September 11, 2007
OFFICERS: Judy Kilborn, Annette Schoenberger, Michael Connaughton, Michael Tripp
IFO BOARD: Fred Hill, David Warne, John Palmer
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) Frances Kayona; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Bill Lepkowski, Robert Murphy; (HPERSS) Hector Antunez, Caryl Martin; (HURL) vacant; (LDR) John Rapp, vacant; (IM) John Theis; (SPED) Kathy Johnson, Janet Salk (TDEV) vacant, Steve Hornstein, Ramon Serrano
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) Robert Inkster; (ART) Nancy Levy, Kathryn Gainey; (CDSI) Rebecca Crowell; (CMTY) Scott Wells, vacant, Debra Japp; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, vacant, Jim Robinson, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Shawn C. Jarvis, vacant; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Marion Judish, Al Moore; (PHIL) Susana Nuccetelli, Andy Platt; (THFD) Debra Leigh
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) Oladele Gazal, vacant, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Nathan Winter, Lakshmaiah Sreerama; (CSCI) Andrew Anda; (EAS) Jean Hoff; (EE) Tom Vogt; (ETS) Tony Akubue; (ME) Steve Covey; (MATH) Dale Buske, Janis Cimperman, Carol Theisen for Wayne Braith; (NURS) Patty Bresser; (PHYS) John Liu; (STAT) Leonard Onyiah, vacant
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit Representative) vacant; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJS) Mario Hesse, Richard Lawrence; (ECON) David Switzer; Mana Komai; (ES) Robert C. Johnson; (GEOG) Ken Wong; (HIST) Mark Jaede; Maureen O’Brien; (POL) Edward Greaves; (PSYC) Marlene Devoe, Jody Illies; (SW) Sandra Chesborough, ElizabethTalbot; (SAN) Mark Muniz, Robert Lavenda; (WS) Elizabeth Berila
SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) JoAnn Gasparino; (Academic Support) Geoffrey Tabakin; (COUN) Steve Jenkins; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Sandra Q. Williams, Tom Hergert; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) Jenifer Odette
1. Call to order at 3:20 p.m.
Kilborn announced that we have new name tags. Senate is in the Ballroom next time, but Cascade will be our normally reserved room.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of May 8, 2007 (FS 091107 2.a.)
Motion to approve FS minutes of May 8, 2007—(Lavenda/Gaspario). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of June 19, 2007 (FS 091107 2.b.1); August 28, 2007 (FS 091107 2.b.2); September 4, 2007 (FS 091107 2.b.3)
Motion to approve EC minutes of June 19, 2007—(Gasparino/Lavenda). Passed
Motion to approve EC minutes of August 28, 2007—(Schoenberger/Lavenda). Passed
Motion to approve EC minutes of September 4, 2007—(Tabakin/Schoenberger). Passed
c. University Curriculum Committee Minutes of April 26, 2007 (FS 091107 2.c.1); FA University Curriculum Minutes Draft Process for Curriculum Approval (FS 091107 2.c.2)
Motion to approve UCC minutes of April 26, 2007—(Schoenberger/Lavenda). Passed
Some of the items in today’s packet are from last year so you will see last year’s number crossed out on the document along with today’s number. UCC Draft Process for Curriculum—Kilborn will ask for a new legislative version of the document.
d. General Education Minutes of April 27, 2007 (FS 091107 2.d.1); General Education Goals with Brief Descriptions and Draft Student Learning Outcomes (FS 091107 2.d.2)—filed.
e. FA Academic Affairs Committee Minutes of May 2, 2007, and accompanying documents (FS 091107 2.e.1, 2.e.2)
Motion to approve FA Academic Affairs Committee minutes of May 2, 2007, and accompanying documents—(Lavenda/seconded). Tabled
Motion to table FA Academic Affairs Committee minutes of May 2, 2007, and accompanying documents until next meeting so Senators can take this back to their departments—(Palmer/Kasi). Passed
f. TLTR Notes for May 4, 2007 (FS 091107 2.f); September 7, 2007 (FS 091107 2.f.1)—filed.
Motion for the issue of IT allocations and budget from the September 7th TLTR notes to go on the Meet and Confer agenda—(Schoenberger/Gasparino). Passed
g. Budget Advisory Group Minutes for May 8, 2007 (FS 091107 2.g)—filed.
h. New Student Orientation Taskforce Notes for May 17, 2007 (FS 091107 2.h)—filed.
3. Treasurer’s Report (in EC Minutes). Connaughton spoke briefly about the report. It was noted that people who received Ciatti’s gift certificates last year were given replacement Chamber gift certificates if they didn’t have a chance to use them before Ciatti’s closed their doors.
4. Consent Agenda
a. Academic Policy Work Group – Continuation of Current Members: Tony Akubue (COSE), Steve Klepetar (Advising/COFAH), David Wall (COSS)
b. Placement Testing Policy Group: Carol Mohrbacher (Writing)
Motion to approve the consent agenda (those approved are underlined above)—(Schoenberger/Tripp). Passed
5. Special Elections—none.
6. Call for New Agenda Items
Guest parking fees 9.k (Palmer)
7. Announcements
a. Promotion and tenure information (FS 091107 7.a.1); sabbatical information (FS 091107 7.a.2)—for your information.
b. Common Parliamentary Procedure Questions (FS 091107 7.b.)—for your information.
c. Constitutional Review Committee Recommendations (FS 091107 7.c.) to be voted on in next Senate meeting, September 25, 2007—information is in the packet.
d. Return to Title Four—SCSU is on probation for the way grades have been reported, and federal financial aid is on the line. Schoenberger spoke to the item. Before an incomplete or an IP can be given, it has to be documented and discussed with the student. We should have a document by the next Meet and Confer to distribute at the next Senate. Kilborn will also check about IP grades with the Graduate Studies office.
e. University and MnSCU policies concerning email privacy (FS 091107 7.e.1., 7.e.2, and 7.e.3)—reminder: email is not private. The documents are from the Provost. Palmer talked about Academic Freedom in the contract, and there is a matter of dispute between faculty and administration on the interpretation.
f. “FERPA and Campus Safety,” NACUANOTES (FS 091107 7.f.)—for your information and also available on the FA website.
g. Final approval of Policies on Military Withdrawal (FS 091107 7.g.1.) and Probation/Suspension (FS 091107 7.g.2)—for your information.
h. Negotiations Report—Langen gave a brief report.
i. Administrative response to FA request that all electronic documents (Word documents) be sent in a format that can be opened by all faculty (users of Word 2003 and Mac as well as Word 2007) (FS 091107 7.i.)—for your information.
j. Agreements regarding Zmora from Meet and Confer—Faculty and Administration have agreed to disagree about the peer review committee. Palmer spoke to the item. The Provost’s last draft was a complete departure from what peer review started out to be. Unless someone adds this to the Meet and Confer agenda, it will be removed from the agenda. We will continue to follow the hiring process laid out in Zmora.
k. IFO Meet and Confer/IFO Executive Committee Report
i. Task Force on Degree Credit Caps (legislative mandate limiting baccalaureate degree to 120 semester credits) (FS 091107 7.k.i.a and 7.k.i.b)—Kilborn indicated that an IFO/MnSCU task force would be formed to address the mandate.
ii. Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching Program Summary of Changes for 2007-2008 (FS 091107 7.k.ii.)—Kilborn spoke to the item. If you’re interested, give IFO Board members feedback.
iii. IFO EC Recommendation to IFO Board concerning Winona Flood—there are faculty without housing. A recommendation will come to the IFO Board to donate to a fund that is being started.
iv. Delegate Assembly: Friday, March 28th, and Saturday, March 29th, 2008, Roseville Radisson—for your information.
l. Location for next Senate: Atwood Ballroom (Cascade will be the normal Senate location.)—for your information.
8. Unfinished Business
a. Associate Deans in LR&TS (FS 091107 8.a.1, 8.a.2., 8.a.3, 8.a.4, 8.a.5., 8.a.6.)—not discussed.
9. New Business
a. Strategic Planning Committee Global Initiative Sub-committee Recommendation Report – Revisions from General Education Committee (submitted April 22, 2007): Pulled from minutes at 5/03/07 Senate to appear under New Business in first Senate meeting of fall (FS 091107 9.a.)—not discussed.
b. Campus Closing (Kilborn). We would like to ask for a review of the criteria and the protocol for making the decision (FS 091107 9.b.)—not discussed.
c. Center for International Studies Report on Fees (FS 091107 9.c.)—not discussed.
d. Email monitoring (Langen)—not discussed.
e. Draft Email Policy (FS 091107 9.e.)—not discussed.
f. Administration’s Request for Task Force on 1B.1—this item is combined with 9.i. Kilborn spoke to the item.
Motion to accept President Potter’s request for a task force—(Palmer/Tripp). Passed
Motion that Faculty Senate approve membership on the Task Force on 1B.1 to include at least 50% faculty (including a CARE member, faculty of color member, faculty Senate member, plus one faculty concerning disability, and whoever else it takes to reach 50%)—(Hergert/Schoenberger). Amended by substitution
Motion to amend by substitution—(Jaede/Hill). Passed
Amended Motion: that the Faculty Senate approve one faculty representative from the Community of Anti-Racism Education Initiative, one faculty representative from the Faculty of Color Caucus—both members chosen by the members of those two groups—and one faculty member of Faculty Senate elected by Faculty Senate. Passed
It was noted that all faculty representatives will be IFO members. There was discussion about the task force make-up. Michael Tripp announced that Semya Hakim will represent the Faculty of Color Caucus and Debra Leigh announced that Geoffrey Tabakin will be the CARE representative.
Motion to nominate Steve Anderson as the Faculty Senate representative on the Task Force on 1B.1—(Palmer/seconded). Passed
g. Draft Standard of Scholarship Policy (FS 091107 9.g.)
Motion to accept the draft policy on Standard of Scholarship Policy with the noted changes—(Schoenberger/Kasi). Passed
h. Draft Prerequisites Policy (FS 091107 9.h.)
Motion to adopt Draft Prerequisites Policy—(Palmer/Schoenberger). Tabled
Motion to table the Draft Prerequisites Policy until the next Senate meeting—(Schoenberger/Lavenda). Passed
i. Task Force for 1B.1 Action Plan (FS 091107 9.i and 9.i.1)—discussed above under item 9.f.
j. UDWR Ad Hoc Committee Minutes of April 3, April 24, and May 1, 2007 and accompanying documents: to be taken back to the departments and then brought back to second Senate meeting (September 25th) in the fall per Senate motion of May 8, 2008 (FS 091107 9.j.1-9.j.6)—not discussed.
k. Guest parking fees (Palmer)—not discussed.
10. Adjournment at 5:16 p.m.
Submitted by Polly Chappell, SCSU Faculty Association Administrative Assistant