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MINUTES2018- 2019 Faculty Senate University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Tuesday, December 11, 2018 @ 2:00 p.m.UC 2591. Call to Order2. Roll Call1. Senators present2. Senators absent (*informed Secretary)Senators present: Barger, Brady, Bren, Brosky, Brown, Compas, Ednie, Gimbel, Goble, Gwalla-Ogisi, Hartwick, Hawkins, Ivry, Jafarinejad, Kam, Ksobiech, Levy-Navarro, Loepp, McGuigan, Melero, Nath, Robinson, Simmons, Stinson, Tillett, Tourigny.Senators absent (*informed Secretary):Burkholder, *Kopf, Land, *Munro, *Niemeier, *Platt,*Sankaranarayanan, Schneider, Talukdar, Vang *VeldKamp3. Approval of Minutes1. Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting, October 9, 2018 (attached)Robinson/Gwalla-Ogisi motion to approve. Passed unanimously.2.Minutes of the Faculty Senate Meeting, November 13, 2018 (attached)Robinson/Stinson motion to approve. Passed unanimously.4. Announcements:Unfinished Business:Fall clean-up elections (results should already have been communicated)Faculty Senate clean-up elections (nominations attached)Faculty Personnel Rules Committee:Yunsun Huh (member at large); Scott Peters (CoEPS); Tracy Buchman (CoBE); Kymberly Mellen (CoAC)All elected unanimously. There was no nomination for the 50% non-teaching member-at-large position. Simmons announced that the election of this position will be added to the Faculty Senate Executive Committee meeting.Faculty Appeals, Grievances, and Disciplinary Hearing Committee:Lisa Huempfner (CoLS) and Yushan Zhao (CoLS) both elected unanimously.Campus Landscape Planning Committee vacancy: Josh Mabie (Languages and Literature) electedFaculty Service Award Selections Committee: Elena Levy-Navarro, Karl Brown, and Edward Gimbel.All elected unanimously. New Business (all action items):Graduation resolution (attached)Hartwick/Brown motion. Passed unanimously.Approval of three transmittals from the University Curriculum Committee (Angela Harlan, attached)Levy-Navarro brought up faculty governance concerns regarding faculty consultation during graduate curriculum approval processesHartwick requested that Faculty Senate looks at how new graduate courses are approved. Brown/Robinson motion to approve all three transmittals. Passed unanimously.2019-20 Calendar approval (attached) Simmons explained that Faculty Senate should have approved this calendar last spring.Burkholder/ Gwalla-Ogisi motion. Passed unanimously.Parking resolution (Annie Stinson, attached)Stinson explained that some UW Whitewater employees have low salaries, making the flat fee for parking permits a significant burden to those employees. A senator objected that the motion was unfair because it employed preferential pricing. Another senator offered a friendly amendment, including the phrase “a tiered structure or another alternative structure for campus parking permits that is reflective of the salaries of UW-W administrators, faculty, and staff.” The motion was not accepted as friendly, and failed for a second. The motion carried with several nays and abstentions. SYS 102 Program Productivity Monitoring Policy resolution (Elena Levy-Navarro/FSEC, Sheila Turek/L&L and Ellie Schemenauer/W&GS, attached)Levy-Navarro introduced the resolution, explaining that it had passed unanimously by the Languages and Literature faculty. Women’s and Gender Studies, International Studies, and Philosophy and Religious Studies all passed the resolution as a group. It was also sent out to faculty. Guest Sheila Turek explained that Sys 102 would threaten all languages at UW-W except Spanish. She also outlined the programs that require its students to take a language. Guest Lisa Huempfner also spoke out against the policy. Guest Ellie Schemenauer, chair of Women’s and Gender Studies, explained that her department unanimously passed support for the Languages and Literature resolution. She also explained the work of her department, supporting several general education courses, as well as offering popular courses that fill easily every semester. That department also works with numbers of trauma survivors who owe their retention to the courses offered by the department. She stated that all Women’s and Gender Studies programs in the state, except UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee, could be potentially harmed by this policy. Guest Alicia de Gregorio spoke to the quality of the education students experience in all the language courses and programs.Brown/Melero motioned to accept the resolution. Hartwick mentioned that Sys 102 is a threat to governance. UW-Whitewater has a rigorous Audit and Review process that has closed programs. He also urged that this policy use multiple factors, not just the one universal factor that System has decided to use. Hartwick stated that Sys 102 Policy, when combined with the System’s Layoff Policy, is an assault on academia. His opinion is that this policy should be fuel for consideration of a “no confidence” vote against Ray Cross and perhaps the Board of Regents as a whole.Chancellor Kopper spoke against the policy. She asked that the Senate consider a joint letter from the administration and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. Levy-Navarro urged faculty to comment on the UW System’s public comment site individually.Resolution passed unanimously. UW-Stevens Point resolution (Eric Compas, attached)Compas brought the full text of the proposal to close programs at UW-Stevens Point. Compas pointed out that, in no place in the proposal, is the term “comprehensive university” used. Instead, it is identified as a “new kind of regional university.”Hartwick/Kam motion to accept the resolution.Kam proposed a friendly amendment to delete the word “poor” from “financial difficulties under the poor leadership of its Chancellor and Provost” and replace that word with “current.”There was some concern that there is not enough data to support the resolution. Passed with two abstentions.SAPA syllabi statement resolution (Kate Ksobiech, attached)Melero/Tourigny motioned to accept. There was a suggestion made to create an online repository of information that should appear on a syllabus.The provost suggested that the language for the resolution should be approved by the dean of students before Faculty Senate approves.Melero withdrew the original motion to facilitate the approval by the dean of students.Hartwick/Levy-Navarro motioned to table discussion until the February meeting. Passed unanimously.Emeriti resolutions (attached)Dr. Rick Mason retirement resolution – Hartwick/ Gwalla-Ogisi motion. Passed unanimously.Dr. Ann Curry Ruff retirement resolution – Stinson/Robinson motion. Passed unanimously.Hartwick mentioned that the Senate should take up the overarching issue of emeriti standing, as Ray Cross wishes to centralize this process.Reports (no action unless noted otherwise)Chancellor’s Report Board proposed a 3% increase and suggested that the state should cover the full increase. In the past, the university has had to cover 30% of increases. The chancellor explained she has been a strong advocate of this raise whether UW-W has to cover a portion of it or not.The HLC reviewers have been very positive about the restructuring. That restructuring has not been fully funded, which was raised to the HLC as a challenge.The Board just updated the emeriti policy, which doesn’t detail governance groups in the process. The chancellor said this was a necessity. Governor-elect Evers will put forth his budget proposal. UW-W’s governance liason has been appointed to Evers’ transition team.Simmons asked the Chancellor about capital improvements, including Winther Hall. She explained that Winther Hall has been in the cue for improvements since she arrived on campus but always gets removed from the list. The Board is asking for more autonomy for capital improvements and the flexibility to make these decisions.Report of Provost Academic Affairs leadership – John Fons has been appointed interim director of continuing education. Joan Cook was appointed as interim associate provost. Tricia Clasen has been appointed as interim dean of the College of Integrated Studies.The provost said we had set a new record for Leap Teams at 29. (The previous record was 28).System Policy 136 would have required students convicted of a policy to disclose this on residence hall applications, study abroad and study away. An update removes the “study away” language.The deans have been given two questions regarding teacher education support to distribute. The provost announced a campus forum on February 13 to feature the SEP process, including the PARCs.There will be a workshop in late January or February to educate departments on the admissions process and how to provide data to admissions to use in recruiting. Sabbatical approvals will be informally announced soon; System has changed the official announcement date to December 31.Report of the Faculty Senate ChairAt the most recent BOR meeting, the Education committee was presented with the Point Forward Stevens Point proposal. There was also a release of a statement in support of the Stevens Point leadership by the president of the BOR.Adjournment at 4:55 pm. ................
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