University Senate Executive Committee
Minutes from May 3, 2005
Volume 41, Number 14
Present: Robert
Erffmeyer, Gloria Fennell, Andrea Gapko, Susan Harrison, Rose Jadack, Vicki
Lord Larson, Steven Majstorovic, Scott Robertson, Connie Russell, Linda Spaeth,
Todd Stephens, Karen Welch, Jean Wilcox
Absent: Robert
Hollon, Robert Hooper, Steve Tallant
Guests: Jan
Morse, Andrew Phillips, Katherine Rhoades
The regular meeting of
the University Senate
1.
Minutes of April
19 and April 26, 2005 approved as distributed
2.
Open Forum –
No Items
3.
Review of
tentative agenda for May 10, 2005 meeting of University Senate
·
Any business
not concluded during senate meeting must be returned to committee or it will
die on floor at end of session
·
Consensus to
institute same rules as used at last senate meeting – 30-minute limit per item
until all business concluded, two speaking terms per motion, and five-minute
limit for each speaking term
·
Felt
manipulated at end of debate on service-learning
·
Wording of
rule for moving the previous question
on senate table signs misleading – main
motion should say motion on floor
·
What happened
just politics within rules
·
Mass
emailings bringing in others’ perspectives seem to compromise some issues
·
Some people
will just not be swayed by reasonable arguments or negotiation
·
Parliamentary
procedures for reconsideration of motions will be emailed to senators prior to
meeting as several questions have been raised about this possibility
·
Vote on
political activities paragraph amendment close; noted one academic staff person
voted when vote was to be by University Faculty
·
That vote
did not change outcome of amendment
·
Believe now
balance taken out of service-learning guidelines
·
Email from
Stephanie Jamelske to directors and chairs simply laying groundwork for when
budget/pay plan passed
·
Current pay
plan on table is 2% in July 2005, 2% in July 2006, and 1% in April 2007
·
Would be
across-the-board if under 2% each year with regents’ current guidelines
·
If debate
about printed class schedules brought to senate floor in fall, would need to
move quickly to get those schedules to printer by end of September
4.
Update on
Budget Decisions
·
Hearing
rumors that faculty disconnected from process because direct instruction to be
held harmless
·
For some
departments demoralization so deep that they don’t think others will listen
·
Apparently
Administrative and Professional Academic Staff feeling battered since
instruction (faculty and instructional academic staff) not to be touched and
classified staff unionized, APAS appear to be only ones left to take brunt of
cuts
·
Not going to
sessions to try to cut each others’ throats
·
Chancellor
Larson noted no final budget decisions made at this point
·
Still
reading minutes of budget forums – looking for patterns
·
Have been
excellent sessions; institution will fare better if all heads are at table
·
Want people
to know administration is listening and encouraging engagement of all across
campus
·
Can have
enormous influence; looking at all ideas very seriously
·
Everything
is still on table; everything will indirectly impact instruction
5.
Miscellaneous
Business
·
Consensus
reached that voters who return one ballot sheet in university-wide election
process will be considered as participating in vote for purposes of a quorum on
referenda
·
Have been
many more first pages of ballots returned than second pages across all voting
groups
·
Were sent
out as packet
·
No idea at
this point if quorum has been reached; wished to have decision made before that
known
·
Seems
parallel to people voting for only one or two nominees for a committee when
they could vote for up to three
6.
Announcements
– None
Meeting adjourned at 3:36
p.m.
Submitted by,
Wanda Schulner
Secretary of the University Senate