FINAL
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
April 29, 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 p.m.
2. Approval of Minutes — none
3. Treasurer’s Report (Palmer/Hill) Passed
4. Announcements
a. Grievance Report
§ One Step 1 appears to be lost; we are waiting for them to find it.
§ We have Step 1 responses from Rex. One we will probably accept, and we have filed the second at Step 2.
§ We have had four Step 2 meetings resulting in written responses.
1. The Dec. 24 issues: those forced to take leave will be given their leave back. We must change the calendar for next year. Members should not be assigned work without consultation.
2. Assignment of reassigned time: Denied on assignment of reassigned time. Even though the document presented was only shown to the chairs and only one department commented on it, the Administration decided that consultation had occurred. This may go to Step 3.
3. Contract employees: Denied based on previous arbitration (Mankato case) since it has not resulted in the layoff of employees or was not preceded by a layoff.
4. Response on COB just arrived. It is complex, so the report will be later.
§ Update on Electronic Voting Taskforce: A Board report indicated that the taskforce is suggested software that we may be able to pilot. We will ask our representative, Judy Dorn, for more information.
§ IFO Committees (including MnOnline Academic Services Committee and Taskforce on Honoraria). A call has gone out for volunteers for the MnOnline committee. Taskforce on Honoraria, established by the new contract, will be constituted this summer and will begin meeting in the fall. We need to appoint someone to serve right away.
§ Motion: Michael Connaughton is appointed to serve on the Taskforce on Honoraria. (Schoenberger/Kasi) Passed
§ D2L: We are better informed than the other campuses. Our D2L staff on this campus are doing a great job.
b. IFO EC meeting
Motion: EC requests that SCSU be allowed to have representation at the IFO EC meeting of May 21-22 and would like to convey that our president elect serves in the capacity of vice president in the IFO constitution. (Johnson/Tripp) Passed
c. SCSU EC, Senate, and Meet and Confer Calendar for 2008-2009 (EC 050108 4.d.)
§ Please look at the calendar. The Feb. 5 M&C is TBD, and John will announce the Summer EC meetings.
5. Call for new agenda items:
6. Unfinished Business
7. New Business
a. Repeating Courses policy (Johnson)
We agreed to take this to Senate.
b. Incompletes and Advising (Schoenberger)
Motion: Bring the issue of Incompletes and the Advising Center to Meet and Confer. (Langen/Tripp)
Motion: Postpone action on this until the faculty have been given the opportunity to provide more information. (Palmer/Tripp) Passed
This will be taken to Senate for more information.
c. Assessment of UDWR (Connaughton) — not discussed
d. Budget Planning — not discussed
e. SCSU Inauguration Committee (EC 041508 7.e.)
Motion: Michael Connaughton and Debra Leigh from the President’s Search committee are appointed to serve on President Potter’s inauguration committee. (Hudson/Tripp) Passed
f. FA Committee Minutes – Graduate Committee and Curriculum Committees
The College Curriculum Committees are doing better. COB has had at least one problem with a quorum (although they did business) and continues to have a member who is not a faculty member.
The Graduate Committee hasn't sent us their minutes all year. The email correspondence with the chair will be included in the Senate packet.
g. St. Cloud Release Forms (EC 050108 7.g.1)
The current SCSU release forms are unacceptable. We will need to inform the members of the problems with the current forms.
h. Taskforce on Honoraria (addressed under Announcements)
i. Meet and Confer (EC 050108 7.i.1. and 7.i.2.) — not discussed
j. Clarification about student absence policies found in the faculty handbook — not discussed
k. Appointment of interim dean in COFAH
The dean in the COFAH has resigned, and an interim dean has been appointed. We will talk at Meet and Confer about consultation on the interim.
8. Adjournment: 5:30 p.m.
Submitted by Annette Schoenberger