Faculty Association Senate Minutes

Tuesday, May 7, 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) Gorrell, (ART) Weston, (CDSI) Whites, (ENGL)Dorn, Condon, Robinson, Ross, (FORL) Mikoltchak, Splittgerber, (COMM) Rodriguez, (MUSIC) Fuller, Tamte-Horan, (PHIL) C. Johnson, Nuccetelli, (Comm Std) Spry, Warne, Rehling, (THFD) Chisholm

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) McKenna, (AVIA) Mattson, (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, Gammell

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

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

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

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

2. Minutes:

Motion to approve EC Special Meeting Minutes of 4/30/02 (Palmer/Maloney) passed

Motion to move agenda item 8.a to 4:00 p.m. time definite (Langen/Fuller) passed

Motion to approve Senate minutes of 4/23/02 (Palmer/Maloney) passed

Motion to move to agenda item 7.a. (Ore/Lavenda) passed

7. a. Graduate Program Quality Indicators

Motion to approve the Quality Indicators for Graduate Programs as amended (Graduate Committee) tabled defenitely

Motion to amend the Quality Indicators to change #11 to the previous language (Foster/Maloney) passed

Motion to table this motion until the second senate meeting and to request that the Graduate Committee write an introduction saying what the indicators are for, how they are supposed to be used by the programs and bring it back to the Senate in the fall (Schoenberger/Fuller) passed

8. a. Negotiations on Issues Report

4. Consent Agenda

Motion to approve the consent agenda (Maloney/Lavenda) passed

5. Call for additional agenda items

8.b. Update on the NICHOLS Assessment

8.c. Clarification on the Attorney General’s request for departmental minutes

Motion to move to agenda item 8.b. (Schoenberger/Lavenda) passed

8. b. Update on NICHOLS Assessment

Motion that the Faculty Association recommends that faculty who have not already taken the NICHOLS survey do not do so (Hornstein/Palmer) withdrawn

Motion to move to agenda item 7.m. (Maloney/Hergert) passed

7. m. Assessment Restructuring Proposal

Motion to approve proposed restructuring of assessment leadership plan (Kilborn/Andzenge)

8. Adjournment at 5:25 p.m.