Tuesday, October 5, 1999
The meeting was called to order by Dr. Adrian Reuben at 7:45 am on Tuesday, October 5, 1999. The September minutes were approved.
Senators present:
Basic Sciences: Knapp, Margolius, Meier, Privitera, Webb
Clinical Sciences: Flume, Kellner, Pritchard, Carek, Key, Lopes-Virella, Reuben, Austin, Carter, Gettys, Gordon, Lyles, Lyons, Cope (alt), Rakes (alt)
Dental Medicine: Leite, Rampton
Health Professions: Bacro, Hernandez (alt. For Keil), Pashek, Ward, White
Library & Informatics: Carlson, Connor, Sullivan, Ariail (alt. for Schachte)
Nursing: Michel, Margolius, Amella, Stroud, McComb (alt. for Mayo)
Pharmacy: Carson, Cooper, Lorenz, Nappi , Spencer
Staff: Vo
Dr. Reuben welcomed the new senators to the Faculty Senate. (A list of the new senators is available on the web at the following address: http://www.musc.edu/facsen/99senate.htm.). A suggestion was made to have name tags for the next few meetings.
Dr. Reuben thanked Dr. Francine
Margolius for her efforts in conjunction with those of Ben Gilbertson
to establish the electronic balloting for this year's election.
While the overall success of the election process was commendable, the
new technology quickly identified that the "voter turnout" for the election
was rather disappointing. (See Table 1). Dr. Margolius stated that
the turnout this year was probably better than in previous years.
A suggestion was made to review the demographics (i.e. faculty rank) of
the voters to see if only certain groups, especially in the College of
Medicine, were participating.
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A faculty caucus from each college selected one member to be on the Executive Committee. The 1999-2000 Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate is composed of Louis Leite from the College of Dental Medicine, Elizabeth Connor from Library and Informatics, Dan Knapp from COM Basic Sciences, Adrian Reuben from COM Clinical Sciences, Andrea White form Health Professions, Francine Margolius from College of Nursing, and Jason Cooper from College of Pharmacy. From the Executive Committee the Faculty Senate voted on the following officers:
Chair: Adrian Reuben
Vice Chair: Dan Knapp
Secretary: Elizabeth Connor
Other buisness included Dr. Reuben describing last year's Faculty Senate accomplishments. The following is the list of these accomplishments.
- Faculty Handbook approved
- Appointments and Promotions Committee composed
- Review of University budget by Faculty Senate
- Approval of the Annual Chair Evaluation Process, including the questionnaire and mechanism
- Initiate study of appointment, retention, and promotion of women
- Initiative on attraction, appointment and promotion of minorities
- Increased interaction with VPs for Academic Affairs and Finances
- Increased visibility of Faculty Senate through newsletter and Catalyst publication of minutes
- Established electronic voting process for Senate Election
The only other order of business was a report from Dr. Reuben regarding
the search for the new MUSC President. He briefly described the
search process and how and why the external candidates were no longer
under consideration and the circumstances leading to the candidacy of
the three internal candidates. In general, the Senators had concerns
about the process itself, namely that the three internal candidates were
not being compared with any of the external candidates. The senators
were also concerned about the perception of the process within and outside
the University. A motion was made to issue a statement regarding
these concerns to the Board of Trustees. The discussion primarily
focused on the pros and cons that such a statement would have on the situation
at this time. The motion did not pass.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:45 am.
The next meeting will be November
2, 1999 beginning at 7:45 am.