1. Call to Order: Chair Erdmann called the meeting to order at 2:21 p.m.
2. Roll Call
a.
Present: Albrechtsen, Anderson, Bren, Cartwright, Chang, Clayton, Clements,
de Onis, Dollarhide, Eamon,
Ellenwood, Epps, Erdmann, Ghosh, Hogan, Huang, Klug, Kozlowicz, Longrie,
Molloy, Monfils, Ossers, Parks,
Porter, Powell, Rottet, Schauer, Stinson, Tesar, Tetley, Topp, Tremblay,
Weston, Yin
b.
Absent: Howat, *Karges, Phanord, *Teske (*informed the secretary
or chair)
3. Approval of Minutes of Faculty Senate Meeting, Nov. 9, 1999 (Cartwright/Ghosh): Approved.
4. Reports of Committees
a.
Personnel Rules Committee (Epps): “Spirit of Summit” Dec. 2, 1999: there
had been a summit on December 2nd
at which the Personnel Rules Committee received suggestions and questions
from deans, the provost and others on
the proposed rules regarding recruitment and initial appointment of faculty.
b.
University Curriculum Committee (see: http://acadaff.uww.edu/ucc/1999-00/99ucc_am.htm)
i. Transmittal of actions of Friday, Nov. 19, 1999
(1) Motion to approve items 1-3 (Schauer/Albrechtsen):
Approved. FS9900-15
(2) Motion to approve item 5 (Porter/Ossers): Approved.
FS9900-16
c.
Salary Committee
i. Motion to approve the "Report of the Faculty
Salary Committee for 2000-01" (Klug/Monfils)
ii. Motion to table action on the salary plan until
the February Senate meeting, with instructions to the chair to
discuss with the Salary Committee revisions for clarity and to invite committee
members to answer questions
(Weston/Ghosh): Approved.
d.
Executive Committee recommends that the Faculty Senate elect in this meeting
and appoint a convener for an ad
hoc task force on University Goals. This task force is to be as follows
i. structure:
(1) five Senators, to include one Senator from
each of the five constituencies
(2) the task force to determine its own chair at
an initial meeting to be held no later than January 21, 2000
ii. charge:
(1) to consider and solicit faculty comment on
the draft university goals distributed by Chancellor Miller
(2) to report to the Faculty Senate at its March
14, 2000 meeting, including in this report
(a) priority ranking of goals affecting faculty
(b) clarification of goals affecting faculty
(c) proposals of any new goals
(d) proposals to eliminate any goals
(e) other recommendations the task force finds
germane to its charge
iii. Motion to approve (Cartwright/Epps): Passed.
FS9900-17
iv. By constituency caucuses, constituencies selected
representatives to this task force:
(1) A&C: Tremblay
(2) B&E: Clements
(3) Edu: Stinson
(4) L&S: Powell
(5) Other: Topp
v. The Senate selected a convener by unanimous
consent: Powell
5. New Business
a.
Retirement Resolution(s): none
b.
Election for one member to a three-year term (expires 2002) to the Memorial
Committee (see:
http://www.uww.edu/uwwhdbk/0077j.htm ): The Senate selected de Onis by
unanimous consent.
c.
Election for one member (term unspecified) to the Sexual Assault Prevention
Advisory Committee (see:
http://www.uww.edu/uwwhdbk/0077j.htm ): The Senate selected Dollarhide
by unanimous consent
d.
Other new business (no action): none
6. Announcements and Information (no action)
a.
Report of the Chancellor: positions allocation rationale: measures of productivity
i. The administration began using profiles of department
productivity to make decisions on staffing requests
(authorization for replacing unclassified retirees as well as allocation
of new positions) for 1999/2000, as a
first step in having an integrated staffing plan for the campus.
Bulleted items on the handout indicate factors
used in making decisions about staffing requests. As a part of this
first attempt, it was found that there is a
lack of "unified data" on campus, i.e., there are a number of different
reports presenting different data,
making it difficult to get a "coherent picture" of departments for making
comparisons of staffing needs across
departments and colleges. "Information-based decision-making" will
be used again in making decisions on
requests for hiring authorizations for 2000/2001.
ii. For 1999/2000 a total of 39 searches were authorized,
three of which were academic staff positions that will
remain academic staff. Of the 36 authorized searches for faculty
positions: 22 are positions that had been
filled temporarily (for only one or two years) with academic staff,
nine are faculty replacements (for retirees),
and five are new positions allocated to the campus from UWS. UWS
allocated a total of seven new
positions, two of which have not been allocated yet (funding was insufficient
for all seven positions).
iii. No long-term academic staff members have been
displaced in favor of hiring tenure-track faculty. However,
the Chancellor is not inclined to allow departments to convert academic
staff positions to tenure-track faculty
positions without a search.
b.
Report of the Senate Chair
i. Chancellor Miller has approved the following
resolutions:
(1) FS9900-10: actionable items of the October
8, 1999 UCC
(2) FS9900-11: actionable items of the October
22, 1999 UCC
(3) FS9900-12: resolution that the limit
on repeats in FS989-42 not apply to remedial courses.
(a) Note that in its 12/6/99 meeting, the Whitewater
Student Government passed a resolution that
WSG “strongly disagrees with FS989-42" and believes that the Faculty Senate’s
resolution
FS989-42 and the Chancellor’s signing it were actions “without proper consent
of student
government.”
(b) The WSG resolution cites WI Statute 36.09(5)
which specifies that “student(s) have primary
responsibility for the formation and review of the policies concerning
student life, services, and
interests.”
ii. Two other resolutions were:
(1) FS9900-13: December 1999 graduation
resolution
(2) FS9900-14: resolution of gratitude to
Fern Young which the Chair presented on Nov. 14
iii. More on pay for 1999/2000
(1) The UW Board of Regents raised 1999/2000 tuition
to cover 5.2%, operating under continuing
appropriations without authority to increase spending
(2) Oct. 27, 1999 Gov. Thompson signed the budget,
which included general revenue funds for 5.2% each
year in 2000/2001 and prohibited further tuition increase for 2000/2001
(3) The Wisconsin Senate/Assembly Joint Committee
on Employee Relations now has to pass on the
5.2%/5.2%, but first wants to negotiate some union contracts.
(4) On Dec. 13 Ed Muzik of The Association of University
of Wisconsin Professionals reported that
JCOER “will meet to approve our salary increases on January 25, 2000,
at 8:30 AM. Once JCOER
acts, your salary letters should be in the mail.”
(5) Faculty Representative Sue Harrison of Eau
Clair asked about the interest on unpaid salary; David
Ward, UWS Senior VP for Academic Affairs, had no answer, but clearly it
is not planned that the
interest would be passed on to faculty.
iv. Pension bill: Chaptman, Dennis. “Thompson says
he’ll sign bill to boost state retiree benefits.” Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel 3 Dec. 1999: B28, reported that the biennial budget
“increases [the] multiplier by 0.165%
to 1.765% for years of service prior to 2000 and 1.6% thereafter.”
Some litigation is inevitable, and should
go directly to WI State Supreme Court.
v. Sabbatical guidelines: On Dec. 10 the Board
of Regents adopted a resolution directing “the Office of
Academic Affairs to develop biennial sabbatical guidelines, beginning in
the 2001-03 biennium.” Senior VP
Ward “commented that this approach allows the board to set priorities without
the need to continually revise
the sabbatical policy,” which policy now specifies that preference be given
to “those making significant
contributions to teaching.” One regent urged caution in setting priorities,
“in order not to interfere with faculty
governance” while others noted that board guidelines could “encourage sabbaticals
in specific areas, e.g.
interdisciplinary and collaborative activities, in order to meet student
needs. The guidelines are to be brought
to the Board of Regents February meeting for approval (source: preliminary
minutes of the Board of Regents
Education Committee 12/9/99).
c.
Next Senate Exec. Comm. Meeting: Tues., 2:15 Jan. 25, UC65
d.
Next Faculty Senate Meeting: 2:15 Tues., Feb. 8 UC219
i. All meetings except April 11 will be in UC 219;
April 11 is in Hamilton Center 162.
7. Adjournment: (Ellenwood/de Onis): Approved at 3:40 p.m.