FACULTY ASSOCIATION

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Senate Minutes

February 4, 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, (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.      Motion to approve the Faculty Senate minutes of January 21, 2003 (Condon/Fisher) passed

b.      Motion to approve the Executive Committee Minutes of January 28, 2003 (Condon/Kilborn) passed

c.      Independent Review Committee Report given by Jeanne LaCourt. This committee is meeting weekly.

d.      DGS Advisory Committee, January 28, 2003: Filed

e.      Strategic Planning Committee, December 6, 2003: Filed

f.      IFO Academic Affairs Report: Filed

g.      Motion to approve the UCC minutes, January 16, 2003 (Condon/Fisher) passed

Motion to approve the UCC minutes, January 23, 2003 (Condon/Hudson) passed

 

3.                  Treasurer’s Report

 

4.      Consent Agenda

a.      Appoint to the FA International Studies Committee: Elaine Davis to represent the College of Business and Janell Kurtz and Nancy Brennan as former directors of an overseas center (all to the end of this year).

b.      Appoint to the search committee for director of marketing and communications in University Advancement: Jo Ann Asquith (Marketing)

c.      Approve Sanctioned Meeting: Graduate Studies Committee and Dean Nunes

d.      Apoint Edward Addo, Niloufer Merchant, and Aspasia Rigopoulou-Melcher to the University-Community Relations subcommittee of the Strategic Planning Committee.

 

Motion to approve the consent agenda (Condon/Fisher) passed

 

Motion to move to 8.d. (Nook/Lavenda) passed

 

8    .d.      New procedures for Faculty Evaluation

Motion that the Senate approves of the procedures as recommended by the committee (Nook/Lavenda) tabled. The purpose of this maneuver is to allow for department input. Please take this issue back to your colleagues, knowing that it will come up at the next meeting. It needs to go to Meet & Confer after Faculty Senate approval, so this gets the procedure started.

Move to table definitely until 3:30 at the next Senate meeting (Nook/Schoenberger) passed

 

6.      Announcements

 

a.      Elections: ADA Committee and Committee on First Year Experiences

Elected to the First Year Experiences committee were:

College of Science and Engineering: Balsi Kasi and Kate Pound

Special Services: Jon Ulven, Susan Motin (tie), and Victoria Williams (tie)

College of Fine Arts and Humanities: Frankie Condon and Marla Kanengieter

College of Social Sciences: Mary Clifford and Tracy Ore

College of Education: Linwood Vereen

College of Business: [none]

 

Elected to the ADA Committee: Sandra Chesborough

 

b.      University Council, January 27, 2003.  presentation by Diana Burlison on the University budget

 

8.         a.      Student Advising [handout Dec. 3, 2002]

                  We need to ask Steve Klepetar to be part of this discussion, or a student/faculty task force.

      Motion to refer this to the committee on Admission & Retention (Nook/Fisher)

                  Amendment to the motion: to work with students on the committee (Johnson) passed

 

6          c.      Budget discussion: Michael Spitzer, Provost, 4:00 – 4:45.

 

d.      Presentation and Discussion: Jim Pehler, IFO President, 4:45 – 5:30.

 

Meeting adjourned at 5:30.