provost
‐ Reading at EPC Meeting
‐ Scheduling presentations with colleges
‐ Focus groups with various campus units
(College deans, faculty, PACADA, Student Affairs, CSAC, APSAC, PSG, etc.)
Academic Success Priorities
• Ensure that every student has a consistent and coordinated first year orientation experience.
• Support the implementation and expansion of the core curriculum to improve portability of courses across majors.
• Ensure appropriate availability of course spaces that allow students to make progress toward degree completion.
• Expand admit ‐ to ‐ university opportunities.
Progress
‐ Virtual STAR / STAR Re ‐ design
‐ BGR Re ‐ design
‐ CORE Curriculum
‐ USP rebranded as Exploratory Studies
‐ CODO Efficiency Study
‐ Course Needs Task Force
‐ Student Success Action Team
‐ DegreeWorks / MyPurduePlan
Instructor, Faculty, and Staff Development Priorities
• Encourage (or Provide) professional development opportunities for all instructors and staff that interact with first ‐ year students.
• Commit to advancing and rewarding research on teaching and learning.
• Establish a coordinated effort to collect and disseminate information on best practices, data useful for faculty instructing first ‐ year students, and assessment to enhance program efforts.
Progress
‐ IMPACT courses
‐ Center for Instructional Excellence workshops
‐ Redefining the role of academic advisors
‐ Promotion and Tenure Task Force
‐ Enrollment Management Newsletters
‐ Creation of Purdue Assessment
- Coordination Team (PACT)
‐ Website focused on how faculty can contribute to student success
Student Success Priorities
• Coordinate undergraduate academic advising in the first year.
• Coordinate undergraduate academic success programs.
• Develop programs targeted at removing disparities in success among identified groups of students.
• Oversee the streamlining of communication to first ‐ year students.
Progress
‐ Redefining the role of academic advisors
‐ Plans of Study Task Force
‐ Course Signals
‐ Academic Probation Policy
‐ Midterm Grade Policy
‐ Emerging Leader Scholarship Program
‐ BoilerGuide phone app
‐ Equity Scorecard Self ‐ Study
‐ Veterans Support Services
‐ International Student Success
‐ Purdue Parent Association
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Examples of Progress
Academic Success Center
• Moved to Student Success at Purdue to align with other outside of class initiatives
• Walk ‐ ins increased from 50 to over 1200 in Fall Semester
• Number of students taught and credits earned all went up
• Responded to faculty feedback and contributing to international student success
Tutoring Coordination
• Launched www.purdue.edu/Tutoring to coordinate academic help around campus in easy to remember website
• Helping students find academic help regardless of program or college affiliation
Purdue Promise
• Re ‐ designed the program to move from a focus around campus fit and climate to one based on academic success
• Assistant Directors are now serving as academic coaches rather than event planners
Assessment
Progress is being monitored for the initiatives in three primary ways
1. Key campus metrics examined on an annual basis
• Retention, Graduation, DFW rates in 100 ‐ 200 courses, first ‐ year GPA, Time to Degree, Campus Culture
2. Documentation of progress toward milestones
• Time lines for each proposal, major events indicating progress documented
3. Biannual formative assessment of process
• Interviews conducted with advisory teams on implementation process
Three Years from Now
The Outcomes of FOE
• Progress toward higher graduation rates
• Improved time to degree completion
• Engaged students
• Greater ease of movement among majors
• Better use of limited campus resources
• An accepted framework and standard definition of student success
• A stronger culture of assessment
• Mutual accountability among the students, the institution, and the state
Additional statements
Drake: At a certain point work interferes with college. The tipping point is 20 hours per week.
Decarlo: Students can have unrealistic expectations. One freshmen seriously stated “I want to be like Michael
Jordan.”
Tippets: The core curriculum allows students to do some exploration.
Levy: There must be a greater emphasis on teaching English to foreign students.
10.
Update on the Honors College For Information
Interim Dean Dennis Savaiano
Available at http://www.purdue.edu/senate/meetings.cfm
Excerpts:
Update
•Honors College Governance Committee established and meeting regularly
•Proposed curriculum developed and distributed
•Transition plan for existing honors programs developed and being implemented
•Honors course development First year seminar piloted Fall 2012
•HC seminar is part of IMPACT
•Summer HC pilot conducted
•Recruiting plan in place
Proposed Curriculum
•24 credits of honors coursework
•Thesis or scholarly activity determined by the college
•Specific honors courses (5 credits) First year Honors College seminar (1 credit each semester)
•3 credits additional HONR courses
•Elective honors courses (19 credits) HONR, H designation and H contract courses
•Graduate courses not required for the student’s major
•Research courses
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•At least 9 credits after the 1st year
•Up to 9 credits may be specified by academic college
Enrollment goal for F2013 : 470-530
Discussion: Honors students will live together for one year and then as leaders will “be let loose”. An existing brownstone will be demolished to make room for a Honors apartment building, Daniels was invited to move it.
11. New Business
Professor Levy: Child Care task Force Update to Faculty Senate
12. Memorial Resolutions – none http://www.purdue.edu/senate/meetings.cfm
24. Adjournment – 3:50 pm [Next meeting of the Senate: Monday, 18 March 2013.]
Unofficial minutes
Purdue University Senate
2012/2013 FACULTY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
Fifth Meeting March 4, 2013 2:30-4:00PM
Room 119 Hovde Hall
Present: Charlene Sullivan, Janusz Duzinkiewicz, Phil Rawles, Alysa Rollock, David Sanders, Mark J.T.
Smith, Yuewern Yih
The meeting lacked a quorum. Discussion only.
I. Call to order
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Acceptance of Agenda -unanimous
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Approval of minutes from February meeting
Text will be added recording the Committee’s decision to ask for feedback from the regional senates regarding the
Clinical Faculty policy document under development.
II. Subcommittee Reports
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Censure and Dismissal Procedures -none
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Faculty Compensation and Benefits (Professor Donald Buskirk, Chair [absent])
- The Clinic is open.
- By next year the University will pay 80%, employees 20% for health insurance. The increase in premiums will be
substantial. In most companies that offer health insurance the ratio is 70/30.
- Vice President Lewin emphasizes the need for healthier behavior to bring down costs.
- Everyone is urges to use Castlight http://www.purdue.edu/hr/Benefits/castlight.html
for comparative pricing and
service
- Could dental insurance be added ? – D. Sanders
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University Grade Appeals - none
III. Old Business
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Clinical Faculty Policy – discussion postponed
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On-line Course Evaluation System – no progress. Why not return to the old paper system? Midterm course evaluations might be more useful; courses could be improved the same semester. Course evaluations were never intended to be used for tenure and promotion decision; now they have become standard and could be very misleading.
IV. New Business
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Open Access Policy (from A.Rollock)
President Obama has mandated that federally supported research be made more accessible. Purdue does not have a policy. Faculty are encouraged to participate. Some resist the idea of a free depository. Sanders: perhaps the default should be “yes”.
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Academic Freedom Policy (from A.Rollock)
Separate academic freedom from dismissal policy. Sensitive discussion.
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Possible Review of B-48
V. Announcements/Items of Interest
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Beverly Davenport Sypher, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs - absent
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Alysa C. Rollock, Vice President of Ethics and Compliance – no additional comments
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Mark J.T. Smith, Dean of the Graduate School – joint degrees with select universities under development, reclassification of graduate faculty under discussion in committee.
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PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET
UNIVERSITY SENATE MEETING
DATE March 6, 2013
3:30pm – SUL 321
A. Call to order – 3:35 pm
B. Approval of the Agenda - unanimous
C. Approval of Minutes: February Meeting Minutes - unanimous
D. Special Business of the Day
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Chancellor Report - Dr. Thomas Keon – out of town
Report from Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Ralph Rogers
$4-5 Million Shortfall for 2013/2014
$3 million will be cut from the academic budget
After consultation with the Schools the following reductions are likely:
- Liberal Arts and Social Science $1,010,183 12.654%
- Engineering, Mathematic & Science
- Management
- Education
- Technology
727,197
600,000
12.77 %
14.2%
306,929 15.47%
400,000 11.152%
- Nursing 26,554 1.4%
Total $3,044,299 12.968%
1/3 of the Continuing Lecturer positions will be eliminated and replaced by Limited Term Lecturers.
Schools will eliminate tenure track positions through early retirement. Some units are overstaffed with tenured and tenure-track faculty. Some programs with low enrollments are not viable. Some departments purposely spread their students thin so that each faculty member will have students. ICHE has the power to close down programs. Faculty should be aligned with enrollments. “Faculty will teach more students.” [After the Senate, a psychology professor said that the cap to the Introduction to Psychology class has been raised from 45 to 80.] There is no systematic framework for allocating workload.
The Academic Learning Center will be closed
The Child Care Center will be closed.
There is no magic bullet. “If we cannot make budget cuts, there will be furloughs.” “We need to be honest.”
Question/Answer
- Class minimums up to the Deans
- Can we argue with ICHE?
- New Vice Chancellor for Enrollment
- increase transfer students, foreign students and seek out new markets
- programs may be necessary though enrollments are low.
- Per diem savings from furloughs: $200,000
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Chair Report - Prof. Feng-Song Wang
The tuition freeze applies only to West Lafayette
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Curriculum document approval - Professor Leslie Rittenmeyer o Regular Curriculum Documents (see Appendix) 69 listed and passed unanimously.
o Experiential Learning (see Appendix) 1listed and passed unanimously.
o General Education Curriculum Documents (see Appendix) none
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Other special business o PUWL Senate Representative - Professor David Pick
A faculty committee will help determined the performance- based portion of Daniel’s salary. A draft policy on scholastic deficiency with a 2.0 threshold is still being considered by West Lafayette. IPFW opposes it,
PNC supports it. It is suited for regional campuses.
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E. Committee Reports
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Academic Support Services Committee - Professor David Kozel o For Action: SD 13-02 Change to Academic Calendar
Vote 1 Align start of Spring Semester with West Lafayette approved: 15/10
Vote 2 Insert a week break before summer session approved: 18/4
Vote 3 Spring Break after 8 th week
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Curriculum and Educational Policy - Professor Leslie Rittenmeyer rejected: 8/16 o For Action: SD 07-18 EXL approval process-Revision
University document 12:07 "Changes to Academic Regulations and Procedures Scholastic Deficiency and
Drop GPA" still poses a problem.
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Faculty Affairs - Professor Janet Buckenmeyer o For Discussion: SD 13-03 Clinical Faculty Policy
Proposed Clinical Faculty Policy Draft
Edited version of PNC document. 20% maximum o For Discussion: SD 99-10 Outstanding Faculty Awards-revision o For Discussion: SD 13-05 SBC resolution
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Nominating Committee - Professor Michael Dobberstein
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Committee for Student Affairs - Professor Tom Roach o For Discussion: SD 13-04 GAP policy is an improvement over the West Lafayette policy.
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Student Government - Student Body Representative Ms. Marisa Henderson - absent
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Agenda Committee - Professor Michael Dobberstein nothing
F. Unfinished Business
G. New Business – a proposed resolution to spread the burden of cuts failed due to lack of quorum.
H. Open Discussion
I. Adjournment
Appendix:
Regular Curriculum Documents ( see Senate website for supporting documentation )
Reported by Janusz Duzinkiewicz 17 March 2013
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