MINUTES
FACULTY SENATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
December 7, 2004
RSC 111, 2:30 PM
PRESENT: Hal Bertilson, David Carroll, Martha Einerson, Nick Sloboda, Gloria Toivola, Joel Sipress, Greg Trudeau, and David Prior.
MINUTES: Motion (M. Einerson/N. Sloboda) to approve the October 5 and November 2 Executive Committee minutes passed.
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT FUNDING: Provost Prior discussed UW-Superior Foundation support. Investment yield has been down. The Foundation meets on January 14, 2005. Some monies may become available for distinguished lecturer, student research grants, and faculty development.
ON-LINE PILOT FOR SELECTED GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES: Provost Prior reported that an on-line pilot for distance learning students for selected general education courses will be tested during Spring 2005. The purpose will be to see if it will assist us in overcoming the general education bottleneck. The five (5) courses proposed for the pilot are History 151, 152, WST 150, Music 170, and Remedial Math. In each case the department has been consulted and did not have faculty interested in teaching these courses. This will be part of the Provost's report at the December 14 Faculty Senate meeting.
FYS PHASE II PILOT: A 2005 Phase II Pilot of Freshman Year Experience has been approved. Maximum cost will be $18,000 and 0.3 FTE for ad hocs as documented in a 12-1-04 memoranda between R. Keefe and Provost Prior.

SUMMER COLLEGE 2004 - BUDGET SUMMARY: An October 14, 2004 memo from Provost Prior to Department Chairs was reviewed with the Executive Committee. "At this time it appears we have a positive Summer 2004 revenue balance [$176,000], but we won't have a final accounting until next July, because we must wait until the tuition revenue from Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 semesters have been collected. If we are below the revenue targets for these sessions we will need to offset that shortfall from Summer College revenue.

"In conclusion our model works! We had a very good Summer College and we may have Summer 2004 revenue to address academic needs. . ."
COMBINED PROMOTION TO ASSOCIATE AND TENURE AS ONE REVIEW: Provost Prior asked the Faculty Senate to consider this proposal again.
PERSONNEL COUNCIL: G. Trudeau reported on the Personnel Rules review. The Personnel Council will meet on December 8 to consider concerns about faculty workload rules. C. Kemnitz will report to the Senate. The recommendation for the Portfolio is that the organization of the Portfolio will be mandated, but the contents are up to departmental discretion. The Personnel Council is also working on the grievance procedure. The Personnel Council often gets bogged down hearing grievances. Policy work is one kind of work and hearing grievances is a different kind of work. If the hearing of grievances can be delegated to a subcommittee the Personnel Council will be able to get more policy work completed.
NCA PROGRAM: J. Sipress discussed the NCA review with the Executive Committee. The initial timeline provided for appointment of implementation groups by November 2004, but there is "wiggle room" and it makes sense to seek more volunteers in January before making the appointments. These are expertise groups so some nonfaculty [with expertise] might appropriate to appoint. The Senate approved all five recommendations, but five may be too many to pull off by December 2005. The Executive Committee can review the popularity of these groups and drop one or two if they don't have enough volunteers. A means is needed to coordinate the working groups and implementation groups to the extent that they overlap. Some things out of the working groups may be germane to the implementation groups. Five members might be an ideal size for implementation groups.
SENATE CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE: Faculty Chair Carroll will seek volunteers again.
ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT AND RETENTION DOCUMENT: Recommendations regarding the Mathematics Core Requirement and Placement Tests in the General Education Program (Memo dated 12-2-04 from the EM&R Committee to Provost Prior and Faculty Chair Carroll) will be given to the General Education Committee to review.
ADJOURNED.

Prepared by Senate Secretary Bertilson, December 13, 2004.