OCTOBER 12, 2004
Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)
Officers: Schoenberger, Fisher, Kilborn, Motin, Gasparino
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, Beniek, Serrano, (IM) Theis
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) Condon (ENGL) (ART) Weston, (CDSI) Whites, (ENGL) Dorn, Inkster, Robinson, Foster, (FORL), Boyer, Triana-Echevema, (COMM) vacant, 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) Thamvichai, (ETS) Akubue, (ME) Bekkala, (MATH) Buske, Walk, Branson, (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) Frank, (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 September 28, 2004 (FS 101204 2.a)
Motion to approve the Faculty Senate minutes of September
28 revising 4.e. to read The Mediation Coordinating Committee was formed to
fulfill Article 2 regarding mediation, and the program, in itself, was
developed for any kind of workplace issue any article in the contract
and is made up of representatives from every bargaining unit. (Akubue/Condon). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of Oct. 5, 2004 (FS 101204 2.b)
Motion to approve the actions taken in the EC minutes of October 5, 2004 (Ore/Akubue). Passed
c. Strategic Planning Committee Sept. 23, 2004 (FS 101204 2.c) – File
d. University Curriculum Committee Sept. 23, 2004 (FS 101204 2.d)
Motion to approve the actions taken in the UCC minutes of September 23, 2004 (Fisher/Akubue). Passed
e. General Education Committee minutes of April 28, 2004 and Sept 24, 2004 (FS 101204 2.e.a, 2.e.b) File
Note: The Minnesota Transfer Curriculum document attached to the GEC minutes of April 28, 2004, minutes is defunct (it describes a very “top-down” system) and has been taken back to be revised. If you would like to make any comments regarding this document, please contact FA President Schoenberger.
Motion to approve the actions taken in the GEC meeting of September 24, 2004 (Ore/Condon). Passed
3. Treasurer’s Report (FS 101204 3.a)
We received our first payment from the state IFO of approximately $914.79, and it has been added to the balance as shown on the report.
4. Consent Agenda
Elections were held, and the following faculty will serve on the committees as listed:
a. CETL Advisory Board:
COB: Brad Sleeper, Carol Gaumnitz
COE: Heather Hackman, Fatemeh Zarghami
CFAH: Catherine Fox, Terry Vermillion
COSE: Dick Mowe, Tony Akubue
SPEC: Doris Bolliger, Pamela Salela
COSS: Tracy Ore, Jacob Wagner
b. Conversations about 2010:
COB:
COE: Fred Hill, Jean Anderson
CFAH: Grama Rangamani, David Sebberson
COSE: Tony Akubue, Ralph Carr
SPEC: Rich Josephson
COSS: Leslie Valdes
c. Statewide Nursing Education Council: Maureen Tubbiola
d. State Taskforce on Salary Competitiveness: Dale Buske
e. State Wide task force Faculty Teaching Award Design: Frances Condon
f. SCSU Standing Committees:
· Professional Development: COB, Susantha Herath,
· Academic Affairs: COB, Susantha Herath; CFAH, David Sebberson
· General Education: COSE, Maureen Tubbiola
· Committee on the Institution: COSS, Tracy Ore
· Admissions and Retention: SPEC, Jayne Lokken
Motion to approve the Consent Agenda (Fisher/Whites). Passed
5. Call for new agenda items – None
6. Announcements
a. University Council: Work Plan, North Central Association Accreditation, University Searches (FS 101204 6.a.1, 6.a.2, 6.a.3) Strategic Planning, American Democracy Project, Student Government frozen accounts and tuition concern, Mental Health Support for students. 35 FTE more than at this time last year
(Discussed)
b. Communicating with your department.
FA President Schoenberger reminded senators to please communicate Faculty Senate information with their departments and suggested this be on the agenda for department meetings.
c. Encourage your colleagues to populate the NCA committees and the University Search Committees.
More volunteers are needed. For those people who volunteered to be on the steering committee, it was suggested they consider volunteering for the other committees, since the steering committee received more volunteers than it actually needs.
d. Letter from the President that the Provost is his designee. (Discussed)
e. I need a volunteer for the ad hoc committee on the definition of on-line courses.
FA President Schoenberger asked for one volunteer to serve on this committee and for them to please send their name to her via e-mail (this would be in addition to the volunteer from TPR).
We have various levels of on-line courses and need to have a better definition of on-line courses and a better way of handling these courses. There is a state definition of online, but we need a campus-level definition.
7. Unfinished Business
a. FA Honors Advisory Committee Minutes April 2003 to January 2004 (FS 091404 7.d)
The reason this item has remained on the agenda is due to the issue regarding teaching an Honors course. The Honors Program expects the instructor to use their evaluation for students; however, some instructors object to using the Honors Program evaluation vs. their own. In addition, the Honors Program evaluations became the “property of” the Honors Program, and instructors didn’t have a say as to how they were put together or how they are used.
This issue was tabled for our next senate meeting so we may invite a member of the Honors Program to answer questions (Tony Akubue will speak with David Boyer).
b. DA Resolutions Adopted from SCSU (T. Fisher) – We will discuss this issue at our next senate meeting.
c. Committee Work and Membership (Subba) (FS 091404 7.f) – We will discuss this issue at our next senate meeting.
d. CODAS Committee Minutes (Subba) (FS 091404 2.e) This committee was established by the Faculty Senate on April 8, 2003. “that the Faculty Association establish a committee to design and implement a series of faculty seminars and workshops to address anti-Semitism and other diversity issues”
A suggestion was made to reconsider the committee’s mission statement to reflect the work they have been charged to do. P. N. Subbanarasimha will e-mail Jesse Benjamin so a meeting may be scheduled to discuss this issue further.
e. What should we do with FA reserves? ( Fisher )
We have approximately $25,177.00 in reserves, and the IFO may possibly attempt to take some of this money back (Note: Moorhead has $15,000 in reserves). Therefore, we may want to think about how we might appropriately spend this money. Other state universities have parties for their membership, and Moorhead buys a laptop for their FA President. We’ve been very frugal and responsible. FA President Schoenberger stated the FA office is in desperate need of a new copier. The main IFO office said they would purchase a copier. It would be to our best advantage to have a network card as well as a fax attached to the new copier; therefore, we might consider volunteering to pay the $1,500 to $2,000 for these additional components (the IFO would pay for the copier as well as the service agreement). Please think about this issue, and forward your feedback via e-mail to FA President Schoenberger.
8. New Business
a. E-mail listserv motions from EC minutes of Sept. 21 (FS 092804 2.b)
Motions from EC concerning e-mail listserv:
1. Motion to approve an electronic e-mail announcement system as an official means of communication for faculty (Kilborn/Hornstein).
Motion to amend by substituting the following at the end of the motion “provided, however, that e-mail shall not be an official means of communication for personal or confidential communications or for individual personnel actions (Jaede/Hornstein). Passed
Motion to approve an electronic e-mail announcement system as an official means of communication for faculty, provided, however, that e-mail shall not be an official means of communication for personal or confidential communications or for individual personnel actions. Passed
2. Motion to investigate a non-university server to host a listserv or bulletin board faculty can subscribe to for receiving non-university business information if interested; i.e. kittens, sales, apartments for rent.
(Kilborn/Ore). Passed
3. Motion we initiate a process for developing a listserv that would enable SCSU employees across the university to post official university announcements only. This would not be an opt-out listserv. (Condon/Kilborn)
Motion to amend by adding “This would be an opt-out list serve.” (Whites/Buske). Failed
Call for division:
All in favor of the amendment: 18
All who are opposed to the amendment: 18
(Remaining Senators abstained)
Motion to amend by inserting the word “moderated” in front of “listserv” (Jaede/Lavenda). Passed
Motion we initiate a process for developing a moderated listserv that would enable SCSU employees across the university to post official university announcements only. This would not be an opt-out listserv. Passed
Motion to close debate (Fisher/Hornstein). Passed
The agenda was moved to 8.e.
e. General Education Left and Right Column (Akubue) (FS 101204 8.e)
Motion for this issue of left and right column to be sent to the GEC so it may be reexamined (Akubue/Whites). Passed
The agenda was moved to 8.c.
c. Article 19, Section A, Subd. 1 of the Professional Improvement Funds (Art Department) (FS 101204 8.c)
Motion Faculty Senate ask during negotiations for administration to support awarding professional development funds not only for professional study and travel as currently defined in Section B but also for any activities and materials that support the work of professional improvement, including that which contributes to professional development as defined in Article 22, Section B, Criterion 2, scholarly or creative achievement or research, and Criterion 3, continuing preparation and study (Weston/Jaede). Passed
Motion to close debate (Hudson/Onyiah). Passed
The Executive Committee took this issue to last Thursday’s Meet and Confer and asked the administration to go back to the past practice of having professional study expenditures reimbursed, and the administration agreed. It was also agreed if faculty has problems, they should see their dean; and if they continue to have problems, they should take the issue to the Provost.
The agenda was moved to 8.d.
d. Racial Issues Colloquium (Jeanne Lacourt) (FS 101204 8.d)
The Racial Issues Colloquium meets four or five times a semester. They would like to do more work regarding racial issues and are asking for senate’s input on issues they need to be aware of in order to be a positive voice on campus for racial issues. They would like to eventually be recognized as a standing committee and have a voice in the curriculum process on campus, helping create those courses.
It was agreed we would think about this issue and discuss it at the next senate meeting.
b. Mediation Coordinating Committee (Jesse Benjamin) (Did not discuss)
f. Withdrawal of application for Promotion and Tenure (Buske) (FS 101204 8.f) (Did not discuss)
A moment of silence was held to honor the memory of Jackie Zieglmeier.
9. Adjournment at 5:15 PM.