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April 6, 2010
OFFICERS: Mark Jaede, vacant, David Warne, Michael Tripp
IFO BOARD: Thomas Hergert, Debra Leigh, Susan Motin
NEGOTIATOR: Michael Connaughton
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) Bill Hudson; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, vacant; (FIRE) Li Zhang; (MGMT) Larry Roth, Orn Bodvarsson; (MKGB) Jim Johnson, Rajesh Gulati
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) Frances Kayona; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEHEEP) Trae Downing, Bob Murphy; (HPERSS) Hector Antunez, vacant; (HURL) vacant; (ELCP) Tina Livingston, Chaturi Edrisinha; (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) Shawn Jarvis, Bill Langen; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Matt Ferrell, vacant; (PHIL) Paul Neiman; (THFD) Jeffrey Bleam
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIL) 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) Dale Buske, Janis Cimperman, Stephanie Houdek; (NURS) Darlene Copley, Patricia 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) Christopher Lehman; (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: Don Larsson from University of Mankato, (Maureen Tubbiola) and Paula Tompkins Co-chairs of the General Education Committee
1. Call to order at 3:16 p.m. for Don Larsson; 3:39 p.m. for Senate meeting
Jaede introduced Don Larsson, who is a candidate for the Presidency of the IFO. Don spoke to Senate. He has visited all the campuses on his campaign. Larsson is running for IFO President because people he cares about have asked him to run. He is also relocating to Bloomington with his wife in the near future so the location is good for him. Larsson gave his background. There were questions, and Larsson answered.
2. Approval/Filing of Minutes
a. Senate Minutes March 23, 2010 (FS040610 2.a)
Motion to approve the FS minutes of March 23, 2010, and all actions included—(Karasik/Hill). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes March 30, 2010—not ready to approve.
c. Budget Review Committee Minutes March 4, 2010 (FS040610 2.c)
Motion to approve the Budget Review Committee Minutes of March 4, 2010, and all actions included—(Tabakin/Ore). Passed
d. General Education Committee Minutes February 26, 2010—filed; March 19, 2010; March 26, 2010 (FS040610 2.e.1-2.e.3)
Motion to approve the GE minutes of March 19, 2010, and all actions included—(Motin/Weisman). Passed
Motion to approve the GE minutes of March 26, 2010, and all actions included—(Tabakin/Hill). Passed
Motion to amend GE motion by stating “for courses approved under the previous approved GE program”—(Hornstein/Herath). Failed
Jaede thanked the GE co-chairs for all their hard work and thanked them for coming to Senate to answer questions on the GE motion.
e. International Studies Committee Minutes March 22, 2010 (FS040610 2.e)
Motion to approve the International Studies Committee minutes of March 22, 2010, and all actions included—(Motin/Weisman). Passed
f. University Curriculum Committee (UCC) Minutes March 18, 2010; March 25, 2010; March 26, 2010 (FS040610 2.f.1-2.f.3)
Motion to approve the UCC minutes of March 18, 2010, and all actions included—(Weisman/Hornstein). Passed
Motion to approve the UCC minutes of March 25, 2010, and all actions included—(Hill/Hergert). Passed
Motion to approve the UCC minutes of March 26, 2010, and all actions included—(Weisman/Motin). Passed
g. Safety Committee Minutes March 24, 2010 (FS040610 2.g)—filed.
h. Professional Development Committee Minutes March 24, 2010; and March 31, 2010 (FS040610 2.h.1-2.h.2)
Motion to approve the Professional Development Committee minutes of March 24, 2010, and all actions included—(Motin/Inkster). Passed
Motion to approve the Professional Development Committee minutes of March 31, 2010, and all actions included—(Motin/Gasparino). Passed
3. Treasurer’s Report—Warne was unable to attend Senate, but asked for the report to be distributed:
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CAMPUS LOCATION: |
SCSU |
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QUARTER ENDING DATE: |
March 31, 2010 |
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BEGINNING CASH BALANCE |
13,157.17 |
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DEPOSITS: |
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LOCAL SUPPORT PAYMENTS (1/13/10) |
1,387.00 |
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LOCAL SUPPORT PAYMENTS (3/12/10) |
255.00 |
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OTHER DEPOSITS (LIST SEPARATELY) |
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TOTAL DEPOSITS |
1,642.00 |
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EXPENSES: |
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OFFICE SUPPLIES |
118.47 |
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EQUIPMENT / FURNITURE |
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PRINTING / COPYING |
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TELEPHONE / INTERNET/POSTAGE* |
82.28 |
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WEBSITE |
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INSURANCE |
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MILEAGE / PARKING (Tom Hergert to Alexandria) |
75.00 |
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SEMINARS / TRAINING |
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MEETING EXPENSES |
1,129.46 |
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DELEGATE ASSEMBLY |
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UNIVERSITY ACCOUNT |
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OTHER EXPENSES (LIST SEPARATELY) |
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Petty Cash |
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60.00 |
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Clearwire annual fee and purchase of modem |
415.59 |
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TOTAL EXPENSES |
1,880.80 |
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ENDING CASH BALANCE |
12,918.37 |
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PLUS OUTSTANDING CHECKS |
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ENDING BANK BALANCE |
12,918.37 |
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*SCSU Agency Account Information |
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Submitted and Prepared by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant |
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Motion to postpone the treasurer’s report to the next meeting—(Hergert/Nyendu). Passed
4. Consent Agenda
Budget Review Committee: Christopher Kvaal (BIOL/2012)
Motion to approve Consent Agenda—(Karasik/Gasparino). Passed
5. Special Elections
Director of International Admissions. One opening – vote for all acceptable
candidates:
· Tony Akubue (ETS)
· Choonkyong Kim (ENGL)
· Morgan Nyendu (POL)
· Marya Teutsch-Dwyer (ENGL)
· Ray Tsai (IS)
·
Chukwunyere
Ugochukwu (CMTY)
6. Call for New
Agenda Items—Progress of the Bush Initiative in the COE (Hornstein) 9.d; FA
Grievance in the COSE (Motin) 9.e; Concern for the lack of support of required
classes for students like ENGL 190 (Tabakin) 9.f
7. Announcements
a. Delegate Assembly—is this week Friday and Saturday. Thank you to those of you who have volunteered. If you haven’t received confirmation, please contact the FA office ASAP. The FA office will let Administration know who is going.
b. Report on Meet and Confer 4/1/2010—March 18, 2010 Notes were approved by Administration today and posted on the FA website. Jaede encouraged Senate to look over the Notes since it was the first meeting that retrenchment came up. April 1, 2010 M&C: There is no news on GE from MnSCU; Bridge Program; and Retrenchment (Jaede will get clarification on the contract regarding notice from the IFO).
c. Election Results (FS040610 7.c)—campus-wide results:
President: Mark Jaede (186 votes)
Balsy Kasi (59 votes)
Roland Specht-Jarvis (101 votes)
IFO Board: Debra Leigh (170 votes)
Jayantha Herath (116 votes)
Negotiator: Michael Connaughton (240 votes)
Jayantha Herath (56 votes)
See the enclosed handout for college committee elections.
d. Grievance Training—on campus April 16, 2010 given by Pat Arseneault from the IFO. Jaede asked for volunteers to contact the FA office. Kilborn suggested that even if you do not want to serve as an officer the training is valuable.
e. Treasurer and Secretary—Jaede announced that nominations will be taken in Senate later for a one-year term.
f. Strategic Planning Committee—there are a couple vacancies open now and in the fall. Jaede encouraged people to volunteer for the openings that will be chosen by Senate.
8. Unfinished Business
a. Pictures on Class Lists (FS 040108 9.g.)—sent to Meet and Confer—Hergert gave a report. There is a pilot program, and Hergert asked for pilot testers. Hergert will send out a request for 12-15 faculty for feedback from the FA office. Jaede thanked Hergert for his work on this project.
b. Electronic Voting (FS112508 9.d.1) (Dorn)—motion referred to IFO—not discussed.
c. Resource Allocation information request (Kalia)—not discussed.
d. Program Review—not discussed.
9. New Business
a. Faculty representation in Community Coalition (FS032310 9.c.)
Motion to approve a faculty representative to the Community Coalition per their request—(Kilborn/Tripp). Passed
b. Professional Development Funds - Judy Dorn/Tom Hergert (FS032310 9.d.)
Motion
that Senate representatives bring to their departments the following finding
from the Research task force of North Central Accreditation process, and
consider the available variety of ways to keep our individual faculty
professional development funds in use, strengthening our bargaining position at
Contract time.
Passed
From the North-Central Accreditation self-study at SCSU:
Professional
Development Funds
Faculty
members have a variety of professional
development funds available. Each department annually receives
$1,115 per FTE faculty member for professional and scholarly activity. This
allocation totaled $703,311 in fiscal year 2006 (see MnSCU Financial Statement
in Resource Room) These funds can be used for conference travel, research
travel and expenses, professional memberships, subscriptions, professional
materials such as books and software, and the like. Each year a substantial
amount of the professional development funds allocated to departments is
carried forward as funds assigned to specific faculty members. At the end of
fiscal year 2005, for example, $922,571 from previous allocations went unused
and was carried forward to fiscal year 2006 (see MnSCU Accounting Budget
Transfer Document in Resource Room) While there are many legitimate reasons for
funds to be carried forward (e.g. saving for a planned international conference),
there is an increasing concern on campus that more of this money needs to be
“brought into play.” For example, some departments limit to a period of three
years the amount of professional development funds to be carried-over by an
individual. After the third year the funds become unattached and redistributed
within the department to fund appropriate projects among other faculty members.
A future challenge may be the extension of such policies to every department on
the campus.
Possible departmental methods:
c. Academic Calendars (Draft) (FS0406 9.c)—Jaede asked Senate to review the calendars and to take them back to departments for feedback to discuss at the next Senate meeting.
d. Progress of the Bush Initiative in the COE (Hornstein)—Hornstein spoke to the item. Jaede will place this on the M&C agenda.
e. FA Grievance in the COSE (Motin)—Motin gave a report. This was brought before EC and their minutes are not ready for approval so it is now placed on new business for Senate discussion/action. Jaede will inform all chairs of this passed motion.
Motion to authorize a Faculty Association grievance on the COSE issue of chairs acting as supervisors regarding faculty attendance—(Motin/Kilborn). Passed
f. Concern for
the lack of support of required classes for students like ENGL 190 (Tabakin)—Tabakin
explained that there were no classes available for students who will be coming
to campus. He would like this discussed in Senate. Jaede said that Senate did
not need to take a position on this to bring the question of what will be done
to Meet and Confer. Timelines were discussed instead of bringing a specific
course. Jaede suggested that the M&C Team be broader in their approach to
getting information on high demand general education courses, and to remind
them that class size change is a contractual item.
10. Adjournment at 5:15 p.m.
Submitted by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant