1) CALL TO ORDER

              The meeting was called to order at 3:36 PM by Dennis Rome (Chair).  Also attending were members Chris Evans, Peggy James, Fran Kavenik, and Greg Mayer (Secretary pro tem).  Farida Khan (member-elect), Interim Provost Jerry Greenfield, and Interim Associate Provost Doug DeVinny were guests.

2) MINUTES

              Approval of the minutes of the meeting April 15 was tabled till the next meeting.

3) NEW BUSINESS

              In order to accommodate the guests who were already present, the agenda was altered by unanimous consent to take up New Business first.

a) Provost Greenfield notified the Committee that the new email system would add some complexity to the posting of emails to large lists (the so-called “mass emails”). To make the transition smoother, and to alleviate some perceived problems with past practice, it will probably not be necessary in the future to obtain permission to send mass emails, with the exception of emails to all students, which, for legal reasons, will continue to require permission.  Provost Greenfield could see no reason why we could not have intelligible aliases for mass lists.

              b) Associate Provost DeVinny inquired about the status of the 1+3 agreement with Gateway Technical College, which, regrettably, had not been discussed at the last Senate meeting. The draft agreement had been forwarded to the Academic Policies Committee, which had a number of questions.  Associate Provost DeVinny noted that most of the courses were already approved for transfer to UWP. Prof. Mayer suggested that, following a maxim of Churchill’s, we should agree in principle, and let the difficulties manifest themselves.  Provost Greenfield undertook to supply a list of what the equivalences are.

c) The Madison Connection, a 2+2 agreement with UW, Madison, was discussed.

d) Provost Greenfield, Associate Provost DeVinny, and Deans Don Cress and Fred Ebeid had visited the Milwaukee Area Technical College south campus in Oak Creek.  Provost Greenfield saw potential for cooperation with them, in particular for adding an industrial health and safety track to the AHS major which would nicely supplement programs at MATC, and a business articulation agreement.

e) The administrator evaluation for Provost Greenfield was postponed by mutual consent.  Provost Greenfield and Associate Provost DeVinny left the meeting.

4) ANNOUNCEMENTS

              The Committee will have luncheon meetings with all of the visiting chancellor candidates.

5) UNFINISHED BUSINESS

              a) The Committee’s report to the new chancellor will be needed sooner rather than later, as the Search Committee’s work is proceeding briskly;  the new chancellor may be here by July 1.

              b) Prof. Evans reported that the work of the chancellor search committee is proceeding briskly, and that the search committee met with the Regents subcommittee.

              c) After discussion, the Committee concluded that changing “C-“ to “C” in the recent Senate-passed resolution on ACSK 083 is a permissible editorial change, and directed Secretary Zepp to have the Senate minutes reflect this, but that other changes requested by Registrar Rhonda Kimmel were more than editorial and could not be made. 

              d) All appointees to committees have accepted their appointments.

              e) In the absence of member-elect Herb Colston, election of next year’s chair and vice chair was postponed.

f) The meeting with Prof. Maria Martinez on student behavior issues was postponed.

6) MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS

              Upon the recommendation of the department and Dean Cress, Profs. Gurtman and Khan were appointed as augmenters to the full professor subcommittee of the Communication department’s executive committee.

             

7) ADJOURNMENT

              The meeting was adjourned at 5:10 PM.