April 1, 2008, and April 8, 2008
April 1, 2008
OFFICERS: Judy Kilborn, Annette Schoenberger, Michael Connaughton, Michael Tripp
IFO BOARD: Fred Hill, David Warne, John Palmer
NEGOTIATOR: Bill Langen
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) Bill Hudson; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, Ray Tsai; (FIRE) vacant; (MGMT) Larry Roth, vacant; (MKGB) Rajesh Gulati, James C. Johnson
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) Frances Kayona; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Bill Lepkowski, Robert Murphy; (HPERSS) Hector Antunez, Caryl Martin; (HURL) vacant; (LDR) John Rapp, Michael Mills; (IM) Darlene St. Clair; (SPED) Kathy Johnson, Janet Salk (TDEV) vacant, Steve Hornstein, Ramon Serrano
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) vacant; (ART) Nancy Levy, Kathryn Gainey; (CDSI) Rebecca Crowell; (CMST) Traci Anderson, Eddah Mutuo-Kombo, Bruce Hyde; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, vacant, Jim Robinson, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Bill Langen, Luz Triana-Echeverria, vacant; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Marion Judish, vacant; (PHIL) Susana Nuccetelli, Andy Platt; (THFD) Eva Honegjer
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) vacant, vacant, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Nathan Winter, Becky Krystyniak; (CSCI) Andrew Anda, Donald Hamnes; (EAS) Bob Weisman; (EE) Sura Lekhakul, Tim Vogt; (ETS) Tony Akubue; (ME) Steve Covey; (MATH) Dale Buske, Janis Cimperman, Carol Theisen; (NURS) Patty Bresser; (PHYS) John Liu; (STAT) Leonard Onyiah, vacant
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit Representative) Robert Johnson; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJS) Mario Hesse, Richard Lawrence; (ECON) David Switzer; Mana Komai; (ES) Kyoko Kishimoto; (GEOG) Ken Wong; (HIST) Mark Jaede; Maureen O’Brien; (POL) Edward Greaves; (PSYC) Marlene Devoe, Jody Illies; (SW) Elizabeth Talbot; (SAN) Mark Muniz, Robert Lavenda; (WS) Elizabeth Berila
SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) JoAnn Gasparino; (Academic Support) Geoffrey Tabakin; (COUN) Steve Jenkins; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Tom Steman, Tom Hergert; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) vacant
1. Call to order: 3:17
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of March 18, 2008 (FS 040108 2.a.)(Palmer/Gasparino)Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of March 25, 2008 (FS 040108 2.b.)(Roth/Gasparino)Passed
c. University
Curriculum Minutes. Draft Process for Curriculum Approval (FS 091107 2.c.2.) –
awaiting legislative version for action. University Curriculum Minutes of
January 31, 2008 (FS 022608 2.c.1. (FS 031808 2.c.1): Minutes approved
except for NC-06-160 and NC-06-162, which will be acted on Time Definite
– 3:30 p.m. on April 1. These will go forward and the other
departments can propose replacement courses. There is a memo stating the plan
for this agreement. (Passed)
Minutes of March 13, 2008 (FS 040108 2.c.1.).(Herath/Onyiah)Passed
COB proposals pulled out of UCC minutes of
October 25, 2007, during Senate on November 13, 2007, and sent back to the COB
Curriculum Committee for appropriate signatures and action: PC-08-01: BA in
General Business; RE-08-03: BCIS 450/550 Information Technology Strategy and
Management (FS 111307 2.c.3 FS 040108 2.c.2.); PC-08-01, RE-08-03
(Hudson/Herath)Passed
Minutes of March 20, 2008 (FS 040108 2.c.3.) (Dorn/Roth) Passed
d. Assessment Steering Committee Minutes of February 27, 2008 (FS 040108 2.d.1.) – to file; Minutes of March 19, 2008 (FS 040108 2.d.2.)
Motion: accept and only accept these minutes of March 19, 2008. (Roth/Schoenberger) Failed
Motion: Ask President Kilborn to get clarification on this motion and bring that motion back to Senate. (Hill/Herath) Passed
e. TLTR Notes for March 14, 2008 (FS 040108 2.e.1.) – to file; Notes for March 21, 2008 (FS 040108 2.e.2.) – to file; Notes for March 28, 2008 (FS 040108 2.e.3.) – to file
f. Service Learning Advisory Committee Minutes of November 28, 2007 (FS 040108 2.f.1.) – to file
g. International Studies Committee Corrected Minutes of March 11, 2008 (FS 040108 2.g.1.) (Jaede/Roth) Passed
h. Placement Testing Task Force Minutes of March 12, 2008 (FS 031808 2.j.) – postponed awaiting recommendation concerning membership and mission.
i. Academic Affairs Committee Minutes of Minutes of February 11, 2008 (FS 031808 2.k.2.) – postponed awaiting discussion of item 8.a. under Unfinished Business. Minutes of March 17, 2008 (FS 040108 2.i.1.) (Hill/Kasi) Passed
and Academic Standards (FS 040108 2.i.2);
Minutes of March 24, 2008, with relevant documents (FS 040108 2.i.3.-2.i.6.) (Palmer/Kasi) Passed
Pulled: Motion from Section 2 of the March 24, 2008 minutes was pulled until the April 22, 2008 meeting of the senate. (Roth/Kasi) Passed
j. SCSU Safety Committee Meeting Minutes of February 27, 2008 (FS 040108 2.j.) – to file Notice the comment about security in the buildings. WSB seems to have real problems.
k. FA Budget Committee Minutes of March 26, 2008 (FS 040108 2.k.) (Gasparino/Onyiah) Passed
l. Division of General Studies (DGS) Minutes of March 11, 2008 (FS 040108 2.l.) – to file
3. Treasurer’s Report: None
4. Consent Agenda: None
5. Special Elections: None
6. Call for New Agenda Items: None
7. Announcements
a. Location for next Senate meeting: Cascade on April 8th
b. Delegate Assembly/IFO Board
· Status of Contract
· The contract is bundled with other state employee contracts and is awaiting final legislative action. Approximately one month after the Governor signs the bill, we should see the increases in our pay checks.
· Budget – Legislative action on budget and bonding bills
· The Higher Ed Bill shows cuts but not as bad as proposed by the governor. The legislature is clear that the cuts should not come from the campuses. It looks as if the Bonding Bill is headed for an across-the-board 1% reduction. This means that the projects are still there but will get less funding than requested.
· IFO Budget and Dues
· The IFO Budget for next year includes an 8.25% increase in the dues. This is a little more than $50 per person. The salary increase is over 11% of your salary.
· Salary Equity
· The Salary Equity Committee should be meeting in May, and the letters will go out after that.
· IFO General Counsel Position
· The IFO has hired a General Counsel to help process grievances and answer other questions.
· D2L
· The patent office has provisionally voided all 44 of the Blackboard Patents. This is just the first step. Wait for changes in D2L.
· DA Reimbursement Forms
· Be sure to fill these out and give them to President Kilborn.
c. Grievance Report
· See the EC minutes
d. Report on Curriculum Processes (regarding UCC recommendation in 02/28/08 minutes)
a. All program web pages were changed sometime in March. Apparently these changes included the addition of spelling and grammatical errors as well as unapproved changes to the programs. If you have other information, please send it to President Kilborn.
e. Elections
· FA Spring Elections
· Ballots due, April 3, 2008, at noon
· Announce results, April 8, 2008, Senate
· IFO Presidential Election and Constitutional Change Vote
· Ballots due, April 8 at 4 p.m.
8. Unfinished Business
a. Grading Policy – Recommendation from the Academic Affairs Committee re: Draft Grading System (FS 012908 8.d.)
Motion: The Senate Requests that the Academic Affairs committee take into account the correspondence already received as they look at the grading policy. (Johnson/Tripp) Passed
This correspondence concerns the I, FN, and FW grades.
In addition these concerns were brought forward.
1. In the definition of grades section: The word “average” has a precise meaning. Do we really mean that? Perhaps another word would be more appropriate?
2. What does FN mean? Perhaps it should be N.
3. A+ doesn’t have a value higher than A, so the students GPA might actually be lower than if they were given grades without + or - . Is there a way to take care of this?
If you have other feed-back, get it to the committee by 9 a.m. Monday April 7, 2008.
b. Consultation and the Contract (FS 012908 9.c. and FS 021208 9.c)
We may need to file a grievance on this issue.
Meeting recessed 5:15 and will reconvene April 8, 2008
April 8, 2008
OFFICERS: Judy Kilborn, Annette Schoenberger, Michael Connaughton, Michael Tripp
IFO BOARD: Fred Hill, David Warne, John Palmer
NEGOTIATOR: Bill Langen
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) Bill Hudson; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, Ray Tsai; (FIRE) vacant; (MGMT) Larry Roth, vacant; (MKGB) Rajesh Gulati, James C. Johnson
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) Frances Kayona; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Bill Lepkowski, Robert Murphy; (HPERSS) Hector Antunez, Caryl Martin; (HURL) vacant; (LDR) John Rapp, Michael Mills; (IM) Darlene St. Clair; (SPED) Kathy Johnson, Janet Salk (TDEV) vacant, Steve Hornstein, Ramon Serrano
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) vacant; (ART) Nancy Levy, Kathryn Gainey; (CDSI) Rebecca Crowell; (CMST) Traci Anderson, Eddah Mutuo-Kombo, Bruce Hyde; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, vacant, Jim Robinson, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Bill Langen, Luz Triana-Echeverria, vacant; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Marion Judish, vacant; (PHIL) Susana Nuccetelli, Andy Platt; (THFD) Eva Honegger
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) vacant, vacant, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Nathan Winter, Becky Krystyniak; (CSCI) Andrew Anda, Donald Hamnes; (EAS) Bob Weisman; (EE) Sura Lekhakul, Tim Vogt; (ETS) Tony Akubue; (ME) Steve Covey; (MATH) Dale Buske, Janis Cimperman, Wayne Braith; (NURS) Patty Bresser; (PHYS) John Liu; (STAT) Leonard Onyiah, vacant
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit Representative) Robert Johnson; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJS) Mario Hesse, Richard Lawrence; (ECON) David Switzer; Mana Komai; (ES) Kyoko Kishimoto; (GEOG) Ken Wong; (HIST) Mark Jaede; Maureen O’Brien; (POL) Edward Greaves; (PSYC) Marlene Devoe, Jody Illies; (SW) Elizabeth Talbot; (SAN) Mark Muniz, Robert Lavenda; (WS) Elizabeth Berila
SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) JoAnn Gasparino; (Academic Support) Geoffrey Tabakin; (COUN) Steve Jenkins; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Tom Steman, Tom Hergert; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) vacant
1. Reconvened: 3:20, April 8, 2008
2. Approval of Minutes
d. Assessment Steering
Committee Minutes of February 27, 2008 (FS 040108 2.d.1.) – to file; Minutes of March 19,
2008 (FS 040108 2.d.2.) – pending clarification of motion. The comment from the
steering committee was that the reports must be complete so that we can ask for
more money for the grants. Motion: Approve the minutes without the
motion in question. (Jaede/Roth) Passed
3. Treasurer’s Report
4. Consent Agenda
5. Special Elections
6. Call for New Agenda
Items
7. Announcements
a. Location for next Senate meeting: EB A119 on April 22nd
b. Elections
· FA Spring Elections Results
o President Elect/IFO Board: Mark Jaede
o IFO Board of Directors: Debra Leigh
o Negotiator: Michael Connaughton
c. D2L: Archive any materials you want to use at a later date. If you are using D2L for summer school, get your materials up before the upgrade.
d. Employee Web Page (FS 040808 7.d.) Take a look at this web page. It concerns hiring. Send your comments to Judy Kilborn, Larry Chambers and Susan Moss. http://wwwdev.stcloudstate.edu/employeeprocedures/
e. Academic Planning (FS 040808 7.e.) The Academic Planning materials should be on the web by now. http://www.stcloudstate.edu/actionplanning/academic/ Take a look and make sure your department’s report is posted. There will be a web survey of all faculty and staff that should come out on Friday, April 11th and be open until Friday, April 18th. It is important that all respond to the survey.
f. VSA (Voluntary System of Accountability) (FS 040808 7.f.) We are using the VSA, which uses current data. VSA will replace the dashboard system that MnSCU has been working on.
g. Contract. The governor should have the contract for signature soon.
8. Unfinished Business
c. Grading Policy –
Recommendation from the Academic Affairs Committee re: Draft Grading System (FS
012908 8.d.)
d. Consultation and the Contract (FS 012908 9.c. and FS 021208 9.c)
a. Deans should communicate to the departments that the democratic processes indicated in Article 20 should be followed.
b. The minutes of the College of Education and College of Business Deans Advisory Councils indicate that there may be problems with the practices in these colleges.
c. CETL is currently mentoring chairs. If you are a chair and would like help in following the contract, we suggest you attend these sessions.
d. Chairs are facilitators, not supervisors.
9. New Business
a. Interim/Acting associate/assistant administrators (Schoenberger)
· Having established that this is a problem, we decided to move this item to unfinished business and ask for volunteers to prepare a statement to bring back to Senate concerning this issue. Geoffrey Tabakin and Balsy Kasi have agreed to be on this ad hoc committee. We are looking for other volunteers.
b. Student Complaint Policy (Lacourt) - not discussed
c. Windows Vista (FS 031808 9.c.)
· The cautious approach to the change to Windows Vista seems appropriate. Keep us posted on how things are going.
d. Internal Grants (Lacourt) (FS 040108 9.d.) - not discussed
e. Email Monitoring (FS 031808 7.e.3.i. and FS 031808 7.e.3.ii.)
· Be careful how you use state equipment. It is not considered private.
· During a grievance a hard drive was downloaded. Some faculty have been Tennesoned by email. (This is not appropriate)
· We have repeatedly asked for a clear statement of the policy.
· The contract says electronic monitoring will not occur unless the person and the FA are informed.
· Freedom of information act requires that the person whose materials are being released be told and given an opportunity to counter request.
f. Protection of Privacy Information - not discussed
g. Pictures on Class Lists (FS 040108 9.g.) - not discussed
h. SCSU Webpages (Dorn) (FS 040808 9.h.) Motion: Bring to Meet and Confer the faculty concerns in FS040808 regarding the SCSU webpages. (Dorn/Roth)Passed
i. Meet and Confer request (April 3, 2008) for six faculty (one from each college) to serve on the search committee (national search) for the AVP for Faculty Relations
· The President is planning a national search for the AVP for Faculty Relations. We have been asked for 6 faculty (one from each college and one from Special Services)
· Questions for Meet and Confer: Why does this position exist? What is it for? Can we have a copy of the Job description? There is a concern that the current practice of using this person as the designee will continue the problems with grievance resolution that we currently have.
Motion: Refer this topic to Meet and Confer. The senate discussed this item and directs the Meet and Confer team to request more information before we participate. (Hill/Jaede) Passed
10. Adjournment: 5:15 April 8, 2008
Submitted by Annette Schoenberger