CALL TO ORDER
The second meeting of the 1998 Fall Semester was called to order at 3:20 p.m. by President Jerald Ogg in Room 36 Business Administration Building.  Present were 44 senators and officers, 3 substitutes, and 8 guests.

The minutes of the previous meeting were approved as distributed.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS
There was no unfinished business.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President Ogg gave a report from the Executive Committee, beginning with a reminder about the open faculty meeting on Thursday, October 29.  He encouraged the senators to attend.

Dan McDonough, Nell Gullett, and Ogg went to the Faculty Counselors to the President meeting earlier this month.  Questions were asked about the new UT Affinity Card, and about where the proceeds from that were going to go.  One issue brought up was attendance monitoring.  They were aware of this at Knoxville at the administrative level, but were not at the other campuses..  Levy said at the meeting that they were analyzing the dollars and cents of how much it would cost to do the monitoring vs what it would cost to pay it, and that is still an option.  They said to tell the faculty to not  worry about being too detailed, we may still just pay it rather than deal with monitoring.  It may be more cost effective.  Other campuses were looking at other ways to monitor the financial aid.  ETSU passed a 30 day hold on financial aid to be sure the students are attending.

Long-term care insurance was another topic of interest from other campuses.  Another item being looked at was cashability of retirement and for faculty having more control over our retirement.

Frank Black made a report on the UT President Search Committee.  Black, Ogg, and Jessica Peccolo attended the first  meeting of Advisory Committee to the Search Committee.  The role of advisory committee is to help identify potential candidates, help interview potential candidates, perhaps most importantly sell UT to strong candidates.  Typically there are 400 applications, which will be narrowed down to 18-20 viable candidates.  At the meeting of the Advisory Committee, there was some discussion about sunshine law and the open records law, especially in regards to soliciting applications and related materials.  The proposed time schedule is still to hopefully bring to closure by Spring 99.  Dr. Johnson will stay as long as necessary, so the board is not feeling any undue pressure to have this completed by then.  It is anticipated that interviews will be starting in the spring.  Another strong point to keep in mind is the distinction between selection of a president and selection of chancellor.  It is important that the system president have the ability to work effectively with the state legislature.  Senators and faculty are encouraged to submit nominations.  Nominations are not restricted to those with academic experience.

The academic committee of the Board of Trustees also met, and discussed the tenure policy which is being worked on across the state.  Not all campuses are working on it in the same manner.  More will be mentioned about this during the Personnel Policies committee report.

Ogg also gave a report from the Executive Committee.  Regarding Banner, there will be no advisor holds on registration and no computer registration for Spring Semester registration.

Another topic discussed at Executive Committee was the issue of dual credit, offering courses in high school that would also count for UTM credit. Bill Duffy has been working on this, identifying those faculty currently teaching in the high schools which would qualify as adjunct faculty.  They must be approved by the appropriate department.  These students would qualify under current guidelines.

Ogg mentioned the ad hoc committee to look at the possibility of a Faculty Club.  He proposed that the committee be composed of  Stan Sieber, Earlene Moore, Walt Haden, and Dwight Gatwood.  A motion was made to accept the composition of this ad hoc committee, motion carried.

BUDGET AND ECONOMIC CONCERNS
Jenna Wright brought a report from the Budget and Economic Concerns Committee.  At the meeting, Dr. K. Paul Jones reviewed a plan for determining individual salary equity adjustments.  (This attachment to the minutes was available on the web; a copy is attached to these minutes.)  Drs. Linda Ramsey and George White attended the meeting to discuss concerns about adjunct positions in the Department of Health and Human Performance being cut, which affects their scheduled activity courses.  There were no action items from this committee.

UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL
Doug Sterrett stated that since they did not have a meeting this month, there is no report.

GRADUATE COUNCIL
Marti Herndon presented the curriculum proposals as a unit for approval.  Motion carried.

LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Herndon gave this report for Lisa LeBleu.  Because of one retirement in the library, this year much of the money that was lost in the budget cuts can be recouped on a non-recurring basis.

INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE
Dan McDonough gave a report from the Instruction Committee.  One item discussed in committee was mass exams.  The following motion was made in committee: "When a mass examination has been requested and approved for a course, the final examination for all sections of that course shall be given at the time scheduled for the mass examination rather than at the time set by the normal meeting time of the class or individual section."  This motion was tabled in committee until the next meeting in order for members to consult with their departments and others.

This was discussed by the senators, with questions about why this is necessary, and why should there not be a choice.  The matter will be brought back to the senate at the next meeting.

PERSONNEL POLICIES
Roger Fisher brought a report from this committee.  He had no action items at this time, but stated that the committee was scheduled to receive the tenure review information from the academic council by December 1 and were waiting on this.

AD-HOC COMMITTEES
There are no ad hoc committees at this time.

NEW BUSINESS
The senators were reminded that graduate students and seniors only would be registering by telephone the first and second days of registration.  There will be telephone and walk-in registration after that.  The schedules should be out Tuesday.

ADJOURNMENT
Meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.
 

 
E. Jerald Ogg, President
 

Robert Nanney, Secretary