PRESENT:

Bernhard Abrahamsson, Karen Bahnick ,John Davis, Paul Doty, Judy Dwyer, Clyde Ekbom, Jeff Engstrom, Deb Filteau, Beth Gilbert, James Lane, Ron Mershart, Deane Minahan, Stewart Platner, Kenneth Redding, Vaughn Russom, Michael Snyder, Greg Trudeau,, Gloria Toivola, Dr. Julius Erienbach, Dr. Hal Bertilson. Excused: Barbara Johnson, Richard Walker

Absent:, James Grittner, , Don Davidson Visitors: Rick Alden , Comptroller; Rob Waksdahl, Internal Auditor, Barbara Erickson, Registrar

CALL TO ORDER: 3:04 P.M.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Motion to approve

May 9 minutes. As amended (Mershart s/ Ekbom) Motion passed.

Motion to approve September 10, 1996 (Minahan s/ Ekbom) Motion passed.

CHANCELLOR*S REPORT:

The Chancellor shared some national economic statistics with the senate (attached). He suggested that as we plan in the Strategic Core Committee, we keep some of the employment statistics in the back of our minds. Enrollment The outlook for tuition revenue looks favorable. Meetings The chancellor noted that we have had three (3) system-wide meetings on the UW-Superior campus since August. He was not sure if this set a record but saw it as a step in the right direction for putting our campus on the map. Foundation - He announced the UW-Superior Foundation had approved in concept the funding of the UW-Superior Foundation Fellows plan. He considers this a big step in the right direction. Bottleneck He stated the Catlin - Belknap construction causing the roadblock was near completion and would soon be removed.

PROVOST REPORT

He reported on the Physical Development Planning Committee saying that he had met with Stewart Platner who is chairing the committee. A charge is to have a plan ready in time for the Board of Regents meeting in October of 1997. The plan is to coordinate the plan with the efforts of the Strategic Planning Committee. Space - He announced he would share with the Senate a policy regarding tactical decisions concerning the assignment of office and classrooms on the campus. He envisions using the Strategic Plan for the campus as a guide and the policy would explain the procedures within that guideline. He sees the policy being ready in a month or so and will share it with whichever council the Senate deems appropriate. Draft policies - He mentioned he had several draft policies which he had given the Executive Committee suggesting some policy changes. One, for example, a faculty member teaching a class can't give themselves a grade in that class. Personnel Policy - He presented the Executive Committee a draft for a personnel change that persons coming up for promotion and/or tenure consideration be voted on only by tenured faculty. Overload Policy - This is also in draft and should be available in the near future. The purpose is to clarify exactly what our overload policy is.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Chair moved the comptroller and internal auditor , Rick Alden and Rob Waksdahl to this point on the agenda to give background on some old business - the issue is the auditing of software on campus. Basically we were audited by system in 1992 and 10% of the software was found to be non-copyright. One of the corrective procedures that we were to undertake was to conduct on-campus audits ourselves. The two speakers outlined the policies necessary to show ownership. The proposal is to use some audit software called PCI. The advantage would be no intrusion or disruption. The disadvantage was the idea of being checked without knowing it. After a long discussion , a motion was made by Redding have a committee sent to the audit offices to see a demo and report back to the senate at large. The motion died for the lack of a second. A motion was made to use a combination audit - i.e., physical and electronic (Toivola s/Gilbert) The motion carried with one nay vote.

REPORTS:

Chair-

Secretary-

Reported the election results for the two at-large council members. Milt Laoma was elected to the Planning, Budgeting, and Review Council while Dick Carter was elected to the Personnel Council.

Faculty Representative- Karen Bahnick reported on the latest Faculty Representative meeting October 4, 1996. President Lyall met with the representatives at her home. She reported that she would be recommending to the Regents a 5% pay increase across the board for each year of the budget. She urged individual faculty members to coordinate with their chancellors in lobbying local legislators to support the university budget especially the portions of the budget which support the new technology and the pay increase request. Tenure - She said a great deal of time was spent discussing this issue. The feeling expressed at the meeting was that the vocal opposition to tenure had died down in Wisconsin.

Planning and Budgeting Council - Gloria Toivola

Meeting minutes September 5, 1996

Meeting minutes September 6, 1996

She indicated the purpose of the reviews and some of the concerns associated

with these reviews. Motion was made to approve both minutes (Toivola s/

Platner) Motion carried.

She reported that the council has sent out material to those departments lucky enough to be selected for review this year. She also reported that Elementary Education had been given a years reprieve also with Counselor Education. So they will be doing theirs this year also. They looking into allowing Counselor Education to use materials they will use in their accreditation efforts.

Personnel Council - Ron Mershart

He reported there would be a meeting on October 9, 1996. He indicated the Council would be looking at Faculty Grants via a sub-committee. One of the decisions that will come out of the council will be a recommendation to the Senate regarding pay equity. He also reminded the senators that if the recommendation is to be timely, it will need to be out of council by the end of November.

Academic Affairs Council - Bernhard Abrahamsson

September 17 meeting minutes.

Action item:

Approval of alteration to Indian Studies Minor (Abrahamsson s/ Platner) Motion approved. No

Academic Staff Representative- Vaughn Russom

Reported the Staff Council would be meeting next week.

Student Senate Representative- Deb Filteau

She reported the Student Senate was helping with the effort to register people to vote. She reported she had been elected the vice-president of the United Council of Wisconsin Students. She stated that the student representatives of the System were meeting in November with President Lyall. One of the topics will be funding for religious organizations. It applies to UW-Superior since we have such organizations who have applied for funding for the first time. The Senate is looking into risk management.

OLD BUSINESS:

a)Software re-visited. Covered as first item under announcements.

Item b was tabled.

NEW BUSINESS:

Chair called for nominations for election of representative to the Academic Staff Council

Motion made that Richard Walker be our representative (Redding s/ Toivola) Motion carried.

ADJOURNMENT:

Motion to adjourn at 4:23 P.M.

Respectfully submitted,

Kenneth Redding

Faculty Senate Secretary