TABLE OF CONTENTS
Attendance at the meeting
Minutes of previous meeting
The MFA WWW site
Ongoing issues of the School of Medicine
Ongoing issues of the University Academic Senate election results
MFA Executive Board:
Kathryn R. Challoner - President
Harvey Kaslow - President Elect
Bob Stellwagen - Past President
Representatives:
Anesthesiology: absent
Biochemisty: Frank Markland
Cell and Neurobiology: absent
Children's Hospital: absent
Emergency Medicine: Michael Orlinsky
Family Medicine: Steven Stumpf
Medicine: absent
Molecular Microbiology: Joe Landolph
Neurological Surgery: absent
Neurology: absent
Norris Medical Library: Alice Kawakami
Obstetrics and Gynecology: Rebecca Sokol
Ophthalmology: absent
Orthopedics: absent
Otolaryngology: absent
Pathology: Arnis Richters
Pediatrics: Larua Wachsman
Physiology and Biophysics: Herb Meiselman
Preventive medicine: Wendy Mack
Psychiatry: Henry Slucki
Radiation Oncology: absent
Radiology: absent
Ranchos Los Amigos: absent
Surgery: absent
Urology: absent
Guests:
Dr. Allen Abbot
Dr. Nancy Warner
A quorum was not present.
1) The minutes could not be approved because of the absence of a quorum.
2) Dr. Stellwagen presented an update of the MFA WWW site and its use in monitoring MFA activities. He was complimented on all he had done. Dr. Meiselman suggested that a periodic newsletter in either the HSC weekly or the USC Chronicle would be helpful in getting Faculty involved in the MFA activities. The matter was referred to the MFA Executive Board for implementation.
3) a) The LCME accreditation process and findings were prsented by Drs. Stellwagen, Abbot and Warner. The names of Faculty on the Task Force were distributed. The task force met for 18 months reviewing standards for accreditation and answering questions. The report went out in August. The distribution of the document to the Faculty is the decision of the Dean. The site visit will be November 9-13th, 1997. The MFA expressed its thanks to the hard- working members of the Task Force and satisfaction with the report, noting that there were occasional areas of debate. Dr. Landolph recommended as much openness with the faculty as possible with the finding and the results.
3) b) There have been no CPSA negotiation meetings to date.
3) c) Dr. Kaslow distributed two documents on Governance to the representatives (Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities from the AAUP and a Chronology of the Governance Documents of the USC School of Medicine.)
4) a) Dr. Kaslow presented a draft of a resolution to the Academic Senate recommending that the Library of the University be designated as an entity responsible for archiving documents relating to the governance and administration of the University and schools and be allocated a budget sufficient to carry out this responsibility. In the absence of a quorum, the resolution was distributed for consideration (attached).
4 b) Dr. Kaslow distributed information from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on grants and indirect cost payments from the Schools to Central Administration.
4 c) Dr. Challoner reported that there has been no response from the Provost on the request for contracts for the School of Medicine, and the faculty on the Main Campus have not received contracts either.
5. Dr. Kaslow announced the results of the Senate Elections. The four new senators for the School of Medicine are Peter Hesseltine, Austin Mircheff, Julie Nyguist and Robert Stellwagen. Dr. Challoner will notify the Acacdemic Senate. Dr. Landolph suggested that the Senate President, Dr. Lawford Anderson, should be invited to speak and meet with the MFA. Dr. Slucki stated that one Senate meeting a year should be held on the Health Sciences Campus.
6) The next meeting of the MFA will be held in room 505 of KAM October 7th at noon.
The meeting was adjourned.