Governance





Minutes of the University Committee
for October 28, 2008

                                                                 

                                                                   University Committee October 7, 2008 Notes

1) CALL TO ORDER                                   

The meeting was called to order by Greg Mayer Vice-Chair, at 3:43 P.M.  Also attending were members Herb Colston, Chris Evans, Peggy James, Farida Khan, and Dennis Rome (3:50 P.M.).  Evelyn Zepp was present as Interim Secretary of the Faculty.

2) MINUTES

The minutes of October 14, 2008 were approved as distributed 5-0-0.

The “notes” of the meeting of October 7, 2008 were reviewed and approved as an attachment to today’s minutes.

The Chair arrived and the Vice-Chair surrendered the gavel. 

A motion to suspend the agenda  was approved 6-0-0. 

5) NEW BUSINESS

              b) Chancellor Search Committee

These are the persons who volunteered their names:

Helen Rosenberg (Soc/An)                                                Mary Lenard (Eng)

Gary Wood (Chem)                                                              Frances Kavenik (Eng)

Fay Akindes (Comm)                                                           Lori Allen (Chem)

Dirk Baldwin (BT)                                                                 Karen Crooker (BT)

Cathy Folker (BT)                                                                 Michael Manion (BT)

Dennis Kaufman (Econ)                                                     Rob Barber (Bio)

Scott Thomson (Bio)                                                             Daphne Pham (Bio)

Peggy James (Poli Sci)                                                      Greg Mayer (Bio)

Herb Colston (Psych)

System will select 10 from these 17 names.

System asked the U.C. to also suggest names for Chair of the committee, which it did.  It was suggested that the Chair negotiate a course release for the Chair of the Search Committee.

The relative lack of representation from Humanities and Fine Arts was noted; members stated that a number of people had been approached and had declined.

The deadline for submission of names is Friday. 

The committee returned to the agenda.

3) ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Faculty Meeting is tomorrow at 3:30 in the Galbraith Room.  Refreshments will be served afterwards.

The Faculty Representatives meeting is Friday.  The UW-System’s budget will be discussed, including possible outcomes such as travel restrictions, etc.

Lane Earns has scheduled meetings with campus core governance to meet once a month—at our initial meeting we discussed the chancellor’s search and he mentioned some of the highlights of the campus survey.  At the time of this meeting, not all of the responses had been counted. 

4) UNFINISHED BUSINESS 

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

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

The following e-mail was sent 10/26:

Dear colleagues,

      If Trenton still wishes to resign from CRCA, and since there were no runners-up from FA this year (not the year for anyone from FA to run), then we need to go back to the 2007 election.

 Committee on Research and Creative Activity
UWPF 4.14. Six faculty elected for 2-year terms, 1 per electoral division;

>> 3 Faculty, 2-yr terms (FA, SS, BT)

 

Trenton Baylor (FA)                             42—elected two year term

Dennis Bayuzick (FA)                             23—third runner up

Susan Lincke (BT)                                 37—elected two year term

Jonathan Olsen (SS)                            37—first runner up (divisional restrictions)

George Perdikaris (BT)                          29—second runner up

Ed Schmitt (SS)                                     41—elected two year term

Zhemin Wang (BT)                                22—fourth runner up

Dennis was the only runner-up from FA.  Dennis would you be willing to complete Trenton's term this year?

Thanks.  Please let me know.

Ev

After the agenda had been sent out, Prof. Bayuzick declined to serve.  The Secretary of the Faculty sent out an e-mail asking for any volunteers from Fine Arts.  A single volunteer will be treated as being elected unopposed; should there be two volunteers, a special election would be held.  Meanwhile, the Committee should be told to move forward with its business.

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

              E-mail call produced volunteers: David Higgs (SC), David Rogers (SC)

A check of past minutes found that Prof. Roger’s names had already been forwarded.  Prof Mayer volunteered to be included.  The committee then approved Prof. Higgs and Prof. Mayer as names to be sent up to the administration.

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

Mary Lenard’s response: she wants to send out a call to the Women’s and Gender Studies group.  UC will wait to see if this yields results.

Gary Wood would like to meet with the U.C. and will be invited for the next meeting.  Concerns were the different G.P.A., the different set of activities for different kinds of students, and some of the modes of assessment (“degree of passion”). 

Mr. Fujimoto cannot come Nov. 4th; he will be invited for the 18th.

There was further discussion of issues—especially the question of an “informal” complaint.

On the one hand, the “informal complaint” does not exist is UWPF or UWS and seems rather to correspond to the investigation phase initiated by the Chancellor.  On the other hand, the need appears to be felt by many to have a stage at which a potential complaint could be discussed informally. 

The Committee approved this appointment.

5) NEW BUSINESS             

The Agenda was approved 6-0-0. 

6) Miscellaneous Business

Catherine Jameson would like to come regularly to discuss budget matters.  She will be invited for the 11th or 18th.

7) Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 5:35 P.M. 

Submitted by Evelyn Zepp, Interim Secretary of the Faculty