ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING

MINUTES

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2008

SEVEN HILLS CONFERENCE CENTER, NOB HILL ROOM

2:00 – 4:15 p.m.

ATTENDANCE:
Avani, Nathan	Hayes, Nancy	Rothman, Barry
Behrooz, Maziar	Kohn, Jim	Saffold, Penny
Bloom, Gilda	Landry, Lynette	Salama, Mohammad
Bollapragada, Ramesh	Linder, Martin	Shapiro, Jerald
Chattopadhyay, Sudip	Luna, Debra	Sheldon, James
Cheung, Yitwah	Mahan, Dianne	Shrivastava, Vinay
Chou, Fangyu	McCracken, Bridget	Smith, Alastair
Collins, Robert	Meredith, David	Steier, Saul
Corrigan, Robert	Minami, Masahiko	Stowers, Genie
Danner, Don	Modirzadeh, Hafez	Taylor, Don
Dariotis, Wei Ming	Moody, Laura	Trautman, Ray
Davis, Harvey (Skip)	Morishita, Leroy	Ulasewicz, Connie
Fielden, Ned	Neely, Francis	Whalen, Shawn
Gemello, John	Quita, Isabel	Yang, Nini
Gomes, Ricardo	Rehling, Lu	Yee, Darlene
Gonzales, Dan	Robertson, Bruce
Absences: Armenta, Isidro (abs); Boyle, Andrea (exc); Chelberg, Gene (exc); DuVal,
Derethia (exc); Fuentes, Enrique (abs); Hood, Pamela (abs); Hubbard, Donna (abs);
Jaimes-Guerrero, A.J.(abs); Jones, Terry (abs); Levine, Josh (exc); Suzuki, Dean (abs); Van Dam, Mary Ann (exc).
Guests: Bob Cherry; Helen Goldsmith; Lisa White; Kathleen Mosier; Maxine Chernoff; Lupe Avila; Linda Buckley; Evelyn Hooker; Sheldon Axler; Rita Takahashi; Elise Wormuth; Gail Whitaker.

OPEN FLOOR PERIOD:

During the open floor period, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies Helen Goldsmith announced a meeting "Leaping into the Future" to discuss the future of the Liberal Studies Program to be held February 29, 1:00-3:00, in HUM 587. She asked that any Senator planning to attend the meeting RSVP to her office.

CALL TO ORDER: 2:14 p.m.

AGENDA ITEM #1—Approval of the Agenda for February 12, 2008

Senator Ulasewicz moved to approve the agenda, seconded by Senator McCracken. The motion passed on a unanimous voice vote.

AGENDA ITEM #2—Approval of the Minutes for the December 11, 2007

Senator Ulasewicz moved to approve the minutes for December 11, seconded by Senator Avani. The motion passed on a unanimous voice vote.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Chair Kohn delivered a brief memorial for Tom Lantos, a member of the US House of Representatives and an Emeritus Faculty from the Department of Economics. Dr. Lantos served on the Senate during his tenure at SF State.

AGENDA ITEM #3—Report from President Corrigan and VP Morishita: Budget Update

President Corrigan, Provost Gemello and Vice-President Morishita discussed the 2008-09 campus budget in light of California's current budget crisis. The key points were (a) the University could have a deficit around $16.5M depending on final legislative action; (b) a class schedule for next year will be developed that can be supported under current budget projections; and (c) all members of the campus community including faculty, staff, students and alumni are encouraged to write letters (not e-mails) to their representatives in the California Assembly and Senate urging restoration of essential funds to CSU. The Senate will host a Town Hall meeting on the budget later in the spring.

AGENDA ITEM #4—Recommendation from the Academic Policies Committee: Proposed Policy on Graduate Continuous Enrollment , 2nd Reading—proposal to be heard no later than 2:40 p.m.

Senator Trautman, with the support of the Academic Policies Committee, moved to amend the policy by inserting after the word "semester" on line 26 the phrase: "and file a new Culminating Experience Proposal". Senator Behrooz seconded.

The motion passed on a voice vote.

Senator Trautman, with the support of the Academic Policies Committee, moved to amend the policy by adding a sentence to the paragraph ending on line 5 of page 2: "The Graduate Council will review the fee-waiver requests and advise the Graduate Division on these requests." Senator Dariotis seconded.

The amendment passed on a voice vote.

Senator Trautman, with the support of the Academic Policies Committee, moved to amend the policy by adding the following text as a new clause 8 at the end of the policy:

The Division of Graduate Studies shall submit a report to the Academic Senate at the end of the Spring 2014 semester, which quantifies and analyzes progression-to-graduation rates and culminating experience completion rates for classified graduate students admitted in Fall 2006 and in Fall 2008. This Culminating Experience Continuous Enrollment Policy will expire in Spring 2016, unless the Academic Senate takes positive action.

Senator Steier seconded.

While debating the amendment, Senator Stowers moved to amend the amendment by adding the phrase: "and the number of students paying the fee" before the phrase "for classified graduate students admitted in Fall 2006". The amendment was seconded by Senator Yee.

The amendment passed on a unanimous voice vote.

Senator Trautman's amendment then passed on a unanimous voice vote.

Senator Shapiro moved to amend the policy by adding three paragraphs to the end of the policy:

Departments and Schools have the option of implementing their own individualized continuous enrollment policy. Based upon the unique professional education/advanced learning circumstances of that discipline, Departments and Schools have the option of developing requirements consistent with the purposeful totality of the curriculum, research, and culminating experience framework profiled to students at the time of their admission.

Department/School continuous enrollment policies must be approved by the Dean of the Graduate Division.

A statement of the Continuous Enrollment Policy, including any financial responsibility incurred by the student in choosing to depart from the Department's/School's course of graduate degree completion, will be stated on the GAP.

Senator Steier seconded the motion. Debate on the motion paused to consider the next item, which had a time-certain of 3:15.

AGENDA ITEM #7—Recommendation from the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee: Proposed Revisions to the BA Degree Requirements for Creative Writing, 1st Reading—proposal to be heard no later than 3:15 p.m.

Senator Linder moved the proposed revisions for the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee, with no second required.

The proposal passed on a unanimous voice vote.

AGENDA ITEM #4—Recommendation from the Academic Policies Committee: Proposed Policy on Graduate Continuous Enrollment , 2nd Reading (continued)

The Senate then resumed discussion of Senator Shapiro's amendment. After considerable debate the motion failed on a voice vote.

Based on a suggestion from Dean Whitaker, Senator Trautman moved to amend the policy by replacing "CEL laboratory unit fee" in paragraph 6 with

"Open University laboratory unit fee". Senator Stowers seconded.

The motion passed on a unanimous voice vote.

The continuous enrollment policy, as amended, was then passed by a voice vote.

AGENDA ITEM #5—Recommendation from the Executive Committee: Proposed Academic Senate Reapportionment, 1st Reading

This item was carried forward in first reading from the Senate meeting of December 12, 2007, when it had been moved.

Senator McCracken moved to consider the item in second reading, with a second from Senator Steier. The motion was passed on a unanimous voice vote.

The proposed reapportionment was then passed by the Senate on a voice vote with abstentions.

AGENDA ITEM #6—Recommendation from the Executive Committee: Proposed Revision to Academic Senate Bylaws, Section IIC, 1st Reading

Senator Whalen moved this item for the Executive Committee, with a second from Senator Ulasewicz.

During the discussion Senator Robertson asked for a quorum call, which failed. Chair Kohn adjourned the meeting at approximately 4:15 p.m.