Salem Chapter MSCA Meeting
Executive Board Meeting
6 December 2001
Approved 25 February 2002
01-02:4

ATTENDANCE: Aiyeku, Buchanan, Everitt, Farahbakhsh, Hanrahan, Larson, Luddy, Marsella, McGee (President), Raudzens, Sturgeon.

The meeting was called to order by Paul McGee, the President, at 2:00 p.m. in the Salem Room.

1. Approval of Minutes.
It was moved and seconded to approve the minutes of 8 November 2001. The motion carried.

2. President’s Report.
Questions President Harrington has addressed since last time:

-The final DGCE payment for the semester will happen on December 21.
-Blackboard is up and running. There still seem to be some problems.
-Academic Vice-Presidential Search: The ad has gone out. The committee has not met.
-Tenure Track employment advertising asks for distance learning experience as a preferred option. Faculty nation-wide are not up and running on the issue.
Contractual agreement has not been reached. Our contract has been funded by a unanimous vote in both the house and senate.
Amounts:

6% from January 2001.
Rank adjustment
2.5% tenure/tenure track signing bonus
Merit pay Promotions 3.77% from September 30, 2001.

A request for a hard copy of the spreadsheet to figure amounts was made. The difficult issue is to find the amount with which to start.

3. Constitution and By-Laws Committee report by Massoud Farahbakhsh.
A proposed revision was distributed to be compared with the old blue copy (Revised Constitution and Bylaws, 1994). There are many cosmetic changes that are taken as given. The substantive changes are as follows:

1. P. 4, Article V.1.A: “Division” has been changed to “Academic Area” consistently throughout the document.

2. P. 6. Article VI.2.A “President” replaces “Executive Committee”.

3. P. 9. Article VIII. 4. See also P. 4, Article V. After much discussion of this debated issue, the Committee decided that the Grievance Officer should be an ex officio member of the Executive Committee as appointed by the President. Massoud will take this back to the Constitution & Bylaws Committee for further discussion.

4. P. 12. No. 12: Omit the end of this paragraph “and the vote count of the membership.” Add “the record of the vote count and the voting materials should be kept for the duration of the term in the Chapter’s office.”.

5. P. 13. Section 2, second paragraph: add at the end “per procedure in Appendix A.”

6. P. 14. Appendix A. The Distribution of Departments has been edited to provide a balanced distribution of faculty in each Academic Area. Nursing has been moved from Div. IV to Academic Area A, Library has been moved from Div, IV to Academic Area B, Sport, Fitness, and Leisure has been moved from Div. IV to Academic Area C, Criminal Justice has been moved from Div, III to Area D. Occupational Therapy and Communications are new departments and have been added to the mix.

We are now more concerned with balanced representation than similarity of content. A final copy of the Revised Constitution and Bylaws will be distributed, followed by a vote by the general membership.

4. Grievance Report.
The tenure termination passed at the Board of Trustees. Appeal will follow.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:25.

Respectfully submitted,

Thomas E. Luddy, secretary