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Professional Staff Senate
Regular Meeting – November 7, 2003

Senators Present: Lin Brummels, Ruth Smith, Phyllis Spethman, Cheri Polenske, Dorothy Weber

Senators Absent: Rollie Bulock, Mitch DeBoer, Stan Gardner

Liaisons from Other Senates Present: Bill Long

Guests: None
Visitors: None

The meeting was called to order at 9:40 a.m. by Lin; a quorum was present

The minutes of the July meeting were approved. M-Phyllis S-Ruth

Treasurer’s Report: No Report

Committee Reports:

Mentoring (Brummels) – The mentoring program is on hold until the new HR person arrives on campus.
Social (Spethman) – A discussion was previously held regarding the Professional Staff Senate having a float for the WSC Homecoming parade. The Social committee at this time would not like to head this project. Phyllis and Cheri will be in charge of setting up a sub committee to oversee this project.
Recognition (DeBoer) – A Wildcat Well Done Award was presented at the board meeting by Lin.
Continuing Education (Gardner) – No Report.
Membership (Polenske) – No Report.
Hospitality (Weber) -- The courtesy club fund has a balance of $160.04. There was no income or expenses for the month.
Policy (Bulock) – No Report.
Communications (Smith) -- Ruth has continued to send out communication via email when asked.

Agenda Items:

Lin submitted a Wildcat Well Done Award to the Board and the Board was pleased.

The General Education Committee chaired by Marian Borgmann-Ingwersen has approached Lin regarding thoughts and input from the Professional Staff Senate to the General Education Committee. The issues discussed were required hours, transfer hours, student opinions, and the broad spectrum of relativity between general education courses and professional staff. Lin will forward the Senates concerns and ask for feedback on how we should follow up with our concerns and input.

The Presidential search committee has narrowed the search to 15 or 16 candidates. They are hoping to bring the final selection to campus by January.

Ruth gave an update on the HR candidate search. The candidate pool started with around 80 applicants. They were initially narrowed to 60, then again narrowed to 7. Reference checks were done on 7 candidates. Phone interviews were then done with 6 candidates. They hope to bring 3 to campus by late November/early December.

The next regular meeting will be December 5th.

Meeting adjourned at 10:20.

Respectfully submitted,
Cheri Polenske, secretary

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