EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES

9/16/03

Attendance:   (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers:  President Fisher, President-Elect Schoenberger, Past President Larkin, Secretary: Williams, Treasurer: Buske

IFO Board Members: Hill, 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 3:20 PM.

2. Minutes:  EC Minutes of 8/12/03

Motion to approve actions taken in the August 12 Executive Subcommittee Meeting (Hornstein/Larkin).  Passed.

3. Call for new agenda items

6.a.  Check to the IFO for approximately $1,000 for last year’s secretarial support

7.h.  Overloads in the College of Education

7.i.  Assessment

7.j.  Mediation Coordinating Committee representatives

4. Treasurer’s Report

Dale Buske stated the numbers remain unchanged, as reported to Senate on 9/9/03.

5. President’s Comments

6.         Unfinished Business

Motion to table item 6.a., check to the IFO for secretarial support, until 7.a. (Buske/SubbaNarasimha). Passed.

7.         New Business

a. FA Finances

Motion we pay approximately $1,000 to the IFO for last year’s secretarial support (Larkin/Schoenberger).  Passed

Move to amend motion to pay the IFO once we have verification of this cost (Hornstein/Schoenberger).

Motion to amend main motion:  For:  5; Opposed:  6.  Amendment not passed.

Motion to have FA President, Past President, President Elect, and Treasurer develop a plan with regard to reserve money and present plan as a recommendation to Faculty Senate (Kilborn/Hornstein).  Passed.

Motion to move agenda to 7.i. Assessment (Hill/SubbaNarasimha).  Passed.

b. COE Election Process Challenge for the Task Force on Restructuring the University

Motion to redo the College of Education election for the Task Force on Restructuring the University at next week’s Senate meeting (Schoenberger/SubbaNarasimha).  For:  4; Opposed:  5.  Not passed.

Motion to elect Andrew Larkin as the FA representative to the Task Force on Restructuring the University (Buske/Ore).  Passed.

Motion to move agenda to 7.d. (Kilborn/Hornstein).  Passed.

c. Sanctioned Meetings

d. Meet and Confer Agendas

Topics for Senate:

1. First Year Experience pilot program affecting academic programs (Kilborn)

2. Workload increase with reduced reassigned time (Larkin)

3. Overloads in the College of Ed (Hornstein)

4. List of people with reassigned time (Schoenberger)                                                                                          

President Fisher will include these topics on the Senate agenda for their approval to be discussed in Meet and Confer.

Hearing no objection, the agenda was moved to 7.j.

e. Office Web Software

We need Dreamweaver on all three computers.  President Fisher will talk to Wil Harri to see if this software can come from the IFO.

f. Office Viruses

Motion to buy Norton Antivirus software for FA computers (Hornstein/Johnson).  Passed.

g. Senate processing and Robert’s Rules of Order

We can tweak our procedures so we move faster, but we need to make sure we don’t diminish anyone’s voice.

h. Overloads in College of Ed

i. Assessment

Motion that the business of assessment of learning be brought back to Senate for discussion (Hill/Hornstein).

Substitute motion that a call be put out for university FA members to serve on a new Assessment Committee (Johnson/Kilborn).  Passed

j. Mediation Coordinating Committee Representatives.

Put Judy Kilborn and Andrew Larkin on the Consent Agenda as possible members on this committee.  President Fisher will put out a call for one more committee member.  Committee members must have gone through mediation training first.

We will move 7.a., 7.e., and 7.f. to Unfinished Business.

Meeting adjourned at 5:20 PM.