EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

Monday, October 7, 2002

MINUTES

I. Adoption of the Agenda – The Agenda was adopted

II. Approval of the Minutes for September 23, 2002 – Approved as written

III. Old Business –

A. Parliamentarian Issue – The issue of the Parliamentarian being an actual voting member of the Faculty Senate and of the Executive Committee was discussed. Jeffrey Jordan, Parliamentarian, submitted a proposal and resolution to the Executive committee. The resolution reads as follows:

Resolved, that the UD Faculty Handbook and Constitution be revised so that:

a. The parliamentarian becomes a voting member of the Faculty Senate; and,

b. the parliamentarian is a member of the Executive Committee; and,

c. the parliamentarian is a member of the Committee on Rules.

The committee decided to submit this proposal to the Committee on Rules for their recommendation

B. AAUP issue concerning the faculty contract – There has been an allegation that the contract that was voted upon by the faculty is not the contract that the faculty is now operating under. Jan Blits attended the meeting as a guest speaker. Dr. Blits submitted a document containing three columns. The first column representing the previous contract, the second column representing the contract that was voted upon and the third column representing the contract that was printed. Jan bold faced the changes and walked the committee through each discrepancy.

President Jay Hildebrandt presented, in an unbiased manner, Jerry Turkel’s position concerning the issue to the Committee.

The Committee also discussed the charge of the Faculty Welfare and Privileges Committee focusing on the area of “reviewing other areas of personnel policy and conditions of faculty employment". The Executive committee charged the Faculty Welfare and Privileges Cte. (FWP) with looking into which, if any, of these issues falls under the jurisdiction of the Senate. Jan Blits was asked to submit a report on the findings of the committee.

President-Elect, Karen Stein, asked Dr. Blits if the contract that the faculty ratified included the new definition of workload as 12 credit/contact hours constituting a full (100%) workload--as opposed to it constituting a full teaching workload. She suggested to him that if what the faculty ratified did contain that language then past practice would be inconsistent with this definition of what constitutes workload. Thus, the elimination of past practice could possibly be an implementation change, as opposed to a substantive change. Dr. Blits did not know if this was the case or not.

The Committee decided that they would make an announcement to the Senate that such an issue was pending. And would ask Dr. Blits to check on the issue suggested by President – Elect, Karen Stein and then have his committee submit a report of the findings to the Executive Committee.

IV. New Business – None

V. Adjournment – The meeting adjourned at 12:05 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted,

Karren Helsel-Spry