Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Attendance:
1. Call to Order:
President Jane Evans called the meeting to order at 1pm.
2. Approval of Minutes:
There were no minutes taken at the October 4 FSSC meeting, as we worked on the position paper on service. (Due to the Representative Senate meeting we did not meet on October 11.)
3. President's Report:
a) In her President’s Report, Evans reported on the motion passed in the Oct. 11 Representative Senate Meeting:
(Motion: That the following statement be forwarded to President Adamany and Provost Schwartz:
A committee has been formed by the Provost for the purpose of revising faculty workload policies. The Representative Faculty Senate is distressed by the lack of any faculty presence on this committee. The absence of a faculty voice deprives this committee of the firsthand knowledge of those who know all that faculty members do as a part of their jobs and therefore what faculty loads really are. It also deprives the committee of the experience of those most directly able to assess the effects that new or changed policies may have on academic programs and on the quality of instruction that our students receive. Therefore, based on our responsibilites outlined in Article II, Section 2 of the Faculty Senate Constitution, we most strongly recommend that the Provost ask the Faculty Senate to provide the names of at least two Temple University faculty members to be added to this committee.)
b) Evans attended the October 11 Board of Trustees meeting and noted:i) 50 faculty and 900 staff attended the Campaign Kickoff
ii) Coach Wallace is leaving football
iii) Howard Gittis said that he would only serve one more year and it was time to look for his successor.
iv) The Trustees voted that David Adamany and Ira Schwartz be "elected to serve until the next Annual Meeting of the Board or until their successors shall have been elected and qualified." (The next Annual Meeting will be in mid October of 2006.)
A discussion of the faculty/ administration relationship insued:
i) Is there a perception on the part of the Trustees that the FSSC is more adversarial than in recent years?
ii) The administration is bringing forward more difficult issues.
iii) We are responding to faculty feelings that we ‘’rolled over’ on issues such as GenEd. We should have let the administration impose it unilaterally rather than have collaborated (in the perjorative sense).
iv) The administration appears inflexible even to tye point of stonewalling us on important issues such as workloads, tenure denial, and contract renewal.
v) We should be proactive, lay out "where we want to go" and formulate a gameplan to get us there.c) Consideration of the motion on service that was tabled at the October 11 Representative Senate Meeting was postponed.
d) The members continued the discussion of our position paper on University Sevice at Temple. It was decided to make the paper shorter and more focussed (and so divide it into two parts). We will then submit it to President Adamany, invite his response and invite him to attend another FSSC meeting soon.
4. Vice-President's Report:
Vice President Lois Millner reported that the results of last week’s committee elections would be disseminated through the Faculty Listserve.
Millner brought forward a request submitted by Professor Joyce Lindorff (Boyer College of Music and Dance) to reestablish a Liason Committee between TAUP and the FSSC and to convene the dormant Committee on the Status of Women. Both were approved unanimously.
5. Adjournment:
As there was no Old or New Business, the meeting was adjourned at 2:20.
Respectfully submitted,
Jeffrey Solow
