April 10, 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/David Sebberson (alt), 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; (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) vacant, vacant, William Branson; (NURS) Sue Herm; (PHYS) Kevin Haglin; (STAT) Leonard Onyiah, vacant
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: James Sherohman, David Boyer
1. Call to order at 3:31 p.m.
7. Announcements
a. President’s Meeting:
i. Students are looking at the tuition proposals from the SCSU Budget Work Group
ii. President talked about late withdrawals from classes
iii. There is more interest in Strategic planning. The faculty in Phil 194 have agreed to test students. First Year Experience will also be using the data. Some comparisons with the ACT scores are planned. The student president remarked that students are being inundated with surveys. Discussed survey regulation group that never really got started. Discussed first draft of Graduating Senior Survey.
iv. Academic Affairs reports that we have 14,092 full time equivalent students. This is 8 below our prediction. There was some discussion of how this compared to some numbers MnSCU gave us. It is 275 ahead of the same time last year. 100 of these are graduate students. Next year admits are up 164. The yield rate is usually 40 to 42%. DGS admits are down 75 with traditional admits up 235. I don’t know where the 4 students are perhaps I wrote the numbers down wrong. The Ed.D. in Higher Ed. has been approved by MnSCU and we have provisional approval from HLC for offering doctoral programs.
v. There was a MnSCU request on the return to title 4. This has to do with returning money to the federal government from financial aid. There were questions on 100 students, which means 350 grades have to be checked. These are students with a mix of F, W, and FN grades. SCSU is already on provisional status for offering financial aid. If we don’t do better we could lose the ability to participate in federal financial aid programs. It is important that new faculty be educated on how and when to turn in grades. If you are having problems with the FN grade be sure to contact records and registration with the details. This is very important.
vi. They are still working on the early warning system for students. I don’t know anything else about this.
vii. HR is setting up an exit interview and survey system. The survey is anonymous.
viii. Affirmative action reported on open searches (FS 041007 7.a.viii)—for your information.
ix. On April 28 there will be a party for the President. All are invited. There is an endowed fund being set up to pay for publication charges for faculty who publish. I think is will be administered by sponsored programs.
x. There will be Budget Town Hall meetings in the second week of April. They are still not talking about FY08 budget. The Wick Science Building construction will start soon. We are waiting for the work on the Parking Ramp/Public Safety building to finish planning/bidding. There is also other work planned.
b. Note from Don Beckering about fire drills (FS 041007 7.b)—for your information. When there is a fire drill you have to leave the building with your students.
2. Approval of Minutes
a. Faculty Senate minutes of March 27-April 3, 2007 (FS 041007 2.a)
Motion to approve FS minutes of March 27-April 3, 2007—(Warne/Hudson). Passed
b. Executive Committee Minutes of April 5, 2007 (FS 041007 2.b)
Motion to approve EC minutes of April 5, 2007—(Jaede/Kasi). Passed
c. FA University Curriculum Committee Draft Process for Curriculum Approval (FS 032707 2.c.3); minutes of March 22, 2007 (FS 041007 2.c). Note: Only the minutes were approved; Faculty Senate is waiting for the legislative version of the changes to the process.
Motion to approve FA UCC minutes of March 22, 2007—(Dorn/Karasik). Passed
d. FA General Education Committee Minutes of March 16, 2007 (FS 041007 2.d)—filed.
Motion to re-refer motions back to committee—(Palmer/Tabakin). Passed
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)—postponed until April 10, 2007. We sent these documents to the departments for comments. Minutes of March 14, 2007 (FS 041007 2.e.1); minutes of March 21, 2007 (FS 041007 2.e.2); Academy information (FS 041007 2.e.3); summary of COSE Assessment Committee meeting and other documents (FS 041007 2.e.4)
Motion to approve Assessment Steering Committee minutes of February 21, 2007, and the enclosed Assessment forms—(Frank/Williams). Amended
Motion to amend by recommending to committee to amend Assessment forms wherever word length is given in forms to “suggested word length”—(Dorn/Tabakin). Passed
Motion to close debate—(Larkin/Roth). Passed
Motion to table—(Langen/Tripp). Withdrawn
Motion to withdraw and postpone indefinitely—(Langen/Tripp). Objection from Roth
Motion to table voted on since it has been objected. Failed
Motion to approve Assessment Steering Committee minutes of February 21, 2007, and the enclosed forms with the recommended amendment of “suggested word length” above. Substituted
Motion to substitute: we appreciate the work done by the committee; instruct the committee to keep us informed, pilot test forms, and regularly report results along with any desired changes—(Roth/seconded). Passed
Substituted motion we appreciate the work done by the committee; instruct the committee to keep us informed, pilot test forms, and regularly report results along with any desired changes. Passed
It was suggested that this go to Meet and Confer. Schoenberger will add it to the list.
4. Consent Agenda
a. Online Policies and Procedures Committee. We still need volunteers from GC; requests have been sent to the committee chair but there has been no response.
b. Search Committee for Director of Honors Program (6): Request for racial diversity. Lalita Subrahmanyan
c. OCE search committee: TDEV Jan Frank and SPED Janet Salk
d. Pre-College Coordinator Position in Ethnic Studies (MSUAASF): Dele Gazal
e. Honors Advisory Committee: Susan Motin
f. Mediation Coordination Committee: Maria Mikolchak
Motion to approve the Consent Agenda (those appointed underlined above)—(Palmer/Gasparino). Passed
2. Approval of Minutes—continued.
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)—postponed until April 10, 2007. We sent these documents to the departments for comments. Minutes of March 14, 2007 (FS 041007 2.e.1)—filed; minutes of March 21, 2007 (FS 041007 2.e.2)—filed; Academy information (FS 041007 2.e.3); summary of COSE Assessment Committee meeting and other documents (FS 041007 2.e.4)
Motion if MnSCU and Administration want to see high quality assessment, they need to provide reassigned time or compensation to faculty—(Dorn/Kilborn). Passed
f. SCSU Budget Advisory Group (FS 041007 2.f.1); revised Tuition Analysis Report and Recommendation (FS 041007 2.f.2)—filed.
g. Online Policies and Procedures Ad-Hoc Committee minutes of February 23, 2007 and March 16, 2007 (FS 032707 2.i, 2.i.2)—waiting for revised information.
h. FA International Studies Committee Minutes of April 2, 2007 (FS 041007 2.h.1); revised Draft of Strategic Planning Global Initiative Sub-committee (FS 041007 2.h.2); minutes of March 19, 2007 (FS 041007 2.h.3)
Motion to refer revised Draft of Strategic Planning Global Initiative to General Education Committee—(Larkin/Langen). Passed
Motion to set meeting with David Boyer, Honors Director, at 3:45 p.m. next meeting—(Tabakin).
Motion to refer revised Draft of Strategic Planning Global Initiative to Constitutional Review Committee for committee recommendation—(Kilborn/Palmer). Passed
i. FA Budget Review Committee minutes of April 5, 2007 (FS 041007 2.i, 2.i.2)—Palmer spoke to the item.
Motion to approve FA Budget Review Committee minutes of April 5, 2007—(Palmer/Tabakin). Passed
j. FA Constitutional Review Committee Recommendations from March 12, 2007 (FS 032707 2.m) (second announcement)—not discussed.
k. Upper Division Writing Requirement Ad Hoc Committee Minutes of February 27, 2007 (FS 041007 2.k.1); minutes of March 13, 2007 (FS 041007 2.k.2)—filed.
l. TLTR minutes of March 23, 2007 (FS 041007 2.l)—filed.
Quorum Called at 5:00 p.m.
3. Treasurer’s Report—to be read into first EC meeting minutes of the month.
4. Consent Agenda—discussed above
5. Special Elections—not discussed.
a. Senate needs to elect four members from Senate to the Budget Committee. We need one person from each unit, and we’re 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
9. d. Monitoring Email (Langen)
7. Announcements—discussed above.
8. Unfinished Business—not discussed.
a. Continuation of the Zmora Agreement (FS 120506 8.d) Response from Meet and Confer (FS 031307 8.a)
b. Motions from Graduate Committee Minutes of April 27, 2006 (FS 112106 8.b) (FS 101006 8.e)—subcommittee (Schoenberger, Jazwinski, Kayona, and Robinson) working on this.
c. Associate Deans in Learning Resources (FS 032707 7.c.1, 7.c.2, 7.c.3) (FS 041007 8.c.1, 8.c.2, 8.c.3)
d. Campus Master Plan (Larkin). Sent to Committee on the Institution on April 4 for recommendations on moving departments—waiting for response.
e. Discussion of 1B.1 and 1B.1.1 (FS 022007 7.b). Response from Meet and Confer (FS 041007 8.e)
9. New Business—not discussed.
a. 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)
b. Center for International Studies report on fees (FS 032707 9.d)
c. Honors Director Correspondence (FS 041007 9.c)
d. Monitoring Email (Langen)
4. Adjournment at 5:00 p.m.
Submitted by Polly Chappell, Faculty Association Administrative Assistant