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Executive Board Meeting Minutes
Unclassified
Professional Staff Association (UPSA)
Executive
Board Meeting
Tuesday,
Nov. 13, 2001
12:00-1:15,
Alcove D, Kansas Union
Attending: Eric Jeppesen
(President), Thelma Simons, (President Elect), Alisa Branham (Secretary),
Ola Faucher (Human Resources), Barb McClain (Representative), Pat
Miller, Sally Hayden, David Burge (Chair, Public Relations), Mark
Nesbitt-Daly, (Chair, Governance and Representation), Sandra Wick,
(Past President)
Minutes from October
2001: Sally moved to approve; David seconded. Approved. (Alisa
has sent the edited version to David Burge for the web site.)
No treasurer's report
(absent).
President's Report:
Eric says SenEx is discussing the repeat course policy again. Parking
Commission is holding their open forum this afternoon.
Nothing from Governance
and Representation yet.
Professional Development:
Sally shared some history of these awards and talked about having
new deadlines, three times per year. After discussion, Sally made
a motion to eliminate deadlines for applications and process them
on a "rolling" basis by electronic discussion with committee members.
Sandy seconded. Barb suggested an amendment to divide annual funding,
awarding half the total in July-December and half in January-June.
Any unused funds should rollover to next year. Motion with amendment
was approved. Sally is editing the application form and Alisa suggested
it go on the web site too. The new application will ask for the
amount of out-of-pocket expenses that an applicant anticipates,
with the idea that we would give preference for those using personal
funds.
Human Resources Report:
Ola is convening the workplace survey group again, to look at recommendations
for action based on the survey results. It is clear that people
want more computer training. Additionally, surveys included a number
of complaints about temperatures and cleanliness of buildings.
Ola is meeting with the appropriate people across campus to address
these issues. Global findings of the survey will be published soon
in the Oread. Ola will be making recommendations to the
Provost by mid-December and HR will be involved with implementing
some of the solutions soon thereafter. Ola asked us for suggestions
on how to convey this information to others and we agreed that this
would be a good subject for a general meeting, perhaps in February.
Ola could talk about the progress made towards some solutions to
people's concerns.
Barb asked about the
dire budget predictions and the rumor of a recision of our mid-year
salary increases. Ola has heard this too and will check with others.
Old Business:
None.
New Business:
None.
Sally briefly continued
the discussion regarding funding for professional development.
A discussion of new funding sources ensued, with a suggestion for
seeking more funding as part of the Campaign Kansas through Endowment.
Meeting adjourned at
1:15.
Next Board meeting:
Tuesday, December 11, 12-1:30, Alcove D, Kansas Union
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