Harper College Faculty Senate

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Harper College Faculty Senate

Summary Minutes for April 7, 2005

(Approved April 21, 2005)

 

Executive Board:  Michael Harkins, President; Paul Guymon, Vice President; Jim Edstrom, Secretary; Dan Loprieno, Treasurer; Sue Overland, Grievance Officer; Julie Fleenor, Past President

 

I.                   Call to Order at 12:23 P.M.

 

II.                            President’s Report

  • Michael Harkins welcomed Jim O’Malley, Local 1600 Suburban Vice President, to the meeting.
  • Michael reported that he believes that the professor emeritus names will go to the Board at the April meeting.
  • He reported that all of the Harper unions recognized outgoing trustees Kris Howard and Dick Kolze at the March Board meeting.
  • The Papandrea Scholarship is moving along nicely.
  • The HLC process is moving forward.  Newsletters dealing with that process are available from Maria Coons and on the HIP page.
  • Michael spoke briefly on the current effort to make changes in SURS.
  • Michael is waiting for the administration to confirm they are moving on the International Students Office Study Group before he appoints faculty members to the Academic Affairs Reorganization Task Force.

 

III.             Officers’ Reports

  • Sue reported that the Papandrea Scholarship Committee met and made recommendations.  They suggest that this scholarship be advertised more widely next year.
  • Jim noted that there will be a meeting of the Oversight Committee with the shared governance chairs tomorrow (April 8th) from 2:00 to 3:30 PM.

 

IV.             Consent Agenda

The minutes of the meeting of March 17th were distributed and examined.  Tom Goetz moved to approve them; Andrew Wilson seconded.  The minutes were approved.

V.              Informational

  • The IFT’s annual Lobby Day will take place on April 13th in Springfield.
  • The Local 1600 annual banquet will be held on May 22nd in Chicago.

 

VI. Old Business

Jim O’Malley spoke on the proposed changes to changes in SURS and the position that has been taken by Local 1600 and the IFT on these changes.

 

The evaluation process of the Vice Presidents was discussed.  Suggestions should be sent to Paul Holdaway.

 

Michael has seen the initial data from the climate study.  There will be a full report on the data at the next Senate meeting.

 

Larry Moats has donated tickets for 10 faculty to attend the Foundation Gala.

 

VII.           New Business

Kevin Perez will come to the next Senate meeting to discuss implementation of the new ERP.

 

The Faculty Senate Spring Luncheon is tentatively scheduled for May 6th.  Tickets will be $15.00 each.

 

IX. Adjournment

Paul Guymon moved to adjourn; Caryn Levington seconded.  The meeting was adjourned at 1:17 PM.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Jim Edstrom