President Kathleen Cohen made the following announcements.

Nominations for Distinguished Professor Award, Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Awards, and Outstanding Faculty Service Award are due by 5:00 p.m., January 26.

Immediately following the next Faculty Association meeting, February 1, there will be an open discussion on questions about promotion and tenure. This meeting is to address the answers to questions sent to Dr. Kline on November 2, 2000.

The Undergraduate Academic Enrichment Program is offering a number of competitive funding opportunities for faculty and undergraduate students during the spring term. These include a $500 travel grant program for undergraduate students, a $2000 undergraduate research grant ($1000 for the faculty member and $1000 of expense money for the student), and faculty grants to improve the intellectual climate of the university. The application deadline for the Intellectual
Life Grants and the Travel Grants is Monday, Feb. 5, 2001. The application deadline for the Undergraduate Research Grant is Friday, March 2, 2001. For more information about each of these programs, please contact Dr. Mary Borg. Email: mborg@unf.edu or telephone: 620-1095.

A copy of the letter to Governor Bush from the Academic Council of Faculty Senates about the Education Task Force is posted on the Web site. Senator Graham's speech to the Task Force on January 8 will be posted.

Ms. Cohen reminded everyone that she frequently consulted Judy Solano during meetings because she is the Faculty Association Parliamentarian.

The Safety Committee will meet January 22 at 3:00 p.m.. in the Vice President for Finance and Administration Conference Room.

The Committee met December 8 to consider the final engineering component. There is one item
on today's agenda. The Committee will meet at 10:00 a.m. January 12 in FAMA.

No report. The Committee will meet January 22 at 2:00 p.m. in FAMA.

No report. The Committee will meet January 30 at 12:15 p.m. in 42/3136.

The Committee will meet January l8 at 12:15 p.m. in FAMA.

The Committee will meet January 24 at 10:00 a.m. in the Faculty Enhancement area.
Members will discuss forums to be held this semester.

The Committee met December 19 with Dr. Kline to receive its charge. Formal review of dossiers begin this month.

Cythia Scott reported. The Committee will be considering recommendations gained from the faculty survey. A meeting is pending.

Dr. Kline reported that Dr. Hopkins had surgery two weeks ago. The medical reports were normal. She is weak and recuperating but expects to be back February 1. He commented that she seems feisty and there have been sightings at McDonalds.

Janet Owen was absent.

Chris Rasche reported that the Chairperson of the Educational Reorganization Transition Task Force announced a meeting for Thursday, January 18, in Tampa. She is not sure of the purpose of the meeting. The Advisory Council of Faculty Senates (ACFS), will meet on February 1-2 in Tallahassee, hopefully with Dr. Adam Herbert. Sen. Bob Graham has now jumped into the fray. He plans to take issues to the Legislature. It is an eleventh-hour move. Dr. Rasche promised to
keep faculty posted.

Dr. Fortado commented on Sen. Bob Graham's activities regarding the Educational Reorganization Transition Task Force. He recommended reading the letter sent by the Academic Council of Faculty Senates that is posted on the Faculty Association Web site. He also reported that the BOR and UFF have reached a tentative agreement. He urged all UFF members to vote on the contract for 2003. If a small number votes, it will send a bad message. He turned the floor over to Cheryl Frohlich to report on the UFF Statewide Bargaining Team.

Dr. Frohlich commented that it was indeed an interesting experience serving on the UFF Statewide Bargaining Team. She noted that the one piece of paper that we see with contract highlights refers to a fat book. These are the rights and benefits negotiated by the bargaining team every three years. She discussed some of the things that came out of the bargaining process. One was the Florida Gulf Coast University situation. It was organized several years ago as a non-tenured university with three-year contracts. The bargaining team spent a lot of
time trying to help those people get a little more security and upgrade procedures in their system. Other highlights in this contract include the fact that sabbaticals will be supplemented with grants, phased retirements will be available after six years instead often. There are also improvements in the grievance process and in procedures pertaining to distributing extra salary money.

Last year UFF negotiated with the BOR to get data on salaries for the entire university system. Using this new information it was learned that raises from E & G money amounted to 20.47% of all raises statewide. At UNF it amounted to 29.17% of raises. This is money that faculty have no say about how it is distributed. She noted several other facts gleaned from the information now available. If this new agreement is ratified, the administration will be required to report how it came to decisions about amounts and recipients.

Dr. Frohlich said that if anyone wanted to hear more about the negotiations, they should attend the next UFF meeting. She will spend some time discussing how the process worked, etc.

Kathleen Cohen read the following questions:

Dr. Chris Rasche to Bob Fagin: How long will access from the parking garage to Building 11 be obstructed by work on the Green?

Bob Fagin answer: Four to six weeks.

Dr.Matt Corrigan, Political Science and Public Administration, to Bruce Fortado: UFF is negotiating with the Board of Regents but the BOR is going away sooner than expected. Will the settlement still be good after the BOR is gone?

Bruce Fortado answer: The Board of Regents was scheduled to last until January 2003. Now it appears it will be dismantled earlier, possibly this year. UFF is legally able to negotiate and sign a contract that will be good until 2003. It is hoped a contract can be signed before the BOR is dismantled. If it is not signed, the current contract ends the middle of this summer.

Item #1 - FA 00-35: Resubmitted by the Executive Committee.

Revise-Proposed University Mission Statement

Dr. Cheryl Frohlich moved the item. She noted that the Mission Statement was discussed at
the last meeting and sent back to the Executive Committee for refinement. Dr. Kline and Dr.
Workman attended the Executive Committee meeting and a revised document is ready for
another vote.

The item passed.

Item #2 - FA 00-42: Submitted by the Academic Programs Committee.

COLLEGE OF COMPUTING SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (New Program and New Courses
for Mechanical Engineering)

Dr. Russac moved the item.

The item passed.

The meeting adjourned at 12:38.

Respectfully submitted,

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Barbara L. Tuck, Secretary