Faculty Association Standing Committees (elected)
 
College, committee members, department and year when terms end, *Chairperson/Convener. Committee members may be replaced for a period of one semester to one year by the FA President with FA Senate approval. 
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Academic Affairs CommitteeGovernment Relations Committee



Admission and Retention CommitteeGraduate Committee  



Budget Review CommitteeGrievance Committee



Committee on the InstitutionInternational Studies Committee



Constitutional Review CommitteeMembership Committee



Delegate Assembly Resolutions CommitteeProfessional Development Committee


Elections Committee
Technology & Pedagogical Resources Committee


Faculty Research Grants Committee
University Curriculum Committee


General Education Committee
 



  


 
Academic Affairs Committee   

A.  Membership: two members elected from each unit or college

B.  Duties: review all college and university policies related to:

  1. Definitions of scholarship/research in order to preserve a broad definition that is consistent with the Master Agreement.
  2. SCSU faculty engaging in scholarly activity/research.
  3. The use of college/university space and equipment for conducting or teaching scholarly activities/research.
  4. Any Academic Affairs related matters not covered by other FA committees.
 

Committee Members
        
    BUS:     Susantha Herath (BCIS/10), Vacant (11)
    ED:     Kathryn Johnson (SPED/09)( 10), Hector Antunez (HPERSS/11)
    FAH:     Bassey Eyo (CMST/09), Chonkyong Kim (ENGL/10)
    S&E:     Vacant (09) , Robert Weisman (EAS/11)
    COSS:     Jan Kircher (SW/09), Elizabeth Talbot (SW/10)
    SPEC:     Chris Inkster (LR&TS/09), Vacant (11)

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Admission and Retention Committee

A. Membership: three members elected from each unit or college

B. Duties: the committee shall develop admission and retention policies, devise appeal procedures, and make recommendations on admission and retention of individual students on appeal

 

Committee Members
    BUS:     Susantha Herath (BCIS/09), Rajesh Gulati (MKG/09), William Hudson (FIRE/10)
    ED:     Nona Wilson (CEEP/09), Daniel Macari (CEEP/09), Vacant (10)
    FAH:     Carol Mohrbacher (ENGL/09), Maria Mikolchak (FORL/10), Raymond Philippot (ENGL/11)
    S&E:     Sandra Johnson (MATH/09), Robert Weisman (EAS/10), Mohammad Mahroof-Tahir (CHEM/11)
    COSS:     Vacant (Sabbatical/09), Mary Glade (HIST/09), Mana Komai (ECON/11)
    SPEC:     Steve Jenkins (COUNS/09), Cari Kenner* (ALC/10), Victoria Williams (ALC/11)

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Budget Review Committee

A.  Membership: two members elected from each unit or college, FA Treasurer, FA President, and FA President-Elect. One representative from each unit or college, chosen from the Senate by the members of the Senate from the unit or college.

B.  Duties:        

  1. Annually review all levels of the university's budgets and expenditures to:  
    a.   Identify any shifts in resource allocation not in accordance with the University's mission, strategic planning, policies, or a specific decision that has gone through the Meet and Confer process.            
    b.   Identify any other possible irregularities with respect to the university's budgets and expenditures.
  2. Review campus budgets and funding methods.
  3. Study the allocation of positions and resources within the university.
 
        

Committee Members
    BUS:     Need Senate Election (09), Susantha Herath (BCIS/10 Unit Election)
    ED:     John Palmer* (HPERSS/09 Unit Election), Stephen Hornstein (TDEV/09 Senate Election)
    FAH:     Debra Japp (CMST/10/Senate Election), David Warne (COMST/11/Unit Election)
    S&E:     Daniel Gregory (CHEM/09 Senate Election), Ralph Carr (MATH/11 Unit Election)
    COSS:     Eungmin Kang (ECON/09 Senate Election), Leslie Valdes (PSYCH/10 Unit Election)
    SPEC:     Need Senate Election (10), Steve Jenkins (COUNS/11 Unit Election)
    Ex Officio:     Current FA President: John Palmer (HPERSS/09)
 President-Elect: Mark Jaede (HIST/09)

Current FA Treasurer: Michael Connaughton (ENGL/08)

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Committee on the Institution

A.  Membership: two members elected from each unit or college     

B.  Duties:

  1. Develop and recommend calendars for each academic year.        
  2. Review and recommend plans for the modification, utilization, and  construction of campus facilities.
  3. Recommend regulations for parking and traffic control.        
  4. Make recommendations for the aesthetic improvement of the campus.        
  5. Make recommendations for the naming of campus facilities. 

Committee Members
    BUS:     Vacant (11), Vacant (11)
    ED:     Vacant (09), Vacant (10)
    FAH:     Diana Rehling (CST/09), Christopher Jordan (FS/10)
    S&E:     Maria Womack (PHYS/10), Anthony Hansen (EAS/11)
    COSS:     Stephen Frank (POL/10), Tracy Ore* (SOC/11)
    SPEC:     Vacant (10), Vacant (11)

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Constitutional Review Committee

A. Membership: one member elected from each unit or college    

B. Duties: the committee shall have the following responsibilities:

  1. Mission: to investigate, analyze, and recommend amendments to the FA constitution and bylaws that improve performance, function, and operation of the FA at SCSU.    
  2. Update and maintain the FA's constitution and bylaws.
  3. Review the necessity, purpose, and duties of all FA standing committees every third year beginning in 1978 and1979; report the findings of its reviews to the FA; and make recommendations to the Faculty Senate.
  4. The chair will be responsible for seeing that the master copy of the constitution and bylaws in the FA office is current and correct. 

Committee Members
    BUS:     Vacant (09)
    ED:     Vacant (09)
    FAH:     Jeffrey Ringer (CST/09)
    S&E:     Gregory Nastrom (EAS/09)
    COSS:     King Banaian (ECON/11)
    SPEC:    Vacant (09)

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Delegate Assembly Resolutions Committee

A. Membership: two members elected from each unit or college. Members shall serve overlapping four-year terms, beginning in odd-numbered years.

B. Duties:

  1. Coordinate and assemble items for the Master Agreement (Contract).
  2. Study and develop data for use in negotiations.
  3. Collect salary information, develop and keep current salary data on bargaining unit or college members, and provide salary proposals for use in negotiations.
  4. Examine current insurance programs and develop concept of rationale for costs of new programs.
  5. Develop policy and position statements about the terms and conditions of faculty employment.
 
Committee Members
    BUS:     Vacant (09), Vacant (11),
    ED:     Vacant (09), Michael Tripp (HURL/11)
    FAH:     Rebecca Crowell (CSD/09), Bill Langen (FORL/09)
    S&E:     Ravindra Kalia (MATH/09), Vacant (11)
    COSS:     Vacant (10), Gary Whitford (SW/11)
    SPEC:     Vacant (09), Robert Reff (COUNS/09)
    Negotiator:     Michael Connaughton (ENGL/10)

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Elections Committee

A.  Membership: two members elected from each unit or college

B. Duties: the committee shall conduct elections for all FA offices and all committees or other elected positions. The committee shall commence its election duties in accordance with Article IV, Section 1; Article IV, Section 1.2; Article IV, Section 4; Article  V, Section 2; and, Article V, Section 6. The committee shall use the following election process:

  1. Nominate at least two candidates for each position to be filled.
  2. After informing the membership of the committee's nominations, afford the membership the opportunity to add other nominees by petition supported by at least 35 FA members.
  3. Schedule the spring election process to start early enough that the membership participates within a reasonable time frame and yet completes the entire process no later than the last week of spring term.
  4. Conduct special elections at the request of the Faculty Senate.
  5. Develop methods to encourage representation of protected class people to be presented for consideration by Faculty Senate.
  6. Notify in writing each of the winners of the election, specifying their terms in office.
 

Committee Members
    BUS:     Vacant (09), Vacant (11)
    ED:     Vacant (09), Karen Thoms (IM/10)
    FAH:     Judy Dorn (ENGL/09), Vacant (10)
    S&E: Nathan Winter (CHEM/09), Ralph Carr* (MATH/11)
    COSS:     Eungmin Kang (ECON/09), Vacant (11)
    SPEC:     Melissa Prescott (LR&TS/09), Vacant (11)

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Faculty Research Grants Committee

A.  Membership: two members elected from each unit or college

B.  Duties: the committee shall devise guidelines for, and make recommendations concerning the allocation of university research funds that have been set aside for faculty research grants, long-term improvement grants, and summer special projects.

 

Committee Members
    BUS:     Sohel Ahmad (MGMT/09), Susantha Herath (BCIS/10)
    ED:     Vacant (11), Frances Kayona (ELCP/11)
    FAH:     Debra Japp* (CMST/10), Kathryn Gainey (ART/10)
    S&E:     Matt Julius (BIOL/09), Jie Hu (CSCI/09)
    COSS:     Jiping Zuo (SOC/09), Stephen Philion (SOC/ANTH/10)
    SPEC:     Robert Reff (COUNS/09), Steve Malikowski (LR&TS/11)

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General Education Committee

A. Membership: Two members elected from each unit or college

B. Duties:

  1. Make recommendations to the University Curriculum Committee concerning general education policies.
  2. Examine the general education program continually for improvement and make recommendations to the University Curriculum Committee for action.
  3. Study, help, develop, and make recommendations concerning effective teaching practices, desirable objectives, and educational consequences in the general education program.
  4. Help in the planning and development of interdepartmental general education courses and assessment.
 

Committee Members
    BUS:    
 Susantha Herath (BCIS/09), Vacant (11)
    ED:    
 Vacant (10), Vacant (11)
    FAH:    
 Carolyn Hartz (PHIL/09), Paula Tompkins (CMST/10)
    S&E:    
 Maureen Tubbiola (BIOL/09), Jean Hoff* (EAS/10)
    COSS:    
 Mary Clifford (POL/09), Mark Jaede (HIST/10)
    SPEC:    
 Vacant (09), Vacant (11)

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Government Relations Committee

A. Membership: two members elected from each unit or college. A balance of political philosophies shall be maintained by this committee.

B. Co-chairs: elected by the committee representing each major political party in the state. They will represent SCSU FA on the IFO Government Relations Committee.

C. Duties:

  1. Develop and maintain, individually and collectively, ongoing contact with all area legislators and with the legislative and administrative leadership in the state.
  2. Study, notify, and advise the faculty of legislation and other governmental actions which will affect faculty employment and the welfare of the university.
  3. Recommend to the Faculty Senate on political measures for discussion and action by the FA.
  4. Prepare in concert with other faculty committees action and activities in support of the passage of legislation related to FA goals and objectives.
  5. Participate with other bargaining units and the student representatives in joint campus efforts related to legislation and governmental actions affecting SCSU; consult and cooperate with IFO, SCSU, MSUSA, etc. lobbyists on issues of common concern.
 

Committee Members
    BUS:     Dien Phan (DFL/09), Vacant (R/10)
    ED:     John Palmer* (HPERSS/R/09), Robert Murphy (CEEP/09)
    FAH:     Vacant (IR/10), David Warne* (CMST/DFL/10)
    S&E:     Jeffrey Johnson (AVIAT/R/09), Annette Schoenberger (CSCI/DFL/10)
    COSS:     Vacant (DFL/09), Vacant (R/10)
    SPEC:     Vacant (R/10), Vacant (DFL/11)

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Graduate Committee

A. Membership: two members elected from each unit or college.

B. Duties: the Graduate Committee shall have the responsibility and right to make recommendations through the University Curriculum Committee to the Faculty Senate as a result of the Graduate Committee's performance of the following duties:

  1. Establish graduate policies, procedures, and regulations in relationship to the general purposes and goals of the Graduate Faculty and the university.
  2. Advise the school of Graduate and Continuing Studies on graduate curriculum and related matters
  3. Evaluate administrative proposals that have graduate curriculum implications (including the initiation, expansion, discontinuation, or reduction of programs or academic units), and make recommendations accordingly.
  4. Review the graduate academic and curricular programs, policies, and practices for improvements and change, and make recommendations accordingly.
  5. Develop criteria and policy for membership and act on recommended appointments to the graduate faculty.
 
Committee Members
    BUS:     Rajesh Gulati (MKTG/10), Janikan Supanvanij (FIRE/11)
    ED:     Kimberly Schulze (ELCP/10), Marcia Thompson (IM/11)
    FAH:     Monica Devers (CST/09), Lisa Heinrich (MASS COMM/10)
    S&E:     Marco Restani (BIOL/10), Michner Bender (ETS/11)
    COSS:     Phyllis Greenberg* (CMTY/10), Mary Pfohl (SW/11)
    SPEC:     Rose Stark (COUNS/10), Cindy Gruwell (LR&TS/11)

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Grievance Committee

A. Membership: a minimum of one member from each unit or college, appointed by the FA President with the approval of the Faculty Senate. Two-year terms with half being appointed each year. Members may be reappointed to continuing terms.

B. Duties:

  1. Elect the chair of the committee each year.
  2. Help grievance officers and chairperson of the committee to pursue and process grievance cases in accordance with Article VI.
  3. Review policy and procedures periodically, recommending changes if necessary.
  4. Establish and maintain a regular reporting relationship with Faculty Senate.
  5. Establish and maintain information on grievances, which maintains the confidentiality of the grievant (unless the grievant grants a release of confidentiality) through the entire process of settlement.
  6. Provide grievance officer training.
  7. Chair schedules regular grievance committee meetings, coordinates committee activities, serves as a contact person for the IFO, assigns grievances to committee members on an equitable basis, assists new grievance officers with their grievances, and provides regular communications to the Faculty Senate.
 

Committee Members
    BUS:    Vacant
    ED:     John Palmer* (HPERSS), Stephen Hornstein (TDEV), Hector Antunez (HPERSS)
    FAH:     Vacant
    S&E:     Annette Schoenberger (CSCI), Jeffrey Johnson (AVIAT)
    COSS:     Eungmin Kang (ECON)
    SPEC:     Thomas Hergert (LR&TS), JoAnn Gasparino (COUNS)

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International Studies Committee

A. Membership: two members elected from each unit or college. If not included among those elected, up to three additional members appointed by the FA President, selected from among former directors of overseas centers, one of whom is a former director of a foreign language and culture center.

B. Duties: the committee shall study policies and programs developed for the university's international study opportunities for both students and faculty, and make recommendations through the Faculty Senate to the university president regarding their development and implementation.

 
Committee Members
    BUS:     Janikan Supanvanij (FIRE/09), Drue Schuler (MKTG/10)
    ED:     Fatemeh Zarghami* (CFS/09), Merton Thompson (IM/11)
    FAH:     James Robinson (ENGL/10), Lisa Heinrich (MASS COMM/11)
    S&E:     Jack McKenna (CHEM/10), Jeff Chen (MATH/11)
    COSS:     Robert Lavenda (SOC/ANTH/09), Asapsia Rigopoulou-Melcher (CMTY/11)
    SPEC:     Tom Hergert (LR&TS/09), Sandra Q. Williams (LR&TS/09)
Former Overseas Center Directors: Jo Ann Asquith (MKGB)
Former FORL Director: Gloria Melgarejo (FORL)

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Membership Committee

A. Membership: members shall be appointed by the FA President with the approval of the Faculty Senate.

B. Duties:

  1. Plan activities and materials for new faculty.
  2. Develop and implement membership campaigns.
  3. Check membership lists for fair-share assessments.

No one is on the committee at this time

Vacant
Vacant
Vacant

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Professional Development Committee

A. Membership: two members elected from each unit or college.

B. Duties: review and make recommendations on faculty applications for sabbatical leaves, Faculty Improvement Grants, Professional Improvement Grants, and Bush Grants.

 
Committee Members
    BUS:     Susantha Herath (BCIS/10), Vacant (11)
    ED:     Ming-Chi Own (CFS/10), Elaine Ackerman (CEEP/11)
    FAH:     Gloria Melgarejo (FORL/10), Maria Mikolchak (FORL/11)
    S&E:     Darlene Copley (NURS/09), Nathan Winter (CHEM/11)
    COSS:     Jason Lindsey (POL/09), Debra Gold (SOC/ANTH/10)
    SPEC:     Christine Inkster (LR&TS/10), Jan Gembol (COUNS/11)

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Technology & Pedagogical Resources Committee

A. Membership: two members elected from each unit or college.

B. Duties

  1. Promote the development and use of technology and pedagogical resources on campus, e.g., including, but not limited to, computers, library books, classroom supplies for academic programs.
  2. Review the formulation of the budgetary and general policies for technology and pedagogical resources on campus and make recommendations to the Faculty Senate.
  3. Solicit information from faculty regarding campus needs and issues related to technology and pedagogy.
  4. Provide information regarding policies and practices related to technology and pedagogical resources to the faculty.
  5. Recommend technology and pedagogical resource policies for acquisitions, usage, and repair.
  6. Provide feedback to the Learning Resource and Technology Services faculty on policy recommendations and changes.
 
Committee Members
    BUS:     Changsoo Sohn )BCIS/09), Doug Polley (MGMT/09)
    ED:     Vacant (08), Kathleen Ofstedal (CFS/09)
    FAH:     Scott Miller (MUSIC/09), Marcelyn Smale (MUSIC/11)*
    S&E:     Mark Petzold (ECE/09), Kate Pound (ESCI/09)
    COSS:     Marlene DeVoe (PSYC/10), David Switzer (ECON/11)
    SPEC:     Tom Hergert (LR&TS/09), Melissa Prescott (LR&TS/11)

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University Curriculum Committee

A. Membership: two representatives from each unit or college, chosen by each College Curriculum Committee. In addition, the General Education Committee and the Graduate Committee will each choose one representative.

B. Duties: this committee shall make recommendations to the Faculty Senate as a result of its performance of the following duties:

  1. Act for the faculty in matters related to curriculum in the manner described in the agreement between MnSCU and the IFO.
  2. Establish curriculum policy in relationship to general university purposes and goals.
  3. Examine the curriculum continuously for possibilities of improvement and make recommendations accordingly.
  4. Review, coordinate, and act upon all university curriculum proposals.
  5. Establish and act upon academic policies related to curriculum, such as evaluation of students and graduation requirements.
  6. Aid in establishing guidelines and transmittal procedures for submitting curriculum proposals
  7. Study and evaluate instructional problems and make recommendations accordingly.
  8. Hear appeals on any curriculum matter.
  9. Review and make recommendations on proposals concerning External Studies and Continuing Education.
 
Committee Members
    BUS:    Gary Yoshimoto (BCIS), Vacant
    ED:     Christine Imbra (EDAD), Therese Sheehan* (HPERSS)
    FAH:     Michael Hasbrouck (FORL), Vacant
    S&E:     William Branson (MATH), Vacant
    COSS:     Christopher Lehman (ETH), Aspasia Rigopoulou-Melcher (CMTY)
    ORPHANS:     Vacant
    GEN ED:     Paula Tompkins (CMST)
    GRAD COM:     Phyllis Greenberg (CMTY)

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