Faculty Organization Executive Committee Meeting
Minutes
March 4, 2011
12:00-2:00 p.m.
Library 140A
Present: Argyilan, Bandyopadhyay, Delunas, Flint, Gallmeier, Montalbano, Park,
Szarleta, McShane, Bodmer.
Guests: Chancellor Lowe, EVCAA Malik, Library Services Director Tim Sutherland
1. Call to order—President Gallmeier called the meeting to order at 12:05.
2. Approval of the minutes of February 4, 2011—A motion to approve the minutes
of February 4, 2011 was made, seconded, and passed unanimously.
3. President’s Announcements:
a. Dean Review Committee for Dean Wigle has been charged: Bankston, Chair,
Bodmer, Brock, Schoon, Pudar-Hozo, and Blohm. They will probably report
to the Ex Comm at some point.
b. Board of Review Case Completed – Ranjan Kini, Chair. President Gallmeier
reported briefly on the outcome of the case.
c. Constitution Committee charged to review faculty representation on the
Executive Committee and All Campus P&T – Ken Schoon has agreed to chair
the committee. We hope to have a report at our next Ex Comm meeting and
then at the April Fac Org meeting.
d. Student Affairs Committee charged to draft amendments in Student Hearing
Procedures. The Committee’s chair, however, is a state legislator and is
presently out of the State of Indiana as part of the Democratic legislators’
protest in the Indiana General Assembly. We’ll try to resolve this problem as
soon as possible.
e. Planning and Budgetary Affairs Committee has begun participation in
Campus Budget Hearings with Arlene Adler serving as Chair.
4. EVCAA David Malik – Dr. Malik distributed written copies of his report,
reproduced below. He also mentioned that COAS faculty published 23 books
and 119 articles last year. These data were learned very quickly as a result of
the online Faculty Annual Report system.
EVCAA MALIK REPORT TO FACORG EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
March 4, 2011
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Deans Review for Education. Periodic Dean Review underway, with Committee
members Dean Bankston (Chair), Bodmer, Pudar-Hozo, Blohm, Brock, and Schoon.
Thank you for your input. This week Chuck and I charged the Committee with the
expectations and role of such a review.
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New Laboratory Fee Proposal with University Budget Office. Proposal seeks to
base lab fees on contact hours rather than whole course. Will impact not only sciences,
but any scheduled modality similar to a lab, area with instrumentation, or similar
functionality. Will apply to sciences, arts, modern languages, music, etc. This is a first
step toward improving departmental/school budgets.
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Budget Hearings Underway: Campus budget committee includes Chancellors,
VCs, CFO, CIO, Director of External Relations, President Gallmeier. Once again,
participation with the FacOrg Budgetary Affairs Committee.
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Credit Hour Definition: Need input on a definition of "credit hour". Hope that
FacOrg Academic Affairs Committee can help explore a solution. IUPUI has definition
that will meet the needs of the Department of Education.
5. Chancellor Bill Lowe – Chancellor Lowe had several items to discuss:
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New Tamarack—The ICHE has this issue on its board agenda for next
Friday. Also, the prospect of a major construction on Broadway has
caught the interest of the GRIP (Gary and Region Investment Project).
The new Tamarack would be the major component of a Broadway
redevelopment plan.
Early Retirement Incentive Plan—A draft of the ERIP has been circulated
throughout the university.
Change in IU I.T. organization—The chancellor sent out an email to the
campus this morning about I.T. services at our campus, as well as at the
other campuses, being placed under UITS. Our I.T. folks appeared to be
pleased at this news, for it’s a sign of positive recognition for them. They
believe it won’t involve large changes for us.
Federal directives—We may have to supply more data to the federal
government than in the past. Financial aid appears throughout these
various federal directives. We’ll have to review our programs. We’ll also
need to transmit attendance data in certain circumstances. In addition, we
need to define a credit hour. Plus, students who do not meet a certain
academic performance standard will be denied financial aid. The
administration needs to come up with ways to meet these new regulations,
and come up with a financial aid appeals process by the end of Spring
semester.
6. Tim Sutherland, Director of the Library – Tim is meeting with us, representing
Ana Osan, chair of the Fac Org Library Committee. He distributed a report on
Library Services for IUN Faculty, which included the many initiatives offered by
the Library to our faculty; a draft resolution by the Fac Org Library Committee to
increase significantly the percentage of common core Library databases
available at IU Northwest; a listing of library/department liaisons; and the draft
collection development budget. He answered several questions by Ex Comm
members, particularly on collection development issues. Tim asked that this
information be disseminated at the March 25 Fac Org meeting.
7. Board of Review and March Faculty Organization Elections: The Fac Org offices
up for election include the VP, Secretary, UFC Representative, and one At Large
Representative. For the Faculty Board of Review, Chuck has five people and
needs two more.
8. UFC Report – Ellen Szarleta—Ellen reported on several issues before the UFC:
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Family Leave Policy—a memo on this policy should be coming out soon.
Health Care Costs—UFC Compensation and Benefits Committee is reviewing
our health care plans/health engagement plans.
IU East’s vote on LEAP—will occur in March. Also, all campuses need to
respond on the three LEAP resolutions by April 5. Our faculty has endorsed
becoming a LEAP campus.
UFC passed a resolution against the Senate bill that discriminated against
gay marriage.
UFC is taking a look at various aspects of its organization. For example,
members appear to favor face-to-face meetings instead of video meetings.
There is consensus that there should be two reps from regional campuses on
UFC.
The Council is looking at policy on mergers on campuses and how faculty
would be involved.
Professor of Practice position—Chuck will send us the information on this
post.
Faculty members that are under the 18-20 retirement plan are not eligible for
the ERIP.
9. Definition of Undergraduate Unit of Academic Credit—Chuck has charged the
Faculty Affairs Committee to work with EVCAA Malik on this issue. He also
emailed a summary report on the IUPUI parameters to Ex Comm members last
night.
10. Revised “Goldenrod” P&T Guidelines – Should a mail ballot be used to
approve/not approve these guidelines? A motion to use a mail ballot was made,
seconded, and approved unanimously.
11. Old Business—There was no old business.
12. New Business—There was no new business.
13. Adjournment—Meeting adjourned at 2:05 pm.