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Deans’ Cabinet Meeting Wednesday, February 2, 2011 9:00 AM Library 475 Attending: Michael Allen, Brad Bartel, Julie Hight, Mike Boyle, Jim Burton, Mark Byrnes, Tom Cheatham, Becky Cole, Warner Cribb, Wayne Dornan, Watson Harris, Faye Johnson, Roy Moore, Jenny Sauls, Lana Seivers, John Vile, Terry Whiteside I. Campus Safety– Tom Tozerattachment A lot of changes in division and News and Media Affairs. College News Correspondents – We would like to set up someone in your college to be a pipeline from your college to News and Media Affairs to put something new on the website about your college every day. Let us know in advance to publicize events. We will form a group and make them special. We would also like to get into department meetings to bulk up our list of faculty experts, especially niche areas of expertise. Also, note times for showing of “Shots Fired!” video to raise awareness. Drills are necessary and mandated; two per year with one being a stayinplace drill where faculty read a script detailing safe places. This should take five minutes, not twentyfive minutes. All of this is posted on website, http://www.mtsu.edu/alert4u/ . Deans, please let Tom Tozer attend faculty meetings to stress the importance of this. II. Syllabus Statements re: ADA, Animals, Guests, and Emergencies – Watson Harris Some professors have discussions on the first day of class of what to do in different types of emergencies. Need your input on these draft statements for syllabi. Another issue re: ADA, students are parking bikes in the Mass Communication building which creates a problem for the ADA. No one will address, and Public Safety says the dean must enforce. Warner Cribb: Is there a way to notify students at the beginning of the semester? maybe through an email blast or D2L initial login? Give your suggestions to Watson. Students have to take responsibilities for themselves. Students with disabilities must provide the instructor with a letter from Disabled Student Services before any accommodation requests for this course may be considered. Only Disabled Student Services is authorized to grant temporary or permanent ADA accommodations to students. Students should contact the DSS Office at 615-898-2783 for assistance. Only service animals (dogs and miniature horses) are allowed on campus. Students must register with Disabled Student Services before a service animal is allowed as an accommodation. Faculty and staff must request service animals as an accommodation through Human Resources. See Policy No. I:01:13 http://www.mtsu.edu/policies/pdfs/ServiceAnimalsandPets.pdf . Students may not bring guests or children to the class without prior approval from the faculty/instructor.

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  Deans’ Cabinet Meeting  

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 9:00 AM 

Library 475   Attending: Michael Allen, Brad Bartel, Julie Hight, Mike Boyle, Jim Burton, Mark Byrnes, Tom Cheatham, Becky Cole, Warner Cribb, Wayne Dornan, Watson Harris, Faye Johnson, Roy Moore, Jenny Sauls, Lana Seivers, John Vile, Terry Whiteside  

 I. Campus Safety– Tom Tozer‐ attachment 

A lot of changes in division and News and Media Affairs.  College News Correspondents – We would like to set up someone in your college to be a pipeline from your college to News and Media Affairs to put something new on the website about your college every day. Let us know in advance to publicize events. We will form a group and make them special. We would also like to get into department meetings to bulk up our list of faculty experts, especially niche areas of expertise.   Also, note times for showing of “Shots Fired!” video to raise awareness. Drills are necessary and mandated; two per year with one being a stay‐in‐place drill where faculty read a script detailing safe places. This should take five minutes, not twenty‐five minutes. All of this is posted on website, http://www.mtsu.edu/alert4u/.  Deans, please let Tom Tozer attend faculty meetings to stress the importance of this. 

 II. Syllabus Statements re: ADA, Animals, Guests, and Emergencies – Watson Harris 

Some professors have discussions on the first day of class of what to do in different types of emergencies. Need your input on these draft statements for syllabi. Another issue re: ADA, students are parking bikes in the Mass Communication building which creates a problem for the ADA. No one will address, and Public Safety says the dean must enforce.  Warner Cribb: Is there a way to notify students at the beginning of the semester? maybe through an email blast or D2L initial login?  Give your suggestions to Watson. Students have to take responsibilities for themselves. 

 Students with disabilities must provide the instructor with a letter from Disabled Student Services before any accommodation requests for this course may be considered. Only Disabled Student Services is authorized to grant temporary or permanent ADA accommodations to students. Students should contact the DSS Office at 615-898-2783 for assistance. Only service animals (dogs and miniature horses) are allowed on campus. Students must register with Disabled Student Services before a service animal is allowed as an accommodation. Faculty and staff must request service animals as an accommodation through Human Resources. See Policy No. I:01:13 http://www.mtsu.edu/policies/pdfs/ServiceAnimalsandPets.pdf . Students may not bring guests or children to the class without prior approval from the faculty/instructor.

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Faculty and students who do not follow University policies and instructions during emergencies and emergency drills are individually liable. Emergency plans and instructions may be found at http://www.mtsu.edu/alert4u and http://frank.mtsu.edu/~pvpaa/emergency.htm. A list of safest places for each building during a tornado is at: http://www.mtsu.edu/alert4u/tornado_shelter.shtml. University instructions during emergencies are sent via email, phone calls, and text messages. University websites will also be updated with the latest information. You are encouraged to plan ahead for emergencies.  

III. Non‐enrolled Students in Class  An issue where graduate or post‐baccalaureate students are sitting in classes they are not enrolled in.  Faculty should be diligent in taking role and keeping fire codes, maximum capacity, etc.  in mind.  Also, concept of an Audit needs to be formalized.  Could be the case of a community person wanting to audit a class in Spanish or Political Science.  An older person could alter the dynamic of the class. We might want to review how we handle audits. Is the instructor comfortable with people auditing? Are there any patterns of abuse? It’s not a big deal, but if there are instructors who feel uncomfortable with people auditing, please send Jenny Sauls any issues. If it’s not an issue, we will drop it. Maybe the instructor could interview anyone wanting to audit‐ empowering the instructor.  

IV. Announcements 

Bill Black stepped down from interim dean position. Management of the Library will be resolved within the next few days.  

Groundhog Day luncheon‐ 11 A.M. today in the Tennessee Room 

Chancellor Morgan will be visiting March 2; Deans at 10:30, Vice Presidents at 9:30 

New Carnegie Classification: we are back as Doctoral/Research.  Implications for Performance Funding; therefore, we have gone back to THEC to adjust formula to put us back in group with University of Memphis. On THEC website, you can plug in your own figures, and the spreadsheet will adjust. University of Tennessee always gets more.  Budget hearings last week‐ Governor Haslam repeatedly asked about building projects. Chancellor Morgan did not say anything about MTSU science building. These could be two items for the Chancellor Meeting on March 2nd.  

VPIA David Schmidt will start April 1.  He will cluster functions on International Education together in Peck Hall.  He will write a plan to increase international enrollment from 400 (current number) to 1000+ (future goal).  Coordinate partnerships, exchanges, relationships one stop shop for international issues. 

Chairs Council workshop on fundraising last week went very well. Will follow that with a workshop for chairs on “Being a Chair.” We will bring someone in, a refresher for old chairs and training for new chairs. 

Electrical work on campus‐ series of outages and will take two days, possibly March 8, 9, or 10.  March 5, 6, 7, 11, 12 are campus events (classes, conference, TSSAA tournament) 

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Instructional needs for FTT and adjuncts for next year due Feb 28.  Please submit as a college by the end of February. The provost will then send to Mr. Cothern to determine funding. 

Compensation‐ President and Vice Presidents are committed to giving faculty and staff a pay raise. TBR and THEC have asked what we can/should do about compensation? Equity pay figures done by Becky Cole‐ our faculty is at 85% of peer average; it will take $10M to get us to 100% of market. This is a great time to play catch up, but we don’t have $10M. For every 1 % across the board, it would take $1.35M. So we will probably do 2‐3% pay increase in combination with a one‐time bonus. Please don’t go to faculty at this point. A small number of people on our campus are below poverty level and will be brought up.  

Vice President of ITD Petryshak is considering new approach to computer allocation/replacement. Faculty will get replaced on this cycle as usual. But new approach will be web‐based “dumb terminal” $400 per person rather than $900.  The 24/7 computer lab, and the library already have this. 

ELS‐ at the last meeting we asked for usage of your conference rooms for four‐week cluster of time. April and especially September are critical times.  

TBR Academic Subcouncil‐ Universal transfer pathways by discipline. TBR has been working on this for a while. Getting students from community college to Institutions. Difficulties with Art, Accounting, Economics. University of Tennessee system also included in this. Each program on a sheet. We are required to 1) abide by them; 2) advise students accordingly; 3) include in our catalog; and 4) have universal numbering systems.  This is a done deal, so all advisors have to be on board. Provost will send completed programs. Per Mike Boyle, we will try to have an advisor on each feeder campus working closely with your advisors. Part of Complete College TN Act. 

Tenure‐track faculty candidates‐ they have been first rate; great work.  

Promotion and Tenure‐ Provost sent recommendations to President last Friday.  Seven to ten applications were in gray area. President will look at these carefully. T and P appeals process‐ odd at this level. We will look at T and P policies as a whole. 

Mike Boyle‐ great enrollments in Shelbyville (MTEC) all education majors‐ business courses in the fall.  Also there’s a new law re: military credits. MTSU will accept up to 60 credits from military schools. We do not know if they must be accredited or not. 

Moore‐ WMOT changing format‐ “All Things Considered” added.  Jazz in the evenings, classical during the day. 

Cribb‐ Chancellor Morgan at Faculty Senate Meeting on Feb 28.  Also, Plagiarism on campus is an issue. Either students don’t know what plagiarism is or they don’t care. “Turn it in” software should be available to all faculty. Petryshak is working on it.  Smoking issue‐ Fall 2007 Faculty Senate did make a resolution to go to a smoke‐free campus. Given again to Mr. Cothern and Environmental Health and Safety Committee will look at next.  

Byrnes‐ theatre performing “Rent.”  Dance is moving from Fairview to handball courts in the Murphy Center. Black Box Theatre is being renovated.  

Cole‐ reminder we need department policies on reviewing “‐track” faculty appointments. Attachment. 

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Burton‐ AACSB February 28‐ March 1 

Whiteside‐ meeting with Linda Gilbert, Murfreesboro City Schools. College of Behavioral and Health Sciences will partner‐ not teacher preparation. 

Cheatham‐ research conference on Math and Science Education hosted by STEM Education. Posters at the Capitol next week. 

Harris‐ TAF proposals were due January 31st‐ compiling now.  Adjourned at 10:26 A.M. 

   

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