March 27, 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; (Academic Support) Geoffrey Tabakin; (OAA) vacant; (COUN) JoAnn Gasparino; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Sandra Q. Williams, Tom Hergert; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) Jenifer Odette
GUESTS: Nancy Jessee, Stewart Wirth
1. Call to order at 3:15 p.m.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate Minutes of March 13, 2007 (FS 032707 2.a.)
Motion to approve FS minutes of March 13, 2007—(Hudson/Larkin). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of March 20, 2007 (FS 032707 2.b)
Motion to approve EC minutes of March 20, 2007—(Dorn/Jazwinski). Passed
c. FA University Curriculum Committee Minutes of February 22, 2007 (FS 032707 2.c)—filed.
Minutes of March 13, 2007 (FS 032707 2.c.2)
Motion to approve without separated “draft process for curriculum approval” sent to departments for consideration—(Branson/Lavenda). Passed
Draft Process for Curriculum Approval (FS 032707 2.c.3)
Motion to provide a copy in legislative format of the changes in the curriculum process—(Roth/Frank). Passed
d. FA General Education Committee Minutes of February 23, 2007-File (FS 031307 2.d)—filed.
e. Assessment Steering Committee Minutes of February 21, 2007 (FS 031307 2.e.3, 2.e.4, 2.e.5, 2.e.6, 2.e.7). Senate sent these documents to the departments for comments—postponed until April 10, 2007, without objection.
f. SCSU Budget Tuition Analysis Report and Recommendation Draft (FS 032707 2.f) www.stcloudstate.edu/budget/advisoryboard/default.asp. Considered under item 2.l.
g. FA Academic Affairs Committee minutes of March 14, 2007 (FS 032707 2.g)
Motion to approve FA Academic Affairs Committee minutes of March 14, 2007—(C. Inkster/Kasi). Passed
h. International Student Services Committee Minutes of February 27, 2007 (FS 032707 2.h). Response from International Student Services Committee on Global Initiative Document (FS 031307 2.h)—filed.
i. Online Policies and Procedures Ad-Hoc Committee minutes of February 23, 2007 and March 16, 2007 (FS 032707 2.i, 2.i.2)
Motion to approve as amended—(Murphy/Hudson). Passed
Motion to amend by striking “campus departments” and parentheses—(Larkin/Dorn). Passed
j. Report form Task force on International Studies January 30, 2007 (FS 032707 2.j)—filed.
k. SCSU Enrollment Management documents from March 14, 2007 (FS 032707 2.k)—filed.
l. FA Budget Review Committee minutes of March 22, 2007 (FS 032707 2.l)
Motion to approve SCSU Budget Tuition Analysis Report and Recommendation Draft—(Japp/Jaede). Separated for later consideration
m. FA Constitutional Review Committee Recommendations from March 12, 2007 (FS 032707 2.m)—announced.
3. Treasurer’s Report—read into Executive Committee minutes on March 20, 2007.
4. Consent Agenda
a. Online Policies and Procedures Committee: Volunteers needed from GC; request has been sent to committee chair with no response.
b. Search Committee for Director of Honors Program: (FA can appoint 6 representatives. So far Bernard Reuter (COFAH), Andy Anda (COSE), Plamen Miltenhoff (LR&TS) have been appointed). Maria Mikolchak.
c. Search Committee for COE Associate Dean. The Affirmative Action Officer asked Senate to add members to the committee to increase ethnic and gender diversity. Steve Hornstein, Glen Palm, and H. Giovanni Antunez.
d. FA General Education Committee: COSE Ramnath Sarnath as one year sabbatical substitution for Maureen Tubiola.
e. OCE search committee: CHS Ming-Chi Own, HPERSS Carol Conkell; waiting for TDEV and SPED.
Motion to approve Consent Agenda (those appointed underlined above)—(Lavenda/Jaede). Passed
5. Special Elections
a. Senate needs to elect four members from Senate to the Budget Committee (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.
6. Call for new agenda items—none.
7. Announcements
a. Association Grievance in the College of Fine Arts and Humanities—Schoenberger gave a brief status update.
b. Corrections to the Seniority Roster (FS 032707 7.b)—announced.
9. New Business
a. Discussion of 1B.1 and 1B.1.1 (FS 022007 7.b)—Stewart Wirth and Nancy Jesse arrived at 4:45 p.m.
RECESSED
April 3, 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; (Academic Support) Geoffrey Tabakin; (OAA) vacant; (COUN) JoAnn Gasparino; (LR&TS) Chris Inkster, Sandra Q. Williams, Tom Hergert; (MEN’S ATHL) vacant; (WOMEN’S ATHL) Jenifer Odette
Reconvened at 3:33 p.m.
7. Announcements
d. The North Central visit is coming up on April 16-18. They will be meeting with all faculty 1-2 p.m. and 2-3 p.m. with EC on Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
e. There was an IFO Board meeting last week. Information about who will be getting step increases will be coming soon. Larkin talked about the reports at IFO Board: Legislative, Grievances, Treasury, Academic Affairs, Board of Trustees. He discussed that the Academic Affairs half-time position (currently held by Debra Japp) will be two half-time positions in the future. Schoenberger discussed the tax increase letters for Russ Stanton and she thanked faculty for their letters so far and encouraged faculty to send him more letters.
c. Associate Deans in Learning Resources (FS 032707 7.c.1, 7.c.2, 7.c.3). Senate needs to decide what we want faculty representation on these committees to look like. Schoenberger received MnSCU Administrators Position Descriptions for Associate Dean for Library Services and Associate Dean for Instruction and Educational Technology just this afternoon, and she sent them on to Pat Arsenault for unit determinations. There was discussion.
8. Unfinished Business
a. Continuation of the Zmora Agreement (FS 120506 8.d) (FS 031307 8.a)—received response from Administration at last Meet and Confer, and this will be discussed at the next Senate meeting.
b. Motions from Graduate Committee Minutes of April 27, 2006 (FS 112106 8.b)—subcommittee (Annette Schoenberger, Frances Kayona, Chris Jazwinski, and Jim Robinson) are working on this and will have something for Senate soon.
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. I don’t know who the student or administrator will be.) (FS 020607 9.b)—this went to Meet and Confer and can be taken off the agenda.
9. New Business
a. Discussion of 1B.1 and 1B.1.1 (FS 022007 7.b)—Stewart Wirth and Nancy Jesse visited Senate on March 27, 2007. Schoenberger is in consultation with CARE. There was discussion about the Lead Investigator’s position.
Motion to restore the Lead Investigator position to 100% for the remainder of the year—(Palmer/Williams). Passed
Motion that anyone who would like to, who has 1B.1 issues or concerns, be invited to talk to Executive Committee—(Leigh/Larkin). Passed
b. Campus Master Plan (Larkin)—Larkin spoke to the item.
Motion to have the Campus Master Plan be referred to the Committee on the Institution to study the moving of departments from building to building—(Larkin/seconded). Passed
c. Campus Closing (Kilborn). We would like to ask for a review of the criteria and the protocol for making the decision (FS 032707 9.c). What would faculty like to do on this? Bring back comments to next Senate meeting.
d. Center for International Studies report on Fees (FS 032707 9.d)—not discussed.
10. Adjournment at 4:48 p.m.
Submitted by Polly Chappell, Faculty Association Administrative Assistant