Minutes of the Academic Senate

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
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Fresno, California 93740-8027
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Members Absent: I. Basurto, S. Delcroix, D. Ferris, S. Figlioli, D. Frazier, S. Fulop, J. Hensen (excused), T. Johnson, S. Lin, D. Magoc (excused), M. Mahoney (excused), K. McCoy, S. Miller (excused), H. Miltiades, S.Najmi (excused), R. Rai, S. Reeves, W. Rice, H.O. Schweizer (excused), D. Smith, P. Trueblood (excused), J. Wang, C. Won, M. Xiao, D. Zhang, M. Zoghi.

A meeting of the Academic Senate was called to order by Chair Botwin at 4:07 p.m. in the University Center, Room 200.

  1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 3/8/10.

  2. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda as distributed.

  3. Communications and Announcements.

    1. Chair Botwin congratulated Vice Chair Michael Caldwell on a recent award from the Statewide Music Educators Association.

    2. Provost Covino announced his willingness to continue meeting with departments.

    3. Statewide Senator J. Amaral provided reflections regarding the recent plenary session of the Statewide Academic Senate.

  4. New Business.

    There was no new business.

  5. Graduate Culture at Fresno State - Graduate Culture Task Force – Second Reading.

    MSC (unanimous) to approve the recommendations of the Graduate Committee and forward to the President for approval.

  6. Revision to the Library Subcommittee Charge – Library Subcommittee –Second Reading.

    MSC (unanimous) to approve the recommendations of the Library Subcommittee and forward to the President for approval.

  7. Antelope Valley Engineering Programs (AVEP) at Lancaster University Center – Phase out of Graduate Program Offerings-Graduate Committee – Second Reading.

    MSC (unanimous) to approve the recommendations of the Graduate Committee and forward to the President for approval.

  8. Motion: Timetable for the Implementation of New Teaching Effectiveness Evaluations-Submitted by - J. Amaral – Second Reading.

    MSC (unanimous) to approve the Motion.

  9. Policy On Assessment of Teaching Effectiveness (APM 322) – Personnel Committee – Second Reading.

    The initial discussion of the policy focused on operational issues. Terms of validity and reliability were included in the discussion.

    MS to remove all occurrences of the terms reliability and validity from the document. A quorum was not available to vote on the motion. The Policy was continued to the next meeting.

MSC to adjourn at 5:36 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting of the Academic Senate will be announced.

An Agenda will be distributed prior to the meeting.

Submitted by: Approved by:
Michael Caldwell Michael Botwin
Vice Chair Chair
Academic Senate Academic Senate

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