President Kathleen Cohen noted that the list of faculty award winners was listed on the inside cover of the Association packet. She congratulated the winners and thanked the awards committees' members for their hard work. Awards will be presented at the Fall Convocation.

Ms. Cohen reminded faculty that graduation ceremonies are tomorrow night. Elaine Konigsburg is the scheduled speaker.

T. J. Acord from the campus bookstore announced a new service. Faculty now have the option of researching titles online for the fall term. It is possible to browse books by subject, search by author, etc., and actually order textbooks online. She is happy to provide assistance or training.

Ward Sheindlinger of Food Services talked about food services for the summer. There is a new meal plan that will be tested during the Summer B session. It will include all food service locations on campus. The faculty/staff meal plan has several new options. The average cost of a meal will be $4.50. There is a new 100% satisfaction guarantee – no questions asked. The Courtyard Café will be open through summer - hours are posted on the door. They have added veggie burgers and steak sandwiches. They are sprucing up the Courtyard Café and Boathouse. Food Services is doing some painting and repair. He wants the University to team with him in making improvements.

Judy Solano and Connie Corker have updated the Faculty Handbook. It is available on the Web. Print editions will be available next week.

The Committee met April 13. There are two agenda items today. The next meeting is scheduled for May 18 in FAMA.

Committee members met with Provost Kline and Shawn Brayton on April 16 to discuss UNF's late withdrawal policy. The Committee is scheduled to meet again May 15 at 12:00 p.m. in FAMA.

Dr. Hopkins reported (in her report period) that she met with the Committee (May 1) to discuss budget issues.

The Committee will meet May 10 at 11:00 a.m. in FAMA.

Verna Urbanski reported for Cynthia Scott.
The Committee met April 11. Members discussed the Office of Faculty Enhancement fellowship process. They reviewed the final faculty forum held earlier this month and began to plan for next year's committee assignments. The next meeting is May 9 at 10:00 a.m. in the Office of Faculty Enhancement.

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The Committee met April 23. The Committee will meet again May 22 or 23 with the Faculty Enhancement Committee to decide what action items to submit in the Fall.

The next meeting is May 22 at 12:15 p.m. Agenda items are due by May 17.

Dr. Hopkins reported that the Budget Advisory Committee met with her May 1 to discuss budget items.

Dr. Hopkins then switched to a discussion of the budget process in the Legislature. She noted that it will be voted on tomorrow. The Governor can then veto anything he pleases in the budget bill. One concern is that there is a 7.5% tuition increase built in, across the board, for all universities. It raises $30 million. If that tuition increase is then vetoed, the $30 million will be lost. Dr. Hopkins then summarized several things that could possibly be voted upon and their possible implications for UNF.

Add-ons include enrollment growth money which universities requested and lobbied for. It is the only new money we knew we would get. There is a salary increase of $30 million. She does not know the percentage of this. She said we must now watch what the governor does. Most of the things we have in the budget now should not be vetoed because they are in the original Board of Regents list that was already approved.

Dr. Hopkins wanted people to know that her office has figured out that by doing the budget differently – by having no more midyear allocations and by allocating money July 1for the entire year, we can substitute non-recurring money for recurring money and out of that process can gather up something like $1.2 million. That is not enough to meet the budget decrease, but we will have to see what it is before we can know. If we end up with the tuition increase vetoed, and have to find 30 million more dollars, we will have to do much more substantial things.

Dr. Hopkins also wanted to briefly discuss the reorganization bill. She noted that it is complicated but, basically, the Legislature has decided that we will remain state agencies for the next year. A Type 2 Transfer is being initiated. Everything will be transferred to the Board of Education. Every rule will stay in place until the Board changes it or until additional legislation is passed which devolves the authority to the future Boards of Trustees. Another key feature of the reorganization bill is that there is a group that would be in charge of helping to come up with a plan that is much more detailed than the plan that is included in the Legislature now. Presumably this group would have until January 1 when the Legislature begins session again. She noted that, in the meantime, UNF is trying to get organized to deal with all the changes.

Provost Kline announced that Dr. Mark Workman is the new Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In his comments he said that he and Dr. Workman share similar views on what a liberal education amounts to and he looks forward to working with him. Dr. Kline thanked Dr. Henry Camp for his work as the interim dean and noted that his actions had made the college better.

Dr. Mark Workman said he was honored to be the Dean and considered it an awesome responsibility. He thanked Dr. Hopkins for the opportunity to have worked with her. In addition, he wanted to say a few words about Hank Camp. He said they would have supported each other if they had not been competitors for the same position. He thinks the world of him and actually came to UNF because of him. Dr. Camp had told him of his motivation for choosing to come to UNF and of his decision to stay and persuaded him it was a good place to come to work.

Dr. Workman then addressed the preparations made by UNF to change to the new education system. He reported that last fall President Hopkins appointed a group called the Associates Group to create an opportunity for dialogue across the divisions. The group was made up of the Associate Vice Presidents: Richard Crosby and Linda Anderson of Administration and Finance, Joanne Campbell, Tom Serwatka and Dennis Gale of Academic Affairs, Everett Malcolm of Student Affairs, and Elizabeth Head in Institutional Advancement. In addition, Janet Owen, President's Office and Deborah Kaye, Enrollment Services, were appointed. When the Education Reorganization Task Force began to clarify its plan, President Hopkins asked this group to function as a local transition task force to begin to anticipate how UNF would move from being part of the State University System to being locally governed. The original group of associates was then augmented with Scott Bennet, Inspector General, Ricky Arjune, Budget Officer, Wendy Morris and Karen Stone, General Counsels, and Jim Van Vleck, Special Assistant to the President.

The group got into high gear in January. Joanne Campbell is chairing the group that is preparing a briefing book for the Board of Trustees that will provide essential information about UNF. The plan, at the moment, is to present some of that information initially in PowerPoint presentations to be backed up by the manual. Another committee is the POP Committee (Policy on Policies). There are a great many policies that have not been produced in a systematic way. Now that we will be reporting to a local board of trustees, it is essential that the University have processes in place for the origination and archiving of policies.

Richard Crosby is heading up the effort regarding the acquisition of new business systems. On July 1, 2003, UNF will no longer be able to use statewide finance and resource systems, so we will need new computer systems in place. Finally, Karen Stone is heading up a group that will prepare draft bylaws that we will offer to the new trustees. They will speak, in part, to the delegation of authority between the Board of Trustees and the President. Some of those have to be in place July 1 of this year in order for the University to function in a seamless and uninterrupted way. He stressed that the groups were dealing with matters of process and not substance and that when they do deal with matters of substance, there will be occasion for broad input from across the University.

Karen Stone asked if there were any questions.

Chris Rasche asked where the faculty voice is in all this. Dr. Hopkins reiterated that what is happening now is addressing processes. There is no intention to change any responsibility of the Faculty Association. She noted that we have policies and rules that cover so many things and this is an opportunity to become more flexible. POP (Policy on Policies) reviews will be shared widely so that there will be opportunities for input. Most of the things the committees are doing are not things that the Faculty Association does. Dr. Rasche said she was concerned about faculty voice being left out. Dr. Hopkins said the group had to get things done quickly. She said if the faculty want to have a representative on this group, they can, but it takes up lots of time. Karen Stone noted that everything is in the very preliminary stages. When Janet Owen gets back from Tallahassee everything can get organized.

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Kathleen Cohen reported the results of the UFF election. The new president is Dr. Elinor Scheirer.

Bruce Fortado talked about Education Commissioner Charlie Crist's condemnation of Florida Atlantic University for allowing the play, Corpus Christi, to be presented. Dr. Fortado said it was an attack on academic freedom. UFF has condemned what Commissioner Crist wrote.

Dr. Fortado also brought attention to the results of the UFF campus survey. Results were mailed out last week.

Faculty Association bylaws state that anonymous questions sent to the president become the property of the president, and may be reformatted for reading at the meeting. The following questions will be sent to Dr. Earle Traynham for a written response.

The questioner is concerned about two areas:
1. Success of Eminent Scholars Program in Transportation
2. Several young faculty in COBA have left or are leaving. There is concern that the unfriendly atmosphere in the college is forcing them out.

Ellie Scheirer asked if there would be food service on Saturdays. She noted that there were students and staff on campus in the summer and there should be good food services.

Ward Sheindlinger responded that the food service schedule had been approved.

Bob Fagin said he will look into the problem.

Royal Van Horn said that there is a larger issue with food services. He feels the hours of operation need a significant review and asked the Academic Technology & Support Services Committee to look into it.

Bill Wilson asked if there were still employee recognition dinners, plaques and savings bonds. Several in the audience responded that there were and that the dinner had already been held this year.

Item #1 - FA 01-10: Submitted by the Academic Programs Committee.

College of Education

Randall Russac moved the item. The item passed.

Item #2 - FA 01-11: Submitted by the Academic Programs Committee.

College of Health

Randall Russac moved the item.

Judy Solano asked about the name revisions of 01-009 and if the proper forms had been approved. Health Sciences reported that the Faculty Association had approved the classes, they had just never been given a formal name. The program was approved but there had been no forms submitted because the courses had not formed yet.

The item passed.

Item #3 - FA 01-12: Submitted by the Strategic Planning Committee

Faculty Representation on the local Board of Trustees

Donna Mohr moved the item. The item passed

Item #4 - FA 01-13: Submitted by the Executive Committee

Department of Natural Sciences Reorganization

Cheryl Frohlich moved the item. The item passed.

Item #5 – FA 01-14: Submitted by the Executive Committee

Department of Health Science Reorganization

Cheryl Frohlich moved the item. Dale Clifford asked why this item does not incur a cost. Dr. Pam Chally responded that there are already a 12-month person and others who will take care of staffing, therefore no cost is added.

The item passed.

Item #6 – FA 01-15: Submitted by the Faculty Association President

The 2001-2002 Faculty Association Budget was submitted for approval.

The item passed.

The meeting adjourned at 1:32.

Respectfully submitted,

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Barbara Tuck
Secretary