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Appendix
Minutes
of
The Faculty Senate of 0 regon State Un iversity
FOR ALL ACADEMIC
STAFF
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Vol. 24, #23
March 14, 1985
1985 Meeting 418 - March 7, 1985
The regular March meeting of the Faculty Sen te
was called to order at 3:10 p.m. by President
on
Cameron in the Gilbert 124. The Minutes of th
February 1985 meeting were approved as publish
in the Staff Newsletter Appendix.
Report8 fro. The faculty:
Jack Davis, Institutional Representati"e
to the NCAA and National President of the NCAI'
reported to the Senate on recent developments.,
"Amendment forty-eight," passed last year to
become effective in September 1986, will requt re
for entering athletes a core curriculum of elHven
academic courses in high school with a minimurn
grade of "C" and test scores of at least 700 on
the SAT or 15 on the ACT, Davis reported.
A fter passage of these requirements, the NCJ'A
commissioned a study to determine their Impact on
the 1977 and 1982 entering athletes including men
and women, blacks and whites, sport by sport. I
concluded that the "overall graduation rates,
after five or aix years, of freshmen athletes is
no different from freshmen in general." Further,
the application of the above standards would have
"disadvantaged" a large portion of the black students who eventually graduated, Davis asserted.
The Presidents' Commission of the NCAA has joined
the NCAA Council in addressing the issue of u3ing
test scores as a criterion of success in h i qhe r
education.
In the offing now is· the approach
that the core curriculum would be the basic criterion, with the test scores as the fall-back
criterion if the core curriculum is not met.
Davia expects a decision on the matter by January
of 1986.
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Two years ago, the Association adopted rules
that require an average of 12 credits per quarter
that contribute to a BA degree with the degree
sought to be designated no later than the 7th
quarter.
This contrasts with the previous PAC-IO
policy of requiring 36 hours during a year of'
study without the stipulations above. Davis I
thinks the formation of the Presidents Commis'sion
adopted in 1984 is the most signi ficant NCAA
development of recent yeara.
It consists of 44
Presidents from the I, II, & II I class insti t1utions across the country.
This Commission will
hold a special convention on June 20 & 21, 1985,
to deal with (1) institution integrity, and (2)
economics.
The issue of integrity will address such mattera as freshman eligibility, special admits,
academic reporting, certification, program for
academics, recruiting integrity, and payments to
athletes.
These efforts are directed toward
maintaining amateurism in college athletics.
Penalty structures varying from fines to csncellation of schedules will be considered.
The
basic strategy is to prevent infractions from
occurring, Davis reported.
Expansion of the "big
brother, big sister program" (Project Intercept)
in which the Association contacts the top 100 or
so athletes across the country and works with
them and their families to head off infractions
is a key program, he claimed.
In contrast to what may be happening in the
Olympics, the pla~ is to hold the line on amateurism, Davis asserted.
NCAA:
Senate Heabership:
Deborah J. Allen, George
Bailey, Eleen Baumann, Robert R. Becker,
J. Richard Bell, Ralph E. Berry, Robert Bescht ,
Peter Bottomley, Victor Brookes, H. D. Brunk,
Dwight Bushnell, John V. Byrne (Ex-Officio),
Charles Carpenter, Kenton Chambers, Mark
Christensen, Neil W. Christensen, Carol Colley,
Robert Collins, Curtis R. Cook, A. Morrie Crai
Robert Dale, Charles Dane, E. JUlius Dasch, Jo
Davis, Gary DeLander, Harold Dorn, John Dunn,
David Eiseman, David Enfield, David Faulkenbe
Francis J. Flaherty, Leslie Fuchigami, James
Funck, Wil Gamble, Ralph Garren, Louis Gordon,
Dahli Gray, Lawrence Griggs, David Hannaway,
J. Robert Hardison, Dianne Hart, Kathleen Hea
Martin Hellickson, Doyle Hensley, H. Warren
~~ovland,
Simon Johnson, W. Curtis Johnson, Ha
arr, Robert Kiekel, Robert L. Krahmer, James
~rueger, James Leklem, Nancy Leman, Greg Look
George Martin, Michael Martin, Donald E. Matt
Thomas McClintock, Edward McDowell, Charles
Miller, Stanley Miller, Terry Miller, Dallice
Mills, Al Hosley, Gary Musser, David Nicodemu
(Ex-Officio), Janet Nishihara, Eldon D. Olsen
Mariol R. Peck, Jean Peters, Roger G. Peterse
David Philbrick, Nancy Powell, Fred Rickson,
Root, Louise Sarasohn, Thomas Savage, Henry
Sayre, Jane Siebler, Margaret Smith, Robert
StaIley, Sam Stern, Les Streit, Dorice Tentch ff,
Gary Tiedeman, Fred Tonge, R. Charles Vars,
Hollis Wickman, Robert E. Wilson, and Ron
Wrolstad.
ROLL CALL:
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Hellbera Not Present Were Re resen ad
Allen, Martinson; Hannaway,
ul r;
Rowe; and Root, Smart.
A81roilOWi:
~tersen,
He.bera Absent weres Bell, Berry, Bottomley,
Christen~rarg:-bane,
Dasch, Eiseman,
fuchigami, Garren, Gray, Hovland, C. Johnson,
Look, G. Martin, Mattson, T. Miller, Mosley,
Smith, Stern, Streit, Tonge, Vars, Wickman, and
Wrolstad.
Gueata of the Senate:
T. D. Parsons, V. P. f r
Administration; R. V. Mrazek, faculty Senate
Executive Committee; Jack Davis, Institutiona
Representative to NCAA; and Mark Nelson, Lobb ist
for Association of Oregon faculties.
~~aculty
Senate Officers/Staff Present:
Ron
;ameron, Senate President; Bob McMahon, Senate
President-Elect;
Thurston Doler, Executive Sec./
Parliamentarian;
Shirley Schroeder, Admin. Asst.
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The financial aspect is a second area of concern. Students who have a very high degree of
economic need will be dealt with by increasing
Pell Grants $500 (from $900 to $1400). Efforts
will continue to effect that raise.
TV Football:
The NCAA plan of regulating football was found to be in violation of antitrust
laws, Davis recalled.
Plans such as that between
the Big-lO and the PAC-lO still meet the requirements of the law, Davis reported.
The networks
are now in control, however, in contrast to the
previous arrangement that put the NCAA in the
driver's seat. The new arrangements across the
country generated only about 60~ of the income
that the old NCAA arrangement generated, Davis
reported.
Drug Testing: The case of steriod use at
Vanderbilt University precipitated an issue at the
last NCAA convention.
No program was adopted but
a proposal to enable individual institutions to
test for "performance enhancing drugs only" in
relation to NCAA championships will be brought to
the next convention, Davis reported.
In addition, the plan will include provisions for individual institutions to adopt a drug testing
program for in-season competition.
In the offing
is the prospect that institutions, such as OSU,
may adopt operating plans with more autonomy than
has been possible in the past.
Davis voiced concern about the trend to allow
NCAA members to offer fewer than eight sports.
Attention is being devoted to minimizing time
lost from class in participating in sports. A
PAC-IO survey found that basketball players lost
10~ of class time during a winter quarter.
Although the PAC-IO is 'still involved with CBS
on a national basis, the PAC-IO has not yet
signed with a syndicator for other broadcasts.
The hope is that up to $5,000,000 can be
generated through these additional contracts over
the next two years, Davis reported.
In response to a question, Davis emphasized
that the proposed drug monitoring program "had
nothing to do with street drugs" but was limited
to the previously mentioned "performance
enhancing drugs."
Economic Forecast that projected $92,000,000 more
income in the next biennium than previously
expected, Nelson reported.
He reported, further, that the number one
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priority for Higher Education is the Salary
Increase Package.
The atmosphere for the B%
increase in the next biennium is now favorable,
he noted. That is the first $20,000,000 package.
The "other twenty million" dollar package is more
problematic.
He thinks some "threshold," say a
total of thirty million, may be set with
increases to that as amounts of money are found
from place to place. The final decision will not
be made until near the end of the session, he
cautioned.
Faculty input into these decisions will become
very useful in about four weeks, he asserted.
Some possible developments are that the
Chancellor may be forced to set priorities of
savings in order to keep the salary monies,
Nelson cautioned.
In other remarks, Nelson reported that about
fifteen PERS bills had been introduced and that
they were being monitored carefully.
The Oregon
Student Lobby (OSL) has (again) introduced a bill
to make available to other than the individual
evaluated the results of faculty evaluations by
students.
In response to a question of how the "second
twenty million" of the salary package, which is
to be distributed on "merit," is to be allocated,
he observed that the BAS Model may play a role in
this and, further, that the Chancellor is
currently working on a formula for its
distribution.
Reports f~
The Executive ea..ittee:
Travel Tssk force (OSSHE~: Vice President
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Parsons reported to the enate at lts January
meeting that a Travel Task Force had examined the
current travel practices of faculty and concluded
that substantial savings could be made if the
system operated with a central agency which
handled all travel arrangements for faculty.
The Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate
appointed, in February, 1985, an Ad Hoc Committee
to monitor for faculty the proposal for and the
process of the University's moving to a single
travel agency arrangement.
That committee consisted of Eleen Baumann, Chairman, Ed McDowell,
and Rod Frakes. Chairman Baumann reported that
the Committee had reviewed the report of the original Travel Task Force from the eight institutions which outlined the categories of travel,
the budgets from which the money came, and the
projected savings.
She noted that s "Travel
Management System" is in the offing and that bids
from vendor s have been solicited with an April 15
deadline.
A decision on bids is to be made
within 60 days, she reported, and noticed that
the university could reject any or all of the
bids.
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She reported that her committee had examined
the "detailed" request for proposals (bids) which
included required services, (i.e. reservations
for booking for travel, lodging reservations, car
rentals, ticket delivery, charter flights), and
desired services (such as no-charge travel
checks, foreign travel arrangements, faculty preferential lodging rates). Although these services are now available from local agencies, she
observed that it was reassuring to see them
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listed, since a chief faculty concern is the levr
of services that might be offered.
She noted, further, that in its accounting to
the University the agency is to report the
Association of Ore on faculties
AOf, Mark
elson, Counselor, reporting:
elson's report
dealt with Legislative affairs and focused upon
the status of budgets for Higher Education, principally salary packages and proposed tax
programs, primarily the Sales Tax.
He noted that the current (as of March 7) proposal was to allocate from Sales Tax revenues
$700,000,000 to K-12 education, $50,000,000 to
Community Colleges and none to Higher Education.
The door was left open, however, for the possible
apportionment to Higher Education in the future.
Other issues, such as "leakage" from Property Tax
and transfer funds to the General Fund was a concern. Various other distribution issues were
discussed but one persistent considerstion wss
Property Tax Relief. The Governor balanced his
budget by eliminating the $240,000,000 Property
Tax Relief Program and distributing the money
throughout the budget.
If PTR is retained, that
will require altering all those budgets to which
PTR had been distributed.
Several options were
discussed for dealing with that issue. Other
issues, which relate to the Sales Tax and to
Higher Education budgets, are the Income Tax
Surcharge, linkage to Federal Tax Policy, et al.
The questions on taxes will hsve to be answered
before anyone knows what money is there to be
spent. One encouraging note was an improved
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details of flights including whether or not th
leas~ expensive fare was used.
Chairman Baumann asserted that the committee
·11 monitor the proposal's
potential for
;fering the quali ty and level of services tha
are now available.
further concern was expres
for the validity of the savings claims.
Thus,
further examination of this dimension will be
made.
finally, Baumann voiced concern about facult
righ~s in accepting from the agency travel pIa
that might not be viewed as being in one's bes
interest.
In response to a question arising f
this topic, VP Parsons asserted that the agenc
would not dictate to the faculty traveler when
where,-or how the travel is done.
It will,
however, report to the University what the
facul~y traveler chose to do, he asserted.
One senator voiced the opinion that if a
granting agency has enough confidence in a
faculty member to make the grant, there should
enough confidence in that person to allow him
arrange his own travel. Another faculty perso
asserted that having to justify to the Univers
why he did not take the lowest possible fare "
a crock."
Other questions raised and discussed
includ
Q: Has the committee looked at other similar
plans?
A: Two Land Grant institutions have them, but
yet we're unable to investigate.
Q: Where did this (travel agency) idea
originate?
A: from the lack of any kind of information
about what we're spending for travel (VP
Parsons).
for example, some trips can var
as much as 18~ for the same time and plac
.~ Will there be a bail-out?
Contract can be cancelled at any time for
lack of service.
Q: Do the projected savings account for the
of administering the program?
A: Parsons thought that improved efficiency
billing would promote savings.
McDowell commented that he thought that the
projected savings estimations were "not very
solid," and that we would wait and see if the
quality of services was the same or better.
Council.
President Cameron reported, further, that the
Chancellor's staff had notified us that in the
near future they would examine the additional
topics of vacations, holidays, and 12-month pay
for 9-mon~h faculty.
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The meeting was adjourned
at 4:33 p.m.
Thurston Doler
Recording Secretary
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Shirley Schroeder
Editorial Assistant
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President Cameron reported that all th
institutions in the System were having problem
with self-supporting
Summer Terms and sought
relief from the present policy.
No change fro
the self supporting policy was made, however.
The Sick Leave Policy was adopted by the Boa d
and this topic was tossed to Dean Nicodemus.
Dean Nicodemus reported that some helpful
details had been added to the policy and some
came from OSU's.suggestions.
He asserted,
however, that some of the policy he did not
understand.
At the present time OSU will con
tinue with its existing policies, that he antifipates no abrupt changes right away, but any
problems should be sent immediately to him or an
appropriate committee, such as the fEWC. In the
meantime, he cautioned everybody to keep caref1ul
records of sick leave matters.
President Cameron reported that the Executive
Committee had appointed a special committee to
study the matter of "Conflict of Interest and
~utside
Activities," since it was such an impor/
'~nt and complicated topic.
The committee con~Bts of President-Elect Bob McMahon, Chairman,
~ugene fictor and Linda Blythe from rEWC; Dale
Simmons and Jim Ayres from Faculty Status
Committee; and Bruce Rettig from the Graduate
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