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Executive Board/Central Committee
Meeting Minutes of the United Faculty Executive Board and Central Committee
April 18, 2008
Howard Room (Seerley 317)
Present: Jonathan Chenoweth, Joyce Milambiling, Jesse Swan, Laura Terlip, Kurt Meredith, Katherine Van Wormer, Tom Kessler, Karen Couch-Breitbach , Chris Neuhaus, Mitch Strauss, Allen Rappaport, Sonia Yetter, Frank Thompson, Hans Isakson, Russell Campbell, and Chuck Quirk
I. Call to Order [Isakson]
The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m. Isakson presented an agenda which was for the purposes of approving a budget and dues for the 2008-09 fiscal year, and consider a proposal for renewable term and clinical faculty appointments. The agenda was approved. .
II. Budget and Dues for 2008-09
Isakson and Thompson introduced a budget report and dues recommendation for the 2008-09 fiscal year. Meredith moved and Rappaport seconded a motion to accept the report and approve the dues recommendation. There was discussion on the impact an increase in dues might have on membership and the question of whether a small budget deficit in a bargaining year might be acceptable. Campbell moved and Strauss seconded a motion to amend the dues for full-time UF members next year from $265 to $255. After further discussion, the question was called and the amendment passed. Following the revision to the amendment on the floor, the question was called on a dues structure of $255 for full-time, $150 for new entrants and $70 for part-time UF members for next year. This motion passed.
III. Renewable Term and Clinical Faculty Appointments
Isakson introduced the revised proposal on Renewable Term and Clinical Faculty Appointments from the Executive Board. Each item was taken up separately. The language relating to renewable term appointments was considered first. Isakson outlined how the proposal would extend for one year, and then have to be renegotiated. He noted that should both sides fail to agree on continuing language, the current renewable term appointments would end and revert to existing language governing temporary faculty. Strauss moved for approval of the Executive Board’s revised proposal on Renewable Term Appointments with a second by Neuhaus. There was discussion about issues related to voting rights, access to development activities, and the length of the language trial period. There was a motion made by Terlip to amend language in 1.A.2 to the proposal to clarify that the appointment will be made on the basis of a departmental search committee consistent with faculty searches for tenure track appointments. This motion was seconded by Campbell. After discussion the question was called and the amendment passed. Isakson called the question on the revised motion and the renewable term appointment language was approved as revised.
The next issue to be taken up was the matter of language relating to Clinical Faculty Appointments. Campbell moved and Yetter seconded a motion to approve the Executive Board’s revised proposal for Clinical Faculty Appointments. There ensued discussion on whether this position should be part-time or full-time. The rationale for the proposed language making Clinical faculty part-time was that those filling these positions would already be employed outside the university, and within the scope of this appointment sharing their expertise part-time with students. Campbell moved and Van Wormer seconded a motion under 3 letter E, that would allow Clinical Faculty to be part-time, term or renewable term. Terlip noted that this might pose a conflict between the language relating to renewable term and clinical faculty within the existing proposal. After much discussion the amendment was withdrawn. A new motion was made by Meredith and seconded by Neuhaus adding the Department of Curriculum and Instruction to the academic units that could employ Clinical Faculty. After additional discussion, the original motion, amended to include the Department of Curriculum and Instruction passed. The meeting ended at 5:10 PM.
Frank Thompson, Interim Secretary