NDSU STAFF SENATE Records
(1986 - Present)

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History
The NDSU Staff Senate originated from a Staff Senate Steering Committee that was organized in the fall of 1988 as a group of classified staff involved in the NDSU presidential search. As the group met with the presidential candidates, specific staff related needs were discussed. One of the issues was the need for a voice, similar to that of the Faculty [University] Senate and Student Senate.

After the selection of Dr. Jim Ozbun as President, the original committee stayed together to discuss the forming of a staff senate. Materials were obtained from Colorado State University, University of Wyoming, and Moorhead State University [Minnesota State University Moorhead] related to staff organizations. The committee studied this material and began to draft a Constitution and Bylaws. On January 1, 1990, the NDSU Staff Senate was established with the encouragement and approval of the president of the university.

Scope & Contents

The records, with numerous gaps, contain executive committee minutes (1990-2000; 2003-2007), Senate agendas and minutes (1989-present), meeting schedules (1997-1999), committee materials from the following committees: Computing, Election, Executive, General Education, Library Advisory, NDUS Compensation, Program, Scheduling & Registration, Space & Facilities, Staff Development, Steering, and University Athletics. Additionally incorporated are drafts and revisions to the Constitution & by-laws, as well as goals, directories, samplings of publications (Staff Senate Update & Staff Senate Messenger), and activities. Also included is extensive information on budget/treasury (1988-1999).

BOX 1
Finding Aid & History sheet - 10/10/1989; Discs:Staff Senate agendas – 2005-2006;
Staff Senate & State Senate Executive Committee minutes (2005-2006, 2006-2007)

Executive Committee (est. 1/1/1990) Minutes
5/1990-8/1990
9/1990-8/1991
9/1991-8/1992
9/1992-8/1993
9/1993-8/1994
9/1994-8/1995
9/1995-8/1996
9/1996-8/1997
9/1997-8/1998
9/1998-8/1999
9/1999-8/2000
9/2000-8/2001
4/2003–4/2004
4/2005-7/2005
8/2005-6/2006
8/2006-4/2007

Senate Agenda & Minutes

1989-1990:
1/1990 - notice: meeting change
1990:
5/1990 – meeting minutes
6/1990 – agenda & meeting minutes
7/1990 – preliminary agenda, agenda & meeting minutes
8/1990 – preliminary agenda, agenda & meeting minutes


1990-1991:
9/1990 – meeting minutes
10/1990 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/1990 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/1990 – preliminary agenda, agenda & meeting minutes
1/1991 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/1991 – agenda & meeting minutes
31991 – agenda & meeting minutes
41991 – agenda & meeting minutes
51991 – agenda & meeting minutes
6/1991 – agenda & meeting minutes
7/1991 – agenda & meeting minutes
8/1991 – agenda & meeting minutes


1991-1992:
9/1991 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/1991 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/1991 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/1991 – agenda & meeting minutes
1/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes
6/1992 – meeting minutes
7/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes
8/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes


1992-1993:
9/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/1992 – agenda & meeting minutes
1/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
6/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
7/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
8/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes


1993-1994:
9/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/1993 – agenda & meeting minutes
1/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
6/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
7/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
8/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes


1994-1995:
9/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/1994 – agenda & meeting minutes
1/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
6/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
7/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
8/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes


1995-1996:
9/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/1995 – agenda & meeting minutes
1/1996 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/1996 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/1996 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/1996 – meeting minutes
5/1996 – agenda & meeting minutes
6/1996 – agenda & meeting minutes
7/1996 – agenda & meeting minutes
8/1996 – agenda & meeting minutes


1996-1997:
9/1996 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/1996 – meeting minutes
11/1996 – agenda
12/1996 – agenda & meeting minutes
1/1997 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/1997 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/1997 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/1997 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/1997 – agenda & meeting minutes
6/1997 – agenda & meeting minutes
7/1997 – meeting minutes
8/1997 – meeting minutes


1997-1998:
9/1997 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/1997 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/1997 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/1997 – agenda & meeting minutes
1/1998 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/1998 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/1998 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/1998 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/1998 – meeting minutes
6/1998 – meeting minutes
7/1998 – agenda & meeting minutes
8/1998 – agenda & meeting minutes

1998-1999:
9/1998 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/1998 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/1998 – meeting minutes
12/1998 – agenda & meeting minutes
1/1999 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/1999 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/1999 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/1999 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/1999 – agenda & meeting minutes
6/1999 – agenda & meeting minutes
7/1999 – meeting minutes
8/1999 – meeting minutes


1999-2000:
9/1999 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/1999 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/1999 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/1999 – meeting minutes
1/2000 – meeting minutes
2/2000 – meeting minutes
3/2000 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/2000 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/2000 – agenda & meeting minutes
6/2000 – agenda & meeting minutes
7/2000 – agenda & meeting minutes
8/2000 – agenda & meeting minutes


2000-2001:
9/2000 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/2000 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/2000 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/2000 – agenda & meeting minutes
1/2001 – agenda & agenda & meeting minutes
2/2001 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/2001 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/2001 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/2001 – agenda & meeting minutes


2001-2002:
10/2001 – meeting minutes
11/2001 – meeting minutes
12/2001 – meeting minutes
1/2002 – meeting minutes
2/2002 – meeting minutes
3/2002 – meeting minutes
4/2002 – meeting minutes
5/2002– meeting minutes
6/2002 – meeting minutes


2002-2003:
9/2002 – meeting minutes
10/2002 – meeting minutes
11/2002 – meeting minutes
12/2002 – meeting minutes
1/2003 – meeting minutes
2/2003 – meeting minutes
4/2003 – meeting minutes
5/2003 – meeting minutes
6/2003 – meeting minutes


2003-2004:
9/2003 – draft minutes & meeting minutes
10/2003 – draft minutes & meeting minutes
11/2003 – meeting minutes
1/2004 – draft meeting minutes
2/2004 – draft meeting minutes
3/2004 – draft meeting minutes
4/2004 – meeting minutes
5/2004 – meeting minutes


2004-2005:
9/2004 – meeting minutes
10/2004 – meeting minutes
11/2004 – meeting minutes
12/2004 – meeting minutes
1/2005 – meeting minutes
4/2005– meeting minutes
5/2005 – meeting minutes
6/2005 – agenda & meeting minutes


fall 2005:
9/2005 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/2005 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/2005 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/2005 – agenda & meeting minutes


spring 2006:
1/2006 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/2006 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/2006 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/2006 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/2006 – agenda & meeting minutes


fall 2006:
9/2006 – agenda & meeting minutes
10/2006 – agenda & meeting minutes
11/2006 – agenda & meeting minutes
12/2006 – meeting minutes


spring 2007
1/2007 – agenda & meeting minutes
2/2007 – agenda & meeting minutes
3/2007 – agenda & meeting minutes
4/2007 – agenda & meeting minutes
5/2007 – agenda & meeting minutes

Meeting Schedules
Senate & Executive Committee:
1997-1998
1998-1999

Committees
Duties of Officers & Board of Directors information – n.d.
Correspondence – 1990-2003 [gaps]
1997-1998; 2003, 2004-2005

Bylaws Committee (SEE Bylaws, Polices and Goals)

Computing (CPU) Committee (SEE By-laws, Policies and Goals)
Report – 10/8/1997 & 11/12/1997

BOX 2

Election Committee
1990-1991
1992-1993
Reports, memoranda, membership lists, new senators – 1992/93-2001 [bulk 1999-2001]
Presidential Search Interviews – 2/1995
1997-1998
1998-2006
2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006

Executive Committee
Purposes – 5/5/n.d.
Minutes on disc – 8/2000

General Education Committee
Memorandum – 12/1991

Library Advisory Committee
Report – 2/4/1998

NDUS Compensation Committee

Report – 2/1998
Program Committee
Year-end report – 7/1999-5/2000

Scheduling & Registration Committee

Report – 1/8/1998

Space & Facilities Committee

Memorandum – 1998

Staff Development Committee

"Walk this Weigh" - 2/1997; "Funding Opportunity" - 3/1997
“Winter Games" - 1/1998; “Computer Training Classes” – 3/1998
"Change - Why Me?" - 2004-2005
"Make it F.U.N." - 1/31/2006

Steering Committee

Organizational Materials – 1986-1989

University Athletics Committee

Minutes – 11/5/1997

By-laws, Policies and Goals
Parliamentary Procedure – n.d.
Initial Bylaws – Public Employees Council – n.d.
Memo - Higher Education Computer Network – n.d.
Constitution & by-laws
drafts – n.d.
5/4/1989
11/7/1989 (draft)
11/13/1989 (drafts)
12/8/1989 (drafts)
12/15/1989 (drafts)
1990 (disc)
4/15/1990 (by-laws rev 2/1991)
4/10/1991
3/11/1992 (rev.)
1/13/1993 (rev. by-laws)
4/12/1995 (rev.)
3/13/1996
10/15/1997
Updated bylaws – 4/14/2004
Approved Revisions to by-laws – 1990-1998
NDUS Legislation – 1/30/1991
Approval of NDSU Policy Statement and Regulations on the Use of Alcohol & Other
Drugs by Students, Faculty & Staff – 4/1992
Goals & Objectives:
1992-1993
193-1994
1994-1995
1995-1996
1996-1997
under revision – 1997
under revision – 2003
Policy 139 Leave With Pay – 7/1997
Brochure - An Executive Summary of the NDSU Priority Implementation Strategies for
the NDUS 1998-2004 Strategic Plan
By-laws – Computer Planning and Goals Committee – 10/18/2000
Executive summary of the Roundtable report and the State Board of Higher Education
(SBHE)’s objectives for 2001-2002

Directories

Staff Senate Directories:
Telephone tree – c. 1994-1995
1996-1997
1997-1998
1998-1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004

Surveys
Staff & Staff Senate Perceptions of Staff Senate (CLASSIFIED) – n.d.
Member survey - 1996
Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Survey – reports, results - 2001-2002

Publications

Staff Senate Update- Fall 1990, 1991-1992
Staff Senate Messenger - 2004-2005: 2/2005, 3/2005
Staff Senate Messenger - 2005-2006: 10/2005 (2), 2/2006 (2)
Staff Senate Messenger - 2006-2007: 9/2006, 12/2006

Topics of the Month
1996-1999
1999-2002
2003-2004
2004-2005


Service Projects
Blood Drive Invitations/flyers:
1996
1997
1998
2001
2003
Holiday Collection for Troops – 12/2003

Budget: Treasurer's Reports/Receipts/Memos/Information

Presentation to Legislature - 1988
1994-1995
1996-1997 Miscellaneous
1996-1997 Miscellaneous (Continued)
6/1997
7/1997
8/1997
9/1997
10/1997
11/1997
12/1997
1/1998
2/1998
3/1998
4/1998
5/1998
6/1998
7/1998
8/1998
9/1998
10/1998
11/1998
12/1998
1/1999
2/1999
3/1999
4/1999
5/1999
6/1999

 

 



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rev. 11/02, 7/04, 12/04, 10/06, 2/07, revised by Emily J. Ergen - 7/07

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