FACULTY
ASSOCIATION
No. 2 North Office Center - St. Cloud State
University - (320) 255-3979
Senate
Minutes
April 22, 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 3:20 p.m.
2. Minutes
a. Motion to approve Faculty
Senate, April 8, 2003 (Condon/Fisher (passed)
b.
Motion
to approve Executive Committee, April 1, 2003 and April 15, 2003
(Condon/Fisher) passed
c.
Motion
to approve Technology & Pedagogical Resources Committee, April 8, 2003
and April 17, 2003 except Section 5.16.2 (Kang/Fisher) passed
Motion to approve section
5.16.2 except paragraph (2) (Kang/Fisher) passed
Motion to approve
paragraph (2) (Kang/Fisher) failed
d.
DGS
Advisory Committee, April 1, 2003 (Informational)
e.
Motion
to approve UCC minutes, April 3, 2003 (Fisher/Condon) passed
Motion to approve UCC minutes, April 10, 2003 (Tabakin/Anderson)
passed
Motion to approve UCC minutes, April 17, 2003
except the last sentence of the last motion (Schoenberger/Condon) passed
Motion to approve the last sentence of the last
motion on the UCC minutes of April 17, 2003 (Schoenberger/Condon) tabled
Motion to table until further information is
received from the University Curriculum Committee (Nook/Fisher)
passed
3.
Treasurer’s
Report (Filed)
4. Consent
Agenda
a.
Appoint
Lalita Subrahmanyan (COE), Rich Dillman (CFAH), and Michelle Hammes (COSS)
to the Honors Advisory
Committee.
b.
Approve
one sanctioned meeting: Graduate Studies Committee and Dennis Nunes.
Motion to approve the Consent Agenda
(Lavenda/Karasik) passed
5.
Call
for additional agenda items
8.n. Committee
on Diversity Education
Motion to make items 8.e. and 8.n. time definite:
4:15 p.m. (Tabakin/Condon) passed
8.o. Quorum
in the Senate
6.
Announcements
a.
Election
of an ad hoc committee on the “discuss” listserv
b. Interim Dean Search Committee, College of Science
and Engineering
Steve Covey, Ramnath Sarnath, Steve Anderson, Tony Hansen, Mahin Sadrai, Lisa Splittgerber (at-large)
c.
Election of search committee for interim dean of College of Business
Elaine
Davis, Bill Hudson, Kate Mooney, Ken Schneider, Gary Yoshimoto, Keith Ewing
(at-large)
d. Phone System
Randy Evans and Rubin Stenseng are chairing this committee. Watch email for information. This new phone system will take effect July
1, 2003.
7. Old
(unfinished) business
b.
Student
Advising-referred to Committee on Admissions and Retention
c.
Public
Expression Policy-referred to Committee on the Institution
d.
Recommendations
on SCSU-discuss—referred to new ad hoc committee (see 6.a. above)
e.
Nathan
Church letter
Motion to authorize the
FA President to send the letter he drafted to Nathan Church. (Jaede/Condon) passed
Motion that the FA
Executive Committee, the Administration and any other interested
members of the campus
community engage in a discussion regarding approaches and
strategies to the mascot
issue
(Fisher/Schoenberger) passed
8. e. Independent Review Committee
n.
Committee
on Diversity Education
Motion to approve a sanctioned meeting between
the new committee on diversity education and the Provost
(Lavenda/Schoenberger) tabled
Motion to table until the committee gives the
Senate further direction (Schoenberger/Kalia) passed
a.
Drops
& Adds
Motion to change the last “add day” at the
beginning of the semester to one day after the last “drop day” (Kilborn/Condon)passed
Motion to table until we get more information
(Johnson/Murphy) failed
Motion to discontinue the practice of waiving
tuition for students who don’t show up in classes for which they are registered
and then don’t drop until after the drop-add date. (Kilborn/Langen) passed
Motion to close debate (Fisher/Motin) passed
Motion to automatically drop students who miss
the first class unless they are excused by the Faculty member teaching the
class (Schoenberger/Inkster) passed
Motion to close debate (Motin/M. Tripp) passed
6.b. Election
results announced for search committee for interim dean of College of Science
and Engineering. No minority candidate
was elected.
Motion to drop the lowest vote getter and put in
the highest vote getter of a minority class (Nook/Gazal) passed
9. Adjournment
at 5:25 p.m.