Final copy appoved by Senate 9-13-05
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
September 6, 2005
Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)
Officers: President Judy Kilborn, Past President/President-Elect Annette Schoenberger, Secretary JoAnn Gasparino, Treasurer Andy Larkin
IFO Board Members: Andy Larkin, Jayantha Herath
Unit Representatives: COB P. N. SubbaNarasimha, COE Steve Hornstein, COFAH Frankie Condon, COSE Representative Balsy Kasi, COSS Representative Mary Clifford
Negotiator: Bill Langen
Motion to approve minutes with two small amendments by Larkin—(Condon/Kasi). Passed
Future reports will be given at the first Executive Committee meeting of the month. These reports will then be included in the minutes that go to Senate.
CD: $20,000
Money Market account: $5,290.60
Savings account: $1,381.27
FA will be receiving a payment in September. There was discussion about the IFO’s new proposals on account limits from last meeting and Kilborn stated that this would be discussed further at the IFO Board. She indicated that she would take the EC’s motion to that meeting.
The next meeting is next Friday. Personally, Langen will be looking at two perspectives on the offer:
1. Is it a reasonable and respectable first offer? (Note: it is not a “final offer” and the Team will have to negotiate for anything wanted beyond the first offer.)
2. Is it going to be presented in a respectable manner with no stupid remarks?
Both sides know that final offers on Friday will not be happening. Quoting Chris Dale (Is this right Bill???), they will conduct negotiations in a “nimble and flexible” manner. There was discussion about the committee’s concerns about negotiations and Langen talked about the Team’s package. There was discussion about some of the items that the Team is working on.
a. Grievance training—Six people are scheduled to go to the Grievance training. Attendees will be in single rooms. The additional cost is unknown at this time but as soon as the information is available Kilborn will distribute it.
b. Centers of Excellence—There are concerns about the speed and process for determining Centers of Excellence, and the IFO Board will be talking about this next week. The Centers of Excellence will be announced on October 18th. SCSU has three proposals going forward: College of Business, Manufacturing/Engineering, and Nursing. Kilborn presented a packet from the IFO Board and from MnSCU. She asked if there were any concerns about the packet from the last meeting and stated she could send out via email the materials from the IFO Board. Kilborn asked for feedback from the committee members’ colleagues. There was some discussion about the proposals, the curriculum, and whether this should be an agenda item for Meet and Confer. Kilborn recommended that the FA request at Meet and Confer more information and copies of the proposals that will be going to MnSCU for review. She also offered to send out the electronic information she received today if there was any requests. There was discussion about the departments that were included in the proposals, partnerships, and the criteria used. These concerns will be raised at Meet and Confer. The FA will also emphasize the importance of the impact that these proposals might have on other colleges and programs.
c. Attendance Policy—Provost Spitzer will bring to Meet and Confer an Attendance policy that he hopes will help contribute to student retention. He made it clear that faculty will have the option not to take attendance. There was some discussion.
d. D2L—Other campuses have been having problems with D2L and Kilborn asked if anyone had heard anything about problems at SCSU. Condon mentioned a problem she was aware of when a faculty was running a very large batch that was affecting the system. There was also a software glitch that required a patch. There are a couple of campuses elsewhere doing registration by hand, which is slowing down the system. Schoenberger discussed an incident where half of the students in an SCSU class did not show up on a class list, and the problem had to do with how Registration coded the class; Registration had the wrong instructor code. She stated that some problems are institutional problems, not D2L. She suggested that at Statewide Meet and Confer they should discuss not all having the same start times to prevent overloading. There are system overload problem and time-out problems when too many users are using the system and uniform start/end dates will not work.
e. ACT and NSSE—Kilborn stated that data has arrived on campus, and it will be brought to Meet and Confer as soon as it has been tabulated in a readable, short-report format.
f. CPU—There is a CPU to give away with Windows 98, Pentium II processor, etc. If no one is interested the FA will donate it. It was noted that Wil Harri is aware of the computer and he is fine with the donation.
a. Faculty “responsibility”—Not discussed.
b. Higher Education Research Institute: 2004-2005 SCSU Faculty Survey Report (EC 062105 5.i.)—Not discussed.
a. Grade Policy (EC 062105 8.d.)—Not discussed.
b. Consensual-relationships policy (EC 062105 8.e.)—Not discussed.
c. Committee for communications policies/processes for Office of Clinical Experiences (OCE)—Not discussed.
d. Local accounting procedures (record keeping – how long, what, when, and where)—Not discussed.
e. Short-Term Study Abroad Programs: Application Form—Not discussed.
f. COE Update—Not discussed.
g. Time Definite 4 p.m.: Counseling Center and MSUAASF director: faculty from Counseling Center were guests. Discussion about the Counseling Center structure and supervision.
h. Meet and Confer items—Not discussed.
i. Dollar Drive for Hurricane Katrina—Patty Dyslin and Sue Prout asked that the FA support a drive. There was discussion about reputable charities and who the committee was willing to support: Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity were suggested.
Motion for the FA to support the Dollar Drive and to strongly encourage that the money be designated to a non-profit organization with low overhead such as the Red Cross so that a large percentage of the money will go to the victims—(Condon/Clifford). Passed
j. Test Scoring Service Advisory Work Group—Kilborn reported that Rubin Stenseng requested that the FA elect representatives to serve on the Test Scoring Service Advisory Work Group. There was some discussion.
Motion for each college to elect a representative to serve on the Test Scoring Service Advisory Work Group—(Langen/Condon). Passed