October 24, 1995




MINUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE MEETING, October 11, 1995


ROLL CALL:    

Present: Susan C. Anderson, Susan R. Anderson, Anderson-Inman, 
Baugh, Baumgold, Boyd, Bybee, Degge, Fisher, Flores, Frahs, Girling, 
Goldman, Grosenick,Haynes, Heinzkill, Horner, Koch, Levi, Murphy, 
Nicholson, Osorio, Parmentier, Payne, Sarosa, Simonds, Stave, 
Stirling, Summers, Tomlin, Tubbs, Whitlock, Williams.

Excused: Baker, Greene, Holland, Partch.

Absent:  Earl, Hosticka, Krishnamurthy, Lachman, Lisnenbee, Martin, 
Moursund, Seitz, Spencer, Trombley.

CALL TO ORDER/APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Senate President Paul Simonds called the meeting to order at 3:15 
p.m., in Pacific 123 on Wednesday October 11, 1995.  

President Simonds explained that the University Senate at the May 24, 
1995 meeting failed to have a quorum but several pieces of legislation 
was given tentative approval and officers, who would serve during the 
Fall of l995, were tentatively elected.  The President explained that at 
this point the election of officers had to be verified.  The May 24, 1995 
election resulted in Paul Simonds, Anthropology, being elected President 
of the University Senate and Carl Bybee, Journalism and Communication, 
being elected Vice President of the University Senate.  

President Simonds asked if any objection was to be made to the 
confirmation of the election of these two individuals.  No objection was 
made.  Through a show of hands the Senate confirmed the election of 
Simonds as President and Bybee as Vice President.

President Simonds stated that the minutes of the May 24, 1995 meeting 
also had legislation that had been approved on a tentative basis and that 
it was now necessary to have the legislation voted up-or-down at this 
time.  

The first such legislation was the adoption of the "Guidelines for 
Good Practice in Graduate Education."  This is not true legislation 
and thus the Senate just "adopted" or "approved" the document.  
After a short explanation the "Guidelines" were adopted. 
The Committee on Committees report from May 24, 1995 was the next order 
of business and the acceptance of the report--as amended--was confirmed 
by the Senate.  (Please see the May 24, 1995 minutes for all of the details.)

Next came a motion to revise the membership of the Committee on the 
Curriculum.  The May 24, 1995 Senate had accepted the changes and in this 
October meeting the Senate confirmed these changes.  (See the minutes 
from the May 24, 1995 meeting for the details.)

At the May meeting Vice Provost Lorraine Davis presented a revised 
version of the long discussed and often revised "Report of the 
Senate Committee on Faculty Rewards and Development."  The Report 
was adopted by the Senate in May and in this October 11, meeting of the 
Senate that adoption was confirmed. (See the May 24, 1995 minutes for the 
details.)

The last item left from the May 24, 1995 meeting needing confirmation or 
rejection at this meeting of the Senate was a report on the Affirmative 
Investigation Procedures.  The report was "accepted without 
objection" in May and this was ratified by this Senate in October.  
(See the May 24, 1995 minutes for the details.)

With these votes out of the way the minutes of the April 12, 1995 
meeting of the Senate, which had been tentatively approved at the May 24, 
1995 meeting, were now presented for final approval.  This was done.  Now 
the May 24, 1995 minutes were ready for approval and they were approved 
without dissension.  

OLD BUSINESS

A motion from Ms. Elaine Green, Student Conduct Coordinator, was 
made.  

Motion to amend OAR 571-21-030 (22)

Offenses 571-21-030

Disciplinary action may be initiated by the University and sanctions 
imposed against any student or student organization found guilty of 
committing, attempting to commit, or intentionally assisting in the 
commission of any of the following prohibited forms of conduct:

(1) - (21)  unchanged

(22) Prohibited discrimination, discriminatory harassment and sexual 
harassment as defined relevant to student conduct in OAR 571-03-025.

It was pointed out that the Senate will not vote this up or down as the 
next step, after Senate review and approval will be have the amendment to 
the rule follow the regular OAR process and eventually have the Secretary 
of State promulgate the amendment to the rule.

Ms. Green pointed out that the purpose of this amendment was to 
clarify that violation of the University's policy on sexual harassment by 
students is enforceable as a volition of the Student Conduct Code.  The 
sexual harassment policy, OAR 571-03-025 makes reference to the Code, but 
currently the Code contains no direct reference to the sexual harassment 
policy.

The Senate voted to approve this amendment and to send it on its 
way toward ultimate promulgation.

NEW BUSINESS

President Simonds presented the names of those he has asked to 
serve on the Committee on Committees for 1995-96.

Paula Burkhart, Research and Sponsored Programs
Gaylene Carpenter, PPPM
Ed Coleman, English
Dianne Dugaw, English
Judith Eisen, Biology
John Reynolds, Architecture
George Sugai, Special Education
Joe Wade, Academic Advising
Anita Weiss, International Studies

(Burkhart, Coleman, Dugaw, Eisen, Reynolds and Sugai are continuing members.)

The Senate approved the appointments as listed.

President Simonds announced that the following had accepted 
appointment to the Senate committee noted:

Senate Executive Committee: Paul Simonds, President; Carl Bybee, Vice 
President; Judith Grosenick, Education; Susan C. Anderson, Germanic 
Languages; Kanealii Osorio, Student Senate.

Senate Rules Committee: Maury Holland, Law; Isabel Stirling, Science 
Library; James Earl, English; Martin Fisher, Student Senate.

Senate Nominating Committee: Cynthia Girling, AAA; Richard Koch, 
Mathematics; Deborah Baumgold, Political Science; needs a student 
member.

The Senate accepted the composition of these committees.  President 
Simonds did emphasize the lack of a student on the Nominating Committee 
and asked for a Student Senator to contact him about the vacancy.

The next item on the agenda was a discussion of the by-laws of 
the University Senate.  (A portion of the by-laws includes the Organic 
Rules that the University Assembly has enacted as the base of the 
University Senate.  These Organic Rules cannot be changed or altered by 
the Senate.  Another part of the by-laws consists of portions of the Open 
Meetings Law of the State of Oregon.  Since these are from State Law they 
too cannot be amended or changed in any way what-so-ever by the Senate. 
The by-law portion of the document contains items that govern the 
internal workings of the University Senate.  The Senate, as time goes by, 
does have the authority to change these internal rules without any 
reference to the University Assembly.  Special Rules require a two-thirds 
vote and standing rules requires a majority vote.)

A number of Student Senators wanted to have the provision that 
allocates 5 University Senate positions to representation from the 
Student Senators repealed and replaced by the number 9.  The number 9 
represents the actual number of student senators elected by an academic 
constituency.  President Simonds explained that the Assembly established 
the number at 5 after much debate and several votes.  The number cannot 
be changed by the Senate.  This is an area that only the University 
Assembly can change.  He further pointed out that the rules and by-laws 
under discussion will govern the University Senate as of January 1, 1996 
and thereafter.  In the present University Senate the Student Senate has 
18 representatives.

The revised rules and by-laws were accepted by a show of hands 
indicating 16 in favor and 11 opposed.  These rules and by-laws are 
effective on January 1, 1996 and thereafter.

REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT

President David Frohnmayer was recognized and he made a short 
presentation concerning the proposals floating around that would attempt 
to initiate an alteration in public higher education organization in the 
State of Oregon.  His response indicated that without additional 
resources reorganization was meaningless.  One cannot do more with less 
and the OSSHE has been attempting to do this since the enactment of 
Measure 5.  The State must invest more in public higher education if it 
is to meet the demands that will be made of it in the immediate future.  
None of the proposals on reorganization are locked in concrete and 
everything is under discussion.  It is important to remember that the 
Governor is a player and has a group working on other ideas.  Any changes 
that might take place are a long way down the line and then only after 
thorough debate, deliberation and contemplation.

REPORT ON THE INTERINSTITUTIONAL FACULTY SENATE

President Simonds discussed briefly the recent meeting of 
representatives from PAC-10 schools that recently held a meeting on the U 
O campus.  The people at the meetings represented the faculty governance 
structures on the schools they represented.  The following is a statement 
on equal access and diversity that this group endorsed.  President 
Simonds explained the purpose of the statement and did not request any 
vote on the statement.

The statement:

Both access and diversity are essential to the mission of higher 
education and its role of serving society.  As we move toward the 
Twenty-First Century, higher education must be accessible to all 
regardless of race, ethnicity, class or gender.  accordingly, we reaffirm 
in the strongest possible terms our support for educational access and 
opportunity for all representing our rich and diverse cultures.  
Society's most fundamental interest requires that all students be 
educated to their fullest potential.

Although the gains in minority and female representation on higher 
education campuses are significant, affirmative action efforts must 
continue to move toward a truly diverse work force.  In summary, we are 
committed to nurturing a maximizing the talents of all people and their 
ethnic cultures, and we reaffirm our educational obligations to promote 
diversity on behalf of the greater good of society.  Representative of 
both the PAC-10 Faculty Leaders and PAC-10 Affirmative Actin Directors 
reaffirm their commitment to the goals of affirmative actin and equal 
employment opportunity for all qualified individuals in the work force.

ADJOURNMENT

The business of the meeting of the meeting having concluded the 
meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.

Keith Richard
Secretary