February 10, 2009
OFFICERS: John Palmer, Mark Jaede, Judy Kilborn, Michael Connaughton, Michael Tripp
IFO BOARD: David Warne, Debra Leigh
NEGOTIATOR: Michael Connaughton
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) Bill Hudson; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, Ray Tsai; (FIRE) Li Zhang; (MGMT) Larry Roth, vacant; (MKGB) Rajesh Gulati, James C. Johnson
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) Frances Kayona; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Trae Downing, Michael Mills; (HPERSS) Hector Antunez, Caryl Martin; (HURL) vacant; (ELCP) John Rapp, Chaturi Edrishinha; (IM) Fred Hill; (SPED) vacant, Janet Salk (TDEV) vacant, Steve Hornstein, vacant
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) vacant; (ART) Nancy Levy, Kathryn Gainey; (CDSI) Cindy Lofton; (CMST) Traci Anderson, Eddah Mutuo-Kombo, Jen Tuder; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, Kevin Moberly, vacant, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Maria Melgarejo, Luz Triana-Echeverria; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Al Moore, vacant; (PHIL) Paul Neiman, Andy Platt; (THFD) Jeffrey Bleam
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) vacant, vacant, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Mahin Sadrai, Lakshmaiah Sreerama; (CSCI) Andrew Anda, Donald Hamnes; (EAS) Bob Weisman; (EE) Sura Lekhakul, Mahbub Hossain; (ETS) Tony Akubue; (ME) Steve Covey; (MATH) Ravi Kalia, Janis Cimperman, Carol Theisen; (NURS) Patty Bresser; (PHYS) John Liu; (STAT) Leonard Onyiah
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit Representative) Robert Johnson; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJS) Mario Hesse, Mary Clifford; (ECON) King Banaian, David Switzer; (ES) Jeanne Lacourt; (GEOG) HungChin Yu; (HIST) Jeff Mullins, Maureen O’Brien; (POL) Morgan Nyendu; (PSYC) Chris Jazwinski, Jody Illies; (SW) Sandra Chesborough; Cathy Stilwill (SAN) Tracy Ore, 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) vacant
GUESTS: Jim Sherohmann, Les Green, Lisa Heinrich, Elaine Davis, Kurt Stelten
1. Call to order at 3:16 p.m.
2. Approval/Filing of Minutes
a. Senate Minutes January 20, 2009 (FS021009 2.a.1)
Motion to approve Senate minutes of January 20, 2009—Gasparino/Warne. Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of January 27, 2009 (FS021009 2.b.1)—filed.
Motion to file EC minutes of January 27, 2009—Kilborn/Gasparino. Passed
c. University Curriculum Minutes of April 17, 2008 (FS 050608 2.c.2.a.-2.c.2.c.) – tabled until Senate receives answers to questions regarding changes to the curriculum proposal forms. Minutes of December 11, 2008 (FS021009 2.c.1); January 15, 2009 (FS021009 2.c.2); January 22, 2009 (FS021009 2.c.3); January 29, 2009 (FS021009 2.c.4)
Motion to approve UCC minutes of December 11, 2008—Hill/Mohrbacher. Passed
Motion to approve UCC minutes of January 15, 2009—Hill/seconded. Passed
Motion to approve UCC minutes of January 22, 2009—Hill/Herath. Passed
Motion to approve UCC minutes of January 29, 2009—Hill/Gasparino. Passed
d. Assessment Steering Committee Minutes of January 14, 2009 (FS021009 2.d.1); January 28, 2009 (FS021009 2.d.2)—filed.
Motion to approve Assessment Steering Committee minutes of January 14, 2009—Inkster/Hill. Passed
e. Budget Advisory Group Minutes of January 13, 2009 (FS021009 2.e.1)—filed.
f. International Studies Committee Minutes of December 9, 2008 (FS021009 2.f.1); January 13, 2009 (FS021009 2.f.2)—filed; January 28, 2009 (FS021009 2.f.3)—filed.
Motion to approve International Studies Committee minutes of December 9, 2008—Williams/Hill. Failed
7. Campus Campaign (Les Green) Time Definite 3:30—Les Green spoke to the faculty about the campus campaign: www.stcloudstate.edu/campaign. The CD he showed will be available online starting tomorrow.
2. Approval/Filing of Minutes
g. General Education Committee Minutes November 14, 2008 (FS021009 2.g.1)—filed; December 5, 2008 (FS021009 2.g.2); December 12, 2008 (FS021009 2.g.3)—filed; January 6, 2009 (FS021009 2.g.4)—filed.
Motion to approve the GE Committee of December 5, 2008—Hill/Kasi. Passed
h. Service-Learning Advisory Committee Minutes (FS021009 2.h.1)—filed.
i. FA Budget Committee Minutes January 27, 2009 (FS021009 2.i.1); Carry forward Policy and Procedure (FS021009 2.i.2)
Motion to approve FA Budget Committee minutes of January 27, 2009—Hill/seconded. Passed
3. Treasurer’s Report—to be reported next month.
4. Consent Agenda
a. International Studies Committee (1 HCOB): no volunteers
b. Strategic Planning Committee (1 HCOB): no volunteers
c. Service-Learning Advisory Committee (1 COE): Timothy Baker (CEEP)
d. CETL Advisory Committee (2 HCOB; 2 COFAH; 1 COSE): HCOB: Debra Kellerman (MKG&BUS LAW); COFAH: Luz Consuelo Triana-Echeverria (FORL); Isolde Mueller (FORL)
e. Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Director Search Committee (1 from each college/unit): HCOB: no volunteers; COE: Stephen Hornstein (TDEV); COSE: no volunteers
f. Summer Session Task Force (1 from each college/unit): HCOB: no volunteers; COE: Chaturi Edrisinha (EDAD); COFAH: no volunteers; COSE: Tony Hansen (EAS); COSS: Morgan Nyendu (POL); SPEC: Merton Thompson (LR&TS)
Motion to approve the Consent Agenda—Gasparino/Leigh. Passed
5. Special Elections
a. Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education Director Search Committee: 1 from COFAH: Joseph Edelheit (PHIL); Gretchen Tiberghien (MASS COM); Steve Klepetar (ENGL); Roger Rudolph (MASS COM); 1 from COSS: Gary Whitford (SW); Elizabeth Talbot (SW); John Harvey (HIST); Morgan Nyendu (POL); SPEC: Geoffrey Tabakin (AS); Susan Motin (LR&TS)
b. CETL Advisory Committee: 1 from COSE: Rebecca Krystyniak (CHEM); Kristin Gulrud (BIOL); Lakshmaiah Sreerama (CHEM); Yongli Zhao (MME)
6. Call for New Agenda Items—none.
7. Announcements
a. Local Meet and Confer
· Budget Report—discussed under minutes.
· Turning on the grade change—announced.
b. Negotiations Report—there was discussion about partner benefits.
c. Academic Calendar 2010-2011 Draft (FS021009 7.c.1)—for your information.
d. Campus Campaign (Les Green) Time Definite 3:30 p.m.—discussed above.
e. HuskyPrint Printing Statistics-Duplex (two-sided) Printing Review (FS021009 7.e.1)—for your information.
f. Sign Up to Testify at Legislative Meetings on the State Budget Shortfall from Russ Stanton, IFO:
http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/budgettownhallmeetings.asp
Above is a link to the legislative web page for signing up to testify at the regional legislative meetings on the state budget shortfall. This is an opportunity to not only have direct input to the legislature, but also get into the press. Please have the faculty leadership on your campus get together ASAP and recruit faculty to testify, and sign up right away. If you want assistance preparing testimony, give me call or write. Check the IFO web page for themes we want to push. I want faculty to testify---I’m afraid that the administration may try to dominate this, which would be tragic, since they will never bring up the need to raise taxes (which legislators need to hear), and they will never talk about cuts to the central office. I am also worried that anti-government/anti-tax groups may try to swamp these meetings. Start recruiting faculty and student turnout.
8. Unfinished Business
a. Pictures on Class Lists (FS 040108 9.g.)—sent to Student Government.
b. Email as a means of communication (FS120908 10.a.1)—referred to TPR.
c. Electronic Voting (FS112508 9.d.1) (Dorn) Time Definite 4:15 p.m.
Motion: (Dorn/Warne). Passed
That SCSU’s delegation bring to the IFO the proposal that the IFO purchase EBallot software, for the benefit of all IFO member campuses and the IFO state office. Rationales:
SCSU FA members participated in a demo hosted by Eballot, and found the voting software generally satisfactory. Questions raised during the demo were resolved.
Concerns about cost: the yearly subscription would most likely be about $2000 for all campuses within the IFO, and the IFO itself, to run unlimited numbers of elections. This price is a reduced price assigned to universities, and is also reduced because there are fewer than 4000 voting members in the IFO. Above 4000 the price goes up another $500.
With this cost, there would be one main administrator, and then each campus would have a separate administrator to set up individual elections. Additional customization fees would be required if it were important to keep the administrators on separate campuses from seeing one anothers’ elections, but at some point administrators are in a position of trust whether an election is via paper or not. For security purposes, the number of administrators could be kept small.
No additional customization charges would be required to enable each body within the IFO to create their own voting database.
Compare the cost of $450 per election (although such an election could be for however many positions or referenda we liked), if Eballot were used on a one-time basis.
Eballot would provide improved security, through an off-campus server, which has not had a security breach in 8 years. 850 organizations use Eballot, including Rutgers University, the George Washington school of law, the Emmys, the American Anthropological Association, and San Francisco State University.
Eballot is easily compatible with membership lists, and once members were enrolled, the system would be labor- and paper-saving. Each campus, and the IFO central office, would administrate their own voter lists. These can be managed according to various categories (all social science faculty; total campus FA membership, etc.). List management would involve changes only, since most voters remain in the same categories over time.
Faculty resistant to electronic voting would be able to vote by proxy paper ballot, to be entered by the on-campus administrator.
Votes can be verified or recounted in complete anonymity. Voters receive receipts with a random ID number, and the administrator receives complete compilations of numerically IDd votes, all from a secure off-campus site.
By purchasing Eballot immediately, individual campuses could pilot the software before the statewide election for IFO president.
Additional electronic brochures and security papers regarding Eballot are available upon request: jadorn@stcloudstate.edu
Votenet consultant for Eballot: Libah Grossman, libah@votenet.com
d. Student Academic Code of Conduct—referred to Academic Affairs Policy Working Group.
e. Sabbatical Leave Grievance—Palmer gave an update.
9. New Business
a. Proposed Gen Ed Program (FS021009 9.a.1 – 9.a.3)—
Motion that the Faculty Association facilitate a meeting with the General Education Committee and any interested departments on Learner Outcomes and Goal Areas 3, 4, and 11—Hamnes/Kilborn. Passed
Motion to substitute—Jaede/seconded.
Substitute motion that the Faculty Association direct the General Education Committee to hold a meeting with any interested faculty about the Proposed General Education program. Passed
b. Architecture at SCSU (Dorn)—not discussed.
Motion (Dorn):
That architects and designers for all future SCSU buildings be instructed to not attempt to imitate existing buildings on campus but rather to design buildings that have architectural integrity in their own right.
Rationale:
Aspects of the exterior design of the Miller Center designed to tie together other architectural elements on campus were not as successful as those designed in their own right.
For example, the original entrance lighting for the Miller Center was designed to copy the shiny chrome work of art in the center of campus, with such compromising results that the shiny covers were replaced by the current dumpster-like gray.
In addition, the building’s exterior appears to yoke the yellow brick of ECC with orange from other buildings on campus, with color-clashing results.
While the architecture at SCSU lacks unity, it is a mistake to copy or blend in with an assortment of colors where no single design standard has so far proven satisfactory for all purposes.
c. Departmental and College practices with regard to course scheduling, room assignment, and class size—Palmer gave background on this item. Palmer encouraged faculty to follow the process of scheduling courses, picking room assignments and class sizes. There was discussion. This will go to Meet and Confer. Palmer asked faculty to go back to their departments to discuss.
10. Adjournment at 5:15 p.m.
Submitted by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant