MINUTES OF THE UT MARTIN SENATE MEETING

February 13, 1996

CALL TO ORDER
The first meeting of the 1996 Spring Semester was called to order at 3:15 p.m. by Vice President Stan Sieber in the Humanities Auditorium. Present were 36 Senators, 1 substitute, and 21 visitors.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES
There were no additions or corrections to the minutes of November 28, 1995. Minutes stand approved as distributed.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS
There was no unfinished business.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES
Executive Committee
Sieber gave a report of the January 30 meeting of the Executive Committee. Several items from that meeting were discussed, with reports given as follows:

Systems Improvement/Baldrige Criteria - John Overby gave a report on the Systems Improvement and the Baldrige Criteria. (Information included in senate packet for this meeting.) There were no questions; more information will be forthcoming as the process of Systems Improvement continues.

Program Review & Reallocation - Kendall Blanchard gave a report on the preliminary draft of the reallocation plan. He emphasized that this was a preliminary draft and subject to change. The final report will be sent to the Budget and Economics Concerns Committee.

Election of Senate Officers - Nominations were received for the offices of Vice President/President Elect and Secretary. The two nominees for each office who received the most votes were: Vice President - Dan Pigg and Linda Ramsey; Secretary - Anna Clark and Steve Rogers. Sieber asked for further nominations from the floor; there were none. A motion was made that nominations for Vice President close; motion seconded and carried. A motion was made that nominations for Secretary close; motion seconded and carried. Ballots will be distributed in the next few days and the officers will be announced at the next senate meeting.

Evaluation of Administrators - A recommendation was sent to Chancellor Perry in November regarding selection of a task force to further study Evaluation of Administrators. She brought an update to the senate today, stating that the selection of the committee was in process, with the proposed make-up of the committee being four faculty and four administrators. This selection should be finalized this week.

Miscellaneous - Sieber further reminded the senators to be sure they were not assigned Tuesday classes after 3:00 p.m. for Fall and Spring semesters for the next academic year. The preference would be no Tuesday or Thursday classes after 3:00 p.m., however that is not always possible with lab classes. The Open Faculty Meeting is set for March 7. The senators were asked to let the faculty in their departments know that topics for discussion at that meeting could be sent to Charles Harding. This would enable him to ask the persons best able to answer these questions to be at the meeting. He also asked the Senators to be sure to send back the Faculty Relations Committee ballots as soon as possible, and to mention this in their departments.

Budget and Economic Concerns
Mary Ruth Gibbons said there was no report to come before the Senate at this time.

Undergraduate Council
Doug Cook presented and moved approval for the curriculum changes as approved by the council at their January 23 meeting. Motion seconded. A question was raised regarding Marketing 460, asking if it contained any database or software development. Answer, no. A motion was made for a friendly amendment to pull the proposal for Restructuring the Teacher Education Council from the packet. The motion to amend was seconded and carried. The vote on the packet as amended carried. The motion was made that the School of Education Graduate Council and Undergraduate Council chairs become ex-officio (non-voting) members of the Teacher Education Council. There was a second to this motion. Clarification was made in that the Dean of Education only votes in case of a tie. After some discussion, a vote was taken, and the amendment to the proposal failed. The motion was made and seconded to accept the proposal as originally written. Motion carried.

Graduate Council
Robert Erk presented and moved approval for the curriculum changes as approved in their January 25 meeting, with the packet coming as a motion and second. Motion carried.

Instruction Committee
Nell Gullett stated that there were no items to come before the Senate at this time.

Library Committee
There was no report from the Library Committee.

Personnel Policies
Sandra Gossum stated that there were no items to come before the Senate at this time.

NEW BUSINESS
There was no new business.

ADJOURNMENT
Motion to adjourn was made and seconded; the meeting was adjourned at 4:29 p.m.


Stan Sieber, Vice President


Daniel F. Pigg, Secretary