Faculty Senate
September 28, 2006 325 Graff Main Hall
Vol. 41, No. 3 3:30 p.m.
I. Roll Call.
Present: Abler, Ahmed, Brokaw, Choy, Clow, Cravins, Crutchfield, L. Dickmeyer, Galbraith, S. Grunwald, K. Hoar, Hunt, M. Jackson, S. Kelly, Knox, C. Miller, P. Miller, Senger, Straker, C. Wilson
Excused: S. Krajewski, Shanks
Absent: Olson, S. Smith
II.Reports.
A. Chair’s Report – Wilson welcomed Paul Miller to Senate as a
replacement for Senator Betton who resigned from Senate. Wilson updated Senate
on the chancellor’s search. The committee received applications from 62
potential candidates and, as per the committee’s procedures, the committee
interviewed between 12 to 15 candidates. They are now conducting both on
and off-list reference checks for a subset of that group. The committee
will be meeting with President Reilly October 18 to present no-fewer-than 5
finalists. The on-campus interview schedule to be set by the end of this
week and will be posted on the web-site.Wilson pointed out the following two
highlights from Campus Connection:
- Victor Basili, University of Maryland, is the annual Distinguished Lecturer in Computer Science. He will be on campus Monday, October 2 and giving presentations at 10:30 and 3:00 p.m. on that day.
- Interim Chancellor Hitch is beginning her open office hours this week. This week’s hour is 10 to 11 on Friday. You can make an appointment or just stop in and take your chances.
B. Faculty Representative’s Report – Senator Cravins stated that
the major focus of the faculty representative meetings has been the UWS 7
resolution. He anticipated that issue will be resolved soon and is looking
forward to discussing other issues this year.
III. Briefings.
A. Campus Climate Office Update – Beth Hartung, Campus Climate
Coordinator, discussed with Senate the various programs that are sponsored via
the Research and Resource Center for Campus Climate. Those include
community building, educational programming/training, hate response, assessment
of campus climate, safe space and home for dialogue, work/life advocacy,
community outreach and other resources and information. The office is also
working on writing a Title III grant focused on diversity initiatives.
Beth also highlighted the L.U.N.C.H.E.S program with provide opportunities for
students, staff and faculty to build community. Various topics will be
discussed during these sessions with the next being “What does the
constitutional marriage amendment proposal mean to Wisconsin?” scheduled for Nov
17th at 11:30 to 1:00 in 227 Main Hall.
IV. UWS 7 Resolution – Several other UW System Faculty Senates are adopting/supporting the UW-Whitewater resolution (posted on Senate website) and not supporting the UW-Madison resolution regarding UWS 7.
M/S/P to support the UW-Whitewater UWS resolution accompanied by the distributed letter.
V. Revision of APR Summary – Haixia Lan and Betsy Morgan presented a revised format for the Academic Program Review Summary. The three major format changes are as follows: a list method is used for the format; the external reviewer recommendations, department’s response to the reviewer recommendations and the dean’s letter have been moved to a place of more prominence; and a “mid-cycle follow-up” has been added as a committee recommendation choice. If passed the format changes would take affect immediately. It was noted that these changes do not affect departmental reports just how the APR Committee reports their findings to faculty senate.
M/S/P to adopt the presented APR Summary format.
VI. UCC: Recommendations about online, hybrid, and distance education courses – Paul Miller, past UCC chair, discussed the following UCC recommendations that come from a charge to the committee during the last academic year. The UCC has approved the following recommendations:
1. Departments must indicate online, hybrid or distance education courses so that Records and Registration can appropriately designate these courses in the timetable.
2. The following definitions shall apply:
Online courses are those in which all, or nearly all, instruction is delivered over the internet.
Hybrid courses require online learning as well as traditional in-class instruction.
Distance education courses utilize real time two-way communication between instructor and student.
3. Current courses converting to one of the above formats would require review by UCC only if the conversion is accompanied by a change that currently warrants UCC approval (i.e. a change in course objectives, addition or deletion of prerequisites, credit change, changes in instructional methods and evaluation procedures, etc.).
4. New course proposals utilizing one of the above formats should address the following topics:
How is the credit count determined? How is the instructor contact hour load determined? What is the role of the instructor? How are student/instructor interactions facilitated? How are the students assessed?
M/S/P to consider all recommendations at once.
M/S/P to approve the stated recommendations brought forth by the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
VII. Suspension of General Education Committee bylaws about chair – SEC charged the General Education Committee to evaluate the bylaw in which the Gen Ed Director is automatically appointed as the committee chair. There are several other university committees (TEGC, Grad Council) in which the program director is named convener and the chair is then elected. The Gen Ed Committee voted unanimously to recommend to Faculty Senate that the by-laws be changed, providing for the election of the Chair of the General Education Committee, with the General Education Director eligible for election.
M/S/P to suspend the bylaw that states the Gen Ed Director is the chair of the committee.
VIII. Joint Promotion Committee member replacement –
M/S/P to replace Donna Anderson with Gwen Achenreiner as a member of the Joint Promotion Committee.
IX. Adjournment.
The meeting adjourned at 4:11 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Sandy Grunwald, Secretary