FACULTY ASSOCIATION

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

Senate Minutes

November 5, 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, 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

 

1.             Call to order.

 

2.             Minutes

                a.             Motion to approve the Faculty Senate minutes of Oct. 22, 2002 (Whites/Murphy) passed

                b.             Motion to approve the Executive Committee minutes of Oct. 29, 2002 (Whites/Ore) passed

                c.             Acceptance of Strategic Planning Committee minutes of Oct. 4, 2002, and Priority Goals handout

d.                   Motion to approve the Professional Improvement Grants minutes of Oct. 21 and Oct. 28, 2002

(Fisher/Whites) passed

                f.              Motion to approve the UCC minutes of Oct. 10, 2002 (Johnson/Springer) passed

                g.             Motion to approve the UCC minutes of Oct. 24, 2002 (Anderson/Fisher) passed

 

4.             Consent Agenda

a.                    Appoint Margaret Villanueva (IFO MIC) to the Committee on Diversity Education

b.                   Appoint Chris Lehman (Ethnic Studies) to the Academic Affairs and Scholarly Activities Committee for College of Social Sciences

c.                    Approve a sanctioned meeting between the Division of General Studies Advisory Committee and Michael Spitzer to follow-up with concerns about the size and the curriculum of General Studies.

                Motion to approve the Consent Agenda (Condon/Ore) passed

 

5.             Call for Additional Agenda Items

                There were none.

 

6.             Announcements

a.                    University Council, October 28, 2002

b.                   Grievance Report

 

7.             Old (Unfinished Business)

                a.  Graduate Program Quality Indicators: not ready to be presented yet.

 

8.             New Business

                a.             Election of IRC members

                FAH: Keisuke Mizuno (Art), COSS: Jeanne LaCourt (Ethnic Studies), COE: Steve Hornstein (Teacher Development),

SS: Renee Rude (LR&TS), COSE: Bob Weisman (Earth & Atmospheric Sciences)

                Faculty of Color Caucus: Semya Hakim (Human Relations), Jewish Faculty Association: Steve Frank (Political Science),

                GLBT Faculty: Gary Whitford (Social Work)

 

Motion to approve these eight faculty as members of the Independent Review Committee (Fisher/ ? ) passed

 

 

                b.             Associate of Art emphases; David Sebberson; resolution presented as a handout

                                Motion to approve the Resolution (Schoenberger/Springer) passed

                                Motion to close debate (Ore/Fisher) passed

                                This issue will be taken to the IFO Executive Committee next week and then to statewide Meet & Confer.

 

                c.             Assistant Deans, COFAH and COSE

Information was presented that the Provost has proposed creating two new positions in two colleges (FAH and COSE) to serve as Assistant Deans to take over some of the duties of the Deans so the Deans will have more time to supervise Article 22 and 25 procedures and faculty searches. These Assistant Deans would serve 51% of their time in administration and 49% teaching. The following questions were asked and comments made:

                                -- Where does the money come from to create these positions?

                                --  Is there a conflict of interest if a person teaches part time and is an administrator or supervisor part time?

                                --  How will it be judged if it is successful?

                                --  Will the departments get the money back to replace the 51% of the person?

                                --  We would like to see a job description.

                                --  How would this cut down on lawsuits?

                                --  Would you consider doing a rotational assignment?

                                --  We acknowledge that the Deans need help. How can faculty get the help they need?

                                --  The faculty in the Assistant VP positions seem to stay longer than a rotation would indicate.

--  Would the Assistant Deans work with budgeting or scheduling? This could lead to favoritism and a conflict of interest. What administrative tasks could they do that would not?

                                --  Where would the person be rostered? Are they on leave from their dept?

--  How will the Assistant Deans be chosen? Elected by the faculty? (if elected, it would show acceptance by the department and there would be support and backing)

                                --  If Article 22 and 25 are combined as desired, will the Deans still need the additional help?

--  Some colleges have a lot of reassigned administrators. The teaching time for these people is then replaced by adjuncts. Is this what we want? Do we need more adjuncts?

 

                d.             Recruitment and Retention of Minority Employees

Motion to approve the Proposal for Improving the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Employees at SCSU (Schoenberger/Ore) passed

 

                e.             Prerequisite checks

                                Motion to take the issue of the prerequisite checks to Meet & Confer (Motin/Anderson) passed

Motion to amend: don’t implement these checks until the process can be done correctly (Schoenberger/Condon) passed

 

                f.              Binding arbitration

                                Handout discussed to give input to those who will be voting on this issue at the statewide IFO meeting.

 

                g.             Advisory Committee for the Office of Clinical Experiences

Motion to approve the members of the committee as presented on the memo from Dean Joane McKay (Peterson/Johnson) passed  

 

                i.              ITeach Planning Committee

                                Tracy Ore was elected as the SCSU candidate for this IFO committee.  

 

9.             Adjournment at 5:20 p.m.