FACULTY ASSOCIATION

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Executive Committee Minutes

January 14, 2003

 

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 3:15 p.m.

 

2.     Minutes

                Executive Committee Minutes of December 10, 2002

 

  1. Call for additional agenda items

6.k. New procedures for faculty evaluations.  The URL will be put on the Senate agenda.

 

  1. President’s Report

a.                    Consent agenda: Sanctioned Meeting (UCC and Lin Holder on January 16, 2003)

Motion to approve the consent agenda (Foster/Kilborn) passed

b.                   Meet and Confer notes

 

  1. Old (unfinished) Business

a.                    Hiring Manual

Rex Veeder has a new draft for us.  Judy will give a report after she’s had a chance to go over it with him.  Annette and Chris will be willing to get together if there is progress.

b.                   TLTR liaison

Paula Tompkins was elected chair and will co-chair with Kristi Tornquist.  Judy Kilborn will report back at the next Executive Committee.

c.                    International Studies Committee

There are some problems with the membership.  Curriculum proposals should come to the ORPHANS committee.  The committee needs to be constituted correctly.  Minutes will be filed for information.  They can request a sanctioned meeting.  Perhaps this issue should go to Meet and Confer to explain the rules about FA committees.  The faculty rep for the Study Abroad Advisor needs to come through a Faculty Association request.  Question on the number of search committee members.  Is there a new position?  How does this happen?  Why now in this time when academic departments can’t get the support they need?  President Larkin will add this to the Meet and Confer agenda and ask Provost Spitzer to suspend action until after Meet and Confer.

 

  1. New Business

a.                    ITV and Continuing Education

b.                   Yes, the Committee on Diversity Education (CODE)can continue even without the CARE program (if they don’t get the grant from Bremer).  Could the committee help us with mandatory training for anti-Semitism?  Maybe we need to hold off until we learn what the requirements from the settlement are.  We can remind the CODE of its charge and remind them it goes beyond racism education.  MCARI is the diversity education training that’s approved by Senate and the President’s Council.  There is a concern with overlapping missions of committees.  The court settlement doesn’t come out until February.

    1. Recognition for Retiring Faculty

Motion to provide retiring faculty members with a reception after the last Senate meeting that will be open to all faculty members and to give plaques to all retiring members. (Schoenberger/Williams) passed

e.        First-year Experiences

This is fairly expensive.  Can we afford to do it in light of the budget cuts?  The proposals are not well structured yet.

Motion to call together the committee to help design the First-year experience program.  (Ore/Schoenberger) withdrawn

Motion to charge a faculty committee to explore the idea of a First –year experience, looking at the implications for budget, curriculum and schedule and report back to the Senate.  (Jonson/Ore) passed

There was a suggestion that we take this to Meet and Confer and ask that they put their implementation on hold until after a discussion.

g.       Visit from the IFO President

The IFO president will meet with the Senate and will be asked to discuss the contract.  This will be open to all faculty and there will be a Q & A period following.

i.         Professional Review Panels

There will be a three-member faculty panel (full & fairshare) to take up cases between deans and departments if there are differences in promotion and tenure decisions. The Executive Committee will recommend six people and the President will recommend three.  The Executive Committee would like to have six members and let the President select three so that there won’t be overlapping with departments.  We need full professors, one from each college and Special Services.

k.        New procedures for Faculty Evaluation

These procedures need to be approved by Senate.

 

                Meeting adjourned at 5:25 p.m.