SFSU ACADEMIC SENATE

TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2000

SEVEN HILLS CONFERENCE CENTER

NOB HILL ROOM

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

 OPEN FLOOR PERIOD - 2:00 - 2:10 p.m.

The Open Floor Period provides an informal opportunity for faculty members to raise questions or make comments directed to Senate officers or to university administrators. Please arrive promptly at 2:00 p.m.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

-University-Wide Election Results

-Standing Committee Preference Forms 2000-2001

-Summer Address Questionnaire- 2000

CHAIR'S REPORT

Professor Jerry Duke, Chair of the Academic Program Review Committee (a Standing Committee of the Academic Senate), will present his yearly report to the Senate.

The ad hoc committee on Faculty Retreats has reviewed the Academic Senate policy on annual retreats and would like to offer several suggestions for discussion with a view toward revision of the policy.

The Student Affairs Committee submits for consideration a resolution to establish a task force to research the implementation of a Master Calendar of University Events.

The resolution will be distributed at the May 9, 2000 Academic Senate meeting.

The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Department of Psychology submit for consideration changes to the minor program in Psychology. The proposed revisions require Psych 200 or equivalent course; Psych 400; an upper division statistics course from Psychology or another field; One Basic Area I course; one Basic Area II course; and 6 units of upper division electives in Psychology for a total of 22 units.

This major is being proposed on the SFSU campus by the Jewish Studies faculty as a part of the statewide cooperative to establish a Jewish Studies major on the home campuses of five other Jewish Studies minor programs. This Bachelor of Arts degree will be granted by SFSU. Each participating campus is submitting a comparable proposal to its own campus.

The objective is to create a Bachelor of Arts that allows SFSU students to major in Jewish Studies. The courses will be taught in residence at SFSU and will be supplemented by a variety of distance learning modalities, including the use of the CODEC compressed video system, computer on-line classes, and statewide seminars.

This item was first presented at the April 25, 2000 Academic Senate meeting as a discussion item. It returns today as a consent item from the Academic Policies Committee.

As San Francisco State University attempts to reach an increasing number of students in a variety of new ways, new modes of delivery of curriculum are necessary. However, it is vital that the faculty and administration agree to certain principles before embarking on new ways of operating. With this objective in mind, the Academic Policies Committee submits for consideration the revised "Principles for Year-Round, Off-Campus, and Weekend Operations".

At San Francisco State, just over one half of the teaching faculty are temporary faculty. Since the 1997 establishment of the Ad Hoc Committee on Lecturers, the Senate has sought to identify and address specific policy issues concerning lecturer faculty. The Committee made several policy recommendations, some of which were addressed in the Policy on Temporary Faculty (A.S. Policy F99-160) passed last fall. More recently, the 2000 AsiloCampus Lecturers' Meeting and the Senate sponsored Forum on Lecturers' Issues highlighted additional suggestions to foster a supportive working climate for temporary faculty. These suggestions and remaining ad hoc committee recommendations are addressed in the set of Recommendations Concerning Lecturer Faculty developed by the Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee presented this item for discussion at the April 25, 2000 Academic Senate meeting. The revised proposal reflects that discussion.

At 3:30 p.m., the newly elected members at-large, senators elected from their Colleges and other units, those appointed by the President and the Associated Students, will be seated. The Senate will elect its officers for 2000-2001 immediately following the seating of the new senators.

The Executive Committee of the Academic Senate would like to recognize the following outgoing members of the Senate and thank them for all their contributions. (Remember, you can all run again next year!!!!) Ken Fehrman, Jeanne Wick, Susan Fox-Wolfgramm, JoAnn Craig, Michael Graham, Herlinda Cancino, Angela Gonzales, Sung Hu, Darlene Yee, Dawn Terrell, and Bruce Wolfe. We would also like to welcome the new and returning members of the Academic Senate: Will Flowers (Student Programs), Mary Ann Warren (Philosophy), Penelope Warren (Counseling and Psychological Services), Dennis Bianchi (Criminal Justice), Caran Colvin (Psychology), Flo Kimmerling (Special Education),Velia Garcia (La Raza Studies) and Jaymee Sagisi (President, Associated Students).

Robert Cherny (History) and Vinay Shrivastava (BECA) are returning after a one-year leave.

In order to preserve some continuity in the summer, the Academic Senate has traditionally passed a resolution delegating some of its power under ideal circumstances to those members of the Senate available during the summer for special meetings. The following resolution is presented:

Be it

RESOLVED That the San Francisco State University Academic Senate adhere to the following paragraph provided in the By-Laws of the Academic Senate,

Article II, D, Internal Committee:

A summer committee of the Academic Senate, composed of no fewer than six members of the Senate, shall be available on an emergency basis during the months of June, July and August for consultation, calling of special Academic Senate meetings, and handling of such duties as may be delegated to it by the Academic Senate.

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New Senators will be seated today at 3:30 p.m. Elections for Senate officers will follow. Please remind your newly-elected Senators to attend.

END OF YEAR GET-TOGETHER

Remember, please reserve Tuesday, May 9, for our end of the year get-together at the University Club immediately following the Academic Senate meeting. This will give us the chance to speak without being on the Speakers' List! Come and enjoy! If you haven't already done so, please submit your Committee Preference Forms and Summer Schedule forms to Susan Cullers or Bernadette Pichay by the end of the May 9 Academic Senate meeting.

An organizational meeting of the Academic Senate, to elect standing committee chairs, will be held on Tuesday, May 16, at 2:00 p.m. (on the dot, please) in the Nob Hill Room of the Seven Hills Conference Center. It's imperative that you attend. This meeting will not last longer than 30 minutes--long enough for you to vote for your committee chair.