Faculty Senate

U.F. Faculty Senate Newsletter

January, 2005
     Issue #2

Thanks to your increased participation, the business of the Faculty Senate is moving forward. Attendance to Senate meetings is increasing, with 94 Senators present at the December meeting. Participation in the Council elections has also been impressive with 110 senators casting their votes.

The Policy Councils are becoming increasingly involved in University affairs. Their excellent groundwork is an auspicious beginning to true shared faculty governance.

In this newsletter we are starting a new feature "Laudamus", which highlights the national awards and achievements of faculty members. This month we recognize the faculty awardees in the College of Engineering.

University-wide elections to the Faculty Senate will be held in a few months, and we need to make sure they are run according to our Constitution. We must also ensure that faculty compensation continues to be addressed with the same vigor as in 2004.

The Faculty Senate has its own office in Tigert Hall and Administrative Assistant, Mrs. Christie Hennigan, as well as a budget. Such tangible developments would not have happened without the help of President Machen and of (then Provost) David Colburn.

I hope that this year, the Senate will begin to play a greater role in addressing the strategic and academic issues that face us.

Council on Academic Freedom, Faculty Quality & Faculty Welfare
•    Mike Katovich, Professor, Pharmacodynamics - Three Year Term
•    Rebecca Pauly, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine - Three Year Term
•    Reza Abbaschian, Professor, Materials Science - Two Year Term
•    Doug Cenzer, Professor, Mathematics - Two Year Term
•    Joseph Layon, Professor, Anesthesiology - One Year Term
•    Chris Snodgrass, Professor, English - One Year Term

Council on Academic Infrastructure & Support
•    Peggy Carr, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture - Three Year Term
•    Lisa McElwee-White, Professor, Chemistry - Three Year Term
•    David Bloomquist, Associate Professor, Civil & Coastal Engineering - Two Year Term
•    Scott Nygren, Associate Professor, English - Two Year Term
•    Jerry Cutler, Professor, Art & Art History - One Year Term
•    Bryan Weber, Assistant Professor, Nursing Adult & Elderly Care - One Year Term

Council on Academic Planning, Budgeting & Resource Allocation
•    Frank Bova, Professor, Neurological Surgery - Three Year Term
•    Colette St. Mary, Associate Professor, Zoology - Three Year Term
•    Jim Pettigrew, Associate Professor, Dentistry - Two Year Term
•    George Wilson, Associate Professor, Community Health & Family Medicine - Two Year Term
•    Ellis Greiner, Professor, Pathobiology - One Year Term
•    Naomi Young, Assistant Librarian - One Year Term

Council on Academic Policy, Curriculum & Structure
•    Donna Duckworth, Professor, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology - Three Year Term
•    John "Jack" Mecholsky, Professor, Materials Science & Engineering - Three Year Term
•    Joan Frosch, Associate Professor, Theatre & Dance - Two Year Term
•    Luise White, Professor, History - Two Year Term
•    Cal Dolce, Associate Professor, Dentistry - One Year Term
•    Anita Spring, Professor, Anthropology - One Year Term

Council on Academic Research & Scholarship
•    Mary Ann Burg, Associate Professor, Community Health & Family Medicine - Three Year Term
•    Saeed Khan, Professor, Medicine - Three Year Term
•    Karen Bjorndal, Professor, Zoology - Two Year Term
•    Richard Yost, Professor, Chemistry - Two Year Term
•    Brandon Kershner, Professor, English - One Year Term
•    Jim Rodrigue, Professor, Clinical & Health Psychology - One Year Term

All information pertaining to Policy Councils can be found on the Faculty Senate website at http://www.senate.ufl.edu/councils

• Ad Hoc Committee on Tenure,
  Dr. James Klausner
  Recommendation Number Eight
  "College level tenure and promotion boards shall provide recorded individual assessments to the college deans as part of their fact finding and consultative role in the review of promotion and tenure cases. An individual assessment shall consist of a college tenure and promotion board member indicating whether or not the candidate meets the standards required for tenure and/or promotion within that college, and that assessment shall become part of the tenure and promotion packet. The individual assessors shall not be identified in the tenure and promotion packet."
  PASSED
  
  
• New Department: College of Medicine,
  Dr. Timothy Flynn
  Department of Aging & Geriatric Research
  PASSED
  
  
• Constitution Committee,
  Danaya Wright
  Constitutional Language for Policy Councils
  Voting members of each Council shall consist of six (6) members elected by the Senate from the Senate membership, one member will be appointed by the President or the President's designee, and the
  Chairperson of each Contributing Committee. The Chairs of Related Committees to a Council shall serve as non-voting members of those Councils with the right to propose inquiries and other actions.
  Council members elected by the Senate serve three-year staggered terms. If an elected Council member's Senate term expires before the Council term, the member will continue to serve on the Council until the end of the three-year Council term.
  PASSED
  
  
• Graduate Council, Dr. Ken Gerhardt
  Master of Science with Major in Decision Information Sciences
  PASSED
  
  

• Ad Hoc Committee on Sustainability,
  Dr. Les Thiele
  Committee Resolutions
  
  1. The University of Florida shall establish a university-level Office of Sustainability to serve as a clearinghouse and coordinator of administrative, academic and research sustainability initiatives.
  2. The Sustainability Committee shall be empanelled as a permanent joint-committee with modifications to membership and charge:
  3. The University of Florida shall provide interim funding to maintain the ongoing programs and activities of the existing Office of Sustainability within the College of Design, Construction and Planning. Ongoing programs and activities include, but are not limited to the following: 1) Zero-Waste Initiative with UAA and the Physical Plant Division; 2) campus-wide Carbon Neutrality program; and 3) academic teaching and conferences.
  
  
• University Curriculum Committee,
  Dr. Sheila Dickison
  Degree Title Change - B.S. in Applied Physiology & Kinesiology
  

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
This month we recognize the College of Engineering and those faculty members who have recently
been presented Awards, Honors & Recognitions.

REZA ABBASCHIAN Chairman and Vladimir A. Grodsky Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering 2003 American Society of Engineering Education - Donald E. Marlowe Award

ELIF AKCALI Assistant Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering 2004 Society of Manufacturing Engineers - M. Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award

TIMOTHY ANDERSON Professor Chemical Engineering The American Institute of Chemical Engineers - 2003 George Lappin Award

ROBERT DEHOFF Professor Emeritus Materials Science & Engineering 2005 Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Educator Award

ELLIOT DOUGLAS Associate Professor Materials Science & Engineering University of Florida's Teacher of the Year Award

GREG SAWYER Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Burt L. Newkirk Award

STEVE PEARTON Distinguished Professor Materials Science & Engineering Electrochemical Society's Electronics Division Award

CAROL LEHTOLA Associate Professor Agricultural & Biological Engineering The American Society of Agricultural Engineers has named Carol J. Lehtola winner of the 2004 NAMIC Engineering Safety Award

Six engineering assistant professors received highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards in 2004. CAREER awards support the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who are most likely to be academic leaders in the 21st century.

Jason Butler, Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Dynamics, Rheology and Microrheology of Rigid Polymers and Brownian Fibers

Jason Weaver, Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering Growth Properties and Reactivity of Oxygen Phases on Noble Metal Catalysts

Christopher Jermaine, Assistant Professor Computer & Information Science & Engineering New Technologies for Online Aggregation

Markus Schneider, Assistant Professor Computer & Information Science & Engineering Database Integration of Space, Time and Uncertainty as a Foundation for Geographical Information Systems

Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen, Assistant Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering Designing Integrated Supply Chain Systems and Practical Market Mechanisms

Brian Mann, Assistant Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Measurement and Predictive Dynamics of Mesoscale Milling

JANUARY 2005
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
						1 New Year's Day
2	3 2:00-3:30pm Academic Freedom, Tenure, Professional Relations & Standards Committee, 1151 McCarty Hall	4 Classes Begin	5	6	7 Elections End	8
9	10 9:30-10:30amLakes, Vegetation, & Landscaping Committee, 232 Stadium **Newly Elected Policy Council Members begin Term**	11	12 3:00-4:30pm Ad Hoc Compensation Committee, 239 Tigert Hall	13 3:00-5:00pm Senate Steering Committee, 226 Tigert Hall	14 12:00-1:00pm Council on Academic Policy, Curriculum & Structure w/ Interim Provost Glover, 239 Tigert Hall 9:00 - 4:00pm ACFS Meeting	15
16	17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day - UF Closed	18	19 12:00-1:00pm Council on Academic Freedom, Faculty Quality & Faculty Welfare w/ Provost Glover, 239 Tigert Hall 3:30 - 5:00pm Ad Hoc Sustainability Committee, 304 Rinker Hall	20 3:00-5:00pm Faculty Senate Meeting Reitz Union Auditorium	21	22
23	24 12:00-1:00pm Council on Academic Planning, Budget & Resource Allocation w/ Provost Glover, 239 Tigert Hall	25	26	27	28 12:00-1:00pm Council on Academic Research & Scholarship w/ Provost Glover, 239 Tigert Hall	29
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All Senators, Deans, Faculty (and others) are encouraged to check the Faculty Senate website, (http://www.senate.ufl.edu) for updated information and postings.
All meeting times, locations and agendas will be posted in advance of the meeting, and minutes following, in a timely manner.