Attendance:
(Those present indicated by an underline)
Officers:
President Fisher, President-Elect Schoenberger, Past
President Larkin, Secretary S.Q. Williams, Treasurer: Buske
IFO
Board Members:
Hill, R. C. Johnson, Kilborn
Unit
Representatives:
COB P. N. SubbaNarasimha COE
Hornstein, FAH Kilborn, COSE Akubue,
COSS Ore, SS
C. Inkster
Negotiator:
Langen
1.
Call to order at 2:10 p.m. President
Fisher declared this meeting an Executive Subcommittee meeting, since
there was not a quorum present.
2.
Minutes – EC Meeting of July 22, 2003
Motion
to
approve these minutes (Schoenberger/Ore)
passed
3.
Call for new agenda items
7.j.
Suggested Changes to IFO Operating Procedures – 8/1/03
4.
Treasurer’s Report
Motion to authorize the
Treasurer to write a check to the IFO for approximately $1,000 for last year’s
secretarial support. (Schoenberger/Williams)
not passed.
President
Fisher will consult the IFO to clarify the reason for this overage and confirm
if our budget is responsible for this sum.
Motion
to
table this issue until the next Executive Committee meeting.
(Larkin/) passed.
5.
President’s Comments
a.
Welcome to Donna West, FA Office Administrative Assistant
b.
FA/MSUAASF Meeting
President
Fisher notified Tom Hergert who is representing the faculty in the search for
Director of International Student and Scholar Services (MSUAASF) Search
Committee.
c.
Committee on Diversity, Anti-Semitism, and Social Justice
Motion to support the name
change from the new committee on diversity education to Committee on Diversity,
Anti-Semitism, and Social Justice. (Ore/Schoenberger)
passed.
d.
Meet & Confer Notes – July 9
As
soon as President Fisher receives these notes, she will send copies to the
Committee.
e.
A22/A25 Procedure Update
The
intent is to proceed with the new procedures this fall.
f.
Discuss Listserv
Administration
decided to support the Senate’s recommendation to remove everyone from the
Discuss listserv and have those who wish to sign themselves up.
J. C. Turner will coordinate this.
g.
Committee Calls
-
President Fisher to pursue a task force on restructuring.
-
Senate approved the technology plan, so a committee will be established
to study the following from now until 7/08:
-
Electronic mail
-
E-learning:
-
Participation needed for Democracy Committee
6.
Old Business
a.
Meet & Confer Retreat (9/2/03) Agenda, Facilitator
-
Article 22/25 Procedure on Agenda
A
comment was made that this procedure does not need to be discussed, since it’s
a Meet and Confer issue and the focus should be on retreat topics. It was
pointed out, however, that there may be a need to discuss this procedure in
order to decide how the Faculty Association will educate faculty on these
issues. Perhaps we should develop
scenarios around procedures; i.e., what should be done in a certain situation.
We need to know what the university’s plan is to ensure there is
understanding by all. President
Fisher was asked to invite Kristi Tornquist, Dick Lewis, Mark Nook, and Judy
Foster to the Meet and Confer to participate in the discussion.
President Fisher will prepare a document to send to everyone.
- Facilitator
Michael
Spitzer suggested Dennis Cheesebrow be the retreat facilitator.
President Fisher scheduled a meeting with Cheesebrow immediately
following today’s committee meeting to meet him and invited those committee
members present. President Fisher
solicited the committee’s thoughts regarding a facilitator.
Questions were raised if Cheesebrow could be neutral and challenging --
as well as the importance of knowing who he has worked with on campus.
President Fisher suggested alternate facilitators: 1) Administration, 2)
Faculty Association, and 3) Sharon Cogdill and Judy Foster (both trained
facilitators). It was stated a
facilitator would cost $1,000 for three hours.
One opinion was that this cost should be paid for by the university since
it is for the overall benefit of the university.
A third option of not having a facilitator at all was suggested –
possibly having a committee member facilitating or scribing.
President Fisher will update the committee on this subject.
7. New Business
Motion
to go into Executive Session (Williams/Inkster) passed.
Motion
to come out of Executive Session and report out the motions made.
(Williams/Inkster) passed.
a.
Staff Issues – Executive Session (attachments 7a)
Motion
to accept the current job descriptions for the FA Office Manager and the FA
Administrative Assistant. (Williams/Larkin)
passed.
Motion
to request the IFO Board instruct the IFO negotiating team on the IFO staff
contract to change the supervision of the FA staff that operates out of the St.
Cloud State University campus to the SCSU President and then the SCSU Executive
Committee. (Schoenberger/Larkin) passed.
President
Fisher stated diversity activities are on schedule.
Could
not hire anyone. They’ll go ahead with the SCSU survey even if they cannot
pay.
d.
Statewide Meet & Confer Agenda (attachment 7d)
What
MNSCU plans to do about illegal standard deviations will be addressed as well as
lay-offs.
e.
IFO/SCSU Grievances/Arbitration (attachment 7e)
Steve
Hornstein does not want the COE grievance withdrawn.
Past-President Larkin stated the English Department will agree to the
withdrawal, since they do not concur and feels it is okay to drop.
He also stated faculty should be advised to file a grievance as soon as
something is wrong . President
Fisher will write an e-mail to Frank to go ahead and drop the English Department
grievance but not the College of Education one. Terms for the agreement for
Highway Safety have been signed and filed at Step III by the IFO.
It was stated no one can make any more claims regarding the Highway
Safety Department. Past-President
Larkin stated this subject should be discussed at the retreat as well as the
relationship with faculty and administration.
The
audit is out – there is no money in the Highway Safety Center.
The conclusions are legal implications.
President Fisher will talk to John Asmussen about this matter.
Motion
to move to agenda item 7.j. (Shoenberger/Ore) passed.
j.
Suggested Changes to IFO Operating Procedures – 8/l/03
President-Elect
Schoenberger stated at the next board meeting, there are suggested changes the
board members should review; i.e., eliminating an Academic Affairs staff member. President Fisher stated the committee should discuss this
subject when the entire group is present.
g.
COE TQE Grant
Teacher
Development nor other departments with an interest in student teaching were
included. Departments must meet and
discuss the grant. Steve Hornstein asked us to be aware of this matter.
The current issue falls under Article 20.
The faculty are divided. At
issue is the implementation of a co-teaching model.
i.
Civility and Academic Freedom (attachment 7i)
This
was given to the Executive Committee for our feedback.
We will take this to Senate. This
addresses a professional atmosphere and preserving academic freedom.
A concern was stated with the last line of the draft, “Consistent with
these policies, disciplinary action will be taken against individuals when
violations occur.” President
Fisher stated we should make this subject a regular Meet and Confer topic.
8.
Adjournment at 3:55 p.m.