EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
10:00 A.M., Old Main
Village
Approved Minutes
In attendance: Georgia
Holmes, Roger Severns, Paul Hustoles (recorder), Melodie Andrews,
Barbara Keating, Sonja Meiers, Mary Visser; Pat Earle, Don
Larsson, Dick Swanson, Ron Browne, Jim Kapoun, Gregg Marg, Winifred
Mitchell,
Jim Petersen; Marshel Rossow, Claudia Pragman, Daardi Sizemore, Kellian
Clink,
Nina LeNoir, Karen Willette-Murphy, Marge Burkett.
Guests: State IFO President
Jim Pehler
1.
Meeting called to order at
12:42 p.m.
2.
Minutes of May 09,
2002—Severns/Brown moved to approve. Passed.
3.
Call for Additional Items/
Reordering of Agenda
a. Gender equity
b. MEH committee
4. Confirm/Select/Replacement
a. Search Committee -
Associate Vice President for Facilities (Scott Fee)
Visser/Sizemore moved to approve. Passed.
b. Search Committee -
Director of Development College of A&H (Paul Hustoles)
c. Parking Advisory
Committee - (Steve Bohnenblust)
Larsson/Earle moved to approve both of the above. Passed.
d. Budget Committee -
College of Business (1 year replacement needed)
5. Appointments
a.
Employee Recognition
Committee (Need 1)(Stewart Ross)
b.
University Judicial Board
Appointments 2002-2003 (18 to 20 faculty needed) A&H - Gwen
Griffin; Dan Cronn-Mills; Jim
Grabowska; A,H&N - Lynnette Engeswick; Bus - Steve Woehrle; SBS -
Barbara Keating; Cecil Keen; Education - Ron
Brown)
Lynnette Engeswick moved to approve all of the above. Passed
c.
Admission Appeal Committee 2002 - 2003 (20 faculty)(A&H -
Marshel Rossow; Dan
Cronn- Mills; Nan
Johnson-Curiskis; AH&N - Marge Burkett; Lynnette
Engeswick; SET - Mezbah Rahman; Ned Williams; Lib/Unaf - Nancy
Rolfsrud;
Kari Much.
Marg/LeNoir moved to approve. Passed .
d. Gen Ed Committee - A&H - Dick
Liebendorfer; AH&N - Ron Nickerson; Bus - Chan Lee;
Lib/Unaf - Kellian Clink; SBS - Gretta Handke
Marg/LeNoir moved to approve. Passed.
6. Meet & Confer Agenda Items -
Thursday, August 29, 2002, @ 3:00 p.m., CSU 285 - FA Chair
a.
FA President's Report
(Standing Item)
b.
Budget (Standing Item)
c.
Updates on Searches VPAA
Boubel's Report (Standing Item)
d.
MnSCU/Legislative Relations
Recurring Items (Standing Item)
e.
Consultants, Personnel
Update, Campus master Plan, Accreditation Update, Parking (Standing
Item)
f.
Personnel Calendars and PDP
Calendars
g.
Request for data on search
failures—this could be addressed as one of our goals. Who is teaching
first year experience?
6.
Meet & Confer Agenda
Items - Thursday, August 29, 2002, @ 3:00 p.m., CSU 285 - FA Chair
(Continued)
h.
Space utilization: criteria
and principles used for space usage and renovation.
i.
Need correct information on
the website.
j.
Diversity report needed,
covering students, faculty and retention.
k.
Ross needs some secretarial
assistance.
l.
Faculty priority gold parking
needs to be made permanent.
7. Reports
a.
Budget (Jim Petersen)—we want
information sooner than the day of the discussion and we are also
interested in how funds are appropriated.
b.
Faculty Development (Marshel
Rossow)—we are pleased that Stewart Ross has accepted the position,
that it is a half time position and that they have a budget. We have looked over goals from Ross and find
them appropriate. VP Hersrud has asked if
there was any objection to having Ross attend the Sub Meet.
c.
Faculty Improvement &
Sabbatical (Claudia Pragman)—There will
be three rounds again: Sept 13, Dec 6 and March 21.
There are two important changes in the guidelines: it
used to be $2,500 over 5 years; this has changed to 4 years. If you come up with a qualifying improvement
activity before the next round, and you submit it before you go
to the activity,
it will be acted on by the next meeting (i.e., reimbursement is
possible). What about the $250,000
mentioned by VP Boubel. We have heard
that $50,000 goes to research; $200,000 will go to the colleges. Research will raise this issue in the Sub Meet.
d.
Graduate (Daardi
Sizemore)—none
e.
Planning (Kellian Clink)—we
want to hold a meeting with the Technology
Round Table and we will also be discussing strategic planning, space
planning,
business education and enrollment management. What
about the International Office?
f.
Program Review &
Assessment (Nina LeNoir)—we will continue to improve the culture of
assessment on campus. We have heard that
the Assessment Resource team might be restructured.
g.
Research (Karen
Willette-Murphy)—we revised the Transmittal Form, the Guidelines and
the Format. Please use these new forms.
h.
UCAP (Marge Burkett)—none
i.
Unit Representation (AH&N
- Pat Earle; A&H - Don Larsson; Bus - Dick Swanson; Educ - Ron
Browne; Lib/Unaf - Jim Kapoun; SET - Gregg Marg; SBS - Winifred
Mitchell)—Larsson reported that the A&H College Development Officer
is being replaced. College of Business
has a new dean. He seems to be very open
and a breath of fresh air. Again the
College of Education has an Interim Dean. We
have to make sure that we do not have another failed search for this
position.
j.
Negotiator (John
Parham)—State IFO Pres. Pehler reported that the contract will expire
this June. We won’t really meet for awhile
on this.
k.
Parking Advisory (Steve
Bohnenblust)—Faculty priority gold parking is only for one year—we need
to make this a permanent thing. Remember
that every student who wanted a gold permit, got one.
There is no state law that
parking has to pay for itself.
Now we have to figure out how we deal with the University contribution
to
parking. I am scheduled to meet
with VP Trauger tomorrow. I would suggest
a gradual decrease or freeze in the reliance of dollars from
permits and fines (gradually moving down from the current one million
dollar
budget). Keating/Willette-Murphy
moved to support this approach. Passed. What
about bike paths?
k. Parking Advisory (Steve
Bohnenblust)(Continued) We
have talked more about bussing.
What about the “safety net” gold for administrators?
There is now a committee to review these, for faculty as
well.
l.
Grievance Chairperson (Roger
Severns)—at least one grievance was resolved at step two.
We had an arbitration on the Aviation Management academic issue. We do not have the final results yet. We have a good chance of winning. President Davenport is making definite
efforts to resolve things. We will also
arbitrate the John Roberts issues. There
is a Grievance Committee. In the recent
past, grievances have mostly fallen to the FA Vice President. Severns intends to call the committee at
least once a term.
m.
State IFO Representatives
(Barbara Keating; Mary Visser; Sonja Meiers) The
first state board meeting is on 9/12+13. We
will report after that.
8. Discussion Items
a.
Honors Program lack of
representation on faculty committees. Not
really an issue.
b.
Festival MSU - Monday, August
26, 2002 10:00 - 2:00 MSU Mall (Need Help) This
seems to be more for students than faculty.
c.
Center for Excellence in
Teaching and Learning (Stewart Ross)(Relationship) (Administration to
hire secretary, etc.)(Key to FA Conference Room)—This is a good way to
show our support, although our needs will take priority.
We will give him a key.
d.
Personnel Calendars—someone
who was just promoted is supposed to do a new plan.
We need to pay attention to this.
e.
Cooperative - University
Rochester Center (Attached White)
f.
Seven Goals for Retreat(Blue)
g.
Could we get President
Davenport to do a workshop on shared governance
for us?
h.
Keating/Willette-Murphy
moved that Shared Governance be our number one
priority. Passed
. Hustoles/Keating moved
that all of the following goals be equally presented: Shared
Governance,
Space, Faculty Workload, Salary Equity and Diversity.
Passed. These
concerns will also be presented at tomorrow’s General Meeting.
i.
Keating/Earle moved to
form a Membership, Enhancement and Hospitality (MEH) Committee. Passed.
j.
Can we put something on our
website about what we have accomplished? Holmes
will try to do this.
9. Informational Items
a.
New Faculty Meeting -
Wednesday, August 21, 2002, @8:30 a.m., Armstrong Hall 121.
b.
Faculty Association General
Meeting - Wednesday, August 21, 2002, @2:00 p.m., Armstrong Hall 101.
c.
New Faculty Get Together -
Wednesday, August 21, 2002 @5:00 p.m., Old Country Buffet
d.
FA/AD Meet & Confer,
Thursday, August 29, 2002 @3:00 p.m., CSU 285
- Faculty Association Chair
e.
FA Executive Meeting,
September 19, 2002 @3:00 p.m., CSU 204
f.
FA/AD Meet & Confer,
Thursday, September 26, 2002 @3:00 p.m., CSU 285 - Administration Chair
g.
NCA has changed some
evaluations. There will be a "local"
meeting in Twin Cities on Sept
13. Larsson will be going. Check out www.the higherlearning
commission.org for further information.
9. Informational Items (Continued)
h. Hustoles/Larsson moved that Pat
Earle, Barbara Keating, Georgia Holmes and Roger Severns represent the
FA in meeting with the President regarding the Salary Equity issues.
Passed.
10.
Handouts
a.
Fall Semester Calendar of
Meetings (Pink)
b.
Officer and Committee Members
(Peach)
c.
Local Support Allocations for
FA President & Staffing (Goldenrod)
The meeting was adjourned at
3:02 p.m.
Paul J. Hustoles
Recording Secretary