Meeting #L.3
Ore on State College
MINUTE OF FACUI:rYCOUNCIL
20 January 1949
ROLLCALL
Dr , J'. S. But 5, vice chairman, cal.Ied the Faculty Council
to order at 4 00 0' cLoek in Room 208, ~lemoria1 Union. The
fol~owing cou ci1 members were present: Adrion, Bollen, Butts,
Callarman, Ca Lson , Childs, Cocker-Hne , Colby,. Cooney,
Cox, Craft, C· ossen , Dar'Llngbon (for Poling), Davies,
Demuth, Diede ch, Dimick, Dunn, Forslund, Friedman,
Gilfillan,
Go de, Jensen, Langton, Laslett,
LeUaster, Lemon,
Milam, Morton (for Bash), Mqth, Nelson, Norton,Qrdeman,
Rober't son, S ith C.1\.', Smith M.~.,~ Storvick,
S\'Ii'arthoutsThompson, Wenger, Williams, Wise, Yunke1!', Zer'an ,
Present also v ere the following members of the Committee
on Faculty We .faret Professors G. ~, Bl.anch, G. V.
Copson , H•. H. Hl.Ll.emann , A, P,~ Haghes •.
RESOwrlOlf.
ENDC!\SING
AliJENDI£NT
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TO STATE
RET lREI£NI'
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Dr. Butts ann
consider and
that had wen'
At that meet L
council adopt
unced that the purpose of the
erhapstake
actd.on on the two
introduced at the meeting held
g motLon was made and seconded
he following resolution:
meeting rras to
resolutions
JanuaI"J 13.
that the
BE :IT RES LVED,':Chat'the Faculty Councd.L of Oregon
State Col ege" after caref1,ll consdder-atd.on of the
State Empoyees' As~ociation proposed amendments to
the state employees!' retireme:rlt act, is whol.ly in
accord an'· h~reby erdorses swch proposed amendments
which wer, approved at, the annuaf, meetdng of the
Associatio
Novembet 19~2l, 1948~
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Discussion w~ continue? on the proposed resolution
and
particularly
01 ~Qmej.te~ p~ the proposed amendments.
It was brought out that the faculty Council was not in
~ position to .ocli.fy the amendments, since they represent
a program of t e ~tate Employees' Ass ocdat.Lon; Dr. Friedman said that
he Associat~on bel:Leve9. that ,in
some stage
of :Lts effort,
Q get the amendment.s passed,
it might be
helpful if it' .ou+d say that the facuJ,.ty Council of Oregon
State College
ad endorsed the pro~ram~ Pass~g of the
resolution
wou ,0. mean sueh endoreement , Quest'ion was
cal led for. Va Ing. was done 'Oy show of hands. The re$ol1.j.tion was adopt.d without dissenting
votes.
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Dr. Fr~eQman t
moved Ithat the c).{'ficers Qf the Faculty
Council be req' .. st ed to f'orward copies of the resolution
just adopted tr Pro ressor l? M. B.r~l'J.dt, president
of the
Corvallis Chap fr, State Employees' Association.
The
motion was SeG<fded.
The mot;9n \"/"a~carried.~
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RESOIll,t'
ION
ON BOARD
POLIC):,ON
F.ACUI.:rY
RET m.EI~ENT
Dr. Friedman,
lJ 'Oehali' of the COlllIIJl,tteeon Faculty vJelfare, spoke o~he
seQon~ resotution
that had been introduced at thel p eced,ingmeeting.
This resoluticyu was de«
signed to obt.· , if possible,
a modification
of the
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policy of t.he State Board of lligner J:!;ducation on retirement of ~taff member-sa~ ?ge 6~. One of,the. gre~t probhemss
in st artdng a f,acuJ,.ty rcfl.rement plan~ he sm.d, ~5 to
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RESOllJT
ION
ON STAFF.
RETIREI\·ENI'
(cont inued)
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care' for acc ed liability
or prior service credit. Reasonable provisio
can usually be made for those who vall not
retire until
orne20 years or more after the plan goes into
effect. But
less some:.tpeo
tal -provision is made for those
whovdll reti e in the. early years of the p'lan, considerable
hardship will result. The Oreg9n state retirement plan took
care of this
attar by making it possible to retain an individual on a y. ar-~y .•.
year oasis after age 65 if his service is
in the public interest.
The Chancellor and the State Board
of Higher Eduation have not utilized this provision of the
la'J'1. The resu t has been that staff membersreaching age
65 have been 'retired" with pen;sjLonsof ~i50"':;;60, an amount
too small t,O' :onstitute a retirement pr ovd.sdon, Dr. Friedman then pres nted data on the rE~tirement programs of nine
other instituions,
sh~ring for the most part better retirement provisi
s ~ .He then' read the resolution, slightly re- .
vised from th week previous, and movedits adoption as
follows:
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"The Facu'lt.y ouncil of Oregon St.ate College' has observed
the effects o, the pr-esent, polic;y on staff retirement and
baLi.eves that the policy is working needless damageto the
morale of the faculty in all age brackets and to the educational progr •.
liTheCounciJ,ecommends that tUltil the present retirement
plan is impro ed to a podrrt commensuratevJith the retirement system i effect for employees Qf the Federal Government and for mployees of other institutions
comparable.
with our own, the case -of each individual reaching age 65
shall be care nlly examined and,that such individual, if
he so desires: shall bd C,ontinued,on the staff on, a year~
to-year basis '~henever is continued servjLce is in the
public Lnt.ere 't.
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"The Council herefore respectfully urges the State Board
of Higher Edu ation to ~linquish
its present policy of refusing to rec ~nize thel full provisions of the Retirement
Act which ole rly states: itA police officer or fireman,
who is a mernnr of the system and reaches the age of 60 and
any other emp.oye who is a memb~rofithe sysiem and reachesthe age
except a person subject to the teachers tenure l~l, may'
continued in service for successive periods
of ~ year ~ h,~upon w:dtten recommendation~ the administrative
head of his e~lployer that continued service on his
part 3--~ 1n t~e public i~terest,
~'ld ~
approval ~ the board , • "
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The motion to
was continued
rections of d
called for. V
declared adop
,t
adopt the resolution was seconded. Discussion
A number ,or ques~j.on's, explanations,
and corta or terms !were pll'esented. QUf1stionwas
te was by show ofl hands. Tpe rlSsoluticm was
ed by a vot,e of 2~ to 4.
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Dr. Friedman loved that the officers of the Faculty Counci.L
be requested '0 rornard the resolution as adopted through
~he proper ch
els to the Chancellor and the 8tat~ Board
of Higher Edu 'ation. The motion was seconded and carried,
PERIOD OF
RELAXATION
BEFORE
COUNCIL
M8ETTImS
Professor Bety !{ynd Thompsonraased the question whether
a short perio of re Iaxatd.on , w~tlh coffee, wcul.d not be
des:i,rable jus: bef'or'e the schedu.l.ed Faculty- Cotmcil MeetiPga. She sai. that many councd.L members by 1+ 0 'clock
doubtless nav put in a strenuous d~J. She asked for a
shovr of hands by those interested.
The response was general.
On motion the C01,1Ilcilvoted to ask the chai.rman to nome a
committee to ake the matter L.'1 hand ·~emporari;Ly. Dr. Butts;
then asked LIi s Thompsonto act as chairman and choose her
own committee to get the plan under way.
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The meeting w s, declared
kdjourne,d at
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o'clock.
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DSI~
M. GOODE
Secretary