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April 15, 2005 Senate rules on adjunct requestsby Diana Pounds The Faculty Senate approved a construction engineering program request to offer adjunct instructor positions, but balked at an animal science department request to hire adjuncts during its April 12 meeting. Construction engineering program officials sought the adjunct positions for Ph.D. candidates who have supervisory experience in the construction industry. Charles Jahren, associate professor in civil, construction and environmenal engineering, noted that many incoming construction engineering students have construction experience and that instructors with industry experience would be an asset in the classroom. Animal science department officials sought two adjunct instructor positions for Ph.D. candidates who would assist with teaching, advising and recruiting. "We would like to add a couple of people that would greatly enhance our teaching efforts in the evaluation of livestock," animal science professor Pete Hoffman said. The difference between the two proposals in senators' eyes appeared to be the rationale for requesting adjunct instructors and the term limits (or lack thereof) on their appointments. Sen. Bill Woodman, sociology, said the construction engineering proposal had merit because the program was seeking adjunct instructors with special skills different from the faculty on staff. The animal science department proposal, he added, appeared to be a way to hire help to get the teaching done. Sen. Gregory Palermo, architecture, said he sympathized with the animal science department's "dilemma" (keeping up with teaching overloads), but added its "proposal was largely founded on the lack of FTEs." Another sticking point for senators in the animal science proposal was its lack of term limits on the adjunct instructors. The construction engineering proposal stipulated a maximum appointment length of five years, based on yearly contracts. In other business, the senate:
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