Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Attendance: Jane Evans, (Chair), Lois Millner (V.Chair), Paul LaFollette (CST), Bonnie Averbach (FSBM), David Baron (Med), Judith Goode (CLA), Diane Maleson (Law), Ira Shapiro (STHM), Karen Turner (SCT) and Maxine Chisholm (Coord.)
1. Call to Order:
The meeting was called to order at 1:00.
2. Special Guests:
Special guests reported on their experience with Periodic Program Review. Their comments were very consistent with those of last week’s guests and will be incorporated into our report.
3. Approval of Minutes:
The minutes of the January 31 meeting were amended and passed.
4. President’s Report:
Jane Evans reported on the Presidential Search Committee. She is optimistic about the process. She also announced that she will be participating in the state appropriations hearings and will be in Harrisburg on February 21. Lois Milner will run the FSSC meeting that day.
Jane reported on the response of Teresa Powell and Ainsley Carry to our request for a report on student safety (incidents and plan of action). The sense of the meeting was to urge Jane to convey our sense of urgency and the need for transparency on this issue. We have not had a report on this issue in three to four years.
Finally, Jane announced that the FSSC/TAUP combined response to the new Promotion and Tenure policy was submitted to President Adamany.
5. Vice-President’s Report:
In the vice-presidential report, Lois presented the names of volunteers for the CATES committee and received suggestions about whom to appoint. We decided to limit the faculty component to eight. Lois also solicited suggestions for reconvening the Library committee. Larry Alford has had trouble getting a committee together. We decided to follow the same process as we had for the Committee on the Status of Women. We will ask the continuing members who state a willingness to be active to continue and appoint new members who indicate a strong interest.
6. Old Business:
We discussed and amended the motion for the special meeting on February 9. It passed unanimously. We agreed to transmit the result of the Special Meeting to the president and George Moore as secretary of the Board.
7. New Business:
A report from GEEC indicated a possible pilot project.
8. Adjournment:
The meeting was adjourned at 3:15 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Judy Goode, Secretary pro-tem
