FACULTY ASSOCIATION

No. 2 North Office Center – St. Cloud State University – (320) 2553979

Faculty senate Minutes

March 25, 2003

 

Attendance:  (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers:   Larkin, Fisher, Kang, S. Q. Williams

IFO Board:  A. Schoenberger, Foster, R. C. Johnson Negotiator: Langen

BUSINESS:  (Unit Representative) Subbanarasimha, (ACCT) vacant, (BCIS) Herath, Song, (FIRE) Hudson,

(MGMT) Roth, vacant, (MKGB) Gulati, J.C. Johnson

EDUCATION:  (Unit Representative) T. Peterson, (CFS) Gilman, (CEEP) Petrangelo, Murphy, (HRESS) Zezony, C. Martin, (HURL) Tripp, (LDR) Schulze, Kayona (SPED) Salk, vacant, (TDEV) Subrahmanyan, Tabakin, Hornstein

FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES:  (Unit Representative) Kilborn, (ART) Bradley, (CDSI) Whites, (CMST) Wildeson, Warne, Rehling, (ENGL)Dorn, Condon, Robinson, Ross, (FORL) Mikoltchak, Splittgerber, (COMM) Rodriguez, vacant (MUSIC) Fuller, Springer, (PHIL) Nuccetelli, (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, (STAT) Lawal, Gammell

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, Lavenda

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

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

GUESTS: Paula Tompkins, Mark Partridge

 

1.         Call to order at 3:15 p.m.

           

2.         Minutes

a.                  Motion to approve the Faculty Senate minutes, March 4, 2003 (Wagner/Kang) passed

b.                  Motion to approve the Executive Committee minutes, March 18, 2003 (Condon/Kang) passed

c.                  Motion to approve the Professional Improvement Committee minutes, March 3, 2003 (Lavenda/Condon) passed

d.                  Motion to approve the University Curriculum Committee minutes, February 27, 2003 (Tabakin/Lavenda) and March 6, 2003 (Condon/Hudson)  passed

e.                  Motion to approve the Technology & Pedagogical Resources minutes, February 28, 2003 (Condon/Tabakin) passed

f.                   Motion to approve the International Studies Committee minutes, March 20-21, 2003 (Condon/Kilborn) passed

 

3.                   Treasurer’s Report

            Treasurer Eungmin Kang reported a balance of $7,356.06.

 

4.                   Consent Agenda  Motion to approve the Consent Agenda  (Condon/Lavenda)  passed

a.                  Appoint the following to the Committee on the Institution:  Kate Mooney & Dien Phan (COB), Mert Thompson & John Palmer (COE), and Stephen Fuller (FAH)

b.                  Elect Gretchen Tieberghien and Jeffrey Smith to the search committee for the Director of the Jewish Studies and Resources Center

c.                  Elect JoAnn Asquith to the Peer Review Committee from the College of Business

           

5.                   Call for Additional Agenda Items

8. g.      Center for International Studies and academic programs

8. h.      Meet & Confer minutes, Feb. 27th, 2003

 

6.                   Announcements

a.                  Election of member from College of Social Sciences to Peer Review Committee:  Beverly Stadum

b.                  Election of two members from College of Science and Engineering to the Committee on the Institution:  Tony Hansen and Ken Miller.

 

7.         Old (Unfinished) Business

a.                  Graduate Program Quality Indicators [tabled January 21, 2003]  Continue postponement.

 

b.                  Contract Goals [tabled March 4, 2003] [handout, March 4, 2003] – 4:30

Motion to set a time limit of 20 minutes for the debate. (Ore/Valdes) passed

Motion to approve #1-14 (#14 is “SCSU continues to support domestic partner benefits”) , from March 4, 2003, separating items #4 and #7, passed.

 

Motion to approve #7 as amended to read “When the IFO Negotiating Team is presented with alternative offers simultaneously, all offers should be presented to the IFO Board or the Delegate Assembly since it is not the role of the negotiating team to select the actual contract by not reporting alternatives.” (Buske/Grossman) failed

Motion to approve #4 (Hill/ ) failed

 

8.                   New Business

a.                  Nathan Church Letter [handout, December 3, 2002]

Discussion: Item 8.h. can be discussed with this because there is a question about these Meet & Confer notes. It appears that this letter from Nathan Church is not an apology. We need to have administrators speak more publicly on the social justice issues faculty are facing and struggling with. We need to let the administration know that we are colleagues and we need to be treated with respect. This issue is obviously not resolved yet. Perhaps using mediation to get a discussion going would help. President Larkin was asked to draft a letter that he will bring to the Senate.

 

b.                  Russ Stanton’s “Brainstorm Paper” [enclosed January 21, 2003]

 

c.                  Response to Settlement – Mandatory Training

Discussion: Faculty must receive this training before the start of the next academic year and we haven’t heard anything about it from the administration. The Committee on Diversity Education is working on Anti-Racism training and they haven’t been charged with anti-Semitism issues. We need to move forward since we have a court order to do this. We need to remember that the faculty involved in the lawsuit did not request this mandatory training. The settlement isn’t clear on who should develop the training. The Executive Committee has had discussions on the training and we asked the CODE committee to do it and they told us their focus was different. It’s really important that this body help this move forward. This training was a demand of the MnSCU side, even though the plaintiffs asked that it not be made mandatory. The training called for is diversity training “to include” treatment of anti-Semitism. As the Center develops and unfolds, it should help us all recognize and deal with anti-Semitism.

 

Motion that the Faculty Association establish a committee to design and implement a series of faculty seminars and workshops to address the language and spirit of the court settlement on anti-Semitism, to include issues of anti-Semitism and other diversity issues. The workshops will begin in the spring semester of 2003.  (Johnson/Kilborn) passed

 

Motion to close debate (Kilborn/Tabakin) passed

 

9.            Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 5:11 p.m.