MINUTES
FACULTY SENATE
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR
February 15, 2005
RSC 111, 2:30 PM
PRESENT: David Beran, Hal Bertilson, David Carroll, Orv Clark, Ted Cox, Tim Cummings, Maria Cuzzo, Martha Einerson, Matt Faerber, James Holter, Marshall Johnson, Chris Kemnitz, David Kroll, Susan Loonsk, Peter Nordgren, Chuck Reichert, Cecilia Schrenker, Nick Sloboda, Gloria Toivola, Julius Erlenbach, David Prior, Joel Sipress, Terri Kronzer, Dick Hudelson, Jim Miller, Mary Lee Vance, and Rob Schimke.
ABSENT: James Holter
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Motion (M. Einerson/G. Toivola) to approve the January 25 Faculty Senate minutes passed. The February 1 Executive Committee minutes were adopted.

REPORT OF THE CHANCELLOR: Julius Erlenbach. Don Mash, Chancellor of UW-Eau Claire, has been appointed UWSA chief operating officer. All staff report to Dan Mash who reports to the System President. Campaign Superior is at $8.3 million and is on schedule for completing its goal. $18,353 was raised for tsunami relief for Sri Lanka. Chartwells donated the food. Superior/Douglas County Chamber of Commerce is soliciting relief funds and wishes to combine their proceeds with ours for Sri Lanka.

REPORT OF THE PROVOST: David Prior. SPBC has been told by UW-System that the governor's budget proposal prohibits taking cuts from the instructional budget. New faculty positions will be funded by cuts from the noninstructional budget.
REPORTS

Chair--David Carroll.

1. Nominees recommended for the Senate Charter Review Committee are Suzanne Griffith, Chris Kemnitz, Peter Nordgren, Rhoda Robinson, Nick Sloboda, and Gloria Toivola. Motion (M. Einerson/N. Sloboda) to add Tim Cummings to the committee to ensure that all councils are represented was approved. Motion (M. Einerson/O. Clark) to approve these committee members passed.
2. Chair Carroll gave an update on SPBC and answered questions.
Secretary--Hal Bertilson. No report.

Faculty Representative--Nick Sloboda.

1. Faculty Representative Report (2-4-05) Senator Sloboda reviewed the written report (attached). He thanked Senators for their support of last month's two resolutions. He noted that President Riley has been very supportive of faculty. Senator Sloboda also punctuated the concerns in the written report over People Soft and classroom scheduling.
Planning, Budgeting, and Review Council--Peter Nordgren. No report beyond the two reports attached to the agenda:
1. Report on the Review of the Transportation and Logistics Program
2. Minutes of the 12-10-04 PBRC meeting.
Personnel Council--Chris Kemnitz. Communicating Arts has completed their personnel rules and forwarded them to the Personnel Council for review. Chemistry is working on their 20-page draft. The new departments of Social Inquiry and Politics and Law & Justice are working on theirs.
Undergraduate Academic Affairs Council--Tim Cummings.
1. Retention of submajors was discussed. The Undergraduate Academic Affairs Council was asked to bring forward the full list for review and action.
2. Fall 2005 final exams end at 5:00 PM on December 23, 2005. Senator Cummings reported that there was an old policy that final exams would not extend past December 22, but other faculty do not remember such a policy. Senator Sloboda reported that this is a Systemwide concern. The Faculty Senate gave the Undergraduate Academic Affairs Council the charge to review the seven-year perpetual calendar.
3. The Class Schedule states that rescheduling of final exams must be approved by the Department Chair. The Undergraduate Academic Affairs Council believed that may be a typographical error. Provost Prior suggested that this under faculty purview and should be decided by the department. The Undergraduate Academic Affairs Council was asked to review this policy and give the Faculty Senate some feedback at the time they report on the seven-year perpetual calendar.
Graduate Council--Terri Kronzer. The Graduate Council is serving as its own liberal arts task force and the report is in its final development. On the agenda after that is a review of the application process for graduate students. A goal will be to make the language in the catalog more "user friendly."
Student Senate--Rob Schimke.
1. The Student Senate is working on reorganizing the cross-campus committees. Students have been active in response to the governor's budget. They held a press conference last Wednesday and received good media coverage. Students will going to Madison to lobby a week from Wednesday.
2. A PR0105-05 syllabus registration handout was distributed. It suggested a mini syllabus on the web that identifies attendance policy, grading policy, course objectives, books required, and class expectations. Senators offered reactions and suggestions.
Academic Staff Senate--Mary Lee Vance. Academic Staff Chair Vance reported on the February 8, 2005 Academic Staff Senate meeting.
1. Academic Staff Chair Vance reminded Academic Staff Senators of the Child Care Facility Development policy approved at a prior meeting. It recommends that planning on the building to replace Sundquist Hall should not go forward without incorporating the planning of a new Child Care and Health Care facilities within the planning process. A representative of each Task Force will be part of the planning process. It further recommended that Child Care and Health Care be recognized as integral to the accessibility of UW-Superior as a public liberal arts college and to the recruitment and retention of a diverse body of students and staff, to the balancing of work and family, and to enhancing our campus community and the education of our students.
2. It was recommended that wellness resources be acknowledged as part of the SPBC Goals Statement.
3. It was recommended that biennial salary increases be distributed straight across without adjustments for compression, merit, or outside factors.
4. Guidelines for professional development proposals have been revised and will be posted to the Academic Staff Senate web site.

Spring/Summer Orientation, Advisement and Registration (SOAR)--Dick Hudelson. A paper copy of the summary report was distributed and reviewed. A principle they are working on is that there be significant faculty involvement in advisement. The goal is to have higher quality summer advisement with sufficient faculty staffing. The basic idea is to have more and smaller sessions with more time for faculty to talk to students. We have been moving in this direction incrementally, "Jumpstart" for example. A problem we have is that more sessions require more faculty time. The Provost has said he is willing to support compensation for faculty summer advising. Another concern is the need for advisors with broad area expertise because we cannot afford to have advisors from all programs available all the time. Training will be needed. Some programs are so specialized that we will need faculty from those departments. Some problems remain regarding transfer students, especially students appearing at odd hours for advisement. The SOAR proposal has gone through faculty committees and various departments involved in admissions and advisement.

Concern was expressed by Faculty Senators that department chairs need to see the proposal and have an opportunity for feedback. Director of Academic and Career Advising Vance was on the agenda for yesterday's Department Chair meeting. Another concern is that large departments have large advisement working loads. Senator Schrenker asked for more time to review the proposal. The Undergraduate Academic Affairs Council has not yet seen the proposal. Provost Prior recommended that student focus groups be consulted.
1. Motion (G. Toivola/M. Einerson) to approve SOAR in principle and empower the Academic Advisement Committee to work out the details with input from faculty was discussed. Motion (T. Cummings/M. Cuzzo) to close debate passed. The main motion was approved.
OLD BUSINESS.
1. Senate's action in response to Program Reviews. Upon receipt of programmatic review documents from the PBRC, the Faculty Senate may discuss issues raised in these reports and designate appropriate faculty committees or councils to consider needed action, if any. Motion (T. Cummings/C. Schrenker) that the Faculty Senate has the authority to and shall refer issues raised in program reviews to appropriate bodies for resolution was approved.
NEW BUSINESS. None.
ADJOURNMENT
Minutes prepared by Hal Bertilson, Faculty Senate Secretary, March 11, 2005.