Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)
Officers: Schoenberger, Fisher, Kilborn, Motin, Vacant
IFO Board: Kilborn, Fisher, Hill, Negotiator: Langen
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) SubbaNarasimha, (ACCT) vacant, (BCIS) Herath, Song, (FIRE) Hudson, (MGMT) Roth, vacant, (MKGB) Gulati, Johnson
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) Hornstein, (CFS) Gilman, (LDR) Kayona, Merchant (CEEP) Downing, Murphy, (HRESS) Moore, Martin, (HURL) Benjamin, (SPED) Hoover, Beutel, (TDEV) Heine, vacant, vacant
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) Condon (ENGL) (ART) Weston, (CDSI) Whites, (ENGL) Dorn, Inkster, Robinson, Foster, (FORL), Boyer, Melgarejo, Triana-Echevema, (COMM) Rodriguez, vacant (MUSIC) Fuller, Springer, (PHIL) Zheng, (CMST) Wells, Wildeson, Ringer, (THFD) Leigh
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Akubue, (AVIA) Anderson, (BIOL) Julius, Gazal, Schoenfuss, (CHEM) Sadrai, Mahroof-Tahir, (CSCI) Fisher, (EAS) Hansen, (EE) Petzold, (ETS) Akubue, (ME) Bekkala, (MATH) Walk, Theisen, Chen, (NURS) Herm, (PHYS) Haglin, (STAT) Onyiah, Gammell
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit Representative) Ore, (CMTY) Karasik, (CJUS) Clifford, Vacant (ECON) Banaian, Lo, (ES) Lacourt (GEOG) Wong, (HIST) Jaede, (POL) Bodelson, (PSYC) Jazwinski, (SW) Chesborough, (SAN) Gold, Lavenda, (WS) Berila
SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) Vacant, (COUN) Gasparino, (LR&TS) Inkster, Williams, Hergert, (MEN’S ATHL) vacant, (WOMEN’S ATHL) Odette, (OAA) vacant
1. Call to Order at 3:20 PM.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of May 4 (FS 091404 2.a.)
b. Executive Committee Minutes of June 8 (FS 091404 2.b. 1, 2, 3, & 4)
Motion to approve the actions taken in the EC Minutes of June 8 (Fisher/Kilborn). Approved
Executive Committee Minutes of July 13
Motion to approve the actions taken in the EC Minutes of July 13 (Williams/Fisher). Approved
Executive Committee Minutes of August 10
Motion to approve the actions taken in the EC Minutes of August 10 (Williams/Fisher). Approved
Executive Committee Minutes of Sept 7
Motion to approve the actions taken in the EC Minutes of September 7 (Williams/Fisher). Approved
c. GEC Minutes for Jan 28, 2004 (FS 091404 2.c.)
Motion to approve the GEC Minutes for January 28 (Condon/Motin). Approved
d. Minutes of the Honors Program Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting of February 28, 2004 (FS 091404 3.d.) – File
e. Committee on Diversity Anti-Semitism, and Social Justice Aug. 18, 2004 (FS 091404 2.e.)
Motion we approve the actions taken in the CODAS minutes of August 18 including the request from the FA to support the six (6) program events (Benjamin/Karasik). Approved
f. Admissions and Retentions Committee May 25, 2004 (FS 091404 2.f.) - File
g. Strategic Planning Committee April 30, 2004 (FS 091404 2.g.)
Motion to approve the actions taken in the Strategic Planning Committee minutes of April 30; specifically, the motion “…that SPC recommends to Administration that they focus on NSSE points that are listed as data points under the themes…” (Kilborn/Berila). Approved
h. DGS Advisory Committee April 6, 2004 (FS 091404 2.h.) – File
i. State Task Force on Polytechnic Education March 18 (FS 091404 2.i.) – File
3. Treasurer’s Report
FA Treasurer Motin thanked Dale Buske for his hard work as Treasurer last year. There was a Delegate Assembly resolution allowing universities to have a reserve in excess of their budget. Our budget is $45,000, and we have a reserve of $30,000.
4. Consent agenda
a. Zoa Rockenstein for IFO representative to the state DCR Committee.
Debra Leigh for State Multicultural Issues Committee
Election (Tracy Ore, Zoa Rockenstein, Maria Mikolchak) for State Feminist Issues Committee.
The election was held, and Tracy Ore was elected as the IFO representative to serve on the state Feminist Issues Committee.
b. SPEC: Robin Ewing, Government Relations (DFL); Bob Hauptman, Graduate Committee; Fred Hill, Academic Affairs; James Caufield, International Student Services Committee; Steve Malikowski, Faculty Research Grants; Marian Rengel, Professional Development Committee; Fred Hill, General Education, replace Luther Rotto who is on sabbatical; John Theis, TPR, replace Luther Rotto who is on sabbatical
Motion to approve the Consent Agenda (Fisher/Subba). Approved
5. Call for new agenda items
8.b. CODAS Committee’s minutes
6. Announcements
a. Next year’s meetings – they should soon be at http://www.cloudnet.com/~facassoc (FS 091404 6.a.) - Discussed
Please note: On October 26, November 2, and November 9, there will be three Senate meetings in a row. Our plan is for us to break after the Senate meeting on October 26th and pick up where we left off on November 2nd, working on New Business and Old Business, with the hope we’ll accomplish the issues so we won’t end the year with so much.
b. Roberts Rules handout – Distributed
c. Reminder of meeting times 3:15 – 5:15 PM - Discussed
d. Sanctioned meetings (FS 091404 6.d.)
The Constitutional Review Committee is reviewing this issue. FA President Schoenberger will send this information to all committees. In the meantime, if you need to meet with anyone, go ahead and do so; although, any action your committee takes must be approved in Senate.
Please let FA President Schoenberger know if you would like to volunteer for this position for the 2004-05 academic year.
Negotiator Langen asked for members of Senate to be sure to return their contract ratification ballot – please vote (he hopes everyone votes yes). The biggest level of support you can give is a vibrant action effort on campus, and hopes you’ll consider this position. Please suggest a colleague if you, yourself, do not wish to hold this position. Negotiator Langen stated he hopes the action coordinator would put strike at the very bottom of the list. An example of action could be in the form of a message sent to the Discuss list regarding a matter that came up at the negotiations table.
8. c. Article 22 (FS 091404 8.c.)
Motion to approve the recommendation from the SCSU Meet and Confer adhoc Article 22 Committee (Fisher/Kilborn). Passed
Motion to amend the motion to include the words “to the faculty member and the dean” after the word “comments” in paragraph #4 (Inkster/Williams). Motion Fails.
Motion to close debate (Hornstein/Fisher). Passed
If you’re interested in joining a taskforce to rewrite Article 22, please send FA President Schoenberger an e-mail.
7. Unfinished Business
Motion for the Overload Guidelines to go to Meet and Confer to find out if the administration is still using them (Fisher/Akubue). Passed
Motion to close debate (Akubue/Hornstein). Passed
Motion we take this issue to Meet and Confer to discuss appropriate examples before we may accept this (Hill/Condon).
Motion we postpone this issue until the next Senate meeting (Kilborn/Motin). Passed
Please go back to your departments to obtain feedback on how we might publish this information to ensure this accurately portrays the work your department is doing.
The agenda was moved to 8.b.
8. b. Search Committees for Administrative posts (FS 091404 8.b.)
Motion to approve the distribution of the faculty to serve on searches as outlined in the (corresponding) document (Fisher/Whites). Failed
7. c. NSSE Study and taskforce (Not discussed)
d. FA Honors Advisory Committee Minutes April 2003 to January 2004 (FS 091404 7.d.) (Not discussed)
8. New Business
b. CODAS Committee’s minutes (Not discussed)
Adjournment at 5:20 PM.