THE NEWSLETTER
THE NEWSLETTER is the Faculty/Staff newsletter of Stetson University, DeLand, Florida 32720, and is published each Friday. All items
for THE NEWSLETTER should be sent to Magie Dobson, Office of Academic Affairs, Unit 8358, not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday of each week.
OCTOBER 8, 1999
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Friday, October 8
Monday-Tuesday, October 11-12
Friday, October 15
Tuesday, October 19
8:00 p.m.
Noon - 1:15 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
The Life of Lue Gim Gong
Cultural Arts Center
FALL BREAK (no classes)
University Faculty Meeting-SR
Fall 1999 Lecture Series--AH
The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
ANNOUNCEMENTS
UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEETING-Friday, October 15, Noon-1:15 p.m.. Stetson Room. Agenda items include:
(1) Recommendation from the Faculty Senate to change the quorum for University meetings, and (2) Faculty salary
report presented by Dr. John Tichenor, Director, Institutional Research. A light lunch will be served beginning at
11:45 p.m.
AGENDA ITEM #1. Upon the recommendation of the Faculty Senate By-Laws Committee (Jane Bradford, Chair),
the Faculty Senate at its October 4, 1999, meeting unanimously passed the following change in quorum and will
ask the University Faculty to vote:
CURRENT QUORUM: (APPENDIX C: UNIVERSITY FACULTY BYLAWS)
7.4 A quorum shall consist of 40% of full-time faculty plus one.
PROPOSED QUORUM:
7.4 A quorum shall consist of 60 persons eligible to vote.
(Note: Sixty persons represent approximately one-third of the current, full-time faculty on the DeLand campus.
This number is 183 according to the Office of Institutional Research).
AGENDA ITEM #2. Dr. John Tichenor, Director, Institutional Research, will present a faculty salary report. He will
present longitudinal data on faculty salaries on the DeLand Campus since 1996 when the Faculty Compensation
Task Force was formed.
From: Jim Woodward, Chair, Council of Deans
FACULTY, STAFF, AND ADMINISTRATORS: An updated version of the proposed University Mission Statement
is posted in the Stetson Intranet at (https://beret.stetson.eduSUMission.html). This revision takes into account
comments made by students and faculty, both at recent forums and individually, but it does not yet incorporate
comments from staff members. A forum for staff members has been scheduled for Friday. October 15. 7:30 -
9:00 a.m. in the Stetson Room. Members of the committee will be there to lead the discussion. Please direct your
comments regarding this latest version of the University Mission Statement to the Co-Chairs of the SACS Self-
Study Institutional Purpose Committee, Greg McCann and Diane Everett.
From: Diane Everett. Chair. Faculty Senate
