Angel suggests six-year plan for improvements

Faculty senators considered five recommendations and heard President Dan Angel's plans for Marshall at a meeting Thursday.

Angel said he hopes to institute a six-year plan for im-provements in the university and Community and Technical College, which may become a separately accredited unit.

Creating a separate governance structure for the CTC would be the most significant difference in such a move, he said.

Only one other option exists, and that is to separate the CTC from Marshall entirely, Angel said. He said this option would likely result in a financial downfall for the university.

"We should do everything we can to keep that (the CTC) within the university," he said.

Angel said he has met with the leadership of both houses of the Legislature, and that a primary goal for Marshall this year is to move to a higher peer institution group.

Changing Marshall's peer group from its current group of universities in the southeast would likely influence faculty salaries and statistical surveys, he said.

Angel also suggested opening the trust fund established in the settlement of the state's class-action lawsuit against tobacco companies.

"We want to pay for the future and we want to pay for the past, now," he said.

Senators approved a recommendation to increase the grade point average required for the Dean's list from 3.0 to 3.3. If approved by Angel, the change would take effect at the beginning of the fall semester.

According to the recommendation, the gpa currently required for honors admission and graduation cum laude is 3.3, and the recommendation was intended to bring the Dean's list up to the same level.

The Senate also approved a recommendation to repaint Lot F on Third Avenue across from Smith Hall. The repainting would expand current spaces to nine feet and use the space created by the demolition of a building at the corner of Third Avenue and Hal Greer Boulevard.

They also passed a recommendation to develop a policy for replacing the individual desks in some classrooms with new tables and chairs.

The Senate returned a new version of the annual faculty report back to the Faculty Personnel Committee for revision.

During the meeting, a recommendation turned down by former interim President A. Michael Perry was reconsidered. The recommendation, which asked that the credit and contact hours of CTC clinical faculty be changed to match that of non-clinical faculty, was approved.