Minutes 1999/2000 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Faculty Senate 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, September 14, 1999 Heide Hall 101 Call to order: Chair Erdmann called the meeting to order at 2:20 p.m. 1. Roll Call: a. During roll call name cards, parliamentary action cards, and a Senate membership list were distributed. b. Senators were requested to inform the Chair of changes in offices, phone numbers, or e-mail addresses since last spring. c. Present: Albrechtsen, Anderson, Bren, Cartwright, Chang, Clayton, Clements, de Onis, Dollarhide, Eamon, Epps, Erdmann, Ghosh, Hogan, Howat, Huang, Klug, Kozlowicz, Molloy, Monfils, Ossers, Parks, Phanord, Porter, Powell, Rottet, Schauer, Stinson, Tesar, Teske, Topp, Weston d. Absent: Ellenwood*, Karges, Longrie, Tetley, Tremblay*, Yin (*informed secretary/chair) 2. Approval of Minutes a. Minutes of the 1998/1999 Faculty Senate May 4/11, 1999 meeting were approved as amended (Topp/Ossers). b. Minutes of the 1999/2000 Faculty Senate May 4, 1999 meeting were approved (Ghosh/Hogan). 3. Reports of Committees a. University Curriculum Committee: UCC Actions of Friday, May 7, 1999 i. Note: UCC reports are available at ( ii. Motion to approve the May 7, 1999 meeting transmittal (Molloy/Epps) (1) Motion to remove item 7 from the consent agenda (General Education Review Committee report on “World of Ideas”) because information about the report’s content is desired (Schauer/Parks): Approved (Yes 15; No 12). Approval of remaining transmittal items 1-6 carried on voice vote. FS9900-1 iii. Motion to table item 7 until the October Faculty Senate meeting, with instructions to Chair Erdmann to provide the committee report at that time (Phanord/Ossers): Approved. b. Academic Standards Committee: Motion to adopt the resolution on course repeat policy. “Resolved that the limit on repeats as described in Faculty Senate Resolution FS989-42 not apply to remedial mathematics and English courses.” (Stinson/Hogan) Motion to table this item until the October Faculty Senate meeting (Hogan/Parks) because interest in revisiting Faculty Senate Resolution FS989-42 was expressed: Approved. FYI: On June 4, 1999, Chancellor Greenhill signed and approved FS989-42 with the stipulation that the policy not be in effect until the 2000/2001 Academic Year. FS989-42 (Faculty Senate Minutes of May 4/11, 1999, Paragraph 3.c.i) is as follows: Resolved that students be limited to a total of 3 repeats for grade replacement during their undergraduate work (including repeats of transfer courses, but excluding courses repeated at the transfer institution). To allow for extenuating circumstances, students may be granted up to 2 additional repeats for grade replacement by appeal to the Dean of their Major. c. Personnel Rules Committee: Committee Chair Epps, reported that the committee worked many hours this summer on revisions to VI-F and VI-M of the University Handbook making significant progress. The work continues, but deans have received copies of version 47a. Regular PRC meetings will be Thursdays at 2:30 in Winther 3006. Before they go into effect, the personnel rules revisions must be approved by the Faculty Senate, the Chancellor, UW System legal counsel, and the Board of Regents. d. Senate Executive Committee i. 1999-2000 Promotion and Tenure Procedures (attached) (1) Motion of Senate support for the “1999-2000 Promotion and Tenure Procedures” memorandum dated August 2, 1999 (Epps/Clements) (a) Motion to amend the University Promotion Standards document, attached to the memorandum on p. [1] under “Research and Creative Activity Standards” for associate professors to read “…on a state/regional level or national level.” and on p. [2] under “Research and Creative Activity Standards” for professors to read “…on a state/regional and national level. (Albrechtsen/ Powell) (i) Chair Erdmann ruled the motion to amend out of order as potentially in violation of Wisconsin “Open Meetings Law” as not an actionable item because it was not listed on the published agenda. Appeal from the chair’s decision (Molloy): Passed. (b) Motion to table the main motion (Schauer/Eamon): Failed (Yes 9; No 19) (i) amendment to change slashes to “or”, making the language on p. [1]” ...on a state or regional or national level.” and the language on p. [2] “...on a state or regional level, and on a national level. (Epps; accepted by Albrechtsen and Powell) (ii) amendment to remove references to state or regional level for professors, i.e., make the language on p. [2] read “activity on a national level.” (Hogan, accepted by Albrechtsen and Powell) (iii) amendment to make the language on p. [2] read “…activity on a national or international level.” (Ghosh, accepted by Albrechtsen and Powell) (c) Motion to table indefinitely revision of the document’s language (Kozlowicz/Schauer): Approved. (d) Moved the previous question (Clements/Epps): Approved. Main motion to express Senate support for the “1999-2000 Promotion and Tenure Procedures” memorandum dated August 2, 1999 (Epps/Clements): Approved. FS9900-2 ii. Reappointment/Promotion/Tenure Timeline(s) (attached) (1) Motion to accept the third time line [as drafted by Epps] (Klug/Porter) (a) amendments to strike the asterisk in the title and to change two dates to be in compliance with AAUP guidelines, i.e., to change “December, third Wednesday” to December 15th and “March, first Wednesday” to March 1st (Epps; accepted by Klug and Porter) Motion to accept the third time line as amended: Approved. FS9900-3 e. Elections Committee (as a courtesy) (Teske) Committee Chair Teske reported on the current status of elected positions on committees. Vacancies will be filled with a special fall election. Committee chairs are urged as soon as possible to inform Teske of additional vacancies. 4. New Business a. Retirement Resolution(s) i. Eliezer Geisler (attached) (1) Motion to approve retirement resolution for Eliezer Geisler (Clements/Porter): Approved. FS9900-4 ii. Other(s): none b. Election for a two-year faculty appointment to the James R. Connor University Center Board: Peggy Anderson was elected to serve through 2001. Note: the following item is struck because the position was filled in the May 1999 Senate meeting. c. Election for a two-year faculty appointment to the Campus Landscape Planning Committee i. David Cartwright 2000 ii. 2001 d. Elections to the General Education Review Committee () i. Motion to close nominations (Ghosh/Epps). Chair declared elected by proclamation: (1) Arts and Communication: Christian Ellenwood to serve until 2001 (2) Business and Education: Jerry Laurent to serve until 2001 (3) Letters and Sciences (a) Richard Brooks to serve until 2001 (b) Eric Seelau to serve until 2001 e. Election for vacancies on Personnel Rules Committee (“7 Voting Members...staggered three-year terms...to be elected by Faculty Senate”) i. Arts and Communication: Peter Conover to serve until 2001 (the remainder of a term left vacant) ii. Letters and Sciences: Richard Schauer to serve until 2002 iii. At-large: Hadley Klug to serve until 2002 f. On-Line Syllabi (Senate Executive Committee): Motion to adopt the On-line Syllabi resolution, Resolved that submitting syllabi for use on-line remain voluntary. (Cartwright/Ghosh): Approved. FS9900-5 g. Referendum on A/B Grading System (Stinson): Motion to adopt the resolution providing for a referendum on A/B Grading System: Resolved that the Faculty Senate Secretary shall conduct, record, and tally an electronic referendum of the faculty and report on such referendum at the October 12, 1999 Faculty Senate Meeting. The referendum is to be worded as follows: The Faculty Senate requests your response to the following referendum. Type either “Yes, I support the proposed change” or “No, I do not support the proposed change” at the bottom of this message and return it to the sender. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. On January 22, the University Curriculum Committee supported the following proposed change in the grading system for undergraduate courses. A=4.00, AB=3.50, B=3.00, BC=2.50, C=2.00, D=1.00, F=0.00 The results of the referendum may help the Chancellor decide whether to implement the proposed grading system. Do you favor the proposed change? (Stinson/Clements): Approved (Yes 16; No 6). FS9900-6 h. Other new business (no action): none 5. Announcements and Information (no action) a. Faculty Representatives’ Meeting of Sept. 2 i. Re: ‘99/01 Budget (1) No funding for Plan 2008; UWS hopes to raise private monies (2) There is disagreement throughout the legislature regarding the “multiplier” for retirement--various proposals are afloat, none will bring it up to the .2% some other state employees get. (3) The Regents have raised tuition across the system to cover a 5.2% per annum raise, but would rather the state pick up out of general revenue (i.e. taxes) its traditional 2/3 share of the cost. If the state does pick up its traditional 2/3 share, then Regents can readjust lower tuition in ‘00/‘01. ii. Toward the ‘01/‘03 budget (1) UWS will place continued emphasis on attracting graduate and non-traditional students as a good source of revenue; (2) UWS is ca. $800 per student in spending behind comparable systems; (3) UWS will ask for funding for Plan 2008; (4) Technology will require more money; (5) UWS will ask for money to help overcome shortages of maintenance personnel, supplies, and facilities; (6) Regent are concerned about the “graying of the faculty” and attendant problems. b. Board of Regents Meetings of Sept. 9 and 10 i. Regents heard from former UW System Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Stephen Portch, now Chancellor of U. of GA System. (1) Portch allowed that the “traditional” residential university would endure as the best “half-way house” for 18 and 19-year olds. (2) Portch contended that “on-line” delivery of courses would call into question the idea of “seat time” as evidence of education, putting greater importance on demonstration of knowledge and skills. c. Faculty Senate Office in Governance Center UC63A i. Support Secretary for Senate and Assembly: Patty Leonard (1) MTHF 9:00-2:00 (2) W 10:00-3:00 ii. Faculty Senate Secretary: Barbara Bren (brenb@uwwvax.uww.edu) 472-5521 iii. Chair: Ed Erdmann facsenate@uwwvax.uww.edu 472-5657 (1) I am in UC63A M-F afternoons except for meetings d. Next Senate Exec. Comm. Meeting: Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2:15 UC202 e. 1999/2000 Faculty Senate Meetings Dates (all are at 2:15 p.m. on Tuesdays) Oct. 12 UC162 Nov. 9 UC162 Dec. 14 UC219 Feb. 8 t.b.a. Mar.. 14 t.b.a. Apr. 11 t.b.a. May 2 t.b.a. 6. The meeting adjourned at 4:40 p.m. |