FACULTY ASSOCIATION

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Faculty Association Senate Minutes

October 22, 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, Kayona (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) Rodriguez, vacant (MUSIC) Fuller, Springer, (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

Guests: Kathleen Maloney

 

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

 

2.                    Minutes

a.        Motion to approve the Faculty Senate minutes of October 8, 2002 (Kilborn/Whites) passed

b.       Motion to approve the Executive Committee minutes of October 15, 2002 (Ore/Prout) passed

c.        Motion to approve the UCC minutes of October 3, 2002 (R. C. Johnson/Karasik) passed

d.       Motion to approve the Technology & Pedagogical Resources Committee minutes of October 11, 2002 (Kang/Fisher) passed

e.        Strategic Planning Minutes, September 27, 2002: FILED

f.         Affirmative Action Committee minutes, October 11, 2002: FILED

g.       Motion to approve the Government Relations Committee minutes of October 10, 2002 (R. C. Johnson/Schoenberger) passed

 

3.                    Treasurer’s Report: FILED

 

4.                    Motion to approve items on the Consent Agenda except for item B (Fisher/Ore) passed

 

5.                    Call for additional Agenda Items

8.e.  General Education

 

6.                    Announcements

a.        Bill Langen elected as the Faculty Association Negotiator

b.       IFO Legislative Goals (Informational)

c.        IFO Academic Affairs Report: will be placed on next Senate agenda

d.       OAA Curriculum Summary (informational

e.        Provost’s chairs meeting:  Discussions on budget, Institutional Research, Continuing Studies, evaluation of the President (Saigo), registration procedures, Affirmative Action Officer

 

7.                    Old Business

a.        Student Complaints Policy

Motion to approve the Policy & Procedure for Handling Student Complaints Concerning Faculty (Fisher/Wagner) referred

Motion to refer the Policy & Procedure Draft to the committee for rewording (Schoenberger/Fuller) amended

Motion to amend to refer this draft to the Academic Affairs Committee (Hergert/Anderson) passed

 

b.       Independent Review Committee

Motion to amend the IRC on Campus Culture draft as follows:

1.       “Not to exceed 19 members”

a.                    Place the word “recommend” at the beginning of the sentence.

b.                    “1 GLBT Faculty”

c.                    Place the word “recommend” at the beginning of the sentence and change to (4) Students.

(Fisher/Buske) passed

Motion to amend the draft proposal as follows:

5.       Duties:

a.                   Review and respond to all environmental scans, recommendations and related materials (including the EEOC Report, the JCRC Report, and the forthcoming Nichols and Rankin Reports)

b.                   Conduct interviews with individuals and groups on issues and areas of concern and formulate a set of specific recommendations for review by all.

c.                    Revise and submit a final report with recommendations to the President and campus community.

(Tabakin/Schoenberger) passed

Motion to approve the draft proposal as amended (Schoenberger/Wildeson) passed

 

8.                    New Business

a.        University Council

Motion that the Faculty Association participate in the University Council forum and that the FA President represent the FA and report back to the Senate (Fisher/Kilborn) passed

b.       Assistant Vice President for Enrollment management search committee

Motion that the College of Fine Arts and Humanities will select two members and the other 4 will be elected (Anderson/Weston) failed

Motion that Fine Arts & Humanities and Science &Engineering will caucus so they can vote on their representatives and the Senate will vote on the representatives from Business, Education and Special Services and will solicit representatives from Social Sciences.

(Hornstein/Hergert) amended

Motion to amend to the caucuses from each college will elect their representatives (Hornstein/Hergert) passed

e.     General Education

Motion to approve a sanctioned meeting between the General Education Committee and the Office of Academic Affairs (Johnson/Valdes) amended

Motion to amend to invite Debra Japp (Ore/Karasik) passed

 

Meeting adjourned at 5:10 p.m.