FACULTY ASSOCIATION
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University - (320) 255-3979
Senate Minutes
September 24, 2002
Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)
Officers: Larkin, Fisher, Kang, S. Williams
IFO Board: A. Schoenberger,
J. Foster, R. C. Johnson Negotiator:
Langen
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) vacant, (ACCT) vacant, (BCIS) Herath, Song,
(FIRE) Hudson,
(MGMT)
Roth, Subbanarasimha, (MKGB)
Bristow, J.C. Johnson
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) T. Peterson, (CFS) Gilman, (LDR)
Schulze, vacant (CEEP) Petrangelo, Murphy, (HRESS) Zezony, C.
Martin, (MHTSC) Christensen, (HURL) Tripp, (SPED) Salk,
vacant, (TDEV) Subrahmanyan, Tabakin, Hornstein
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) Kilborn, (ART) Weston, (CDSI) Whites, (ENGL)Dorn, Condon, Robinson, Ross, (FORL) Mikoltchak, Splittgerber, (COMM) Rodriguez, vacant (MUSIC) Fuller, Tamte-Horan, (PHIL) Gill, Nuccetelli, (Comm Std) Wildeson, Warne, Rehling, (THFD) Chisholm
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) McKenna, (AVIA) Anderson,
(BIOL) Cronn, Woodard, Schoenfuss, ( CHEM) Sadrai, Dvorak,
(CSCI) Herath, (ESCI) Hansen, (EE) Petzold, (ETS) Akubue, (ME) Covey,
(MATH) Kalia, Theisen, Buske, (NURS) Bresser,
(PHYS) Harlander, Haglin, (STST) Lawal
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit
Representative) Ore, (CMTY) Karasik, (CJUS) Gilbertson, Prout,
(ECON) Banaian, Grossman, (ES/WS) Lacourt, (GEOG) Wong, (HIST) Jaede,
(POL) Wagner, (PSYC) Valdes, (SW) Chesborough, (SAN) Gold,
Burmeister
SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) Inkster, (COUN) Ulven,
(LR&TS) Hill, Motin,
Hergert, (MEN’S ATHL) Glowatzke,
(WOMEN’S ATHL) Odette
1.
Call
to order at 3:15 p.m.
2. Minutes
Motion to
approve the Faculty Senate Minutes of September 10, 2002 (Fisher/Lawal)
passed
Motion to approve the Executive Committee Minutes
of September 17, 2002 (Kang/Fisher) passed
3.
Treasurer’s
Report
Motion to accept the Treasurer’s Report
(Tabakin/Karasik) passed
4.
Consent
agenda
Appoint Theresia Fisher, Judith Kilborn and Kathleen
Maloney to the Mediation Coordinating Committee.
Approve one sanctioned meeting for the Graduate
Studies Committee and Dennis Nunes.
Motion to approve the consent agenda (Condon/Valdes)
passed
5.
Call
for additional agenda items
7.c. Web
Standards
7.d. Plagiarism
detection software
7.e. Web
Usability
7.f. University
Research Funds
8.g. Chairs
Meetings
6.
Announcements
a.
Grievance
Report
b.
COE:
Elementary Education program: President Larkin read a letter that was signed by
both Dean Joane McKay and Provost Spitzer stating that there are no plans to
drop the Elementary Education program at SCSU.
7.
Old
Business
a.
Assessment
Restructuring: This will be discussed two weeks from now.
b.
Grade
Appeals Policy
c.
Strategic
Plan: Theresia Fisher and Jay Vora
serve as co-chairs of this committee.
They attended a retreat in August along with Larkin. HCHMS was there and gave us these
suggestions: The time to implement
Strategic Plan is now; the time to link the budget and the Strategic Plan is
now; and there needs to be lots of communication between the Strategic Plan
Committee and university constituents.
d.
Advising
Center search
Motion that Steve Klepetar be appointed to the
advising Center Search Committee (R. C. Johnson/Fisher) passed
e.
Student
Complaints Policy
Motion to discuss the student complaint policy at
the next Senate meeting in conjunction with the grade appeals policy
(Tabakin/Fisher) passed
f. Chairs
Workshops: In the past these were
conducted by three deans and three faculty members. We will elect the faculty members if we want to participate.
g.
Procedures
for appeals
Motion to place this topic on the next Executive
Committee agenda (Tabakin/Ore) passed
h. Independent
Review Committee: This will be discussed at the next Senate meeting.
i.
Special
administrators, appointments, bonuses, etc.
Motion that the Senate requests that the Meet and
Confer team THIS information from the administration at the next Meet and
Confer (R. C. Johnson/Kilborn) passed
j. Graduate
program quality indicators: This report is not ready
8.
New
Business
a.
Committee
elections: Elections were held for university-wide
and college-wide committee vacancies.
b.
Registration
Overrides
Motion:
Whereas: The number of registration edit overrides
has become burdensome for administrative assistants on campus, and
Whereas: In
the past, faculty have had control over such overrides on the web, and
Whereas: Such control over the override process greatly benefits faculty, staff, and students alike,
Be It Resolved: That the SCSU faculty wishes to be given access to the registration override process beginning Spring term 2003. (Buske/Schoenberger)
c.
Web
Standards
Motion to refer this to the Faculty Committee on
Technology and Learning Resources (Karasik/Jaede) passed
d.
Plagiarism
detection software: Chris Inkster
reported that there was a one-month trial period for Turnitin software, but
faculty could contact Pamela Salela if they wanted to set up their own trial
period that better suits their schedule.
e.
Web
usability studies: Chris Inkster
announced that LR&TS would be doing some web usability studies and would
welcome faculty involvement.
f.
University Research funds
Motion to put this item on the Meet and Confer
agenda and to ask that Richard Rothaus be present for discussion (Ore/Schoenberger)
passed
g.
Chairs
meetings
Motion that for the 2002-2003 academic year, the
Faculty Association sanctions chairs meetings as forums for information
sharing, as long as they are in keeping with the IFO/MnSCU contract and that no
action is taken. The FA president or
her/his designee should also be in attendance. Ore/Schoenberger) postponed
Motion to table (Kalia/Hudson) 18:18; failed
Motion to postpone definitely until we’ve
discussed this with the administration at Meet and Confer (Schoenberger/Fisher)
passed
9. Meeting adjourned at 5:22 p.m.
Motion to table (Kalia/Hudson) 18:18 failed
DID NOT GET WHETHER OR NOT THE LAST MOTION PASSED OR
THE MOTION TO TABLE OR WHAT AGENDA ITEM IT IS UNDER