FACULTY COUNCIL MINUTES
September 14, 2011
3:00-4:30
Fireplace Room
Presiding: Mark Wiegand
Present: Steven Berg, Tony Brosky, Kent Brown, Julien Carriere, Connie Cooper, Aaron
Patty Selvy, Greg Hillis, Aaron Hoffman, Mary Huff, Dick Jones, Nelson Lopez, Michael
Luthy, Akhtar Mahmood, Joan Masters, Christy McGee, David Pariser, Kimberly Parker,
Bob Pfaadt, Mike Ryan, Joe Sinski, Kevin Thomas, Ruth Wagner, Tom Wilson, Nancy York,
Daylene Zielinski, President McGowan.
Others Attending: Doris Tegart, Carole Pfeffer
Absent: Alan Deck (excused)
I. Call to Order and Greeting
II. Invocation – Mark
Wiegand
III. Approval of Minutes from
May 9, 2011
IV. Remarks from President
McGowan
Mark Wiegand called the meeting to order at 3:06 PM.
A reflection on gratitude from The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of
Wellness.
The minutes of the May 9, 2011 meeting were approved.
Dr. McGowan began his general comments being thankful,
energized, and at the same time reflecting the events of the
beginning of the semester.
 The creation of a Faculty Booklet detailing Faculty
teaching, scholarship, and service. He took the opportunity
to thank Cindy Gnadinger work.
 Recognized Dr. Speliotis’ talk at the convocation and
requested a transcript to be distributed to the board of
directors.
 FTFT numbers are good at 600 students.
 Addressed the unfortunate events with the wind storm,
that caused electrical power loss as well as the unfortunate
event with four freshmen involved in an accident. He
requested we drop a line to student, Shannon Thomas,
who suffered the most and faces many challenges. The
address to write is 345 East Superior St. Chicago, IL
60611-4496.
 Asked to keep colleague Tom Bennett in our prayers.
 Terzo and Arboretum done
 October 15th Night of Knights and Centro with
announcement of the public phase of the $100 million
capital campaign.
 Trustees Nichols Carosi has pledged to build an Arch at
the entrance on Newburg Road.
Finances:
 The budget is balanced
 There is revenue excess that will go into endowments.
 21 faculty hires
 Annual report completed that will go into the
magazine (Alumni)
V. Mark Wiegand
Student Life:
 Basketball is getting a lot of attention, Jeremy Kendall
will still be with us and allowed to remained and
categorized as a junior.
The Sherman Bridge Issue –
 155 students and 48 faculty/staff commute across that
bridge. We have 70 spaces available for housing at a
modest fee for those in need.
Dr. McGowan presented us with the Ex-Corde guidelines
Enrollment Management:
Dr. McGowan identified retention as an upcoming focus for
the university with the goal of improving retention and
graduation rates. A matching million dollar grant from
J.Graham Brown was presented to BU for this initiative.
Last remarks:
In Memoriam
 Sally Brown
 Dr. Bernard Francis Thieman
Dr. McGowan announced an upcoming faculty survey.
Lively discussion followed regarding end of the year funds
from the past budget.
NEW BUSINESS.
 In April a new subcommittee was approved to
represent the “non-regular faculty”. Mary Huff was
elected Chair. The Chair will report to the Faculty
Affairs committee.
 Recommend that Academic Affairs line up contract
language with that of Chapter 7.
 It was requested that instructors, professors,
associates, etc., be clearly defined and classified as
such. Not everyone is a professor.
 Hearing committee ballot was distributed for the FCC
to vote on. The following were elected:
Members 2011-2012
 Mike Luthy
 Mike Ryan
 David Porta
 Joseph Sinski
 Anne Raymond
Alternates: 2011-2012
 David Boyce
 Eric Roorda
 Caren Cunningham
 Julie Toner
 Mary Huff
 Kathy West
 Tony Lentz
 Tom Wilson
 Ali Muzaffar
Faculty Council 2011-2012 GOALS
 Formal review process of the Deans
 3 year review of faculty who are tenured discussed
 Annual departmental report restructured?
A discussion began for and against these last two
proposals; the consensus was to postpone these discussion
for our next meeting in order to provide possible and
doable goals for Faculty Council.
 A document was distributed and a request was made
to read it carefully, regarding Chapter 7.
 CUPA can be part of the discussions
 Use and reflect Chapter 7 guidelines as part of the
annual reports, not other criteria.
 For salary, CUPA must follow chapter 7
VI. Reports from Faculty
Committee Chairs
 Undergraduate
Educational Affairs – Bob
Pfaadt
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Graduate Educational
Affairs – Dave Pariser
Faculty Compensation
Committee – Joe Sinski
Faculty Affairs – Daylene
Zielinski
VII.
General
Announcements
VIII. Adjournment
For the Fall Semester 2011 semester the UEA passed the
following courses and minors:
1) Anthropology minor was approved for next Spring 2012
2) B.A. in Biology dropped the second year of Foreign
Language requirement
3) Deans are not attending UEA as representatives of their
programs and will follow the original Chapter 2 rules as reaffirmed by FC last year
First meeting discussed goals for upcoming year.
Will meet with Human Resources to discuss insurance policies
for next academic year.
Informed the FC about query to be done about what is
excellence in teaching. She also stated when we can assemble
as a Town meeting and converse about the challenge posed to
us to define Excellence in Teaching.
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The meeting was adjourned at 5:01 P.M.