Faculty Association Senate Minutes

Tuesday, February 19, 2002

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) Pesch, (ACCT) vacant, (BCIS) Herath, Song, (FIRE) Hudson,

(MGMT) Roth, vacant, (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) Weston, (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) Herath, (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) Kang, Grossman, (ES/WS) Lacourt, (GEOG) Wong, (HIST) Mullins, (POL) Wagner, (PSYC) Valdes, (SW) Present, (SAN) Gold, Lavenda

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

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

Guests: Brenda Wentworth, Assessment Director; Jim Pehler, IFO President

J.C. Turner and Lisa Foss, Website Team

1. Call to order at 3:20

2. Motion to approve EC minutes of 2/12/02 (Condon/Ore) passed

Motion to approve Senate minutes of 2/5/02 (Lavenda/Roth) passed

Motion to approve Graduate Committee minutes of 2/6/02 (Lavenda/Roth) passed

Motion to approve the February 8, 2002 recommendation of the ISC Committee with correction (Foster/Warne) passed

Motion to approve UCC minutes of 1/31/01 and 2/7/02 (Warne/Lavenda) passed

Motion to move to agenda item 8.e. (Lavenda/Hill) passed

8. New Business

e. Assessment

Motion that the issue of assessment should be put on the next Meet and Confer agenda and that it be emphasized that assessment remains a faculty prerogative. (Langen/Hill) passed

Motion that the Meet and Confer team bring forward the questions of what has happened in assessment since the announcement of the director’s resignation along with the emphasis of the faculty’s position (Kilborn/Subrahmanyan) passed

Motion to move to agenda item 8.c. (Roth/Lavenda) passed

Motion to move to agenda item 8.f. (Schoenberger/Roth) passed

Motion to approve the consent agenda (Palmer/Hill) passed

Motion to move to agenda item 7.h. (Foster/Roth) passed

7. Old Business

h. Article 25

Motion to move to agenda item 8.a. (Valdes/Ore) passed

Motion to extend the meeting to 5:20 and to move to agenda item 8.d. (Palmer/Ore) passed