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Faculty Convocations
Spring Faculty
Convention 2005
Monday, January 31st, 2005
3:00 to 5:00 pm Alumni Hall
Agenda
I. Welcome and Remarks - Chancellor Howard
Cohen
Spring Semester:
We are off to an excellent start.
I want to express my thanks to the staff in Facilities for dealing
with a power outage and two substantial snow storms at the beginning
of the semester.
Spring enrollments:
Heads: 8810
Billing hours: 84,347
3% over last spring
250 below our ambitious target
Our spring enrollment growth is particularly significant in light
of the continuing reduction of enrollments in 0 credit courses. I
want to acknowledge the development of the Best and Brightest scholarship
program and the new relationship we have with the Runnin’ Rebels
program as key factors in our growth.
Student Government
We are making progress in reconstituting student government. The
process, lead by Eve Bottando, has developed a system of better communication
with students to assess their need for student government.
Restructuring of student government is taking place along three principal
lines: proportional representation for schools, class representation,
and special constituency representation. All will figure into the
composition of the new governance organization. I want to acknowledge
the help that Professor Saul Lerner is providing to the group writing
a new constitution.
Applications for student government positions will be circulated in
March; an election will take place in April.
Student lounge remodeling project:
The newly designed lounge will open February 2. It is a much improved
space and will help us lay the groundwork for campus life when we
have residential students.
Incubator opened:
The Purdue Technology Center opened in December with 7 startup businesses
and a regional office of the Indiana Department of Commerce. The Center
has a high profile in Northwest Indiana and promises to be a major
factor in the growth of a high-technology sector in our region.
The Center continues to enjoy strong support from Congressman Visclosky.
Student housing –we are taking applications:
I hope you will encourage students who would benefit from this experience
to go to the housing office for information and applications.
Student housing is not only for “out-of-region” students.
We expect to see many students from our region living on campus. We
also hope to attract international students in greater numbers.
Korean student program:
This program is our first effort at a systematic targeted relationship
with a foreign university. We have on campus 18 students from Seoul
Technical University of Technology studying software design and intensive
English with a component in industry experience.
I would like to acknowledge faculty participants: Cathy Murphy and
Ruidan Zhang, Jorge Roman-Lagunas, Ed Pasko, Steve Lombardo, Cindy
Torres and Doug Canfield, as well as support staff Marcia Gordon,
Sherrie Mannick and Terry Chance.
Budget:
Indiana is entering the biennial budget session of the state legislature.
Purdue Calumet has an interest in two new initiatives: Advancing Indiana’s
Manufacturing, an operating request for Purdue that includes us, and
the Emerging Technologies Tower, a capital request to replace the
Gyte Annex. Both of these requests are of high strategic importance
to us.
We are making these requests in the context of a budget deficit of
anywhere from $600m to $1.2 billion, depending on whether outstanding
obligations are to be repaid. What we know is that there is little
willingness in the legislature to increase taxes, and it is unlikely
that any significant financial decisions will be made prior to the
April revenue forecasts.
Additional issues of importance to us are, first, that the Governor’s
budget for higher education proposes no increases. This would, in
effect, eliminate new enrollment change funding. Second, there are
bills that have been introduced in the legislature to cap tuition.
These could have a significant impact on our budget next year.
In this context, and with the following assumptions, we are beginning
to plan our budget for 2005-06. We assume: 197,000 billing hours,
5% increase in tuition/state appropriations, and a 2% salary increase
pool.
If there is no enrollment change funding, $600,000 in uncommitted
funds could be available for strategic initiatives. If enrollment
change funds are restored, we might have an additional $450,000.
The campus budget process and timeline are as follows:
2% reallocation requirement (we are currently identifying potential
reallocation (March 1)
Strategic initiatives requests from units (Feb 1)
Vice Chancellors prioritize ( prior to April 15)
SLT review and selection of priorities (April 15)
Campus proposed budget approved (May 2)
Trustees set tuition and fees (May 20)
Adjusted campus budget approved (June 7)
Final board approval (Sept 23)
Thank you for your efforts to make the Purdue Calumet educational
experience so valuable for our students.
II. New Teaching Evaluation System by Professor
Boiarsky
PowerPoint [HERE]
III. Civilty in the Classroom Task Force
- Professor Hack
Prof. Hack indicated that The Agenda Committee of the
Senate felt it was time for a Task Force to study the problem of Student
Civility on campus. There are increasing reports to the Dean of Students
Office and the Police Department regarding various types of problem
or disruptive student behavior on campus. The Faculty Senate will appoint
a Task Force to study and develop guidelines for adoption. This Task
Force will address the behavior in and out of the classroom or campus
wide. The Task Force membership was presented as follows:
Task Force on Student Civility
The Agenda Committee of the University Senate has established this
Task Force to develop guidelines for appropriate student behavior in
the classroom and in the service offices throughout the University.
The task force shall meet from February through April in the Spring
2005 term. The University Senate looks forward to their recommendations.
MEMBERSHIP
Joseph Hermes, Director Counseling Center, X2366
Prof. Akram Hossain, Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology,
X2638
*Sarah Howard, Asst. Dean of Students, X4141
Deborah Johnson, Demonstration Asst., Biology, X2199
*Prof. James Johnson, Organizational Leadership & Supervision, X3162
Prof. Tammy Guerrero, Circulation Reference Librarian, X2675
Prof. John Lucas, Management, X 2170
Visiting Prof. Cheryl Moredich, Nursing, X2834
Randy Moles, University Police, X2220
Prof. Ralph Ocon, Organizational Leadership & Supervision, X2571
IV. Academic Integrity Update -- Professor
Choi
Guest Speaker: Roy Evans
V. State of the Union of Academic Affairs Address
-- VCAA Ibrahim |
