FAC/BOS REPORT – April 26-27, 2007

I.FAC – Meeting at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

A.No school has a definitive policy on office hours for summer school or

internet courses.

B.The continuing problem of tenured faculty at McNeese being denied

promotion was examined. It seems to be a problem of miswriting Board
RULES.

1. Where the RULES state “Professor rank shall not exceed 35% of total

faculty…” McNeese has written “Professoral rank shall not exceed
35% of total faculty…:

2. However, McNeese also states it may “seek to meet lower numbers in
professor and associate professor rank.”

C.Campus safety was discussed in view of Virginia Tech tragedy

D. Grambling’s Faculty Senate has done a comparison study of every faculty
member by discipline and rank with CUPA statistics

E. La Tech faculty are discussing how to distribute raises, Blackboard v. Moodle,
and posting syllabi

F. McNeese is discussing which electronic service to use for entering grades: it is
using Jumbotran; Grambling uses Banner; ULL uses ISIS

G. Northwestern is discussing office hours for summer and online courses

H. ULL biology department is opposing agriculture department to create courses
which would satisfy both biological and physical science requirements in the
same department, e.g., Horticulture and Science of Ecology for biological and
Science of the Biosphere for physical science.

I. ULM Faculty Senate is developing a satisfaction survey of the faculty on
retention of faculty, quality of life both on campus and in community.

II.BOS

A.All personnel actions were approved including summer school
appointments

B.New Board member, Russell Long Mosely, replaced Gordon Pugh

C.Grambling received approval to enter into a lease agreement with the

Louisiana Secretary of State Department to establish the EddieG.
Robinson Museum on campus.

D.Southeastern received approval to enter into a lease agreement with a
501(c) 3 corporation to build an athletic weight room and training facility.

The lease would expire in 2008 and the property would revert to
Southeastern. Cost: $750,000.

E.The Board authorized its chair and Dr. Clausen to negotiate on its behalf
during the legislative session.

F.Dr. Clausen recognized the outgoing SGA campus presidents and Aaron
Walker of Southeastern as SGA representative on the Board.

G.The Board spoke of emergency response plans including enhanced
communications and preventive initiatives

H. At the end of its agenda the Board went into Executive Session to discuss
four suits involving GramblingUniversity