Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Attendance: Bonnie Averbach (FSBM), Jane Evans (Chair), Judy Goode (CLA), Paul LaFollette (CST), Diane Maleson (Law), Lois Millner (Vice Chair), Ira Shapiro (STHM) and Maxine Chisholm (Coord)
1. Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order by Jane Evans at 1:00PM.
2. Approval of Minutes:
The minutes of the March 28 meeting were approved.
3. President’s Report:
a) A call for volunteers to attend the Board of Trustees’ meeting on May 9, 2006. Ira Shapiro, Paul LaFollette, Lois Millner and Judy Goode volunteered.
b) We reviewed and universally approved the letter that Jane Evans had drafted about the proposed new policy on student grievances. We agreed that the letter should be sent to the chair of the Student Affairs committee of the board since they will be discussing the policy.
c) Jane gave a brief report of the search committee. They are on track and will be interviewing those on the preliminary short list soon.
d) There was a brief discussion about the need to start preparing a document for the next president which will express our particular concerns about:
i) Changes in the Promotion and Tenure procedures (especially the treatment of the reviews of the Faculty Senate Personnel Committee),
ii) The weakened faculty roll control of university-wide curriculum issues,
iii) The creation of workload policy without faculty input and,
iv) The denigration of service and,
v) The administrative dominance on committees where there had formerly been shared governance.
4. Vice-President’s Report:
We discussed the vacancies on critical committees and recommended names. We also need representatives to the FSSC from CAHP, SSA and CEd. Special concern over the lack of deference to the appointment authority of the FSSC in regard to the Temple University Press Board of Review was expressed.
5. Old Business:
Jane presented the selected preliminary results of the faculty survey which she had prepared for the search committee. We talked about the results so far and what kinds of information we would like in the further analysis of the data.
6. Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at 2:00PM
Respectively submitted,
Judy Goode
