Dr. Frohlich welcomed back Vice-President for Institutional Advancement, Pierre Allaire.

Dr. Frohlich announced a search for Interim Director for the Office of Faculty Enhancement.

George Androuin of the University Center introduced Gregory Himes and Nancy Ryan of Chartwell's. They attended the meeting to give a brief presentation concerning the new food service on campus. Chartwell's was the exclusive caterer of the Salt Lake City Olympics. Chartwell's is now operating a very temporary service. The company and the university have formed a $3.3 million partnership to development food venues. Outtakes is one food service that they characterized as "upscale", serving good food and good soups. It will be in the current study lounge on the first floor of Building 9. A "standup café" will begin renovation next week. It is to be called the Blue and Gray Café. The old Pizza Hut will be a Fresh Grille and Trattoria serving made-to-order Italian food and sandwiches. In the heart of campus will be Parrots and Ospreys. It will be renovated in the next month and a half. The Boat House will become Wackadoos - a pub and grub. UCF and Florida Atlantic have one. Beer will be sold. There will be big screen TV, games and entertainment. A new company called Dancing Deer will sell cookies, etc. If an order is placed over the Internet, the food will be made that day. It is a delivery program.

Nancy Ryan is the new catering director. Her office is located at the University Center. She will be responsible for sandwiches and baked goods on campus and also catering in UC and on campus. She guarantees that the level and quality of catering on campus will improve. She promises all food will be delivered fresh. They have a new chef named Enrique who cooks with a Florida flair. She noted that this is day 11 of 10 years, so she is still working on getting started. She offered two big baskets of cookie samples. She also noted that the buffet luncheon is back on at University Center.

Cheryl Frohlich asked about hours at Wackadoos. Chartwell's representatives said hours will be from 7:00 a.m. until midnight Monday through Friday and better hours on Saturday and Sunday. Meal plans are available at all locations.

Ms. Ryan also said that catering will work with your budget. She can come up with many options. Her telephone number is 620- 3888 and her email is nbryan@unf.edu.

The next meeting is scheduled for August 7 at 9:00 a.m. They Committee has one agenda item today.

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Dr. Hopkins is out of town and apologizes for missing today's meeting.

David Kline is optimistic about Chartwells. The company was much superior to others that were considered. Dr. Kline said that in the fall of this year, we will probably have more important decisions to make in the history of UNF. They are decisions that will affect things for the next 10 or 20 years. There are performance measures that at least 10 percent of the budget will be based upon. We must get better at them so we must get mechanisms in place. He reported that the University is hiring over 100 new faculty. That is almost 25 percent of the current faculty. The University and UFF must work out a new contract – the old one expires in January. We must have a Constitutional Convention. There are consultant reports that must be acted upon pretty quickly. Human Resources must act quickly on consultant recommendations. The biggest and most scarey is the adoption of an ERP – a management computer system that will take care of human resources, payroll, student records, sponsored research. What kind of vendor will be chosen? How will we train people? The cost is enormous. More that $10 million. Obviously very expensive.

Andrew Farkas asked about the hiring of new faculty. Are these tenure-earning faculty? Are there any for the library? Dr. Kline said that there was always a priority to hire faculty. He said that whole departments will be transformed. If we do it really well, it can be absolutely transforming. A faculty member asked how many of the positions are new and how many are moving from visiting positions. Dr. Kline responded that about 25 are new. There are already 75 accumulated visiting positions. Pat Plumlee asked where we are going to put them all. Dr. Kline responded that the Science and Engineering building will open in one year. That will add lots of office space when people move out of building 11 and chemistry and physics. There will probably be a need for 25 new offices.

A faculty member asked about combining the new computer systems with other schools to save money. Dr. Kline responded that that is being attempted and will help keep the price down. Cheryl Frohlich asked if there were any detriments to us being the smallest school. Dr. Kline said of course the larger schools want the most fancy packages but that may be an advantage to us because we get a prorated proportional cost. The cost could be equivalent to a smaller one if we have to buy it by ourselves. He characterized this as the biggest project that UNF has ever engaged in. He said many won't see it but some will be dedicated to it 24 hours a day. Pat Plumlee asked about health benefits. Dr. Kline said that is an entirely separate issue. He said we may end up better than we have now.

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Dr. Fortado met in Gainesville with American Federation of Teachers. He said he is thankful for what we have had and compared us to Alabama who cannot collectively bargain. UFF wants to make sure we retain all the rights we have. He noted that we should count our blessings.

The following anonymous question will be forwarded to Dr. Kline.

A question about the policy of no longer distributing paper copies of direct deposit salaries was directed to Richard Crosby (who was not present). It was pointed out that going online and printing the report on university paper on university time would probably not result in much of a savings. There have been several times in the past when people have had problems with salary payments and with no statements, it is possible the problems won't be detected promptly. The questioner asked who decided this and what cost savings are seen?

Dr. Kline responded that Richard Crosby had worked up the economics and President Hopkins had approved it. He noted that she does not remember this, but he thinks we should try it for a while and see what happens. If it does not work, we will switch back.

Bruce Fortado asked about the answers to questions that are supposed to be on the Faculty Association Web page. He said he could not find them. He was assured that they were there and prompted as to how to get to them.

Pali Sen asked about the process of submitting grades. She noted that there is a popup window that allows three choices. She had to wonder about what it meant. She noted she would like to get a better understanding of what she is doing. She noted that many of her classes have 140 students. She cannot take roll every meeting because it takes too much time. Dr. Kline said this had to do with the federal government and financial aid.

Dr. Kline asked if people want to keep the picture section in the campus telephone book. He reported that it costs $15,000. Andrew Farkas noted that it is very helpful. Others said if it is on the Web site, it doesn't need to be in print.

Item #1 -- FA 02-24: Submitted by the Academic Programs Committee

College of Education and Human Services

Educational Services & Research

Lisa Jamba-Joyner asked for approval to suspend the rules. All items submitted in May and June have to wait until September for approval. These items must be approved in July because the PBOE has mandated the changes for the COEHS.

The suspension of rules was approved.

The item was moved by Lisa Jamba Joyner.

The item passed.

Cheryl Frohlich reminded people about information items in the packet.

The meeting adjourned at 1:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

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Barbara Tuck
Secretary