Faculty Association Senate Minutes

Tuesday, April 10, 2001

 

Attendance:  (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers:  Foster, Fisher, Kalia, Larkin, Butenhoff

IFO Board:  A. Schoenberger, Mork, Hill; Negotiator: Langen

BUSINESS:  (Unit Representative), vacant, (ACCT) vacant, (BCIS) L. Robinson, Song, (FIRE) Ngassam,

(MGMT) Rhee, vacant, (MKGB) Bristow, J.C. Johnson

EDUCATION:  (Unit Representative) T. Peterson, (CFS) Hasslen, (LDR) vacant, vacant, (EDRSH) Jensen,

Downing (HRESS) Palmer, vacant, (MHTSC) Christensen, (HURL) Tademe, (SPED) vacant, vacant, (TDEV) vacant, Tabakin, Hornstein

FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES:  (Unit Representative) Kilborn, (ART) Weston, Aiken (CDSI) Brundage, (ENGL) Dorn, Condon, Robinson, Gordon, (FORL) Boyer, Splittgerber, (COMM) Neff, Rodriguez, (MUSIC) Fuller, Tamte-Horan, (PHIL) Gill, Nuccetelli, (SPEECH) Spry, Minielli, Rehling, (THFD) Chisholm

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Herath, (AVIA) Raiber, (BIOL) Cronn, Gazal,

vacant, (CHEM) Jeannot, Winter, (CSCI) vacant, (ESCI) Hoff, (EE) George, (ETS) Akubue, (ME) Covey, (MATH) Buske, Haller, Carr (PHYS) Nook, Bunn, (STST) M. Johnson, J. Johnson

SOCIAL SCIENCES:  (Unit Representative) Maloney, (CMTY) Karasik, (CJUS) Clifford, (ECON) White,

Grossman, (GEOG) Wall, (HIST) Mullins, (M/WS) R.C. Johnson, (POL) Wagner, (PSYC) DeVoe, (SOWC) Brennan, (SAN) Gold, Ore

SPECIAL SERVICES: Unit Representative) vacant, (COUN) Bates, (LR&TS) S. Williams, C. Byers,

Miltenoff, (MEN’S ATHL) vacant, (WOMEN’S ATHL) Glowatzke

 

1.                    Call to order at 3:25 p.m.

 

2.                    Minutes:

Motion to approve Executive Committee minutes of April 3, 2001 (Larkin/Mork) passed

Motion to approve General Education Committee minutes of March 5, 2001 without the assessment motion on the second page (Larkin/Hoff) passed

Motion to accept the assessment motion (Larkin/Hoff) passed as amended

Motion that we amend the motion to read that “Assessment at SCSU is faculty owned.  How will the administration continue to support and fund assessment at the current level?” (R. C. Johnson/Larkin) passed

University Graduate Committee minutes of March 22, 2001(filed)

 

3.                    Consent Agenda

a.                    Amend FA Constitution to elect two unit representatives to the University Graduate Committee

Motion to approve consent agenda item 3.a. (Schoenberger/Mork) passed

b.                   Faculty research grant and long term grant applications

Motion to approve consent agenda item 3.b. with appreciation to the committee members for the work they have done (Schoenberger/Mork) passed

 

4.                    Treasurer’s Report: no report

 

5.                    Call for additional agenda items

6.g.          Academic Misconduct Policy

6.h.          Allocation model

Motion to move to item 7.t. following the announcements (Tabakin/Aiken) passed

 

6.                    Announcements

a.                    Meet and Confer notes of March 8, and March 29, 2001

Motion to bring to Meet and Confer that according to faculty calculations, graduate programs do not make money with fewer than 23 students (Maloney/Hornstein) passed

c.             Strategic Indicators Analysis

Motion to take item number 8 ‘percentage tenured’ to the next Meet and Confer (Schoenberger/Maloney) passed

d.                   Academic Affairs Budget Review

Motion that we ask at the next Meet and Confer how the findings in the Academic Affairs Budget Review are related to the current deficit and the cuts that faculty are experiencing (Spry/Mork) passed

e.                    Schedule 25 and Daily Schedule

Motion that the suggestion be taken to Meet and Confer that Schedule 25 be used to analyze room and space availability on campus but not to replace decision making and negotiations at the department level (Dorn/Maloney) passed

g.                   Academic Misconduct Policy

Motion to adopt the preliminary report (Dorn/Nook) passed

Motion to amend the Preliminary report to add the following statement: Further, FA demands that the Administration immediately stop current internal proceedings against faculty charged with academic fraud during the course of non-renewal proceedings and turn processing of those charges over to an external impartial review’ (Condon/Schoenberger) passed

 

9.             Adjournment