FA Executive Committee Minutes

Tuesday, December 11, 2001

Attendance:   (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers:  President Fisher, past President Foster, President-Elect Larkin, Secretary R. C. Johnson

Treasurer: Butenhoff

IFO Board Members:  Foster, Maloney, A. Schoenberger

Unit Representatives:  COB Pesch, COE T. Peterson, FAH Kilborn, CSE McKenna, CSS Ore, SS vacant

Negotiator: Bill Langen

Guests:  John Asmussen, Melissa Primus

 

1.             Call to order at 3:22 p.m.

 

2.                    Call for new agenda items

4.c.          MOA (MN Highway Safety Center)

6.e.          EC Draft letter of support to NCHEMS

6.f.           Faculty reps for Renewal for Academic Excellence Committee and Provost and AVP search committee

6.g.          Executive Session

6.h.          TOEFL proposal

6.i.           Approved Probationary Searches

 

3.                    Treasurer’s Report

 

4.                    President’s Comments

c.             MOA (MN Highway Safety Center)

Motion to approve the MOA regarding the MN Highway Safety Center (Foster/Johnson)

 

5.                    Old Business

 

6.             New Business

            a.     Budget-Internal Audit

             

            b.     Special Meet and Confer

 

  1. WebCT and HuskyNet

Motion that because of the WebCT and HuskyNet issue being discussed and postponed at Faculty Senate, that we cannot take this request for action to Meet and Confer (Schoenberger/Pesch) passed

 

  1. MnSCU/SCSU Diversity Conference

 

  1. EC Draft letter of support to NCHEMS

 

  1. Faculty representatives for the committee for Renewal for Academic Excellence and the search committee for Provost and AVP

Motion that each college elects one representative and the Executive Committee appoint one member to the Committee for Renewal for Academic Excellence (Larkin/Schoenberger) substituted

Motion to substitute previous motion to immediately put out a call for volunteers from each college to serve on this committee.  If we get more than one volunteer, the EC will meet next week to identify all representatives and elect a member from Executive Committee (for a total of seven). The Administration will be notified of this process on Thursday at Meet and Confer and the names of representatives will be delivered to administration by December 21, 2001 (Foster/Kilborn) passed

 

Motion to deal with Provost and AVP search committee representation in the same way as was voted in the previous motion regarding the Renewal for Academic Excellence Committee (Schoenberger/Kilborn) passed

 

Motion that we replace the process for selecting multiple volunteers from a single college with an election process for members of that college for the Provost and AVP search committee  (Johnson/Schoenberger) passed

 

  1. TOEFL

Motion to accept the TOEFL proposal (Schoenberger/Pesch) passed

 

Motion to go into Executive Session (Foster/ ? )