February 20, 2007
OFFICERS: Annette Schoenberger, Judy Kilborn, JoAnn Gasparino, John Palmer
IFO BOARD: Jayantha Herath, Andrew Larkin, Fred Hill; Negotiator: Bill Langen
BUSINESS: (Unit Representative) vacant; (ACCT) vacant; (BCIS) Susantha Herath, Ray Tsai; (FIRE) William Hudson; (MGMT) Larry Roth, vacant; (MKGB) Rajesh Gulati, James C. Johnson
EDUCATION: (Unit Representative) Frances Kayona; (CFS) Fati Zarghami; (CEEP) Trae Downing, Robert Murphy/Bill Lepkowski (alt); (HPERSS) Hector Antunez, Caryl Martin; (HURL) Michael Tripp; (LDR) John Rapp, vacant; (IM) John Theis; (SPED) Kathy Johnson, Dory Beutel; (TDEV) David Heine, Steve Hornstein, Ramon Serrano
FINE ARTS & HUMANITIES: (Unit Representative) Robert Inkster; (ART) Nancy Weston, vacant; (CDSI) Rebecca Crowell; (CMST) Scott Wells, David Warne, Debra Japp; (ENGL) Judith Dorn, Suzanne Ross, Jim Robinson, Carol Mohrbacher; (FORL) Maria Melgarejo, Bill Langen; (COMM) vacant, vacant; (MUSIC) Marion Judish/Al Moore (alt), Mark Springer; (PHIL) Allen Habib, Carla Johnson; (THFD) Debra Leigh/Kate Sinnett (alt)/Brad Chisholm (sub)
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: (Unit Representative) Balsy Kasi; (AVIA) Steve Anderson; (BIOL) Oladele Gazal, John Cronn, Matt Julius; (CHEM) Daniel Gregory, Lakshmaiah Sreerama; (CSCI) Andrew Anda; (EAS) Greg Nastrom; (EE) Aiping Yao; (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) Jason Lindsey; (CMTY) Rona Karasik; (CJS) Mario Hesse, vacant; (ECON) Eungmin Kang; Orn Bodvarsson; (ES) Stephen Casanova; (GEOG) Ken Wong; (HIST) Mark Jaede; (POL) Steve Frank; (PSYC) Chris Jazwinski; (SW) Sandra Chesborough, Elizabeth Talbot; (SAN) Lindah Mhando, Robert Lavenda; (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
GUESTS: Geoffrey Tabakin (CARE) for item 7.e and 9.a
1. Call to order at 3:25 p.m.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of February 6, 2007 (FS 022007 2.a.)
Motion to approve FS minutes of February 6, 2007—(Dorn/Warne). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of February 13, 2007 (FS 022007 2.b)
Motion to approve EC minutes of February 13, 2007—(Kilborn/Gasparino). Passed
c. FA University Curriculum Committee Minutes of January 25, 2007 and February 8, 2007 (FS 022007 2.c.1, 2.c.2)
Motion to approve FA University Curriculum Committee Minutes of January 25, 2007, and February 8, 2007—(Branson/Larkin). Passed
d. FA International Studies Committee Minutes of February 12, 2007 (FS 022007 2.d)
Motion to approve FA International Studies Committee Minutes of February 12, 2007—(Williams/Inkster). Passed
e. FA General Education Committee Minutes of January 26, 2007 and February 2, 2007 (FS 022007 2.e.1, 2.e.2)—filed.
f. FA Budget Review Committee Minutes of February 8, 2007 (FS 022007 2.f)
Motion to approve FA Budget Review Committee Minutes of February 8, 2007—(Palmer/Murphy). Passed
g. Assessment Steering Committee Minutes of January 24, 2007 (FS 022007 2.g)—filed.
h.
Deleted
item.
i. Upper Division Writing Requirement Ad Hoc Committee Minutes of December 7, 2006; January 23, 2007; February 6, 2007 (FS 022007 2.i.1, 2.i.2, 2.i.3)—filed.
j. Strategic Planning Minutes of January 25, 2007 (FS 022007 2.j.1, 2.j.2, 2.j.3, Strategy Maps)
Motion to approve Strategic Planning minutes and documents, by adding “International Relations Committee” to “Summer sub-committee reports” to bullet 2 to read: The Global Initiatives document will need to be reviewed by the International Student Services Committee, the FA International Studies Committee, and the International Relations Committee—(Larkin/Casanova). Passed
k. Budget Advisory Work Group Minutes of February 6, 2007 (FS 022007 2.k.1, 2.k.2)
Motion to refer the two budget documents to the Budget Review Committee to have them look them over and report back to Senate—(Larkin/Kilborn). Passed
l. New Student Orientation Taskforce Minutes of November 20, 2007, November 29, 2007, December 7, 2006, January 22, 2007, January 25, 2007, (FS 022007 2.l.1, 2.l.2, 2.l.3, 2.l.4, 2.l.5, 2.l.6)—filed.
3. Treasurer’s Report—read into EC Minutes of February 13, 2007.
4. Consent Agenda
a. Online Policies and Procedures Committee: UCC Zoa Rockenstein. We still need volunteers from GC; requests have been sent to the committee chairs but there has been no response.
b. Search Associate Dean COE: Special Education Julie Wilkins, Director of Assessment Elaine Ackerman, Educational Administration Kay Worner
c. FA Grievance Committee: Giovanni Antunez (COE), Jeff Johnson (COSE), Eungmin Kang (COSS)
d. New Student Task Force Working Groups:
i. Academic Engagement: Pat Hauslein, David Warne, Robert Weisman, Jack McKenna
ii. Social Engagement:
iii. Campus Culture:
iv. Operations:
v. Marketing:
e. Budget Committee: Senate Representative Eungmin Kang (COSS)
Motion to approve the Consent Agenda (those approved are underlined above)—(Hudson/Serrano). Passed
5. Special Elections—ballots were passed around, and the underline below were elected.
a. The Senate needs to elect four members from the Senate to the Budget Committee. We need one person from each unit. Still looking for volunteers from HCOB, COFAH, and SPEC
b. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum Institutional Self Review. We still need volunteers from COSE, HCOB, SPEC, COFAH, and COE
c. Search Committee for Associate Dean HCOB—no volunteers.
d. Search Committee for Director of Financial Aids—no volunteers. This went to Meet and Confer that they should go a head with the search without faculty representation.
e. Director of GLBT Services (ELECT 2): Catherine Fox (ENGL), Robert Reff (CPS), Carol Mohrbacher (ENGL), Tracy Ore (SOC), Bernard Reuter (CH&GE), Elizabeth Berila (WS)
6. Call for new agenda items—none.
7. Announcements
a. Center for Global Studies (FS 022007 7.a)—Schoenberger stated that she plans on referring this to Academic Affairs Committee.
b. MnSCU Board policy 1B.1 and procedure 1B.1.1 (FS 022007 7.b)—for your information. Discussion on the agenda. MnSCU made many of the changes that the faculty at SCSU suggested. Pat Arsenault feels the document is better now but it isn’t perfect. Keep a list of any proposed changes to discuss with Pat Arsenault.
c. President search schedule http://www.stcloudstate.edu/presidentialsearch/interviewschedule.asp
d. Draft comparison of Nepotism Documents and Consensual Relationship Documents (FS 022007 7.d)—for your information. This was tied in with item 7.b.
Motion to move to New Business 9.a: New Business, Discussion of 1B.1 and 1B.1.1—(Palmer/Kasi). Passed
e. Creation of the department of Academic Support within the College of Undergraduate Studies. Members are Gretchen Starks-Martin, Geoffrey Tabakin, Victoria Williams, Cari Kenner, and a fixed-term position for next year—there was discussion.
f. From IFO Board Meeting
i. 55 employees had an assessment from their TIAA CREF last year. If you had one it was on your December statement. Please send me an email if this happened to you.
ii. We still need a member for the GLBTA statewide committee.
iii. If you were involved in PEPER this fall please do the survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=621343162694
iv. Draft policies and procedures are at http://asapolicy.project.mnscu.edu. Send us your comments.
v. Must request for Replication, Articulation, and Transfer Agreements
8. Unfinished Business
a. Continuation of the Zmora Agreement (FS 120506 8.d)—waiting for response from Administration. Larkin spoke to the item about what took place at Meet and Confer. Administration is looking at the Peer Review Committee candidates. Palmer discussed whether there is any value added by having a Peer Review Committee since it doesn’t seem to have much of an impact on the final decisions. There was discussion. It was noted that Zmora is a closed case.
Motion that the Executive Committee be in consultation with the plaintiff and come back to the Senate body with their findings—(Leigh/Tripp). Amended
Motion to amend that the Executive Committee be in consultation with Geoffrey Tabakin and come back to the Senate body with their findings—(Leigh/Weston).
Motion to amend by adding “three other members in the group” to join Geoffrey Tabakin—(Leigh/Chesborough). Passed
Motion to table—(Roth/Tripp). Passed Division: in favor: 25; opposed: 5
b. Motions from Graduate Committee Minutes of April 27, 2006 (FS 112106 8.b) Postponed to October 10, 2006 Senate Meeting (FS 101006 8.e)—subcommittee is working on this.
c. Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching: FA AAC Susantha Herath, FA Research Grants Robert Reff. There were no volunteers from the CETL Advisory Board and FA Professional Development Committee. Administrative and student representatives are unknown. This has gone to Meet and Confer and can be removed from the agenda.
9. New Business
a. Discussion of 1B.1 and 1B.1.1 (FS 022007 7.b)—Leigh spoke to the item. CARE member Geoffrey Tabakin spoke about his concerns.
Motion to move to 9.b—(Larkin). Passed
b. Motion that the FA supports one bus at the expense of $470.00 to take students to the exhibit “RACE: Are we so different?” at the Science Museum—(CARE).
Leigh spoke to the item. On Saturday, March 24, 2007, it will be SCSU Day. The Provost has provided 2 busses, UPB is providing 3 busses, Women’s Studies has donated $50, and another department has provided 1 bus. She is requesting that the Faculty Association pay for 1 or 2 busses.
Motion that the Faculty Association pay for two busses (at the expense of $470 x 2) to take students to the exhibit “Race: Are We So Different?” at the Science Museum on SCSU Day, Saturday, March 24, 2007—(Casanova/Kasi). Passed
10. Adjournment at 5:25 p.m.
Submitted by Polly Chappell, Faculty Association Administrative Assistant