PSS - October 5, 2005 Minutes

Professional Staff Senate
Meeting Minutes
10/05/2005

Present: Derek Anderson, Eddie Elfers, Tammy Tyson, Oliver Twelvetrees, Dave Graber

Absent: Kevin Halle, Brandon Eckman, Lin Brummels

The meeting was called to order at 11:00, a quorum was present.

The September minutes were approved.

Committee Reports:

Mentoring: No report.
Social: No report
Recognition: No report.
Continuing Education: Dave is looking for continuing education ideas. Send suggestions to Dave.
Membership: Eddie has received an updated membership list. Oliver noted that there is a new Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach.
Hospitality: Tammy has received $126 in dues and has deposited them in the social fund. She reported that she wrote a $25 check to the American Red Cross disaster relief fund as voted on in the last meeting.
Policy: A brief discussion of the progress on General Education reform ensued. Meeting minutes from the Gen Ed committee had been distributed via email since the last Prof Staff Senate meeting.
Communication: Eddie continues to forward email notifications to the membership.

New Brochures: Professional Staff Senate and Mentoring Program: Lin Brummels has created two new brochures. The first details the purpose, duties, and makeup of the Professional Staff Senate. This brochure can be given to new Professional Staff hires so that they better understand the purpose of the senate. The second brochure describes the new Mentoring Program. Lin asked that the senators take a look at the brochures and make suggestions to improve their content.

Search Committees – Several members have received both positive and negative comments about the role of the Human Resources Department on campus search committees. There seems to be some uncertainty about what HR’s role on search committees is. HR seems more involved on some searches than on others. Dave will contact HR Director Cheryl Waddington to find out what policy is in place regarding HR role in search committees.

Meeting adjourned. The next meeting will be Wednesday, November 2nd, in the Bluestem Room.

Respectfully submitted,
Dave Graber for
Kevin Halle

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