FACULTY SENATE 2005-06

MEETING MINUTES

September 20, 2005

RSC 111, 2:30p

 

PRESENT: Chip Beal, David Beran (for Chad Scott), Dave Carroll, Orv Clark, Timothy Cummings, Maria Cuzzo, Martha Einerson, Matt Faerber, Laura Jacobs, Marshall Johnson, David Kroll, Susan Loonsk, Peter Nordgren, Chuck Reichert, Cecilia Schrenker, Ralph Seelke, Nicholas Sloboda, George Wright, Julius Erlenbach, Art Bumgardner, Jan Hanson, Terri Kronzer

 

ABSENT:  James Holter

 

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

May 10, 2005 - C. Schrenker/O. Clark moved to approve minutes.  D. Beran was not present during reorganization part of 5/10 meeting-correction noted.  Unanimously approved with admendment.  

Receive Executive Mtg Minutes:

May 25, 2005

June 24, 2005

July 12, 2005

July 18, 2005

August 26, 2005

September 6, 2005

 

REPORT OF THE CHANCELLOR

-Aquaculture Center - As of 11:00a, Thursday, September 22nd,  UW-Stevens Pt. will take over the operation of the center. 

-Memo is being prepared to System which requests additional funds for our base budget due to our liberal arts mission; Deb Durkin requested and Joel Sipress is preparing a budget which addresses the real need of $350,000.  The Chancellor believes we can get some support towards that projected amount.  Chancellor believes $500,000 is not unrealistic and possible.  The Provost and Sipress are preparing rationale and details for the request. Chancellor believes we will receive a very positive response.   

-Board of Regents have proposed a new Sick Leave Policy, which the Chancellor will ask Senate Executive to review and make recommendations by October 1st .  Specifically,  how long sick leave can be used without medical permission and what is a reasonable timeline.  As soon as the Chancellor receives word on this proposed policy, he will forward to Exec for review and recommendation.  This will be a very short timeline. 

-Marder case (small portion of suit regarding ex parte communication) is being challenged and reviewed by WI Supreme Court.  We should have a ruling within six months.

-Financial Emergency for this campus is not even a remote possibility.  We donÕt know if there will be need for mid-course budgetary corrections.  We will not see more money at that point and the ' 07-09 biennium is unknown at this time.  Asks this body to think about impact of any additional substantial reduction.   WeÕve taken what we can take, weÕve done what we can do.  What are our program priorities, SPBC has this charge and will continue this work.  This is a substantial step away from financial exigency.  We will have to conduct a close inspection and review of our programs.  

REPORT OF THE PROVOST

-Fall enrollment is 2290. 

-On Wed, September 21, 7:00a, there will be a Language Summit held, including Language and Literature Dept. along with the  NCA Global Awareness Implementation Group.  The summit objective is to reach agreement on plan regarding foreign language offerings on campus, related to NCA recommendations. Needs to go to implementation stage, and this will springboard to that end.

-Class and classroom scheduling, was first raised in Spring '05.  No way that a university-wide system will be in place by Spring '06.  Provost has appointed a task force to examine a strategic plan for scheduling classes and classrooms and report by December '05. 

-Two classrooms in Main (308, 310) have tiered risers make teaching difficult, so J. Hanson has proposed we use internal funds to remove tiers and restore room to flat floors to create a more user-friendly classroom space. 

-Senator Beal asked if Language Summit will include Ojibwe language.  Provost replied that yes, that will be part of the discussion. 

-Senator Sloboda is very pleased with the new technology in the classrooms and asked if there are any plans to complete technology additions to remaining classrooms.  IT is preparing a strategic plan, including this topic.  We lost 65% of tech funds, system-wide. 

REPORTS

Chair of the Faculty

Update on Provost Search and Screen.  The group was able to approve an advertisement  and Position Description to appear in the Chronicle on 9/23/05.  He also provided a timeline of search process. Chair will keep us updated.  

-Handout from Ted Cox, Service Learning implementation group.  There will be a Faculty Institute, Friday, October 21, in conjunction with WI campus compact group in RSC 111. There will guest speakers and a presentation of different models of doing university service learning. Chancellor pointed out we are members of the campus compact and is delighted to hear about the Faculty Institute. 

Secretary

Faculty Senate is making a relatively gradual move to an electronic-based format of documents, and asked member to utilize the Senate website. 

Faculty Representative

The 2nd annual Faculty Rep retreat was held and a wide variety of issues were discussed.  Senator Sloboda urged senators and guests to visit the electronic document.  The Regents met in West Bend with a very large agenda. 

Planning Budgeting, and Review Council

No report

Personnel Council

No report

Undergraduate Academic Affairs Council

Cindy Graham is chair, Dick Hudelson is new secretary.  For UAAC review, please submit 30 copies to Sharon Sullivan in ProvostÕs office, and let Hudelson know of the submission as he prepares the agenda. 

Graduate Council

Terri Kronzer reported the council met and is in the process of rewriting catalog copy to make more consistent.  One more meeting to finalize that copy. 

Student Senate

No report

Academic Staff Senate

No report

OLD BUSINESS

 

NEW BUSINESS

PBRC review of Teacher Education

Einerson/Nordgren moved that Senate receive this review, and further recommends that Teach Education reply to the review to Senate by December 2005.  No discussion.  Motion passed unanimously. 

 

Senate Charter and By-law review is complete.  Charter subcommittee has done outstanding work and the document will be forwarded to Executive and Senate very soon. 

 

Ralph Seelke stated that Biology does not approve of the 2:30p start time for Senate meetings, as all Biology faculty teach labs until 3:00p.  Cecilia suggested that when agenda is short, we begin at 3:00p.  Chair Carroll appreciated the suggestion, and asked if other Senators had conflicts at 2:30.  None did.  Cummings suggested that if agenda items are specifically related to Biology, we hold that discussion until 3:00p.  Historically, votes happen at the end of the meeting, when a large percentage of Senators have left for 4:00p classes.  WeÕll keep the 2:30p start time and accommodate the Biology Senators as best we can. 

 

ADJOURNMENT

Clark/Seelke moved to adjourn, at 3:06pm.  Motion approved. 

 

Respectfully submitted this 28th day of September, 2005. 

Martha J. Einerson, Faculty Secretary