ACADEMIC SENATE MEETING

MINUTES

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 06, 2007

SEVEN HILLS CONFERENCE CENTER, NOB HILL ROOM

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

ATTENDANCE:
Armenta, Isidro	Hayes, Nancy	Neely, Francis
Avani, Nathan	Hood, Pamela	Rehling, Lu
Behrooz, Maziar	Jones, Terry	Saffold, Penny
Boyle, Andrea	Kohn, Jim	Salama, Mohammad
Chattopadhyay, Sudip	Landry, Lynette	Shapiro, Jerald
Chelberg, Gene	Levine, Josh	Sheldon, James
Chou, Fangyu	Linder, Martin	Shrivastava, Vinay
Collins, Robert	Luna, Debra	Stowers, Genie
Danner, Don	Mahan, Dianne	Suzuki, Dean
Dariotis, Wei Ming	McCracken, Bridget	Taylor, Don
DuVal, Derethia	Meredith, David	Trautman, Ray
Gemello, John	Minami, Masahiko	Ulasewicz, Connie
Gomes, Ricardo	Modirzadeh, Hafez	Van Dam, Mary Ann
Garfield, Diane	Moody, Laura	Whalen, Shawn
		Yang, Nini

Absences: Bloom, Gilda (abs); Bollapragada, Ramesh (exc); Cheung, Yitwah (exc);

Corrigan, Robert (exc); Davis, Harvey (Skip)(exc); Fielden, Ned (exc); Fuentes,

Enrique(abs); Gonzales, Dan (exc); Hubbard, Donna (abs); Jaimes-Guerrero, A.J.(abs);

Morishita, Leroy (exc); Robertson, Bruce (exc); Rothman, Bary (abs); Smith, Alastair

(abs); Steier, Saul (abs); Williams, Robert (abs); Yee, Darlene (abs)

Guests: Patricia Bartscher; Bob Cherny; Linda Buckley; Ann Hallum; Elise Wormuth; Alex Katz; Paul Sherwin; Wen Chao Li; Elisabetta Nelsen

The meeting was opened by a student quintet consisting of Jonathan Haddox & Heidi Yoo, Violins; Carolyn Hunter, Viola; Daniel Strickland, Cello, and Jerome Queron Piano. They played the first movement from Brahms Quintet in F minor under the direction of Professor Paul Yarbrough.

CALL TO ORDER: 2:19 p.m.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. Faculty Trustee Craig Smith will visit campus on December 4, 2007

2. Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Senate will next meet on November 27. Standing Committees will meet November 13.

3. The Student Union mural celebrating the Palestinian-American experience was unveiled on Friday, November 2.

AGENDA ITEM #1—Approval of the Agenda for November 6, 2007

The agenda was unanimously approved by voice vote.

AGENDA ITEM #2—Approval of the Minutes for the October 23, 2007

The minutes were unanimously approved by voice vote.

AGENDA ITEM #3—Report from Pamela Vaughn, Associate Dean, Professional Development/Director, Center for Teaching and Faculty Development—ACE/Sloan Award for Faculty Career Flexibility

Please read the proposal for the Bridge Initiative on the CTFD web site, www.sfsu.edu/~ctfd

Dr. Pamela Vaughn, Director of the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development, discussed the Bridge initiative to improve career flexibility and create a family-friendly environment for SF State faculty. Significant potential funding to jump-start Bridge may be available from the Sloan Foundation. As the first step in applying to Sloan, all faculty are requested to fill out the survey at https://survey2.clearpicture.com/sloan_faculty_2007/ .

AGENDA ITEM #4—Academic Senate Election: Enrollment Management Committee, Three-year term, 2007-S2010

Nominee: Andrea Boyle, Associate Professor, Nursing

For more information on the EMC, please visit the Academic Senate Web site at: http://www.sfsu.edu/~senate/documents/policies/F02-222.html

Dr. Boyle was elected by acclamation.

AGENDA ITEM #5—Recommendation from the Strategic Issues Committee: Proposed Resolution on the Collegiate Learning Assessment—2nd Reading

The resolution was introduced in second reading by Senator Stowers, co-Chair of the Strategic Issues Committee. The Senate engaged in discussion of this resolution and two amendments were proposed. Senator Levine moved to amend the resolution by replacing the phrase "San Francisco State Academic Senate" with the phrase "San Francisco State University Academic Senate" wherever it appears. Senator DuVal seconded. The motion passed on a unanimous voice vote. Senator Levine moved to amend the resolution by replacing the phrase "i.e." in line 19 with the phrase "e.g.". Senator Behrooz seconded. The motion passed on a unanimous voice vote. The resolution then passed by voice vote.

AGENDA ITEM #6—Recommendation from the Faculty Affairs Committee: Proposed Statement on Professional Ethics—1st Reading

The statement was introduced by Senator Ulasewicz, Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee. The Senate engaged in extensive discussion of this statement. Senator Chelberg moved to move the Statement to second reading, with a second from Senator Shrivastava. After some debate the motion passed 26-13 (two-thirds required). Senator van Dam moved to replace the phrase "gender and sexual orientation" in line 6 with "sex, gender identity and sexual identity". Senator Chelberg seconded. Senator Sheldon moved to amend Senator van Dam's motion to read: "sex, gender identity, sexual identity and sexual orientation". Senator van Dam seconded. The subsidiary motion passed. Senator Levine moved to amend Senator van Dam's motion as amended by Senator Sheldon by changing the replacement phrase to read "sexes, gender identities, sexual identities and sexual orientations," Second by Senator Salama. The subsidiary motion passed by voice vote. Senator van Dam's amended motion passed by unanimous voice vote.

At this point the debate on the Statement on Professional Ethics was suspended because of the time certain for the next item.

AGENDA ITEM #7—Recommendation from the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee: Proposed Revisions to the BA Degree in Chinese, 1st Reading—proposal to be heard no later than 3:00 p.m.

Senator Linder, Chair of the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee, moved the item. No second required. After some discussion Senator Salama moved to move the proposal to second reading. Second by Senator Whalen. The motion passed by unanimous voice vote. The proposed revisions to the BA Degree in Chinese then passed by voice vote with one abstention.

AGENDA ITEM #8—Recommendation from the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee: Proposed Revisions to the MA Degree in Chinese, 1st Reading—proposal to be heard no later than 3:20 p.m.

This item is tentative pending the approval of the Graduate Council which will meet Thursday afternoon. If approved, the proposal will be distributed electronically and copies will be provided on Tuesday.

Senator Linder, Chair of the Curriculum Review and Approval Committee, moved the item, noting that it had been approved unanimously in CRAC. No second required. After some discussion Chair Kohn asked if the item could be moved to second reading without objection. None were heard. After more discussion Senator Stowers called the question with a second from Senator Avani. The proposal to call the question passed 31-3, then the proposed revisions to the MA in Chinese passed by unanimous voice vote.

The Senate returned to debate on the Statement on Professional Ethics.

Senator Levine moved to change the word "disability" in line 6 to "abilities and disabilities". Senator DuVal seconded. After some discussion the motion passed 15-9. Senator Trautman moved to delete lines 2-8 and the first three words of line 9 from the statement. Senator Rehling seconded. The motion was defeated 10-20. Senator Whelan moved to return the statement to committee, second by Senator Rehling. The motion failed on a voice vote. Senator Yang moved to modify line 6 of the statement by inserting a phrase after "encouraged": "and is supported by the University". Senator Shrivastava seconded. After some debate the motion failed on a voice vote. Senator Rehling moved to change a phrase on line 6 from "The faculty is encouraged to foster and maintain" to "The faculty fosters and maintains". Senator Chelberg seconded. The motion passed by voice vote.

(Note from the Secretary: the introductory paragraph to the Statement on Professional Ethics was amended several times during debate. Here is a version showing the changes that were made.

San Francisco State University creates and maintains an open, respectful environment for teaching, learning, service, scholarship and creative work. SF State faculty facilitate and embrace the understanding and appreciation of human diversity expressed in the array of cultures, languages, religions, intellectual and political perspectives, ethnic and racial backgrounds, disability abilities and disabilities, gender, and sexual orientation sexes, gender identities, sexual identities and sexual orientations in our community. The faculty is encouraged to foster and maintain fosters and maintains a collegial and cooperative intellectual atmosphere that includes and appreciates differing viewpoints while promoting academic freedoms.)

AGENDA ITEM #9—Adjournment—no later than 4:00 p.m.

Senator Avani moved to adjourn since the time of adjournment had been reached. Senator Levine seconded. The Senate moved to adjourn.