Committee on Committees Minutes for Friday, April 1, 2022
Minutes
The Academic Senate Committee on Committee on Committees met on Friday, April 1, 2022 at 10:00am.
Committee Members in Attendance:
In attendance: Christine Mooney, Julia Rothenberg, Vikki Terrile, Danny Sexton, Paul Sideris
Chair: Christine Mooney
Secretary: Julian Stark
Business:
The meeting was called to order at 10:00
The meeting (Zoom) began at 10:00 AM
1) Christine informed those in attendance that she has also been working on the Blackstone Group Grant while trying to deal with the COC issues, and thanked the members for whatever they have done to help.
2) Christine voiced her opinion that the COC database, with all its shortcomings, is as good as it will get now. Susan Riekert checked it for duplicates.
3) Christine: After the ballots are done each person whose term is ending must be notified. And the same must happen after the election of the new members.
4) A report on the election must go to the Senate.
5) We will update the database after the election is over.
6) Christine and Susan will do the ballots for the new members, Danny and Julian will email the members whose terms are ending at the end of next week (Friday).
7) Paul: Who manages the website for each committee? Christine: The COC used to do it. It became the responsibility of the committee chairs. The information is very important to verify committee service.
8) Julian: As the committee chairs submit their annual reports, they should make sure that the database is updated.
9) Paul: “What’s involved in creating a new database?” Danny had suggested Docuware. Christine said that Access had been used.
10) Paul: “Are there security concerns?” “Why hasn’t it been changed?” There has been a lot of inertia that has kept this from moving forward.
11) Christine: the 2023 – 2024 members at least did not the the email notifying them of their election. The Steering Committee has to sit down with Provost Palmer to straighten this out.
12) The database only works when one is on campus (but Christine and Julian were given laptops with VPN access, but that doesn’t always function). IT must set it up.
13) Danny has had second thoughts about whether Docuware is the right software for our application.
14) We can meet with Raj after the break about the database.
15) Paul says that Chemistry has an iPad application that they use; he would not mind helping to set up the database.
16) Christine: What we are using now was developed by David Sarno.
17) Christine turned the committee’s attention to the task of populating the various Senate committees. She reminded the members that the same person should not be serving on multiple committees.
Academic Development: Arthur Abramov, Kevin Kolack, Danny Mangra are the new members, with terms ending in 2025.
Admissions: Andre Coombs and Sujun Wei are the new members, with terms ending in 2025.
Assessment: Mathew Lau and Vazgen Shekoyan are the new members, with terms ending in 2025.
(Rex Taibu picked a couple more committees; Julia asks if he is on another committee.)
Awards and Scholarships: Ryan Brannan, Changiz Alzaideh, and Timothy Keogh are the new members.
Bylaws: William Blick and Rommel Robertson are the new members, with terms ending in 2025.
Computer Resources: Philip Nelan, Joann Sun, and Zhou Zhou are the new members.
Continuing Education: Daniel Armstrong and Rex Taibu are the new members, Daniel’s term will end in 2025 (not indicated for Rex, i assume it’s the same).
Course and Standing: Katwicia Desruisseaux, Susan McLaughlin, and Christopher Roblowdowski are the new members.
Cultural and Archival Resources: Davide Pham, Faustino Quintanilla, and Julia Rothenberg are the new members, with terms ending in 2025.
Curriculum: Vazgen Shekoyan and Nathaniel Sullivan are the new members.
Food Insecurity: Sara Danzi and Philip Nelan (I have that in my notes, but it’s not on the spreadsheet) are the new members.
Library: Linda Meltzer (term ending 2025) and Jed Shahar are the new members.
eLearning: Daniel Garbin, Shenaz Georgilis, and Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols are the new members.
Pre-College: We need two candidates for this committee.
Publications: Roumen Vragov (term ending 2025) is a new member. We need a candidate for the other position.
Environment and Quality of Life: Daniel Armstrong and Dorith Brodbar are new members. We need one candidate for the other position.
Student Activities: Kwang Hyun Kim and Wilfred Moran are the new members.
Vendor Services: Gheorghe Proteasa and Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson are the new members, with terms ending in 2025.
WIDWAC: Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols, Adam Luedtke, and Davide Pham are the new members, with terms ending 2025.
18) Next steps:
- a) Assemble the ballot
- b) List the blanks (meaning candidates required?)
- c) There will be a floor vote at the Senate.
- d) The COC Proposal version 2 will be emailed to the Steering Committtee.
- e) The template emails, both for those who are newly on committees, and those whose terms are ending, will be received by the responsible members for sending out.
- f) An email will go to Steven Dahlke (meaning a copy of the emails mentioned in 5?)
- g) The emails will go out to the respective faculty members at the end of next week (for those whose terms are ending), and after the Senate vote (I assume?) for those who will be joining committees, as mentioned in 6) above.
The meeting was adjourned at 11:26.
Respectfully Submitted,
Julian Stark,
Secretary
Respectfully submitted,
Julian Stark
Committee on Committee on Committees, Secretary
Minutes typed on 04/1/2022
