Executive Committee Minutes

November 26, 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 vacant, COE T. Peterson, FAH Kilborn, COSE McKenna, COSS Ore, SS C. Inkster

Negotiator: Langen

1. Call to order at 3:25 p.m.

2. Minutes: None

3. Call for additional agenda items

6.e. Failed Searches

4. President’s Report

a. IFO Executive Committee, November 21-22, 2002

The following items were discussed at the IFO Executive Committee meeting:

-MnSCU budget cuts: state agencies may be asked to take a 10% cut and retrenchment is possible. We will take this issue to Meet and Confer to ask what will administration do about the potential budget cuts.

-IFO Services

-Institutional Research: We will ask at Meet and Confer why Institutional Research was transferred to MnSCU.

-OCE positions; how many are there at SCSU?

- Jim Pehler called a meeting of all State employee Union leaders to discuss the contracts and how to go about bargaining for their approval.

-Local action plan will be placed on the Executive Committee agenda for discussion.

-on December 2 there will be a two hour meeting of all FA presidents and State University presidents with the Chancellor; budgets and the quality of the state university system will be discussed.

-Salary Review Committee; pay equity across the state is being studied. The committee has the data but not the model

5. Old (Unfinished) Business

a. Hiring Manual; Judy Foster is in discussions with Rex Veeder about this.

b. TLTR Liaison

There were some questions asked for clarification purposes regarding the appointment of a TLTR liaison from the FA to this committee. Kristi has also asked for a co-chair from the faculty.

6. New Business

b. First Year Programs

Nathan Church and Roland Specht-Jarvis presented a proposal for a first year program that could serve as a pilot for the next two years. The eventual goal is to provide a program such as this for every first year student. This pilot program would begin in the fall of 2003 and would involve 132 students in Sherburne Hall, a faculty director, and two faculty at ¼ time. They outlined the program and general discussion followed.

c. Teacher Education Collaboration Task Force

A Campus representative to this committee will be elected in Senate on Tuesday, December 03, 2002.

7. Adjournment at 5:40 p.m.