President Eugene Atkinson called the meeting to order at 3:30 P.M. Twenty senators were present. Sandy Johnson and Teresa Davidian were absent.

1. After senator introductions were done, the Senate welcomed guests David Sweeney, Student Government President and Andrea Trinque, Staff Council President.
David Sweeney spoke of his desire to have a good working relationship with the Faculty Senate. He presented one item that he wants Student Government to pursue which is the posting of all course syllabi on the web.

Andrea Trinque spoke of her goals for the Staff Council and announced upcoming events sponsored by the Staff Council.

2. Approval of Minutes
Upon motion by Linda Duncan, the Senate approved the minutes of the May 9, 2000 meeting.

3. Treasurer's Report.
The Treasurer reported a balance of $3522.18. The president asked the treasurer to prepare a budget showing past expenses and anticipated future expenses.

4. Selection of Parliamentarian
C.B. Pippin moved that David Weissenburger be elected Senate Parliamentarian. The motion passed unanimously.

5. Discussion of Senate Calendar
There are several dates on the Faculty Senate calendar that fall on dates that may not be convenient. President Gene Atkinson suggested that we leave consideration of changing those dates to later in the semester when we can more easily evaluate our needs for a meeting.

6. Committee Reports
A. Summer Academic Council - Linda Duncan
There was no summer meeting of the council. With regard to the proposed addendum to the Tarleton State University Handbook for Faculty and Administrative Staff which was approved in March and was on the agenda for the summer, Linda stated that most summer agenda items had been dropped. She said she would try to get the amendment of the agenda for October.
There was some concern from Dr. Alexander regarding how items needing Faculty Senate approval would be dealt with in the summer months.

B. Developmental Leave Committee-Linda Duncan
No action has yet been taken on this item and it will be referred to the Dean's Council at the request of Dr. Alexander. The Dean's Council determines the agenda for the Academic Council meetings. Linda will follow-up on this matter. President Atkinson had a recent meeting with Dr, Alexander who informally stated that he approved of the Developmental Leave idea. The committee overseeing this item will remain together.

C. Calendar Committee - Linda Duncan
Linda spoke to Mallory Young, Chair of the Calendar Committee. There has been no action on the new calendar as of yet.

D. Distance Learning Evaluations and Faculty Workload - Janis Petronis
At the May 2000 senate meeting, Ms. Benedda Konvicka reported on faculty evaluation sheets for distance learning courses. A number of additional concerns related to distance learning were raised and a committee appointed to deal with them. This committee did not meet over he summer, but Janis will follow-up on these issues.
Dennis Jones reminded the Senate that there had been a Senate resolution passed in 1997 dealing with distance learning that had never been acted upon by administration. The Senate Executive Board will look into the old resolution.

E. Retreat on Tarleton Center
Teresa Davidian was scheduled to give a report on this activity, but was ill and not present. David Weissenburger reported that the retreat included a review of accomplishments. After breaking into discussion groups the group developed a list of issues.

F. Faculty Evaluations Committee
There was no meeting held over the summer.

G. Texas Council of Faculty Senates - Gene Atkinson
Gene reported that the Council has a web page where minutes from all Senates for all Texas schools are kept. www.facultysenates.org

The 1st meeting will be Oct 13-14 and Teresa Davidian and Gene Atkinson will attend.
The 2nd meeting will be in February.

A motion was made by Linda Duncan to approve payment of dues (approx $300) to the Texas Council of Faculty Senates. The motion passed unanimously.

7. Committee appointments for 2000-2001
A.B.C. President Atkinson noted that according to the Senate by-laws, appointments to the Curriculum, EEO/AA and Benefits Committees are to be made at the first meeting of the Academic year. Since appointments to these committees had been made in May of last year, he asked that the Senate ratify the appointments.
Curriculum Committee representative Janis Petronis
EEO/AA Committee representative Teresa Davidian
Benefits Committee representative Leslie Stanley Stevens

D. President Atkinson also noted that an administrative Confidence Committee was to be appointed. This consists of three individuals and an alternate each from different colleges. All must be tenured faculty with no administrative responsibility and at least one must be a Senate member. A complicating factor is that with the redistribution there are now five colleges. Janis Petronis made a motion to defer appointing this committee until the by-laws could be resolved. The motion passed unanimously.

E. The Faculty Advisory Committee needs five members and five alternates, each pair representing a different college. They must be full-time, tenured faculty and may not be on the Promotion and Tenure Committee. Each of the Colleges caucused and suggested names for this committee. President Atkinson will contact those nominated to see if they are willing to serve.

F. The committee appointments having just been announced, a comparison of senate suggestions to actual appointments will be done for next meeting.

8. Awards
A. No winner has yet been announced for the Regent's Award.

B. The Piper nominations are due November 21st. Teresa Davidian will be in charge of forms.

C. The Arthur Awards process usually starts in January.

9. The Senate Constitution and By-laws are in need of revising. A committee was appointed to work on the revisions. Teresa Davidian will chair. Dennis Jones and Linda Duncan will serve on the committee.

10. Concerns have been expressed over changes at CITDL. This includes a concern over the fact that the Center has gone out of the media business. Concerns were expressed over the disposal of equipment, lack of support for using equipment, and questions about maintenance of equipment particularly that in shared areas. Other concerns related to memos from the CITDL which led to some confusion over who and how distance learning courses are taught. Dennis Jones, a member of the CITDL Advisory Council, reported that they had recommended to the Dean's Council that Department heads have the right of approval. Janis Petronis agreed to forward these concerns to Joann Wheeler.

11. SACS Committees
The SACS report is due the end of this week. This item was deferred until next meeting.

12. Senate Luncheon
The Senate will sponsor a luncheon in late October or November.
TACT is sponsoring a luncheon October 5 featuring both state legislative candidates.

13. Other
Janice Whitley asked why there seemed to be such room schedule problems this semester. This will be looked into.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:50 PM.