Executive Board
Meeting Minutes
August 31, 2004 | 3:00-5:00 p.m.
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Present: S. Agarwal (FS
President); C. Baldwin (FS President-Elect); J. Girton (Past-President
& RPA Chair); C. Heising (Engineering Caucus Chair); G. Palermo
(Academic Affairs Council Chair); J. Maves (Design Caucus Chair);
G. Phye (Education Caucus Chair); B. Robinson (Judiciary and Appeals
Council Chair); Margo Holland substituting for E. Thacker (Vet Med
Caucus Chair); A. Van Der Valk (Liberal Arts and Sciences Caucus Chair);
B Allen (Provost); S. Carlson (Assoc. Provost)
Absent: B. Yang (Agriculture
Caucus Chair); B. Mennecke (Business Caucus Chair); Anne Marie Fiore
(Family and Consumer Sciences Caucus Chair); S. Crase (FDAR Council
Chair); D. Vrchota (Governance Council Chair); T. Zanish-Belcher (FS
Secretary)
Call to Order - 3:10 p.m.
Agarwal called the meeting
to order at 3:10 p.m.
Consent Agenda - 3:10
p.m.
Agenda
Minutes, Executive Board,
July 27, 2004
Consent agenda was approved.
Announcements and Remarks
- 3:15 p.m.
President
1. Retreat with president
& provost. List of questions was submitted prior to the retreat.
a) President discussed changes in the Board of Regents (BoR); BoR
president Forsyth changing approach to relations with the state legislature
and government office holders. President Geoffroy will discuss these
at Convocation; and will present to the Senate in October. b) Some
discussion of the grad tuition issue - modification of the policy
is being addressed for future projects; fac sen committee to work
with provost office on this (J. Bloedel; D. Holger likely participants)
on impact in research grants. c) NTT teaching & TT faculty going
`off-line' - sentiment was that this should be prevented; need to
continue the discussion (Susan Carlson likely provost representative)
2. Jim Davis, new CIO
looking for advisory committee on IT issues; senate to provide assistance
with nominating members. Caucus chairs to suggest faculty members
- need not be senate members.
3. Task force reviewing
vp finance Warren Madden. Needs help in three areas: business &
finance, facilities, services, Faculty Senate adding 6 people to assist
the main committee - members were selected over the summer.
4. Merger of FCS &
ED continuing. Faculty Senate Task Force monitoring each.
5. NTT teaching ratios
report. Fall 2003 revised and distributed for info. Prepared report
8/11 was recalculated from May report to the Senate. Joint departments
calculation error (3 departments dropped below the limit as a result)
and statistical comparison brought into conformance (increases Fall
02 by 0.3%); compares 2002 and 2003. available on-line for review.
6. Clark Ford chairing
P&T Process Review Task Force - looking at documents of the colleges
and departments for equity in process: voting, what counts, mid-term
advising, etc. Some other issues to be reviewed in the main policy.
FDAR to look at the policy itself.
7. Dinner with university
Academic Leadership on Sept. 2nd. anticipating good attendance
President-Elect
1. Faculty case that went
to Regents was resolved in favor of the faculty member. Although the
person has left the university, the general guidelines from the BoR
are: a) ISU to reinstate the person, b) provide another opportunity
to be reviewed; c) counsel the person on what they need to do for
the review. Discussion regarding effective timeline for case consideration
and length of reinstatement.
2. Indus Ed & Bio
Syst Eng reorganization has been completed as of July 1, 04. Eng,
Ed, Ag. colleges resolved resource, student, space allocations. From
new dept. perspective seems to be equitable and working at the outset.
Provost
1. Review of the possible
merger of FCS and Ed moving ahead.
2. Task Force Report on
Small Programs, Interdisciplinary Programs, Low Enrollment Courses
(dated May 27) presented for review. Initiated from Pres. Budget Advisory
committee from 2 years ago. In particular, note that the proposed
standards are not mandates! The report clarified a number of issues
pertaining to cost effectiveness, service to non-majors, and why certain
small enrollment courses might be maintained. Deans need to present
value of exceptions to the norms to provost.
3. Budget issues. Jack
Girton and Ben Allen working on institution agenda and RPA participation.
a) Impact of BoR reallocation concept; b) Budget incentives based
upon: external funded contracts indirect cost return; on number of
students - majors, or upper division, or grad students, or credit
hours; c) tuition planning in multi-year cycles; differential tuition
concepts by major or by program. Concerns raised: a) Are incentives
to the base and permanent? Could be either to the base or transitory;
b) External funded contracts in the aggregate immediately places certain
programs at a disadvantage. What are the criteria to be: based upon
national competitiveness by area, absolute dollars or changing dynamics
of external money resources, etc.? These and other concerns are the
things we need to work on this year.
Old Business.
No Old Business was considered
at the meeting.
New Business
Strategic Plan 2005-2010
First Draft of the 2005-2010
Strategic Plan dated 8/30/04, and 8/13/04 Strategic Plan Development
Schedule were distributed. Both are available on-line. Discussion
of the First Draft is on the Agenda for the Faculty Senate meeting
Sept. 7th. End of first round of comments is Sept. 17th. After generally
complimentary reception to the document and the fact that it opened
some new directions for the university, initial comments were in the
form of questions/concerns during lively discussion: a) What is the
impact/implication of the strong focus on science and technology and
transferable technologies on resources and continued excellence in
other areas such as the humanities, social sciences, or programs not
driven by external funding or practical inventions? Any way you cut
it, reallocation in one direction will have an impact in others. Is
this a return to the pre-Park days?; The report mentions the humanities
and arts on page two and mentions a commitment `to all programs of
the university' on page one, but nonetheless the focus of the university
is narrowed; b) Is the quality of community college preparation currently
commensurate with similar courses at ISU so that `seamless transfer'
can truly occur? How do we get there?; c) How do we work with Iowa
schools to improve student readiness in the sciences, etc., with out
being received as presumptive? What about fostering other areas such
as the arts and cultural studies - don't they count? To be continued!
Approved agenda for Sept.
7th Senate meeting. Jack moved; Carolyn seconded; passed unanimously.
VI. Adjournment—5:05 p.m.
Prepared by Gregory Palermo,
Serving as recorder for
Secretary Zanish-Belcher
NEXT MEETING
September 28 , 2004 3:10
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