December 20, 2005
OFFICERS: Judy Kilborn, Annette Schoenberger, JoAnn Gasparino, Robert Johnson
IFO BOARD: Jayantha Herath, Andrew Larkin, Annette Schoenberger; Negotiator: Bill Langen
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) P.N. SubbaNarasimha; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, Ray Tsai; (FIRE) William Hudson; (MGMT) Larry Roth, vacant; (MKGB) Rajesh Gulati, James C. Johnson
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) Stephen Hornstein; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Nona Wilson, Robert Murphy; (HRESS) Mark Moore, Caryl Martin; (HURL) Michael Tripp; (LDR) John Rapp, Frances Kayona; (IM) John Theis; (SPED) John Hoover, Dory Beutel; (TDEV) David Heine, Geoffrey Tabakin, Ramon Serrano
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) Frances Condon; (ART) Nancy Weston; (CDSI) Margery Whites; (CMST) Scott Wells, Dan Wildeson, David Warne; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, Suzanne Ross, Jim Robinson, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Gloria Melgarejo, Bill Langen; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Marion Judish, Mark Springer; (PHIL) Yiwei Zheng, Carla Johnson; (THFD) Debra Leigh
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) Oladele Gazal, Heiko Schoenfuss, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Mahin Sadrai, Becky Krystyniak; (CSCI) Andrew Anda; (EAS) Tony Hansen; (EE) Ling Hou; (ETS) Tony Akubue; (ME) Steve Covey; (MATH) Dale Buske, vacant, William Branson; (NURS) Sue Herm; (PHYS) Kevin Haglin; (STAT) Leonard Onyiah, John Gammell
SOCIAL SCIENCES: (Unit Representative) vacant; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJUS) vacant, vacant; (ECON) Ming Chien Lo; Orn Bodvarsson; (ES) Dia Cha; (GEOG) Ken Wong; (HIST) Mark Jaede; (POL) Steve Frank; (PSYC) Leslie Valdes; (SW) Sandra Chesborough; (SAN) Tracy Ore, John Alessio; (WS) Elizabeth Berila
SPECIAL SERVICES: (Unit Representative) Susan Motin; (OAA) vacant; (COUN) JoAnn Gasparino; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Sandra Q. Williams, Tom Hergert; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) Jenifer Odette
1. Call to order at 3:25 p.m.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of December 6, 2005 (FS 122005 2.a)
Motion to approve FS minutes of December 6, 2005—(Larkin/Schoenberger). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of December 13, 2005
Motion to approve EC minutes of December 13, 2005—(Schoenberger/Larkin). Passed
c. International Studies Committee Minutes of December 2, 2005 (FS 122005 2.c)
Motion to approve ISC minutes of December 2, 2005—(Schoenberger/Motin). Passed
There was discussion about the minutes. A question was raised about sanctioned meetings. Kilborn said that it was the committee responsibility to let Senate know if they invite Administration or the Provost to meetings and that committees need to be sure to report back to Senate what happens at these meetings; however, committees do not need to receive permission for sanctioned meetings ahead of time.
d. University Curriculum Committee Minutes of November 17, 2005 (FS 122005 2.d)
Motion to approve UCC minutes of November 17, 2005—(Schoenberger/Karasik). Passed
e. General Education Committee Minutes of November 14, 2005 (FS 122005 2.e)—filed.
Committee member announced that they have approved a new General Education Mission Statement that will be distributed for review and approval in the next Senate packet.
3. Treasurer’s Report (FS 122005 3)—to be given at the first meeting of the month. Johnson discussed the enclosed treasurer’s report. Johnson discussed that we do not have a clear view of what our revenue will be this year and that he is working with Schoenberger on this. Kilborn pointed out Donna West’s severance pay came out of the SCSU local office. There is money available in other accounts to cover expenses.
4. Consent Agenda—Kilborn asked Senate for their opinions on how to proceed with the elections.
Motion to elect people today through ballots—(Schoenberger/Hudson). Passed
There was some discussion about the committee make up.
a. SEVIS Search Committee: David Wall (Geography)
b. International Admissions Search Committee: Sura Lekhakul (Elec and Comp Engr); Masha Mikolchak (Foreign Languages); Mohammad Mahroof-Tahir (Chemistry); Marya Teutsch-Dwyer (English)
c. Assistant Director of International Students and Scholar Services Search Committee: Jan Gembol (Counseling); Eungmin Kang (Economics); Sura Lekhakul (Elec and Comp Engr); Lisa Splittgerber (Foreign Languages); Marya Teutsch-Dwyer (English)
5. Call for new agenda items—none.
6. Announcements—Kilborn removed Fox 9 News (item 8.h below) due to ongoing personnel action.
a. Delegate Assembly – March 24-25, 2005 (FS 122005 6.a.1 and 6.a.2)—updated forms will be sent out tomorrow electronically. Please send in your names if you are interested.
Motion for students from student government to attend this meeting as guests—(Schoenberger/Ore). Passed
b. Statewide Meet and Confer
1. IFO/MnSCU Contract—the MnSCU Board of Trustees approved the contract and it goes to JSER (Minnesota Legislature’s Joint Committee on Employee Relations) to approve the contract. This affects our paychecks: it has to be approved by Jan. 10th for back pay to appear in January 20th paychecks, and JSER is not scheduled to meet. In 30 days the contract goes into affect if JSER doesn’t meet. Therefore, paychecks on February 3rd are likely to include back pay. Senate asked Kilborn to send out an email on this matter.
2. CLEP cut scores (FS 122005 6.b.2)—we accept a minimum score of 50 as passing.
3. Supplemental Budget Requests (FS 122005 6.b.3)—this is included in the packet just for your information.
4. Uniform Start Date (Document from SCSU Meet and Confer: FS 122005 6.b.4)—our list really made an impression on state-wide Meet and Confer. Kilborn will include in the next Senate packet and post on the FA website.
4. Consent Agenda
a. SEVIS Search Committee: David Wall (Geography)
b. International Admissions Search Committee: Sura Lekhakul (Elec and Comp Engr); Masha Mikolchak (Foreign Languages); Mohammad Mahroof-Tahir (Chemistry); Marya Teutsch-Dwyer (English)
c. Assistant Director of International Students and Scholar Services Search Committee: Jan Gembol (Counseling); Eungmin Kang (Economics); Sura Lekhakul (Elec and Comp Engr); Lisa Splittgerber (Foreign Languages); Marya Teutsch-Dwyer (English)
Motion to approve consent agenda (those elected are underlined above)—(Larkin/Tripp). Passed
6. Announcements
c. Request to Hire Form—Kilborn discussed that the Provost would like feedback via email to Kilborn about questions, complaints, and concerns by Jan. 30th to bring to Meet and Confer Feb. 2nd. There was discussion about the process of the new forms.
Motion that we should be involved at the beginning of the planning process so that input will be heard from faculty—(Akube/Johnson). Call for division: in favor: 13; opposed: 25. Failed
There was discussion for and against the motion.
Motion to close debate—(Motin/Ore). Passed
d. Update on Searches and Use of Search Firms:
1. COB Dean Search Election Results:
COB Members
Joseph Haley
Janell Kurtz
Dien Phan—resigned
Paula Weber
Gary Yoshimoto
At-Large Member
Sura Lekhakul
2. Search Firm for Affirmative Action and VP of Student Life and Development—what we agreed to in Meet and Confer:
€ the search committee would work with the search firm to define “minimum qualifications,”
€ the search firms can separate the applications into those who are qualified and not qualified, but the search committee will be able to see all the qualified applicants with some blacked out info,
€ search committee will be involved in airport interviews,
€ and the agreements above will be communicated to the search committees by the Provost, FA President, and head of the search firm.
e. MnSCU Draft Statement of Requirements and Expectations for Approval of New Applied Doctoral Programs (FS 122005 6.d)—distributed for Senator’s information.
f. Retention Retreat—there was a retreat last Wednesday. They will meet again in January to develop a list of recommendations and bring forward a report.
g. Provost on Senate Schedule for Discussion of Academic Freedom Committee Report—we passed two motions at last Senate. The Provost will be in Senate on Jan. 24, 4:30 p.m., time definite.
7. Unfinished Business
a. 4:30 Time Definite: Academic Freedom Committee Report (Condon) (FS 120605 7.a.1 and 7.a.2)
Motion to support the recommendations in the summary of the Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Freedom—(Larkin/Motion). Passed
Condon discussed the report and pointed out some of the highlights and gave some situational examples. She pointed out that the Chronicle is riddled with articles about faculty all over the country being threatened concerning Academic Freedom issues. There was discussion about the motion.
Motion to close debate—(Schoenberger/Tripp). Call for division: in favor: 29; opposed: 6. Passed
Motion that we un-invite the Provost to the next FA, that we ask EC to take news of our endorsement to Meet and Confer, and that FS commission a committee to work on this—(Condon/Motion). Died for lack of a quorum
b. Rights and Responsibilities under the Grade Appeal Policy (FS 102505 6.e.1 and 6.e.2) – Academic Affairs Committee will bring this back to Senate in February—not discussed.
8. New Business
a. Recruitment and Retention—not discussed.
b. Summer Session (FS 092705 8.e.1; FS 092705 8.e.2)—not discussed.
c. Space Assignment Policy (FS 092705 8.f)—not discussed.
d. Division of General Studies (DGS) Advisory Committee Minutes of September 13, 2005 (FS 101105 2.d)—not discussed.
e. Meeting Rooms for Senate (Williams)—not discussed.
f. Academic Freedom and Responsibility (a.k.a. Academic Bill of Rights) (FS 110805 8.j)—not discussed.
g. Doctorates—not discussed.
h. Fox 9 News—removed from agenda in announcements above.
i. Conflict Avoidance Scheduling (FS 120605 8.k)—not discussed.
9. Adjournment at 5:00 p.m.