FA Executive Committee Minutes

Tuesday, February 27, 2001

Attendance:  (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers:  President Foster, past President Kalia, President-elect Fisher, Secretary Larkin,

Treasurer Butenhoff

IFO Board Members:  Hill, Mork, A. Schoenberger

Unit Representatives:  COB vacant, COE T. Peterson, FAH Kilborn, CSE Herath, CSS Maloney, SS vacant

Guest:  Bill Langen, Negotiator

1.  Call to order at 3:15

2. New agenda items

                5b. Search process for VP for Academic Affairs

                5c. Substitute motion for censure

                5d. HCOB MBA Compensation recommendations

5e. Negotiations Report

5f. Chair Development Workshop Survey

3. Minutes:

Executive Committee minutes of Feb. 13, 2001 were approved at Faculty Senate.

Motion to approve meet and confer minutes of Feb 8 (Kilborn/Mork) postponed

Motion to approve meet and confer minutes of Feb. 8 with editorial changes to be made by FA Secretary (Kilborn/Mork)

4. Treasurer’s Report: no report

Motion to move to 5a Executive Session (Fisher /Schoenberger) passed

5.a.          Personnel and staffing issues

Motion to leave Executive Session and report out motions (Schoenberger/Mork) passed

Motion to send subcommittee reports on office personnel to Wil Harri for feedback after making editorial changes (Schoenberger/Mork) passed           

Motion that the subcommittee resume work after receiving the feedback from the IFO office (Maloney/Mork) passed

   b.          Search process    

Motion that the FAEC reconfirm its commitment to faculty participation in the search for an Academic VP to succeed Dr. Suzie Williams (Maloney/Kalia)

Motion to substitute the following motion for the prior motion (passed )

Motion to refer prior motion to the Faculty Senate for a decision on Tuesday March 6^th (Fisher/Schoenberger) passed 7-3-1

Motion to move agenda to 5e (Fisher/Larkin) passed

e. Negotiations report-Bill Langen

Motion to move agenda to 7a (Fisher/Larkin) passed

7.a.          Inter Union Association

5.c.          Motion to censure (no action)

5.d.          MBA Compensation Recommendations

Motion to refer to the IFO central office for review and identification of probable contract violations.  (Kalia/Schoenberger)passed.

5.f.           Chair Development Workshop Survey

Motion that this be on the meet and confer agenda: “status of planning for chair development workshop” (Maloney/Mork) passed

6.n.          Assessment of Prior Learning Draft Policy and Procedures (to be put on Faculty Senate agenda)

6.b.          Director of Records and Registration

Motion that a copy of the job description for the Director of Records and Registration be requested at Meet and Confer (Maloney/Larkin) passed

6.m.         Course availability issues

Motion to remove from agenda items 6l and 6m (Larkin/Mork) passed

5.g.          FA Executive Committee request for mediation

Motion  that we reaffirm our request for a mediation on the grievance process  (Kilborn/Schoenberger)passed unanimously

 6.n.         Assessment of prior learning

 6.o.         Template for articulation agreements

Motion to refer agenda items 6n and 6o to FA Academic Affairs committee (Schoenberger/Fisher) passed

Motion to move agenda to 6d (Maloney/Fisher) passed

6.d.          Arbitrary maximum duty days

Motion to take this to Meet and Confer (Schoenberger/Mork)passed

Motion that if we don’t get a favorable response take it to the IFO (Mork/Kilborn) passed

8.             Adjournment at 5:15.