Faculty Association Senate Minutes

Tuesday, September 25, 2001

Attendance:  (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers: President, Theresia Fisher; President-Elect/Secretary, Andrew Larkin; Treasurer, Linda Butenhoff; Past President, Judy Foster

IFO Board:  A. Schoenberger, J. Foster, Maloney Negotiator: Langen

BUSINESS:  (Unit Representative), vacant, (ACCT) vacant, (BCIS)  Song, Herath (FIRE) Hudson,

(MGMT) Roth, Pesch (MKGB) Bristow, J.C. Johnson

EDUCATION:  (Unit Representative) T. Peterson, (CFS) Gilman, (LDR) Schulze, Kayona (EDRSH) Vereen, Petrangelo (HRESS) Palmer, C. Martin, (MHTSC) Christensen, (HURL) Tademe, (SPED) vacant, vacant, (TDEV) Subrahmanyan, Heine, Hornstein

FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES:  (Unit Representative) Kilborn, (ART) Aiken (CDSI) Whites, (ENGL) Dorn, Condon, Robinson, Ross (FORL) Mikoltchak, Splittgerber, (COMM) Rodriguez, (MUSIC) Fuller, Tamte-Horan, (PHIL) Gill, Nuccetelli, (SPEECH) Spry, Warne, Rehling, (THFD) Chisholm

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) McKenna, (AVIA) Raiber, (BIOL) Cronn, Woodard , Schoenfuss (CHEM) Jeannot, Dvorak, (CSCI) vacant, (ESCI) G. Anderson (EE) George, (ETS) Akubue, (ME) Covey, (MATH) Kalia, Haller, Carr (PHYS) Nook, Bunn, (STST) Lawal, Gammell

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

Grossman, (GEOG) Wong, (HIST) Mullins, (M/WS) R.C. Johnson, (POL) Wagner, (PSYC) Rockenstein, (SOWC) Present (SAN) Gold, Lavenda

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

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

Guests:  Basey Eyo,

1. Call to order at 3:20 p.m.

2.             Minutes:

a. Motion to approve the Faculty Senate minutes of 9/11/01 (Larkin/Kilborn) passed

b. Motion to approve the Executive Committee minutes of 9/18/01 (Larkin/Ore) passed

3.             Treasurer’s Report: no report

5. President’s Comments

d. Consent Agenda

                Motion to approve Consent agenda with corrections (Foster/Hornstein) passed

6. Old Business

Motion to move to agenda item 6.e. (Hornstein/Peterson) failed

d. Motion to approve the proposal for establishing an Ad Hoc Committee for Online Course Offering for Distance-learning students with the charge to the four specific components of the proposal (R. C. Johnson/Gill) passed

e. Vote of No-Confidence-Dean, College of Education

Approval of referred motion 7.g. in Faculty Senate Minutes of 9/11/01 “Motion that the Faculty Association Elections Committee conduct an election among the FA members in the College of Education concerning confidence or no-confidence in the dean of the College of Education (Palmer/Hornstein) referred”  passed 31:12

Motion to closed debate (Larkin/Roth) passed

7. New Business

a. Diversity and Leadership Conference

Motion that the Faculty Senate supports the Executive Committee’s recommendation for a Diversity and Leadership Conference and that we charge the committee with not only developing the conference but with evaluating its role in the Campus Master Plan on Diversity (Karasik/Lavenda) passed

Motion to end debate (Fuller/Roth) passed

8.             Adjournment at 5:25 p.m.