MINUTES

FACULTY SENATE

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR

October 19, 1999

RSC 112, 3:00 PM

PRESENT. Tim Cummings, Cecelia Schrenker, Deane Minahan, Ella Cross, Jeff Engstrom, Greg Trudeau, Thomas Notton, Clyde Ekbom, David Beran, Ronald Mershart, Paul Keeney, Bob Carmack, Hal Bertilson, Provost Schelin, and Chancellor Erlenbach.
Excused: Richard Walker, Michael Wallschlaeger, Jack Zaengle
Absent: Beth Gilbert, Jim Grittner
Guests: Donna Quinn, James Holter, Mike Schneiderwent, Stephanie Hilton, and Chris Voltzke.
 
APPROVAL OF MINUTES. Minutes of the September 21, 1999 Faculty Senate meeting were approved. Minutes of the October 7, 1999 Executive Committee meeting were reviewed.
 
REPORT OF THE CHANCELLOR. The biennial budget is on the Governor's desk for approval and line item veto. The pay plan is still under review by JOECR. A search and screen committee to fill the vacant Assistant Chancellor position has been appointed and is meeting. An ad has come out in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the NACUBAL Journal. In the near term, Chancellor Erlenbach and Provost Schelin are the contact persons for EM21. UWSA chief fiscal officer Marsha Bromberg has resigned to join a new foundation. The fall ad campaign is underway. It has a new look in the local and regional media. "Commitment to Quality" is the theme. Last year's campaign is shifting to the Twin Cities. It is being funded by a generous gift from UWSA in support of an initiative to increase the quality of students.
 
REPORT OF THE PROVOST. UW-Superior now has an Ed Specialists degree in School Psychology. Social Work was reaccredited for the full term. EM21 will highlight the differences among the campuses. Green Bay and Superior (public liberal arts institution) are distinguished in Part I. Seventy-two students are enrolled in the UWSA collaborative language program. Thirty six at remote campuses. Seventeen students are enrolled in the Superior Japanese course. Pat Thomas and Jim Grittner are the faculty appointed to the textbook rental committee. The Peoplesoft implementation is continuing. Peoplesoft will be used for the Fall 2000 registration.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS. None.
 
REPORTS.
 
Chair--Bob Carmack. Chair Carmack reported that Nancy Minahan (Chair), Chris Kemnitz, Neil Hensrud, Suzanne Griffith, and Bill Stock were appointed to this year's Institutional Review Board (IRB).
 
Mediation Task Force. James Holter. James Holter reported on the Mediation Task Force recommended by a February 16 Senate resolution. The Task Force has met four times. It includes representatives from all employee classes. To date the Task Force has reviewed existing policy, generated ideas for alternative models, and is now developing a survey to be distributed campuswide.
 
Secretary--Hal Bertilson. Secretary Bertilson reported that a special meeting of the Executive Committee has been scheduled for October 27, 1999 at 3 PM. The purpose is to approve the October 19 Senate minutes so that the Senate Secretary can notify the Registrar, before the November 1 Catalog Deadline, that courses have been approved by the Faculty Senate.
 
Correspondence. None.
 
Faculty Representative--David Beran. The Faculty Representative's report was included in the packet for today's agenda.
 
Planning and Budgeting Council. Senate Chair Carmack read the following report from Mike Wallschlaeger. "The Planning Budgeting Review Council has met weekly since the last Senate meeting to review University 2001 budget issues. We have had excellent input from Ron Lostetter, Assistant Chancellor for Administration and Finance, and Provost Schelin who met with the Council. We are in the process of developing recommendations for the full Senate for their November meeting. The Council is also close to completing the Departmental Review for the COMARTS Department."
 
Personnel Council--Ron Mershart. Council Chair Mershart reported on the Council minutes of September 14, 1999. The minutes included questions for Provost Schelin about the proposal for a Promotion Committee. Answers offered orally by the Provost will be put in writing. Professors with tenure will be appointed by the Senate or the Senate Executive Committee. The reason for an even number of members is that it is easy to roll people on and off the committee. Departments will have an opportunity to comment. Motion (Mershart/Cummings) to approve the creation of a Promotion Committee effective with the 2000-2001 academic year passed.
 
Academic Affairs Council--Tim Cummings.
1. Motion (Bertilson/Cummings) to take the Comprehensive Human Performance/Exercise Science Major from Minutes of March 9, 1999 Academic Affairs Council meeting off the table and consider it was approved. Motion (Bertilson/Cummings) to amend the April 1999 Senate minutes to show that the Senate recommended approval of this major was approved.
2. Motion (Cummings/Bertilson) to approve items on the consent agenda from the September 28, 1999 Academic Affairs Council meeting passed.
  a. Common curriculum for Majors in the Department of Business and Economics.
  b. Proposed changes in the Business Minor.
  c. Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition.
  d. Course proposals from Department of Languages and Literature (ENGL 235, 228, and 328).
  e. Changes in required credits in the English majors and minors.
  f. Course proposals from the Department of History, Politics, and Society (PHIL 214, 311, 251; cross-listing of ENGL 235 and PHIL 235; and proposals for HIST 371 and 421).
  g. Change in application from Special Adult to Degree Seeking Status.
3. Motion (Cummings/Bertilson) to approve items on the consent agenda from the October 5, 1999 meeting of the Academic Affairs Council passed.
  a. Recommendation that GEOG 102 ("Cultural Geography") be moved from the Humanities Elective to the Human Behavior General Education Knowledge Sub-Category.
  b. Incorporation of the General Education Student Evaluation Form into the General Education Electronic Portfolio.
4. Items a and b of the October 12, 1999 meeting of the Academic Affairs Council were separated from the consent agenda. Motion (Cummings/Bertilson) to approve items c through h of the consent agenda passed.
  c. Addition of BIOL 316 to Human Performance (Exercise Science)--Liberal Arts and Human Performance (Exercise Science)--Comprehensive Majors
  d. Proposals from Department of Business and Economics
      Changes in admission requirements to DBE
      Changes in CIS courses and requirements
      Changes in Corporate Health Management concentration
      Changes in Transportation and Logistics Management courses and requirements
      Course proposals for TRSP 305, 325, 400, and 401
      Proposal to require MATH 151 for all business comprehensive majors
  e. Course proposals from Department of Biology and Earth Sciences
      Change from BIOL 481 ("Undergraduate Research") to BIOL 491 ("Research in Biology")
      GEOL 481 and GEOG 481
      GEOL 491 and GEOG 491
      GEOL 496 and GEOG 496
      GEOG 492
      GEOG/TRSP 402 (note that this supersedes the GEOG 402 proposal also contained in this packet)
  f. Proposal for ENGL 315
  g. Clarification of Policy Concerning Electronic Portfolios
  h. Report of the General Education Subcommittee (Recommendations that PSYC 360, SO W/INDS 386, ENGL 228 and ENGL 328) be approved as diversity courses
5. Motion (Beran/Minahan) to substitute Math 240 for Math 115 in the proposed Secondary Education Chemistry Major failed 2 to 9. Senator Mershart pointed out that this substitution would increase credits for the major. Senator Schrenker asked if the proposed Secondary Education Chemistry Major would be the best teacher preparation major. Senator Cummings responded yes. Motion to table the main motion was defeated 2 to 9. Motion (Cummings/Bertilson) to approve items a and b of the consent agenda passed 9 to 2.
  a. New Secondary Education Chemistry Major (Non-Comprehensive)
  b. Proposal for CHEM 344
 
Student Senate--Chris Voltzke. Student Senate President Voltzke announced that there would be a report from the Student Laptop Computer committee for the next Senate meeting. The Textbook Rental Committee will meet within two weeks.
 
Academic Staff Council. Donna Quinn reported that there will be an Academic Staff Leadership Conference next August. The Academic Staff Council met to complete work on the Academic Staff Handbook.
 
OLD BUSINESS.
1. The Executive Committee confirms the agreement made with academic staff representatives when the Faculty Senate was founded in 1996 that all members of a committee, including academic staff and students, have voting rights except for those specifically designated as ex officio. Does not include councils.
 
NEW BUSINESS
1. Motion (Schrenker/Beran) to elect Mike Schneiderwent as faculty representative to the Academic Staff Council was approved.
2. Article VII-c of the Constitution of the Faculty Senate (3/29/96) states that "At least once every three (3) years, the Faculty Senate shall enter on its agenda the question of general revision of this constitution. The Faculty Senate shall decide, by an absolute majority vote of the faculty Senators whether or not to devise procedures for general revision. The procedures subsequently devised shall be adopted by a simple majority vote of the Faculty Senators present and voting." The Executive Committee has received three documents in support of a Constitutional review:
  a. Suggested corrections and clarifications to the present Constitution.
  b. Recommendations for a new charter from Michael Ball.
  c. Recommendations from John Davis.

Documents referred to above distributed by Bob to Senators.
3. If the Senators approve a constitutional review, the Executive Committee recommends the following procedure:
  a. Five faculty members will be elected at large. The elections will be conducted by the Senate Secretary. The purpose of this body is to review the need for revisions to the Constitution. Should a need be ascertained, implementation will be according to Article VII of the Constitution. Motion to place this item on the agenda for the November meeting was approved.

 

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