Faculty Association Senate Minutes

Tuesday, October 9, 2001

 

Attendance:  (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers:  Fisher, Larkin, Foster, Butenhoff, R. C. Johnson

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

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

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

EDUCATION:  (Unit Representative) T. Peterson, (CFS) Gilman, (LDR) Schulze, Kayona, (EDRSH) Vereen, Downing, (HRESS) Palmer, C. Martin, (MHTSC) Christensen, (HURL) Tripp, (SPED) Salk, 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, (NURS) Bresser, (PHYS) Nook, Bunn, (STST) Lawal, Gammel

SOCIAL SCIENCES:  (Unit Representative) Ore, (CMTY) Karasik, (CJUS) Clifford, Andzenge, (ECON) White, Grossman, (ES/WS) Lacourt, (GEOG) Wong, (HIST) Mullins, (POL) Wagner, (PSYC) DeVoe, (SW) Present, (SAN) Gold, Lavenda

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

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

 

1.        Call to order at 3:15 p.m.

 

2.     Minutes:

        Motion to approve Faculty Senate Minutes of September 25, 2001 (Foster/Gold) passed

        Motion to approve Executive Committee Minutes of October 2, 2001 (Peterson/Ore) passed

 

3.     Treasurer’s Report: no report

 

  1. Consent Agenda

Motion to approve consent agenda items a, b (Judith Rodgers), e, and f (Larkin/Nook) passed

 

  1. Call for additional agenda items

8.f.           Semester Daily Schedule

8.g.          Bylaws change for elections

 

  1. President’s comments

a.             Robert’s Rules of Order/Discussions

Motion that additional suggestions on this topic be forwarded to President Fisher outside of this meeting (Foster/Schoenberger) passed

 

 

 

b.                   Meet and Confer Retreat

Motion to request that the Administration refund the Faculty Association’s money to pay for the facilitator for the Meet and Confer Retreat (Heine/Nook) passed

 

Motion to provide President Saigo with an invitation and opportunity to explain his views on the proper role and relationship for the Administration and Faculty interaction to the Senate (Roth/Aiken) referred

 

Motion to refer the previous motion to the Executive Committee and have them bring back language for consideration in Senate (Hornstein/Palmer) passed

 

Motion to close debate (Palmer/Foster) passed

 

e.                    IFO Budget Allocation

Motion to put together a proposal for the IFO board to increase the office support for the Faculty Association (Kalia/Peterson) passed

 

7.     Old Business

b.                   Workload

Motion that the Faculty Association President ask the Administration for the latest list of reassigned times, extra duty days, overload, and chair reassigned time given to individual faculty and to departments as a whole and share that with the Faculty Senate as soon as possible (Kalia/Palmer) passed

Motion to close debate (Foster/Schoenberger) passed

 

                Motion to move agenda to 8.a. (Schoenberger/Foster) passed

 

  1. New Business

a.                    COE Vote of Confidence/No Confidence

1.                    Unilateral personnel decisions/individual hiring

2.                    Not following contractual due process for discipline

3.                    Refusal to meet with Faculty in sanctioned meetings regarding contract violations

4.                    Interfering with and preventing department governance

5.                    Acting in a way the FA views as arbitrary and capricious, inconsistent COE administration.

Motion to bring a Faculty Association grievance against the Dean of the College of Education (Larkin/Schoenberger) passed

Motion to close debate (Condon/Larkin) passed

 

d.             Elections

Motion to request more information on the Search Committee for Special Assistant to the President-Investigator before holding the election (Hornstein/Lavenda) passed

 

9.     Adjournment 5:20 p.m.