E6Nov97

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES (Approved 11-13-97)Thursday
November 6, 1997
SS 115, 1:30 p.m.
PRESENT
Julie Arbuckle, Karen Dewey, Dave Eisler, Judy Elsley, Carl Grunander, Judith Mitchell, Diane Pugmire, Candadai Seshachari - Chair, John Sohl, Gerald Storey, President Thompson, Kay Brown - Secretary
MINUTES
    Judith Mitchell - Motion to accept the minutes of October 23, 1997.
    Second - Judy Elsley
    The minutes were approved as written.
SPACE USE STUDY
    The Auditor's Office under direction of the State Board of Regent's Office conducted a space use study of faculty offices and conference areas. President Thompson has discussed this with Kathleen Miller.
SALARIES
    President Thompson reported that the Payroll Office would prefer to reimburse faculty and staff in one lump sum in November for the salary dollars borrow in 1995. (See Executive Committee minutes October 16, 1997.)
ASSA COMMITTEE
    Kathleen Lukken, Associate Provost, is requesting a representative from Enrollment Services to serve on the ASSA Committee. This would be a one year administrative appointment of a nonvoting member.
MOTION
    John Sohl - Motion to appoint Susan Smith to serve as an administrator to the ASSA Committee. This is a one year nonvoting position.
    Second - Jerry Storey
    The voting was unanimous.
MATERNITY LEAVE
    There is a maternity leave policy for staff in place. There is no written policy for faculty. Deans and Department Chairs work with faculty. Typically the faculty member takes a quarter off. A policy might be restrictive. There is a Federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Dave Eisler will bring the FMLA policy to the next Executive Committee. Does the Federal policy include paternity leave? Tom Kuehls expressed discomfort over a policy not being in place for faculty. Dr. Seshachari will talk with Tom to ascertain his concerns.
RANKING AND TENURE
    There are three revisions to Section 8 of the PPM: 8-6, 8-23, 8-25. Dave Eisler will see that the Deans and Department Chairs have the latest copies of these sections.
FACULTY WORKLOAD
    The Legislature in the last session was very concerned about faculty teaching loads. Therefore, in the Summer of 1997, a task force was convened by the Commissioner's Office made up of CAO's, Legislators, Board of Regents members, university administrators, and faculty to study and issue a report on faculty workload.   A report was prepared which was sent to the CAO's of all state institutions. Dave Eisler has been working with this group and he distributed a draft policy. The policy is still being studied by the CAO's. Eventually this document will go to the Board of Regents, the Council of Presidents and the Legislature.
AREAS OF FOCUS
    The Executive Committee discussed the areas they would like to focus on this year. Areas are looked at to help improve services to students and/or to help us understand the process — Why things are done the way they are done. We need to understand the concerns of students and faculty.
     It was suggested by John Sohl that the faculty be polled for similar concerns. Members of the Executive Committee will speak with people in their area and come to subsequent meetings with areas that have common concerns.
ADJOURN
The meeting adjourned at 3:40

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