AGENDA
FACULTY SENATE
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR
May 4, 2004
RSC 112, 2:30 PM

CALL TO ORDER

APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Approval of Faculty Senate Minutes of April 20, 2004 and receipt of the Executive Committee minutes of April 27, 2004

REPORT OF THE CHANCELLOR--Julius Erlenbach.

REPORT OF THE PROVOST--David Prior.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

REPORTS

Chair--Joel Sipress

a. CONCERNS ABOUT THE 2001 FACULTY HANDBOOK:
b. SPBC: The Executive Committee recommends Orv Clark and David Carroll as the new faculty members for the SPBC.

Secretary--Hal Bertilson. A job description for the Faculty Senate position of Secretary has been prepared.

Faculty Representative--Greg Moore.

Planning, Budgeting, and Review Council--Peter Nordgren

Personnel Council--Randy Gabrys-Alexson.

Academic Affairs Council--Timothy Cummings.

1. Excess Credit Policy
2. German/Spanish minors for Elementary Education
3. Department of Visual Arts Course Sequence for Arts Administration

Graduate Council--Terri Kronzer

1. Graduate Council Minutes 4-14-04

Student Senate

Academic Staff Senate

OLD BUSINESS

1. NCA Working Groups
2. Open Discussion on Faculty Conduct

NEW BUSINESS

1. TASK FORCE REPORT: The Executive Committee recommends that the Task Force Report on the Liberal Arts Mission be discussed as an open forum immediately following the opening session at Welcome Week and on the agenda for the first Faculty Senate meeting in the fall.
2. Eight sets of department rules meet the standards. One set does not meet the standards. The Executive Committee recommends that the Personnel Council bring forward these nine sets of department rules to the Faculty Senate as soon as possible and that the other six sets of department rules be forwarded to the Personnel Council by October 1 and for the Personnel Council to forward to the Faculty Senate as they complete their review.

ADJOURNMENT

CALL TO REORDER

SEAT NEW MEMBERS

ELECTION OF OFFICERS

OLD BUSINESS

NEW BUSINESS

ADJOURNMENT

Prepared by Faculty Senate Secretary, Hal Bertilson, 4-28-04