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November 24, 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, Patrica Bresser; (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: Lalita Subrahmanyan
1. Call to order at 3:20 p.m.
2. Approval/Filing of Minutes
a. Senate minutes of 11/17/09 (FS 112409 2.a)
Motion to approve Senate minutes of November 17, 2009, and all actions included—(Hill/Gasparino). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes—none to approve.
c. General Education Committee Minutes October 16, 2009—filed; October 30, 2009; November 20, 2009 (FS112409 2.c.1-2.c.3)
Motion to approve GE minutes of October 30, 2009, and all actions included—(Hill/seconded). Passed
Motion to approve GE minutes of November 20, 2009, and all actions included—(Tabakin/Hill). Amended
Motion to amend by striking “Husky” from the name of the new GE program to “Liberal Education Program”—(Bleam/Motin). Amended
Motion to amend to “SCSU Liberal Arts Education Program”—(Motin/Roth). Withdrawn without objection
Motion to amend to “SCSU Liberal Education Program”—(Gulrud/Bleam). Passed
Motion to approve GE minutes of November 20, 2009, and the amended motion. Passed
d. Assessment Steering Committee Minutes November 4, 2009 (FS112409 2.d)
Motion to approve Assessment Steering minutes of November 4, 2009—(Tabakin/Bleam). Passed
e. Faculty Research Grants Committee minutes of October 30, 2009, Evaluations of Innovative Award Applications for Summer 2010
Motion to approve Faculty Research Grants Committee minutes of October 30, 2009, and all actions included—(Ore/Tripp). Passed
3. Treasurer’s Report—no report at this time
4. Consent Agenda: General Education Committee: Bradley Sleeper (MKTG)
Motion to approve Consent Agenda—(Hill/Bresser). Passed
5.
Special Elections—none.
6. Call for New
Agenda Items—Meet and Confer minutes (Tabakin); Faculty Research Grants minutes
(Jaede)
7. Announcements
a. Tom Rukavina, currently the Chair of the Higher Education and Workforce Development Finance & Policy Division will be on campus to meet with faculty and staff on December 2, 2009 from 10:55 – 11:30 a.m. in the Atwood-Voyageurs rooms—Jaede announced.
b. CETL Request—Lalita Subrahmanyan asked for faculty nominations for a panel. The deadline is tomorrow.
8. Unfinished Business
a. Pictures on Class Lists (FS 040108 9.g.)—sent to Student Government—waiting to hear from Student Government.
b. Electronic Voting (FS112508 9.d.1) (Dorn)—motion referred to IFO—Dorn will work on getting in touch with Cindy Finch at the IFO.
c. Request for Faculty Advisory Committee from Theresia Fisher (FS 1020009 9.b)—not discussed; Fisher was unable to come to meeting today.
9. New Business
a. Request from student government for liaisons between Faculty and Student Senates—discussed briefly.
b. LR&TS Faculty Seniority Roster become a department (FS112409 9.b.)—request to be taken to Meet and Confer. Hergert gave a brief report. There was some discussion and Senate asked Hergert questions.
Motion to take this request to Meet and Confer: The LR&TS faculty recommend that the entire faculty on the official LR&TS seniority roster become a department, to take effect as of July 1, 2010—(Hergert/Roth). Passed
c. Meet and Confer (Tabakin)—Tabakin asked for agendas and brief minutes for items as the Climate Task Force and General Education. Jaede spoke to the item. Agendas are finalized the Monday before the Thursday Meet and Confer so he will see if the agenda can be sent out on Tuesdays. Sometimes the agenda might have changes or additions out of the FA’s control. Notes are posted after they approved on the FA website. In years past a faculty member who was on Meet and Confer Team would send out un-official notes on “Announce” and Jaede welcomed anyone interested to do this.
Motion to send out the agenda to all faculty as soon as possible, and bring Meet and Confer Notes to Senate for discussion upon approval for possible discussion—(Tabakin/Kalia). Separated
Separated:
Motion to email out the Meet and Confer agenda to all faculty as soon as possible. Passed
Motion to bring Meet and Confer Notes to Senate for discussion upon approval for possible discussion as needed via announcements on the Senate agenda. Passed
10. Adjournment at 4:52 p.m.
Submitted by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant