FA Executive Committee Minutes

Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers: President Larkin, President-Elect Fisher, Secretary S.Q. Williams, Treasurer: Kang

IFO Board Members: Foster, R. C. Johnson, A. Schoenberger

Unit Representatives: COB COE T. Peterson, FAH Kilborn, COSE McKenna, COSS Ore, SPEC C. Inkster

Negotiator: Langen

Guest: Geoffrey Tabakin

1. Call to order at 3:20 p.m.

2. Minutes

The minutes of the last Executive Board meeting were approved at Faculty Senate on Sept. 24, 2002.

3. Additional Agenda Items

6f. Technology Committee Report

6g. Secretarial Support (Executive Session)

4. Presidents Report

a. Meet & Confer agenda for Oct. 10: Theresia and Andy will prioritize the list of agenda items. Please send Andy an email if you have special requests. They will put the brief items first.

b. Senate agenda: grade appeals and student complaint policies: At the Faculty Senate meeting of Sept. 24, a motion was passed merging these two items. Because the faculty who need to attend to address these two issues at Senate are not both available on the same day, it was moved and seconded (Fisher/Kilborn) to recommend that the president divide the two issues for consideration at Senate. Passed.

5. Old Business

a. Hiring Manual: Judy Foster reported that some suggestions from the committee had been made by the administration, but the major organization change suggestions weren’t made. The manual is very confusing as it now stands. Perhaps the committee would continue to work with the administrators responsible.

6. New Business

It was moved and seconded (Peterson/Foster) to move to 6d because a guest was present to address this issue. Passed.

d. Procedures for Appeal: Guest: Geoffrey Tabakin. Do we want to formulate a strategy to go to the Chancellor? This will need to go to the IFO Board first for a legal ruling. Geoffrey Tabakin will work with Theresia Fisher to frame the question. We can continue to discuss it in Executive Committee and then take it to Meet & Confer to figure out how to work with our administration. Tabakin and Fisher will bring the question back to the Executive Committee.

7. Adjournment at 5:08.