Official Minutes of the

Executive Board/Central Committee

November 2004

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November 5, 2004

Mauker Union, College Eye Room

3:30-5:00 p.m.

• Call to order

Roll (X=present):

Executive Board                              Committee Chairs

X    Frank Thompson, President                  X    Jesse Swan, Negotiations

X    Karen Couch Breitbach, Vice President                                Paul Siddens, Membership and Past President

X    Becky Hawbaker, Secretary                                            Dean Kruckeberg, Communications

       Lee Nicholas, Treasurer                                    X    Hans Isaakson, Academic Freedom

       Melissa Beall, At-Large

       Carol Cooper, At-Large

       Barbara Lounsberry, At-Large

Central Committee Constituency Representatives

X   Barbara Cutter, History                                                  X    Kent Sandstrom, CSBS

X   Jeffrey Funderburk, Art/Music                                    X    Russ Campbell, CNS

X   Susan Rochette-Cawley, English                                  Jolene Tagtow, Price Lab School

      Laura Terlip, Communications Studies                         X    Kurt Meredith, Curr.&Inst/OSFE    

X    Hans Isakson, CBA                                                      X    John Henning, Ed Psych/HPELS/Ed.Leadership

       Chris Neuhaus, Library                                    X    Bob Krueger, Philosophy, Religion, Languages         

Ex-Officio

X     Chuck Quirk, Executive Director

Other Members and Guests Present: None

• Announcements

• Presentation and Approval of the Minutes.  The Treasurer’s name was spelled incorrectly on item IV.  With this change, the minutes were approved.

• Treasurer’s Report.  Thompson presented Nicholas’ report of Profits and Losses and Balance statements. The report was accepted.

• Membership Report:

Quirk reported on the specific distribution of members within the various colleges. 

• Updates on Ongoing Issues
• Collective Bargaining: Thompson applauded the work of the negotiation team, especially Swan and Quirk.  The response to our proposal will be presented to us on November 10th.
• Information on Faculty Grading Policy.

Some faculty do not submit grades for students who did not attend their class, and Campbell shared a concern that the Registrar might assign a grade of “F” although assigning grades should be the sole responsibility of the faculty. Several members agreed that this is an issue for the faculty senates. 

• Campus Police Interruptions

A response has been received from President Koob, who said he is willing to work with campus police to develop a policy on this issue.  Thompson is working on a response.

• Quality of Life for Faculty Initiative

Thompson encouraged members to submit items from the collective bargaining proposal to the group President Koob convened to study

Quality of Life for Faculty.  Thompson will be attending the weekly meetings. Members mused about the purpose of this initiative and its relation to the collective bargaining process.  Thompson will email more information about how to submit suggestions to the group.

• Update on Grievances:

Breitbach reported one ongoing grievance that needs to be resolved. Past Grievance Chair Christiansen recommended in this case that UF not support the grievance. Members shared unease with voting to approve this recommendation without knowing the details on the grievance.

Isakson/Campbell moved to go into Executive Session to discuss the          particulars of the grievance.

Swan argued that the grievance process should be public and transparent, and that details from the grievance discussion belong in the minutes.  Thompson stated that the faculty member who is making the grievance should be allowed to present his case to the group.  The motion to go into Executive Session to discuss details of the grievance did not pass. 

Isakson/Rochette-Cawley moved to go into Executive Session to discuss the process of the grievance. The motion passed.

Isakson/Krueger moved to rise from Executive Session.  The motion passed.

Campbell/Sandstrom moved to create a committee consisting of Breitbach, Meredith, and Quirk to review and restate our grievance procedures and sections of the bylaws relating to grievances.  The motion passed

Campbell/Isakson moved to inform all grievants that decisions to go to arbitration can be made only by the Central Committee.  The motion passed.

• New Business: Due to time, there was no new business.

• Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 5:08.