Academic Staff Council Minutes - March 9, 2009
Present:
Dodge, Heyer, Van Roosenbeek, Burton, Robinson, Leahy,
Bean-Thompson, Lo, Sasaki,
Excused: Vahala, Kolkmeier,
Guest: Tim Tritch,
Meeting
called to order at 3:04 pm.
I.
Approval of Minute
First,
Burton, Second, Heyer.
APPROVED.
II. System
Representative
Collective Bargaining –
Leahy distributed ASPRO’s
position and the resolution that the University of
Wisconsin-Stout Senate of Academic Staff passed. The resolution
from UW-Stout is opposed to decoupling. ASPRO has proposed to
have 3 separate units around the state (as opposed the
governor’s proposed 6) made up of faculty and academic staff.
There would be one at UW-Madison, one at UW-Milwaukee and one
for everyone else.
The UW-Stout resolution is in favor of one unit for the whole
state. Tim Tritch, an ASPRO board member from UW-L, and Kathi
Kilgore, from ASPRO, recently met with State Representative
Jennifer Shilling to discuss ASPRO’s proposal. Chair Van
Roosenbeek will contact Elise Denlinger, Chair of the
Instructional Academic Staff committee, to ask for her input on
a future resolution.
Leahy will work on the resolution and send it to the
Council. Motion in favor of writing a resolution opposed to
decoupling, APPROVED.
Budget Hearing –
There will be a budget hearing
in
3 Year Bachelor’s Degree –
This was brought to
the Academic Staff Representatives but the group questioned if
they were the appropriate group to bring it to.
Some people on campus have expressed an interest in this
but there would be some issues in implementing it.
III. Joint
Budget and Planning
They
talked about UW-L’s $11 million responsibility. $4 million is
coming from GPR and $7 million from program revenue.
$1.6 million base reduction and $150,000 in hold backs
(positions to be left open for one year and then filled).
Increase in tuition = 5.5% in 2010 and another 5.5% in 2011.
$500,000 cut in travel: this is not to reduce travel but
to rethink how travel is funded.
It is looking like it will mostly affect faculty travel.
One idea to bring this money together is to collect money
from all the areas which travel into a shared account. $700,000
from GPR funds are spent per year on travel. Chancellor Gow was
one of three Chancellors to address the Board of Regents last
week.
If there
are any ideas for hold backs, share them with your supervisor.
Each college has a small 128 account which will be hit in
addition to Residence Life, Dining and Parking. The goal is to
keep all the jobs we currently have. Most GQA dollars were
preserved and we will be hiring about 40 faculty positions.
IV.
The
committee charged with coming up with a mission statement has
narrowed it down to 5 possibilities. The committee has sent a
draft of the method for completing the process to the governance
groups and would like approval of it before they proceed.
Council members can give feedback via email.
Meeting
adjourned at 4:42pm.