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1. I have received a thank-you note from a faculty member for a memorial sent by the Association on the occasion of his father's death.

2. The Registrar Search Committee on which Cathy Summa and I serve has recommended that the vacancy be re-advertised.

[Noted that the search failed.]

The bulk of my report deals with matters brought up at last week's meeting of the IFO Board:

3. The Seniority Roster is due from administration in November. Faculty MUST carefully check the number of years of service they have accrued, and must PROMPTLY notify the Human Relations Department if they detect an error, because the roster will be used to determine eligibility for career steps. MnSCU will not be sympathetic if a faculty member waits a few months (or even weeks) before claiming that an error has been made.

[B. Ng/B. Svingen moved to send Seniority Roster to department chairs and PP&G upon its receipt. If can receive the roster as an email attachment, then can send to all faculty. Furthermore, President Bratt should note the importance of checking the roster and to report corrections to HR as soon as possible.]

Motion Carried.]

4. As many as 200 Tech College courses will be reviewed for inclusion in the Minn. Transfer Curriculum during two "arena" sessions (11/15 and 3/28). Last year 164 were Ok'd, and countless others rejected. Note that "comprehensive" TC/CC campuses do not have to undergo this scrutiny; only freestanding TC's do.

A Rochester TC/CC faculty member notified a member of the MN Transfer Oversight

Committee regarding the inappropriate inclusion of certain Rochester TC/CC courses in the MN Transfer Curriculum and asked what role the Oversight Committee played in this process. The answer seems to be "a toothless one."

The Oversight Committee is discussing whether the 10-year-old Transfer Curriculum should be overhauled.

5. Anoka TC will increase most of their (small number of) MN Transfer Curriculum courses to 4 credits. Other TCs and CCs may follow their lead.

6. MnSCU is surprised and dismayed at the depth of scorn and virulence expressed by state university faculty to the idea of "the AA degree with emphasis in ____" idea.

7. IFO Board members compared policies regarding residency and major requirements at their schools. Three departmental or institutional patterns were mentioned:

a. "a minimum of X credits are required to be taken at the 300- or 400-level to earn a BA/BS degree."

b. "X% of credits in the major must be taken at WSU to earn a BA/BS degree from WSU."

c. "X% of the 128 credits required for graduation must be taken from a 4-year institution."

[There must be a policy stating the minimum number of credits required for transfer students.]

8. Item INF-B: the Board adopted legislative goals for 2003. One potential goal was referred to local FA's, we will take it up as a business item.

9. INFO-C: the Board reviewed budgets submitted by the IFO to the MnSCU budget committee and the budget submitted by MnSCU to its Board of Trustees.

10. INFO-D: The Board received a breakdown of failed searches for the 02-03 year.

[Some Senators noted that applicant numbers in some searches are very low.]

11. INFO-E: The Board received a draft of MnSCU's responses to the Private College Council's anticipated/feared drive to get the legislature to "fund students, not institutions."

 

A. A2C2

I. Subcommittee Members

A. Course and Program Proposal Subcommittee: representative by college:
1. Liberal Arts: Alicia Reed
2. Education: Celeste Miller

II. Course Approvals

A. New Course
1. PSY 309 Experimental Psychology Lab (2 SH)

B. University Studies - Flag Courses

1. Writing
    CHEM 426 analytical Chemistry (4 SH)

2. Critical Analysis
SOCW 410 analysis of Social Welfare Policy (3 SH)

III. Notifications (information only)

A. Administrative Information Systems: USP Notifications
1. AIS 215 Personal Finance (3 SH)
2. AIS 333 Business Communication (3 SH)
3. AIS 335 Information Resource Management (3 SH)
4. AIS 401 General Methods (1 SH)
5. AIS 402 Basic Business Teaching Methods (2 SH)
6. AIS 410 Administrative Communication (3 SH)

B. Global Studies: one-time course offering
1. GS 199 Diversity Issues (1 SH): Fall 2002-Spring 2003

Faculty Senate approved the Course Proposals in item II. Senate also received Items I and III.

D. Personnel Policies and Grievance

No report. First PP&G meeting will be Tuesday Oct. 22.

E. Committee on Committees

The Committee on Committees recommends the following appointments:

IFO Standing Committees:

Grade Appeals - Karen Csajko (Political Science)
PP&G - Susanne Smith (Nursing/HHP)
Student Affairs - Amy Hermodson (Comm. Studies)

All-University Committees:

Cultural Diversity - Amy Hermodson
IRB (Humans) - Pat Harkopf (Nursing)
Space Utilization - Gary Kastello (HHP)
Student Affairs - Amy Hermodson

Special Solicitations:
IFO Alternative Delivery - Mary Proksch (Nursing)
IFO Ethics - Nick Ruiz (Counselor Ed)

At its Monday meeting, the Committee on Committee was informed of Sara Barbor's decision not to serve on the IFO Salary Review Committee.

The Committee on Committee recommends that David Bratt be the representative on this committee.

In addition, the Committee on Committees recommends the following appointments:

IFO Standing Committees

- Global Studies Council - Pat Tolmie (Education)

A2C2

- Counselor Ed - Tim Hatfield/Nick Ruiz
- English - J. Paul Johnson as Alternate
- HHP - Shellie Nelson as 2nd Alternate
- History - Seymour Byman as Alternate
- Mass Comm - Becky McConnell as Alternate

All University Committees

- Space Utilization - Cindy Killion (Mass Comm)

Other

E-Learning Advisory Committee (membership comes from faculty on the Technology committee)
- Marzie Astani (Bus Admin)
-Russ Dennison (Library)
-Lee Gray (Ed. 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)

Deanne Mohr has joined the IFO and is now eligible to serve as the A2C2
Alternate for the Music Dept. The Committee on Committees recommends
Professor Mohr for this position.

Faculty Senate approved the above appointments.