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November 3, 2009
OFFICERS: Mark Jaede, vacant, David Warne, Michael Tripp
IFO BOARD: Thomas Hergert, Debra Leigh, Susan Motin
NEGOTIATOR: Michael Connaughton
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) vacant; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, vacant; (FIRE) Li Zhang; (MGMT) Larry Roth, Orn Bodvarsson; (MKGB) Jim Johnson, JoAnn Asquith
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) Frances Kayona; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Trae Downing, Bob Murphy; (HPERSS) Hector Antunez, vacant; (HURL) vacant; (ELCP) Tina Livingston, Chaturi Edrishinha; (IM) Fred Hill; (SPED) Michael Pickle, Janet Salk (TDEV) vacant, Steve Hornstein, vacant
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) Judy Kilborn; (ART) Julie Baugnet, Kathryn Gainey; (CDSI) Cindy Lofton; (CMST) Matt Vorrell, Eddah Mutuo-Kombo, Marla Kanengieter; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, Jamie Heiman, Jim Robinson, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Maria Melgarejo, Agustin Boyer; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Matt Ferrell, vacant; (PHIL) Paul Neiman; (THFD) Jeffrey Bleam
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) Kristin Gulrud, Maureen Tubbiola, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Rebecca Krystyniak, Mohammad Mahroof-Tahir; (CSCI) Andrew Anda, vacant; (EAS) Bob Weisman; (EE) vacant, Mahbub Hossain; (ETS) Tony Akubue; (ME) Steve Covey; (MATH) Ravi Kalia, Janis Cimperman, Stephanie Houdek; (NURS) Darlene Copley; (PHYS) Maria Womack; (STAT) Ezzat Kirmani
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit Representative) Tracy Ore; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJS) Mario Hesse, Mary Clifford; (ECON) Arta Ratha, David Switzer; (ES) Kyoko Kishimoto; (GEOG) Hung Chin Yu; (HIST) Jeff Mullins, Maureen O’Brien; (POL) Morgan Nyendu, Shoua Yang; (PSYC) Chris Jazwinski, Jody Illies; (SW) Sandra Chesborough; Cathy Stilwill; (SAN) Matthew Tornow, Robert Lavenda, Sandrine Zerbib; (WS) Elizabeth Berila
SPECIAL
SERVICES: (Unit
Representative) JoAnn Gasparino; (Academic Support) Geoffrey Tabakin;
(COUN) Steve Jenkins; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Sandra Q.
Williams, Tom Steman; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) vacant
GUESTS: Victoria Williams
1. Call to order at 3:18 p.m.
2. Approval/Filing of Minutes
a. Senate Minutes October 20, 2009 (FS 110309 2.a)
Motion to approve FS Minutes of October 20, 2009, and all actions included—(Bodvarsson/Hergert). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes October 27, 2009 (FS110309 2.b)—filed.
c. Grievance Committee Minutes September 21, 2009 and October 16, 2009 (FS 110309 2.c.1-2.c.2)—filed.
d. Assessment Steering Committee Minutes October 7, 2009 (FS110309 2.d)—filed.
e. Budget Advisory Group Minutes October 20, 2009 (FS110309 2.e)—filed.
f. Strategic Planning Committee Minutes September 10, 2009; September 24, 2009; October 8, 2009; and October 15, 2009 (FS110309 2.f.1-2.f.4)—filed.
g. International Studies Committee Minutes October 29, 2009 and Short-Term Proposal Form (FS110309 2.g.1-2.g.2)
Motion to approve International Studies Committee Minutes of October 29, 2009 and the Short-term Proposal form—(Motin/Gasparino). Passed
h. Professional Development Committee Minutes October 29, 2009, #1 and 2 (FS110309 2.h.1-2.h.2)
Motion to approve Professional Development Committee Minutes of October 29, 2009, meeting #1—(Kilborn/Motin). Passed
Kilborn wanted to thank the committee for the detail in the document. Senate applauded.
i. UCC Minutes October 15, 2009 (FS110309 2.i)
Motion to approve UCC minutes of October 15, 2009—(Kilborn/Houdek). Passed
3. Treasurer’s Report—given at the last Senate meeting.
4. Consent Agenda
H1N1: Marina Cetkovic-Cvrlje (BIOL)
Motion to approve the Consent Agenda—(Hill/Gasparino). Passed
5.
Special Elections—those appointed are underlined below:
Multicultural Resource Center: 1 opening
Heather Hackman (HURL)
Susan Nuccetelli (PHIL)
Veterans Advisory Board: 2 openings
Betsy Glade (HIST)
Fred Hill (IM)
Jeffrey Johnson (AVIAT)
Jayne Lokken (COUNS)
Karen Thoms (IM)
Laurie Yourk (MATH)
6. Call for New
Agenda Items—Students First Initiative by MnSCU (Motin) 9.b; Revenue Expense
Ratio at SCSU by Department (Kalia) 9.c
7. Announcements
a. General Education and MnSCU—Jaede gave a brief update.
b. Strategic Program Appraisal (See also 9.a.)—Jaede gave an update. Discussion will take place under item 9.a.
8. Unfinished Business
a. Pictures on Class Lists (FS 040108 9.g.)—sent to Student Government—no response from Student Government.
b. Electronic Voting (FS112508 9.d.1) (Dorn)—motion referred to IFO—Dorn gave a brief report.
c. FYE Advisory Committee voting rights (FS 102009 9.a.)—Victoria Williams will be at Senate to discuss at 4:00 p.m. Williams explained the situation in the Committee: there are six faculty and six non-faculty and only faculty having voting rights. The committee has voted for everyone to have voting rights and they are bringing this to Senate for approval.
Motion to take the FYE Advisory Committee request to Meet and Confer to renegotiate the voting rights so that all non-administrative committee members have voting rights—(Tabakin/Gasparino). Passed
d. Request for Faculty Advisory Committee from Theresia Fisher (FS 1020009 9.b)—Jaede will ask Fisher for more information before Senate acts on this. She will be invited to come to Senate to discuss.
9. New Business
a. Response to Phase I report of Strategic Program Appraisal
Motion whereas several pieces of data presented in Phase 1 are incorrect, the Faculty Senate strongly recommends that the data be corrected before we move to the next phase—(Kalia/Kasi). Amended
Motion to amend by adding “and the analysis be run again” after “corrected”—(Hergert/Lavenda). Passed
Amended Motion: whereas several pieces of data presented in Phase 1 are incorrect, the Faculty Senate strongly recommends that the data be corrected and the analysis be run again before we move to the next phase. Division: In favor: 18; Opposed: 27. Failed
Motion that in addition to the Phase I data that a cost benefit be computed for each program and added to the analysis—(Weisman/seconded). Passed
Whereas
the first phase of the Strategic Program Appraisal has been carried out using
data other than as originally proposed:
The Faculty Association protests the execution of the Strategic Program
Appraisal using flawed and incomplete data, followed by the distribution of a
questionnaire that is quite different from what was originally proposed at Meet
and Confer. To move forward in this flawed process wold violate the spirit in
which the Strategic Program Appraisal was presented to Meet and Confer.—(Hergert/Kalia). Passed
b. Students First Initiative by MnSCU (Motin)—Jaede gave background information on the item from the IFO Board meeting. There was discussion.
Motion to go Meet and Confer to request information about the Students First Initiative, and what kind of conversations have taken place between the Officer of the Chancellor and SCSU staff—(Kilborn/Tripp). Passed
c. Expense Ratio Revenue at SCSU by Department (Kalia)—Kalia spoke. This will go to Meet and Confer.
10. Adjournment at 5:15 p.m.
Submitted by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant