november 9, 2004
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, Vacant (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.
The agenda was moved to 6.b. Announcements until a quorum could be present.
c. University Council (Judy Kilborn)
FA President Schoenberger shared a comment made by the Athletic Director who compared the abuse after Homecoming to the abuse the athletes suffer every time they don’t win.
d. General Education Article concerning Harvard (FS 110904 6.d) – Discussed
The agenda returned to 2.a. after a quorum was present.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of October 26, 2004 (FS 110904 2.a)
Motion to approve the Faculty Senate Minutes of October 26, 2004, with the following correction (Condon/Lavenda). Passed
7. Unfinished Business
e. Mediation Coordinating Committee (Jesse Benjamin)
FA President-Elect Kilborn stated mediation would not abridge, change, or affect faculty’s contractual rights. There is the ability to stop a grievance (to “time out”); but you don’t give away any contractual rights. All of the bargaining units looked into this, ensuring the contract would be followed. A grievance can go forward even if there is mediation. The Mediation Program addresses issues that are not grievable (i.e. regarding faculty).
Correction: In all bargaining units except AFSCME, it is a grievance mediation model. In other words, all grievable issues can go to mediation. Mediation puts the grievance in abeyance. AFSCME uses a non-grievance mediation model which means that no issues that are grievable can go to mediation.
b. DGS Advisory Committee Minutes of 10/12/2004 (FS 110904 2.b)
Motion to add a person who would represent the First Year Experience Committee on the DGS Advisory Committee (Chesborough/Kilborn). Passed
c. ADA Committee Minutes of October 14, 2004 (FS 110904 2.c) – For information only
d. GEC Committee Minutes of October 20, 2004 (FS 110904 2.d)
Motion to approve the actions taken in the GEC Committee Minutes of October 20, 2004 (Fisher/Mahroof-Tahir).
Motion for the Senate to refer to the Strategic Planning Committee the GEC Committee’s motion “That the Faculty Senate, for the General Education Committee, articulate the connections and modes of coordination between these components of planning and assessment:
- Strategic Planning
- University Assessment under the Director of Assessment
- College Assessment Committees
- General Education assessment and accreditation processes
- First Year Experience assessment
- The “College Student in 2010” initiative”
(Subba/Hornstein). Passed
e. Strategic Planning Committee Minutes of September 30, 2004 (FS 110904 2.e)
Motion to accept the actions taken in the Strategic Planning Committee Minutes of September 30, 2004, to include “Motion to recommend the adoption of The Balanced Scorecard with the implementation of Phase One (Fisher/DeGroote)” (Kilborn/Fisher). Passed
f. State task force on Polytechnic Education (FS 110904 2.f) – For information only
3. Treasurer’s Report – No report was given. FA President Schoenberger announced the FA office has ordered a new copier. The IFO office will pay for the copier, and the local FA office will pay for the networking equipment. It was confirmed the local FA office pays for copy paper.
4. Consent Agenda
a. DGS Advisory Committee: Dan Macari
b. NCA Committees: As you can see, we still need a lot more volunteers for these committees.
Steering Committee, 1 FA rep.:Kathleen Steffens (Election)
Criterion One: Mission and Integrity
Mission and Integrity, 3 (2,1) FA reps.: Roger Rudolph
Governance and Administration, 3 FA reps.:
Criterion Two: Preparing for the Future
Planning, 3(2,1) FA reps.: Gordon Schrank
Budget , 3 FA reps.:
Criterion Three: Student Learning and Effective Teaching
Assessment, 3 (2,1) FA reps.: Amos Olagunju
Teaching Effectiveness, 3 (1,2) FA reps.: Kurt Helgeson,
Amos Olagunju
Criterion Four: Acquisition, Discovery, and Application of Knowledge
General Education, 3 (2,1)FA reps: Matt Julius
Program Review, 2 (1,1) FA reps.: Kurt Helgeson
Ethical Conduct, 3 FA reps.:
Criterion Five: Engagement and Service
Engagement and Services, 2 FA reps.:
Resource Room, 1 FA rep:
Motion to approve the Consent Agenda (Motin/Ore). Passed
5. Call for new agenda item(s) – None
The agenda was moved to 6.e.
6. e. Summer School Allocations to the Colleges (FS 110904 6.e) – Discussed
The agenda was moved to 6.a.
6. Announcements
a. Enrollment Management Committee ( FS 102604 6.c.1, 6.c.2)
Dave Robinson, Sandy Johnson and Richard Sundheim will be in senate at 4:15 to answer questions on the survey. (FS 110904 6.a)
Motion that we oppose testing as currently designed until such a time we have a reasonable proposal for getting good data (Hornstein/Onyiah). Passed without exception
Motion if we’re going to do this type of survey, we follow the advice of the statisticians on the committee (Kilborn/Onyiah).
Motion to amend if we’re going to do this type of survey, we follow the advice of the statisticians on the committee and other recognized campus faculty experts in the area (Langen/seconded).
Motion to amend withdrawn.
Motion to table until we can craft a better motion (Roth/Subba). Passed
Motion to close debate (Akubue/Branson). Passed
Larry Roth will send FA President Schoenberger a draft of the motion.
The agenda was moved to 7.b.
7. b. Motion to oppose anonymous postings on the St. Cloud Times
Motion we, the Faculty Senate, strongly support the students in condemning the St. Cloud Times in anonymous postings on Story Chat (Benjamin/Seconded).
Motion to substitute we, the Faculty Senate, condemn the St. Cloud Times in anonymous postings on Story Chat (Langen/Hudson).
Motion to table this motion until the next student government meeting to give them an opportunity to take this initiative (Fisher/Gasparino). Passed
Motion to close debate (Kilborn/Hergert). Passed
f. Budget Overview Projection (FS 110904 6.f) – Discussed
FA President Schoenberger asked if senators have questions regarding the budget information, please send her an e-mail. It was confirmed that IFO, MSUAASF and MnSCU Administrators are unclassified, and the remainder are classified.
g. Search Committee Election Results:
Records and Registration: Oladele Gazal, James Robinson (no female ran)
COSE Dean: Mary Hoenig Nursing, Jayantha Herath CSCI, Anthony Hanson ESCI, Kevin Haglin PHYS, Tim Schuh BIO, Michael Dvorak CHEM, Leslie Valdes At Large.
COB Dean: Robert Calhoun MKTG, Carol Gaumnitz ACCT, Susantha Herath BCIS, William Hudson FIRE, Richard Sebastian MGMT, Gary Yoshimoto BCIS, Balse Kasi At Large.
Lead Investigator: COE John Palmer, COSE Jayantha Herath, FAH Robert Inkster, COSS Zoa Rockenstein, COB Bill Hudson, SPEC Cheri Salzer, These last two are write in and I am not sure that Cheri is SPEC. EC voted to put Cheri Salzer on the committee.
AVP Marketing and Communications: Gretchen Tiberghan
VP for Administrative Affairs: Michael Connaughton, Tony Akubue, Dale Buske, Mike Pesch EC voted on Thursday, Nov. 4 to put these 4 on the committee
Sponsored Programs: COE Pam Minden, FAH Jim Robinson, SPEC Marian Rengel, COSE Jayantha Herath, COB(COSE) John Harlander, COS Phil Grossman. Again I would like to put John Harlander on the committee since he expressed a willingness to serve and we do have six spots. EC approved this on Nov.4
7. Unfinished Business
a. The weekly schedule—add a spot or spots for meeting activities (Lavenda)
8. New Business
a. Funds Allocation Process for FY04 unspent monies (FS 110904 8.a)
9. Adjournment at 5:10 PM.