FINAL APPROVED

Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

February 5, 2008

Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers: President Judy Kilborn, Past President Annette Schoenberger, Secretary Michael Tripp, Treasurer Michael Connaughton

IFO Board Members: Fred Hill, David Warne, President-Elect John Palmer

Unit Representatives: COB Bill Hudson, COE Frances Kayona, COFAH vacant, COSE Balsy Kasi, COSS Robert Johnson, SPEC JoAnn Gasparino

Negotiator: Bill Langen

 

1.     Call to order at 3:16 p.m.

 

2.     Approval of Minutes – no minutes

 

3.     Treasurer’s Report – no report

 

4.     Announcements

a.     Negotiations Report: Mediation resulted in a tentative contract that will come before the IFO Board this coming Thursday. Details regarding the contract will be released as soon as the Board makes its recommendation, and the FA will get information out to campus as soon as possible.

b.     Grievance Report: John Palmer reported that two FA grievances authorized by Senate were filed at Step 1 and that the Step 1 meeting has been scheduled.

c.     Article 22 Task Force: The faculty members of the Article 22 Task Force met on February 5th and came up with a schedule of times when all of them can meet. They submitted this schedule to Academic Affairs so that the times faculty are available will be apparent so that we can move forward with this task force.

 

5.     Call for new agenda items

 

6.     Unfinished Business

a.     Electronic Monitoring (was Status of Email Monitoring [EC 090407 7.e.1-7.e.4] and Outlook Monitoring [EC 091807 6.a.]) (EC 101607 6.a.) – not discussed.

b.     Process of forming committees and selecting faculty representation: the flowchart and MSUAASF/Dean requests (EC 020508 6.b.): The revised flow chart was distributed and will be discussed at the next EC.

c.     College Curriculum Committees (including reports from College Reps on status of curriculum committees/processes in their colleges) (EC 020508 6.c.): Information about the current composition of college curriculum committees was shared, and there was preliminary discussion about ways to improve faculty participation in the curriculum process.

d.     Governance processes regarding curriculum and representation – not discussed.

 

7.     New Business

a.     Sponsored Programs (EC 101607 7.c.) – not discussed.

b.     Pictures with Class Lists (EC 101607 7.e.) – not discussed.

c.     Web Registration for Transfer Student Registration (Schoenberger) – not discussed.

d.     Online Education (E-college and on-load/offload issues) – not discussed.

e.     Administrative Appointments (Johnson) – not discussed.

f.      Request for Call for COE Community Clinic Task Force– not discussed.

g.     Diversity Task Force Draft Document from January 31st Meet and Confer. This draft document will be distributed with the Senate packet and be placed on the agenda as a discussion item. The draft document has already been forward to the Faculty and Staff of Color Caucus and to the CARE team for their deliberation and input. The EC had prelimary discussion about the draft document.

h.     1B.1 Task Force Interim Report and Action Plan of January 30, 2008 (EC 020508 7.h.): This report will be distributed with the Senate packet as an informational item with the idea that the final report is due at the end of Spring.

i.      Repeating Courses policy (Johnson).

j.      Meet and Confer Sustenance (Hudson): There was discussion.

k.     Meet and Confer Agenda for February 14, 2008 (EC 020508 7.k.) – not discussed.

 

8.     Adjournment: 5:21

 

Submitted by Judy Kilborn