George Mason University
Approved Minutes of the Faculty Senate
April 3, 2002
Senators Present: K. Avruch, J. Bennett, A. Berry, E. Blaisten-Barojas,
D. Boileau, B. Brown, L. Brown, P. Buchanan, Y. D. Chung, R. Coffinberger, R.
Conti, M. DeNys, M. Deshmukh, E. Elstun, J. High, D. Kuebrich, B. Manchester,
C. Mattusch, R. Nadeau, L. Rockwood, J. Sanford, J. Scimecca, S. Slayden, A.
Sofer, P. Stearns, P. Story, S. Trencher, S. Zoltek.
Senators Absent: W. M. Black, L. Bowen, R. Carty, S. Cheldelin,
T. Chorvat, S. Cobb, S. deMonsabert, P. Feerick, D. Gantz, J. Gorrell, H. Gortner,
M. Grady, L. Griffiths, K. Haynes, R. C. Jones, H. W. Jeong, R. Klimoski, A.
Kolker, M. Krauss, A. Merten, J. Moore, H. Morgan, L. Powloski, W. Reeder, J.
Kozlowski, S. Ruth, L. Seligmann, B. Smith, P. So, D. Struppa, B. Sturtevant,
C. Sutton, C. Thomas, P. Wilkie, J. Zenelis
Chair, Don Boileau called the meeting to order at 3:05 pm.
The Faculty Senate will consider a motion from the previous
meeting to combine the motion from the Executive Committee of the Senate and
the motion from Bob Nadeau, Marion Deshmukh and Carol Mattusch. Don Boileau
proposed to look at each item and accept amendments.
The first amendment was to change salaries to compensation in bullet 1.
The second amendment was to change bullet 2 to read as follows: That the percentage
of contract faculty lines of the total full time FTE be reduced, in favor of
an increased percentage of tenure/tenure track faculty lines.
An amendment to bullet 5 was made to add the following words after the word
improve: “funding levels available for”
An amendment on p. 4 in Proposed revision was to remove the word “the”
in the second line before the word excellence.
An amendment on p.8 last Proposed revision will read: “If the primary
strength is teaching, there should be evidence that the candidate’s contributions
have significance beyond the immediate classroom as theoretical or applied scholarship
and that the candidate’s contributions are recognized by colleagues at
other institutions in this country and, where applicable, abroad.”
Finally, the Faculty Senate’s Executive Committee would welcome an opportunity
to discuss the Senate’s concerns and proposals with the ad hoc Committee
of the BOV before its report to the full Board is finalized.
A motion was made to approve the revised document with the
above amendments. The motion was approved and passed with one
correction. This revised document will be sent to Tom Hennessy, Chief of Staff
to the President, as a Senate document.
Respectfully submitted,
Lorraine Brown
Secretary, Faculty Senate