Management Department
Meeting Minutes
September 10, 2014
I. Call to order
James Bronson called to order the regular meeting of the Management Department at
3:35PM on September 10, 2014 in HH4306.
II. PRESENT: James Bronson, Young Chang, Rimi Zakaria, Dave Gee, Louise
Tourigny, Jon Werner, Andy Yu, Jim Schnaedter, Sam Samreth, Julie Woletz,
Denise Schulz, Kelly Delaney-Klinger, Aditya Simha, Soroush Aslani, Praveen
Parboteeah, Bill Dougan, Will Drago, Jeff Vanevenhoven, Yezdi Godiwalla.
III. Approval of minutes from last meeting
Parboteeah/Dougan moved to approve the meeting minutes of 3/10/2014
IV. Announcements
a) Bronson explained the recent changes in people in the Department
b) Business and Society, a new College required course, will be offered 10
sections every Spring/Fall, offered by the Department.
c) ITBE 353, Bus Com, currently a 3 credit course, will move to a 2 credit, 200level course scheduled and staffed by the Department.
d) ITBE 388, Career Info, will move to a 200-level course scheduled by the
Department.
e) Please honor your committee assignments and attend your meetings.
f) New Faculty lines are now open opened for replacement of Addae and Guo.
Search and Screen committees have been formed. Please cooperate in
assisting with airport trips, interviews and presentations.
g) Bronson distributed “Promotion Standards.”
h) Bronson explained the Purple Book expectations, details for which are
available on the Provost’s page.
i) Leave reports are due monthly.
j) Course syllabi are to be posted through Mindy Parker.
k) Travel – please submit the forms in a timely manor and provide all receipts,
travel budgets were explained for faculty and full time academic staff
members.
l) Risk Management regarding driving personal vehicles on University business:
Please fill out a Driver’s Authorization (one time submission); please refer to
Risk Management if you will be transporting students.
m) As an instructor in the classroom, one is required to report to the University
(Dept. Chair, Dean of Students, and the College Dean) in case of any
complaint of sexual nature (sexual harassment)
n) On WINS under “Notes” for a course, an Instructor is supposed to specify
special course requirements, e.g. laptop, extra book, software.
o) HLC will be visiting the campus in Fall 2015.
p) New Chair selection following Bronson’s term.
q) Academic Advisor training is set for September 30, 2:00-3:00 in HH 4306, for
new faculty and staff advisors.
V. New business
a) Drago- Frank McGuire, CEO of Capital Bank Security and Trust in
Milwaukee, our Alumni spoke highly of Management 310 course that he had
taken with us, has offered his help.
b) Werner-Book requests may be sent to Soroush Aslani our library rep.
c) Delaney-Klinger-Renee Pfiefer-Luckett is leaving.
d) Parboteeah-DBA classes began this past week.
e) Godiwalla/Werner/Parboteeah moved to approve Christine Clements for
Emeritus Professorship.
f) Search and Screen Committee: Werner saw candidates at the Academy of
Management meetings and hopes to have candidates come for interviews.
Simha and Tourigny met candidates. Some 18 applications have come in for
the HR position. Bronson announced that a search and screen will begin in
Spring 2015 for the new course “Business and Society” course.
g) Vanevenhoven/Dougan moved to go into closed session for the personnel
reviews.
Voting: YES-Zakaria, Godiwalla, Young, Yu, Tourigny, Delaney-Klinger,
Aslani, Parboteeah, Dougan, Drago, Vanevenhoven. NO-Werner,
Bronson
The meeting went into a closed session when the Academic Staff exited the room at
4:20PM. The Academic Staff were reviewed in a closed meeting format.
VI. Adjournment
James Bronson adjourned the meeting at 4:50PM with an open session.
Minutes submitted by: Dr. Yezdi Godiwalla/mgp