Academic Staff Representatives Council Meeting
March 15, 2007
The meeting focused on updates on a number of current issues.
Rebecca Martin, Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, reported on this initiative and answered questions about how this will work.
Legislative Audit Bureau Oct 2006 report (Al Crist, Associate Vice President for Human Resources)
The UW Fringe Benefits Advisory Committee has made recommendations that identify several policy and practice areas for possible changes in leave reporting. President Reilly will be sending out information on these to faculty and academic staff representatives and asking for governance input, due back by October 31, 2007.
Criminal Background Check Policy (Al Crist)
Apparently there is still a May 1, 2007 deadline for campuses to submit their local implementation plans. However, there appears to still be confusion about who is supposed to be checked, when, and by whom, especially around the area of student employees and campuses are still working on their plans.
Collective Bargaining
Al Crist thinks this will be pulled out of the budget and become a separate bill because it is a controversial issue.
Shared Governance Protocol
Representatives discussed a working draft of this prepared by the faculty representatives. One part of it suggests that the representatives meet and establish an informal relationship with the Regent(s) assigned to our campuses. We pointed out that we are often not included as someone to meet when Regents visit our campuses. We were assured that we can contact the office for the Board of Regents ourselves, ask them to inform us when our Regent will be in the area, and arrange our own lunch or meeting with the person. We will be continuing to work with the faculty representatives on this.
Academic Staff Leadership Conference
The conference will be at UW
Superior, June 28-29, 2007. Regent Mark Bradley is scheduled to speak.
The website to register will be up the first week in April. UW-Eau
Claire’s Provost’s Office will again sponsor six academic staff from
Judy Blackstone, Academic Staff Representative