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September 17th, 2004
Present: Dave Baggett, Derrick Boucher, Charlie Brooks, Jim Dolhon, Howard Fedrick, Brian Pavlac, Margarita Rose, Laurie Sterling, & Barbara Sauls, Chair
1. The meeting was called to order @2:00p.m. in Sheehy-Farmer 115.
2. Committee elections have been completed, and all standing committees are now fully staffed.
(Please see attachments for a full listing of committee membership.)
3. Announcements: The next Faculty Council Meeting, scheduled for 10/1/04 @2:00p.m., will be held in the Postupak Room, McGowan Building.
4. A & P Committee Report: A & P continued work on the governance issue in preparation for the Faculty Meeting break-out sessions scheduled for 9/24/04 @2:00p.m. Clarification was requested as to the structure and operation of these sessions. It was agreed that, after securing a note-taker, faculty in each break-out session will be asked to provide as many comments and insights as possible about the “new constitution” proposed by A & P last semester, both positive and negative, with a particular focus upon alternative suggestions for those aspects seen as problematic. All comments will then be gathered from the note-takers and funneled back to A & P for due consideration.
5. C & T Committee Report: A.) CORE 160X, “Painting,” was approved as a new course. B.) C & T also began discussing parameters of the second Faculty Meeting, scheduled for 10/29/04, which will focus upon a review of “The CORE.” They intend to survey faculty sentiment on the matter in advance of the meeting, then discuss the data gleaned from the survey at the meeting. Faculty who participated in the last “core review” will be invited to provide historical context where helpful.
6. The Family Medical Leave Act: Council recognizes that the Faculty Handbook does not include a clear and unambiguous policy for medical leave arrangements (specifically as related to maternity/paternity leave), as the Personnel Policies Handbook does so for staff. Council therefore returned the issue to the Benefits Committee to consider wording a policy that reflects “the particularities of the sixteen-week-semester-teaching-schedule under which faculty commonly labor, but that still maintains ample flexibility” when such leaves need to be negotiated.
7. Collegiality: A proposal was brought to Council’s attention suggesting the consideration of a 4th criterion for official consideration of matters of Tenure & Promotion, namely “collegiality.” After much discussion ensued, Council decided not to implement such a criterion.
8. Tenure & Promotion Quotas: At their next meeting, Council will deliberate the wording of a request to the Board for an explanation of the rationale behind the continued implementation of tenure & promotion quotas, as currently articulated and justified in the tenets of the “Strategic Plan.”
9. Step Increases: Council hereby “voices its concern” over the continued status of faculty wage “Step Increases,” which are now in their second year of suspension. It is noted that this matter is to be taken up by the Faculty Benefits Committee again this year as part of their official agenda.
10. The meeting was adjourned @3:27p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
James P. Dolhon
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