PRESENT:
EXECUTIVE BOARD:
Dr. Kaslow will e-mail an attached file of e-mail addresses of representatives to Dr. Saxena.
3) Dr. Challoner asked the MFA representatives who are about to end their terms to verify that elections had occurred or were about to occur in their departments. She is attempting to verify if Ranchos Los Amigos is still a voting unit and Dr. Kaufman offered to obtain the information of the number of faculty at that unit.
Call for nominations:
Call for nominations to the Academic Senate for three open positions:
Dr. Kaslow pointed out that the constitution states that only elected members of the school council may be Senators - unless elected by a majority of the faculty members outside the school's faculty council. Moved by Dr. Daniel and seconded by Dr. Mircheff that Senators be elected from the body of the MFA memebership. A discussion followed. Drs. Jelliffe, Heseltine, Formenti and Challoner felt that the election should be open to any Faculty member. The concern was raised about that the Faculty member should then be required to attend all MFA meetings to receive input and give reports. Dr. Kaslow voiced a concern that the MFA should follow the letter of the law and try next year to have an expanded system in place and Dr. Albrecht agreed. The MFA then agreed that this discussion should be tabled and to go with the stated rules this year. Vote deferred because per Dr. Laine we are following the rules. Past senators of the School of Medicine have served for two years.
4) Report of the FEC meeting at April 29th. Dr. Kaslow reported that the FEC passed the 4/22 Governance Document unamiously. He made a few suggestions as how the document might be improved but there was an unwiliness to discuss this any further. Dr. Kaslow representing the MFA abstained from the vote reflecting the wish of the MFA at the open April meeting.
Dr. Challoner had sent a letter to the Provost re contracts for the School of Medicine (copy attached to the minutes). Contracts will be issued this year but the May 1st deadline may not be met.
Dr. Heseltine reported that APLACH had met to hear about CPSA update. The contract will be extended on a month to month basis. It is the County's intent to increase the salaries to the 75% of the AAMC standards of assistant professor level and that they want accountability. Dr. Challoner reported that per Dr. Van der Meulen the County has verbally promised that the interest component that the university is losing by monthly payments "will be made whole".
5) Consideration of the April 22 "Revised Final draft" of the Governance document. Dr. Albrecht circulated his draft of revisions. Dr. Kaslow circulated the MFAEB comments from the April open meeting. Dr. Albrecht expalined that he had tried in his revision to bring the governance document into conformity to the Faculty handbook and to specifically mention that the Faculty Handbook is one of the University policies and procedures. Dr. Richters expressed concerns that any inherent conflicts with the Faculty handbook could not be approved. Dr. Bernstein stated that it is the Task Force's understanding that there is no conflict with the Faculty handbook and there will be opportunity to revise the Governance document in the future, especially in relation to the review of chairs which is under consideration by the Provost's committee.
Dr. Peters called for a vote on the April 22nd draft document, seconded by Dr. Orlinsky. Discussion followed about on-going modification of the document. Friendly amendments were offered by Drs. Formenti and Mircheff that the draft document be approved with the understanding of possible future modification and were subsequently withdrawn after discussion. Dr. Albrecht called for a tabling of the vote on this document, seconded by Dr. Richters. The vote was to table 3, opposed 17, abstain 1.
After more discussion, Dr. Albrecht called the question. Dr. Challoner asked everyone but voting members of the MFA to leave the room. The vote to approve the April 22nd Draft Governance Document was 18 to approve and opposed 4. The document will now go to administration.
Dr. Albrecht made the motion that the faculty referendum be run by Sandy Mosteller by secret ballot, as she sees fit, seconded by Dr. Daniels. Dr. Formenti asked why a Faculty referendum is required as she has already talked to all the members of her department. Dr. Challoner explained that in the smaller departments, that could be accomplished but in the larger departments, not everyone could be reached. The vote on Dr. Albrecht's motion was: in favor 21, opposed 1, abstain 1.
6) Item 6 was tabled (vote to table 9, continue meeting 6) secondary to time constraints, to the next MFA meeting.
At the next MFA meeting, a vote for the MFA Officers will be taken who will assume their positions at the end of the June meeting. All nominations for representatives to the Academic Senate must be submitted by that meeting.
The meeting was adjourned and the next meeting will be June 2nd at noon in the basement conference room of the Norris Medical Library.