APPROVED AS PART OF 10-28 MEETING

“NOTES” OF THE MEETING OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PARKSIDE

Tuesday, October 7, 2008  Moln D125 

1) CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order by Dennis Rome, Chair, at 3:35 P.M.  Also attending were members Herb Colston and Farida Khan.  Guests were Laura Gellott, Mary Lenard, Theron Snell, and Rhonda Kimmel.  Evelyn Zepp was present as Interim Secretary of the Faculty.

Given the presence of only three U.C. members, there was not a quorum and thus no matters requiring a vote were taken up. 

2) Approval of Minutes from September 23 and September 30, 2008
              POSTPONED 

3) Announcements

The Faculty Meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday October 29th; room TBA.  The Interim Chancellor will discuss the survey.  People can also submit topics. 

4) Unfinished Business: 

• Creation of new committee for Student appeals

     There was a general discussion with the four guests as to why a new committee appeared necessary.  The new committee would be an “Academic Standards Committee” which would deal with issues that do not impinge on the student’s on-going enrollment, whereas the bulk of the appeals to Academic Actions involve suspensions.

     There are now multiple venues that handle student appeals—the department, the Academic Actions officer, Ethnic Studies, the General Education Committee and the Academic Actions Committee.  Students often try to appeal the decisions of one of these venues to the Academic Actions Committee, which does not wish to be perceived as the Supreme Court for all committees.  In particular, it would like to see Ethnic Studies, the General Education Committee, Academic Actions and the new committee as equals, each handling specific kind of student appeals, and each delivering a final decision on those appeals.  [The fact that Ethnic Studies deals with waivers of a university requirement but is not a governance committee as the others are arose as part of the discussion.]

     Prof. Gellott will work with the Secretary of the Faculty to put this proposal into a form parallel to that of other committees in UWPF.

     The four guests left the meeting at 4:26 P.M. 

• Revision to the charge of the Assessment Committee

This has been postponed for several weeks and should be part of the next Senate agenda.  It thus needs to be approved or disapproved at the next U.C. meeting.

c) CTS Director Position description

This description has not changed since the previous search and was approved.  Several persons were also suggested to the search committee for this position: Jeff Alexander, Bob Canary, Dirk Baldwin, and Rob Barber.

• Secretary of Faculty position

It has been finalized that Prof. Emeritus Zepp will serve until the end of the semester, and the Prof. Gary Wood will take over in January. 

5) New Business: 

• Replacement for Maria Martinez (resigned) on the Risk Assessment team.

Mary Lenard was suggested. 

6) Miscellaneous Business 

• One of the members of CRCA suggested for the Sabbatical Proposal Review

 Committee has declined to serve.  Jay McRoy and Susan Lincke were suggested. 

• The Secretary of the Faculty will answer a question sent by a faculty member and suggested for the Senate, since the issue has already been dealt with. 

• Diane Donnelly requested names for two faculty vacancies on the Health, Safety,

 and Physical Environment Committee.  Dave Rogers and Guadalupe Vidales were suggested.

              d) A change in the wording of the Course and Curriculum Committee membership; add “(e) Registrar (ex-officio, non-voting)” was submitted.  It will have to be approved next week as part of the Senate Agenda. 

7) Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 4:52 P.M. 

Submitted by Evelyn Zepp,

Interim Secretary of the Faculty