February 7,2002

President Cohen made the following announcements:

Alana Veal, Assistant Director of the Center for Student Success and Retention (CSSR), asked for a volunteer to serve on the Campus-Wide Retention Committee. Ms. Cohen requested that anyone who is interested should see her or send an email.

Tom Serwatka is exploring the possibility of having UNF provide volunteers for the construction of a HabiJax home that is being underwritten by David and Ann Hicks, members of UNF's Foundation Board and Board of Trustees. He is looking for interested volunteers.

Jeanne Middleton announced UNF Homecoming plans and urged all to attend. A brochure is available.

Absent. No agenda items.

The Committee met December 13 with Provost Kline, Mauricio Gonzales and Kim Luther. Members met again this morning. The next meeting is scheduled for February 14 at 11:30 a.m. in FAMA.

The Committee is in the process of arranging a meeting with President Hopkins.

The Committee will meet next Thursday, January 17, at 12:15 in FAMA. There will be an agenda item for the next meeting.

Absent. No report.

No report.

Absent. The Committee was forced to reschedule its meeting.

Dr. Hopkins called attention to the Spinnaker article about adjuncts and accreditation. She also wanted to address some budget issues. She reminded members that last month she talked about the budget cuts and her strategy for coping with the cuts. She reported that all divisions have made recommendations for savings. She and Dr. Kline met and agreed on a $32 million instruction budget. What is left will be for non-instructional needs. She felt that instruction is the most important issue to address. She said she will release a handful of positions after all figures are complete, but before the end of the month.

Dr. Hopkins said the Governor's budget is not due until the middle of January. There are no set figures yet. She reported on a conference call and a meeting in Orlando by university presidents. Administrators are proposing a 5 percent tuition increase for undergraduates, and up to 10 percent for out of state students and graduate students. This will help the larger schools. She noted that it will not be all bad for UNF and will help some; there is likely to be some level of enrollment increase available. She reported that by January 15 there should be an actual proposal. She does not know what will happen with raises. Overall general statements say there will be some modest new revenue for next year – possibly a couple of million.

Dr. Hopkins said UNF's local board is trying something different for its meetings. The members had four 2 ½ hour meetings. They plan to do some conference calls which will be on streaming audio. Anyone can listen from the campus Web page. There will be preliminary discussions for approval of some new programs.

No report. Absent.

Dr. Scheirer said UFF's major agenda item is to keep monitoring happenings in Tallahassee. She reported that there will be benefit seminars on January 22 and 23 at noon in FAMA. Stan Swart will talk about long term care and other insurance packages.

UFF is also concerned with monitoring academic freedom challenges and issues associated with the long term health of faculty. She mentioned the impasse that she reported to faculty last week in an email message. She said some of the main concerns had to do with raises and one-time bonuses.

President Cohen summarized an anonymous question. It will be forwarded to Joanne Campbell.

1.          Should some engineering faculty (not in release time) be paid overload when their teaching               assignments are often less than the average UNF faculty?

2.          How many engineering faculty were paid overloads in the past? What were their teaching loads?               And what were the rates at which they were paid?

President Cohen directed attention to information items in the agenda.

None.

The meeting adjourned at 12:30.

Respectfully submitted,

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Barbara Tuck
Secretary