Final Approved 6-11-09 by EC & FS 9-22-09

May 5, 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

Guest: Tom Hergert

 

1.  Call to order at 3:23 p.m.

 

2.  Approval of Minutes—no action needed, approved in Senate.

 

3.  Treasurer’s Report—nothing to report.

 

4.  Announcements/Status Reports

a.  Administrative Searches—the President stated on Friday that he plans on announcing the Provost within 10 days. There was discussion about the LR&TS position. There was a report on the COSE position. There was report on the Affirmative Action position. There was discussion about duty days for summer searches.    

b.            Grievance Report—Hergert gave a report.

Motion to go into Execution Session with staff present—(Hudson/Kilborn). Passed

Motion to move out of Executive Session—(Gasparino/seconded). Passed

 

Reported out of Executive Session: there was a lengthy conversation on the meeting with HCOB and President Potter.

 

c.  Foundations of Excellence (Warne)—Warne gave an update. He discussed the meeting date as opposed to duty days.

d.  IRB Policy Changes (Dennis gave me a document at the end of M&C)—moved to new business.

e.  HCOB meeting with President Potter—discussed in Executive Session above.

f.   LR&TS Letter to President Potter—discussed under Administrative Searches.

 

5.       Call for new agenda items—IRB Policy Changes; Faculty hit by Student—Palmer gave an update and Mark Jaede volunteered to attend the meeting on May 12, 2008, 11:00 a.m. regarding this matter.

 

6.       Unfinished Business

a.  Response to Budget Proposed Actions—Johnson discussed the statewide response, and he said that he is going to contact Russ Stanton and Rod Henry regarding this matter. Johnson is also prepared to lobby independently. Warne, in his co-chair position of the Government Relations Committee, spoke about the item. There was discussion.

Motion that the EC supports lifting the proposed caps on the funding of grants serving underserved students for this biennium—(Jaede/Tripp). Passed 

 

Johnson also discussed budget questions on hiring freezes, which came from M&C Notes on January 29, 2009. Palmer will address this topic tomorrow at the Town hall meeting.

 

7.  New Business

a.            Review Senate Minutes from April 28th, 2009—next meeting.

b.  Online Council (Co-chair selection)—there was discussion about who would be a good candidate.

c.  Star Alert Task Force (Call for volunteers in fall)—will be done in the fall.

d.  UCC Minutes—please note that UCC finished all their business, including the legislative versions from two years ago.

 

Motion to approve all three minutes but pull out MGMT 495/595 on the 16th of April, 2009—(Kilborn/Jaede). Passed

 

Motion to approve MGMT 495/595 if John Palmer finds in looking at the document that the correct departments and the appropriate curriculum committee members signed it, and there were no inappropriate signatures—(Kilborn/Jaede). Passed

 

e.            M&C Items for first M&C—to be discussed at the next meeting.

f.   Suspending Process for hearing grievances for summer—Palmer explained how this happens.

g.  FA Grievance on failure to supervise regarding Article 20 in COE—can wait for next meeting.

h.  Enrollment Management Co-chair selection—there was discussion about who would be a good candidate.

Motion to put out a call to current and past Enrollment Management committee members to find out the interest in this position—(Kilborn/Tripp). Passed

 

i.   Summer EC Meetings—Jaede will look at his calendar and schedule EC meetings in June and July. Palmer requested not on Tuesdays. It was suggested that July’s meeting should be with the new Provost and also the President.

j.   IRB Policy Changes (Kilborn)—not discussed.

k.  Faculty hit by Student (Leigh)—Palmer gave an update above. There was discussion. This has been referred to the Board of Trustees for further review. Jaede gave an update.

 

8.  Adjournment at 5:30 p.m.

 

Submitted and prepared by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant