FACULTY ASSOCIATION

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Senate Minutes

November 19, 2002

Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers: Larkin, Fisher, Kang, S. Q. 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) C. 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:

a. Motion to approve Senate Minutes of November 5 (Hergert/Chesborough) passed

b. Motion to approve Executive Committee minutes of November 12 (Hudson/Ore) passed

c. Motion to approve UCC minutes of October 17 (Schoenberger/Johnson) passed

d. Motion to approve UCC minutes of October 31 (Schoenberger/Dorn) passed

e. Strategic Planning Committee minutes, October 18: Filed

f. Motion to approve Research Grants Committee minutes of November 14 (Schoenberger/Grossman) passed

g. DGS Advisory Committee minutes of November 5: Filed

h. Motion to approve Professional Improvement Committee minutes of November 12 (Johnson/Schoenberger) passed

Motion to take the Professional Improvement Committee issues and motion stated in the minutes to Meet and Confer (Subrahmanyan/Ore) passed

3. Treasurer’s Report: Filed

4. Consent Agenda

a. Appoint Eugnmin Kang (Economics) to the Constitutional Review Committee for the College of Social Sciences.

Motion to approve the consent agenda (Johnson/Tripp) passed

5. Additional agenda items: none

6. Announcements

President Larkin announced that the Professional Improvement funds will be deposited into department accounts by

Wednesday, according to Diana Burlison.

a. Provost’s Meeting with Chairs

President Larkin announced that these meetings will now be open to all faculty. Watch for email announcements on

when the next one will be held. There was general discussion on the findings of the Nichols Report and the other studies

concerning discrimination on campus. It was suggested that faculty send their comments to the members of the

Independent Review Committee. The members on this committee are:

Keisuke Mizuno (FAH), Jeanne LaCourt (COSS), Steve Hornstein (COE), Renee Rude (Spec. Serv.), Bob Weisman (COSE), Semya Hakim (Faculty of Color Caucus), Steve Frank (JFA), Gary Whitford (GLBT Faculty)

b. Minority Retention Study

This item was taken to Meet and Confer and was adopted by the Administration. There will a group of 3 or 4 people from the FA and Administration getting together to discuss exit interviews of faculty. President Larkin made a call for volunteers. Lalita Subrahmanyan volunteered for this duty.

7. Old (Unfinished Business)

a. This item was not discussed.

b. Assistant Deans

Motion that the Faculty Association rejects the notion of Assistant Deans for Fine Arts & Humanities and COSE (Weston/Tabakin) amended and tabled

Motion to amend to read as follows “that based on the information available to the Faculty Association, the FA rejects the notion of Assistant Deans for Fine Arts & Humanities and COSE at this time.” (Fuller/Condon) passed

Motion to table this item until more information about this position and the current assistant dean-like positions in other colleges is available (Schoenberger/McKenna) passed

Motion to move to item 8.c. (Condon/Tripp) passed

8.c. Request from the Committee on Diversity Education

Motion that the Faculty Senate support the initial organizational meeting of the Planning and Design Task force for the Community Anti-Racism initiative (Condon/Tripp) passed

c. Double counting with majors and minors

Motion to send this to the Academic Affairs Committee for recommendations and to request a response within one month (Johnson/Kilborn) passed

Motion to substitute passed.

Motion to substitute “University Curriculum Committee” for Academic Affairs Committee” (Fuller/Wagner) passed

8. New Business

a. IFO Services

What services should the IFO provide?

-Strike Fund

-Proportional representation on the IFO Board

-Guidance for Faculty to reach tenure

-Prorating of dues

-Funds for reassigned time for grievance officers

-Group purchasing plans (car rentals, etc)

b. Assessment

The Provost agreed to reinstate the Assessment Steering Committee. President Larkin will follow through with a call to the old members and a call for volunteers.

Meeting adjourned at 5:07 p.m.