1. An ARAMARK grant for $2,000 which will allow the Student Government Association to help student organizations provide refreshments at their meetings.
2. Approval of the reallocation of monies to those organizations that have applied for it.
3. The approval of an advisor evaluation for the student organizations.

Amber Jones, Director of the Community Service of SGA, was present to remind the senators about the Kentucky Harvest Program which began last Friday and will end next Friday. In addition to the student organizations competing against each other, departments and Model Laboratory school are encouraged to participate. Model will have competitions within the elementary, middle school and high school levels. Each first prize gets a pizza party, each second prize will get doughnuts and juice. Any departments interested in participating should contact Amber.Jones@eku.edu. An awards ceremony will be held on the 16th at the football field. The top two faculty departments will receive doughnuts, juice and coffee. In addition, a plaque, which will be passed down each year, will be presented to the top contributing department.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Budget Committee. Senator Wade reported that the committee discussed several items at the October meeting. Topics included the conversion from FRS to Banner, the posting of grant overhead to departments, the resolution offered by Senator Dunston at the October Senate meeting, campus perceptions of the budget, and the future work of the committee.

Two motions were offered and approved. First, was a motion for the committee to review one major budget area every two months in a systematic way and report back to the Faculty Senate. The first area selected for study was Enrollment Management.

The next motion concerned the resolution offered by Senator Dunston at the last Senate meeting. The committee suggested a substitute resolution that which will be officially presented later in today's meeting.

The committee also requested Senator Wade, as chair, to explore the possibility of holding an open forum for faculty with Vice President Johnston and the Provost in the near future. If possible, this may be scheduled for early January or February.

Rules Committee. Senator Yoder reported that the committee met on October 14. A motion for updating the rules will be presented later today.

The next meeting of the Rules Committee will be on November 11.

AD HOC COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Lecturers/Part Time Lecturers. Senator Collins reported that the committee recently met and is in the process of gathering data from Benchmark institutions.

Compensation and Benefits Committee. Senator Rahimzadeh reported that the committee met on October 16 and discussed a couple of motions which will be presented later in today's meeting.

Plus/Minus Grading Committee. Senator Fisher stated that the Senators received a copy of the committee's plan. Questions or comments regarding the proposed plan may be directed to Senator Fisher.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

Senator Reed's Motions.

Motion 1: That the Faculty Senate formally express concern about attorney General John D. Ashcroft's description of Professor Steven Hatfill as a "person of interest" and the potential threat that similar departures from constitutional procedures may pose for the academic integrity and mission of our nation's universities.

Motion 2A: That the Faculty Senate create a committee charged with clarifying post 9-11 academic challenges and how the University can best maintain the academic integrity, freedom, and responsibilities of faculty and administrators. Or,

Motion 2B: In lieu of creating a new committee, in the interests of shared governance expand the title and responsibilities of the Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee to include Faculty-Administration Rights and Responsibilities and give them the charge stated immediately above.

That the Faculty Rights and Responsibilities Committee be charged with clarifying post 9-11 academic challenges and how the University can best maintain the academic integrity, freedom, and responsibilities of faculty.

Motion 3: That the Faculty Senate ask COSFL to address post 9-11 academic challenges, freedom, and responsibilities, including the firing of Professor Steven Hatfill.

"That the Faculty Senate ask COSFL to address post 9-11 academic challenges, freedom, and responsibilities."

Whereas meaningful annual salary increases for those who perform satisfactorily are the best way to avoid long-term salary inequities and real dollar losses in earnings,

The Ad Hoc Committee on Compensation and Benefits recommends the following motions to the Faculty Senate:

1. The University's standard faculty salary award should reflect the Cost of Living Allowance based on the National Consumer Price Index. Any remaining funds allocated for salary increases should then be used toward merit pay.
2. The University should provide a pool of money each year to address salary equity issues. The procedures according to which equity adjustments are made shall be recommended to the Faculty Senate by an ad hoc committee comprised of the Faculty Welfare Committee and administrative representatives selected by the President.

Motion 1 was seconded by Senator Milde and Motion 2 was seconded by Senator A. Jones.

Whereas: There is amply evidence that interdisciplinary and team taught classes are professional rewarding for faculty who participate in them and academically stimulating and rewarding for students who take such classes; and

Whereas: The Office of the Provost indicated support for increasing interdisciplinary and team teaching at EKU by appointing the Interdisciplinary and Team Teaching Task Force in the Spring of 2002 to develop "appropriate, functional guidelines for supporting and rewarding interdisciplinary and team teaching at Eastern Kentucky University"; and

Whereas: The Interdisciplinary and Team Teaching Task Force (the full report of which is attached for reference) has identified the University's practice of assigning student credit hour production to the department or unit identified in the course prefix rather than having credit hours follow faculty as the single greatest disincentive to interdisciplinary or team teaching; and

Whereas: the Associate Vice President of Planning and Assessment is currently developing a reporting format for tracking credit hour production by both (a) course designation; and (b) by faculty member; and

Whereas: the Interdisciplinary and Team Teaching Task Force determined that faculty workload assignments must reflect the fact that the effort required to teach a fully-integrated team taught course can be equal to an independently taught course on the part of all faculty involved; and

Whereas: the Associate Vice President of Planning and Assessment has confirmed that there is no limitation to the Banner system for a single course generating a full in-load faculty workload assignment for more than one faculty;

Be it therefore moved that a new section be added to Part V: Instruction/Academic Policies and Procedures of the Faculty Handbook immediately after the section on Foundation Professorships (pg. 93) as follows: