Final Approved 4-28-09
April 21, 2009
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 3:16 p.m.
2. Approval of Minutes—Executive Committee April 7, 2009, to be approved in Senate.
3. Treasurer’s Report (Update last EC of School Year)
4. Announcements/ Status Reports
a. Administrative Searches—Provost candidates are on campus this week. EC discussed meeting the candidates in the SOC, and Palmer explained how it came about this way. Palmer will try to find something in the Education building for future meetings. Connaughton gave an update on the COFAH Search. An announcement will hopefully come during finals week. Johnson gave an update on COSS Search. Palmer gave an update on VP for University Advancement. Palmer said he hasn’t heard much about Sponsored Programs Search. Affirmative Action Search hasn’t been called to meet, which will need to be discussed at Meet and Confer if extra duty days are needed.
b. Grievance Report—to be given at the next meeting.
c. Foundations of Excellence (Warne)—Warne gave an update on the FOE. He thinks they will be approximately 2-1/2 weeks later than planned.
d. IRB Policy Changes (Update)—Palmer reminded Nunes of this item. Palmer said if nothing comes forward, it will be on the agenda for Meet and Confer on April 30, 2009. Palmer said there will be a report on the Summer School Task Force at Meet and Confer for 2010. There was discussion about the Summer School Session for 2010. There was also discussion about human subjects surveys. There is a similar item under new business, Time and Effort Reporting.
e. Meetings with Provost Candidates—discussed above under Administrative Searches.
5. Call for new agenda items—9-month Task Force Report (7.i) (Connaughton)
6. Unfinished Business
a. Response to Budget Proposed Actions—also discussed below under Academic Calendar. Palmer explained the report. EC discussed the document, and agreed that it was not what they had asked for. Palmer will express EC’s disappointment.
7. New Business
a. Grade Appeal Request from Mitch R. (Scheduled for April 23rd)—there was discussion about how this will go about. Palmer will let Rubinstein know that EC does not remember the face-to-face exchange, or the crossing of paths, during the appeal process. EC did a head count: Connaughton COFAH, Johnson COSS, Kayona COE, (maybe Balsy COSE, Jaede COSS, and/or Warne COFAH).
b. Academic Calendar—at Senate from last Meet and Confer. There is no report from the Committee on the Institution. Issues were raised at Meet and Confer, but there is no idea if they will be implemented. There was discussion about duty days during the summer and/or MOAs. It was noted that Reassigned Time is not finalized, even though the Provost said it was during Meet and Confer. There was discussion about “cutting deals” versus updates to maintain programs. The discussion overlapped Response to Budget Proposed Actions.
c. Meet and Confer April 30, 2009—there will be many actions from Senate to bring forward.
d. Populating GETGOs—Palmer received feedback from Johnson and Kilborn. There was discussion about GETGOs, General Education Team Goal Objectives. The existence of GETGOs is an open-ended question because a motion in the Senate minutes cannot be found. There was discussion about having a motion in Senate that clarifies that filing of minutes does not mean accepting discussions recorded in the minutes. There is concern that transparency is needed in our own governing structure and processes. There was a lot of discussion about how to proceed on this through Senate. The General Education has a practice of sending everything through the Assessment Steering Committee, which is not an FA committee. Palmer asked Jaede to bring a motion to Senate, along with his argument.
e. Time and Effort Reporting—the document came from the Office of Sponsored Programs regarding federal grant recipients. Palmer wanted to make sure that EC is okay with this, and they are as long as it is only for federal grant recipients.
f. Online Council—Palmer and Warne talked about working with Administrators, regarding reassigned time and time to devote to the project or group. There was discussion about faculty co-chairing with Administrators on work groups, task forces, committees. Palmer suggested the following group that was formed two years ago, which is listed on the FA website (www.scsufa.org):
g. Star Alert Task Force—Palmer explained the problems with the program and he said he will bring it to Senate to see if anyone wants to volunteer to be on the task force. Palmer asked EC if they want to continue to participate in advocating that the program doesn’t work 100% since it has an 85% success rate. The system has not been tested beyond the use of cell phones. There was discussion about the testing. It was noted that some faculty members are not comfortable and satisfied because they are not being contacted; right now the options are to change cell phones or buildings. It was noted that EC should recognize the concerns of the faculty affected along with recognizing the successes of the program so far.
h. Center Proposal Immigrant Workers in Minnesota—Kilborn asked Palmer why this was sent out to the FA. It came from the Provost. Palmer said this has not been through the process. There was discussion about the proposal.
i. 9-month Task Force Report (Connaughton)—Connaughton asked EC to read this prior to Senate and notify him or Hergert if there are any issues.
8. Adjournment at 5:30 p.m.
Submitted and prepared by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant