Meeting Minutes 

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PRESENT: Andrews, Arend, Bates, D. Betz, P. Betz, Bloch, Cole, Davis, Danielson, Diamond, Dover, Fink, Goldfrank, Hirsh, Iglarsh, Ingebretsen,S.J., Jacobs, Lauerman, Mann, Martire, Massaro, Mayer-Sommer, McFadden, S.J., Morris, J. Murphy, A. Myers, Noyes, O’Connor, Pfeiffer,  Puto, Rameh, Richardson, Ronkainen, Sitterson, Soudee, Suyderhoud, Temple, T.Walsh, Walters,  Witek, S.J

ABSENT: Alatis,  Areen, Attinger, Baigis, Dorothy Brown, Douglas Brown, Byrne, Cha, Cohn, Collea, Cuddington, Curran, DeGioia, Ernst, Evans, Gallucci, Glavin, Glazer, Haft,  Haramati, Hauser, Kromer, Lepgold, Lieber, McAuliffe, McCabe, McGrail, Moran Cruz, Mujal-Leon, Oakley, O’Donnell, Picken, Rom, Sanz, Santoro, Serene, Spiegel, Tornatore, Tracy, Viksnins, Weidenbruch, Wiesel, Zuccarelli

GUESTS: Julie Cohen, Mike Newman, Jack Hartman, Nina Scribanu

The meeting was called to order by Prof. Bates at 4:20 p.m. 

Minutes of the Feb. 9, 2001 meeting were approved.

An appointment of a replacement on the Georgetown University Athletic Advisory Board, of Julia Lamm, was confirmed.   Linda Wetzel will replace Prof. Lamm when she is able (she is currently on sabbatical).

Dr. Jack DeGioia was out of town today and unable to address the Senate.

A resolution from the Medical Center Caucus regarding the Caucus was introduced:

The Medical Caucus of the University Faculty Senate recommends that a special election be conducted for a one year term for clinical faculty positions on the Medical Caucus of the University Faculty Senate.

With the MedStar transaction and uncertainties in Medical Center governance, this provides for a one year transition while the format of elections in the future is developed.  The Basic Science elections would be held as usual.

A motion was made and seconded to approve the resolution.  

The resolution was amended to include the following:

Only full-time Medical Center faculty will be eligible to vote or run.

The motion passed with 35 for, 1 opposed and 1 abstaining.

Prof. Bates urged that nominations for Senate positions on all campuses be forwarded to the appropriate parties.

Proposed changes in Patent and Copyright policy were discussed further.  The proposed revisions were available to faculty the past several weeks.

In the discussion, a further change was proposed to ensure that if a faculty member left the University, the department would still receive its share of royalties along the same lines as if the faculty member stayed at the University.  That motion passed unanimously.

The modification of the section on “Distribution of Financial Benefit and Expenses, Net Income and Equity, Net Receipts” was passed unanimously.

Revised Section VII was discussed next.  The 20% limit on faculty ownership share in outside companies was discussed at length.  Paragraph VIIB was modified to clarify that it applied only to technologies and companies in which the University “retains an interest.”

A motion was made to modify Section II, setting a limit of 5% for individual equity positions.  The pros and cons of setting that limit at various levels was debated.  That motion failed.  A subsequent motion was made and seconded to limit the equity share of individuals to 10%.  That motion passed.

Section VII(d) was next discussed.  The ability of faculty member to accept sponsored funds from a company in which they hold an equity interest is affected by this section.  It allows funding of this type in some cases.  It was moved that section VII(d) be approved, pending modification to make it consistent with the conflict of interest policy.

Section VII was approved, 16-4, pending those revisions.

A proposed revision to Section VIII(c) by LeRoy Walters was also discussed.  That revision intended to clarify the application of the policy to traditional scholarly works.  An amendment was moved and approved to make the language of this section consistent with  Section VIII C (1) Publication Subvention.

Section VIII was moved for approval, pending those revisions in language.  It passed unanimously.
 
The meeting was adjourned at 6:10 p.m.

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