MINUTES
FACULTY SENATE
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR
September 21, 2004
RSC 111, 2:30 PM
PRESENT: David Beran, Hal Bertilson, David Carroll, Orv Clark, Ted Cox, Tim Cummings, Martha Einerson, Matt Faerber, James Holter, Chris Kemnitz, David Kroll, Susan Loonsk, Peter Nordgren, Chuck Reichert,Cecilia Schrenker, Nick Sloboda, Gloria Toivola, Julius Erlenbach, Terri Kronzer, Joel Sipress, Greg Trudeau, Mary Lee Vance, Rob Schimke, and Wenting Liao.
SEATING NEW MEMBER: Motion (T. Cummings/N. Sloboda) to seat David Kroll passed.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Motion (T. Cummings/O. Clark) to receive the Mary 4, 2004 Faculty Senate meeting minutes, and the May 26, June 15, July 13, August 24, and September 7 Executive Committee minutes passed.
REPORT OF THE CHANCELLOR: Julius Erlenbach. The Board of Regents will meet on the UW-Superior campus on Oct 7 and 8.

The national press policy report card for higher education was released recently. Wisconsin as state comes out well improved in three (3) of five (5) measures and neutral in one. The one decline was in access. Access is an ongoing issue for the Board and this will be a public policy issue in the state. The Senate may wish to take a position on offseting tuition for those students in lower income.

UW-System is in a dispute with the Legislative Audit Bureau Report over how administrative positions are counted. The Legislative Audit Bureau definition of administrators includes people in administration that the University would not include. For UW-Superior, the Legislative Audit Bureau considers Director and above as administrators. But if the NCUBO definition is used the Wisconsin System has the lowest ratio of administration to total of all other state systems.

The UW-Superior Foundation Campaign is now at $7,000,000 and proposals pending amount to $4,200,000 more.

REPORT OF THE PROVOST: David Prior. No report.
REPORTS
Chair--David Carroll.
1. Faculty Chair Carroll urges us to do business on a timely basis. He is asking all except the Chancellor and Provost to submit their reports in writing in advance of the meeting and limit oral comments to three (3) minutes. The deadline for including reports in the agenda packet is submission to the Faculty Senate Secretary by the close of the day on Wednesday before the Senate meeting.
2. Chair Carroll urges the Senate to reach consensus on issues. Where possible, items will be brought to the Senate sufficiently ahead of time so that if consensus is not reached, the item can be tabled without influencing the ultimate deadline.
Secretary--Hal Bertilson.
1. The Faculty Senate membership list is available at Membership. The 2004-2005 Faculty Senate calendar is available at Calendar.
2. The following resolutions by the 2003-2004 Faculty Senate have been approved by the Chancellor:
  a. XF letter grade
  b. Awarding posthumous degrees
  c. No noon Thursday classes
  d. IDS 400 is suspended
  e. Excess credit policy
  f. Minors in German and Spanish
  g. Course sequence for Arts Administration
  h. NCA Working Groups
  i. Resolutions on Faculty Status
  j. Grade Appeal Process
  k. Model of NCA Working Groups
  l. Graduate requirement that a student be in good standing
  m. PBRC recommendations on International Programming
  n. Preliminary position on the University Budget and continuation of services provided by Tuula Harris position.
  o. Three principles for department budget allocations
3. The at-large ballot went in the mail today. Candidates who permitted their names to appear on the ballot include Tim Crow, Maria Cuzzo, Suzanne Griffith, and Gary Keveles. Closing date will be Wednesday, September 29.

Faculty Representative--Nick Sloboda. Briefly reviewed the following reports:
1. Faculty Representative Meetings and Retreat: 05/28/04, 08/12-14/04, 09/03/04
2. Faculty and Shared Governance (handout from Erika Sander, UW--M Faculty Representative)
3. University Relations Report on the 2005-07 Budget (handout from Joe Heim, UW-L Faculty Representative)
Planning, Budgeting, and Review Council--Peter Nordgren. Gail Craig has been elected the new chair. P. Nordgren will report for the PBRC at Senate meetings. The PBRC has two years of backlog including seven (7) program reviews, four (4) program reviews in process now, one (1) System review received, and two (2) program reviews started this year.
Personnel Council--Chris Kemnitz. Greg Trudeau continues as chair. C. Kemnitz will report for the Personnel Council at Senate meetings. The Personnel Council has been asked to present their Department Personnel Rule report to the November Faculty Senate meeting. Departments have until October 1 to give their reports to the Personnel Council.
Undergraduate Academic Affairs Council--Tim Cummings. The Undergraduate Academic Affairs Council met last week. Cindy Graham has been elected secretary.
Graduate Council--Terri Kronzer. No report.
Student Senate--Rob Schimke. R. Schimke reported on the theme for this semester and who was elected vice president.
Academic Staff Senate--Mary Lee Vance. Academic Staff Senate Chair Vance reported from their August 31, 2004 meeting. Dianna Hunter discussed the UW-System LGBTQ Inclusivity Initiative focusing on system-wide access/retention, classroom/campus climate, research/evaluation, and community outreach/advocacy efforts. The resolution passed by the Academic Staff Senate is linked at Inclusivity Initiative.
OLD BUSINESS
1.

Liberal Arts Task Force. Initiatives identified by the Faculty Task Force on the Public Liberal Arts Mission were discussed by Joel Sipress and Greg Trudeau:

Joel Sipress presentation.

J. Sipress discussed a NCA Progress Report Process flow chart that the campus can follow to get the work done. The flow chart is organized into steps or stages. First decide what you are going to do. Second decide how you are going to do it. Phase one and Phase two. Phase one is to review and recommend–establish working groups. Phase two implementation—implementation groups (where needed) to be created.

How does faculty task force fit? It started last year and completed phase one. Its recommendation is listed on the chart as recommended implementation groups.

Greg Trudeau comments. Professor Trudeau discussed the role of the Faculty Task Force. These were global recommendations. Details, particular direction, and characteristics would be worked out by implementation groups.

The Senate Executive Committee endorses that the initiatives identified by the Faculty Task Force on the Public Liberal Arts Mission (Community Service Learning, First-year Experience, Global Awareness, Senior Experience, and Writing Across the Curriculum with Supportive Writing Center) and recommends the creation of implementation groups to develop detailed implementation plans with the understanding that the Executive Committee is authorized to create such groups with deadline for curriculum and budget implementation recommendations by December 1, 2005. Motion (O. Clark/C. Schrenker) to approve the Executive Committee recommendation passed with one (1) abstention. All others were aye.


2. Motion regarding Faculty Mentoring Program. The following motion was introduced by Peter Nordgren on 5-5-04: The Faculty Senate recognizes the Faculty Mentoring Program as an important component in the professional life of the university. The Senate encourages academic departments to recognize participation in the Mentoring Program by volunteer faculty mentors as university service, equivalent to service on committees. Departments are also encouraged to recognize participation in the program by mentees as professional development. Motion (P. Nordgren/T. Cummings) was approved unanimously.
3. Promotion Portfolios. The Executive Committee recommends that the Faculty Senate approve the Personnel Portfolio as presented by the Personnel Council and that it become the common standard format effective with faculty hired in 2003 was approved.

Motion (H. Bertilson/G. Toivola) to return to the Personnel Council asking the Personnel Council to provide the Faculty Senate with a title for the example of the Promotion Portfolio and to specify the minimum content passed unanimously.

C. Kemnitz asked that Senators go back to departments and ask for departments to respond to the Personnel Council with feedback.
NEW BUSINESS
1. Parking Task Force:
  a. Task Force-Parking (6-15-04)
  b. Parking Task Force Report (7-16-04)
  c. Parking Task Force Recommendations (7-14-04)
  Motion (O. Clark/C. Kemnitz) to endorse enforcement hours to 4:30 PM and only when students are on campus, the two student University motions [(a) The number of students on the Parking Appeals Committee should equal the number of staff members and (b) that there be a Parking Appeals Task force], and that handicapped parking places be cleared first was approved unanimously.
2. PLAN 2008: Each department is to review its Plan 2008 report. The report from the Plan 2008 committee needs to come to the Senate in October and be approved by the Senate in November.
3. PROMOTIONS COMMITTEE: Motion (T. Cummings/G. Toivola) to direct the Promotions Committee to not create its own rules but to use what is in the Personnel Handbook and department rules was made. Motion (M. Einerson/T. Cummings) to table passed.
ADJOURNMENT
Minutes prepared by Hal Bertilson, Faculty Senate Secretary, September 17, 2004.