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August 8, 2006.

Minutes of the Faculty Senate Steering Committee Meeting

Present: Drs. Dana Bradziunas, Phong Le, Scott Smith, John McNulty, Myles Sheehan, Nancy Muma

.Excused: Alan Wolfe, Michael Schneck

Minutes of the May meeting were accepted.

I. Goals for the year

The following goals were discussed.

1. Staying abreast of the Strategic Plan for the Medical Center.
2. Modifications to tenure requirements.
3. BSI and FIS discussions/modifications
4. Graduate students stipend fringe benefit tax and how the proceeds will be used

We also discussed whether nursing faculty should be invited to participate in the Faculty Senate, and getting another representative from Faculty Council, since Kim d’Angela is no longer filling that role.

II Open faculty senate meeting for input to the Strategic Plan.

The meeting will be held to discuss the development of the plan. We discussed how the meeting should proceed and thought that the list of objectives could be distributed to faculty as a way of orienting faculty to the planning. Communication is an objective on the list and should be given high priority.

III Faculty retention

Faculty retention is a large problem especially in the clinical departments. One suggestion was that faculty would like to have more input into what is taught. There is currently the appearance of teaching as a dis-incentive. Could there be a fostering of research interactions in the clinical departments? Another suggestion was for an informational meeting in which the AAMC would discuss how governance works at other medical schools to which we could compare our governance approaches here at Stritch.

4. Search for President/CEO LUMC. Committee is made up of Board Members.

5. Strategic Planning Committee. We should invite members of the committee to the next senate steering meeting.

 

Minutes Submitted by Nancy Muma.