UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE

UNIVERSITY SENATE MEETING

VOL. 39, NO. 5

 

November 12, 2002

 

 

Members Present:

 

Joey Bohl, Marcia Bollinger, Dick Boyum, Don Bredle, Jack Bushnell, Linda Carpenter, Ken De Meuse, Jesse Dixon, Joel Duncan, Meg Dwyer, Rodd Freitag, Mitchell Freymiller, Warren Gallagher, Andrea Gapko, Marc Goulet, Susan Hafen, Susan Harrison, Jeremy Hein, Tim Ho, Ann Hoffman, Debra King, Fred Kolb, Tim Lane, Kate Lang, Gene Leisz, Barbara Lozar, Barbara Mac Briar, Maureen Mack, Donald Mash, John Melrose, Rick Mickelson, Jane Pederson, Andrew Phillips, Bobby Pitts, Cleo Powers, Vicki Reed, Connie Russell, Nola Schmitt, Kathie Schneider, Roger Selin, Nick Smiar, Alex Smith, Linda Spaeth, George Stecher, Paula Stuettgen, Kent Syverson, Dale Taylor, Jodi Thesing-Ritter, Roger Tlusty, Karen Welch, Cecilia Wendler, Sharon Westphal, Michael Wick, Jean Wilcox, Steve Zantow

 

Members Absent:

 

Ned Beach, Bruce Dybvik, Betty Hanson, Jeannie Harms, Sean Hartnett, Larry Honl, Robert Hooper, Mary Iribarren, Rose Jadack, Richard Kark, Lisa La Salle, Richard Ryberg, Ronald Satz, Todd Stephens, Thomas Wagener, Rebecca Wurzer

 

Guests:

 

Randy Beger, Margaret Cassidy, Mark Clark, Heath Dingwell, Bernard Duyfhuizen, Donald Nielsen, Kathy Sahlhoff, Andrew Soll, Lisa Theo, Nathan Titus

 

The regular meeting of University Senate was called to order by Chair Harrison at 3:03 p.m. Tuesday, November 12, 2002 in the Tamarack Room of Davies Center

 

1.        Without objection, minutes of October 22, 2002 meeting of University Senate approved as distributed

 

2.        Chancellor’s Remarks – Chancellor Mash

·         Student Issues

·         Three students also missing from Minneapolis area; news station included Eau Claire student as fourth

·         News this morning that missing student wandered into home of elderly woman; she led him out; hat he left behind later identified

·         Unfortunately, that is as much as we know at this point

·         Campus police working very closely with investigator from Eau Claire Police

·         Students also involved and working to find

·         Father now in area

·         Need to be aware, students may react to tragic situation – some who knew him, some who just heard about it

·         Appears alcohol part of circumstances

·         Fortunately able to get to hospital at right time

·         May remember several weeks ago, editor of The Spectator noticed symptoms; also got to hospital quickly

·         Keeping symptoms out there probably best measure of prevention so students recognize symptoms and pursue treatment

·         Continue to provide counseling and guidance out of Health Services; inoculations available

·         Staff has done admirable job dealing with issue

·         River Falls student, who died of meningitis recently, had been on our campus so have identified and treated students in close contact with him

·         State fiscal situation and university budget

·         Will involve committee in conversations that will continue for some time

·         Means for months will be speculating about level of budget reduction for next year

·         After governor makes proposal public, we’ll make judgment of target budget level and begin to plan toward that –still guesswork

·         Could go into next academic year and not be certain of operating budget

·         Will continue planning contingently in meantime

·         Will monitor enrollment carefully; have reduced size of freshman class for fall

·         Do not expect anything to happen to improve state’s budget situation significantly

·         Best we can hope for would be status quo: no additional dollars, but no reduction

·         Would be pretty good given circumstances of huge state budget deficit and no tobacco settlement money this time

·         This year common 95/5 exercise (of reporting to legislature what hypothetical 5% budget reduction would do to institution) taking on new meaning

·         Although imprecise, calculations from UW-System on impact of 5% reduction at UW-Eau Claire would equate to $2.3 million

·         Equivalent to approximately 47 positions

·         Would be significant; roughly three times more than dealt with this year

·         Would need to raise tuition about 8.5% to stay even on just operating budget

·         Another number out there came from meeting of Katharine Lyall and some regents in Assembly budget hearings

·         One Assembly member indicated could be looking at $100 to $300 million in cuts; may not mean much of anything, but number is out there

·         Would be in neighborhood of 10 to 20% reduction; would be catastrophic

·         Tuition piece critical to how to manage reduction

·         Response to question from floor

·         Does include money funding salaries and benefits, which is 85% of our operating budget

·         Pay plan not in picture at this point – that comes much later in process

 

3.        Chair and Faculty Representative Report – Chair Harrison

·         President Lyall told faculty representatives about a new group being formed – Citizens for Higher Education

·         If interested, flyers are available

·         Are allowed to join organization; chancellor is member

 

4.        Academic Staff Representative Report – Senator Wilcox

·         Next meeting November 14, 2002

 

5.        Unfinished Business

 

Academic Policies Committee – Second Reading – Teaching English as a Foreign Language Minor

·         Details of minor distributed with Senate packet

 

Continued Debate – None

 

Vote on Motion 39-AP-04: Motion PASSED without dissention by University Faculty Senators

 

6.        Reports of Committees

¨       Executive Committee – Chair Harrison

·         Vice Chancellor Soll shared plans with committee about reorganization of University Centers and Programs

·         Notes from Open Discussion on Academic Advising Best Practices available on Senate website

·         Bylaw changes discussed

·         Adding length of terms bylaws on Senate agenda today

·         Other item concerned number of nominees required from nominating committees

·         Was discussed with no motion forwarded

·         Member suggested issue should be debated before full Senate; anyone wishing to put it on agenda for further discussion can so indicate under miscellaneous business today or later

¨       Faculty Personnel Committee – Senator Wick

¨       Academic Staff Personnel Committee – Senator Wilcox

·         Input for changes in election of Senate officers, particularly of Academic Staff Representative

·         Criteria for inclusion of academic staff in “post-tenure/indefinite status” salary policies

·         Inclusion of academic staff on Nonacademic Misconduct Hearing Committees

¨       Academic Policies Committee – Senator Syverson

·         Completion of discussion of change in final exam policy

·         Addressing curricular issues coming forth from Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee

¨       Physical Plant Planning Committee – No Report

¨       Budget Committee – Senator Carpenter

·         Recent meetings center on approach to manage potential budget cuts

·         Focused initially on recommending planning reserve level to administration

·         Planning reserve is portion of general operating budget set aside to deal with issues, programs and initiatives not originally planned for but that come up during fiscal year

·         Amounts earmarked for various divisions

·         Has evolved into part of operating budget; in most divisions by January or February, money is gone so start looking to reserve to allow business to continue as usual

·         Means much of planning reserve already encumbered, substantially reducing money left over

·         Planning reserve often used for givebacks or budget reductions so not cutting other programs

·         Past few years, set reserve at 1.5% of budget – not nearly enough for reductions talking about this year

·         Committee wrestled with when to present bad news to people on campus and favored sooner

·         Remained split on amount of reserve – voted on 2% of base budget

·         Will make things a little tighter; not terribly painful

·         Isn’t going to leave nearly enough money if state requires large givebacks

·         Committee also talked about how to restructure way we do budget from ground up

·         Can’t assume it will be business as usual, just tweaking things a bit

·         Likely to be fairly comprehensive plan

·         Next meeting November 19, 2002

¨       Compensation Committee – Senator Gapko

¨       Nominating Committee – No Report

¨       Technology Committee – Senator Lang

·         Next meeting December 3, 2002

·         Had lengthy productive discussion about communication among technology committees on campus

·         Trying to figure out how to improve communication vertically; horizontal communication currently effective

·         Please bring any technology issues to committee to aid in communication

·         Goal is for communication to become more proactive before budget crisis hits so not reacting in panic

·         Currently discussion going on about placement of classroom services in TLTDC

·         Whether basic infrastructure or teaching and learning issue

·         Contact Kathy Finder or Craig Mey, leaders of working group, with input

·         To make recommendation to Chief Information Officer and Instructional Technology directors by end of year

·         Classroom services includes classroom design of new technology classrooms, emergency reaction if something not working in classrooms, distance education operations, equipment pool, electronics repair, etc.

 

7.        Special Reports

 

Report of Economic Summit III in Milwaukee – Lisa Theo, Geography & Anthropology

·         Economic Summit brings together university, business and political leaders to figure out what to do to help state

·         Business and university leaders did good job; politicians were preoccupied with being elected or reelected and talking about no new taxes

·         Must realize with $3.5 billion deficit, something will have to give; hopefully not just university

·         Handout distributed includes highlights from bipartisan report The Fiscal Crisis in Wisconsin: An Analysis of Origins, Implications and Solutions

·         Working group of former politicians and administrators in government came up with plan for solving budget crisis

·         In-depth report available on web

·         Recommended reducing general fund appropriations for UW-System by $25 million per year for next biennium and providing System with tuition flexibility to help compensate for reduction

·         Also promoted shifting taxes from income to sales

·         Said illusion that Wisconsin has high income taxes causing economic slump because business outside state not moving in

·         Promoted increasing auto registration fees by weight and age of vehicle

·         Last two items regressive in nature, but are starting point

·         Only two presentations at summit from our area of state; was two more than last year

·         Next year plan to take group of student researchers down to Economic Summit IV to present session on what students can do in collaboration with business in our community

·         What businesses can do to reduce brain drain and keep students here

 

Report on Meeting of UW-System Advisory Committee for Compensation – Andrea Gapko and Michael Wick – UW-Eau Claire Representatives

·         Reviewed last year’s pay plan; mostly self-funded by increased tuition

·         Discussed what to recommend to President Lyall

·         Came up with range of 5.7% to 8.5% over next two years of biennium; might be optimistic

·         President Lyall will make recommendation to Board of Regents at December meeting

·         Will insist it not be self-funded this time

·         Also recommended to keep faculty and academic staff pay plans together even though data indicate academic staff considerably more behind peers (about 17%) than faculty (about 6.5%)

·         Attempting to bypass Secretary of Department of Employee Relations (DER), submitting pay plan requests directly to Joint Committee on Employee Relations

·         Allow plans to move in more timely fashion

·         Does not tie faculty and academic staff so closely to rest of state employee negotiations

·         Attempting to add language to guidelines to encourage us to fight compression at full professor level

·         Believe UW-Eau Claire approved comprehensive salary plan tentatively approved by System will be consistent with regent guidelines soon to be released; will not require us to revisit approved plan

·         Salary distribution information shared both for faculty and academic staff

·         Within comprehensives, UW-Eau Claire ranked

·         Eighth out of 12 for full professors

·         Sixth out of 12 for associate professors

·         Tenth out of 12 at assistant professor level

·         President Lyall not presently interested in redefining peer groups although may be more appropriate set

·         Feels would be political nightmare right now

·         Special initiative for comprehensives pay package (because farther behind peer group) also went nowhere

·         Felt time was not right for any special additional packages

·         Feared if pursue differential distribution model for comprehensives now, may get less money in future

·         Would be happy to share eleven attachments distributed at meeting with anyone

·         Response to questions from floor

·         Unadjusted Halstead data used for comparison for faculty and academic staff salaries, not CUPA

·         Were also provided economic indices projected into 2006 which don’t help much

·         System had not gotten feedback on possible success of bypassing DER, although had good argument about timeframe and hiring of faculty and academic staff

 

8.        Special Orders

 

Election for At-Large Academic Staff Senator

Report of University Academic Staff Nominating Committee – Chair Debra King

·         Nominees

·         Terry Classen, Facilities Planning and Management

·         Phil Huelsbeck, International Education

·         No additional nominations from floor; nominations closed without objection

 

Elected to University Senate from Units Less Than Four – Phil Huelsbeck
 

9.        Miscellaneous Business

 

A.   Executive Committee – First Reading

Report on Addition of Length of Terms of Office Bylaws – Vice Chair Gapko

·         Committee discussed three proposed bylaw changes primarily so written policy conforms with actual practice

·         Proposal provides consistency among bylaws and reflects current practice

 

Motion 39-SE-02

Moved and seconded by Executive Committee (13-0) that

 

1) A new bylaw be inserted between #9 and #10 in the Bylaws of the University Faculty stating:

 

Length of Terms of Office                When terms of different lengths are being filled by election, the elected individual(s) receiving the most votes receive(s) the longest term(s).

 

Debate

·         University Faculty Senators have right to act on behalf of full University Faculty; once approved by University Faculty Senators, becomes bylaw

 

MOTION by Senator Mac Briar that rules be suspended to allow item to be voted on at this meeting seconded and PASSED with out dissention

 

Continued Debate

·         Maybe person receiving most votes should get choice of term

 

Vote on Part 1) of Motion 39-SE-02: Part 1) PASSED without dissention by University Faculty Senators

 

2) A new bylaw be inserted between #15 and #16 in the Bylaws of the University Senate stating:

 

Length of Terms of Office                When terms of different lengths are being filled by election, the elected individual(s) receiving the most votes receive(s) the longest term(s).

 

Debate – None 

 

MOTION by Senator Mac Briar that rules be suspended to allow item to be voted on at this meeting seconded and PASSED with out dissention

 

Continued Debate – None

 

Vote on Part 2) of Motion 39-SE-02: Part 2) PASSED without dissention

 

3) Bylaw #10 of the University Academic Staff be modified as follows:

 

Length of Terms of Office                When different length terms terms of different lengths are being filled by election, the elected individual(s) receiving the most votes receive(s) the longest term(s).

Debate – None 

 

MOTION by Senator Mac Briar that rules be suspended to allow item to be voted on today seconded and PASSED with out dissention

 

Continued Debate – None 

 

Vote on Part 3) Motion 39-SE-02: Part 3) PASSED without dissention by University Academic Staff Senators               

 

B.   Academic Policies Committee – First Reading

Report on New Prefix in Criminal Justice (CRMJ) – Senator Syverson

·         Two faculty members, formerly housed in Sociology Department, who teach criminal justice courses joined Department of Political Science over summer

·         Those faculty wish to have control over their curriculum

·         Criminal justice courses they teach are interdisciplinary so do not fit nicely within either sociology or political science prefixes

·         Therefore propose this prefix, forwarded through Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee, and College of Arts & Sciences

·         APC spent over two meetings discussing issues – points discussed contained in report

·         Issue would not have come before committee if criminal justice faculty had not left Sociology Department

·         That move, however, has already taken place

·         We need to address only whether criminal justice prefix appropriate for university

·         Majority of committee members thought new prefix would benefit students in criminal justice program

·         List of courses impacted owned by Department of Sociology

·         Proposal would not change those courses; would allow criminal justice faculty members to create own courses within CRMJ prefix

·         Pros and cons listed – some committee members felt strongly on both sides

·         Pros include

·         Allowing criminal justice faculty members to control their curriculum and scheduling of courses

·         Recognize interdisciplinary nature of criminal justice program

·         Permit creation of criminal justice capstone course

·         Cons include

·         Could lead to potential duplication of course material

·         Reduces number of elective sociology courses available to sociology majors

·         Could lead to pressures for cross-listing of courses with additional complexities for Registrar’s Office

·         On first vote at APC, motion failed on tie vote; upon reconsideration, motion passed by 7 to 3 vote

·         Responses to questions for clarification of report

·         Political Science Department now administrative home for program so prefix would be housed there

·         Two criminal justice faculty members have been teaching these courses in Sociology Department

·         Sociology Department may be interested in teaching in future; problem would be resources to cover

·         All approving here is existence of new prefix, not association of any courses or under what jurisdiction

·         Assume would be under jurisdiction of Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee with membership from all five disciplines involved in program

·         Even though list some specific courses on report, not granting approval to make those CRMJ courses

·         All courses proposed for this prefix would have to go through Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee

·         APC struggled because hard to separate what courses will look like; but wasn’t APC’s job to do that

·         Listed courses, even if under CRMJ prefix could be available as electives to sociology majors

·         But would no longer be under sociology umbrella

·         Sounds more complicated than simply approving new prefix

·         May say that is all we are doing, but may actually be sending those courses over to political science

·         If passed, prefix would exist; then criminal justice faculty members would have to make case for new courses to be put on books in this prefix

·         Would have to convince Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee courses are valid interdisciplinary courses belonging in CRMJ prefix and do not completely overlap sociology courses already on books

·         At this point, criminal justice faculty now in Political Science Department are teaching these courses under sociology prefix

·         Would rather not continue under this arrangement because making changes in those courses would mean going to a department that is not their own

·         Courses they wish to develop are interdisciplinary and do not fit nicely under either sociology or political science prefixes

·         Could maintain status quo, but not what criminal justice faculty want

·         Not duty of APC to make decisions on curricular content

·         Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee responsible for ensuring no duplication of courses across disciplines within college

·         Faculty members can propose courses with Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee as final arbiter

·         Many departments allow courses under another prefix to count for their majors; is option for Sociology Department

 

POINT OF ORDER: Some comments not for clarification, but entering into debate

 

·         Back to questions on content of report

·         Ultimately Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee would be responsible for prerequisites when courses approved or updated

·         Other matters, such as control of entrance into courses, i.e. preference given to criminal justice majors vs. sociology majors, would be Political Science Department decision

·         Current practice is to try to hold seats for sociology majors; may continue if courses remain part of sociology major

·         If not part of sociology major, would be first come, first served

·         At last count were about 260 criminal justice majors; has been as high as 310 to 360

·         Criminal justice majors graduate with Arts & Sciences degree

·         Anthropology faculty that left Sociology Department to go to Geography Department, took curriculum along

·         According to Sociology Department, was somewhat different situation because were anthropology courses taught by anthropology faculty in anthropology minor; these are sociology courses taught by faculty with PhDs in sociology hired to teach sociology courses

·         People were hired with understanding that principle assignment would be to criminal justice majors

·         Criminal justice code not an emphasis within any department; elevated to Arts & Science level

 

Motion 39-AP-05

Moved and seconded by Academic Policies Committee (7-3) that the University Senate approve a new prefix for Criminal Justice (CRMJ)

 

Debate – Floor open for debate pertaining to pros and cons of new prefix CRMJ

·         Sociology Department has no vested interest in 260 to 360 criminal justice majors

·         From 12 to 20% of sociology majors and minors do take these courses as electives

·         To allow sociology majors to take new CRMJ courses, would have to review and decide whether appropriate like any other course

 

No objection from floor to Sociology Department Chair Nielsen clarifying things connected to proposal

·         Courses in sociology that have been taught, are being taught now, and are going to be taught in spring by the two faculty members who have departed sociology, remain in sociology department listings, quite apart from whatever new courses are created under CRMJ prefix

·         Courses in question are not criminal justice courses; strictly speaking, are sociology courses

·         Courses in Juvenile Delinquency and Criminology go back at least to 1964

·         Criminal Justice Program created 25 years ago

·         Sociology’s contributions to criminal justice major longstanding

·         Our sense is these courses basically being reproduced under new prefix

·         Not clear anything will be different for criminal justice students

·         Sociology students will no longer have courses available to them under sociology prefixes; we would have to approve CRMJ courses for electives in sociology

·         Control of those courses fundamental issue here

 

·         Political Science Chair Senator Freitag commented what new prefix would allow

·         Criminal justice program to grow and develop

·         Creation of new courses and keeping existing courses up with times and changes going on in field

·         New capstone makes sense under new prefix

·         Bringing in new faculty under program with ideas about new courses and new topics that are important and should be taught in criminal justice

 

·         Sociology Senator Hein continued debate

·         Comprehensive major now includes courses from many different majors – political science, psychology, philosophy, sociology – why faculty sent to political science if not going to propose political science courses?

·         If capstone so important, why not make it a political science course?

·         Would like to go further and tell body what has gone on and dishonesty and unprofessional conduct accompanying move to political science

·         Has nothing to do with academic policy, but narrow self-interest

·         Don’t recall Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee meeting with Department of Sociology to coordinate with department housing interdisciplinary major, or to express concerns or problems, or to discuss proposals for revision

 

Chair Harrison noted obvious POINT OF ORDER in that no longer discussing new prefix. FOR THE RECORD, without objection accepted wishes from body and allowed speaker to continue

 

·         Senator Hein continued addressing where motion came from and background information

·         Two faculty members who left did not propose to Sociology Department Curriculum Committee any changes because they wanted more interdisciplinary content in their courses

·         Would have had receptive environment for changes, but never requested

·         Not rational academic policy – they wanted to leave sociology for whatever reason and that is where they are

·         Never any consultation with Sociology Department prior to their leaving

·         New Chair Nielsen thought he was joining department in August with criminal justice major; when he arrived, it was gone from department

·         Sociology faculty found out first week of semester

·         Was not some conflict in sociology that could only be resolved by sending people to political science and then CRMJ prefix absolutely necessary now to help them out – never once discussed

·         Department chair, prior to recruitment of Donald Nielsen, was acting chair for Sociology Department and also chaired Political Science Department

·Apparently acting chair put something about movement of faculty in annual report not distributed to Sociology Department

 

From Floor: Starting to object

 

·         Senator Hein continued

·         Up to this body to decide whether apparent conflict of interest relevant

·         Final point, Political Science Department now recruiting for recently announced new position with specialty in criminal justice

·         Not about academic policy, about narrow self-interest of where two folks better off; they chose political science and now would like you to make it easy for them to take some of our courses

 

OBJECTION from the floor

 

Continued Debate on topic of prefix

·         For clarification, Political Science Chair Freitag indicated position as announced in University Bulletin incorrectly edited – position is two-thirds American politics/legal issues; hoping to find someone who can also teach and provide lead for criminal justice program

·         Keep in mind that if prefix not approved, faculty in criminal justice have to go for changes and assistance into hostile environment of Sociology Department

·         Speaks to why prefix needed to move program forward

 

OBJECTION from floor based on Robert’s Rules of Order – discussion and debate should be on merits of motion; now getting into personalities

 

Debate Continued

·         Seems real question is whether is academic issue when someone transfers from one department to another

·         Academic issues are part of shared governance and seems to be issue of what happened prior to being asked to consider CRMJ prefix

·         If approve this now, disallows for future input on courses when administrative changes conducted, for example, over summer

·         Then no longer becomes an academic issue, but logistics, because deed already done

·         As universities become more interdisciplinary with more interdisciplinary courses on books, need to develop ways to provide for those courses

·         If propose women’s studies course, would not check with History Department Curriculum Committee; would be happy to have under WMNS prefix

·         Have heard from Sociology Department, but not people teaching in criminal justice program

·         Would trust them as professionals to decide best way to develop their courses and capstone regardless of political machinations

·         Very appropriate proposal for an interdisciplinary program to be allowed kind of creativity seen in other interdisciplinary programs, such as Women’s Studies and American Indian Studies

·         Can then have introductory and capstone courses under prefix

·         Aware of how hamstrung department is when do not have a prefix; for interdisciplinary program, it academically makes absolute sense

·         Fact that two faculty members changed departments irrelevant to best interests of students

·         With criminal justice major progressing as it has, should be a prefix whether faculty are in Sociology, Political Science, or Phy Ed

·         Would benefit students to have CRMJ prefix because when go out wanting to be professionals in this field, would have home label for themselves

·         Even if no other courses created other than CRMJ capstone, would be valuable to students

·         Swayed by argument for prefix, but interested to know opinions of anyone from APC voting against motion; what good reasons might exist that I should be considering from those without vested interest

·         Was on APC when AIS prefix voted into force: that proposal clearly stated what would be done with prefix, how it would be used, what introductory courses and capstone courses there would be, any cross-listings of other courses, etc.; that clarification not contained in this proposal

·         Second reason had to do with personnel issues; was my impression this year, as last year with movement of anthropology, that administrative actions had been taken and APC basically rubber stamping those actions by voting to change name of Department of Geography to Geography and Anthropology last year, and in this case create the new prefix

·         New prefix for interdisciplinary program requires interdisciplinary committee to govern courses

·         Heard reference to group called Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee, need to know that all disciplines represented

·         Representation from Sociology Department on that committee to this point has been people assigned to teach criminal justice courses; now Sociology Department representative is Dr. Jeff Erger

·         Critical weakness in proposal is lack of anything in writing that stipulates membership of committee; creating prefix with vague definition of who runs it because no language for that committee

 

Amendment 39-AP-05-a1

 Moved by Senator Phillips and seconded to add at the end of the motion that would be overseen by interdisciplinary committee

 

OBJECTION to amendment because already committee in place that has that purpose

 

Chair RULED to amend language to approve creation of committee would not be appropriate; to reword to make sure existing committee involved would be appropriate

 

·         Dr. Randy Beger, Program Coordinator for Criminal Justice Program, noted existing Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee composed of five members from departments that contribute to major, including sociology, psychology, philosophy, political science, and social work, plus program coordinator

·         Friendly amendment to add phrase would be overseen by the Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee accepted

 

Discussion on Amendment

·         Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee members are appointed by Dean of College of Arts & Sciences

·         So is college level committee overseeing an interdisciplinary area

 

POINT OF ORDER: Quorum still remains of University Faculty who have right to vote

 

Continued Discussion

·         Voted for prefix as member of Arts & Sciences Committee

·         Were told request approved by Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee on August 28, 2002

·         Had to ask about vote, who was on committee

·         Amendment might head off future issues that are going to come up when we try to approve new courses

·         Members present from Sociology Department indicated amendment acceptable to sociology on assumption main motion passed; would be very helpful

·         Representative on Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee from Sociology Department is current member of department, not one of two faculty who moved to Political Science Department

 

Vote on Amendment 39-AP-05-a1: Amendment PASSED by University Faculty Senators

 

Continued Debate on Main Motion as Amended

·         Without objection, Sociology Chair Nielsen, made few additional comments about proposal

·         Only courses that will receive CRMJ prefix apparently will be former sociology courses; all courses in political science, philosophy, psychology, and social work required for core of major not going to be given CRMJ prefix

·         Very clear proposal comes not only from Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee and Political Science Department, but also from Interim Associate Dean Margaret Cassidy, Dean Wendt of College of Arts & Sciences, and backing of provost because is ratification of a personnel decision made during summer without consultation from sociology; up to you to judge whether that relevant factor in discussion of prefix

·         Had Political Science Department not forwarded request to Dean’s Office, proposal would have died

·         Voting to establish prefix not associated with any courses; courses must be proposed and approved by appropriate committees

·         Comfortable with prefix

·         Bothered by what hearing about process that occurred

·         Wondering if motion to form a committee to investigate nature of transaction occurring over summer appropriate

·         Is personnel issue which is under primary governance of faculty

·         Motion appropriate only after dispense with current one

·         My understanding is that no courses would automatically have CRMJ prefix, would have to be proposed by CRMJ faculty, and passed through required committees, so sociology courses would not automatically come under that prefix

·         Sociology Chair Nielsen indicated it is necessary for the two faculty who have gone to political science to be extricated from obligation of those courses they used to teach in sociology, therefore, new courses need to be created to parallel the former courses they taught; need this new prefix to create those courses

·         All Senate supposed to be doing is addressing whether CRMJ prefix should exist

·         Not supposed to be assuming anything about curricular content

·         Allow faculty members who own content to propose courses and Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee to debate merits of course proposals

·         If that committee decides those courses are not new, they turn them down

·         First page of report says criminal justice faculty plan to create new interdisciplinary versions of the following courses, all of which are sociology courses; explicit what intention is

·         Are times when courses that are really interdisciplinary are pigeonholed in departments because is no option

·         Once you have prefix, you can put courses when they belong

·         If course proposal comes and course not truly interdisciplinary, assume Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee would have wisdom to send it to correct department

·         Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee going to have to make same judgment about interdisciplinary courses

 

Without objection, continued debate and vote on motion postponed until next Senate meeting

·         As requested, will distribute copy of minutes of meeting of Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee of August 28, 2002 when recommendation approved by that body

 

Without objection, all additional motions under Miscellaneous Business moved forward to next meeting

 

9.        Announcements – None

 

Meeting adjourned at 5:04 p.m. without objection

 

 

Wanda Schulner

Secretary to the University Senate