Faculty Association Senate Minutes
Tuesday, March 5, 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, (Comm Std) Spry, Warne, Rehling, (THFD) Chisholm
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) McKenna, (AVIA) Raiber, (BIOL) Cronn, Woodard, Schoenfuss, ( CHEM) Jeannot, Dvorak, (CSCI) Herath, (ESCI) Hansen, (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: Basey Eyo
1. Call to order at 3:25 p.m.
2. Minutes
Motion to approve the Executive Committee Minutes of 2/26/02 (Palmer/Roth) passed
Motion to approve the Senate minutes of 2/19/02 (Roth/Palmer) passed
Motion to approve the UCC minutes of 2/14/02 and 2/21/02 (Roth/Condon) passed
Motion to approve the PIC report of 3/4/02 (Condon/Whites) passed
Motion to approve the PIC suggested revisions to OSP information on website and application form. (Roth/Lavenda)passed
Strategic Planning minutes of 1/17/02 and 1/31/02: filed
3. Treasurer’s Report
4. Consent Agenda
a. Steve Frank, Semya Hakim, Linda Havir, Robert Johnson, Rob Lavenda, Robert Murphy, Tracy Ore, David Robinson and Zoa Rockenstein are appointed to the Ad Hoc Committee on the Cultural Audit.
b. Tracy Ore, Jeanne LaCourt, and Debra Leigh are appointed as faculty representatives to the SCSU/MnSCU Statewide Diversity Conference Planning Committee.
c. Jeanne LaCourt and Carla Johnson are appointed as faculty representatives on the First Amendment Policy Committee.
d. Cindy Moore is appointed as a faculty representative to the DGS Advisory Committee.
e. Chris Inkster, Annette Schoenberger, Jack McKenna and Judy Foster are appointed to the Ad Hoc Committee on the Hiring Manual Review.
Motion to approve the consent agenda (Condon/Larkin) passed
Motion to move to agenda item 8.b. (Whites/Hill) passed
b. Mission, Vision and Core Values
Motion to charge the committee to use as the basis for moving forward with the Mission, Vision and Core Values the work of the forty members from last summer, and then to comeback with a timeline and clarity of the process (Palmer/Lavenda) passed
Motion to close debate (Schoenberger/Ore) passed
5. Call for additional agenda items
7.j. Technological Services for Faculty
8.e. Gen Ed Committee Request for Sanctioned Meeting
8.f. Academic Misconduct Policy Application Draft
8.g. Assessment Reorganization
8.h. Legal Defense Fund Motion
8.i. Graduate Program Pressure
8.j. Grade Appeal Policy
8.k. Funding Equity across programs
6. President’s Comments
b. Diversity Conference
Motion that the Faculty Association supports the planning of the diversity conference by appointing Faculty Association representatives contingent on the conference planning being collaborative (Ore/Schoenberger) passed
Motion to move to agenda item 7.g./ (Roth/Lavenda) passed
7. Old Business
g. FA President Elect and IFO Board-change in Bylaws-Vote Article I, Section 4
Motion to modify the Bylaws to read as follows: The President-Elect and IFO Negotiating Team, unit (or college) representatives, and the IFO Board of Directors shall be elected using approval voting ballots. Faculty may vote for as many candidates in each election as they find acceptable. The candidate or candidates receiving the most votes shall be declared elected. Unit or college representatives are elected by FA: members in their home unit. Other positions are elected at large. (Kalia/Schoenberger) passed
Motion to move to agenda item 8a. (Lavenda/Tripp) passed
8. New Business
a. Graduate Studies Committee request for Sanctioned Meetings
Motion to approve the graduate Studies Committee’s request for a sanctioned Meeting (Whites/Lavenda) passed
Motion to move to agenda items 8.c., e. f. g and h (LaCourt/Christensen) passed
c. Entry into Classroom
Motion to approve the first three bullets of the administration’s policy on Entry in Classrooms and not the other three and to get clarification on the last sentence (Larkin/Palmer) passed
e. General Education Committee request for a sanctioned meeting
Motion to approve the General Education Committee’s request for a sanctioned meeting (Condon/Roth) passed
f. Academic Misconduct Policy Application Draft
Motion whereas the Misconduct Policy application brought by the administration to Faculty at the February 28, 2002 Meet and Confer collapses allegations of academic fraud and findings of guilt, eliminates the distinction between fraud and misrepresentation, honest error and ambiguities of interpretation and eliminates the standard of integrity for investigative processes and circumvents the inquiry and investigation that might lead to a finding of guilt or innocence. The Faculty Association while supporting high professional standards, rejects the administration’s misconduct policy application(Condon/Larkin) passed unanimously without dissent
g. Assessment Reorganization
Motion to support the plan for reorganization of assessment (Schoenberger/ Condon) tabled
Motion to send this proposal to the Assessment Committee and to table the previous motion until we get a response from the Committee (Schoenberger/Palmer) passed
Motion to extend the meeting until 5:30 p.m. (Kang/Schoenberger) passed
h. Legal Defense Fund Motion
ATTACHED (Condon/Palmer) passed without exception
Motion to close debate (Spry/Tripp) passed
Meeting adjourned at 5:30 p.m.