FA Executive Committee Minutes

Tuesday, March 19, 2002

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 Inkster

Treasurer: Bill Langen

Guests: Nathan Church

1. Call to order at 3:15 p.m.

2. Call for new agenda items

3. Treasurer’s Report

4. President’s Comments

            a. Academic Misconduct, Administrator

            b. Legal Defense Fund, IFO Feedback

5. Old Business

            a. Student Complaint Policy

            b. Position Management

Motion to move to item 5.d. “Voting in the Senate” (Larkin/Kilborn) passed

            d. Motion to accept “Voting in the Senate” (Schoenberger/Pesch) passed

FA By-laws require each department to elect Senators according to the number of members of the IFO in their department. Some seats are not filled, and occasionally a Senator is unable to attend a meeting and asks another member of the department to attend. It is important that each department be fully represented at each meeting of the Senate, but it is also important that representatives be democratically elected by their department before they attempt to vote.

Those eligible to vote in the Faculty Senate are only those listed on the attendance roster for that meeting unless a message has been sent on department stationery by the department chair or by the current Senator to the FA President prior to the meeting indicating that a new Senator has been elected or that a substitute or alternate has been elected to represent the department at the meeting. If an election is not held, an un-elected representative may attend Senate meetings but only as a non-voting guest.

(This will also mean that FA Officers and members of the Executive Committee cannot be represented by a substitute because they are elected by and represent constituencies other than departments.)

            f. Special Meet and Confer

            g. MnSCU/SCSU Diversity Conference

6. New Business

Motion to move to item 6.a. Proposal for Mediation/Facilitation on FA/Administration relationship (Larkin/Ore) passed

Motion to move to item 6.b. FA Ethics Committee (Larkin/Ore) passed

Motion to move to item 6.c. Delegate Assembly-Resolutions & Assignments (Larkin/Ore) passed

Motion to move to item 6.d. DGS Committee Request for Sanctioned Meeting (Schoenberger/Foster) passed

            d. Motion to approve a sanctioned meeting between the DGS Committee and V. P. Ruth Meyer (Foster/Larkin) passed

7. Adjournment at 5:15 p.m.