FACULTY
ASSOCIATION
No. 2 North Office Center - St. Cloud State
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Senate
Minutes
April 8, 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) P. N. SubbaNarasimha,
(ACCT) vacant, (BCIS) Herath, Song, (FIRE) Hudson,
(MGMT) Roth,vacant, (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) Weston, (CDSI) Whites, (ENGL)Dorn, Condon, Robinson, Ross, (FORL) Mikoltchak, Splittgerber, (COMM) Rodriguez, vacant (MUSIC) Fuller, Springer, (PHIL) Nuccetelli, (CMST) 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, (STAT) Lawal, Gammell
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 3:25
p.m.
Motion
to reconsider the motion “8C” from the
March 25 Senate minutes prior to agenda item 4d (Tabakin/Condon)
passed
2. Minutes
a.
Motion to approve the
Senate minutes, March 25, 2003, (Karasik/Schoenberger) passed
a. Executive Committee minutes, April 1, 2003: unavailable
b. DGS Advisory Committee, March 18, 2003 (informational)
c.
Strategic Planning Committee, March 21, 2003
Priority
Strategic Goal: Academic Distinction
Motion to
approve the Priority Strategic Goals (Fisher/Motin) tabled
Motion to table
until the next Senate meeting (Schoenberger/ )passed
d. Motion to
approve the TPR Committee minutes of March 20, 2003 (Condon/Schoenberger)
passed
Motion
to approve the TPR committee minutes of
April 3, 2003 (Motin Dorn) tabled
Motion
to table until the next Senate meeting
(Kilborn/Schoenberger) passed
e. Constitutional Review Committee, April 2, 2003
Motion
to send the proposed Bylaws changes to
the entire faculty (Johnson/Fisher) passed
f.
International Studies
Committee March 7, 2003 (informational)
Motion
to approve the International Studies
Committee minutes of April 2, 2003 (Schoenberger/Fisher) passed
g. Motion to
approve the UCC minutes of March 20, 2003 (Fuller/Fisher) passed
h. Motion to
approve the Faculty Research Grants Committee, April 4, 2003 (Grossman/Condon)
passed
Motion to take
the matter of the continuation of carry-forward to Meet and Confer
(Schoenberger/Grossman) passed
3.
Treasurer’s Report: None
4.
Consent Agenda
a. Appoint Chris Inkster (LR&TS) to the Committee on
the Institution
b. Appoint Linda Butenhoff (Political Science) to the
International Studies Committee
c. Approve sanctioned meeting: Graduate Studies Committee and Dennis Nunes
Motion
to approve items a, b and c
(Johnson/Hergert) passed
Motion for reconsideration:
“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”
Motion to close debate (Motin/Hergert) passed
Motion
to delete the entire last line (Fisher/Whites)
passed
Motion
to close debate (Salk/Schoenberger) passed
Motion to remove the words “issues of”
(Hill/Schoenberger) passed
Motion
to amend to add “to be available to the
administration to assist in the” after the word “committee” in the motion
(Dorn/Fuller) failed
Motion
to close debate (Condon/Fisher) passed
Motion,
as passed, reads: “that the Faculty
Association establish a committee to design and implement a series of faculty
seminars and workshops to address anti-Semitism and other diversity issues.”
d. Motion to appoint Jesse Benjamin, Heather Hackman, Chris Jazwinski, Jayne Lokken, and Geoffrey Tabakin to the new faculty committee for diversity education. (__/__) passed.
7.
Old (unfinished)
business
a. Graduate
Program Quality indicators
Motion to
approve the Graduate program quality indicators (Fisher/Gazal) passed
Motion
to amend 3a. (Fuller/_____) failed
Motion
to close debate. (Valdes/Dorn) Passed
Motion
to amend #13 to include the words
“department or program” before faculty.
(Fuller/Kang) Passed
Motion
to close debate on main motion. (Fisher/Schoenberger) Passed
Motion
that the Graduate Committee will set up
a process that will allow departments to give their feedback to the Committee
and to bring back a revised version of quality indicators by the beginning of
Spring Semester, 2004.
(Condon/Fisher) Passed
Motion
to close debate. (Jaede/Condon) Passed
6.
Announcements
b. Election
of representative to IFO-MnSCU Salary Equity Review Committee: Sarnath Ramnath.
e. Nominations for FA Secretary: Sandra Williams
FA Treasurer: Dale Buske
and three unit representatives
COE:
COSE:
Mark Nook
COSS:
Tracy Ore
(to
be elected by the Senate on May 6, 2003)
f.
Results of FA elections
IFO
Board of Directors: Judy Kilborn and
Fred Hill
President-Elect: Annette Schoenberger
a. University Council, March 31, 2003
(1) The American Democracy Project.
See handout. The University will go forward with this project. Let Andy Larkin
know if you have a problem with it.
(2) On Fridays the university will
very likely be shut down from May 23 – Aug. 15. The library is a separate
question and is under consideration. Friday classes could be held in Atwood or
in the Miller Center or in one other building. This will be taken to Meet &
Confer.
9. Adjournment
at 4:55 p.m.