October 10, 2006
OFFICERS: Annette Schoenberger, Judy Kilborn, JoAnn Gasparino, John Palmer
IFO BOARD: Jayantha Herath, Andrew Larkin, Fred Hill; Negotiator: Bill Langen
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) vacant; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, Ray Tsai; (FIRE) William Hudson; (MGMT) Larry Roth, vacant; (MKGB) Rajesh Gulati, James C. Johnson
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) vacant; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Trae Downing, Robert Murphy/Bill Lepkowski (alt); (HPERSS) vacant, Caryl Martin; (HURL) Michael Tripp; (LDR) John Rapp, Frances Kayona; (IM) John Theis; (SPED) Kathy Johnson, Dory Beutel; (TDEV) David Heine, Steve Hornstein, Ramon Serrano
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) Robert Inkster; (ART) Nancy Weston, vacant; (CDSI) Rebecca Crowell; (CMST) Scott Wells, David Warne, Bruce Hyde; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, Suzanne Ross, Jim Robinson, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Maria Melgarejo, Bill Langen; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Marion Judish/Al Moore (alt), Mark Springer; (PHIL) Allen Habib, Carla Johnson; (THFD) Debra Leigh; Kate Sinnett/Kate Sinnett (alt)
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) Oladele Gazal, John Cronn, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Daniel Gregory, Lakshmaiah Sreerama; (CSCI) Andrew Anda; (EAS) Greg Nastrom; (EE) Aiping Yao; (ETS) Tony Akubue; (ME) Steve Covey; (MATH) Dale Buske, vacant, William Branson; (NURS) Sue Herm; (PHYS) Kevin Haglin; (STAT) Leonard Onyiah, John Gammell
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit Representative) Jason Lindsey; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJS) Mario Hesse, vacant; (ECON) Eungmin Kang; Orn Bodvarsson; (ES) Stephen Casanova; (GEOG) Ken Wong; (HIST) Mark Jaede; (POL) Steve Frank; (PSYC) Chris Jazwinski; (SW) Sandra Chesborough, Elizabeth Talbot; (SAN) Lindah Mhando, Robert Lavenda; (WS) Elizabeth Berila
SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) Susan Motin; (OAA) vacant; (COUN) JoAnn Gasparino; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Sandra Q. Williams, Tom Hergert; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) Jenifer Odette
1. Call to order at 3:15 p.m.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of September 26, 2006 (FS 101006 2.a.)
Motion to approve FS minutes of September 26, 2006—(Jazwinski/Karasik). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of October 3, 2006 (FS 101006 2.b)
Motion to approve EC minutes of October 3, 2006—(Larkin/Lavenda). Passed
c. Assessment Steering Committee Minutes of September 20, 2006 (FS 101006 2.c)
Motion to approve Assessment Committee minutes of September 20, 2006—(Larkin/Inkster). Passed
Separated: motion to approve the proposed committee structure.
Motion to amend the committee structure and change “General Education Committee chair” to “one representative from the FA General Education Committee”—(Lavenda/seconded). Passed
Motion to approve the structure as amended. Passed
d. General Education Committee Minutes of September 22, 2006 (FS 101006 2.d)—filed; September 29, 2006 (FS 101006 2.d.2, 2.d.3, 2.d.4)
Motion to approve General Education Committee minutes of September 29, 2006—(Karasik/Jaede). Postponed
Motion to postpone September 29, 2006 minutes until next Senate on October 24, 2006—(Jaede/Branson). Passed
e. International Student Services Committee Minutes of September 28, 2006 (FS 101006 2.e)—filed.
f. University Curriculum Committee Minutes of September 1, 2006—filed; September 21, 2006 (FS 101006 2.f.1, 2.f.2); September 28, 2006 (FS 101006 2.f.3)
Motion to approve University Curriculum Committee minutes of September 21, 2006—(Branson/seconded). Passed
Motion to approve University Curriculum Committee minutes of September 28, 2006, with the third motion separated out—(Larkin/Jazwinski). Passed
Motion to amend separated motion: …to approve the doctoral curriculum with regard to academic quality and to refer concerns expressed by UCC Committee to Meet and Confer—(Jaede/Lavenda). Failed; in favor: 14; opposed: 23
Motion to limit debate until no later than 4:15 p.m.—(Palmer/Kasi). Passed
Motion to substitute—(Hornstein/Tripp). Failed
Motion to postpone definitely to the next Senate meeting and to take the UCC concerns to Meet and Confer—(Jaede/Palmer). Passed
Motion to move agenda to 4.h, Presidential Search—(Palmer/Akubue). Passed
4. Consent Agenda
h. Presidential search candidates as of noon October 4, 2006
HCOB:
COE: Christine Imbra (Educational Leadership & Community Psychology)
Semya Hakim (Human Relations & Multicultural Education)
COFAH: Michael Connaughton ( English)
Frances Condon (English – Director of CETL)
Debra Leigh (Theatre & Film Studies)
COSE: Matthew Julius (Biological Sciences)
Sura Lekhakul (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Anthony Akubue (Environmental & Technological Studies)
Steve Anderson (Aviation)
COSS Eungmin Kang (Economics)
Patience Togo (Social Work)
Robert Lavenda (Sociology & Anthropology)
SPEC: JoAnn Gasparino (Counseling)
At-Large: Debra Leigh (Theatre, Film, and Dance)
All Searches shall have at least one female and one minority member from the FA on the committee. If through the election process no female is elected, then the female with the highest vote total shall be declared an elected representative to serve on the committee. If no minority is elected, then the minority with the highest vote total shall be declared an elected representative to the committee. In no case shall the only female representative be replaced by the minority candidate nor shall the only minority representative be replaced by the female candidate.
Motion to add JoAnn Gasparino to the ballot—(Larkin/Palmer). Passed
Motion to elect by college then to check for diversity and, if diversity is covered, to vote for six members among the remaining candidates—(Hornstein/Jazwinski). Passed
a. The Senate needs to elect 6 members from the senate to the Budget Committee. When are we going to do this?—not discussed.
b. CETL Steering Committee COB: Bruce Busta
c. MnSCU/IFO Bioscience Work Group (ELECTION): Steve Covey, Bruce Jacobson, Lakshmaiah Sreerama
d. MnSCU/IFO Academic and Student Affairs Policy Council: Kathryn Johnson
e. IFO Feminist Issues Committee (ELECTION): Geoffrey Tabakin, Rebecca Krystyniak
f. FA International Studies Committee: HCOB Drue Schuler
g. Upper Division Writing Requirement Committee: COSS Emily Schultz
Motion to approve consent agenda (those elected underlined above)—(Palmer/seconded). Passed
2. Approval of Minutes
g. Time Definite 4:45 pm: Ad Hoc Committee for One Time Professional Development Funds (FS 101006 2.g)
Motion to approve the proposal for One Time Professional Development Funds—(Roth/Langen). Passed
Motion to amend: to spend 50% as recommended by the committee and request the committee to spend the remaining 50%--(Jaede/seconded). Failed
Motion to close debate—(Larkin/Akubue). Passed
h. Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Advisory Board Minutes of September 5, 2006 (FS 101006 2.h)—filed.
i. TLTR notes for October 6, 2006 (FS 101006 2.i)—filed.
j. FA Academic Affairs Committee Minutes of October 3, 2006 (FS 101006 2.j)
Motion to approve FA Academic Affairs Committee minutes of October 3, 2006—(Lavenda/Karasik). Passed
Motion to amend: (page 2, paragraph 3) to add “the department” after “instructor of the class”—(Branson/Frank). Failed
k. FA TPR minutes of September 13, 2006 (FS 101006 2.k.1)—filed; October 3, 2006 (FS 101006 2.k 2, 2.k.3)
Motion to approve and postpone TPR minutes of October 3, 2006, until the first Senate meeting in November—(Larkin/Akubue). Passed
3. Treasurer’s Report—no report this week.
5. Call for new agenda items—not discussed.
6. Announcements—not discussed.
a. Negotiations Report
b. Presidential Search
c. Summer Session (FS 101006 6.c)
d. Letter form Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs (FS 101006 6.d)
e. School Closing/Cancellation Procedures (FS 101006 6.e)
f. Job Descriptions for AVP-AF Faculty Relations (FS 101006 6.f.1) and AVP-AF Curriculum and Academic Programs (FS 101006 6.f.2)
7. Unfinished Business—not discussed.
a. COSS Dean Search (FS 092606 7.a)
b. Time Definite: SPC: Institutional Effectiveness and Accountability Process (FS 031406 2.e.1.; FS 042506 7.c.) postponed to October 10, 2006, Senate meeting.
c. Ombuds (Frank)
8. New Business—not discussed.
a. Division of General Studies (DGS) Advisory Committee Minutes of September 13, 2005 (FS 101105 2.d) (FS 092606 8.b) (FS 101006 8.a)
b. Time Definite: International Student Services Committee Minutes of April 27, 2006 (FS 050906 2.g.) (FS 092606 8.c) postponed to October 10, 2006, Senate meeting.
c. Center for Regulatory Affairs (FS 091206 8.f) Waiting response from graduate committee
d. Applied Doctorates (Bill Branson)
e. Motions from Graduate Committee Minutes of April 27, 2006 (FS 091206 2.g) postponed to October 10, 2006, Senate meeting (FS 101006 8.e)
f. New Student Orientation Task Force (FS 101006 8.f)
9. Adjournment at 5:15 p.m.
Bruce Jacobson: I’ve recently joined the Department of Biological Sciences. A large part of my responsibilities include outreach to the BioBusiness community in Minnesota. I have spent the last 12 years in the private sector working in pharma (Bristol-Meyers Squibb), biotech (SGX) and as a consultant. I have developed a considerable network in the biotechnology sector and accumulated a broad array of experiences which would be of value to this committee. I would be pleased to serve SCSU in this capacity
Steve Covey: I have been designing biomedical products in Minnesota for more than five years and have a close working relationship with Boston Scientific. Types of product include stents, prosthetics, and synthetic tissues.
Rebecca Krystyniak: After looking at the minutes of this group I realize that these are issues that definitely interest me. Thanks for your consideration.
Submitted by Polly Chappell, Faculty Association Administrative Assistant