Meeting Minutes

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Present: Arend, Bates, D. Betz, P. Betz, Brown, Fink, Finkel, Fisher, Fort, Glazer, Haramati, Hirsh, Jacobs, Kellar, Kopac, Martire, McFadden, Moran Cruz, Morris, Murphy, A. Myers, Noyes, Rameh, Sara,S.J., Schwartz, Spiegel, Stent, Subramanian, Viksnins, Witek,S.J.

Excused: Alatis, Fasold, Mujica, Nichols, Soudee, vonArx, Vroman

Absent: Areen, Barth, Breall, Bryne, Campbell, Cohan, Cohn, Cole, Cooper, DaSilva, Davis, Dover, Dretchen, Ferdows, Haft, Harter, Gallucci, Gerli, Goldfrank,  Kromer, Lawton,S.J., Lieber, McCabe, K. Myers, Mujal-Leon, Nelson, Oakley, O'Connor, Owen, Pinkard, Richardson, Rothstein, Schuelein, Scribanu, Terrio, Tracy, Wallace, J. Walsh,S.J., Walters, Wasserstrom, Weidenbruch, Wientzen, Wiesel, Young.

Guests: Dan Porterfield, Mark Smulson, Mark Danielsen ?
 

The meeting was called to order at 4:30 p.m. in the Program Room, Leavey Center

Minutes of 4/14/98 were available as handouts at meeting.

There were no major agenda items for this meeting.  The meeting was called because of the events taking place on all three campuses.  It was announced that the EVP of the Main Campus was leaving to become president of the University of Richmond.  Judith Areen was almost not reappointed until a number of faculty leaders became involved in the proceedings.

Professor Jack Murphy reported on a meeting of faculty members from all three campuses with Winston Churchill, a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors to try to improve relationships between the faculty and the administration.  Professor Murphy reported that Mr. Churchill had stated that the University is the faculty and the students and the Board and Administration were here to serve them.  A possible outcome of this meeting was that it now may be possible for the faculty to meet directly with the Board.

Professor Paul Betz stated that he was puzzled about what was going on.  He questioned whether these issues were a number of isolated incidents or examples of administrative disintegration.

Professor Haramati echoed Professor Murphy's comments and made a motion in support of the Faculty Senate's direct and continuing communication with the Board.  The motion was carried unanimously.

Mark Jacobs gave a brief report of Senate Advisory Committee considering NTA's.

The meeting continued with a wide ranging discussion of the current status of the University with emphasis on a number of issues in the Medical Center.  There had been a Town Meeting in the Medical Center that was attended by over 200 faculty.  Some 100 faculty had sent a letter to Father O'Donovan expressing a lack of confidence in the leadership of Dr.  Wiesel.  There was concern that in an effort to reduce the deficit the academic program in the Medical School would be seriously diminished.  The discussion culminated with a motion that the academic mission of the Medical Center is central.  The motion was carried unanimously.

The meeting adjourned at 6:11 p.m.

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