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Recommendation Summary

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Recommends that the University President request the university legal counsel to pursue the validity of faculty being charged for 52 weeks for the Huntington City Service Fee when faculty contracts are for nine months. Legal counsel is to request the City of Huntington to revisit the policy and determine what changes are necessary and how faculty will pay for their contractual period.

The Constitutional Ad Hoc Committee recommends that the following revisions be made to The Constitution of the Marshall University Faculty in order to align its language with Senate Bill 653 and the Marshall Community & Technical College’s The Constitution of the Faculty.  These changes will become effective with Senate approval contingent upon approval by the faculty of the proposed Constitutional amendments.

The Constitutional Ad Hoc Committee recommends that the following revisions be made to The Constitution of the Marshall University Faculty in order to align its language with current procedures; and Senate Bill 653 and the Marshall Community & Technical College’s The Constitution of the Faculty.

Recommends that the Faculty Senate ask the University President, Dr. Dan Angel, and the Marshall University Board of Governors to exercise all available resources and connections with the Legislature and Governor’s office to mitigate any potential budgetary reductions in higher education.

Recommends that the Faculty Senate, the University President, and the Marshall University Board of Governors support an enhancement legislation on SB653 which re-instates the voting memberships on the WV Higher Education Policy Commission for faculty, classified staff employees, and students.

Recommends that the Faculty Senate do the following: 1) go on record supporting the introduction of a legislative initiative that reviews and revises issues associated with the “pop tax” law that finances medical education in West Virginia, and 2) urge the University President to actively encourage the Higher Education Policy Commission and Legislature to support this recommendation.

Recommends that the Faculty Senate find Marshall’s current peer universities to be appropriate and to urge the Legislature to not seek to change them until the scheduled review under the original plan. Nevertheless, any proposed change in the peer group should be based on the same criteria used to select the current peer universities.

Recommends that the University adopt the attached Academic Calendar 2003 – 2004 and the Academic Calendar 2004 – 2005.

Recommends a revision to the late registration policy as proposed by the Deans Council. The revised policy would read as follows: “Beginning in Fall 2003, late registration for on-campus, undergraduate students will be limited to the first three days of each regular semester. Schedule adjustment for enrolled students will continue to be held during the first week of each regular semester.”

Recommends that should the dean or other head of an academic unit (as defined in the Faculty Constitution) fail in his/her duties to hold an election for Faculty Senate purposes and to report the results of that election to the Faculty Senate president, the Faculty Senate shall initiate and conduct the election.

Recommends approval of the listed ADDITION OF ENGINEERING MINOR in the ENGINEERING DIVISION of the COLLEGE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING with completion of any five of the following courses with a grade of C or better in each course.

Recommends approval of the listed COURSE ADDITIONS in the COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES: CI 360 and ITL 402.

Recommends a revision to the Student Handbook and Academic Planner on page 46 under the section Probation as an additional item, (4) Loss of Privilege of Participation in Advanced Registration stating “The student will relinquish their advanced registration privileges and therefore will register at the end of advanced registration for currently enrolled students. Exceptions may be granted by the Office of Judicial Affairs in those instances where the student is in need of a required course in order to progress academically.”

Recommends the acceptance of the Flexible Workload Policy (dated November, 2002) proposed by the Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Workload.  The full text of the policy may be read in the Faculty Senate office.

Upon the advice of the University’s legal counsel and as presented by Dean Steve Hensley, the BAPC recommends a revision to Item 1 in the current “Absences As a Result of Illness or Death in the Family” policy which appears on page 88 of the 2001-2003 Undergraduate Catalog. The text of this revision may be read in the Faculty Senate office.

Recommends that the Faculty Senate, University President, and University Board of Governors actively encourage the Higher Education Policy Commission and state legislators to sponsor a bill that creates a new revenue stream through a cigarette tax hike. This bill would provide secured revenue for the sharing equitably among all of the three state-supported medical schools: the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University, the WVU School of Medicine, and the WV School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Recommends the Faculty Senate invite former State Senator Marie Redd and House Delegates Susan Hubbard and Dale Stephens to serve as ex-officio members of the legislative Affairs Committee in 2003-2005.

Recommends that the Faculty Senate, University President, and University Board of Governors actively encourage the Higher Education Policy Commission and state legislators to introduce a new legislation that amends the outdated “pop-tax” law. This new bill should raise the pop-tax rate to generate new revenue. This new revenue would be equitably shared between The Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University and the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Recommends that the Faculty Senate support legislation which will amend Article Six, Section Thirteen of the State Constitution to allow employees of the state higher education system the right to serve in the legislature.

Recommends that the Faculty Senate support legislation that permits faculty members with a 12-month appointment the option to donate their un-used sick leave time to other faculty and staff members who need it due to a catastrophic cause.

Recommends that the Faculty Senate, University President, and University Board of Governors urge the Higher Education Policy Commission and legislature to raise the employer’s contribution from 6% to 7.5% and reduce the employee contribution from 6% to 4.5% to the TIAA-CREF Retirement Funds.  Such an adjustment could be done in a three year-plan, with yearly increments of 0.5%.  It is further recommended that the ACF representatives and Faculty Senate president join their counterparts in other institutions to present a petition of this case to the related legislative leadership before the starting of the regular session of the General Assembly.

Recommends approval of the listed COURSE ADDITIONS in the following colleges and/or schools: COLLEGE OF EDUCATION & HUMAN SERVICES: ATE 301; LEWIS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: MKT 375 and MKT 445; UNIVERSITY COLLEGE: HON 201 and UNI 201.

Recommends approval of the listed COURSE CHANGES for the LEWIS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: MS 101; MS 102; MS 210; MS 202; MS 301; MS 302; MS 401; and  MS 402.

WHEREAS, The Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Workload at Marshall University was formed by the Faculty Senate and Graduate Council in Spring 2002, and charged by these faculty groups with a) reviewing current faculty workload policy and practices across the University, and b) based on this review, making recommendations concerning revisions of those policies and practices. After significant work on this project, the committee believes that the flexible workload policy described in the attached text is the most appropriate strategy for dealing with the complex work environment of Marshall University faculty members;

In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Marshall University Faculty fear that the United States government’s actions taken to restrict further terrorism threaten to harm the fundamental educational and research missions of our university. Specifically, provisions of the “PATRIOT” Act (USAPA) impose restrictions on the use of certain biological materials; places limitations on visas for foreign students, visiting professors and lecturers; imposes restrictions on a broad set of vaguely defined “sensitive” information; grants federal agencies’ the authority to track and arrest United States citizens and visitors to the United States without the need for judicial warrants; and permits covert monitoring of public and private communications and invasive access by federal agents to citizens’ and non-citizens’ information previously legally protected, including library borrowing records, credit-card records, voice-mail, and e-mail information.