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Meet and Confer Notes WSU Faculty Association
Monday October 28, 2002
0. Additions or Deletions
Previously Scheduled:
1.
Committee appointments (information)
2. A2C2 Course approvals and notifications
3. Seniority Roster request; base salaries for
calculations of special forms of
compensation
4. Report
on 02-03 fixed-term and adjunct faculty; questions and a request
5. AIS
Department redefinition
6. Copy Machines
7. Meet and Confer date, week of 11/11
Additions:
8. WSU CASE Document
1.
Committee Appointments (Information)
The administration was notified of the
following committee appointments approved by the Faculty Senate
IFO Standing Committees
Grade Appeals Karen Csajko (Political
Science)
PP & G Susanne Smith (Nursing/HHP)
Student Affairs Amy Hermodson (Communication Studies)
Global Studies Council Pat Tolmie (Education)
All University Committees
Cultural Diversity Amy Hermodson
IRB (Humans) Pat Harkopf (Nursing)
Space Utilization Gary Kastello (HHP)
Student Affairs Amy Hermodson
Space Utilization Cindy Killion (Mass Communication)
IFO Statewide Committees
IFO Alternative Delivery Mary Proksch (Nursing)
IFO Ethics Nick Ruiz (Counselor Ed)
IFO Salary Review Committee David Bratt (Theatre and Dance)
A2C2
Counselor Ed Tim Hatfield/Nick Ruiz
English J. Paul Johnson as Alternate
HHP Shellie Nelson as 2nd Alternate
Mass Communication Becky McConnell as Alternate
Music Deanne Mohr as Alternate
Other
E-Learning Advisory Committee (Membership comes from faculty on the
Technology Committee)
Marzie Astani (Business Administration)
Russ Dennison (Library)
Lee Gray (Educational Leadership)
Search Committee for the Director of University Studies
Dan Kauffman for the College of Business
IFO MnSCU Task Force on Graduate Education
Dan Nicholls (Nursing Rochester)
The administration acknowledged the above
committee appointment information.
2. A2C2 Course Approvals and
Notifications
The Administration was
notified regarding Faculty Senate’s approval of courses in Items II below and the
administration was also informed of items I and III below.
I.
Subcommittee
Members
A.
Course and Program Proposal
Subcommittee
B. representatives by college
Liberal Arts Alicia Reed
Education Celeste Miller
II.
Course
Approvals
a.
New
Course
1.
PSY 309 Experimental Psychology
Lab (2 SH)
b.
University Studies Flag Course
1.
Writing
CHEM
426 Analytical Chemistry (4 SH)
2.
Critical Analysis
SOCW 410 Analysis of Social Welfare
Policy (3SH)
III.
Notifications
(information only)
A.
Administrative Information Systems UDP Notifications
1.
AIS 215 Personal Finance (3
SH)
2.
AIS 333 Business Communication (3 SH)
3.
AIS 335 Information Resource Management (
3SH)
.
AIS 401
General Methods (1 SH)
5.
AIS 401 Basic Business Teaching Methods (2 SH)
6.
AIS 410 Administrative Communications (3 SH)
B.
B. Global
Studies: one-time course offering
1.
GS 199 Diversity Issues (1 SH) B Fall 2002—Spring 2003
The administration acknowledged the above
course approvals, information and notifications.
3. Seniority Roster Request; Base Salaries For
Calculations Of Special Forms Of Compensation
The administration was informed that the
Faculty Senate would like the Seniority in both hard-copy and electronic –format. The Faculty Senate viewed the Seniority roster as
extremely important information for faculty inspection.
Having an electronic version would speed up the verification process by
faculty and HR.
The administration provided a hard-copy
to the Faculty Executives. An Excel copy of
the Seniority Roster has also been sent to David Bratt.
David Bratt further requested
clarifications on faculty seniority status who came to WSU from another institution and
faculty with special starting dates.
The administration stated that a separate
listing for these faculty could be forthcoming.
The administration was also notified that
D. Bratt has e-mailed information related to calculations of special forms of compensation
to WSU faculty and that Matt Hyle has volunteered to handle faculty questions. HR should be prepared to address faculty questions
also. Furthermore, faculty are given 20 days
to pursue questions on seniority status (creditable years) upon receipt of the Seniority
Roster. Perhaps a separate listing with
“years of service” be provided on
the Seniority Roster or be provided on a separate list.
Administration response to the listing of
“years of service” on the Seniority Roster:
1.
Agrees with IFO Comments.
2.
Will be working with MnSCU to
generate a list showing “the years of service”.
3.
When the administration finish the new
list and bring that to the next Meet and
Confer a date (designating when the 20 – day period should begin) can then be
mutually agreed upon.
4.
Report on 02-03 Fixed Term and Adjunct Faculty: Questions and a Request
David Bratt requested that lists of fixed
term and adjunct faculty be available in an excel format.
The following Senate Comments were asked of the administration:
1.
Will the one-time budget-money be used
for departments with faculty needs?
2.
A climbing wall is
being built in one of the racquet-ball courts. Is
the funding coming from the one-time money?
Administration Responses:
1.
An Excel file on the 02-03
fixed term and adjunct faculty will be provided to the WSUFA.
2.
Last year’s one
time MnSCU money was from extra tuition dollars
3.
MNSCU stated
that future one time money should only be used to counter increases in tuition.
4.
It would be wise to wait till after the
November 5th election to decide on more expenditures of the one-time money.
{Most of the money has been spoken for; extra first-year sections, extra
Library hours, and some band instruments}
5.
Right now, some of the one-time money has
been used to fund extra classes needed for first-year students.
6.
Though as retention increases, one
might have to use more of the one0-time money for high-level classes.
7.
$60k - $70k was originally
planned for the climbing wall. The cost has now been projected as $120k.
8.
Due to high insurance costs/problems,
the Student Senate is considering the scrapping of the climbing wall project. If so. Money not used could be diverted for better
and necessary needs at WSU.
5.
AIS Department Redefinition
The administration was informed of the
following Faculty Senate recommendations regarding the AIS issue:
1.
that the Faculty Senate expressed it’s dismay and disappointment with
the entire process of “Moving AIS from Business to Education” (especially in
terms of the lack of time given for AIS faculty response) and including the request for an
MOA authorizing an effective date before March 1.
2.
that
the administration follow recommendations from the AIS faculty, if and when the move
occurs.
Further comments from Faculty Senate
discussions were relayed to the administration:
1.
that there could be different possible
rearrangement of the chair reassigned time and
2.
that other department s which have education
options could view the move of AIS to Education as an inconsistent move.
Administration Responses:
1.
NO trouble in general with the AIS
memo.
2.
The administration disagrees with
the 3.37 AIS faculty lines. Their stance is
that only two probationary lines are in AIS, with additional needs supplied from different
sources [e.g. for one of the three positions stated by AIS, one-half of its funding came
form ACEED and the other half came from sabbatical savings}
3.
The administration suggested to redo/restart
the process: that the Deans of Business and
Education meet with AIS and Education faculty on the AIS issue. The AUS -isse
discussion group should include one WSUFA Executive member.
6.
Copy Machines
A timely issue, since there have
been many complaints regarding the in-operation of the new networked copiers last week and
during evenings and weekends. In fact, the
copiers did not work (via the network) until 8 a.m. this Monday morning.
The administration was queried regarding
the issue of a back-up solution to the new network dependent copiers.
The Faculty Executives stated that even
though public copiers or copiers with dual capabilities of new swipe cards and old venda
cards are now available; they are only available at few/specific locations. {e.g. Why isn’t there one public copier in
every building?} This is NOT an acceptable
solution from our discussions with VP
Whetstone. VP Whetstone stated that he will
com e to Faculty Senate with a solution before
old copiers are removed (a solution relative to the network problem, which faculty have
been experiencing and some have already reported to Deans).
The copier-net-work issue was documented in our October 7th
Senate minutes attended by VP Whetstone.
OB-Item 3:
Comment 6. Old
(but still operational) copiers will not be removed until there is a satisfactory solution
to the possible network problems.
VP Whetstone will be investigating a satisfactory ( to
Faculty Senate) solution regarding a back-up plan dealing with possible network down-times
that would affect copy machine operations.
The question from faculty is: How can the administration be planning on removing
all the old copiers on Tuesday October 29; when
VP Whetstone has not returned to Faculty Senate with an acceptable back-up solution to the
network problem. This is totally unacceptable
and blatantly irresponsible! [Especially
without consulting the WSUFA or departments (since all the copy machine e-mails have only
been sent ot department managers.]
Administration Responses:
1.
Copiers only work from 8-5!? Perhaps it’s a contract issue/problem with
IKON.
2.
Have contacted IKON and have stated to KION that: unless they can fix the problem, then the IKON
machines are out-of-here!
3.
Old copiers will not be
removed until an acceptable back-up solution to the network problem can be found. (Acceptable to Faculty Senate.)
7.
Meet and Confer Date Week of November 11th
Monday November 11th is a
holiday, Faculty Executives proposed to the administration at the October 14th
Meet and Confer that Wednesday November 13th be the designated Meet and Confer
date/time for that week.
The administration concurred with the
proposed date and time.
8. WSU CASE Document
The Administration would like to invite
5-6 faculty members to work on the WSU CASE document.
They would like relatively prompt faculty appointments. A few prospective donors have been given the draft
copy for comments. David Bratt stated that the
Faculty Senate could agree on electronic votes of Committees on Committees solicitation
and appointments. Perhaps faculty with
contract expertise and/or capital campaign experience can be solicited. Also the term “public service university”
can be shelved for now until broader input and longer time can be given to the discussion
of the term and o f the WSU CASE document. When
the focus group and the consulting firm are finished with their studies (including)
faculty participation on the WSU CASE document), then a presentation would be given to the
university community.
Adjourned 3:51 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted;
Bill Ng
Bill Ng
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