FACULTY ASSOCIATION

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Senate Minutes

January 21, 2003

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) Bradley, (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, Gazal, Schoenfuss, (CHEM) Sadrai, Dvorak, (CSCI) Herath, (EAS) Hansen, (EE) Petzold, (ETS) Akubue, (ME) Covey, (MATH) Kalia, Theisen, Buske, (NURS) Bresser, (PHYS) Nook, 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, Lavenda

SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) C. Inkster, (COUN) Ulven, (LR&TS) Hill, Motin,

Hergert, (MEN’S ATHL) Glowatzke, (WOMEN’S ATHL) Odette, (OAA) vacant

1. Call to order at 3:15 p.m.

2. Minutes

a. M/SP to approve the Senate minutes of December 3, 2002 (Fisher/Condon)

b. M/S/P to approve the Executive Committee minutes of December 10, 2002 (Condon/Valdes)

c. M/S/P to approve the Executive Committee minutes of January 14, 2003 (Fisher/Condon)

d. DGS Advisory Committee (report will be given in next Senate)

e. M/S/P to approve the Professional Improvement Committee minutes of December 2, 2002 (Schoenberger/Anderson)

f. Graduate Committee minutes, December 5, 2002: filed & moved to item 7.a.

g. M/S/P to approve the Technology and Pedagogical Resources Committee minutes of November 21,2002 (Schoenberger/Valdes)

Technology and Pedagogical Resources Committee minutes of December 6, 2002: Filed

h. IFO Academic Affairs report, December 5, 2002: Filed

i. M/S/P to approve the UCCminutes of November 14, 2002 (Fisher/Kilborn) passed; of December 5, 2002 (Hergert/Springer) passed; of December 12, 2002 (Anderson/Schoenberger) passed

j. Strategic Planning Committee, November 1 and 15, 2002: Filed

k. Admissions and Retentions Committee, December 2 and December 11, 2002: Filed

l. International Studies Committee, September 18, October 2, October 16, October 30 and November 27, 2002: Filed

3. Treasurer’s Report: Filed

4. Consent Agenda

a. Sanctioned Meeting: UCC and Lin Holder (one meeting: January 16, 2003)

b. Appoint Jim Chen, BCIS, to the Voice Services Project Team

c. Appoint to search committee for the marketing and communications position in the office of University Advancement: Theresia Fisher, Roya Majid,Catherine Verilli, Gregory Martin, Gretchen Tiberghien

d. Appoint to joint committee on Schedule 25: Rod Dobey (COE), Kent Robertson (COSS), Annette Schoenberger (COSE)

Motion to approve the consent agenda items A through D (Schoenberger/Johnson) passed

5. Call for additional agenda items

8.f. Campus webpage and listserve policies

8.g. Appoint to Diversity Conference planning committee: Linda Butenhoff, Flora Claderon, Mary Clifford, Dele Gazal, Semya Hakim, Niloufer Merchant, Maria Mikolchak, Tara Harl Odom, Karen Thoms, Dave Warne

8.h. Request for five sanctioned meetings: Budget Committee and Diana Burlison

8.i. Public Expression Policy

6. Announcements

a. Provost and Chairs meeting, December 12, 2002

Motion that it is the sense of the faculty that these meetings remain open to all faculty members. (Schoenberger/Condon) passed

b. Independent Review Committee, December 20, 2002—has received all reports but the RANKIN report and will be trying to meet weekly starting next week. All reports will be put on the FA website.

Motion to move to item 8.g. (Condon/Fisher) passed

8. New Business

g. Appointments to Diversity Committee

Motion to appoint Linda Butenhoff, Flora Claderon, Mary Clifford, Dele Gazal, Semya Hakim, Niloufer Merchant, Maria Mikolchak, Tara Harl Odom, Karen Thoms and Dave Warne to the Diversity Conference Planning Committee (Condon/Fisher) passed

Motion to close debate (Valdes/Hornstein) passed

Motion to move to item 8.h. (Johnson/Fisher) passed

h. Sanctioned meetings

Motion to approve five sanctioned meetings for the Budget Committee and Diana Burlison (Ore/Subrahmanyan) passed as amended

Motion to substitute to approve one sanctioned meeting and we will approve the other four when we get the agenda for discussion (Schoenberger/Condon) failed

Motion to amend to replace “five” with “one.” (Jaede/Schoenberger) passed

Amended Motion to approve one sanctioned meeting for the Budget Committee and Diana Burlison. (passed)

Motion to ask the Budget Review Committee for an agenda for the sanctioned meeting before it takes place and have the agenda sent out electronically. (Schoenberger/Fisher) passed

Motion to move to item 7.b. (Motin/Kilborn) passed

7. Old (unfinished) business

b. First Year experience programs

Motion that we ask the Dean not to have this meeting until the FA committee is formed (Motin/Ore) withdrawn

Motion that all planning, designing and implementation of First Year Experience Programs cease until a Faculty Association committee can be formed to work with the Administration on planning this and to ensure that it goes through the proper procedures. (Hornstein/Ore) passed

a. Graduate program quality indicators

Motion to approve items 1 through 18 (Valdes/Condon) tabled

Motion to table until the next Senate Meeting (Inkster/Subrahmanyan) passed

Meeting adjourned at 5:15 p.m.