OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
Faculty Senate Office
Corvallis, Oregon
97331
Social Science 107
9/26/85
(754-4344)
REPORTS TO THE FACULTY SENATE
December 5, 1985
Agenda
for the Senate Meeting:
Thursday,
December
5, 1985; 3:00 p.m.
LaSells Stewart Center
The Agenda for the regular December 5 Senate meeting will include the
reports and other items of business listed below.
To be approved are the
Minutes of the November 7 and 21 meeting, as published and distributed as
the Staff Newsletter Appendix.
A.
Reports
1.
from the Faculty
Promotion
and Tenure Committee
- Kathleen
Heath
Attached is a set of Motions from the P&T Committee.
These were
distributed at the November 7 Senate meeting for action at the
December meeting.
Senators are reminded to refer to the November
7 Reports to the Faculty Senate, since it contains the full P&T
Committee report (please bring it to the meeting for reference).
2.
Chancellor
Davis Invited to Senate Meeting
- W. T. Lemman
Earlier this Fall the Senate expressed the desire to invite
Chancellor Davis to the December Senate meeting to respond to
questions about a number of actions by his office, including
the "centralized travel plan."
The invitation has been extended,
but since Dr. Davis will be out of state on 12/5, he has asked
Vice Chancellor Lemman to participate in his place.
3.
Dean of Science Search Committee
- V.P. Bill Wilkins
H. Ronald Cameron
Senate President Cameron and/or Vice President for Academic Affairs
Wilkins will report on the status of the appointment of a Search
Committee to find a new Dean of the College of Science.
4.
Search Committees
There are currently three search committees for Vice Presidents.
Memberships are indicated for those Committees which have been
appointed.
Chairmen of the Search Committees will be invited
to future Senate meetings periodically to provide progress updates.
Attached are listings of the membership of those Search Committees which have been formally appointed.
Additional memberships
will be reported to the Senate as they are received by the Executive Committee.
5.
Committee
to Review Senate Structure
- Bob Becker
Chrm. Becker will provide an interim report on the study his
committee is doing regarding the current operation of the
Senate and its structure.
action at this time.
The senate will not be a5Ked
to take
2.
B.
Reports from the Executive
1.
Committee
Faculty Senate President-Elect/IFS
Election
In the on campus election conducted during the period between
November 12 and 19, 879 Faculty members voted in the Secret
~allot election conducted by mail (up from 701 voting Faculty
In 1984). Results were that,Sara E. (Sally) Malueg, Foreign
Languages & Literatures, received 451 votes, and Kathleen Heath
H&PE, received 407 votes.
Sara E. Malueg is declared President~
Elect, and will take office in January with the new Executive
Committee members and Senators.
For IFS, the results were as follows:
Gary Tiedeman, Sociology,
received 543 votes, and A. Morrie Craig, Veterinary Medicine,
received 306 votes.
Tiedeman will serve a three-year term on
the Interinstitutional
Faculty Senate.
The Executive Committee, on behalf of the Senate, wishes to
thank the Ballot Counting Committee, composed of James Krueger
and Mariol Peck, assisted by Thurston Doler, Exec. Secretary,
and the Seriate Office staff.
The Executive Committee extends its thanks to the other Faculty
members who have been candidates for the positions of PresidentElect and IFS representative, and to those who are candidates
~
for the Executive Committee.
~e realize that the quality of
our organization is dependent upon your willingness to participate,
and we are very grateful to all of our Faculty members who are
willing to have their names placed in nomination for these important positions.
We hope that those who were not elected at
this time will continue to be nominated for future positions.
2.
Election
of New Executive
Committee
Members
Faculty Senators will vote for three new Executive Committee
members at this meeting.
A Ballot will be distributed to Senators or their Proxies only.
Information regarding the candidates
will be published in the Staff Newsletter for December s. Vitae
will be distributed at the December 5 Senate meeting.
A Counting
Committee will tally the votes and report the results to the
Senate if determined before adjournment; otherwise, the results
will be published in the Staff Newsletter and "Reports to the
Faculty Senate" for the January 9 Senate meeting.
Continuing
Executive Committee members are: John Dunn, H&PE; Robert Mrazek,
Engineering; and Robert Schwartz, English.
3.
New Senator Orientation
for Newly-Elected
Senators
An Orientation session for Senators elected to their first or
second terms will be held on Monday, January 6, at Nendel's Inn.
The Executive Committee is working on the program and more infor~
3.
mation will be presented at the Senate meeting.
An Agenda for
the Orientation session will be sent to newly-elected Senators
as soon as names are sent to the Senate Office from the Colleges
and Schools.
4.
Oregon
State Board of Higher Education
Meeting
President Cameron participated in the OSBHE meeting on Nov. 22.
He will relay information of interest to the Senate.
S.
President
Cameron's
Report
on Executive
Office
Issues
The Senate President is meeting with the President and Vice
Presidents on a regular basis.
This is to become the vehicle
for him to report to the Senate on pertinent matters.
C.
Reports
from the Executive
D.
New Business
Office
4.
November
M E M 0 RAN
of the Faculty
7, 1985
DUM
To:
Members
From:
Promotion & Tenure Committee for 1984-85;
Kathleen Heath, Chrm.; John Block, and Dick ~owey
Subject:
MOTIONS
for Annual
Senate
Report of Promotion
& Tenure Comma
The recommendations from the 1984-85 Promotion & Tenure Committee
report were transmitted to the Executive Committee on September
30, 1985. They were omitted from the Report to be replaced by
the specific motions listed below.
These Hotions are to be considered individually by the Senate;
RESOLVED,
That:
1.
the Faculty Senate affirms its desire to be involved in the
process of modifying the University's promotion and tenure
procedures and directs the FacuLty Senate Executive C anmi ttee
to convey this to the Executive Office.
2.
the Faculty Senate approves the Guidelines for preparati on of
dossiers and directs the Executive Committee to recommend to
the Executive Office that these materials be placed in the
Faculty Handbook.
3.
the Faculty Senate Executive Committee establish provisicns
at Faculty Day each year for a special meeting to counsel new
Faculty about the teaching, research, and service priorities for
promotion and tenure at Oregon State University.
4.
the issue of rank and faculty status of personnel whose assignments ordinarily do not involve teaching and research be
referred for study to the Faculty Status Committee.
5.
the issue of development of a more comprehensive and systematic
evaluation of teaching be referred to the Faculty Senate's
Advancement of Teaching Committee.
6.
the Committee on Committees consider amending the Promotion
and Tenure Committee's Standing Rules to require members to
maintain confidentiality concerning all they hear and read
about promotion and tenure dossiers and.actions affecting individual faculty members.
7.
the following recommendation be referred to the Executive Committee with the charge to study whether this is an appropriate
concern, and if it is, to develop methods of implementing additional faculty development:
There are sizable numbers of
~
tenured faculty listed on Form D (Faculty :t1embersNot Recommended for Promotion & Tenure) who are beyond the normal range
of years for consideraticn of promotion to professor.
Therefore,
the Committee recommends that the Senate study ways to promote
additicnal faculty development.
5•
VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND PROVOST
Search Committee
Committee Chair
Margy Woodburn
Dept Chair, Foods and Nutrition
x3561
Debbie Bird
Continuing Education and Summer Term
x2052
Gwyneth Britton
OSu/WOSC School of Education
x4318
Melvin George
Director, OSU Library
x34ll
Kenneth Hedberg
Chemistry
x2081
Alberta Johnston
Assoc Director, Extension Service
x2711
Morris LeMay
Director, Counseling Center
x2131
Michael Maksud
Dean, Health and Physical Education
x3220
Troy Reinhart
Student in Forestry
155 NW Kings Blvd #E606 (97330)
Charles Smith
Mechanical Engineering
x2567
Douglass Stennett
Pharmacy
x3424
Daro1d Wax
Dept Chair, History
x3421
Committee Members
758-5223
6.
VICE PRESIDENT
FOR UNIVERSITY
RELATIONS
Search Committee
================
Committee
Chair
Thomas McClintock
Committee
History
x342l
Members
Tom Ahlers
Tammy Barr
Wilbert
Gamble
Alumnus
3105 NW McKinley
Agricultural
757-1781
Place
(97330)
Communications
x33ll
Biochemistry/Biophysics
x4523
Robert Houston
Health
x2686
Wallace
Asst Director,
Johnson
Information
Sylvia Moore
Deputy Director,
Athletic
Lisa Neubaumer
Student in Business
Student Foundation,
Office
x4611
x2611
Dept.
x2l0l
Student Activities
x255l
Lynn Spruill
Dean, College,of
Richard Weinman
Speech Communication
x3066
Patricia
Oceanography
x299l
Wheeler
Business
Cntr
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