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To be approved at October 2 Senate Meeting

I. Call to Order
      President Yard called the meeting to order at 3:05 p.m.

II. Election of Secretary
        B. Svingen/S. Sloan moved to nominate Bill Ng for the position of secretary. Svingen/Elcombe moved to close   
         nominations.
        Motion (Bill Ng as secretary) Carried.

III. Approval of Minutes of Aug. 28, 2000
        S. Sloan/D. Downs moved to approve minutes as written.
       Motion Carried.

        Committees
       F. Treasurer's Report

        Old Business
        L. Laptop Program Report

        New Business
        K. Lawn Mowers

        R. Elcombe/N. Debnath moved to approve the above additions.
       Motion Carried.

V. President's Report
        1.  Student Faculty Coalition
        2.  Contract goals
        3.  Moorhead arbitration - possible administration use of student exit-interviews.
        4.  MnSCU allocation model - SU compared to CC/TC. Leaner administration and larger classes give
             institution more money.
        5.  Alex Yard was elected as IFO (state-level) secretary.
        6.  Annual summary of promotion - Consensus of Senate is to make this info available to Senate with names
             removed and to send the full list to PPGC.

VI. Review of Meet and Confer Notes
       Notes were included in Senate pack.

VII. Committees
        A. A2C2 (Com A)
               Nursing 401 revisited (At last Senate, S. Smith/B. Ng moved to postpone consideration of A2C2's
                negative recommendation until Nursing can respond). A revised syllabus was provided for Senate review
                 and consideration. After some discussion, a hands-up vote was counted on the A2C2 recommendation.
                NO - 4,  YES -14. A2C2's negative recommendation on passing Nursing 401 was defeated.
                J. Stejskal/S. Barbor moved to approve Nursing 401.
               Motion Carried.

    K. Williams/D. Downs moved to confirm 2/3 vote is required for A2C2 to defeat motions from USS to A2C2     and that 2/3 vote refers to those present and voting at A2C2. This action would be consistent with IFO
   constitution.
   Motion Carried.

B. Graduate Council
      No report

C. Government Relations Committee (report given by D. Downs)
       1.  Legislative Goals regarding funding & financial aid were recommended to and approved by the
             IFO board. Paper copies will be available soon.

        2. The faculty/student coalition budget was recommended to and approved by the IFO board.

        3. The following legislators have been identified as "special" friends to the state universities.
            Biographies of each are forthcoming in a special pre-election edition of the IFO newsletter.

                    1. Sen. John Hottinger (D)
                    2. Sen. Deanna Wiener (D)
                    3. Sen. Dave Kleis (R)
                    4. Sen. Tony Kinkel (D
                    5. Sen. Keith Langseth (D)
                    6. Rep. Joe Opatz (D)
                    7. Rep. Gene Pelowski (D)
                    8. Rep. Lyn Carlson (D)
                    9. Rep. Peggy Leppik (R)
                  10. Rep. John Dorn (D)
                  11. Rep. Harry Mares (R)
                  12. Rep. Marty Seifert (R)

         D. Personnel Policies and Grievance Committee
            No report

         E. Committee on Committees
                Committee is looking at oddities of two joint committees.

F. Treasurer's Report
       D. Downs presented COM-F, a table showing the proposed budget for FY01.
        B. Ng/M. Engen moved to approve budget for FY01.
        Motion Carried.

 VIII. Old Business

A. A2C2's Negative Recommendation on Nursing 401
       See VII. Committees A. A2C2 report.

B. Placement Exam Task Force Recommendation
       Deppa/Johanson/Oertel answered questions from Senators. 18 or above was used this
       past summer. Students can go past placement recommendation after talking to
       Math/Stats Dept. Math 050 is totally different from Math 100. Placement is mandated
       by MnSCU but not enforced by MnSCU. Release time and further study have been
       instituted yet. Several other placement options were mentioned.
       C. Hyman/D. Downs moved to approve #1/#2/#3 of May 8, 2000 Final Report and
       Recommendations from Placement Exam Task Force.
     Motion Carried.

    Recommendation #4 was discussed. K. Williams/B. Abdel-Magid moved to approve #4 but 
    replaced presentation to MnSCU with presentation to Faculty Senate via A2C2.
   Motion Defeated. (8 yes, 12 No

    S. Eiken/B. Ng moved to request Johanson/Deppa to clearly detail their statistical study,
    the new Placement Plan, and the time-line of completion. They were asked to do this
    ASAP, preferably at the next Faculty Senate meeting.
   Motion Carried.

       C.    Laptop Program (OB-C)
                S. Sloan presented report, OB-C. Senators continue to comment on the lack of CIS
                information, communication, and lack of opportunity for faculty input. The key is to develop
                mechanism to give faculty input before hardware/software are decided by CIS. New student
                laptops did not come with a serial port. Much equipment still requires a serial port. CIS must
                provide resources to fix this serial problem. Ironically, no one in CIS even knew that the new
                laptops did not come with a serial port.

A. Grants Director Reporting Line
        Changed from VPAA to VP-Institutional Advancement (VPIA). Concerns are:

1. Lack of team-decision-making-process
2. Relevance of academic research to institutional advancement
3. importance of academic research
4. Diversion of grants director's faculty-centered role

C. Hyman/N. Debnath moved to send this item to Meet and Confer, voicing the above concerns and asking for rationale from the administration.
Motion Carried.

B. IFO Coaching Task Force Appointment
        Appointee needed ASAP. S. Smith/C. Summa moved to delegate authority to President
        Yard to find appropriate IFO member.
        Motion Carried.

C. Committee to Develop a Committee to improving Technology-Related
        Communication.
        C. Summa/C. Hyman moved to establish a small committee (two faculty and two
        administrators) to draft a charge to give to an existing committee or a new committee
        to facilitate improvements of technology-related communications and to sort out
        decision-making processes, especially over the summer.
        Motion Carried.

D. Search Committee for Dean of College of Liberal Arts (NB-D)
        C. Hyman/H. Shi moved to refer to Committee on Committees to fill the seven faculty
        slots with Liberal Arts faculty.
        Motion Carried.

E. Addition to All-University Technology Committee (NB-E)
       The administration requests that the Vice President for Information Technology be
        added as a member of the All University Technology Committee. V. Leighton/S. Sloan
moved that we accept this request.
        Motion Carried.

F. Proposal for a Residential College Steering Committee (NB-F)
       The administration would like to create a permanent, all-University, Residential
        College Steering Committee. Six faculty members needed. S. Sloan/D. Downs moved
        to refer to Committee on Committees for membership solicitation. Further, Faculty
        Senate requests annual reports from this all-University Committee.
        Motion Carried.

G. Proposed Name Change for Human Subjects Committee (NB-G)
        Federally mandated requirements. F. Ragsdale/K. Williams moved to approve name
        change to IRB but with (Human Subjects) added.
        Motion Carried.

H. Proposed Task Force on the Responsible Conduct of Research (NB-H)
        Federally mandated requirements. J. Stejskal/R. Elcombe moved to postpone until
        next meeting and to invite Grants Director (and/or administrator) to come to next
        Faculty Senate to explain federal regulations.     
       Motion Carried.

I. Health Survey (NB-I)
        This was a on-line survey. No action was taken on survey. S. Sloan/F. Ragsdale moved
         to take to Meet and Confer concerns of privacy.
        Motion Carried.

                    J.      Benches (Dean Peter Henderson)
                            Thanks to President Yard's comments regarding benches during his convocation address this fall,
                            we now have benches donated for the courtyard. Dean Henderson requested input from faculty
                            senators regarding bench design...like faculty senators can all come to a consensus on bench
                            design. Other senators talked about stones and rocks for the courtyard.

        C. Hyman/Bosworth moved to give general support for concept of courtyard benches and to
       entertain a future solicitation of IFO donation toward benches and/or rocks.
       Motion Carried.

                  K.      Lawn Mowers
                           Minne Hall and Phelps Hall faculty complained about lawn mowing noise.
                           D. Downs/S. Smith moved that administration look for alternative mowing times so as to minimize
                           disruption to classes.
                           Motion Carried.

X. Adjournment
   B. Ng/B. Svingen moved to adjourn at 5:55 p.m.
   Motion Carried.

Respectfully submitted,

Bill Ng.