Minutes of the Marywood University Faculty Senate Meeting



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Minutes of the Marywood University Faculty Senate Meeting

April 13, 2007

Lynett Board Room


Nazareth Student Center
Present: Sister Margaret Gannon, Sister Gail Cabral, Alan Levine, David Palmiter, Sue Perlis, Peter Hoffer, Michelle Sitko, Jay Clymer, Craig Johnson, Trish Arter, Chris O’Brien, Michael Kiel, Christine Kessen, Annette Fisher, Michelle DiLauro, Laurie McMillan, Sam Olfano, Edward Rushton, Bill Conlogue, Chaogui Zhang
Faculty Senate President, Sr. Margaret Gannon called the meeting to order at 2pm.

1. Review of Minutes





  • The minutes of the January 22, 2007 minutes were reviewed and approved with the following change: Addition of a complete list of the meeting’s attendees.


2. Committee Reports:


  • Honorary Doctorate Committee. Michael Kiel reported that the committee almost unanimously approved (minus 1 vote) the decision to offer Alan Graf an honorary degree in September/October of 2007. Michael Kiel motioned to approve the committee’s decision and Sr. Gail Cabral 2nd the motion. The HDC unanimously approved the granting of a second honorary doctorate to Robert Schreiter, whose international concern for the poor was noted. Michael Kiel motioned to approve the decision and Christine Kessen 2nd the motion. Faculty Senate approved the motions almost unanimously (1 abstention).




  • Grade Inflation Committee. Unable to have a report. Deferred to May.




  • New Faculty Orientation Committee. Sandra Graham (Nutrition & Dietetics) sent her report to the senate. The NFO Committee analyzed the current orientation schedule by surveying new faculty that arrived over the past four years. The orientation starts on a Wednesday with a tour on Thursday and a good chunk on time with Human Resources on Friday. *Please see attachment for report submitted which includes specific recommendations. The following points were added at the Faculty Senate Meeting in response to the specific recommendations: i.e. Lackawanna County has an Ambassador’s tour that may be looked into; the Committee has offered to prepare the binder that was suggested, listing contact information or key personnel and department chairs; Campus Ministry will be involved in helping to prepare conversation and a dinner to discuss the Marywood mission; and that faculty senate may become a part of the orientation. Once the Committee develops a timetable, it will be presented to Dr. Barbara Sadowski.




  • Third Year Pre-tenure Review Committee. Although an annual review process of all non-tenured faculty already exists, the need for Deans to help ensure consistency in interpretation of advancement criteria set forth in The Faculty Handbook was recognized. After a review of what is being done at other universities, Lee Harrison provided a written report of the committee’s findings. *Please see attachment for report. In addition to the two problems delineated in the report, a third point of consideration was added during the faculty senate meeting: Conversely, 3) Will the Rank & Tenure Committee be in agreement with the directions set by the Dean?

In an effort to increase consistency in the interpretation and understanding of essential criteria early in the tenure process, actions taken on behalf of untenured faculty may also give tenured faculty an opportunity to be involved. The level and type of involvement necessary to implement solutions to perceived problems will be further discussed during the committee’s April 19 meeting.



  • Diversity Workshop Committee. Information was sent out to everyone earlier in the month via email. There are seven people working on this three-day workshop that will be held May 14-16, 2007. Sr. Margaret Gannon reported that there are already nine people who have signed up (out of a total of twelve available spaces). The weeklong workshop would normally cost $40,000. However, after the workshop leaders discussed the content of the program with Sr. Gannon (and after learning that we only had $10,000. allotted for this purpose) they felt so strongly about need to come here that they agreed to do a 3-day workshop for $10,000. The first day will deal with identifying one’s own identity/our racial profile; 2nd day: Dealing with diverse students/emotional competency; 3rd day: Curriculum.

To bring this noteworthy program to fruition then hinged on the ability to complete the funding of this program. This was realized with the help of Dr. Barbara Sadowski, who located end of the year funds available for the remaining sustenance costs (i.e. food and or board). Janet E. Helms, coordinator of this workshop, is the Augustus Long Professor of counseling psychology and director of The Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture at Boston College. Dr. Helms is a Fellow in Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) and Division 45 (Ethnic Diversity) of the American Psychological Association (APA). Dr. Helms serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Psychological Assessment and the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. She has written over sixty empirical and theoretical articles and four books on the topics of racial identity and cultural influences on assessment and counseling practice. Her Books include A Race Is a Nice Thing To Have and (with Donelda Cook) Using Race and Culture in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theory and Process (MA: Allyn & Bacon).

For more information on Dr. Helms, please see: http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/helms.html




  • Board Task Force on Enrollment. Susan Perlis reported that this task force wasn’t scheduled to meet until Thursday, April 19, so there was nothing to report yet.

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  1. Discussion of Limits on Department Chair Appointments. Open discussion centered on whether the maximum 9-year limit should be dropped. Peter Hoffer suggested that enforcement of this ruling would be problematic for the Art Department. David Palmiter expressed that it may be best to not cause undue restrictions. Peter Hoffer and Jay Clymer suggested advocating a department-by-department case basis instead of continuing the current university policy ruling. The impact on junior faculty was discussed. Sr. Cabral reminded everyone that although we may need a person to remain in their role as Chair, the advantage of retaining the 9-year rule is that it will be easier to make change occur and that the burden can be left up to the department to make an argument against the rule. In this way, administrators who are no longer effective may provide faculty the chance to give someone else the opportunity to serve.

Others that were asked if the rule is working replied that it depends on whom you ask. Still others reiterated that if someone wants to serve as chair and is deemed effective by their peers, then the department should have the final say. Olfano suggested that a sentence be added to qualify the current policy. A motion was made by Jay Clymer to accept the following phrase to be added to the current 9-year policy statement: “Unless a majority of the department members (absent the chair) requests an exception, ….” Olfano 2nd the motion. The senate passed the motion unanimously.





  1. Discussion of Institutional Supports for Faculty Publication. Kristine Kessen was inspired by David Palmiter’s earlier email that provided suggestions he discovered during a seminar in Boston on how to get published. Kessen was wondering if others saw a similar need (or not) and hoped to solicit ideas for some constructive ways we could continue in this vein, perhaps in the form of institutional support, mentoring, etc.

The types of things people found helpful in terms of publication were discussed. Jay Clymer brought up SPSS statistical software and workshops supporting quantitative research efforts already currently available on campus. Michelle Sitko suggested becoming familiar with key scholarly refereed journals in one’s discipline and the types of articles they accept for publication, regularly monitoring and contributing to relevant listservs/blogs/RSS feeds, networking at conferences, actively participating in committees and seeking out of leadership roles that can lead to quality collaborative authorship. Peter Hoffer also suggested sending out a general online questionnaire that might help to identify possible ideas.





  1. Report on Revision of Registration Release Procedure. Chaogui Zhang chaired this committee’s charge to explore changes aimed at improving the implementation of existing academic policies. *Please see attachment for Chaogui’s report. Discussion followed. Christine Kessen brought up the possibility of extending the 2 day limit to one week in case the professor is out of town. However, even though it may create more work for the chair, the student can have the chair approve in place of the advisor, ameliorating student stress in the event of the advisor’s absence. Faculty felt the student needed to understand that it was the student’s responsibility to follow through on the process. Although programming changes will need to be made, including making the process web accessible, Sr. Gail Cabral visualized the pros of this report and that it could be implemented with a minimal amount of work. Sr. Gannon sensed some uncertainty and after further discussion, it was agreed that these changes might not be ready for a motion (vote was taken: 10 people were ready to vote, 7 were not ready to vote). Since this would take time to implement anyway, it was felt that this should first probably go to policy (e.g. possibly have Dr. Barbara Sadowski take it to POP-Academic Council). Craig Johnson made a motion to table it for further discussion after it goes to council. Peter Hoffer 2nd the motion. Faculty senate unanimously agreed to table it.




  1. Days and Times for Next year’s Senate Meetings. There was a discussion about possibly changing the day and time of future faculty senate meetings to either Fridays at 3:30 or Fridays with an occasional Wednesday at 2:00 in order to allow others, who may not normally be able to attend, a chance to participate more fully in their faculty governance. Few thought meeting later on Friday would be a good time and switching to occasional Wednesday’s would be confusing. It was decided to keep meeting times as they are currently being held (Fridays at 2pm).




  1. Revision of By-Laws Regarding Term of President. Sr. Margaret Gannon moved to revise The Bylaws of the Faculty Senate of Marywood University, Article IV: Structure and Membership; 4.6 to read: Elections for Faculty Senate President will occur in the Spring semester with terms to run for one year. (instead of two years as is currently written). Sr. Gail Cabral 2nd the motion. Faculty senate approved the motion unanimously.




  1. Elections for 2007-08. Discussion focused on upcoming elections and the possibility of getting a 3-credit reduction for future senate presidents. Everyone who is tenured has the opportunity to run. David Palmiter suggested we could possibly add individual desires of whether or not the person wishes to run. This could be accomplished by declaring a person’s level of interest. Alan Levine suggested the following terminology could be utilized on ballots sent out: --Interested --Neutral --Not Interested. It was pointed out that there was no need to vote on this.




  1. Discussion of Meetings of College Representatives with their Constituents. Discussion involved ways we should be disseminating the minutes. In addition to the posting of minutes on the website (http://www.marywood.edu/www2/faculty-senate/senate.html), we will also begin to send them out in an email to faculty after final approval.




  1. Other Items.




    • In light of the fact that we will be hiring 30 new faculty (1/4 of Marywood University’s faculty), the need for the putting pictures up on the web (creation of a face book of new hires) and “go to” people was suggested. Eventually, all faculty should be a part of this venture.




    • It was stated that the distribution of names might be sped up if the Distinction and Case Awards fell under Faculty Senate’s purview.

The meeting adjourned at 3:45pm.


Respectfully submitted by,

Michelle Sitko





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