Official Minutes of the

Executive Board/Central Committee

November 2006

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College Eye, Maucker Union

3:30-4:40 P.M.

•  Call to Order and Announcements (Thompson)

The meeting was called to order at3:30 p.m. Thompson made the following announcement:

•  As has been emphasized recently by President Allen in meetings with various campus groups, there is a need to increase enrollment. The slides from President Allen's comments are on UNI OnLine.

•  Membership Report (Quirk)

UF has one new member: Alexandra Kogl (Political Science)

The Fall Newsletter is in press. The following articles were noted: Kessler's article on Collective Bargaining; Thompson's report on Spring Iowa AAUP; AAUP statement on Professional Ethics; checklist by James Andrews on the corporatization of the university.

•  Presentation and Approval of the Minutes (Canning)

Motions by Neuhaus with second by Campbell to accept the October minutes as corrected. Motion carried.

•  Treasurer's Report (Thompson in Isakson's absence)

The Treasurer's Report was distributed. Thompson noted that collective bargaining will draw on the current net income of $6240. Thompson also noted that funds have been deposited in the UBS Money Market Account.

•  New Business

A. Professional Education Faculty Responsibilities (Hawbaker and Schroeder)

Merrie Schroeder, Associate Director of Teacher Education, and Becky Hawbaker, Council for Teacher Education Chair, presented for discussion a document outlining responsibilities of the professional education faculty. Given feedback from the last state accreditation visit, the UNI Teacher Education program needs more active participation from faculty across campus who are associated with teacher education. Future accreditation may be in jeopardy without increased participation from faculty, especially in response to mandates included in the state code. There is a need to include more current faculty in teacher education activity as well as a need to make any new faculty aware of the responsibilities they could have in the teacher education program. This document presented as been discussed by Schroeder and Hawbaker with President Allen, Provost Lubker, University Counsel McKenna, and Provost Mixsell.

Several points were raised by UF Executive Board/Central Committee members in the discussion:

•  “Privileges” identified in the document are more responsibilities and may represent an increased work load for faculty.

•  To engender positive faculty response, rewards need to be attached to the responsibilities. Rewards are most important for faculty in departments which have demanding academic publication requirements for tenure and promotion. Faculty participation raises PAC issues.

•  The definition of “professional education faculty” needs to be clarified, and what faculty, for example, will need to comply with the 40-hour team teaching requirement needs to be clarified.

•  Teacher education responsibilities, where they exist for new faculty, need to be included in the appointment letter.

•  There was unanimous complaint about Section 2, paragraph 4. It was agreed to eliminate the last two sentences and to modify the first sentence.

•  Privilege #6 needs to be less obtuse. What exactly is meant?

•  It will be important for the UF Executive/Central Committee to monitor the development of this document and the implementation of its requirements.

•  Old Business

A. Update of Collective Bargaining (Quirk)

On October 26, UF presented its initial proposal. This open meeting was poorly attended. Two students attended. Frank commented that the proposal was well crafted and optimistic for salary/compensation gains.

On November 14, the Board will submit its initial proposal in the Great Room, Seerley Hall, 3:30 p.m. This open session will be followed by a closed session. All future sessions will be closed.

•  Government Affairs (Neuhaus)

Newhaus presented the survey questions and report of responses by candidates. The primary purpose of this survey is to make candidates aware of the issues of concern to UF and to use as a basis for work following the election on November 7.

Motion by Power with second by Adkins to disseminate the survey report to UF members on campus via email. Motion carried.

•  Newly Enacted Iowa Code—9.7 Violence Free Workplace Policy (Zeman)

Because Sue Baker was ill and not present, Zeman requested that this item be placed on the next meeting agenda.

•  Post Tenure Review—Faculty Senate Discussion (Van Wormer)

Van Wormer reported that students attended the Faculty Senate to request that student evaluations be required every semester. Since this issue is not a collective bargaining issue at this time, there was no further discussion.

•  Adjournment

Respectfully submitted,

Christine Canning, Secretary