President Kathleen Cohen made the following announcements.

The campus food service and bookstore have received very few replies from faculty to their online survey. They ask that faculty members please take a few minutes to complete the survey.

The library is conducting a Database of the Week Workshop this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. The database for today is ScienceDirect.

Ms. Cohen reminded faculty that graduation is May 4. She urged all to plan to attend.

Judy Perkin reported that the University Parking Committee will meet April 10 at noon. She and Diane Tanner are faculty members on the Committee. All are welcome at meetings.

The Committee met March 9. There is one item on today's agenda from the Department of Natural Sciences. The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, April 13 at 10:00 a.m. in FAMA.

The Committee met March 12. Guests included Provost David Kline, University Counsel Karen Stone, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Everett Malcolm, and Director of the International Center Tim Robinson.

The Committee has two agenda items in today's packet. The next meeting is scheduled for April 16 at 2:00 p.m. in FAMA.

Paul Mason was absent. He asked President Cohen to urge faculty to look at the information item in today's packet. The Committee will meet with President Hopkins to discuss the 2002 budget.

The Committee is scheduled to meet April 12 at 12:15 p.m.

The Committee has an information item on page 12 of the Faculty Association Agenda Packet. The joint meetings with the Research Committee produced the list of recommendations included in today's packet. The strongest recommendations have to do with how surveys are distributed. The Committees will discuss whether to come forward with action statements. Dr. Scott urged everyone to read the list of recommendations and give feedback.

Collegiality is the topic of the next Faculty Forum to be held April 6. Homemade treats will be served.

The Committee is scheduled to meet again April 11 in the Faculty Enhancement area. Members will discuss fellowship applications at that time.

Pat Plumlee was absent. The report will be on the Faculty Association Website and added to these minutes.

The P&T Committee reviewed the dossiers of 15 individuals. All told, there were 22 tenure and/or promotion applications for the 2000-2001 academic year.

There were 9 tenure applications. The P&T Committee made a positive recommendation on all 9 applications.

There were 11 applications for promotion to Associate Professor. The P&T Committee made positive recommendations on 9, and a negative recommendation on 2 of these applications.

There were 2 applications for promotion to Professor. The P&T Committee did not recommend either candidate for promotion to Professor.

The P&T Committee also submitted an action item regarding the P&T guidelines for the Faculty Association agenda.

Kathleen Cohen read a memorandum from Provost Kline reporting on his actions regarding promotion and tenure applications. He positively recommended 9 of 9 tenure candidates. He positively recommended 9 of 11 promotion to Associate Professor. He positively recommended 1 of 2 promotion to professor. His memorandum will be included as an information item in the next Faculty Association packet.

Absent.

Dr. Hopkins reported that the House and Senate versions of the budget are significantly far apart at this time. The library building addition is fully funded at $16.4 million in the Senate and $8.2 million in the House, so a bargain of some sort must be struck. Other issues remain on the table. What is going to happen to challenge grants? That is important to UNF because we are in the middle of a capital campaign. If challenge grants are significantly reduced, it is going to cause us big problems. There is fairly decent funding for library resources, but there is no funding for library automation. That is not satisfactory. Enrollment growth funding is different in each house. Dr. Hopkins commented that we won't know how that will be until the end of the session. It is not clear if there will be a tuition increase and, if so, how much. Lots of cuts relate to specific pork projects from the past. The members went through the last five budgets to get a list of those. One house has a salary increase built in and one doesn't. As it is now, the Senate stands at about a 2.8% reduction and the House at a .65 % increase.

The educational reorganization keeps changing every day. As of July 1 there will be no Board of Regents. Members of institutional boards of trustees will be appointed sometime between July 1 and November 1. What is less clear is what these boards will be doing, who will have what authority. It was decided to pass a much more general kind of change. The Task Force members realized there were too many changes at once. After the legislative session there is a provision for a group to be established to work out all the details. The group will include Judy Hample. Dr. Hopkins indicated this is fortunate for the universities because Dr. Hample has substantial experience in the Board of Regents. There will be a "Type 2" transfer of all money and power from the Board of Regents to the interim Board of Education. Those people will act like the Board of Regents. She indicated that UNF needs to submit recommendations for board members. She also indicated that July 1 we won't notice a difference, but she will. She'll be working with a local board. She enlists the help of faculty. She is optimistic, but she can tell people are concerned. She wants to share anything she can.

Bob Vergenz asked how the new system will impact the budget process for next year? How is this going to positively or negatively affect our budget request for the following year?

In a normal sense, it will not affect us at all. We will have the same budget time frame to submit requests. The new boards will not be in place this year, but the following year the requests will pass through them. The Board of Regents has not been protecting our budget. What we have gotten, we have gotten politically.

Mary Anne Barnes asked if institutions will have input into the composition of the boards.

Any citizen of the state can write and recommend someone for the board. All presidents are free to submit recommendations.

An Engineering professor asked if there are some states in the country that presently operate in this system?

Not really. Idaho does something like this. What is different about this K- 20 system is the scope of the authority of the boards. Her sense of it is that no board can possibly deal with that scope unless it is significantly decentralized. It looks like one possible way that might happen is that the different chancellors would do much of the groundwork. She does not know how it will work.

A faculty member said he had heard that people serving on the current foundation board are ineligible.

Dr. Hopkins said this is not true. The governor has 111 appointments to make. He doesn't want to look like a fool in who he appoints. Foundation board members would be very qualified people. She noted that most places she has been have had boards. She thinks it will be relatively invisible to faculty.

Mary Borg asked if UNF will still have a Foundation Board.

Dr. Hopkins responded in the affirmative.

Absent.

Dr. Fortado reported on statewide UFF elections. Tom Auxter won the election for state UFF President and Dan Kimel was elected Vice President. On March 14 Tom Auxter spoke on the UNF campus. UFF will publish a report of his comments. Dr. Fortado said he is hopeful of the administration's support in the transition.

Dr. Bill Wilson asked if there is no longer a Graduate Council report during the Faculty Association meeting. Dr. Tom Serwatka responded that the report had been taken off the regular standing committee reports. He said that when there is something to report, he can do it during the announcement period.

Item #1 - FA 01-06: Submitted by the Academic Programs Committee.
College of Arts and Sciences

Randall Russac moved the item. The item passed.

Item #2 - FA 01-07: Submitted by the Academic Standards Committee.

Transcript Documentation of Suspension

Pali Sen moved the item and asked Dr. Kline to speak to the motion. Dr. Kline commented that he had worked with the Committee and the item as it appears now is a compromise. It was agreed that there should be something to state that a student was currently suspended, but should not be there for the rest of his life. Dr. Kline, Karen Stone and Everett Malcolm all supported the action.

The item passed.

Item #3 - FA 01-08: Submitted by the Academic Standards Committee.

Indicators of Required English Language Proficiency for Foreign Applicants

Pali Sen moved the item.

The item passed.

Item #4 — FA 01-09: Submitted by the Promotion and Tenure Committee

Change in Promotion and Tenure Guidelines

Judy Solano moved the item.

The item passed.

Steve Shapiro said that, historically, there has been a year's warning when something regarding Promotion and Tenure Guidelines were changed. Dr. Solano noted that this does not change any criteria.

The meeting adjourned at 12:53.

Respectfully submitted,

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Barbara L. Tuck, Secretary