AEF Annual Meeting June 18, 2007

Agenda for the June 18, 2007 AEF Annual Meeting

ASSOCIATION of EMERITUS FACULTY
Annual Meeting
10:00 a.m., Monday, June 18, 2007
W401 Pappajohn, College of Business

Agenda

• Call to Order: George Lance, Emeritus Faculty Council President

• Opening Remarks: Welcome, Pat Cain, Associate Provost

• Action on the Minutes of the Seventh Annual Meeting of June 19, 2006

• Introduction of the current and newly elected Council Members, George Lance

• Report on the Emeritus Faculty Council 2006-2007, George Lance

Senior College, Al Hood
Library Committee, Carl Orgren

• Questions or Comments from the Membership

• Memorial Moment, in honor of colleagues who died during the year

• Passing of the Gavel

• Speaker: Introduction by Bill Hausler, Chair of the Annual Meeting Committee

Lynette Marshall, President, The University of Iowa Foundation

• Adjourn

• Lunch and Fellowship Hour
 

 

MINUTES OF THE EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING

(To be approved June, 2008)

Association of Emeritus Faculty 10:00 a.m., Monday, June 18, 2007
W401 Pappajohn, Henry B. Tippie College of Business

CALL TO ORDER: George Lance, Emeritus Faculty Council (EFC) President, called the meeting to order, welcomed the attendees, and thanked the EFC Annual Meeting Committee and its chairman Bill Hausler for arranging today’s meeting.

OPENING REMARKS: President Lance introduced Pat Cain, Associate Provost, thanking her for the support of the EFC by the Office of the Provost and reporting that she will be leaving the University of Iowa to take a position at the Santa Clara Law School. On behalf of the emeritus faculty, he thanked her for her work as Associate Provost and wished her well in her new position.
Professor Cain delivered a few remarks about the recent Presidential search and then commented about a few of the high priority projects that the Provost is working on.

ACTION ON THE MINUTES OF THE 7th ANNUAL MEETING OF JUNE 19, 2006: Minutes of last year’s meeting were approved unanimously.

INTRODUCTION OF CURRENT AND NEWLY ELECTED COUNCIL MEMBERS: President Lance introduced the members of the EFC for 2006-2007.

George Lance (College of Engineering), President
Carl Orgren (Graduate College), Vice President
Tony Franken (College of Medicine), Secretary
Tom Conway (College of Medicine)
Phillip Cummins (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)
David Carew (College of Pharmacy)
Bill Hausler (College of Public Health)
Al Hood (College of Education)
Richard Hoppin (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)
Marion Johnson (College of Nursing)
Hyman Joseph (College of Business)
Patricia Kelley (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)
James Lindberg (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)
Russell Noyes (College of Medicine)
Robert Sayre (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)
Keith Thayer (College of Dentistry)
The College of Law had no representative this year.

Professors Hood, Hoppin, and Thayer completed their terms on the Council this year. New members for the academic year 2007-2008 are: H.M. Hoover (College of Education), Kenneth Hubel (College of Medicine), and Jerry Walker (College of Dentistry).

REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF THE EMERITUS FACULTY COUNCIL FOR 2006-2007: President George Lance explained that the EFC represents retired faculty of the University of Iowa at the meetings of other retiree’s organizations at U.S. colleges and universities. These are:

1. Association of Retirement Organizations in Higher Education AROHE). The last AROHE meeting was held in October 2006. The next meeting will be in 2008.

2. The Big Ten Retirees Association. This year’s meeting will be August 17-19 at Penn State University. The University of Iowa will host the annual meeting of this group in 2009. We last hosted this meeting in 1999.

During the past year several speakers were invited to address the EFC on issues important to the emeritus faculty. These included:

Rod Lenhertz (Director of Campus and Facilities Planning)

Michael Barron (Assistant Provost and Director of Admissions)

Nancy Quellhorst (President of the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce)

Lynette Marshall (President, University of Iowa Foundation)

Robert Downer (Member, Board of Regents)

Gary Barta (Director of Athletics)

Joan Kjaer (Deputy Director of Iowa Public Radio; station manager WSUI-KSUI)

Steven Fleagle (Associate Vice President, Information Technology Services)

Newspaper accounts during the past year asked who are the emeritus faculty and questioned their roles and privileges in the University.

Emeritus status requires ten or more years of service as a faculty member at the University of Iowa before retirement. This past year two special cases were considered for emeritus status. Both had served 7 of the 10 required years, and both were highly recommended by their departments. The Council recommended to the Provost that both be granted emeritus status.

Last year it was noted that the Retirees Handbook is not current and thus not useful to retirees. Upon study by the Council and the UI Retirees Association, it was determined that the cost to revise and print the Handbook was very high. The Handbook will be replaced by a website that should be up by the end of the Fall Semester 2007. The website will make it easier to make revisions reflecting new information about TIAA-CREF, Social Security, Medicare and the like that are important to retirees.

President Lance asked Al Hood to speak about the Senior College and Carl Orgren about the University Library.

Emeritus Professor Hood was a leading force in the creation of the Senior College, now in its sixth year. The Senior College offers short courses, usually in four two-hour sessions, with a week between each of the four sessions. A group of eight or nine courses are offered in the Fall Semester and another group of courses in the Spring.

The Senior College is a good example of how volunteer emeritus faculty and staff contribute to the community, both in the presentation of the courses and in organizing the efforts of the participants. Volunteers are from the Association of Emeritus Faculty and the University of Iowa Retirees Association. Course instructors include UI faculty and staff, active or retired, as well as members of the local community. Student participants need only be of retirement age. No association or former association with the University is necessary.

The Senior College is very popular. Most courses fill up rapidly. Approximately 400 students register each semester. The only problems facing the organizing committee are (1) parking for older students, sometimes off-campus, (2) finding classrooms, especially large classrooms near parking, and (3) the mistaken perception that the Senior College is only for people associated with the University.

We are pleased that there are no problems with financing. The $30 charge per course covers a $500 honorarium to the instructors and the Alumni Association provides for the distribution of brochures, registration of the participants, and provides some of the class materials. We are also pleased that the instructors have been so generous with their time in teaching the courses. The quality of instruction has been outstanding and highly appreciated by the students.

Emeritus Professor Carl Orgren described recent activities of the University Library of interest to the emeritus faculty. These include:
1. A new storage facility is being planned. The building site has yet to be chosen.
2. Institutional cooperation by the Big Ten Universities and the University of Chicago will result in the digitization of over 10 million items in the public domain by Google. These will be available in a form that is still copyright protected and searchable as full text.

There are important changes coming to health care insurance coverage. There will be no change to the Chip II coverage; however, Chjp III will be discontinued. It will be replaced by a three tier system called UI Select. One will be able to pick coverage under one of the three tiers.
1. Allows treatment by only UI providers.
2. Treatment by UI providers or Blue Choice providers.
3. All of the above plus treatment out of state or country, with 40% co-pay.

The pricing for each tier and Chip II has not yet been determined.

QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FROM THE MEMBERSHIP
There was a brief discussion of a few questions of members.

MEMORIAL MOMENT IN HONOR OF COLLEAGUES WHO DIED DURING 2006/2007

PASSING OF THE GAVEL

President George Lance introduced Carl Orgen as the new President of the Emeritus Faculty Council for the 2007-2008 academic year.

SPEAKER

Bill Hausler, Chair of the Annual Meeting Committee, introduced the speaker,

Lynette Marshall, President, The University of Iowa Foundation

Lynette Marshall spoke briefly about meeting the candidates for the Presidency of the University of Iowa, and mentioned her experiences in fund raising at the University of Illinois where she served for a number of years before coming to Iowa.
She is pleased that the University of Iowa Foundation has done so well with a staff of development associates that is only about half the number at other Big Ten schools.

Her activities since coming to Iowa last August have focused on potential donors in Chicago, among corporations and among students. She notes that there are 34,000 UI alumni living in the Chicago area, where there are plans for a satellite office in downtown Chicago. There is a need for additional attention to corporate donors, which will also require the addition of more development associates. Similarly more effort is needed in serving the alumni of colleges where there is a potential for increased donations. Finally, an innovative plan called “Students today, Alumni Tomorrow” will encourage student engagement in philanthropy and in civic service. She reported work on the establishment of 154 new endowed chairs.

The audience greatly appreciated Ms. Marshall’s presentation and several members talked with her following the meeting.

THE 2007 (EIGHTH) ANNUAL MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.

LUNCH AND A FELLOWSHIP HOUR FOLLOWED.

Respectfully submitted,
Tom Conway, Secretary Pro Tem