As of 9/02

STATUS OF ISSUES UNDER ACTIVE CONSIDERATION BY THE FACULTY SENATE

(September 2002-May 2003)

Origin	Item	Responsible	Status
Legal Counsel	Review of compliance policy.	Ad hoc committee chaired by Mike McInerney
Tulsa President	Tulsa strategic plan.	Executive Committee
Faculty Senate	Faculty definition--non-tenured or tenure track. Representation for renewable term, interdisciplinary, graduate faculty staff or non-OU employees. Non-tenure track faculty not represented either on the faculty senate or the staff senate.	Sub-committee chaired by Ed Cline	Sub-committee recommendations under review by Executive Committee
VP Admin. Affairs	Review of retirement options.	Ad hoc committee
President	Revise Faculty Handbook concerning internal administrative hires. There is currently no process for targeted internal hires for senior administrative positions.	Faculty Compensation Committee
Faculty Senate	Salaries: Compression/inversion of mid-career faculty, salaries below national average.	Faculty Compensation Committee
President	Student retention and advising.	Task force as sub-committee of exec. comm. to study faculty issues.	Report to be presented to Faculty Senate fall 2002
Faculty Senate	Legislative relations. Initiatives to get closer and more personal relationships with legislators.	Ad hoc committee chaired by Al Schwarzkopf
Faculty Senate	Research issues: quicker authority to hire outside contractors, fund junior faculty fellowships with private funds, reinstate senior faculty fellowships (replaced with Presidential Professorships?), raise limit on equipment that needs regents approval, graduate fellowships, research on human subjects.	Sub-committee of Research Council chaired by E. Laurette Taylor	Reviewed issue with Lee Williams
Info. Technology	IT policies: e-mail, campus network, acceptable use of information systems, user ID and password.	Information Technology Council	Under review by Legal Counsel
Faculty Senate	White paper on on-line class notes.	Information Technology Council
Faculty Senate	Cost of local phone service for faculty Phone charges, especially international long distance, are much higher than commercial rates.	Information Technology Council	IT negotiating a new contract
Faculty Senate	Social Security numbers on grade sheets. Concern about identity theft.	Information Technology Council	Social Security numbers to be suppressed from grade sheets. New I.D. numbers to be assigned.
Faculty Senate	Revive Campus Planning Council. The council has had little business and no input to long range planning for campus facilities.	Executive Committee
Faculty Senate	OU Child Care facility. Very high quality child care is scarce. This is a retention issue for both faculty and students	Under review by Faculty Welfare Committee
Faculty Senate	Substantive issues concerning discrimination/harassment grievance policy.	Rick Tepker and Legal Counsel to propose language	Proposed language under review by Executive Committee
Faculty Senate	Establish an honor code that students will conduct themselves in an ethical manner concerning homework, exams, attendance, etc.	Executive Committee	Student Congress to propose language
Acad. Prog. Council	Policy on approving on-line courses.	Subcommittee of Academic Programs Council
Provost	Form task force to revise policy on classroom behavior (including cell phone usage). There is currently no guideline in the Faculty Handbook that specifies faculty rights or process for controlling disruptive behavior such as cell phone use in class. Suggest that faculty include a statement in the syllabus.	Executive Committee
Faculty Senate	Better perks needed: free tuition and fees for family, free or reduced fees to campus facilities (Huston Huffman, golf), larger discounts to events, free parking.	Executive Committee