The University Committe of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside met Tuesday October 24, 2006 in Moln D 135.  The meeting was called to order by Doug DeVinny, Chair.  Also attending were members Chris Evans, Fran Kavenik, Mary Lenard, Dennis Rome and Anne Statham.  Eugene Fujimoto was a guest of the committee and Evelyn Zepp was present as Secretary of Faculty.

 

1) CALL TO ORDER

              The meeting was called to order at 3:45 P.M. by Doug DeVinny, Chair.

 

2) MINUTES

              The minutes of the meeting of October 10, 2006 were approved as distributed.

 

3) ANNOUNCEMENTS

              The Chair read the written announcements reported by the Secretary of the Faculty.

 

4) UNFINISHED BUSINESS

 

              a) Administrator Evaluations for 2006-7.  D. Rome reported that the drafting committee had met; they will not be able to do anything on this until the second week of Spring semester.  There was some discussion of doing these on-line (vs. not) and of how to address specific concerns.

              The Chair agreed to contact Sandy Puzerewski in order to get the job descriptions of the administrators to be evaluated this year.

 

              b) First-Year Experience Committee.  The Chair agreed to speak to Dean Ebeid to try to get people from the School on the Committee.  The Secretary of the Faculty will wait until Thursday for responses from those contacted previously; then new names will be tried.

 

The discussion of Unfinished Business was suspended in order to meet with Mr. Fujimoto.

 

5) NEW BUSINESS

 

              a) Mr. Fujimoto joined the meeting at 4:15 P.M.  Discussion with the Committee involved procedures during Searches and some misunderstandings relative to guidelines and procedures.  A good deal of the discussion involved recruiting/interviewing at professional conferences.  The committee also expressed concerns over issues of due process for faculty/staff accused of discrimination/harassment; such persons are not informed of the specific accusations against them.  Mr. Fujimoto left the meeting at 5:35 P.M.

 

4) UNFINISHED BUSINESS was resumed.

 

              c) The augmentation of the Full Professor Subcommittee for Psychology submitted by Dean Cress was approved.

 

 

              d) Agenda items for the next Senate meeting (Oct. 31st)

 

                            (i) Possible Senate Resolution on Criminal Background Check

                            policies was tabled.

 

                            (ii) Entitlement to Plan: Applied Health Science Major--approved

                            for Senate agenda, with several concerns expressed.

 

                            (iii) "Growth initiative" resolution--System initially wanted

                            input; is now considered unnecessary.

 

                            (iv) "Marriage amendment" resolution: the UWM model will be

                            placed on the Senate agenda for discussion.

 

              e) Faculty Meeting agenda (Nov. 8th)

                            Title for shared governance discussion: "Shared governance, is it

                            working?/Chapter 36, is it in danger?

 

5) NEW BUSINESS was resumed.

 

              b) Provost's Fund: Four faculty names were suggested (S. Christoph, M.

                 Gurtman, G. Li, and H. Colston).

 

              c) The UW-Parkside 2007-8 and 2008-9 Academic Calendars were approved.

                 It was suggested that some provision needs to be made for once a

                 week Tuesday classes (pre-empted by Phase II Orientation).

 

              d) Discussion of a proposed "paperless catalog" was postponed.

 

              e) The Senate Agenda for October 31, 2006 was approved.

 

              f) the Faculty Meeting agenda for November 8, 2006 was approved.

 

6) MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS

              There was no further business.

 

7) ADJOURNMENT

              The meeting was adjourned at 6:00 P.M.

 

 

Submitted by Evelyn Zepp, Secretary of the Faculty