Faculty Caucus Minutes

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

(Unapproved)

Call to Order

Senate Chairperson Dan Holland called the meeting to order.

Approval of Faculty Caucus Minutes of Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Motion: By Senator Gizzi, seconded by Senator Marx, to approve the minutes. The minutes were unanimously approved.

External Committee Elections (Rules Committee)

Senator Bushell: I would like to make one change before we accept this slate as is. We have a member from English who can sit on the Council on General Ed and that is Katherine Ellison from English.

Senator Kalter: I got two people. Did you contact Daniel and he decided not to do it?

Senator Bushell: I did not contact, but seeing the strong interest from Katherine and seeing that she was responding first and both have a conflict, it seemed like her interest shown first would do it.

Senator Horst: Senator Bushell, did we receive a nomination from the provost for the ombudsperson council?

Senator Bushell: No.

Senator Horst: You weren’t cc’d on that email? Remember there was some discussion about whether or not to put forward the name and I sent the ombudsperson policy. Sam Catanzaro put forward a name.

Senator Bushell: We didn’t discuss it tonight, so I didn’t bring that to the committee, so I am forgetting that. Maybe I was thinking that a name was out but there was no confirmation.

Senator Horst: Cynthia wanted us to clarify if the person who self-nominated should be considered also. I looked at the policy and it said that the provost should have a say of who we should put forward.

Senator Holland: I think I have a clarification. It appears that both of the faculty members are continuing. The one person who was nominated was Al Azinger to continue in his role as the administrative person on the council.

Senator Horst: So we can put forward that name, correct?

Senator Holland: Yes, the provost has already nominated him.

Senator Horst: Right. In the future when we have these faculty slots come up, the policy as it reads now is that they can self-nominate, but the provost decides to put forward a name that we can accept or reject. Would we have enough time to execute that? Maybe the Rules Committee can talk about that next year.

Senator Holland: That would be a good thing to look at next spring as to what the timing would be, because one of the two faculty members would have to re-nominate next year or somebody else would have to be nominated.

Senator Fazel: I don’t think it’s Rules responsibility to do that. Based on the document for the ombudsperson, the provost would nominate people directly to the Faculty Caucus. So Rules doesn’t really play a role on who is going to be nominated. Therefore, I don’t think we should put any name on this because this is coming from Rules and we are voting on this as a slate rather than individual persons. I think that that should be done separately.

Senator Morey: If we need someone else from the College of Ed for the UCC, I will step up to do that. I am going off the Senate.

Motion: By Senator Hoelscher, seconded by Senator Gizzi, to accept the following committee assignments as a slate.

Athletics Council / Hulda Black, COB
Council on Gen Ed / Katherine Ellison, CAS Humanities
Honors Council / Ben Stiers, CFA
Tracy Mainieri, CAST
Amy Ward, CAS, 2014-15
Library Committee / Marie Labonville, CFA
Thomas Burr, CAS
Ombudsperson Council / To be nominated by the Provost
Reinstatement Committee / Han Kang, COB
Student Appeals Board / Olaya Landa-Vialarel, COE
Student Center Advisory / Julie Webber-Collins, CAS
Student Grievance / Carla Pohl, MCN
Christopher Gjesfjeld, CAS
Univ. Curriculum Comm / Claire Lieberman, CFA
Martha Cook, CAS
Jean Standard, CAS
Patrice-Andre Prudhomme, Milner
Marilyn Morey, COE, 2014-15
CAST Vacancy
Univ. Hearing Panel / Michael Sondgeroth COE
Lara Hansfield COE
Elizabeth Lugg, COE
Julie Johnson, CFA
Allison Meyer COE
Bob Quandt CAS
Deborah MacPhee COE
Thomas Lucey COE
Gary Weilbacher COE
Univ. Service Awards / Jim Palmer, COE
Archana Shekara, CFA
Mark Olson, CAS
Sally Gibson, Milner
Orin Edward Reitz, MCN
COB Vacancy

The motion was unanimously approved.

Senator Holland: Shall we go ahead and do the ombudsperson council? The provost has apparently forwarded Al Azinger as the nominee for the council as the administrative representative.

Senator Fazel: If we were going to vote on someone, I think we need to have the information ahead of time. This time, everybody knows Al Azinger, so it might not be an issue this time, but as a matter of practice, we need to have this on the agenda. We need to have the name of the people and their short bios.

Senator Holland: I am perfectly happy to put this off until the next caucus meeting and have a short bio sent to us at that time.

Senator Fazel: Yes.

Senator Cox: If the caucus does not approve the nomination, does she or he send another delegate?

Senator Holland: It has not happened before so I am not sure what the ramifications would be.

Senator Crowley: How are the other two members selected?

Senator Holland: The other two—you can nominate people to the Provost’s Office. The provost would then choose the ones that they want as candidates and will forward the names to the caucus for approval. You also self-nominate to the provost.

Senator Bushell: Should we assume this is off the list for next time? The Provost’s Office would manage it and it would come to the caucus?

Senator Holland: I think that’s a good plan to separate the ombudsperson off.

Senator Horst: I think it should be lumped in with the Panel of Ten.

Senator Holland: That’s a good plan.

Adjournment

Motion: By Senator Hoelscher, seconded by Senator Stewart, to adjourn. The motion was unanimously approved.