ATTENDEES: Ely, Griffiths, Kidnay, Lu, Nickum, E. Pang, Romberger, Underwood, and Wendlandt

APOLOGIES: Klusman, Ohno, Readey, Underwood, and VanTyne

VISITOR: John Trefny, VPAA

COMMENTS FROM GUEST:

1. Trefny

   1. President Bickart, Vice President for Academic Affairs, John Trefny, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Nigel Middleton, and Dean of Graduate Studies, Phil Romig, will meet with Mark Holtzman, the governor's lead person on technology and innovation for the Colorado Technology Institute. The purpose of the meeting is to convince Mr. Holtzman that CSM is more than "a mining school".

   2. Implementation of the vision plan is moving forward and goals and objectives for a new capital campaign are evolving from this. A part of this might be a restructuring of the Academic Planning Council. The plan is still open for revision.

   3. Quality indicators that will be used by the state to determine future funding are already being met by CSM. CSM feels that it does not need another level of competency when it already meets the qualifications placed on it by ABET, industry and the various national organizations represented on campus.

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: The October 5, 1999 Faculty Senate Minutes were approved.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. The Faculty Forum will be October 27, 1999 in Metals Hall of the Green Center at 4:00 PM. International Programs will be presented by Michael Haviland. Dr. Haviland’s presentation will involve CSM’s program with Delft University. David Frossard and Greg Holden will also make presentations on international programs in which they are involved.

2. Romberger will be out-of-town for the December Convocation. Ely will stand in for him.

3. The Sophomore Class Advisors Banquet will be November 2, 1999 in Friedhoff Hall.

4. The responsibilities of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs were distributed.
5. Scott Strong, President of ASCSM, would like to have the Code of Conduct included in each course syllabi. Senators made the following suggestions where the Code of Conduct might be published included (a) print it in the Bulletin or (b) put it on the web to be read and accepted by a student before he/she is allowed to register for classes.

OLD BUSINESS

1. Promotion and Tenure Issue – This will be discussed at a joint meeting with the Department/Division Heads on November 1, 1999 at 4:00 PM. Romberger will e-mail the Senators with the location.

2. Evaluation Committee Chair – The Senators recommended that Romberger contact VanTyne to fill this position.

3. Athletics at Mines – The Senators want to gather more information and clarification from President Bickart on this issue. Football is considered to be the major issue.

4. Undergraduate Council Chair – Ely and VanTyne are still working on wording to reflect the appointment of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs as chair of this council. The Senators also requested that they work on the wording for the student representatives to the Undergraduate Council and the Graduate Council. This position would be ex-officio and non-voting.

NEW BUSINESS

1. Post Doctoral Position Definition – Romberger brought up the definition of Post Doctoral positions. This will be discussed at a future meeting.

2. Faculty Workload – Romberger brought up the issue that several new ad-hoc committees are being proposed. He objects to their formation as too many commitments for campus committees and other comparable activities are overloading professors’ time so they do not have adequate time to prepare for classes and conduct research. Nigel will be asked to a future meeting to discuss this concern.

The meeting adjourned at 2:55 PM.