Minutes: September 28, 2004
- Call to order at 3:00
- Introduction of council members
- Recognition of Jan Von Ruden by Chancellor Hasted, followed by a speech by Von Ruden
Last year’s Academic Staff Council Issues
- Multi-year contract issues
- Wellness initiative
- Career progression for instructional academic staff
Salary and Personnel
- They sent a career progression plan to Faculty Senate
- Issues they are looking at this year
o Streamlining the title review process
o Enhancing ability for eligibility for career progress
o Salary and titling issues
Budget and Planning
- Three major issues they want to look at this year
o Legislative Audit Bureaus Evaluation
§ Delivery of services
§ Efficiency of UW system, how they determine who is an administrator
o Ten day enrollment numbers
§ We are down 75 students, which means the school is out $300,000
o How do we keep students here
Legislative / Regent Relations
- Madison Meeting
o Issues of recruitment and retention of faculty and staff at all UW schools
o Creation of a briefing paper about the definition of who is academic staff and what their roles are
Professional Development
- Proposal packets are available October 4 -25
- About $7,500 is available each semester
Academic Staff Council Priorities for this year
- Get Academic Staff to vote
- Campus climate survey results
- New communications plan, creation of a new logo and identity
- Work on resources for external funding
- Internationalization of campus