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, Peggy James, Farida Khan, and Greg Mayer.  Guests were William Streeter, Elizabeth McGee, and Eugene Fujimoto.  Evelyn Zepp was present as Interim Secretary of the Faculty. 

A motion to suspend to agenda in order to accommodate the guests was approved 5-0-0. 

5) NEW BUSINESS 

• Discussion with Bill Streeter—Ranger Alert

Vice Chancellor William Streeter reported on the measures adopted (mostly over the summer) by the Emergency Notification System Committee to form Parkside’s Emergency Alert Systems:

--Students can sign up for Ranger Alert (a text message will be sent to a student’s cell phone).  Over 400 of our freshmen have signed up, but the overall rate is not large.  Recently, Steve Carlson reported on 1206 total, students, faculty and staff have signed up so far.

--Designated persons will make public announcements in the hallways.

--Ms. McGee (webmaster) reported that there will be a banner across the homepage and any pages like it.  The banners (announcements) will be color-coded.

--There will be mass e-mails.

--There will be mass voice-mails (all will come from the police and all phones will ring.  If someone is not at the phone, that person will not get the message).

--The Ranger Emergency Guide will be posted on the web: it goes through every kind of behavior.

              The committee meets Monday morning and should approve these measures.  V.C. Streeter would then like to present them at the Nov. 25th Senate meeting.

              Officer Curt Bergendall has been giving a forum on the “active shooter.”

              There is a committee looking at  “questionable people,” including employees.  There followed a discussion on what can and cannot be done about a homeless person residing on campus.   There was some confusion over campus closing times.

              Campus closings are announced, but T.V. and radio will not tell you if the campus is open.  People should call the campus to see if it is open.

                                               V.C. Streeter and Ms. McGee left the meeting and 4:08 P.M. 

• Discussion with Eugene Fujimoto—changes to policies 36 and 54

Mr. Fujimoto reported on the addition of “gender identity” and “gender expression” to groups protected by non-discrimination in a number of policies (17, 24, 29, 36, 41, 54).  It was noted that statutory language cannot be changed, but that a paragraph with this terms can be added after the policy.

              Policies 36 and 54 have been changed to make them consistent with each other, with respect to disciplinary procedures.

              There was a long discussion over items in the document which eventually appeared to gel around two concerns:

--There is nothing in UWPF or UWS which creates anything such as an “informal complaint.”  Complaints go to the Chancellor, who may delegate the investigation of the complaint, but who MUST be aware of the complaint.  A complaint may be discussed with someone else, but it it not a complaint until it reaches the Chancellor.  The investigation of the complaint is the next part of the procedure, not an “informal complaint.”

--Under the formal complaint process, there is a contradiction—the suggestion of two different processes (p. 11 contradicts p. 8).

              It was agreed that Mr. Fujimoto would come back for further discussion (Nov. 4th). 

              Mr. Fujimoto then left the meeting. 

The committee returned to the agenda.

  

2) MINUTES

The Minutes from September 23 and September 30, 2008 were approved.  The “notes” from Oct. 7 (no quorum) will be discussed at the next meeting at which there is a quorum and inserted into the minutes of that meeting (Oct. 28th). 

3) ANNOUNCEMENTS

There were no announcements. 

4) UNFINISHED BUSINESS 

• Creation of new committee for Student appeals

No new action was taken.

• Revision to the charge of the Assessment Committee—for Senate

This was approved for addition to the Senate agenda 5-0-0.

              c) Change to membership of Course and Curriculum—for Senate

8.04 Course and Curriculum Committee

(1) Membership
The Committee shall consist of:

• Four faculty members, elected at large, no more than two from the School of Business and Technology or from any of the electoral divisions of the College of Arts and Sciences.
  (b) One elected academic staff member;
  (c) One nonvoting academic staff member appointed by the Vice Chancellor;
  (d) One student.

                     e) Registrar (ex-officio, non-voting)

This was approved for addition to the Senate agenda 5-0-0.

• Health, Safety, and Physical Environment Committee: two names were

submitted; Chancellor would like another two (four recommendation for two slots).

There will be a call for anyone interested in serving on this committee. 

• Sabbatical Proposal Review Committee:

Prof. DeVinny completed the composition of the committee after this item was added to the agenda.

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

Response from Mary Lenard: two person “tag team”?

The members decided that the “tag team” idea for a committee membership would interfere with continuity and would be a bad precedent.  This will be conveyed back to Mary Lenard.

 

5) NEW BUSINESS

                   c) Civic Honors proposal passed by CAP—for Senate

Members expressed concerns over the different GPA required for this proposal and the fact that this proposal requires a different set of activities for different kinds of students that those in all other honors programs.  Given these concerns, Prof. Colston moved to table the measure.  The motion passed 4-0-0 (Prof. Mayer had to leave at 5:25 P.M.).  The item was removed from the Senate agenda.

Prof. Wood and dean Schnaubelt will be invited to a later meeting.

d)  Approval of the Senate agenda for October 21, 2008.

 

The following document was received late from APC for inclusion on the Senate agenda:

1+3 Transfer Agreement between UW-Parkside and Gateway Technical College.

APC recommends that UW-Parkside enter into a 1+3 agreement with Gateway Technical College, as part of the larger UW-WTC systems initiative.  Under this, students would be able to transfer up to 30 credits in general education coursework from Gateway Technical College to UW-Parkside.  The 30 credits are drawn from a list of courses submitted by Gateway and approved as transfer equivalents by the chairs of the appropriate departments.  In nearly all cases, they are courses already accepted as transfers under earlier transfer or articulation agreements between Gateway and UW-Parkside.

In recommending this agreement, APC attaches the following qualifications:

a.  a meeting be set up between representatives of UW-P and Gateway to discuss areas of concern, especially instructor qualifications , breadth of coverage in certain courses, and the use of challenge exams for credit at Gateway.  Representatives should include chairs of respective academic policies committees, interested chairs, and admin. reps (registrars, academic deans). 

• the 1+3 agreement should be periodically reviewed.  The suggestion was to review it every two years, at the time of the drafting of a new catalog. A specific authority should be designated to assure that this occurs.

The University Committee approved this document (4-0-0), but only with the provision that a. be done prior to entering into the agreement

The motion to approve the Senate agenda passed 4-0-0. 

• Replacement for Trenton Baylor on CRCA (can’t make workable meeting

 times)— must be from FA.  There were no runners-up from FA. 

• Replacement for Robert Canary on the Information Resources Committee

 (resigned).  A call for someone interested in serving will be issued.  Brian Remer will be asked to convene the committee. 

6) Miscellaneous Business

              Invitations to Catherine Jameson, Fran Kavenik and Michelle Gee will be issued for the next UC meeting.

7) Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 5:52 P.M. 

Submitted by Evelyn Zepp, Interim Secretary of the Faculty