Final Approved 12-9-08

December 2, 2008

Executive Committee Minutes

 

 

Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)

Officers: President John Palmer, Past President Judy Kilborn, Secretary Michael Tripp, Treasurer Michael Connaughton

IFO Board Members: David Warne, Debra Leigh, President-Elect Mark Jaede  

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

Negotiator: Michael Connaughton

 

1.    Call to order at 3:14 p.m.

 

2.    Approval of Minutes—approved at Senate.

 

3.    Treasurer’s Report—there was a list of the new furniture recently purchased, which has been sent to the IFO for a request of repayment.  

 

4.    Announcements/Status Reports

a.    Administrative Searches—Assistant for VP of Faculty Relations will have on campus interviews at the end of next week and the beginning of the following week. It was reported that the COFAH Dean Search found that the position description was not accurate. It was noted that the position description is approved in St. Paul. The committee is working on this. There was discussion about the budget and searches. EC discussed class size related to budget cuts and FA grievances.

b.    Grievance Report (Hergert)—Hergert gave a grievance report.

Motion to go into Executive Session with staff—(Kilborn/Gasparino). Passed

Motion to go out of Executive Session—(Kilborn/Gasparino). Passed

 

Palmer and Hergert will craft an MOA sample for Senate on the duty day example. Jaede will craft a motion for Senate on duty days.

 

c.    Foundations of Excellence (Warne)

Motion to have Bill Hudson join the steering committee for the Foundations of Excellence—(Warne/Hudson). Passed

 

d.    Article 22 & 25—wiating for a report that may be done. There are no more scheduled meetings since the Provost’s secretary was not asked to do so.

e.    IRB Policy Changes—waiting for Response from IRB.

f.     State Meet & Confer—meeting on the 12th of December. Please give Palmer any items for Statewide Meet and Confer.

g.    Graduate Committee Update—one of the resignations said they were conditional when the call went out. Palmer told the faculty that he was not at liberty to negotiate. One other person has made it very clear in the COSE that they will not resign. A new list should come to Senate next week. It was noted that if the recall vote fails the person will be legitimately on the committee. Palmer will attend the first meeting to ensure the newly reconstituted committee knows their duties.

 

5.    Call for new agenda items

—Sabbatical Status (Gasparino) 7.j.

 

6.    Unfinished Business

a.    Constitution Review Items—see Senate minutes from November 25, 2008. This will be discussed at the next Senate when the chair is there.

 

7.    New Business

a.    Meet and Confer

b.    Reassign time for committee chairs (Warne, Tripp)—nothing to report at this time.

c.    Electronic Voting (Kilborn)—Kilborn passed on to Dorn the security data and Dorn will check into this. There was discussion.

d.    Request for Extension Beyond 4 year Fixed Term Appointment (EC 10/28/08)—Palmer has received no additional information. Palmer encouraged EC to look at the contract on this item. The 4 year limit is on the position and not the faculty member.

e.    Request for Graduate Dean to meet with UCC; subject: Independent Study at Ed.D. level and other Ed.D. level questions—EC okayed the request.

f.     Response to President’s “Budget Constraints” e-mail—the email came today. There was discussion about filling faculty positions versus administrative positions.  

g.    Negotiators Questions—Connaughton spoke to this. This will go out to EC to be discussed further at the next EC meeting.

h.    At Large FA Representative on LR&TS Associate Dean Search—Palmer gave an update.

i.      SCSU Action Chair—the call has gone out. No one has responded. SCSU does not have an action chair. There was discussion about the future for faculty.

j.     Sabbatical Status (Gasparino)—the President has made no decision. Palmer has heard that 36 automatic sabbaticals will be granted. There were 30 additional requests.

k.    Duty Days—sent back to EC from Senate (Kilborn)—discussed in Executive Session.

 

8.    Adjournment at 5:24 p.m.

 

Submitted and prepared by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant