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M091311

MINUTES
2011/2012 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Faculty Senate
Tuesday, September 13, 2:15 p.m.
University Center 275 B
http://www.uww.edu/facsenate/2011_2012/

  1. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 2:20 p.m. by Chair Kumpaty. The Chair welcomed, thanked, and called for applause for Chancellor Telfer, Provost Kopper, and Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education, Stone for their work and support.
  2. Roll Call

1.Senators present: Albrechtsen, Ambrose, Brady, Ciganek, Collet-Klingenberg, Cook, Dugan, Emrey, Glosser, Gulig, Hanson, Kolb, Kumpaty, Leitheiser, Lollar, Lueck, Mandell, Molloy, Mukherjee, Monro, Niemeier, Porter, Portman, Robinson, Samaranayake, Schneider, Skelly, Smith, Veldkamp, Weston,

2.Senators absent: Ahmadi, Bren*, DeVore, Hartwick, Tobeck*, Zhao* (*informed Secretary)

3.Welcome to 2011-2012 members: The Chair provided an additional welcome and read a statement of thanks and encouragement to the body.

3. Approval of Minutes: Approved on a Robinson/Portman motion.

1. 2010/2011 Faculty Senate Meeting, May 3, 2011 available at http://www.uww.edu/facsenate/archives/2010_2011/index.html; ).

2. 2010/2011 Faculty Senate Organizational Meeting, May 3, 2011 http://www.uww.edu/facsenate/archives/2010_2011/index.html; )

4.Reports of Committees:

  1. University Curriculum Committee: No actions this month.

2. Audit and Review Committee’s report Accepted on a Smith/Emrey motion. The body expressed thanks to the Committee and the ad hoc members for the work done.

5. Senate Executive Committee

i. Report on Flexibilities- Chancellor Telfer discussed implications of the new law and said that many of the law’s directives will not be implemented until the 12-13 school year. He reviewed the components of the flexibilities and discussed accountability and the additional reporting that would be needed to support the freedom that the flexibilities will provide. The Chancellor also mentioned the 17-person Special Task Force on UW Restructuring and Operational Flexibilities that will be created to determine operational and structural changes and modifications regarding the flexibilities. With discussion the Chancellor agreed that stakeholders should be proactive in drafting and providing suggestions to the Task Force.

ii. Fall Faculty meeting agenda Accepted with amendments on a Mandell/Weston Motion.
It was determined that Mandell and Emrey will assist the budget department in determining topics or items to be included in the budget tutorial. The amendment to item #3 gives responsibility for the presentation of the tutorial to the office of budget, only.

Another item suggested for the agenda, but not included focused on determining how the Organization Committee might streamline its approval process.

iii. Discussion of Goals and Priorities for 2011-2012 year: The chair asked for suggestions on activities or issues that could be pursued during the upcoming school year. None were provided at that time. This item was revisited at the Chair’s report during the current meeting. With discussion it was determined to include this item in a subsequent meeting’s agenda.

6.Old Business: None

7.New Business:

1.Retirement Resolutions: None at this time, several are expected.

2.Senators in caucus by constituency are to indicate their selection of faculty members to the General Education Review Committee (for the list of current members, please see http://www.uww.edu/facsenate/member.html; for the by-laws, please see: http://www.uww.edu/facsenate/fac_committee.html; all terms to expire in 2012 .

  1. One faculty member from Arts and Communication. In caucus, none was selected.
  2. One faculty member from Business and Economics. Xiang/Accounting selected by acclamation.
  3. Two faculty members from Letters and Sciences. Jessica Menke, Chemistry and Tony Gulig/ History selected by acclamation.

3.Elect two members to the Faculty Personnel Rules Committee (for the list of current members, see: http://www.uww.edu/facsenate/fac_committee.html; for the by-laws, please see http://www.uww.edu/uwwhdbk/committees/FC-Rules.htm), all terms to expire in 2011 unless otherwise noted:

  1. One faculty member from the College of Letters and Sciences to be chosen by Senators representing the College of Letters and Sciences from among faculty of Letters and Sciences. Niemeier/Psychology selected by acclamation
  2. One faculty member to be chosen at-large by the full Senate. Albrechtson/HPERC by acclamation.

4. Appoint three members-at-large to the Faculty Appeals, Grievances, and Disciplinary Hearing Committee; (for the list of current members, please see http://www.uww.edu/facsenate/fac_committee.html#fagdhc; for the by-laws, please see http://www.uww.edu/uwwhdbk/committees/FC-FacAppeals.htm; a member shall continue until he or she has served on at least three panels. Lueck/Languages and Literatures selected by acclamation.

5. Campus landscape planning committee (for the list of current members, please see http://www.uww.edu/facsenate/member.html; for the by-laws, please see: http://www.uww.edu/facsenate/fac_committee.html; all terms to expire in 2013). Item was not discussed in the current meeting

8. Announcements and Information (no action unless noted otherwise)

  1. Report of the Chancellor: Determined the date and time of the Fall Faculty meeting regarding scheduling constraints. The meeting will be on October 13 at 3:30-5:00 p.m.
  1. Report of the Provost-

1. Institutional Research Task Force report – The Provost thanked Greg Cook and Lois Smith, co-chairs of the Task Force for their work. She discussed the four recommendations provided by the Task Force and talked about things that might be done. Greg Cook also provided an overview of the report. This included discussion of the objectives, process and recommendations.

2. The Provost also mentioned activities that she has been involved with in the past few months:

  1. Hiring the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Enrollment and Retention,
    Matt Aschenbrener
  2. Selecting Jodi Hare-Paynter as Registrar
  3. Conducting a search for Director of Admissions
  4. Selecting Lana Collet-Klingenberg as Director of University Learning Communities
  5. Selecting Seth Meisel as Associate Dean of Graduate school.
  6. Selecting Anne Hamilton as Interim Director of the Center for Global Education and Programs
  7. Selecting Lauren Smith and Rowand Robinson as Administrative Fellows
  8. Working with Sara Kuhl of Marketing and Media Relations on procedures regarding open records requests
  9. Staying involved with Open Pathways, Lumina and the Higher Education Commission
  10. Remodeling the Honors and Undergraduate Research location with the expectation of providing space for the Academic Support Center to use

The Provost also entertained a question about syllabi and the requirements about online and hardcopy access. Information about this will be provided later.

  1. Report of the Senate Chair
  2. The open records procedures are almost ready to distribute. Also mentioned in 8)2)2)8
  3. Board of Regents meeting
    1. The flexibilities may have an influence on the role of the UW System
    2. Several retirements are upcoming, calls for nominations are expected.

3. New Human Resource director: Approved Portman/Leitheiser motion to move this item to 5). Judith Tramph, Director of Human Resources and Diversity discussed the current system that is used to process payroll. Questions for her focused on the information provided in payroll statements and the office’s ability to manipulate the system software.

3. Resolutions:

  1. from the May 3, 2011, Senate meeting

FS1011-18: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed Faculty Senate Resolution FS1011-18, approval of all actionable items of the University Curriculum Committee meeting of April 15, 2011 (available at http://www.uww.edu/acadaff/ucc/2010-11/ucc_amt.html ).

Transmitted to the Chancellor on 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-19: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed Faculty Senate Resolution FS1011-19, approval of May 2011 “Graduation Resolution”. Transmitted to the Chancellor on 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

Resolved that the Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater recommends to the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents that the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students who have applied for graduation in May 2011 and who have been certified by the University Registrar to have met all academic requirements and completed all of their courses of study be granted their degrees at the May 2011 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater commencement exercises.

FS1011-20: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed Faculty Senate Resolution FS1011-20, approval of Calendar 2013-2014 and Calendar 2014-2015. Transmitted to the Chancellor on 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-21: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed Faculty Senate Resolution FS1011-21,

Approval of “Academic Freedom Resolution”. Transmitted to the Chancellor on 5/17/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/18/11.

WHEREAS academic freedom is “fundamental to the advancement of truth,” according to the American Association of University Professors' landmark statement, and essential to both teaching and research;

WHEREAS recent political and economic events in the state of Wisconsin have become an important arena through which teaching and research can be applied and made relevant to students in many disciplines at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater;

WHEREAS it appears that on open records request for UW-Madison faculty, Prof. William Cronon’s emails was designed to intimidate and thereby silence academic inquiry and research into controversial issues that contributes to informed and reasoned public conversation;

WHEREAS the purpose of Wisconsin’s Open Records Law is to promote informed public conversation;

WHEREAS the mission of the University requires that the issues of the day are studied and that space is protected for students to learn about, analyze, debate, and draw connections between their studies and the world in which we all live;

WHEREAS academic freedom has been the critical foundation on which faculty have fulfilled this responsibility for generations;

WHEREAS Wisconsin has been a leader in defining the principle and right of academic freedom for more than a century; declaring that: "Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state university of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found";

“BE IT RESOLVED that the UWW Faculty Senate affirm that academic freedom must be respected and protected in order to ensure that faculty are able to fulfill their teaching and research responsibilities to ensure the rights of students to freely discuss matters of concern to them in a learning environment to fulfill the mission of the university and to serve people of the state of Wisconsin”

FS1011-22: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-22, Retirement Resolution of Carol J. Rosen, Geography and Geology. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-23: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-23, Retirement Resolution of E. Anne Zarinnia, Education Foundations. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/17/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/18/11.

FS1011-24: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-24, Retirement Resolution of Richard P. Haven, Communications. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-25: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-25, Retirement Resolution of Barbara S. Monfils, Communications. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-26: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-26, Retirement Resolution of James D. Larson, Psychology. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-27: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-27, Retirement Resolution of Douglas B. Eamon, Psychology. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-28: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-28, Retirement Resolution of Richard Brooks, Philosophy and Religious Studies. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/17/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/18/11.

FS1011-29: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-29, Retirement Resolution of Wade Dazey, Philosophy and Religious Studies. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/17/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/18/11.

FS1011-30: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-30, Retirement Resolution of Joseph D. Hogan, Language & Literature. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-31: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-31, Retirement Resolution of Rebecca S. Hogan, Language & Literature. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-32: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-32, Retirement Resolution of Julie A. Smith, Language & Literature. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-33: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-33, Retirement Resolution of Jerre C. Collins, Language & Literature. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FS1011-34: 5/3/11: the Faculty Senate passed FS1011-34, Retirement Resolution of Andrea S. Musher, Language & Literature. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/9/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/10/11.

FSEXEC1011-35: 5/17/11: the Faculty Senate passed FSEXEC1011-35, approval of all actionable items of the University Curriculum Committee meeting of April 29, 2011 (available at http://www.uww.edu/acadaff/ucc/2010-11/ucc_amt.html). Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/17/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/18/11.

FSEXEC1011-36: 5/17/11: the Faculty Senate passed FSEXEC1011-36, Retirement Resolution of Bill Powell, Social Work. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/17/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/18/11.

FSEXEC1011-37: 5/17/11: the Faculty Senate passed FSEXEC1011-37, Retirement Resolution of Kathryn Brimmer, Curriculum and Instruction. Transmitted to the Chancellor 5/17/11; approved by the Chancellor on 5/18/11.

9. Senate Meeting Dates and Times

  1. Faculty Senate: September 13, 2011; October 11, 2011; November 8, 2011; December 13, 2011; February 14, 2012; March 13, 2012; April 10, 2012; May 1, 2012. Meetings begin at 2:15 p.m. Faculty Senate meetings continue until business is finished, potentially 5 PM or later. The location(s) of the Senate meetings for 2011-2012 are available at the faculty senate website.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee:* August 30, 2011; September 27, 2011; October 25, 2011; November 29, 2011; January 31, 2012; February 28, 2012; March 27, 2012; April 17, 2012. Meetings of the Executive Committee are typically at 2:15 on Tuesdays two weeks before Senate meetings and as needed. The Senate Executive Committee meetings for 2011-2012 are conducted in Upham 222.

  1. Adjournment Lueck/Smith motion at 4:20 p.m.