D R A K E U N I V E R S I T Y
Minutes of the Faculty Senate meeting April 28, 2004

The regular meeting of the 2003-2004 Faculty Senate was called to order at 3:30 p.m. by President Nancy Reincke. The following senators were present for all or part of the meeting: Alexander, Bartschat, Courd-Hardi, Dougherty, Esposito, Lovell, Lyons, Morrow, Petersen, Rankin, Reed, Reincke, Rozycki, Schaefer, Vitha, Wade.

The April 2004 minutes were accepted with no contextual changes.

Reports were given by President Maxwell and Provost Troyer. The Senate was made aware of the annual Administrative Retreat to be held in June 2004 which would focus on the Accreditation Process.

Vice President Payseur presented a handout to the Senate which was portions of her April 2004 Budget Report to the Board of Trustees. She highlighted in the handout the Five Year Budget model.

President Reincke gave a report which lead into the Senate’s consideration of tabled motion of 04-11 to dissolve the Institutional Priorities and Review Committee (IPRC). This motion was passed.

Within New Business, the Senate considered motion 04-12: to (Re)Create the Budget Committee. The Senate approved the creation of the Budget Committee as a standing committee of the Senate.

The committee description as sent with the agenda was replaced with a version distributed at the meeting.

The Committee shall be a standing committee of the Faculty Senate. The Committee is charged with monitoring the University budget in order to insure that academic concerns are the central focus in Drake University’s strategic planning and in the translation of those plans into the University’s budget. The Committee shall advise the President and his/her Cabinet and advise the Senate on budget-related Senate actions. The committee gathers information on the budget from the Office of Business and Finance and provides that information to the faculty as a whole through reporting to Faculty Senate. The Committee shall consist of the Faculty Senate President and six to eight faculty members appointed by the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. Terms shall be for three years and shall be staggered. Ideally, the members of the Committee will include at least two of the most recent Faculty Senate Presidents and the faculty representatives on the Board of Trustees’ Business, Finance and Investments Committee and on the Institutional Advancement Committee.

There was one amendment which deleted the phrase ‘to eight’.

The motion to create the Budget Committee passed as amended.

There was a short discussion of the status of the joint venture between the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and College of Business & Public Administration. This issue will be discussed by the Board of Trustees in June.

The University Curriculum Committee’s motion concerning the Summer Calendar was not discussed. The meeting concluded without a decision on the matter.