Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Attendance: Robert M. Aiken, (Pres.) Karen M. Turner (V. Pres), Paul LaFollette (Secy.), Bonnie Averbach (FSBM), Pauline Hurley-Kurtz (Ambler), Luke Khalich (BCMD), Bernie Newman (SSA), Ira Shapiro (STHM), Joan Shapiro (Educ.), Roberta Sloan (SCT), Roy Stevens (Dent.), Cheryl Mack (Coord.)
1. Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 1:40 PM
2. Approval of Minutes:
The minutes from the April 29th meeting were approved.
3. President's Report (Aiken):
Several representatives will be leaving the FSSC including Judy Goode, Bernie Newman, and Ira Shapiro. Mark Rahdert will be joining us from the Law School.
We chose dates for the Representative Faculty Senate meetings. There was substantial discussion about avoiding meetings on days of religious significance, but ultimately no changes were made.
Aiken gave some thoughts about improving attendance at Senate meetings.
He added that we should continue to strengthen our connection to the Board of Trustees. We agreed that we should invite the Chairman of the Board, Dan Polett, to speak to us again.
There was some discussion of the proposed titles for NTT faculty.
Aiken received the revised CFF (CATE) forms from Peter Jones which he will send out to all faculty for comment.
Aiken is pleased with the progress we have made in strengthening our relationship with the administration.
4. Vice President's Report (Turner):
We had a discussion about ways of increasing volunteers for service.
We approved Khwaja Siddiqui for membership on the Patents & Inventions Committee.
5. Old Business:
Several members of the FSSC saw Vice President Turner on TV last week.
6. New Business:
None
7. Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at 2:10 PM
Paul S. LaFollette, Jr.
Secretary
