Susan Neel called the meeting to order.The Chair called for a motion to approve the February 21, 2008 minutes.Jennifer Truschka made a motion to approve the minutes as read.Henry Zwick seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

The Chair called for a motion to approve the February 7, 2008 minutes. She explained they had approved these minutes at a previous meeting incorrectly.Elaine Youngberg made a motion to accept the minutes, and Donna Cartwright seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

President’s Report

Mike gave a report on the Legislature. He said they approved WETC for one-time funding for $600,000.

The proposed CEU Fine Arts building was not funded nor was any money approved for planning..

College Senate President Report

Jennifer established an ad hoc committee to compile the recommendations of the CEU Policy and Procedures Manual review teams and put all policies into a consistent format.The ad hoc committee will submit a draft of the revised manual to College Senate at the beginning of Fall Semester 2008. The committee will be Tom Weidner, Susan Neel (Chair), and Sherry Arellano.

Report from Curriculum and Instruction

C & I did not have action items at the last meeting. Mike said the committee discussed how to review non-credit classes.There are a growing number of these courses that have been established by CEU in response to the needs of local businesses and industries, but at this time CEU has no formal review process for non-credit classes.

Faculty Senate has submitted a proposal to C&I requesting that the date for students to withdraw from classes be changedfrom thirteen to nine weeks.

Report from Tenure and Sabbatical

T & S did not meet last week.

ASCEU

Emilie said the proposed new student government constitution passed. The new name will be CEUSA and elections are under way for the new positions.

DEl said all student leaders should receive the same training. Such as SunCenter, Ambassador, RA’s, and CEUSA. They should have combined training and then the breakouts can be directed to their specific areas. It saves money and time for the institution.

DEl has also, submitted a proposal to T & I for a new leadership course for students involved in CEUSA and other campus organizations. The course would be two or three-credit hours.

Action Items:

1. Mike King made a motion to add the Employment At-Will policy to section 3 - Personnel. Troy Hunt seconded.

Elaine Youngberg made a motion to amend by striking the last paragraph and replacing it with “Probationary period as defined in Section 3-5 of the CEU Policy & Procedures Manual. Donna Cartwright seconded the motion to amend.The motion to amend was passed unanimously.

The motion to add the Employment At-Will policy as amended passed unanimously.

2. Troy Hunt made a motion to adopt a uniform format for the CEU Policy & Procedure Manual and Tracie Noyes seconded the motion; motion passed unanimously.

3. A proposal was made to move Section 4-11 Athletic Fund-raising to Section 1 Administration. Gina Gagon moved that the proposal be accepted, Jennifer Truschka seconded. Motion passed unanimously.

Non-Action Items:

1. A proposal was made to add the Background Checks policy to Section 3- Personnel policies. After some discussion, the Senate decided to forward questions and concerns to Jay Stephens.

2. A proposal was made to move policies 1-7a, 1-16 and 1-21 and 4-16 to Section 5 -Facilities & Physical Plant. No changes will be made to the policies, just a change in the table of contents.Policy 4-16 will need to have some changes made. First half really belongs in student life policies, and the second half belongs in facilities.4-16 is an item that they will take care of when they revise the publicity policy.

By unanimous consent the proposal was moved to an action item. Troy Hunt made a motion, and Jennifer Truschka seconded the motion to move sections 1-7a, 1-16 and 1-21 to Section 5- Facilities and Physical Plant of the Policy & Procedures manual. Motion passed unanimously.

3. A proposal to add a new section to the policy and procedure manual for Academic Affairs. The committee will need to come up with a list of what policies should be included in this section.

4. A proposal to add an emergency plan to our policies. College Senate decided earlier this year that the entire plan did not need to go into the Policy and Procedures Manual.Instead, it was suggested that a policy requiring that an emergency plan be established and maintained be added to the manual. The committee working on the wording for such a policy has not yet forwarded anything to Senate.

Eric mentioned that work is in progress on an emergency notification system, which will be part of the campus emergency plan. He reported that CEU is considering a commercial system that would cost $1.00 per contact.. This system can be used for publicity as well as emergency notification. The contact can be voice, cell phone, or email.

5. Redraft of the Events policy had been completed. Sheila said she took the existing Use of Facilities policy, reworded some of it and divided it into two parts:Use of Facilities and Scheduling of Facilities. Sheila requested these two policies appear as action items on the next agenda.

Discussion Items:

If anyone has an item and would like it on the College Senate agenda contact Jennifer Truschka or Susan Neel.

Susan wanted to remind everyone that nominations for new members on Faculty Senate and College Senate are now due Elections need to be on the last meetings so please get your nominations in.

Elaine Youngberg made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Emilie Dunn seconded the motion, meeting adjourned.

Minutes submitted by Sherry Arellano

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