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September 14, 2004
Minutes of the
Faculty Senate Steering Committee Meeting
Present: Dana Brazdziunas, Kim Kenton, Samuel Cukierman,
John McNulty, Sean Cahill, Pam Derstine, Phong Le, Nancy Muma
Excused: John Godwin, Michael Schneck, Bill Cannon
1. Minutes of meetings will be posted on the Faculty
Senate Website for this and all future meetings.
2. Review of meeting with Drs. Barbato and Slogoff in
August 2004
3. Discussion of Professional Development Program to
develop leadership in clinical departments.
- The establishment of the BSI Compensation
Committee was questioned. Dr. Slogoff suggested that as there have been
no mediation issues we do not need to establish the committee. It was
discussed at the current meeting that the committee has other functions
as well as mediation and should be established especially as all new
faculty will be dependent on this compensation plan.
- The Senate asked about making the report from the
original 2010 Committee available to faculty. Dr. Slogoff said that the
committee recommendations will be made available.
- A fall faculty meeting will be held in November
with Father Garanzini presenting on the state of the University, in
addition to presentations by Drs. Barbato and Slogoff.
4. Faculty Senate Website
- Sam Cukierman will talk with John Godwin who
initiated the website design.
- The website will include faculty surveys, access
to minutes of meetings of Faculty Senate with Drs. Barbato and Slogoff,
and minutes of steering committee meetings.
5. Agenda for the Friday meeting with Drs. Barbato and
Slogoff
- BSI Compensation Committee-This was
discussed at the last meeting but additional questions have come up.
The proposal states that the committee in addition to arbitrating
disputes will also be monitoring the plan and is to be a standing
committee of the Faculty Senate elected by the relevant
constituencies. Should the committee be elected soon as more faculty
will be affected by the plan in the coming year?
- Finances of the Medical School and Medical
Center- The financial performance of LUPF recently has worsened.
How will that affect the medical school and medical center as a whole?
Are there plans to discuss this more broadly with the faculty?
- Cancer Center- Update on recent hiring of
faculty and future plan for hiring
- Department of Neurology- Status of
leadership
- Construction around the Medical
Center-What
are the current projects and what is the timeline for the demolition of
the old anatomy lab?
- Fall meeting of the Faculty Senate-
November date, Father Garanzini to be asked to speak, as well as updates
on the state of the medical school and medical center by Dr. Slogoff and
Dr. Barbato.
6. Faculty Senate Committee meeting times
We discussed the problem of
conflicting schedules and decided to try rotating the meeting times between the
second Tuesday of the month at 1pm and the second Monday of the month at 6:30am.
7. Old/New Items
We discussed inviting Dr.
Kennedy to meet with the steering committee and possibly be a speaker at a
future open meeting with the faculty at large. This meeting could possibly be
co-sponsored with the Faculty Development Program.
Minutes Submitted by Nancy Muma
