Motions Passed by the 2006-2007 Executive Committee

June 20, 2006

Motion to have the five faculty from Senate plus the two advisory board representatives, Steve Klepetar and Roger Rudolph, be on the search committee for the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Director (pending IFO union membership).

Motion to support the updated job descriptions for the Office Manager and Administrative Assistant.

Motion to use Faculty Senate and Executive Committee Motion Passed lists as tracking documents, and since they are tracking documents they do not need to include the motion-maker and/or the individual who seconded the motion.

Motion that the EC supports and recommends, in lieu of conducting a search for the Counseling and Psychological Services Director and in lieu of complicating the problem, repeating the success of this past school year by using the IFO chair model.

Motion to reconsider motion from Grievance Committee.

Motion to amend motion from Grievance Committee (see amendment below):

Motion from Grievance Committee: Effective May 1, 2006, the policy of the Faculty Association at St. Cloud State University shall be that Grievances shall only go forward when the Grievance Committee chair, in consultation with the FA President (or President Elect in his/her absence), has determined that the action to be grieved is a violation of the IFO MNSCU Agreement, and that the requested remedy is consistent with the terms of that agreement. In particularly complicated cases, consultation with the IFO Labor Relations Director shall also take place.

Because the Faculty Association is a party to all grievances, we reserve the right to reject remedies requested by the grievant or offered by the administration.

Motion to amend motion from Grievance Committee (below):  

Motion from Grievance Committee: Effective May 1, 2006, the policy of the Faculty Association at St. Cloud State University shall be that Grievances shall only go forward when the Grievance Committee chair, in consultation with the FA President (or President Elect in his/her absence), has determined that the action to be grieved is a violation of the IFO MNSCU Agreement, and that the requested remedy is consistent with the terms of that agreement. In particularly complicated cases, or when the FA President or the President Elect is a personal party to the grievance, consultation with the IFO Labor Relations Director shall take place.

July 18, 2006
Motion to take the Template on Teaching Schedule/Contact Hours draft, with the changes indicated, to the first Meet and Confer this fall.  

September 5, 2006
Motion to ask Giovanni Antunez and Rich Josephson to review the Draft Pandemic Plan document and brief EC on their findings. The plan will also be sent to the faculty to see if they know of anyone with expertise on this. 

Motion to form an ad hoc committee of faculty, one from each college, to decide what to continue of the Zmora Agreement, in consultation with the Peer Review committee and faculty who have been peer reviewed; and consult with the FA President about faculty postings.

September 19, 2006
Motion that the Task Force for a Placement Test Pilot Program include someone of expertise in each of the following areas: Reading, Writing, Math, Testing, and Cultural Bias.

Motion that the Task Force for a Placement Test Pilot Program will strive to achieve consensus in its recommendations. If the Task Force fails to achieve consensus, a vote will be taken and the results will be shared with Faculty Senate.

Motion that the Faculty Association takes the position that the University Budget Committee should follow the model of the TLTR Committee with two co-chairs (one faculty and one administrator), and the committee meetings will be open to the entire campus community.

Motion that IPESL Committee make up be four faculty, one from each of the colleges who volunteered: COSE, COFAH, COE, SPEC.  

October 17, 2006
Motion to send Annette Schoenberger and John Palmer, since there are no other volunteers, to the Search Committee for the General Education Assessment Director.

RESOLUTION: That the Faculty Association establish an "Ad hoc Committee on EPT" to study the faculty evaluation, promotion, and tenure process at SCSU, to study Articles 22 and 25 and Appendix G of the IFO-MnSCU Master Agreement and campus interpretations of those articles, and to study the various problems confronted by SCSU faculty with Articles 22 and 25, with PDPs, and with PDRs, including timelines.  The ad hoc committee will submit a report to the Faculty Senate about the interpretation of Articles 22 and 25 and about the correct EPT timelines and procedures.  Recommendations from the report may be presented at Meet and Confer.

Motion that the Ad hoc Committee on EPT consist of three members from the EC: Fred Hill, Robert Inkster, and John Palmer.

Motion that EC recommend to Senate that this item (Outcome of Promotions Process) go to Meet and Confer to request summary data for all Peer Reviewed faculty, initial hire date and rank, and date of any promotions and/or denials.

November 28, 2006
Motion to request at Meet and Confer an accounting of the expenditures to date of the Strategic Investments of One Time Funds and a projection of planned expenditures of these funds during FY 2007 and FY 2008.

Motion to adopt the Continuation of the Zmora Settlement document.

Final Motion: that Faculty Senate form an Online Policies and Procedures Committee for the current academic year comprised of six members (1 from the Graduate Council, 1 from UCC, 1 from TPR, 1 from Academic Affairs, 1 from EC, 1 from Senate).

            Motions regarding the document Guidelines for Graduate Programs:
Motion to change “guidelines” to “standards” in the sentence: “The committee discussed and passed a motion recommending the following guidelines for applied doctoral programs:”

Motion to amend to “50 percent” in sentence: “No more than 40 percent of the required number of total credits may be credits from graduate courses completed before admission to the program.”

Motion to strike sentence: “Credits earned at another Minnesota state university under provisions of an agreement for a collaborative doctoral program are not subject to this limit.” 

Motion to amend to “45 credits” instead of “75 percent of the required number of total credits for a doctoral program” and add “i.e. in 600- or 700-level courses” to the end of the sentence: “At least 75 percent of the required number of total credits for a doctoral program, exclusive of credits for dissertation or capstone project, shall be in courses with registration restricted exclusively to graduate students.

December 12, 2006
Administrative Search Committee make up:

1.  Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies—recommendation: as many as one faculty from each college and Special Services (six total).

2.   Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning—recommendation: see motion from Senate.

3.  Associate Dean in the College of Education—recommendation: four faculty from the college (person of color, a woman, no more than one per department).

4.  Associate Dean in the College of Business—recommendation: four faculty from the college (person of color, a woman, no more than one per department).

5.  Associate Dean in the College of Science and Engineering—recommendation: four faculty from the college (person of color, a woman, no more than one per department).

6.  Director of Honors Program—recommendation: as many as one faculty from each college and Special Services (six total), plus one member from the Honors Advisory Committee.

7.  Director of Division of General Studies—not discussed at Meet and Confer. Recommendation: as many as one faculty from each college and Special Services (six total), plus one faculty member from the DGS Advisory Committee.

Motion to approve the committee make up recommendations above.

January 16, 2007
Motion to take the document “Professional Development and Evaluation Review of Article 22” from Arsenault as the faculty position to Meet and Confer.

Motion to take the Promotion and Tenure Calendar to Meet and Confer to discuss the dates and presentation on the website to possibly be modified.

Motion to form a subcommittee to review/revise the Graduate Committee’s Guidelines for Graduate Programs.

January 30, 2007
Motion to designate Monica Nayenga as the third bonded person for the SCSU Faculty Association Treasury.

March 20, 2007
Motion to move to the new agenda item: wave 30 credit limit.

Motion to refer the question of a standard practice of waving the 30 credit limit to Academic Affairs Committee to recommend a process of handling these request.

Motion to refer the request to wave the 30 limit credit to Latin American Studies Committee for a decision on this particular situation for a recommendation.

April 5, 2007
Motion to ask at Meet and Confer for the April 1^st budget report, information on the unfilled positions, and spending of one-time money.

May 1, 2007
Motion to take the Request for Representation for Interim Lead Investigator to Meet and Confer saying that there are strict expectations and guidelines for hiring positions such as fixed term faculty, so there should be higher expectations for 1B.1 and Affirmative Action positions.