FA Executive Committee Minutes

April 1, 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 P.N. SubbaNarasimha, COE T. Peterson, FAH Kilborn, COSE McKenna, COSS Ore, SS C. Inkster

Negotiator: Langen

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

2. Minutes

The minutes of the Executive Committee meeting (March 18, 2003) were approved at the Senate meeting of March 25, 2003.

3. Call for additional agenda items

4. Consent Agenda

5. President’s Report

a. Consultants Ken Mortimore and Kalyan Ghosh will meet with the Executive Committee about university organization next Monday, April 7th, at 3 p.m.

b. University Council, March 31, 2003

i. Friday closings

Under consideration is a plan to close the University on Fridays May 23 - August 15. A possible exception might be the Miller Center. Other exceptions will be the cafeteria, residence halls, and Atwood. A decision date is April 10th. There are 12 Fridays and it’s estimated that $1500 will be saved every day, so the total savings will be $18,000.

ii. American Democracy Project

This is a collaboration between the AASCU and the New York Times. The group will admit 100 institutions to participate in a civic engagement process. There is no charge to the participating institutions. The Academic Affairs Council is in favor of it.

6. Old (Unfinished) Business

a. Hiring Manual (Foster)

Foster, Fisher, and Larkin are trying to meet with Aly on the hiring manual. Since Foster is on sabbatical, Schoenberger will join this group.

b. ITV and Continuing Studies (Kang)

Kang and Larkin met with John Burgeson.

c. Budget Policies - examine website suggestions

The Executive Committee agreed to meet at 3:00 on Thursday, April 3rd, to go over the budget-cutting ideas from the website. We will look for suggestions that are contractual, and could not be implemented outside the negotiations process.

7. New Business

a. Action Plan (Langen)

Motion to recommend to the Senate that Senate form a committee made up of chairs of the Grievance Committee, General Education Committee, Curriculum Committee, Budget Committee, and the Committee on the Institution and ask them to implement the proposed action plan (Schoenberger/Peterson) passed.

Another idea was that a Task Force could be formed with people with public relations interests who could develop a history of administrators’ decisions as they’ve been pro and con faculty.

b. Layered Scheduling

Larkin has sent a letter to Jean Hoff asking the UCC to make a recommendations to the Senate concerning BA and BS majors and minors, overlapping credits, and layered scheduling.

c. Assessment

Decentralized assessment was rejected at the Senate, so it’s not happening except in some departments and colleges. Larkin will ask Brenda Wentworth to convene this committee.

d. Meet & Confer, April 10, 2003

e. Grade Appeals (2)

Motion to form a subcommittee consisting of members not from the department or college to do the work outside an Executive Committee meeting. (Schoenberger/Kilborn) substituted.

Substitute motion to check the grade appeals policy to see if we are the proper body to do the work, and then form the committee (Kilborn/Schoenberger) passed.

Motion that the Executive Committee will meet in a separate meeting to do this work (Kilborn/Schoenberger) passed.

f. Contract for Institutional Research

The contract was provided to the Executive Committee at Meet and Confer

g. Zero Tolerance for Workplace Violence

h. Church letter (draft)

i. Deans’ searches (draft)

Motion: Larkin should send the draft letter, with the exception of the beginning of the last sentence (Kilborn/Schoenberger) passed.

Motion to amend to delete the last paragraph (Johnson/Kilborn) passed.

It was agreed to amend the composition of the committee to read six Faculty Association members to constitute at least 60 percent of the committee. Add this issue to the Senate agenda.

j. Schedule 25 (Schoenberger)

8. Adjournment at 5:15 p.m.