February 7, 2006
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) Monica Devers; (ART) Nancy Weston; (CDSI) Rebecca Crowell; (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, vacant; (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) Chris Jazwinski; (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 3:23 p.m.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of January 24, 2006 (FS 020706 2.a.)
Motion to approve FS minutes of January 24, 2006—(Hudson/Onyiah). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of January 17, 2006 (FS 020706 2.b)
Motion to approve EC minutes of January 17, 2006—(Gasparino/Hergert). Passed
c. DGS Advisory Minutes of November 8, 2005 (FS 020706 2.c.1.)—filed; December 13, 2005 (FS 020706 2.c.2.)—filed.
d. University Curriculum Minutes of December 1, 2005 (FS 020706 2.d.)—filed; January 26, 2006 (FS 020706 2.d.2)
Motion to approve UC minutes of January 26, 2006—(Onyiah/Schoenberger). Passed
e. General Education Committee Minutes of January 20, 2006 (FS 020706 2.e.)—filed; January 27, 2006 (FS 020706 2.e.2)—filed.
f. International Studies Committee Minutes of January 30, 2006 (FS 020706 2.f.)
Committee member explained proposed charges for food for faculty families at Alnwick Castle for the British Studies Program. There was discussion about the proposal.
Motion to approve International Studies Committee minutes of January 30, 2006—(Jaede/Hergert). Passed
g. Faculty Research Grants Committee Minutes of January 16, 2006 (FS 020706 2.g.)
Motion to approve Faculty Research Grants Committee minutes of January 16, 2006—(Gasparino/Schoenberger). Passed
h. Academic Affairs Committee Minutes of February 1, 2006 (FS 020706 2.h.)
“Rights and Responsibilities” language was discussed. It was noted that this needs to be taken care of when brought to Meet and Confer. Committee member discussed the proposed changes in the handout. There was discussion about the proposed changes.
Motion to approve Academic Affairs Committee minutes of February 1, 2006—(Inkster/Hudson). Passed
i. Online Learning Task Force Minutes of April 20, 2005 (FS 020706 2.i.1) and task force report: SCSU Report on Offering Online Courses (FS 020706 2.i.2)
Kilborn explained the handout was forwarded to the FA last spring but is just being brought forward at this time. There was discussion about the minutes and the report. Several committee members discussed the report.
Withdrawn: Motion to support Online Learning Task Force minutes of April 20, 2005—(Dorn/Chesborough)
Agenda moved to time definite and will resume with minutes afterwards.
8. New Business
e. CETL Grants: 3:45 Time Definite: Guests – Frankie Condon and Christopher Bineham (FS 020706 8.e.)—Guests were invited to speak at 3:49 p.m. Condon gave some background information on the CETL Grants: how they were received and how CETL decided to spend the money. Email approvals of the proposal from the Advisory Board were given to Kilborn. Bineham discussed the proposal, and there was discussion, along with questions, about the grants. Guests asked for Senate’s support.
Motion to support CETL Service-Learning Awards and Small Grants Pilot Program proposal—(Ore/Karasik). Passed
2. Approval of Minutes
i. Online Learning Task Force Minutes of April 20, 2005 (FS 020706 2.i.1) and task force report: SCSU Report on Offering Online Courses (FS 020706 2.i.2)
Motion to accept the SCSU Report on Offering Online Courses and thank the committee for their work—(Roth/Schoenberger). Passed
Motion to close debate—(Motin/Jaede). Passed
Motion to refer this report back to TPR to make changes brought up in Senate discussion—(Schoenberger/Motin). Passed
3. Treasurer’s Report (FS 020706 3)—out of the ordinary bills paid: grievance training and a new ergonomic chair for the FA President. Kilborn added that Schoenberger’s class has created a new FA website and, in thanks, the FA office treated them to Bravo Burritos.
4. Consent Agenda—ballots were passed out, and results will be given later in the meeting.
5. Call for new agenda items—none.
6. Announcements
a. Elections: FA President, IFO Board Member, standing committees—calls will go out in the next few days.
b. Early Notification System—Kilborn gave a brief progress report. This pilot program is only being run for instructors for the following courses: English 191, Communication Studies 192, Math 193, Stat 193, and Democratic Citizenship 195. This is a trial, and Administration will be asking for feedback on improvements. Administration hopes that this program is available for all courses fall 2006.
c. IFO Board—Nancy Black is the only nominee for IFO President, so the Board voted and approved the exception of having only one nominee for President. According to the bylaws, there are supposed to be at least two nominees. Kilborn noted that the contract still needs to go to the full Legislature although it has been approved by the Legislative committee. Hopefully everyone received their back pay on Feb. 3rd. We did keep TIAA-CREF. SBI funds will be mapped to Vanguard on July 1st.
d. Dean Searches—there may be a brief delay on the searches. It was discovered that the searches are not official because B-1 forms have not been received or approved by Anne Zemek de Dominguez.
e. Delegate Assembly—SCSU has 44 delegate slots, and to-date there are still six open. Kilborn would like to have full representation from SCSU at Delegate Assembly, and she encouraged anyone who might be interested in attending to please send in their registration.
8 New Business
h. Statement for Catalog – from Task Force on Attendance (FS 020706 8.h.)
Motion to approve language and send it forward to be printed in the bulletin—(Dorn/Langen).
Motion to amend motion by removing the last sentence in the statement—(Larkin/Weston). Passed
Motion to approve language with changes (see approved statement below), and send it forward to be printed in the bulletin. Passed
Statement for Catalog (i.e. for students)
Class Attendance
St. Cloud State University requires all students to attend classes in which they are enrolled. The university views class attendance as essential to student success. Students who regularly miss classes are less successful in university classes, more likely to leave the university before realizing their academic goals, and less likely to graduate. A student’s attendance in class enhances her/his education, allows interaction in the class discussions and activities, and is vital to the education of the other students in the class. For these reasons, faculty members often use class attendance as a factor in determining a student’s grade. Excessive absences may be grounds for failure.
4. Consent Agenda (those elected are indicated by an underline below):
a. COB Search Committee: Ray Hibbs (Accounting)
b. Search for 3 MSUAASF Positions in Advising (two faculty): Rod Dobey (HPERSS); Steve Frank (Political Science); Dan Macari (CEEP)
c. Search for MSUAASF Position in Honors (one faculty): Lisa Splittgerber
Motion to approve Consent Agenda—(Roth/Larkin). Passed
7. Unfinished Business
a. Academic Freedom Report (FS 020706 7.a.)—Kilborn pointed out the handout and explained that Senate needs to determine the set up of the committee. There was discussion about what was agreed on in Meet and Confer. There were some suggestions.
Motion to ask Andy Anda, who has worked on the report, to develop a motion to determine the make up of the committee and bring it back to Senate—(Schoenberger/Motin). Division: in favor: 17; opposed: 5. Passed
Lost quorum. Guests for time definite were invited in at 4:56 p.m. to speak on item 8.f. below.
b. Doctorates (FS 020706 7.b.)—not discussed
8. New Business
a. Summer Session (FS 092705 8.e.1; FS 092705 8.e.2)—not discussed.
b. Space Assignment Policy (FS 092705 8.f)—not discussed.
c. Division of General Studies (DGS) Advisory Committee Minutes of September 13, 2005 (FS 101105 2.d)—not discussed.
d. Meeting Rooms for Senate (Williams)—not discussed.
e. CETL Grants: 3:45 Time Definite: Guests – Frankie Condon and Christopher Bineham (FS 020706 8.e.)—item discussed above.
f. 5:00 Time Definite: Guests – Dean Kate Steffens and Kurt Helgeson, NCA Co-Chairs: NCA—guests handed out HLC/NCA Chronology Overview and gave Senate an update.
g. Placement Tests (Dorn) (FS 020706 8.g.)—not discussed.
h. Statement for Catalog – from Task Force on Attendance (FS 020706 8.h.)—item discussed above.
9. Adjournment at 5:21 p.m.