Posted March 11, 1997
MEDICAL FACULTY ASSEMBLY
MINUTES FOR THE MEETING OF OCTOBER 1, 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Attendance by Officers and Members of the
Executive Committee
Representation at the Meeting
Approval of Minutes
Results of Election of Faculty to Academic Senate
Report Regarding the
Sept. 18 Meeting of the Academic Senate
MFA Representatives
to Standing Committees
Disapproval by
FEC of MFA Recommendation 1996-97-001
CPSA Issues
ATTENDANCE BY OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
President Robert Stellwagen present President-Elect Kathryn Challoner present Secretary Harvey Kaslow present Treasurer Wendy Mack present Past President Donna Shoupe present Member-at-Large Silvia Formenti present Member-at-Large Loren Laine present Member-at-Large Laura Wachsman present
REPRESENTATION AT THE MEETING:
Anesthesiology Jim Daniel Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Robert Stellwagen Cell and Neurobiology Children's Hospital Emergency Medicine Kathryn Challoner Family Medicine Jerry Gates Medicine Mohammad Akmal Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Neurological Surgery Neurology Norris Medical Library Alice Kawakami Obstetrics and Gynecology Robert Settlage Ophthalmology Orthopedics Tom Hedman Otolaryngology Pathology Arnis Richters Pediatrics Laura Wachsman Physiology and Biophysics Austin Mircheff Preventive Medicine Wendy Mack Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Henry Slucki Radiation Oncology Silvia Formenti Radiology Michael Terk Rancho Los Amigos Hospital V. Kamdar Surgery Urology
The meeting was called to order at approximately noon by President Robert Stellwagen.
By voice vote with no objection or abstention, the minutes of the September 3, 1996 MFA meeting were approved.
2. RESULTS OF ELECTION OF FACULTY TO ACADEMIC SENATE.
Elected to the Academic Senate were Silvia Formenti, Radiation Oncology, and Harvey Kaslow, Physiology and Biophysics. Gene Albrecht, Cell and Neurobiology, will act as an alternate Senator.
3. REPORT REGARDING THE SEPTEMBER 18 MEETING OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE.
President Stellwagen reported that the Senate passed two resolutions. Resolution 96/97-01, entitled Humane Approaches to Adverse Employment Actions, urges the University and all its departments and schools to implement a set of described guidelines designed to deal in a humane manner with adverse employment actions such as layoffs. Resolution 96/97-02 calls on the Chair of the Faculty Tenure and Privileges Appeals Committee to halt the unauthorized dismissal of grievances, and urges the President of the University to remove and replace the chair if he again causes the unauthorized dismissal of a grievance.
4. MFA REPRESENTATIVES TO STANDING COMMITTEES.
The Governance Document of the School entitles the MFA to send a representative to certain standing committees of the school. Volunteers were sought for service on some of the committees, and the following agreed to serve. They were confirmed by voice vote with no abstention or opposition. The representatives will be:
Appointments and Promotions Committee: Herb
Meiselman
Educational Policy Committee: Julie
Nyquist
Institutional Self-study Task Force for Reaccreditation: Robert
Stellwagen
5. DISAPPROVAL BY FEC OF MFA RECOMMENDATION 1996-97-001.
The FEC met on September 4 and considered MFA Recommendation 1996-97-001. The FEC voted unanimously to reject items 2 and 3 in the Recommendation, which calls on the Dean to immediately instruct relevant administrators to immediately and fully share with the Faculty information regarding the CPSA by providing to the President of the MFA:
"2. An accounting, on a Department and yearly basis, of the expenditure by the University of funds received from the County under the CPSA, and the proposed expenditure of funds received or to be received by the University and its School of Medicine during the fiscal year 1996-97.
"3. A list identifying all faculty sent the letters dated June 28, 1996 (copies attached) by Interim Dean Van Der Meulen that inform these faculty that their clinical position has been identified for reassignment or other action by the County, and informs special (i.e. non-tenured) faculty that their appointment with University expires on June 30, 1996."
There was considerable discussion regarding the upcoming negotiation of a new CPSA contract, with Ronald Kaufman participating. Ideas were discussed that will be reduced down to specific Recommendations from the MFA.
7. ADJOURNMENT.
At approximately 1:45 PM, the meeting was adjourned.