Salem Chapter MSCA Meeting
Executive Board Meeting
15 October 2001
Approved 8 Nov. 2001

01-02: 02

ATTENDANCE: Aiyeku, Billings, Buchanan, Burchsted, Cullen, Everitt, Farahbakhsh, Gould, Hanrahan, Krugman, Larson, Luddy, Mahaney, Marsella, McGee (President), Raudzens, Sturgeon.
GUESTS: Nancy Harrington, Margaret Vaughan

The meeting was called to order by Paul McGee, the President, at 2:06p.m. in the Presidential Room.

1. Approval of Minutes It was moved and seconded to approve the minutes of 13 September 2001, 01-02:01.
The motion carried.

2. President Harrington made a report to the committee:
-There is legislative inertia on funding the contract. Intense lobbying is being conducted. The Speaker of the House is the major block. The Governor will sign off on it.
-The college needs a healthy lobbying coalition among faculty, parents, students and alumni to acquire healthy funding.
-Is there a breach of contract? If it is not funded, some things will happen, but the contract language is weak on this matter.
-The Academic Vice-President Search must start by the end of November.
-Rumor control: The Salem Police did not ask for addresses of international students. We provided those addresses for the sake of students’ security. We have not gotten calls from INS or the FBI on our international students.
-Merit Raises: The names will not be released until funding is enacted. The Board of Directors agreed to this.
-The President will check on the Distance Learning component in tenure track recruiting.
-DGCE payment is now twice a semester. President Harrington will look into why the second payment comes after January 1.
-Question for the President: Software upgrades are not forthcoming. The lapsed leases included software upgrades. Why have those leases lapsed? Answer to come.
-Question: Is there college-wide planning for the 150th anniversary? That will start in January. It probably should involve co-chairs.
-Question: Can “blackboard” be gotten up and running? Answer to come.

3. Committee Appointments
It was moved and seconded to enter executive session to discuss Committee candidates.
The motion carried.

It was moved and seconded to come out of executive session.
The motion carried.

It was moved and seconded to affirm the actions taken in executive session.
The motion carried.

The following candidates were elected to fill Contract positions for 2001-2002:
ACADEMIC COMPUTING: John Aske (FL)
COUNCIL ON TEACHING AND LEARNING: Mayuresh Kelkur (MKT) 2 years

4. It was moved by Mark Raudzens and seconded by Jim Cullen to ask the Board of Directors to finance an ad campaign to publicize the contract funding issue. Focus should be put on contributions MSCA members make to the Commonwealth.
The motion carried.

5. President’s Report:
-The contract has a non compliance procedure which mostly impacts the DGCE area. The Treasurer asks the chairs to urge faculty to pay their dues.
-By-Law update: Report by Massoud Farahbakhsh. The By-Law committee is ready to produce a new copy of the by-laws. Some new issues: appointment of the grievance officer, in what area does the new COM department fit? Should the minutes be distributed to the membership? At chapter elections, should the vote count be communicated to the public?

6. Grievance Report:
William E. Mahaney: Grievances: Is PeopleSoft training mandatory? PeopleSoft does not work on MACs
There is an unfair labor practice of putting administrative work into faculty workload.
Professional development money.
BHE Assessment policy Attendance taking: we were sent the wrong request recently.

7. Treasurer’s report:
Susan Sturgeon. As of October 2001 we have spent $7807. Income has been $3490. Oops. There is a cash-flow problem. Dues were not collected for two months. Those monies will return.

8. New Faculty lunch:
Monday at 11:00.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:55pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Thomas E. Luddy, secretary