Professional … pragmatic … principled … progressive
Summary
Minutes for
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Executive
Board: Michael Harkins, President;
Paul Guymon, Vice President; Jim Edstrom, Secretary; Dan Loprieno, Treasurer;
Sue Overland, Grievance Officer; Julie Fleenor, Past President |
Actions
Taken
The
issue of academic reorganization was discussed.
Among the highlights of that discussion were the following:
·
Concern was
expressed over the administration’s having blindsided the Senate and the Senate
Exec—i.e., having given little or no notice beforehand as to what the
administration’s plans for reorganization entailed.
·
It was suggested
that Senators go back to their faculty and ask for their feedback as a way of
injecting faculty input into the process.
·
There is a need
for intellectual honesty in the process on the part of the administration.
·
In the future it
would be advisable for the Senate to meet before allowing the administration to
attend Senate meetings. The Senate
should be sensitive to the possibility that such appearances by administrators
could be misused by the administration as a means for bypassing discussion.
·
The Senate should
be timely in its response to the reorganization proposal; the process is
already moving along.
·
Any meetings that
Marge had with faculty “focus groups” in working on the reorganization process
were largely pro forma.
·
There is a need
for input from the chairs and coordinators on the proposal. A meeting with this group will be set up to
this end.
·
There are two
different issues—the movement of departments and the hiring of administrators.
·
Programs for international
students are being inappropriately moved to Student Affairs.
The
proposed climate study was discussed. The
ad hoc committee appointed to consider the issue reported on their findings:
·
It is better to
do a study focused on the faculty rather than a variety of groups on campus.
·
The study should
be a combination of qualitative and quantitative factors.
·
They described
the proposed survey.
·
The committee is
unanimous in believing that a climate study should be done.
·
Among the issues
that should be evaluated are IT/classroom issues and faculty/administration
relations.
·
Contract and
negotiation issues should not be part of the survey.
There
will be a meeting of the ad hoc committee on Monday, February 14th
in Room J240. Senators were invited to
attend. Suggestions can also be sent to
Paul Holdaway. It was moved and seconded
that the committee’s report be accepted.
The motion was approved.
VII.
Adjournment
The
meeting was adjourned at
Respectfully
submitted,
Jim
Edstrom