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January 21, 2005

Faculty Senate Meeting with Drs. Barbato and Slogoff

Present: Drs. Anthony Barbato, Dana Bradziunas, Bill Cannon, Sam Cukierman, Phong Le, Nancy Muma, Stephen Slogoff, Kim Dell;Angela, and Michael Schneck

Excused: Drs. John Godwin, Kim Kenton, John McNulty, Michale Schneck, Sean Cahill.

Minutes 

The minutes of the last meeting were approved with amendments.

Faculty Health Care Retirement Benefits

Dr. Barbato informed us that a meeting with Tom Kelly and the faculty is planned to discuss the change in retirement benefits. Continued insurability was not made clear in the letters but does apply. The letters were generally difficult to understand and the meeting with Tom Kelly will help to clarify the changes. Dr. Slogoff suggested that if you work at LUMC from age 50 to 65 the change is revenue neutral. If you join after age 50 then the change is a cut in benefits. The faculty senate can sponsor the forums. Dr. Slogoff suggested that opting in the plan and linkage to plan B was not clear and needs to be clarified.informed us that the reporting line for the graduate nursing school is proposed to switch from the Provost, Dr. Facione to Dr. Barbato. This switch is likely to occur by July 1. The undergraduate nursing program will remain on the Lake Shore campus. This change is intended to increase the interaction of the nursing school faculty with the Medical Center faculty.

Parking

Parking space will be increased as soon as the weather breaks and asphalt can be laid on space where buildings were torn down. Parking problems will continue until about July.

Dean Search

The first meeting will be held on Tuesday. Dr. Luchette will head the committee. The Faculty Senate steering committee will help lead the forums to meet with candidates. There are currently no candidates and the choice for dean has not been made. Its important to make this point to faculty to increase faculty attendance at meetings with candidates.  

BSI Compensation Committee

Dr. Slogoff suggested that a person who would not be eligible for the supplement should not be on the committee. The plan could be amended to add this limitation to membership on the committee.

Faculty Senate Website

Website design is completed and ready to be posted on the web. We should monitor the number of unique hits. Neither Drs. Barbato nor Slogoff had a problem with the site being on the internet rather than just on the intranet.

Minutes submitted by Nancy Muma