FINAL
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
March 11, 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: 3:15
2. Approval of Minutes – none
3. Treasurer’s Report – none
4. Announcements
a. Grievance Report
· Four Step 1 grievance responses were received by the Grievance Chair. Neither the grievant nor the Association was informed of the response. This is a problem.
· All four of the grievance responses did not come in a timely manner.
· Regarding the December 24 duty day grievance, there are two troubling aspects to the response:
1) A member of another bargaining unit was consulted and referenced in the responses.
2) There was a denial that a problem even exists.
We would not have grieved if there had not been a problem.
· One grievance that was resolved at Step 1 will have to be refiled because the administrator in question has refused to comply with the resolution.
· There is a perceived problem because the Associate V. P. is structurally lower than the deans, and there is no recognition that a designee is the person for whom they are the designee. We went through this with Meet and Confer and established that when the Provost is the designee for the president and a commitment is made at Meet and Confer, then the president cannot go back on that commitment. The same must be true for the designee at Step 1.
· There is still no formal Step 2 response to the Head Football Coach grievance.
· We have filed at step 3 for the associate deans searches in LR&TS.
· At the meeting between the President and the faculty in LR&TS, a commitment was made that the Dean would meet with the FA leadership to discuss rebuilding trust. That meeting has not occurred yet.
· There has been one meeting with the COE dean to discuss what consultation means and how the dean might do it.
b. Delegate Assembly
Motion: Send a delegate assembly resolution to remove designee from the first sentence of Step II in the grievance process. (Palmer/Schoenberger) FAILED
c. Elections – Local and Statewide
Rod Henry, who is running for IFO president, will be on campus Friday, March 21, between 9 and 10 to visit with faculty in the Lady Slipper Room. Refreshments will be served.
Our election will be done and counted so we can announce it in Senate on April 8. The statewide elections will take longer to tally.
d. IFO Proposed 2008-2009 Calendar
Take a look at the proposed state calendar. We will have to schedule our meetings around these meetings.
e. New IFO Expense Reimbursement Form
Check out the new IFO reimbursement form. There are some changes from past practices.
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.)
Some changes in the flowchart are still needed for clarification and correction. Balsy is doing a great job on this.
c. Time Definite: 3:30-3:45: Linda Butenhoff ‑ Governance processes regarding curriculum and representation, including question regarding representation of programs on college curriculum committees (EC 021908 6.d.1.; 6.d.2.)
Motion: EC Freezes in place the membership on College Curriculum Committees until the Constitutional Review Committee clarifies the meaning of “Credit Generating Unit” as a constitutional amendment (Palmer/Tripp) Passed.
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. Repeating Courses policy (Johnson) – not discussed
h. Proposed COE Reorganization (Palmer/Kayona) (EC 021908 7.h.) – not discussed
i. Applied Doctorates in COE (Palmer) – not discussed
j. Incompletes and Advising (Schoenberger) – not discussed
k. Assessment of UDWR (Connaughton) – not discussed
l. Meet and Confer – not discussed
8. Adjournment: 5:15
Submitted by Annette Schoenberger