1) The meeting was called to order by Doug DeVinny, Chair, at 3:40 P.M.  Also attending were members Chris Evans, Fran Kavenik, Mary Lenard, Dennis Rome, and Anne Statham.  Evelyn Zepp was present as Secretary of the Faculty.

2) The minutes of the meeting of Oct. 24, 2006 were approved as distributed.

3) Announcements:

              Prof. DeVinny reported on the Faculty Representatives meeting.  The Board of Regents is coming out with a final draft of Chapter 7.  "Charged with" has been removed from the first two times it was used, but was kept in the third.  Suspension without pay has been retained.  They wouldn't budget on the "and/and/or/or" question.

              There will be a Campus Climate study from late spring until a year after.  It will be inclusive of every issue.

              Lisa Kornetsky's e-mail was forwarded to members; there will be a resolution to take to the Senate on the criminal background check issue.

4) Unfinished Business:

              a) First-Year Experience Committee

                            Faculty Appointments: Seif Da'Na, Chris Evans, Anne Gurnack,

                            Michael Gurtman, Dean Yohnk, Leo Zaibert.

                            Academic Staff Appointments: Damien Evans, Theron Snell,

                            Christine Tutlewski

              b) Faculty Meeting November 8, 2006

                            The Committee discussed what they hoped to accomplish, what they

                            wanted to present.  The message to Jr. Faculty is often that service is not

                            valued.  Begin the discussion with people's perception of the problems in   faculty governance and service.  Broad variation in how department value service.

              c) Follow-up on discussion with Eugene Fujimoto

                            Prof. DeVinny will talk to Mr. Fujimoto on due process for faculty. 

5) New Business:

              a) Meeting time for Spring: send schedules.

              b) CAP: issues of committee workload and reporting sequence

                            Discuss next time.

              c) Draft of criminal background checks policy:

                            Prof. DeVinny will invite Mr. Streeter to next  week's meeting.

6) Miscellaneous Business

              Prof. Evans will attend the Provost's cabinet meeting tomorrow morning.

7) Adjournment

              The meeting was adjourned at 5:05 P.M.

Submitted by Evelyn Zepp, Secretary of the Faculty