SAC Meeting Minutes Thursday, March 16, 2023

Staff & Administrative Council Committee
Meeting Minutes
Thursday, March 16, 2023, Noon
Faculty Dining Room – Spellman Hall

Present: Barone, Regina; DelliCarpini, Casey; Demorin, Danielle; Franco, Jorge; Grant, Mary; Kelly, David; LoPresti, Anthony; Pace, Marie; Palladino, Rick; Saccoman, Ana; Scaccia, Antonio; Thomas, Darelle; White, Verick.

Excused: Aiello-Gray, Mary; Alvia, Manuel; Arndt, Daniel; Barrios, Rodrigo; Connolly, Jennifer; Dominguez, Leandra.

Absent: Davis, Bryan; Stewart, Mark.

• Call to Order
  • 12:05 March 16, 2023 (Attendance- A. Scaccia)
• Intro: New Chair- Casey DelliCarpini.
• University Council Standing Committee Updates
  • University Council
    • Committee discussed meeting format and other possible formats.  Leaning more towards issue rather than focus on committee reports.  Discussing new addition in Blackboard allowing for Textbook purchasing, overview by Business School. (Reported by A. Saccoman)
  • Academic Affairs
    • Next meeting Tuesday (Reported by R. Palladino)
  • Athletics
    • Did not Meet (Reported by D. Kelly)
  • Budget
    • Meeting cancelled
  • Diversity
    • Meeting this week. Hope to have a multicultural ceremony, recognize member of graduating class with color sashes for different groups.  (Reported by A. LoPresti)
  • Enrollment Management
    • Tours taking place on campus.  Number of applications are high.  Accepted Student portal is being monitored and used for keeping in touch and engaging new students.  (Reported by R. Palladino)
  • Environmental Sustainability
    • *See full report attached to email from 2/23/23.
      • (by D. Demorin) 
  • Human Resources and Compensation
    • Committee still working on the wording for a Drug and Alcohol policy on campus as it relates to faculty and staff. (Reported by A. Saccoman)
  • Institutional Advancement
    • Conflict no representative able to attend. (Reported by C. DelliCarpini)
  • Libraries and Information Technology
    • *See full report attached to email.
      •  (Report provided via email by J. Connolly)
  • Student Life
    • *See full report attached via email.
      • (Report provided via email by M. Grant).
• Old Business
  • HR to attend future meeting- Denise Smith will be attending a future meeting to discuss these suggestions…Leave policy, raises, training options, working remotely, Liability and protocol in emergency situations.  Please forward any other question for Denise to Casey.
  • Brother Bray Committee Update- Committee is collecting responses and reviewing. So far there are 18 submissions. Suggestions to make the process easier for people to nominate, i.e. Multi choice, check boxes.
  • SAC Constitution committee- subcommittee tabling discussion til after 5/1/23. Faculty Senate is looking to change their term from 3yr. to 5yr.  Member Need to be more familiar with current constitution and process before moving forward.
  • Drug and Alcohol Policy- that was proposed by HRC recognizes the problem, but struggling with the solution.  SAC is not ready to endorse the policy as it is currently stated because it implies penalty to an employee who smells of drugs or alcohol and may not be because of their own doing. Possible rewording was discussed but nothing solid decided.
• New Business
  • Pulse of the University-
    • Iona looking into partnering with Community Colleges like DCC to move their 2 yr. graduates to our 4 yr. programs.
• Announcements
  • None
• Adjourn
  • 1:04 p.m.  (M. Pace/ M. Grant)