FACULTY ASSOCIATION

No. 2 North Office Center - St. Cloud State University - (320) 255-3979

Faculty Association Senate Minutes

October 8, 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) Gulati, J.C. Johnson

EDUCATION:  (Unit Representative) T. Peterson, (CFS) Gilman, (LDR) Schulze, vacant (CEEP) Petrangelo, Murphy, (HRESS) Zezony, C. Martin, (MHSC) 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) M. Fish, 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) Bixby, (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

Guests: Brenda Wentworth, Shawn Jarvis

 

1.     Call to order at 3:20 p.m.

 

2.   Minutes

      Motion to approve the Faculty Senate minutes of September 24, 2002 (Valdes/Condon) passed

Motion to approve the Executive Committee minutes of October 1, 2002 (Ore/Condon) passed

Strategic Planning minutes of September 13, 2002 and Graduate Committee minutes of September 18, 2002:  filed

 

3.     Treasurer’s Report: none

 

4.   Consent Agenda

Appoint Steve Klepetar, Susan Motin and Bonnie Hedin to Strategic Planning;  Appoint Chris Gordon to the Graduate Committee;  Appoint Karen Flynn and Micheal Tripp to the Committee on Diversity Education;  Appoint Raymond Phillipot to the IFO/MnSCU Task Force on Graduate Education;  Appoint Curt Helgeson as COSE representative to the Intercollegiate Athletic Committee.

 

5.     Call for additional agenda items
2.d.       Graduate Committee minutes of September 18, 2002

4.c.       Appoint Karen Flynn and Micheal Tripp to the Committee on Diversity Education

8.b.       Search:  Assistant VP for Enrollment Management

 

6.     Announcements

 

7.   Old Business

a.               Assessment restructuring

Motion that the Faculty Senate does not accept the assessment restructuring proposal (Hill Weston) passed

Motion that the Faculty Association recommends establishment of a university-wide task force on assessment to address structure and implementation of assessment (R. C. Johnson/Hill) passed

Motion that the aforementioned Assessment ask force be comprised of the members of the assessment committee (Condon/Tabakin) passed

 

b.     Grade Appeals Policy

Motion to refer this issue to the Academic Affairs committee (Inkster/Lawal) passed

 

d.     Independent Review Committee

Motion to approve the Independent Review Committee on Campus Culture proposal (Whites/Hudson) postponed

Motion to amend the December 15, 2002 date to be two months subsequent to the date of receipt of all of the reports (Tabakin/Tripp) passed

Motion to amend item 1.d. to include 1 student of each of the following: GLBT, Color and Jewish (Lacourt/Condon) passed

Motion to postpone definitely to the next Faculty Senate meeting (Schoenberger/Wildeson) passed

Motion to move to 8.b. (Kilborn/Condon) passed

 

7.              New Business

b.     Search

Motion to approve a search committee for the AVP for Enrollment Management contingent that faculty representation include faculty of color, GLBT, and Jewish faculty (Ore/Gill) passed

Motion to amend the previous motion to insert “one from each unit” after “six members” (Gold??)

Motion to close debate (Condon/Jaede) passed

 

9.         Adjournment