Meeting chaired by Dee Harper, and Roger White acted as Parliamentarian.

Invocation given by Si Hendry

Maria Calzada reported on data compilations provided for Education and Computer Science departments. Both departments are actually in the black 04-05.  No additional data supplied for Communications or Physics.

Thom Spence reported on more recent data interpretations from John Cornwell in response to the Senate request for more information. He demonstrated that the interpretations for Broadcast Journalism and Production were severely flawed because the revenues only took into account two courses not a whole sequence of courses and the $100.00 student fees should have been added to the numerator or subtracted from the denominator of his revenues-to-costs ration.  Instead the fees were actually added to the denominator, making the ratio look even lower. 

Maurice Brungardt requested a summary statement of all the flaws in the data be sent to the board.

Conclusion:  If we make these cuts, we are going to be worse off next year.  The proposed cuts do not solve any problems, they actually make our financial picture worse.

Mary McCay presented 12 points: “Can We All Agree?”  Her points numbered 8, 11 and 12 were excluded by the group.

Motion 1: Presented by Lynn Koplitz: Seconded by Cathy Rogers.

Motion:  The faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences urge the Board in the strongest possible terms to table the Pathways Plan until November 2006.

Rationale: 

1.             The prudent stewardship of our university is in the hands of the Board of Trustees.

2.            The current plan is reckless, ill-conceived and bound to do irreparable harm to our university for many years to come.

3.            Criteria for restructuring have not been approved by SCAP or by the University Senate. There has been no vision put forward to guide any sort of wise restructuring plan. There has been no clear rationale put forward to justify the proposed cuts.

4.            The current plan was not reviewed by the deans or the faculty before it was put forward on April 10, 2006, therefore we have not had sufficient time, or access to complete data, to allow for reasonable deliberation and joint planning among administrators and faculty. 
  
5.            Severe and serious cuts to departmental majors and of tenured faculty members as proposed by the Pathways Plan should not be chosen as the best strategy to ensure the future health of our university, especially when these
recommendations are based on inaccurate compilations and misinterpretations
of data from just the 04-05 fiscal year. 

6.            The attrition of both students and faculty that has been caused by the mere announcement of the plan has not been assessed.

7.            Alternative cost-cutting measures have not been proposed and explored by the whole university community.

8.            Although the data revealed more inefficient programs in the College of Business  Administration and the College of Music, only programs in the College of Arts  and Sciences -- all of which produce positive net revenue -- were proposed to be cut.

We do not endorse the plan and we urge the Board not to accept it at this time.

Please table the Pathways Plan until November 2006.

Discussion followed, some points were revised and connected, and the rules were suspended to allow a vote today.  The motion passed by voice vote.

Glenn Hymel made Motion 2, moved a vote of no confidence in the five architects of the Pathways Plan.  These architects were named to be Wildes, Harris, Cartwright, Cornwell, and Estes.  Motion seconded by Nancy Dupont.  Discussion Followed

Marcus Kondkar put forward a friendly amendment to name Harris, Cornwell, Brenda Joyner, and Estes.  Glenn accepted the friendly amendment.

Discussion followed. Rules suspended to allow vote today.  Secret Ballot requested and the Assembly voted by voice vote to accept proxy votes.

Vote of No Confidence against Walter Harris, Jr., John Cornwell, Brenda Joyner and David Estes passed by a count of 71 in favor of no confidence, 2 opposed to no confidence, and 4 abstentions.

Motion 3:  Return to discussion of McCay’s original “Can We Agree?” and motion to ask Senate President John Murphy to bring to the Board of Trustees Points 5, 6, 7, and 9.
Elizabeth Hammer seconded.

The College of Arts and Sciences Assembly moves that the following actions be taken.
1.            Eliminate all Assistant Provost positions and any unspecified administrative positions in the Provost and President’s office and return those people to their respective departments or colleges.
2.            The Provost should have elected representatives of the faculties from Arts and Sciences, Business, Music, and City College to help him and the data collector review the Pathways plan in the light of the new data. Those faculty members should not include any faculty who are current assistant provosts or administrators.
3.            No New Administrative positions should be created (ie Director of QEP, or FYE, etc.) until all necessary faculty openings created by resignations, retirement, etc., have been filled as needed.
4.            The Board, the President, the Provost and the faculty helping with the plan need to know precisely how many faculty members have been lost since Katrina (to resignations, retirements, phased retirements, etc). That information should be used in reexamining the plan.

Discussion followed, rules suspended and motion passed by voice vote.

Eric Gorham recommended that faculty greet the members of the Board on Friday, May 19th to let them know how concerned we are about Loyola and the effects of Pathways. A notice by e-mail will tell faculty when and where to meet.

Motion 4: David Moore moved that summary of information presented by Thom Spence be attached to Motion 1 to Table the Pathways Plan until November 2006

Motion 5: Steve Scariano moved to have the numerical results of vote of no confidence carried by hand to President Wildes.  Maureen, Thom, and Maria agreed to take the vote to the President.

Discussion followed, vote to suspend rules passed and motion passed by voice vote.

Mary Blue moved to Adjourn at 11:50. Numerous seconds.