The meeting was called to order at 3:35 P.M. by Doug DeVinny, Chair.

Also attending were members Chris Evans, Fran Kavenik, Mary Lenard, Dennis Rome and Anne Statham. Luellen Breed, Rebecca Ferguson, Karen Larson, and Bonnie Petersen of the Academic Staff Committee were guests of the Committee, as were, later, Richard Cummings and William Streeter. Evelyn Zepp was present as Secretary of the Faculty.

1) MINUTES
The minutes of the meeting of May 2, 2009 were approved as revised.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

There were no announcements.

3) UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

a) Administrator Evaluations:

Profs. Statham and Rome distributed summaries which they had prepared. A joint discussion with the members of the Academic Staff Committee over the distribution process for these took place.

Members decided they would like to establish a baseline analysis for the evaluations. Previous evaluations will need to be located.

Other people to evaluate were suggested: G. Greenfield, W. Streeter, S. McLaughlin.

Prof. DeVinny offered to try to set up a time for discussion of results with the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor/Provost, and Dean Cress. The U.C. and Academic Staff Committee would meet jointly for this discussion. Profs. Statham and Rome will first complete their work on the summaries, to be circulated to the U.C. and Academic Staff Committee before any meeting with administrators.

Members thanked Profs. Rome and Statham for the work they had done.

Summer schedules should be sent to the Secretary of the Faculty.

b) Governance e-mail List:

Prof. Zepp will go to a meeting next Tuesday to discuss a new governance list. Advantages to this will be tighter monitoring of membership, better filtering and higher security. The computer people have already established new lists through the mailman system, but people are not aware of these. They are asking the U.C. for a policy for admission to and use of the new governance list. Ann Marie Durso will be invited to the next meeting.

[Suggested guidelines which she had prepared included:

--Lists should be used for academic or administrative business communications only.

--Communications should be consolidated whenever possible.

--Messages with any attachment should be limited to 50KB.

--Communications should not be for solicitations, marketing, or other personal

communications.]

4) NEW BUSINESS:

a) Vice-Chancellor William Streeter and Richard Cummings from Human Resources explained the new sick leave policy. [Copies of the Policies for Faculty/Teaching Academic Staff and for Non-Teaching Academic Staff were distributed.] Because sick leave is converted into health insurance, the Legislature is demanding tighter reporting in order for the full credit of 12 days per 12-month period to be continued. The Regents passed the requirement that five full consecutive days of sick leave be certified by a physician's statement. For the last couple of months the Supervisor's signature has been required on the sick leave accounting statements. Sick leave accounting must be based on a five-day work week. Colleague coverage can only be used to cover classroom activity, and cannot be used if someone is being paid to teach. Working from home, telecommuting, and family medical leave are other forms of coverage. Auditors will be visiting each campus and there must be adequate documentation. This is part of the responsibilities of the Deans. There must be broader awareness of and compliance with the policy.

All the guests left the meeting at 4:35 P.M.

The Committee returned to UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

c) Sabbatical Committee appointments:

The Committee is to be composed of two members of CRCA, two members of the Teaching and Learning Committee and two recent recipients of sabbaticals.

Suggestions were:

CRCA: Christine Evans,
Michael Gurtman/Siegfried Christoph

Teaching and Learning:

Lori Allen
Anne Statham

Recent recipients:

Carol-Lee Saffioti Hughes/Carole Vopat
Jamie Wong (Business)
Judi Tucker-Snider
Megan Mullen

The Secretary of the Faculty will contact these people.

5) MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS:

a) Prof. Rome expressed concerns about a recent e-mailing re: a retreat for "people of color." He noted that building a community should not involve establishing separate communities, that not all people of color had been included anyway, and that institutional racism is separate from having a community. Members noted that diversity should perhaps be part of a university-wide discussion and discussed how this could be carried out

b) There should be a couple of meetings over the summer. Items include discussion on the first-year governance committee, meetings with the administrators, and the e-mail changes.

6) ADJOURNMENT

The meeting was adjourned at 5:15 P.M.