The meeting was called to order at 3:30 P.M. by D. DeVinny, Chair. Also attending were members, C. Evans, M. Lenard, D. Rome and A. Statham. Lori Allen was guest at the meeting and Evelyn Zepp was present as Secretary of the Faculty.

1) CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 3:30 P.M. by D. DeVinny, Chair.

2) MINUTES
The minutes of the meeting of Sept. 26, 2006 were approved as distributed.

3) ANNOUNCEMENTS
The chair reported on the activities of the Legislative Audit Bureau.
The Chair noted that the UW-M Faculty Senate had passed a resolution on the marriage amendment--this should go on the agenda for the Faculty Senate. The Board of Regents has already made a public statement against the amendment--citing its effect on recruiting and retaining good faculty and staff.
The Board will not take further action on the Disciplinary process until its December meeting.

4) UNFINISHED BUSINESS

a) Administrator Evaluations for 2006-7: D. Rome reported that the Faculty/Academic Staff committee will meet a week from Thursday.

b) First-Year Experience Committee
The Committee discussed with Prof. Allen names for Faculty appointments to this committee.
Art: Trenton Baylor/Lisa Barber
Science: Chris Evans
Business: Laura Kreissl/Cathleen Folker
History: Ed Schmitt/Sandy Moats
English: Maria Martinez/Dana Oswald
Dean Yohnk will continue from the old group
The Secretary of the Faculty will send e-mails to these people in the order they were suggested.
L. Allen left the meeting at 4:10 P.M.

5) NEW BUSINESS

a) Dean Cress: Augmentations of Full Professor Subcommittees
(i) Philosophy augmenters were approved, with the assumption that they have been
consulted.
(ii) Suggested Psychology augmenters were apparently not consulted in advance. The
Secretary of the Faculty will contact Dean Cress.

b) Dean Cress: Augmentation of Philosophy Executive Committee
The Philosophy augmenter was approved.

c) Agenda Items submitted for next Senate meeting.

(i) Resolution on the "growth initiative"; hold off on this until something is received from
System.
(ii) Provost request for presentation by Equity Scorecard Team on Student Access—
approved.

(iii) M. Lenard noted that Mr. Fujimoto had contacted her regarding a possible presentation at the Senate on the on-line training regarding sexual harassment--to get more people to participate.
Members felt that something more substantive was called for (i.e. a workshop with an outside speaker). They will discuss this with Mr. Fujimoto when he attends the Oct. 24th meeting.

(iv) Committee on Teaching and Learning submissions:
Resolution # 1: Whereas the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center is no longer a faculty member and therefore is a non-voting member of the Committee on Teaching and Learning, the committee proposes the conversion of the OPID Faculty Representative position to voting from non-voting. The conversion reestablishes majority vote to the faculty.
Resolution # 2: The Committee on Teaching and Learning proposes the addition of the following as ex-officio, non-voting members:
CBL/CBR Faculty Director
D2L Administrator
General Education Director
FYE (Student Life Director or the Coordinator or a designee)
Both resolutions were approved and will be placed on the Senate agenda.

d) Agenda Items submitted for the Faculty Meeting (Nov. 8th).

(i) Provost: presentation by DeAnn Possehl and John Desch on the challenges and opportunities presented by the upcoming expansion of the student union.

(ii) Discussion on university governance: title to be determined.

6) MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS

a) Names for UPC: (G. Wood will continue)
Susan Funkenstein, Anne Statham, John Skalbeck, Tao Chen, Seif Da'Na, Jay Sounderpanian

b) AACU conference: Secretary of the Faculty will send names to Dean Cress:
Gary Wood, Leo Zaibert, Anne Gurnack, Peggy James, David Higgs, Stu Hansen, Theresa Castor, Michael Gurtman, Herb Colston

c) The Chair asked for someone to attend the Provost's Cabinet meeting Wednesday morning. C. Evans volunteered.

d) Mr. Fujimoto will be invited for the meeting Oct. 24th. Major concerns are due process for someone accused of something and search committee processes.

7) ADJOURMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 5:05 P.M.

N.B. THERE WILL BE NO MEETING OCTOBER 17TH. THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE OCTOBER 24TH.

Submitted by Evelyn Zepp, Secretary of the Faculty