FS 110309 2.b
Final Approved by FS 11-3-09
October 27, 2009
Executive Committee Minutes
Attendance: (Those present indicated by an underline)
Officers: President Mark Jaede, vacant, Secretary Michael Tripp, Treasurer David Warne
IFO Board Members: Susan Motin, Debra Leigh, President-Elect Tom Hergert
Unit Representatives: COB vacant, COE Frances Kayona, COFAH Judy Kilborn, COSE Balsy Kasi, COSS Tracy Ore, SPEC: JoAnn Gasparino
Negotiator: Michael Connaughton
1. Call to order at 3:22 p.m.
2. Approval of Minutes (approved EC minutes to go to Senate)
3. Treasurer’s Report—to be given at the first EC meeting of the month.
4. Announcements/Status Reports
a. Grievance Report—Susan Motin is the new Grievance Committee Chair. Motin gave a report. There will be minutes for the next Senate committee. Annette Schoenberger will be reporting officer in fall and JoAnn Gasparino will be the reporting officer in spring. The committee needs a representative from the COE. EC discussed pending grievances during Executive Session.
Motion to go into Executive Session with staff present—(Kasi/Gasparino). Passed
Motion to go out of Executive Session—(Leigh/Kilborn). Passed
b. Administrative searches—we will send out a call for the Dean of the COE. Dr. Lalita Subrahmanyan was named as CETL Interim Director.
c. Legislative visits—there were two delegations last Tuesday and yesterday that Jaede attended. They toured the new WICK wing and Riverview, and they were showed plans for ISELF, if funded, will be located where the 801B building is. The 801B building will be recycled for driver’s education.
d. IFOSA contract negotiations—Jaede will be sitting on this committee. Don Larsson from Mankato is the chair, Cindy Phillips from Moorhead, Rod Henry IFO President will also be on the committee. There was discussion.
5. Call for new agenda items—GRC and Standing Committees (Warne) 7.b; Aviation PLD (Kasi) 7.c
6. Unfinished Business
a. Response to Budget Proposed Actions—this will be combined with Strategic Program Appraisal. There was discussion about the Phase I final analysis that came out shortly before the meeting.
b. Strategic Program Appraisal—discussed above.
c. MOA on 9-month appointments—Jaede got some advice from Connie Howard from the IFO and he will speak to President Potter regarding this.
d. MnSCU and General Education—there was discussion.
7. New Business
a. Meet and Confer November 12—two items that Jaede has mentioned to the Provost are: 1. General Education, and 2. Committees and the formation of college committees (COB and COSE). Contractual? Wise? What’s a committee? Can we reach an understanding with Administration? Potter has stated in the past that short-term are not committees, ongoing are committees. There will be one more EC before M&C. We have problems getting people to volunteer for many committees. We have a responsibility to be mindful of this and including people who haven’t always been at the forefront and not pigeonholing people, and there is no reward for service, and some deans punish for service. Jaede is looking for a positive conversation at Meet and Confer on this. There was discussion. Climate Study will also be on the agenda. Jaede will be meeting with the President on this and the 9-month appointments. COE faculty would like to see the consultant’s report.
b. GRC and Standing Committee (Warne)—Warne discussed how there was a procedural error for picking GRC representatives. Jaede apologized for the error and said he read the constitution but did not catch this. Jaede will talk to Senate, and at the same time the GRC committee will come to an agreement on the representatives.
c. Aviation PhDs (Kasi)—there was discussion. This would involve an MOA and Jaede said he would support faculty in almost all cases. A MOA needs to be drafted and it should probably come from the Dean, but the faculty are waiting to hear from Administration.
d. Student Complaint Process (Motin)—to be added to next EC agenda: Student Complaints and Grievances are in the MnSCU Board Policy. We need to be prepared when this comes up.
8. Adjournment at 5:24 p.m.
Submitted and prepared by Polly Chappell, SCSU FA Administrative Assistant